Repression breeds resistance: A call for a methodology of radical solidarity and love to respond to the prison industrial complex and academia’s eugenic tendencies

By Xinachtli and  Emese Ilyés

From Sage Journals

This collaborative autoethnographic article traces psychology’s complicity in systems of oppression while highlighting pathways toward liberation. An expression and embodiment of radical solidarity, this article is the product of a research collaboration between an incarcerated justice advocate and a critical psychologist. …

Chicano Revolutionary Internationalist Solidarity with the Oppressed Palestinian Masses in the Occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip

THE CHICANO MASSES IN OUR OWN OCCUPIED LANDS INVADED, AND STOLEN BY YANKEE WAR CRIMINAL COLONIZERS, know the unspeakable pain and horrors of war crimes committed against the illegal occupation of our Texas, U.S. Southwest homeland, as suffering this very moment by the Palestinian masses in their own occupied homeland, by an illegitimate Israeli government that invaded Palestinian lands and imposed its war criminal government and maintained its illegal rule by state violence and terrorism, …

The International Political Prisoners Solidarity Movement: Where Do We Go from Here?

January Xinachtli

“Build them, and they will come” was the motto of the architects of the U.$. prison industrial complex and the proliferation of control unit prisons. This system of mass incarceration has historical roots. It was legalized in 1865 by the 13th Amendment to the U.$. Constitution, which replaced plantation chattel slavery with modern-day prison slavery as punishment for a criminal conviction. …

#Texas “control unit” prison: New writings and update from Xinachtli

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Xinachtli (meaning “Germinating Seed” in Nahautl), is a renowned Chicano political prisoner and NLG jailhouse lawyer member. He has been in a Texas “control unit” prison for 20-plus years. What follows are new writings and an update from Xinachtl.
“I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD. …

Letter from Revolutionary Prisoner Xinachtli 11/2016

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“[I]t is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains…”
– Sister Assata Shakur, soldier, Black Liberation Army, in exile in Cuba
Monday, 07 November 2016
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…In the true spirit of revolutionary internationalism, …

Letter from Revolutionary Prisoner Xinachtli 9/2016

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“It is the duty of us poor people to work and to struggle to break the chains that make us slaves…” – Ricardo Flores Magon, Mexican revolutionary anarchist, assassinated by Leavenworth federal prison pigs, Nov. 21, 1922
Monday, 19 September 2016
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Dear international supporters,
From within the belly of U.S. …

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