The Empty Cages Collective and Community Action on Prison Expansion (CAPE) campaigns are calling for people to get involved in fighting at what they say is a crucial stage in government plans to build four new megaprisons across Britain. Plans to build new facilities at Full Sutton in east Yorkshire, Hindley in Wigan, Rochester in Kent and
An anonymous group claiming responsibility for a raid on controversial superjail HMP Berwyn in May 2015 which destroyed the engines of diggers and construction equipment has said in a letter to insurrectionist site 325.nostate that they also fatally undermined houseblocks with acid powder shortly afterwards. The letter states: It is important to announce one week before the opening
The Empty Cages Collective, a solidarity group supporting prison abolitionists in Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Cardiff and London, is backing a major new conference aimed at growing the movement nationally and gearing up for a campaign to fight the government as it pushes forward building new megaprisons. The first of the new giant facilities, HMP Berwyn near
The only descendant of the anarchist revolutionary José Buenaventura Durruti has died in France at the age of 93.
Trump’s presidency is still not widely seen for the fascist coup that it is ~ Louis Further ~ Be honest and ignore your ‘scepticism’ about the ‘decency’ of politics in the United States: would you have believed it, had you been told ten years ago, that its president would be a twice impeached convicted felon,
Protesters across the UK were a diverse crowd, with slogans ranging from plaintive to militant ~ Kell w Farshéa ~ Mass demonstrations took place across the UK yesterday (19 April) protesting the Supreme Court decision on the interpretation of transgender people’s rights under the Equalities Act.
The ones who want trans folks out of the public sphere will now feel emboldened to challenge us, to abuse us, to misgender us ~ Kell w Farshéa ~ It’s the sheer sadism of it—the corks popping outside the Supreme Court as a group of women and a couple of men cheer at excluding one
For years, Indigenous families have faced pressure from real estate developers seeking to evict them in order to develop the area on lands known as Santuário dos Pajés, a sacred place for Indigenous spirituality ~ Aldo Santiago, Avispa Midia ~ On Tuesday morning, 15 April, members of the Military Police of the Federal District (PMDF),
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