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Tag Archives: anti-prison
Through war, despotism and social change: Russia’s Anarchist Black Cross
From avtonom.org and Freedom News (30/08/2024). For this year’s International Anarchist Prisoner Solidarity Week, Freedom interviewed the Anarchist Black Cross-Moscow to discuss their long history in Russia supporting imprisoned Russian anarchists, the challenges they face under Putin’s regime and their work during the … Continue reading
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Tagged anachism, anti-prison, call of solidarity, russia
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Call for International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners 2023 // 23 – 30 August
The world is on fire. The climate crisis is getting worse and worse. Instead of masks against Covid-19, people now have to wear masks against smoke from forest fires. At the same time huge areas getting flooded due to heavy … Continue reading
Hunger strikes against the solitary confinement of anarchist prisoner Alfredo Cospito in Italy
From the newspaper El Salto Diario, an article by Pedro Castrillo (30/11/2022). Alfredo Cospito, an Italian anarchist militant, has been on a hunger strike for more than a month in protest against the solitary confinement he has been subjected to … Continue reading
No one will be left alone
From the Anarchist Black Cross Belarus (28/05/2022) … It’s been almost two years since the 2020 protests in Belarus. The anarchist movement, just like the rest of activists and jounalists, has faced the biggest crackdown ever. Many activists had to … Continue reading
For Russell Maroon Shoatz: The tradition of Maroon “anarchism”
Russell Maroon Shoatz, activist and writer, was a founding member of the revolutionary group Black Unity Council in 1969, as well as a member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. In 1972, he would be convicted … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-prison, anti-racism, black anarchism, Black Panthers, Russell Maroon Shoatz, united states
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The “forgotten fight” for prison abolition in France
I am often asked — What reforms of prison I should propose; but now, as twenty-five years ago, I really do not see how prisons could be reformed. They must be pulled down. Peter Kropotkin, Prisons: Universities of Crime There … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-prison, france, Jacques Lesage de La Haye
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Solidarity with Gabriel Pombo da Silva and all anarchist prisoners
‘There is nothing to reform’ (words from Gabriel Pombo da Silvia via culmine, translated by war on society and published with the Anarchist Library): I am not so naive as to believe that what I am living here is something exceptional… and since “the … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-prison, Gabriel Pombo Da Silva, political prisoners, spain
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Greece: The politics of exception in times of the pandemic (2)
Greece is often presented as an example to follow in the control of the COVID-19 pandemic, having kept numbers of infection and death comparatively low. (the Guardian) What is so often ignored or passed over in these celebratory judgements is … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-prison, greece, migration, State and terror, State terror
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“understand that fascism is already here”*
I want to try to urge you to think about the historical system of slavery and the prison, the institution of the prison together. And specifically, I want us to think about the extent to which the vast global apparatus … Continue reading →