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Justice for Anarchist Prisoner Toby Shone!

Anarchist prisoner Toby Shone is being held in the Category B facility HM Prison Parc, a privately run prison in South Wales, despite being in reality a Category C or D prisoner who was eligible for Release on Temporary License (ROTL) on 21 January 2022, according to paperwork he received on 26th March 2022. ROTL is home leave from prison in preparation for release. Category B prisoners are not eligible for home leave.

Despite being found Not Guilty of political offences in court and with no evidence linking him to the website and publication 325.nostate.net, Toby is being held without legal process and without possibility of
redress as a Category B, High Risk prisoner where he is not eligible for ROTL (home leave). A probation official told Toby previously that his categorisation is a consequence of his anarchist beliefs, and the fact that he is considered by the authorities to act on those beliefs. This decision has been taken at a level above the Offender Management Unit (OMU) which is the unit Toby personally deals with.

Continue reading Update about Anarchist prisoner Toby Shone (UK) →

March 6, 2022

(Taken from Radiocane)

Q: Listeners have probably already had the opportunity to learn about the events that you have lived throughout your long imprisonment in Spanish jails from reading your biography. Let’s start now with the case that led to your current detention in France. What facts does this case refer to?

A: Yes, I have a 10-year sentence set by the Paris Criminal Court on November 8, 2019, for armed robbery and kidnapping. This sentence was recently reduced, a week ago, to five years. And my release date is scheduled for May 16, 2025, so three years from now. This is due to a calculation of the credits for sentence reduction made by the Mont-de-Marsan Prosecutor’s Office, starting from 30 years instead of 25 as the legal limit for the accumulation of sentences in the Spanish system. Well, if this limit had been established by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, if this limit had been enforced, I would have had to be released Continue reading France. Telephone interview with Claudio Lavazza →

On 3-18-2022,

3 years 7 months 6 days and 4 hours,

after being dragged into a closet,

off camera,

and beaten,

illegally restrained for 7+ hours, given diesel therapy

held indefinitely in segregation,

2 years of communication restrictions,

years without phone, without visits. commissary,

after orchestrated attacks,

after being dragged into the shower, handcuffed,

and dumped on his head, stitches,

inadequate medical care,

Covid X2,

a 4 day federal trial,

attended by a multitude of government agents, 8 federal guards testifying against him,

The majority of whom have beaten him

at one point or another, a bird flooding h is cell,

and destroying  his legal  paperwork, after almost 12 hours of  deliberation,

AT 5:52 ERIC KING WAS  ACQUITTED

source

Libre Flot started his hunger strike on Sunday 27 February 2022, you can read his demands here.

Since then he has only been drinking water and tea, he has been eating broth and fruit juice from canteen to supplement his nutritional intake. He systematically refuses the meal trays that are brought to him every day. We were able to give him advice on how to cope.

He had a visit from the director of the prison on the first day, since then he has regular appointments with a doctor who takes his blood pressure, checks his weight etc… His heart rate has dropped by half, so he decided to stop doing sport (i.e. walking on a conveyor) since 9 March and to go out for a “walk” (a 20m2 cage on the roof of the prison) because of the cold.

Continue reading Bois-d’Arcy Prison, Yvelines, France: Libre Flot hunger strike updates →

ANARCHIST PRISONER TOBY SHONE UPDATE

Toby has been moved to HM Prison Parc in South Wales run by G4S. His new
address is:

Toby Shone A7645EP
HMP Prison Parc
Heol Hopcyn John,
Coity,
Bridgend CF35 6AP
UK

Prisoners are limited to sending 3 letters a week at HMP Parc,
so please write without expecting a reply.

Thanos Xatziagkelou -On the intransigent organization of Anarchist Action

Every 10th of March time pins the minute markers to zero. There are no hours, only moments of reflection on the burden of responsibility that each and every one of us carries in the continuation of the revolutionary event. For the moral, political and militant duty in the revolutionary war. A crack like a battle cry, in a night where death has conquered fear. The physical death we so lament – in the world of death – is less pernicious than the death that is marketed as life.

12 Marches ago, comrade and member of the Revolutionary Struggle, Lambros Fountas, was executed in a gunfight in Daphne by a crew of uniformed terrorists during a preparatory action by the organization. Lambros lived his entire life on the front lines of the anti-authoritarian conflict – with paper, with flag, with gun in hand. That’s how he breathed his last breath in the last battle, on the front line. In life a thunderbolt and in death a wolf. Lambros is the fuse of revolutionary intolerance and will live on in the flames of revolutionary violence. From the fires of the urban metropolitan fields to the guerrilla blasts in the mountains of the Middle East and Latin America.

Continue reading Thanos Xatziagkelou: Taking responsibility for participation in the Anarchist Action Organization( Koridallos prison,Greece) →

Trial in a week! And words from Eric

“There’s something happening here, something special for certain.

It begins with trees and bugs and grows into communities built on trust.

it revolves around the idea that we can cause their destruction with our growth.

it starts with love and grows with the flowers. Ands with the stars burning us all to dust

🖤

March 14th “

Continue reading USA: Trial in a week! And words from Eric King →

HONOUR FOREVER TO COMRADE LAMBROS FOUNTAS

As long as there are states, war will break out,

as long as there is capitalism there will be bloodshed.

