A MOVEMENT WHICH DOESN'T SUPPORT ITS FALLEN COMRADES IS DOOMED TO FAILURE 
Anarchist Black Cross - Dijon
E  N  G  L  I  S  H    E  D  I  T I  O  N
c/o Maloka, B.P. 536, 21 014 Dijon Cedex, France. Email : abcu@dds.nl
LET'S  SUPPORT  THOSE  WHO'VE  BECOME  HOSTAGES  IN  THE  COURSE  OF  CLASS WAR !!!

NEWSBULLETIN #1 - October/November 2000

USA : When the silence of walls is being shaken
Holland : Repression against the Mumia campaign, 6 people under charges
	On September 2nd, a demonstration was held at the US embassy in The Haag in order to defy the challenge launched by the US administration against the campaign in support of the Black Panther journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal and against death penalty in the US. Indeed, Mumia is awaiting for an answer regarding an alleged new trial that, if it takes place, would take under consideration all the documents, witnesses and proves advanced by his lawyer for years and that have been consciously withdrawn by US officials so as to frame him up. If not a new trial, Mumia would be executed without any possibility to appeal again since all the opportunities of judicial recourse have now been fully exploited. This situation is the result of the law entittled "For an effective Death Penalty Act" and signed by Bill Clinton in 1996 in order to provide a wider freedom for Justice to execute death row prisoners by restricting their possibilities to appeal court decisions. However, since Mumia is very well-known as a political prisoner and that a worldwide support campaign has managed up to now to prevent his execution, US officials are very embarrassed and launched a challenge against that campaign so as to estimate its capacities to provide a long term opposition to their intentions which are clearly to execute Mumia.
	Defying this challenge was obviously the main purpose of the demonstration in The Haag. Instead of awaiting for the verdict of Judge Sabo regarding a new trial, the dutch Mumia campaign (and others) have understood that this decision would come up to the pressure they would manage to cumulate against the US officials involved in the procedure against Mumia. As a proof of their determination, about 70 demonstrators gathered in front of the embassy and tried to get a delegation inside so as to deliver petitions signed by hundreds of supporters and personalities. Obviously, Mister The Embassador didn't appreciate much this visit and immediately called the Minister of Foreign Affairs to get "those red parasites demonstrating in support of a cop killer" away. In absolute absence of police forces, protestors threw eggs and tomatoes at the official building while the demo was going on peacefully. 
	About a hundred of police agents suddenly rushed onto the square, apparently with the message of the Embassador in the hears. The demo was immediately declared illegal (whereas it was not) and while cops tried to arrest a protestor -who had no more reasons to be arrested than others- several others interfered. The beat then went on in spite of media presence without anyone could understand such reaction, except by the offence the demo had caused to the image of the US. Bystanders and over 60 people were beaten as well and plainty of others were arrested. 6 of them among a member of the ABC are under charges by the article 141 of the penal code which had caused the prosecution of numerous protestors during the Eurotop 1996 in Amsterdam. 
	The 6 accused will face a trial on December 1st in The Haag. This trial cutting US-dutch tight diplomatic relations to the quick, and considering therefore that it is not the only concern of the dutch social democracy, we fear to be framed up. It is clear that the US embassador and other US officials will not forget that fast their offence and will pressure the prosecutor on charge as well as the dutch justice department so as to make amends for it. A collective complaint was made against the police with the intention to bring it before the court and emphasize on the illegitimate prosecution of the 6 accused. You will find below a model of letter to address to the prosecutor in The Haag and other dutch officials so as to pressure his demand for sentencing. The solidarity with Mumia and against death penalty must apply to all its parameters. We call then all his supporters, support committees and opponants to death penalty to show solidarity with the 6 convicts.

 To (name of the official),									                       Date
	I'm writing you regarding the prosecution of the 6 people charged following the demonstration that took place at the US embassy last September 2nd in Den Haag. These 6 people were arrested arbitrarily while the Den Haag police forces illegitimately interrupted the protest that was going on peacefully. Unlike what they declared, this demonstration was absolutely legal and the defense will be able to prove it during the trial since it detains the legal papers for it. such.  Let us remind you that many complaints were made against the Den Haag police forces because of the brutality to which they resorted, what will lead to another trial in the coming weeks. 
