“From the life of a prisoner” – letter from the anarchist N. from the JVA Aichach

Everything in this society in which we are forced to live, that makes life hostile and inhospitable, becomes visible in the place that it invented in order to remind all people, nonconformist or conformist alike, what awaits them if they step outside of the boundaries: prison. A place that acts instead of or in addition to execution: the death of time. Buried alive in a tomb until the day of resurrection; cut off from loved ones, the living world and our bodies’ natural impulse to move through the world freely. Reduced to a number in the smooth functioning of a machine; administered, surveilled, educated.

The first time one is trapped in this machine, one wonders how familiar everything is. There are those who say: “it isn’t punishment, it’s education.” And they are right. However, what they overlook is that our first encounter with prison isn’t when we are imprisoned. But rather that it is a part of our life from the very beginning: in kindergarten, school, in the hospital; later in the office, the factory, the barracks, in the retirement home. Categorized and sorted; accustomed to the ticking of the clock and the rhythm of the machine since childhood. Squeezed into concrete caves, cut off from the pulsing rhythm of life and death. Reduced to a function in the system, trained to measure the earth and its inhabitants according to the monetary value that can be squeezed out of them. Filled with ignorance or even disdain for all forms of subsistence and self organization.

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Maja’s statement on the end of her hunger strike

Dear people, dear comrades and people who support me,

My name is Maja. Since June 5, I have been on hunger strike [ see here ; Ed. ]. I started it to protest my illegal and unredressed extradition from Germany to Hungary a year ago, the repressive persecution of anti-fascists, the dubious legal proceedings with a pre-determined outcome, my solitary confinement, which continues to this day, and the inhumane conditions of detention in Hungarian jails. Now, after almost six weeks, I have decided to suspend my hunger strike.

I don’t want to continue abusing my health, because I feel that if I don’t turn around now, it will soon be too late. So, it wouldn’t do much good if my requests were met. I would be scarred for life, perhaps I already am. I never wanted to get to this point; I naively hoped that something as radical as the hunger strike would finally raise awareness among those in charge and all those who can change something, that they would take action, after a year of soothing statements, smiles, and ignorance.
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via: athens.indymediaTranslated by Act for freedom now!

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Victory for Maja T’s hunger strike
by Marianna Manoura, Dimitra Z.

Responding to the call of the anti-fascist days of action (June 20-22), of the anti-fascist Maja T. who has been on hunger strike since June 5 in Hungarian prisons, we send our own signal of solidarity to their struggle. Two years ago, during the day of honour (anniversary of the mass extermination of Hungarians and German Nazis in 1945), a fascist rally-march took place in Budapest, where hundreds of neo-Nazis and fascists gathered. In response to this call, anti-fascists from Europe decided to return a part of the violence they produce to them.

The far-right Hungarian government began a series of arrests, openly supporting the fascists, with an inflated indictment of criminal organizations and inhumane conditions of confinement. Other European states cooperated, engaging in a series of deportations and persecutions. Germany played a leading role in characterizing the German anti-fascists persecuted by the Hungarian state as dangerous criminals, culminating in the overnight extradition of Maja T. Many of the individuals involved chose to go underground, refusing to surrender their freedom to either the German or Hungarian state. Maja T. was one of these people, until their arrest and extradition. Continue reading Athens,Greece: Victory for Maja T’s hunger strike by Marianna Manoura, Dimitra Z. (koridallos women prison) →