This post will remain at the top of the page through Friday, events allowing. For newer posts, scroll down. The repressive machinery of the Castro dictatorship extends to all facets of Cuban life, including attempts by Cubans to make some semblance of a living. The "revolution" may provide for Cuban...

POCC + Troy Davis' Sister Speaks 2/11 + More! As protests over the brutal police murder of Oscar Grant III continue in Oakland--and as Oakland imposes a week-day youth curfew which will be directed mainly against young people of color--two events in the San Francisco Bay Area this week will shine a ...

The malignant neglect of the Castro dictatorship is costing Rafael Ibarra Roque his eyesight. The guards at the Combinado del Este prison in Havana are not sticking a knife in his eyes. But there would be no difference between that, and how his captors are blocking Ibarra from receiving proper medic...

Two Cuban political prisoners, Pablo Pacheco �vila and Félix Navarro Rodríguez, have been transferred from one maximum security prison to another maximum security prison in the hell that is the Castro gulag. No information was available on the reasons for the transfer....

Nelson Molinet Espino This week's political prisoner, Nelson Molinet Espino, makes an encore in this spot. Not because of anything he did or what his captors — except for continuing to keep him in captivity. Instead, I am featuring him again, two years after his first appearance, because a family ...

The typical Cuban political prisoner does not wallow in his own predicament or suffering. He is not even content to just do his time in silence. Instead, he willfully take on a new role as a witness to the worst of the Castro dictatorship's tyranny, and does whatever he can — at risk of great peri...

The Castro gulag, from Piñar del Rio in the west to Holguín in the east of Cuba, is a gateway to hell. Here are a few examples why: Acting at the behest of prison officials, common prisoners at the Las Tunas provincial prison recently have used wooden sticks and knives to threaten political prison...

PITTFALLS OF RACE CONSCIOUSNESS: SUBSTITUTING POLITICAL REFORMATION OF WHITE FINANCE CAPITALISM FOR BUILDING AN INDEPENDENT POLITICAL MOVEMENT Obama’s ascendency to the U.S. presidency has been consistently portrayed as the culmination of the African-Americans protracted struggle for “equalityâ€...

My name is Assata ("she who struggles") Shakur ("the thankful one"), and I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the US government's policy towards people of co...

Support our Sista in Struggle, Shiriki Unganisha Warm Greetings all, i'm shocked and deeply saddened to report that Eric Flowers, the only son of our beautiful and hard-working Sista in struggle, Shiriki Unganisha, was found slain on Saturday in Kansas City, MO. This Sista has completely dedicated h...