Solidarity action links Sanremo with UK detainees held on remand over Palestine Action cases ~ Blade Runner ~ Italian anarchist prisoner Luca Dolce…
Italian anarchist joins UK prison hunger strike
Tag: Prisons
Incompetence and corruption cause England’s torture units to degrade further
Prison bosses incessantly argue for harsher conditions—then cry over the lack of safe systems of work ~ Kevan Thakrar ~ On Saturday, 12 April…
Anarchist News Review: The proscribing of Palestine Action
We don’t have long before old-fashioned authoritarian State censorship is employed to stop us talking about one of the most shameful episodes…
Wildfires will begin: An interview with Toby Shone
The former political prisoner talks about his anarchism, the 325 project and resisting the physical and mental jails that surround us all.
Through war, despotism and social change: Russia’s Anarchist Black Cross
For this year’s International Anarchist Prisoner Solidarity Week, Freedom interviewed the Anarchist Black Cross-Moscow to discuss their long hist…
Alfredo Cospito fights punitive prison conditions with hunger strike
Alfredo Cospito was imprisoned for 10 years in 2014 for the kneecapping of a power plant owner, in 2012, carried out by the Olga Cell of the Inform…
People, Prisons & Profit: Contemporary Abolition in the UK
When discussing matters of inequality and oppression, particularly through a radical framework, there always awaits a countering opinion that deep-…
France: Anarchist political prisoner begins hunger strike
Rojava veteran Libre Flot accuses the authorities of framing him because of his participation in the war against ISIS.
Racist attacks on Muslim prisoners in HMP Long Lartin exposed by protest
Protestors gathered at HMP Long Lartin on Saturday night to condemn the ongoing racist and Islamophobic abuse by prison officers.
Anti-prison activists to target Kier Construction in New Year campaign
Anti-prison campaigners from Community Action on Prison Expansion (CAPE) are targeting Kier Construction with “New Year, No Kier” campa…
Prisons in Argentina: a long-term abandonment
“Between 1776 and 1800, during the first decades of the Viceroyalty of Río de La Plata, the prison population varied between 33 and 130 pris…
London Anarchist Black Cross launches online prisoner letter writing service
London Anarchist Black Cross has launched a virtual prisoner letter writing service.
Old and jailing: Tories have prison population problems if unrest occurs
A great number of aggressive new laws have been introduced in recent months, from £10,000 fines for organising protests (a dictator’s wet dr…
Protesters gather at Secretary of State for Justice home demanding prisons are emptied in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic
On Monday morning, a protest took place on the doorstep of the home of the Secretary of State for Justice, Robert Buckland in Wroughton, Borough of…
‘This place is a death trap’: inside HMPs during COVID-19
Content warnings: state violence, medical abuse and neglect, self-harm and suicide The Ministry of Justice’s lack of response to COVID-19 is no…
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EU votes to speed up deportations
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Dissident Russian artist murdered in Poland
Assassination of Semyon Skrepetsky is a threatening message to the entire Russian opposition in Europe ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Bashkir artist Semyon Skr…
Lament for a lost revolution
A century since the General Strike of 1926 ~ punkacademic ~ In the opening week of May 1926, Britain had its first, last, and only General Strike.
Jim Crow is still alive
One day people will look at today’s global Apartheid the way we look at American Segregation ~ Joseph Chen ~ Whenever I turn back to the hist…
