Slavery in the American Prison-Industrial-Complex in the 21st Century

Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands

 

Note by Fazal Rahman

This article describes some of the reality of Prison-Industrial-Complex (PIC) in the US, which, as stated by many of its victims, is continuation of slavery in the 21^st Century.  As is the common and routine practice in all politico-economic matters here, law enforcement, government, and corporate officials – the beneficiaries of exploitation of such slave labor – not only try to cover it up, but justify, rationalize, and moralize it.  This is one of innumerable manifestations of the sinister reality of American capitalist-imperialist “democracy”, which has created hundreds of millions of clones thumping their chests about being free, democratic, advanced, and exceptional.  They are exceptional indeed, but not in the way they imagine.

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Over 40,000 eviction notices have gone out in L.A. this year, many to upscale apartments

 

Note by Fazal Rahman

This is an example of “freedom” in capitalist and imperialist “democracies”.  Landlords have the freedom to evict the tenants for non-payments or late payments of rents, while the tenants, no matter how dire their financial situation may be, are forced to leave their housings – one of the most important basic human needs.  If they do not find affordable housing elsewhere, they are condemned to homelessness, one of the worst brutalities inflicted on humans.  Similar “freedoms” are prevalent in all the other areas in these “democracies”, like in employment, in which employers can fire workers, frequently in large numbers, and if workers do not find other jobs, they are condemned to unemployment, again a brutal and devastating infliction.

In Libya under Qaddafi, housing was a human right and there were no electric or gas bills either.  US and NATO imperialists destroyed that right and numerous others to create the same kinds of “freedoms” there, as under their systems.  Now the once prosperous Libyan society has been reduced to states of anarchy, constant warfare, and impoverishments. 

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