	Furthermore this demonstration plainly offended the image and the arrogance of the USA as it was opposing death penalty and the persecution of the political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal who has never been recognized as such and has been awaiting on death row for nearly 20 years now. Considering the importance of diplomatic relations and economic interests your government is having with the american one, we believe this illegal police operation as well as the prosecution of the 6 accused remains a way for your government to apologize and protect the future of those lucrative relations. Therefore, the trial that will take place on December 1st can be nothing else than politically orientated and only satisfies diplomatic requirements. There is no legitimacy for prosecuting these 6 people as well as there was no legitimacy to ban the demo. 
	We guess at the same time that the spectrum of the US diplomacy will stand in the court room but that your position does not allow you to disregard it. However, collaborating with american officials explicitly means collaborating with their corruption that brings about the legal murder of tens of individuals each year. As a member and moralizer for the european community (which has clearly stated its opposition to death penalty and more particularly to Mumia's execution), such approach against people showing interest for this statement plainly betrays your european engagements. Your attitude is all the more not politically correct at all as your country is constantly being glorified for its respect towards human rights and legality. Of course, you would say you're acting within legality by resorting to the article 141 of the penal code to charge those 6 individuals...Well, we say : the article 141 is a main tool for the dutch government to silence the purely political intention of such trials and thus, to spare yourselves accusations pointing to a compromising question : the fact that your government prosecute and detains political activists.    
	Therefore, if you wanna preserve your "politically correct" image, the best thing you could do remains to let the 6 people under charges walk free out of the court room and deny your collaboration to the US. On the contrary, we only could invite you to resign since it would mean you fell into the vicious circle of corruption into which US diplomates attract you. But this is upon your decision. This is about the society you're willing to establish, if you consider diplomatic imperatives as being worth it to bring about the incarceration of political prisoners yourself. 
	We urge you to recognize the illegitimacy of this trial. We urge you to delete any charge weighting on the 6 prosecuted demonstrators.
	 				In solidarity with the 6 accused, with Mumia Abu-Jamal and against death penalty.
    									  Yours sincerely,

Please send your protest letters (copied or inspired from this one) before December 1st to the following officials :
   # Minister of Justice Mr. Korthals : Schedeldoekshaven 100, 2511 EX Den Haag
   # De officer van Justitie : Arrondissementparket te 's-Gravenhage, postbus 20 302, 2500 EH Den Haag
Further infos at : Mumia Supportgroup A'Dam, Pb 3762 1001 AN A'Dam, NL. email : mumia@dds.nl or webpage www.xs4all.nl/~tank or to abcu@dds.nl
A national action-day will take place in Paris on December 2nd for the release of Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier and to denounce the objective existence of political prisoners (indeed many people sadly wonder about it). The gathering is at 2:00pm at Place de la Republique and organizers intend to go to Place de la Madelaine nearby the US embassy. For further infos contact COSIMAPP : cosimapp@cosimapp-mumia.org
   
Franck J. Atwood faced with Control Unit Prisons
	Frank J. Atwood is an white american anarchist prisoner sentenced to death in 1984 after being framed up for a murder he never committed. Frank was an active militant since the late 60's and involved in the organization of demonstrations, bank robberies or bomb attacks against governmental policies at a time where the US were going through a wide political and social crisis. 
	Incarcerated for nearly 17 years, he's spent all his prison life in isolation or maximum security prisons and never denied his political convictions. Once in prison, Frank has remained active even if his activities have obviously declined along the years because of the conditions he faces, and even more since he has been transfered to the Control Unit Prison of Arizona. All death row prisoners of that state were transfered as well in September 1997 to that unit for escape risk reasons. 
