In memory and tribute to the prisoners who were brutally murdered by Gov. Rockefeller’s thugs, here is part of a statement issued by the prisoners during the revolt:

“We are men! We are not beasts and do not intend to be beaten or driven as such. The entire prison population has set forth to change forever the ruthless brutalization and disregard for the lives of prisoners here and throughout the United States. What has happened here is but the sound before the fury of those who are oppressed.”

R. B.
by e-mail  
 
Crisis in Thailand
I just returned from a trip to Bangkok, Thailand. The capitalists there appear fearsome of an impending “economic and social crisis” despite the quantity of industrial development and exports.

The executive director of Bangkok Bank said he expected economic instability and environmental problems to emerge “quickly and dramatically.”

The press described the degradation of water supplies, massive deforestation, lack of electrification in major urban and rural areas, and absence of sewage treatment facilities in many cities with waste going straight to the ocean.

So much for the economic miracle of this “emerging nation” that will never emerge under capitalism from imperialist domination.

Mark Friedman
Los Angeles, California  
 
Selections from Marx
I’d like to see more selections from Karl Marx and comparing it with today. Also more reviews of movies.

Charles Wolfseld
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  
 
‘Sir! No Sir!’
How about a review of the documentary film Sir! No Sir!? It could provide a good example of a revolutionary vs. liberal/pacifist positions.

Howard Petrick
San Francisco, California  
 
 
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