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After months of Red Onion prisoners on hunger strike, especially politicized prisoner Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson, local resident Olajean Ray provides the following insight on what it’s like living near two supermax prisons in Wise County, Virginia. In the late 90s, I went to Red Onion State Prison on the Jack Rose Highway in Pound, Virginia.…
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Virginia Worker Editorial Board member Sal Rojo weighs in on the debate over marxist organization that has been happening on the German Communaut Journal for the past year between two main tendencies which situate themselves as either “revolutionary social democracy” or council communism. This same dynamic finds itself in the US between DSA groups like…
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Virginia Worker Editorial Board member SNR submits the following piece continuing their research into Alden Global Capital’s assets on the tail of the recent newspaper strike against Alden’s gutting of that industry as well as their accumulation of trailer parks and predatory policies upon tenants across the state and beyond. Last year, Homes of America…
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The Virginia Worker Editorial Board has published the following statement on the labor misleaders who push the working class into submission to the two capitalist parties and their politicians as they work against the necessary formation of an independent working class party and politics. With the recent endorsement by the United Auto Workers President Shawn…
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20 year veteran prison guard Jim Gibson speaks out on the culture of abuse and neglect within the Virginia Department of Corrections, with his most recent experience at Cold Springs Correctional Unit #10 in Greenville, Virginia. Gibson has been stonewalled by VADOC officials and the Governor’s office as he seeks accountability for these instances of…
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On December 26th prisoners at Red Onion State Prison located in Pound, Virginia launched a hunger strike after being subjected to long term solitary confinement. Since then more than fourteen prisoners have maintained the strike demanding an end to the practice. The Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) has not answered our questions. The following interview…
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In 2023 we saw greater growth and development of The Virginia Worker project. We have reached tens of thousands of Virginia workers thus far with little resources at our disposal and plan to reach millions of other Virginia workers. As we said at the end of last year we have ambitions to organize conferences, work…
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Editor of the Counter Attack Journal – Tibor Szamuely – offers this response to Rick Amherst’s article “First Things First: Stop the Genocide” in an ongoing exchange over the orientation and priorities of marxists on the Palestinian question Rick Amherst begins his response to Sal Rojo’s Neither Zionism nor Hamas editorial with an insistence on…
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Virginia Worker Editorial Board Member Rick Amherst responds to Sal Rojo’s latest editorial ‘Neither Zionism Nor Hamas’ on what they think the priorities should be for marxists on the Palestinian Question I appreciate Comrade Sal Rojo’s timely remarks on Palestine and attempt to draw a line of demarcation that resists a tendency towards petty boosterism.…
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The Virginia Worker Editorial Board Member Sal Rojo argues the only resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is rooted in a socialist and internationalist politics against the nationalisms of Zionists and Hamas Ever since the October 7th Hamas attacks on Israel the overwhelming majority of the Left has been mobilized around solidarity with Palestinians against the…
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