	Indeed, Control Unit Prisons are maximum security prisons whom main characteristic remains the systematic isolation of ALL prisoners. Those prisons do not exist to lock up common prisoners for who "classical establishments " manage to obtain their discipline and submission. They were designed in order to break up those resisting the effects of this preliminary step : trouble makers, members of prison gangs, jailhouse lawyers, prisoners complaining about their treatment or guard abuses, prisoners standing from their cell and in summary, any prisoner who hasn't aroused the administration's sympathy. Control Unit Prisons are therefore a favourite destination for political prisoners as well. Numerous members of the Black Panther Party, of the American Indian Movement, anarchists, and other anti-imperialist fighters are detained in between their walls. Formally or informally, it is clear that those fortresses were created in a purely political perspective. After prisons made for cleaning the class society up, here are prisons to clean up prisons, i.e. to break up prisoners' resistance, organization and thoughts. But even more worrying are the programs inspired from the Korea war and applied against them in order to turn agitators and other political prisoners into collaborators and informators.
	Frank is however among the prisoners who prefer suffering a constantly hardening regime rather than becoming so. Author of a zine called "Decidedly Radical" and releasing various articles, this man keeps standing from his cell since, as he says, that's always what he does, even if the effects of 16 years of isolation and humiliation are undeniably felt in his writings. Having no comrade in prison of course but plainty of enemies, what is actually a result of prisoners' conditioning, Frank is very much interested in struggle movements and would like creating more and new links with "the militant youth".
	A pamphlet about maximum security prisons and solitary confinement including an article by Frank is available in english as well as in french at our address for 5FF + 6,80FF for postage (free for prisoners but postage). If you wanna write to Frank or ask him more infos about Control Unit Prisons, here is his address : Frank J. Atwood, ADC # 62887, Unit SMU II (3-H-30), Arizona State Prison Complex Syman, BOX 3400 - Death Row, Florence AZ 85 232, 
USA.
Latestly, Frank is suffering from asthma and his general health condition has substantially worsened. He suffers already from sight and hearing problems. Please send letters of support. Frank is detained in isolation for nearly 17 years! And these are unfortunately common results...

Stay of execution for Zolo Azania
	Zolo Agona Zania is a New African political prisoner on death row in Indiana, USA. He was arrested and convicted in 1981 as a result of the US racist criminal justice system. For his active involvement in the movement for the self-determination of New African people, he was framed-up and sentenced to death by a jury pool from which 70% of Black members mysteriously disappeared in what has been called a "computer error by the Indiana Supreme Court. He was tried by a all-white jury so that could not a be a fairly-based trial, all the more since Zolo Azania defined himself as an artist, writer and conscious citizen of the Republic of New African committed to the liberation of Black people within the US borders. This statement, which Zolo carried on his shoulders by faith and credit of his political convictions and ideals, obviously had a direct influence on the way the police, the prosecution and the court could consider him (an enemy of the State), what led to the death sntence he received. He was convicted in 1982 for the alleged murder of a Gary policeman who was killed during an exchange of gun fire with 3 men who were fleeing a bank robbery. His co-defendants were given 60 years but Zolo was targeted and got death, because the prosecutor told the prior counsel he was a "New African Terrorist".
	Despite his accomplishments while in prison and his links to fellow prisoners, his defense counsel put on no mitigation evidence about him at his death penalty retrial which was held in 1996. Therefore, he was executable and a death warrant had been signed against him for last October 25th. Immediately, an emergency campaign was set up to force the Indiana Supreme Court to stay his execution date and consider a myriad of issue which had never been raised before. A protest letter to address to the Indiana Supreme Court was worldwide spread to call for  consideration of these new elements and which legally didn't allow it to apply the death warrant without first reviewing the merits of these claims.