On 10/3/2010, our comrade Lambros Fountas was murdered by a guard of the state during the preparation of an action by Revolutionary Struggle and within the context of a struggle to prevent the imposition of anti-social measures to save the economic and political system of power from the crisis, to prevent the advance of the memorandum policies.

12 years after the death of our comrade, we have moved even further along the same destructive path that the system of capitalism and the state has set for humanity and the planet, passing from one catastrophic crisis to another.

Without the economic systemic crisis having been overcome, but lying dormant waiting for sparks to ignite it, the coronavirus pandemic has broken out, reminding us how close to the extinction of the human species capitalism and the destruction of nature that accompanies its development has brought us. And without the pandemic being over (who expects the threat of viruses to end?), a new global threat is emerging, that of war, which is a genuine child of capitalism and states. The fear of a nuclear war, a disaster for all humanity, has been awakened by the war in Ukraine, reminding us that as long as there are states, as long as there is competition for their domination and expansion, the danger of a world war will always be present.

Continue reading Greece: In Honour for ever of Comrade Lambros Fountas ,text from Imprisoned Revolutionary Struggle Members Pola Roupa and Nikos Maziotis →

War in Ukraine has already increased the level of repressions in Russia, but there are not yet any new criminal proceedings against anarchist or anti-fascist activists. In this new exceptional situation, we are channeling some of our resources to humanitarian needs which go beyond our usual narrow focus of supporting repressed anarchists and anti-fascists.

In picture: action of Left Bloc activists against FSB.

Plenty have been arrested in demonstrations and fined, or slapped with an immediate 15 day prison sentence. More serious charges may be pressed anytime soon. But until then, we are following up on anarchists and anti-fascists who have already been facing repression before the war.

But the good news first.

Chelyabinsk anarchists released

This is already old news, but on 24th of November the court of appeal revoked the sentence of two Chelyabinsk anarchists, Anastasia Safonova and Dmitry Tsibukovski, who were given prison sentences of 2 and 2.5 years respectively for ”hooliganism”, after they hung a banner with the text ”FSB is the main terrorist”. Their criminal case was returned to the local court, so a new sentence is possible. It is extremely unusual that political sentences in Russia are overturned through an appeal. Until the new process, Safonova and Tsibukovski are under several restrictions.

Continue reading Moscow Anarchist Black Cross updates, March 2022 →

Statement Against Racist Staff Culture at HMP Bristol

Prisoners have set up a Prisoners Committee on G Wing HMP Bristol in order to empower inmates, exchange experiences, and to show support and solidarity with each other as they try to confront abuses by the rotten staff culture at Bristol’s inner-city prison. Despite the diverse ethnic make-up of Bristol City itself, staff at HMP Bristol are disproportionately white and are either ignorant of, disrespectful of or actively antagonistic towards the people of colour in their care. The following statement was written by the mixed ethnicity Prisoners Committee on G Wing. The reference to “Asian brothers” is a term of
friendship rather than familial.

HMP Bristol UK – Statement from G Wing Prisoners Committee against Racist screw Senior Officer (SO) Dawes.

On February 22nd, the Asian brothers from Landing 2 wanted to go out to the yard for exercise with Landings 3 and 4, and asked SO Dawes (BL0461) if they could also go outside. SO Dawes took a belligerent approach towards them, saying they could (we are all on 22 hour bang-up), but “if anything happened they would get a Negative.” This means they could lose
their jobs and ability to leave their cells, attend activities etc. One
of the Asian brothers wanted to go to the gym and then get some fresh air on the yard, but he was refused even though this is frequently allowed. The Asian brothers went to the yard and during that mere hour outside, a parcel was thrown over the wall onto the yard. Straightaway SO Dawes started staring in a hostile way at the Asian brothers, even though they didn’t take the parcel and were nowhere near it. Continue reading EN/ES/IT/DE/,HMP Bristol UK: Statement from G Wing Prisoners Committee against Racist screw Senior Officer (SO) Dawes. →

Solidarity with Toby Shone in the face of threats from Fascist Screw SO Steven Sollars Imprisoned anarchist Toby Shone has refused to attend any more workshops run by right-wing Senior Officer Steven Sollars at HMP Bristol due to the constant provocations, insults, denigration and threats. He was confined to his cell for 23 hours a day for two weeks following his refusal.

Ex-military and a screw at Bristol prison for the last 11 years, SO Steve Sollars is well known amongst prisoners as a politically motivated bully and bigot. He boasted to prisoners that he was part of a counter-protest that “protected” the cenotaph in June 2020 during the Black Lives Matter protests in Bristol. He gloated about the long sentences given to Kill the Bill protestors, particularly Ryan Roberts.

He publically fantasised about re-introducing chain gangs, saying that he would shoot prisoners in the face with a shotgun if they rebelled.

Sollars threatened to kill Toby and blame it on another prisoner. He made derogatory remarks about Irish rebels in the run up to the Bloody

Continue reading EN/ES/IT/DE: Solidarity with Toby Shone in the face of threats from Fascist Screw SO Steven Sollars (UK) →