Frances Newton Lynched by Barbaric USA

The backward, barbaric, anti-labor, racist, sexist United States just murdered another innocent African American woman, Frances Newton, in the State of Texas. This is the real United States, not a land of freedom, democracy and opportunity, but one of war, fascism and barbarism.

All of Europe has abolished the death penalty, but the United States, the most backward country in the industrialized world with the highest infant mortality and lowest life expectancy, still proudly and with malice aforethought lynches human beings, most of whom are innocent, and Frances Newton was certainly innocent. This is the horror of punishment instead of rehabilitation, if a person is guilty, which Newton was not.

This is why we must all be abolistionists, for abolishing the death penalty and the entire prison-concentration camp system. You cannot have rehabilitation and punishment just as you cannot have butter and guns. The money spent on this class weapon of torture against the workingclass, the death penalty, and on the palm-greasing racket of prisons that are also a scene of torture, rape and murder that keeps district attorneys, police and prison guards employed, must be spent on education for decent paying jobs and rehabilitating people who still manage to commit crimes.

Until then, be sure to tell everyone you can that the death penalty and the prison system, of which Abu Ghraib is an excellent, common example, is the United States. There is no justice, freedom, democracy or opportunity in this backward cesspool.

It will take a serious labor movement to change anything. Please join the labor contingent at the September 24 peace march.