Anarchist Black Cross, Brighton

WHAT IS ABC?

Brighton Anarchist Black Cross is part of an international network of ABC groups. Our immediate aim is to support anarchist and other class struggle prisoners, whether in the UK or elsewhere. We want the abolition of the prison system, not its reform.

For more about why we do this go to About ABC
For more information about how you can help, go to Action.

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Active Solidarity Newsletter November 08

Active Solidarity is our occasional newsletter, with the latest news on prisoners, repression and solidarity.Free with an SAE to ABC, PO BOX 74, Brighton BN1 4ZQ, UK, or
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ORIGINS OF THE ABC

The Anarchist Red Cross was started in Tsarist Russia to organize aid for political prisoners captured by the police, and to organize self-defense against political raids by the Cossack Army. During the Russian civil war, they changed the name to the Black Cross in order to avoid confusion with the Red Cross who were organizing relief in the country. After the Bolsheviks seized power the Anarchist movement moved the ABC offices to Berlin and continued to aid prisoners of the new regime, as well as victims of Italian fascism and others. The Black Cross fell apart during the 1930s depression due to the incredible demand for its services and a decline in financial aid. But in the late 1960s the organization resurfaced in Britain, where it first worked to aid prisoners of the Spanish resistance

The antifascist resistance there had not in fact died after the civil war and anarchists and other antifascists were still fighting the dictator Franco's police. Now it has expanded and works in several areas, with contacts and other Black Cross groups in many countries around the world, mostly in Europe and North and South America.The ABC has sought to bring attention to the plight of all prisoners, with an emphasis on anarchist and other class struggle prisoners; and, through contact with and information about prisoners, inspire an anarchist resistance and support movement outside of the prison walls. We fund-raise on behalf of prisoners or defense committees in need of funds for legal cases or otherwise, and organize demonstrations of solidarity with imprisoned anarchists and other prisoners.

Refugees escaping from Woomera detention centre, Australia, helped
by a solidarity demonstration
and action outside.

OLDER NEWS STORIES

Click on the link above for some news stories from the last few years.For the latest news on prisoner support, repression and resistance, please see the right hand column of this page

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