by Laurindo Dias Minhoto* In Rio de Janeiro—the “marvelous city”—there is an old port where slave ships that brought captive workers from different parts of Africa to the center of the colony docked. The port area has been recently named … Continue reading
2014: Issues 135–138 (Vol. 41) Vol. 41–4 Youth under Control: Punishment and Reform in the Neoliberal State Vol. 41–3 [Miscellaneous] Vol. 41–1/2 Bhopal and After: The Chemical Industry as Toxic Capitalism 2013: Issues 131–134 (Vol. 40) Vol. 40–4 Latin America … Continue reading
by Volker Eick* Since Nobel Peace Prize laureate and US president Barack Obama began targeted killings of supposed Islamic terrorists using Special Forces and the CIA in Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia,(1) an envious German government has sought to catch … Continue reading
by Gilberto Arriaza* The arc of the school–to–prison pipeline begins in elementary school and moves through middle and high school. Youth then land in the juvenile legal system and, eventually, in the country’s vast prison system. According to current Assistant … Continue reading
by Bernard Dreano* In France, the unexpected and seemingly decisive victory of Emmanuel Macron’s La République en Marche! (The Republic on the Move!) and its allies, first in the presidential race, and then in the June parliamentary elections (winning 350 … Continue reading
by Tony Platt The blogs are full of charges and countercharges about journalist Seth Rosenfeld’s claim (in his recent book, Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan‘s Rise to Power and published articles) that Black Panther Party cadre … Continue reading
by Gregory Shank Seth Rosenfeld’s case documenting Richard Aoki’s role as an FBI informant understandably provoked a strong reaction from those who knew him or had extensively researched his life. In his 70 years, Aoki had developed deep networks among … Continue reading
by J. Patrice McSherry* In 2012 and 2013 there have been important developments in the case of Víctor Jara, the beloved Chilean folk singer and songwriter who was tortured and killed in the Stadium of Chile after the 1973 … Continue reading
by Alessandro De Giorgi* You know, being in prison and not actually knowing how hard it is out here on the streets…. I remember when I got out. I kicked it with my wife for a few hours before I … Continue reading
To order a copy or read more, click on the book title or the cover image. Critical Resistance to the Prison–Industrial Complex Edited by the Critical Resistance Publications Collective. 240 pp., paper. ISBN: 978–0–935206–03–6. $14.95 Paul Takagi: … Continue reading