Massive Prisoner Resistance During COVID-19

Inmates at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago hold up signs asking for help during the coronavirus pandemic, April 20, 2020.

In the United States, the COVID-19 infection rate is 5.5 times higher for incarcerated people, and a new report shows that prisoners are organizing in record numbers to fight for survival. In just the first 90 days of the COVID-19 pandemic, 119 instances of resistance were documented by Perilous Chronicle. Nearly a dozen of these uprisings and protests took place in Louisiana, which saw the most of any state.

Since these early efforts, thousands continue rebellions across the country’s jails, prisons, and especially in ICE concentration camps as adults and children bravely demand their rights to health and life. We must join this cause and also demand freedom: for non-violent people held in jails, prisons, and ICE concentration camps, we say #FreeThemAll!

Workers Voice Socialist Movement

We are workers, employed and unemployed, youth, students, and seniors. We are multi-racial and multi-national and organize for the unity of the working class. We are funded by and for workers, for the liberation of all workers and oppressed people.

We organize for jobs and higher wages, against racism, women’s, and LGBTQ oppression, and for solidarity with immigrants. We organize for community schools, lower rents, and food on our tables. We organize for workers’ power so that everything will one day be removed from the capitalists’ private ownership.

We oppose the Pentagon, which is looting our tax dollars and handing them over to war-profiteering private companies, while social programs are gutted. We oppose war for empire which is pursued only to lower our wages and plunder the world’s resources while destroying the environment. We reject the monopoly media who feed us lie after lie.

The labor of workers produces enormous wealth here in Louisiana, the U.S. and the world– so much wealth that everyone could have housing, meaningful jobs, education, healthcare, and genuine equality. But this wealth is stolen and privately owned by the capitalist class for their greed and profit. We believe that we, the workers of the world, can unite in revolution to overcome capitalism and build a better world.

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