An Injury to One Is an Injury to All!

The 11 class-war prisoners described below receive monthly stipends from the PDC. [Up to date as of October 2026]

Mumia Abu-Jamal is a former Black Panther Party spokesman, a well-known supporter of the MOVE organization and an award-winning journalist known as "the voice of the voiceless." Framed up for the 1981 killing of a Philadelphia police officer, Mumia was sentenced to death explicitly for his political views. Federal and state courts have repeatedly refused to consider evidence proving Mumia's innocence, including the sworn confession of Arnold Beverly that he, not Mumia, shot and killed the policeman. In 2011, the Philadelphia district attorney's office dropped its longstanding effort to legally lynch Mumia, condemning him to life in prison with no chance of parole. Ever since, the state, including Philly's "progressive" D.A. Larry Krasner, has fought tooth and nail to keep Mumia buried in prison for life. Mumia's appeals continue to be denied even after the D.A.'s office discovered six boxes of new exculpatory evidence in 2018. Mumia's health has deteriorated in the past few years, primarily due to medical neglect and poor prison diet, added to his aging.

Leonard Peltier is an internationally renowned class-war prisoner. Peltier's incarceration for his activism in the American Indian Movement has come to symbolize this country's racist repression of its Native peoples, the survivors of centuries of genocidal oppression. Peltier was framed up for the 1975 deaths of two FBI agents marauding in what had become a war zone on the South Dakota Pine Ridge Reservation. The lead government attorney has admitted, "We can't prove who shot those agents," and the courts have repeatedly denied Peltier's appeals while acknowledging blatant prosecutorial misconduct. On January 20, 2025, his life sentences were commuted to home confinement. He still remains in the clutches of the capitalist state, and we continue to fight for his complete freedom.

Benjamin "Champagne" Song, Maricela Rueda, Zachary Evetts, Autumn Hill, Ines Soto, Meagan Morris, Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada and Joy "Rowan" Gibson are eight Prairieland defendants, anti-ICE activists convicted in March 2026 of "material support to terrorism," "conspiracy" and other bogus charges. They were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 15 to 100 years in prison. This travesty of justice stems from a 4 July 2025 nighttime "noise" protest outside the Prairieland ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas. After Trump issued an executive order declaring "Antifa" a terrorist organization federal prosecutors sought a new indictment falsely charging that the defendants belong to a "North Texas Antifa Cell," to make this a test case for a broader attack on left and labor organizations. Judge Reed O'Connor declared the outrageous sentences were meant to "send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology." The Prairieland case is the front line in the government's war to outlaw protest. It is urgently necessary for the left, anti-deportation activists, trade unionists and all of Trump's perceived enemies to take a stand against this witchhunt. Free the Prairieland Defendants!

(Xinachtli) Alvaro Luna Hernandez is a Mexican American initially framed up in the 1970s for a murder he did not commit. He was politicized in prison where he helped lead a movement for prison reform and became an effective jailhouse lawyer. Xinachtli spent nearly a decade in solitary confinement. After the frame-up was exposed by the Houston Post, Xinachtli was freed in 1991, but the state continued to target him for his activism on behalf of Mexican Americans. He founded the National Movement of La Raza and led a successful campaign to free Ricardo Aldape Guerra, a Mexican national framed for killing a Houston cop, from Texas' death row. In 1996, the Brewster County Sheriff attempted to arrest him. When Xinachtli challenged the legality of the warrantless arrest, the sheriff pulled a gun compelling him to disarm the sheriff in self-defense. Xinachtli was railroaded for "aggravated assault" and outrageously sentenced to 50 years. He has now been continually confined in solitary for more than 20 years in Texas dungeons.

Contribute now! This is not charity but an elementary act of solidarity with those imprisoned for their opposition to racist capitalism and imperialist depredation. Send your contributions to: PDC, P.O. Box 99, Canal Street Station, New York, NY 10013; (212) 406-4252.

As of October 2026, the Partisan Defense Committee sends monthly stipends as well as holiday and family presents to 11 activists imprisoned or under house arrest for standing up to racist, capitalist oppression. Here are the addresses to write directly to the class-war prisoners in the PDC's stipend program.