	It seems actually that a worldwide devotion of solidarity occured and that the "word went through" since last October 11th, the Indiana Supreme Court issued a stay of execution for Zolo Azania. Zolo's lawyers have been allowed to raise the issue of perjured testimony during his first trial. However, the constitutional issues surrounding Zolo's initial incompetent counsel and the fact that most potential black jurors were omitted from his retrial jury pool by a supposed computer error are still "under consideration". Well, even if Zolo Azania is still not out of danger and potentially remains executable, this stay issued by the Supreme Court has shown once again that our "letters which are not worth it because they are even not read" made the difference* and Zolo as well as his direct supporters are willing to address their best regards to all those who help spreading the word and sent protest letters. For further infos go to www.dragking.org/freezoloazania.html or write directly to him at : Zolo Agona Azania, #4969, Indiana State Prison, P.O BOX 41, Michigan City, Indiana 46 361-0041, USA.
Besides Zolo's stay of execution, 3 other inmates were planned to be executed in the course of November  in Texas, duly signed by the possibly newly elected as president George Bush Jr., well-known governor for his record of signing death penalty warrants. 
*Over 1000 letters were sent to the Indiana Supreme Court.
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PRESOS BASKOS & EUSKADI
Esteban Murillo deported
For those who had not followed this affair, Esteban Murillo is a Bask prisoner formerly member of the left- nationalist union LAB, a separatist legal-based organization. Detained successively in Spain, France and The Netherlands, he was accused by the spanish State of helping a murder attempt against a police officer in Iruena in 1980 by a ETA commando to which he borrowed his car, and therefore charged as well for suspected membership to the ETA. Spain was asking his extradition for many years and pressured the dutch government so as to obtain it. In spite of a wide campaign where Esteban run a hunger strike attended outside by about 30 Basks and after being tried twice, he was finally deported towards spanish jails for torture last July 27th. Many demonstrations were held at the prison in Haarlem where he was detained, spanish embassy and consulate were occupied, but the dutch government chose of course for following its european "duties" so as to avoid diplomatic compromises. A few supporters tried to interfere this extradition by blocking the prison entrance but were immediately arrested. We have to believe that all this mobilization -and the death of hundreds yearly- do not disturb multinationals' determination to preserve the Bask country as an oppressed european nation...and to constantly raise the Bask prison population. 
During the night preceeding his extradition, Esteban was placed in a "punishment cell" after suffering physical search and spent the all night absolutely naked, deprived of any water and under video-surveillance. He was visited the next day by officials of the dutch justice department and was transfered by civil car to Schipol airport.
Since his arrival at the Madrid penitentiary center III, Esteban has been denied to be visited by his lawyer (who was himself arrested again) and his mail systematicly confiscated. His dutch support committee is currently looking for a new lawyer who would have the courage to defend him for his coming trial that should take place on January 2001. We can imagine that the waves of insurrection and the numerous murders lately committed by ETA against spanish officials will not help the justice department to loosen the treatment whom Esteban and all Bask prisoners are currently facing.
You can send protest letters to the following officials to remind them the crimes for which they are guilty against him, and for their collaboration with torture and the neo-franquist spanish regime
   # Minister of Justice Mr. Korthals : Schedeldoekshaven 100, 2511 EX Den Haag, The Netherlands.
   # Directeur van de Haarlemse gevangenis : Harmenjansweg 4, 2031 WK Haarlem, The Netherlands 
For further infos about Esteban, even if they have it hard to get them, contact his dutch support committee at :  Solidariteitkomitee Esteban Murillo, postbus 2884, 3500 GW Utrecht, NL. email : staika@wanadoo.nl.
"I send my best greetings to all groups and organizations from the Netherlands for their active solidarity with the Bask people and for the right to autodetermination of Euskal Herria". Esteban Murillo.
  
Gabriel Mouesca, Bask separatist militant in prison
Gabriel Mouesca is the oldest Bask political prisoner detained by the french State. Militant of the separatist armed organization Iparretarak *(IK), he was arrested on March 1st, 1984 while a comrade of his was shot dead next to him by police. From 18 to 20 years old, Gabriel was working in a factory and was active with the french national union CGT (General Confederation of Work) before going underground (he's original from the northern  part of the Bask Country). Researched by police from August 2nd, 1983 when a gun battle took place between a IK commando and the police (one cop shot dead and another injured, one IK militant still reported missing), he was arrested 6 months later and sentenced to serve 43 years in prison. On December 13th, 1986, Gabriel escapes from prison and got arrested again on July 12th, 1987. He's now 38 and has served 16 years already. 
