Contributor: Garrett Felber

On the second anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, political prisoner Martin Sostre wrote a tribute emphasizing his radical disobedience. It was among the last articles ever published in Black News, a short-lived revolutionary newspaper edited and published by Sostre from prison with help from the Worker’s World Party. We have republished Sostre’s article […]

Martin Sostre was supported by a variety of different organizations, defense committees, and individuals during his nearly nine years in prison from 1967-1976. Few were as important and consistent as journalist William Worthy. Over the course of three years, Worthy wrote almost a dozen articles about Sostre, two of which—“Sostre in Solitary” (Boston Sunday Globe, […]

In January 1976, Martin Sostre was released from prison after serving nearly eight of a 31-41-year sentence. In response to a growing international defense movement, a documentary film, and a book detailing his frame-up by Buffalo police and his ongoing struggles against state violence, Governor of New York Hugh Carey finally granted his clemency on […]

From his solitary cell at Auburn prison in 1972, political prisoner Martin Sostre warned that “if Attica fell to us in a matter of hours. . . so shall fall all your fortresses, inside and out. Revolutionary spirit conquers all obstacles.”  A year after the uprising at Attica, where Sostre himself had been tortured in […]