Gerardo Hernández: We will always be the Cuban Five

A New Standard-Bearer He could have used the same reasons of those who very soon decided to plead guilty and cooperate with the authorities. After long years of separation, he already had at his side Olga and Irmita, and had been able to enjoy for just four months the newborn Ivette. What to do?  Cling […]

Stop-and-Frisk Trial: NYPD’s ‘Top Stopper’ Stopped Almost All Blacks, Was Never Questioned For It

More evidence is coming in that stop-and-frisk is race-based. Photo Credit: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM May 9, 2013  | NYPD officer Kha Dang, of the 88th precinct, made 127 street stops in the three months between July and September, making him one of the department’s “top stoppers” that quarter. None of the stops involved white people, and 90% […]

Reflections on Anti-Cuban Terror

by W. T. Whitney Jr. source url: http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2013/whitney080513.html   Bombs set off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15 killed three and wounded over 200 people.  The metropolitan area became a virtual war zone.  Officials at every level let loose with doomsday-style retaliatory proclamations.  For some, however, the clamor served to […]

Campus Partiez: 1White 1Black & Latino Which 1 got Raided

There was a party on May 3rd at the University of Southern California with the majority of attendees being African-American and Hispanic USC students. The party was registered with the school, and there was another party directly across the street being attended by mostly Caucasian/White students. Both parties had similar noise levels according to dozens […]

René González has been given permission to remain in Cuba!

In a huge development in the case of the Cuban Five, the court has finally granted a motion, first made last June, to allow René González to serve the remaining portion of his three-year parole in Cuba, after which he will of course be able to remain in Cuba, outside the jurisdiction of the court. Until […]

On the Question of Integrated Celling

  source url: http://kersplebedeb.com/posts/onthequestionofintegratedcelling/ Introduction [from Prison Focus]: We’re all aware of the 2005 court decision ordering the C.D.C. to begin implementing integrated celling of the prison’s multi-ethnic population. What may not be known to many is that this policy has already been initiated. For the most part the immediate response has essentially been that […]

Cuban 5 – Cuba Policy: Fruitless, Mean and Cruel

Weekend Edition April 26-28, 2013 http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/04/26/cuba-policy-fruitless-mean-and-cruel/ 54 Years of Stupidity and Counting Cuba Policy: Fruitless, Mean and Cruel by SAUL LANDAU and NELSON P. VALDÉS In their 54-year-old effort to bring down Cuba’s revolutionary government and restore obedience in our Caribbean neighbor, U.S. officials have compiled a spectacular record of failure, overshadowed only by the determination […]

USA’s Prison Industrial Complex Moves South of the Border

I was honored to be part of a (skype) program after the showing of Cointelpro 101 in Mexico City last night.  The exporting of mass imprisonment as a strategy and goal was raised during the discussion.  While this article is a year old, it was very informative about how prison expansion is globalized under US imperialism. […]

SCISSION MAGAZINE SUPPORTS MEDICAL CAMPAIGN FOR NORBERTO GONZALEZ CLAUDIO!

SCISSION provides progressive news and analysis from the breaking point of Capital. SCISSION represents an autonomist Marxist viewpoint. The struggle against white skin privilege and white supremacy is a key point of reference for Scission. SCISSION replaces the Oread Daily. The SCISSION group has replaced the Oread Daily Group but is still at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OreadDaily/ and tweeting at scission@RedpoetScission — Fight […]