Like the wide majority of Bask prisoners detained on french as well as spanish territories, Gabriel has done a lot of "prison sightseeing". Successively incarcerated in Bayonne, Pau, Tarbes, Fleury-Merogis, Bois-d'Arcy, Fresnes, Lannemezan, Perpignan and at La Sante prison, he was latestly transfered in Arles nearby his original  region. He's now together with another Bask prisoner (from ETA) and trying to obtain a concurrency of his various sentences so as to get the 43 year prison sentence down to a 20 year one. In that situation, he would have the possibility to apply for a release on parole as it is required by the french law, but which is very rarely observed, even more especially when a political prisoner is making that demand (see about that the declaration of the prisoners at Lannemezan prison in relation to the hunger strike run by Eric Minetto). 
In the meantime, Gabriel is being reproached and considered as a restless prisoner and is not much appreciated either by guards and their unions nor by the penitentiary administration. This consideration as well as the reasons that have brought him into prison eant him the status of DPS (inmate particuarly watched), in addition of the french state's hatred towards him. Indeed, it had been condemned by the european commission for Human Rights on January 14th, 1998 following one of his complaints for not being tried within a reasonable time limit in spite of his request for release on parole.
He thinks however that such a situation is very instructive from a strictly militant point of view....Well, Gabriel is also very interested in discovering and getting on touch with new horizons, so your letters and salutations are very welcome. You can write to him in French or Bask at : Gabriel Mouesca, 793 N-A 122, M.C. rue Copernic, B.P. 241, 13 637 Arles, France. 
* Iparretarrak is the political armed organization operating in northern Bask Country (controlled by France) where 25 000 people live while ETA operates in the southern part inhabited by 2 millions and controlled by Spain.

Like on a "Friday 13th" in Biarritz : the council of Europe greatly welcomed by riots
It is for sure that our worst class enemies hadn't choosen for the safest destination to hold their yearly meeting for profits, last Saturday 14th, October. We all wonder why those conspiring the oppression of european national minorities and the dehumanization of economy went gathering in an area where one of the greatest concentrated population of class enemies live. Diplomates probably expected a bit of mildness as they were coming to ratify the charter for fundamental rights, deciding that "european people had decided to share a pacific future based on common values". The 6 main chapters were : dignity, freedom, equality, solidarity, citizenship and justice and to conclude, for politeness, the council congratulated itself for "giving the possibility for all NGO's to express their opinions". In a land like Euskadi where decades of bloody armed struggle and repression have achieve everything but the respect of such ethics, it is understandable that the council's approach is seen as a provocation to bring about even more casualties. It constitutes all the more a call for blood as this summit was a preparation to the Eurotop that will take place in Nice, France, on December 6th, 7th and 8th where the spanish and french states share the profits they get from denying Euskal Herria its independence. 
Anyway this attempt to sympathize with them got to become a miscarriage of their arrogance since, according to local traditions,  multinationals' best partners were welcomed by molotov cocktails. Indeed, 2000 demonstrators who were part for many of them of Bask separatist organizations held a march from Baiona (capital of the french part of Bask Country) to Biarritz where the council was taking place. Besides an open expression of solidarity with those arrested and still detained in Prague, with Palestinian separatists and send a "big FUCK OFF" to capitalists' Europe, demonstrators were demanding independence and the repatriation of dispersed Bask prisoners. The spanish Home minister presented the case on a clever way, asserting that participating organizations were part of the ETA structure, like it is the tradition as well in Spain to make people accept whatever repressive operation and torture it has committed.
However, the dear democrates had organized their self-defense and the demo was stopped before entering the town by police forces (we could guess that raising millions would not allow the disturbance of social parasites). Clashes and riots started then between eurocops and demonstrators who could not stand being denied their right to attack the congress building. Consequently, they had to release their tensions on police to remind them which side they support. Some cops were taken apart and got severely beaten up (a few of them were broken their arm and nose). Henchmen managed in spite of all to arrest 100 people among which 20 spanish were immediately deported back to home. Our Bask correspondents let us know that a minor was arrested who the police wants to apply the anti-terrorist law and mention that he's certainly being tortured at the moment.
