ABC Hurricane are pleased to publish a compilation of some of the writings of John Bowden. They provide a rare insight and history of the prison regime and bring to light cases and stories that normally never see the light of day, but are unfortunately all too common behind prison walls. Posing no threat to …
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A short update from comrade Thomas Meyer-Falk about the inhuman conditions in German prisons. Thomas was locked up for 11 and a half years in 1996 for a politically motivated bank-robbery and has spent most of his sentence in isolation. He had his sentence extended and remains incarcerated today. On 18th May 2014 Koala Rosmane …
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via Denver ABC: For more than a year, thousands of volunteer fighters have been defending the autonomous revolution of Rojava (in Northern Syria) from the Islamic State (ISIS or Daesh). Since this past July the North Syrian city of Kobanê, in the central canton of the Autonomous territory of Rojava, has been under siege by …
via contra info: Following his arrest in Athens on the 1st of October 2014, Antonis Stamboulos is currently being held on remand facing terrorism charges. On October 6th, with another open letter, the comrade announced a hunger and thirst strike denouncing the fact that he is now being held in the prisoner transfer centre of …
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via actforfree and 325: Background: Text by the 4 arrested anarchists concerning the double robbery in Velvento, Kozani + Anarchists sentenced for the double bank robbery in Velvento + Letter from Argyris Ntalios & Fivos Harisis Comrade A.D. Bourzoukos made his political statement today (31/7/14). Comrades D.Politis, G.Mihailidis, F.Harisis and A.Dalios were also present in …
translated by actforfree: “If you asked me what prison is, I would answer without a doubt that it is a wasteland of defined social-economic plans, where they throw all those individuals that bother them within society: this is why prison mainly houses mainly poor people” Xose Tarrio “A movement that forgets its hostages is condemned …
A new pamphlet concerning the Phoenix Project has been released by the comrades of the Circle of Individualist Anarchists which includes transcriptions of the four events held nationwide in solidarity with the persecuted comrades for the actions of the Project which took place recently in Greece. This is the first of a series of pamphlets …
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Documentary from Greece about the prison society, its role in social control and the ongoing rebellion against it… The film focuses on the prison uprisings against the political repression and social war against the comrades in Greece as well as the hunger strikes against the Type-F prisons in Turkey which soon spread to engulf many …
PDF: Os Cangaceiros: A Crime Called Freedom– by Wolfi Landstreicher (2006) “At the dawn of Industrialism, factories were modeled after prisons. In its twilight, prisons are now modeled after factories.” We speak a lot about the violence on the outskirts of the cities. However, there is no need to think that this is the only …
via abc brighton and avtonom: On September 30, 2014 Russian anti-fascist Alexei Sutugu was sentenced by Zamoskvoretskiy Court in Moscow to three years and one month in prison for his alleged involvement in a fight. A day earlier, the prosecutor had asked for it four years and two months in prison. Sutuga was accused of …
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