MARTIN SOSTRE

By Real Youth Initiative

By Garrett Felber and Stephen Ward Martin Sostre, James and Grace Lee Boggs, and the Political Prisoner in Revolutionary Struggles

By Stevie Wilson Who is behind bars? Who deserves support? What is the price of solidarity?

By Garrett Felber How Martin Sostre’s ‘single act of resistance’ stood for a broader struggle for bodily autonomy and collective liberation.

By Stephen Wilson Martin Sostre has been an inspiration to many current and formerly incarcerated individuals.

An interview by Roberto Sirvent with Garrett Felber about Martin Sostre to commemorate 100 years since Sostre's birth

By Peter James Hudson For many on the Black left there is an enduring ignorance concerning the theory and practice of anarchism.

By Lorrin Rosenbaum and Judith Kossy Few cases in recent history raise as many crucial questions of jurisprudence for courts in the US.

By Mariame Kaba Martin Sostre was a man who made a real impact in terms of prisoner rights in the United States.

By Diane Hope and Warren Schaich Sostre's letters reveal his personal struggle against perceived political and legal victimage.

The Nation of Islam’s Prison Organizing, the Carceral State, and the Black Freedom Struggle By Garrett Felber

By Alexandria Symonds The lawsuits he filed from behind bars in the 1960s and ’70s laid the groundwork for prisoners to defend their rights.

By Joe Shapiro His name has been lost to history, but in the 1970s, prisoners, wardens and prison guards across the U.S. knew of Sostre.

By Angela Davis Excerpt from If They Come in the Morning

By Malcolm McLaughlin It was as a “political prisoner” that Martin Sostre attained national recognition in the 1960s.

By William C. Anderson It is time to honor the work of Martin Sostre, a jailhouse lawyer who struggled against the US prison system.

By Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin Martin Sostre opened the doors for radical prisoners, Anarchist tendencies of color and radical praxis.