	Obviously, and still according to traditions, demonstrators could not have confined to brutalize a few capital's defenders and returned later on to Baiona where they absolutely smashed down the commercial town center. Among the targets, a McDonald's restaurant seemed to be their favourite, buses and banks were set alight...A little training to keep fit after the night to insurrection for which ETA had called last summer...   Indeed, the last few months tension has extremely raised in Euskadi. The spanish police has arrested 20 people from the Bask grassroots organization EKIN last September 13th and 9 others from the Zumalabe Fundation last October 5th. All were taken to Madrid and have been detained since then though they have committed no crime but to remain faithful to their political ideals and being active and Bask. There are no official charges against them which makes of their arrest a purely fascist act worthy of Franco !! 
"Whatever our position is, the Bask independentist left is at war and murders (like the detention, torture, dispersion and shootings) continue, while the attitude of both spanish and french government is simply -once again- fueling the fire. Free the Zumalabe 9 and the EKIN 20! Free the Baiona/Biarritz 100! Free all the Prague prisoners! Free all the June 18th, November 30th and May1st prisoners! Free PRESOAK ASKATU!". Bask insurrectional anarchists. 
In marge of this demonstration, a prison guard and a prison director were executed by a ETA commando during the week of the 16th to the 21st of October.
To log out this chapter about european deadmocracy, french, german, belgian and Luxembourger troops marched past in Madrid last October 12th together with spanish troops for the national holiday which commemorates the discovery of the Americas by Christophe Colomb !!! What a great dedication. Thanx BigBrother for your protection and education for a true liberal Europe !!!
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THE REPRESSION AGAINST THE BRETON SEPARATIST MOVEMENT GOES ON
Breton prisoners launch hunger strike
 	A wide repression has targeted the breton cultural and political movements since 8,4 tonnes of explosives were robbed in Plevin (France) during the night from the 22nd to 23rd September, 1999. 7 persons had been arrested following this action but the list of imprisoned militants has lengthened even more since a bomb attack was undertaken in Quevert against a Mc Donalds restaurant and that killed an employee last April 19th. This attack was a great excuse to extend repressive operations over many levels of the breton movement and particularly over those being suspected to have links with the ARB (Breton Revolutionary Army), though this organization denied any involvement  in the attack. If the culprits cannot be clearly denoted, it's anyway McDo-the-poor-victim who's raising its profits. One of the militants is under charges for simply carrying the flyer "Who's hiding behind Mc Do" that has been distributed by let's say any leftist militant. Nothing has proved yet the guilt of any of the prisoner in these 2 actions but their involvement in the political and cultural separatist movements  (all prisoners  are part of the Emgann, cultural and political left movement) made happy the -anti-terrorist- 14th section of the Paris Bench who found work to do again. 
One of the intially 7 convicts was released last September 29th after one year in custody and put under judicial supervision so 7 people  were then counted in prison on that same date. They are liable to heavy or random censorship regarding mail particularly (indeed the ABC-Dijon newsbulletin in french has often been sent back). They  suffer harsh restrictions as well about visits, walk and health. One of them is diabetic and his current "medical treatment", based on high-dosed insulin injections, might drive him to fall again into a fatal coma.
In reaction to this arbitrary repression and conditions of detention that clearly aim at getting rid of active breton militants, prisoners'  struggle is being initiated. Gael Roblin, who is also the spokeman of the separatist organization Emgann, launched an indefinite hunger strike last October 1st and was followed outside by a member of the Anti-Repressive Committee Brittany (CARB) who'd been striking in front of the major's house of Lanester (Brittany). Both have been replaced and the hunger strike seems to become a turning one. Gerard Bernard, detained in Fleury-Merogis, has taken over prisoners' strike after Gael run it for 4 weeks last October 27th while another member of the CARB-Rennes has replaced his comrade from Lanester. The claims of this hunger strike are similar to the ones exposed by Bask prisoners : 
  -grouping and repatriation of the breton political prisoners in Brittany
  -end of the ban to communicate (also for the "free"convicts)
  -the right to speak in Breton during trials and interrogations
  -the immediate release of ill prisoners. 
