On Thursday, March 27, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision upholding Mumia Abu-Jamal’s frame-up conviction. In turning down Mumia’s appeal for a new trial, the Court ordered a new sentencing hearing to decide whether he is again to be sentenced to die or condemned to the living death of life in prison.

The Court’s decision is another slap in the face to all opponents of racist injustice. Recalling the infamous Dred Scott decision, the Court has again declared that a fighter for black freedom like Mumia has no rights that the courts are bound to respect. A former Black Panther Party spokesman, MOVE supporter and renowned journalist, Mumia is an innocent man, framed up for his political beliefs. He should never have spent a day in prison. There must be mass protests, centered on the power of the working class, to demand his freedom now.

All out on 19 April!

SEE ATTACHED PDF LEAFLET OR CONTACT THE PDC (SEE BELOW) FOR MORE INFORMATION. Visit www.partisandefense.org regularly for updates on international protests and for regular updates, further endorsers and for information about the urgent international campaign to free Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Free Mumia now!

Mumia Abu-Jamal
is innocent!

Abolish the racist
death penalty!

Build the united-front demonstration initiated
by the Partisan Defence Committee

Partial list of endorsers at 9 April 2008: African Liberation Support Campaign (ALISC); Afrikan Liberation Day Organising Committee; Amalgamated Transit Union Local 241, Chicago, US; Black Action Defense Committee Inc, Toronto, Canada; Dr Paul Mason, Cardiff Nexus Innocence Project/No More Prisons, Cardiff, Wales; Paul Moffat, Communication Workers Union Eastern Region; Jim Deery, Chairperson, Greater New Lodge Community Forum — North Belfast *; Gerry Downing,Committee Member, TGWU/UNITE 1/296*; Professor Dr Heinrich Fink, Chairman, VVN-BdA (Association of the Victims of the Nazi Regime— Coalition of Anti-fascists)*, Berlin, Germany; Finsbury Park Branch, National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers; Jack Heyman, Executive Board member, ILWU Local 10*, member, Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, San Francisco, California; Terry Hoad, President, Oxford UCU*; Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Oakland, California; Marcus Garvey Organising Committee; Pan-Afrikan Society Community Forum; Partisan Defence Committee; Matthew Ryder, Matrix Chambers*; Spartacist League/Britain; Spartacus Youth Group; Toronto Forum on Cuba, Toronto, Canada; Margaret Valente, Community Development Worker, Star Neighbourhood Centre*, Belfast

*Organisation listed for identification purposes only

We want to make it very clear that endorsers and speakers at this protest initiated by the PDC under the slogans “Free Mumia now! Mumia Abu-Jamal is innocent! Abolish the racist death penalty!” do not necessarily agree in any particular with the call for the protest printed on the reverse of the attached leaflet or any other publicity issued by the PDC for the protest.

Saturday 19 April
1pm, US Embassy,
Grosvenor Square, London W1A
(Nearest Tube: Bond Street)

The Partisan Defence Committee is a class-struggle, non-sectarian legal and social defence organisation which champions cases and causes in the interest of the whole of the working people. This purpose is in accordance with the political views of the Spartacist League.