Readers’ Views on What is socialism?; Surviving the prison system; Women fight back; and Exploiting prisoners

Readers’ Views on What is socialism?; Surviving the prison system; Women fight back; and Exploiting prisoners
readers views, nov dec 2015, part 2
Prisoners mourn and remember assassinated prisoner Hugo ‘Yogi’ Pinell.
In California the ongoing struggle of prisoners against the U.S.’s barbaric criminal justice system reached a milestone in the effort to totally transform a society in which millions of poor, unemployed and people of color end up in an inhuman gulag.
Letters and comments sent in by readers or taken down, to and about the articles in News & Letters or current events.
Protests erupted following the decision by a St. Louis County grand jury not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson for the cold-blooded murder of 18-year-old Michael Brown. Thousands marched under the slogan “Black Lives Matter!” These demonstrations grew in the wake of the equally outrageous decision of a Staten Island grand jury not to indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo for the murder of Eric Garner.
From the July-August 2014 issue of News & Letters
RESPONSES TO MARXIST-HUMANIST PERSPECTIVES
The Marxist-Humanist Perspectives (N&L, May-June 2014) give a critical assessment of the polarization between the oppressive forces of capital’s social relations and humanity’s efforts to realize human dignity. It shows humans are not just passive victims of capital. First [=>]