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Attica: The Nightmare That Never Ends

http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/1065/attica.html

Publisher:  Workers Vanguard
Date Written:  03/04/2015
Year Published:  2015  
Resource Type:  Article

Today, the incarcerated population in the U.S. has mushroomed to some 2.4 million, seven times the number in 1971, not least as a result of the racist "war on drugs." The prison population grew massively in the 1970s and 1980s in direct proportion to the sharp decline in unionized manufacturing jobs, a measure of how the bourgeoisie has deemed whole layers of the ghetto and barrio masses "surplus." Prisons and jails represent, in concentrated form, the brutality of this racist capitalist society, with severe dehumanization and oppressive conditions directed against an already marginalized and demoralized population.

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