Other claims are intended and immediately appliable for all political and social prisoners as well : 
  -abolition of solitary confinement
  -systematic obtaining of double visiting rooms, better food and the right to have one shower a day.
"For me, Brittany exists first of all because there's a breton people deprived of his rights, who was even taken off his national conscience. A people who's fighting in spite of all for the improvement of his living conditions because of an economic policy set up by Paris and capitalists, who's fighting for the respect of his environment, who doesn't accept the foreseen death of the breton language, and even less the partition of his territory. For those reasons, I've chosen to be part of those who defend the idea of a free, independent, reunited, Breton-speaking and socialist Brittany. That will never be an offense  for me. In spite of jail, I'm still a militant and I have only one thing left to say, let's fight !! Gael Roblin, breton political prisoner (Gael was actually accused to be the person having written the press release of the ARB to belie its responsability regarding the bomb attack in Quevert. According to police, he would have delivered the floppy of this release to a journalist. In spite of the lack of more concrete evidence, this accusation led to his incarceration).
Repression has hit again along October. 2 more separatist militants have been arrested last 13th and 16th October during a wide repressive operation in Brittany that targeted again the separatist movement Emgann. About 15 militants were arrested as well and (have) spent time in custody among them a 80 year-old women. Many private houses were searched and people were arrested even at their work place. This operation was launched by an order of the 14th section of the Paris Brench under the very classical accusation of "criminal association linked to a terrorist entreprise". Similarly to most separatists imprisoned who have been detained for a year and a half now, there is no justification to keep the 5 latestly arrested captive but to make them suffer successive interrogations, arbitrary measures such as their dispersal or segregation and restrictions so as to obtain information about the breton left separatist movement. Roblin, Georgeault and Laize are put under charges for "destruction with explosives having brought about death" in relation with the bomb attack in Quevert without any clear evidence regarding their participation to this attack nor their membership to the ARB.  
In reaction, solidarity is being organized in Brittany. The CARB has blocked a TGV (high-speed train, pride of french industry) for 24 minutes last October 7th, what has led to the arrest of 4 people who  got immediately photographed, taken their fingerprints and DNA out by the anti-terrorist police. The day before, about 20 people demonstrated in Guingamp to warn the population regarding prisoners' conditions of detention. After a short walk, 6 people chained up at the State's department Headquarter's gates and blocked it for about 45 minutes, holding banners and flyers. No arrest. Another protest took place in Lanester (Mor-Bihan, Brittany) last Saturday 21st, October at the City Hall where the first of the 2 CARB members was running an hunger strike to support prisoners' claims. People gathered symbolically and the demo ended without troubles.
Write to prisoners (in french) : 
   -Gerard Bernard : 289 703V G3-46, D4, 7 Avenue des peupliers, Fleury-Merogis, 91 705 Ste Genevieve des Bois
   -Denez Riou: 58 979, E-313, M.A. des Yvelines, 78 390 Fresnes Cedex
   -Alain Sole : 9045 B2 S 217, M.A. de la Seine-St-Denis, 93422 Villepinte Cedex
   -Christian Georgeault : 890 826, 3/179, MAH, 94261 Fresnes Cedex
   -Arnaud Vannier : 272 336 T 2/246 -Gael Roblin : 273 196 A 215 -Pascal Laize : 273 195 D 119 -Stephane Philippe : 273 209 B 117,
Philippe Jamouille : 274 101 MC 314, all 5 at : 42, rue de la Sante, 75 674 Paris Cedex 14 
For further infos,  go to the very complete webpage of the Anti-Repression Committee Brittany (CARB) www.chez.com/carb or to Kengred Ha Krogad : kengred_had_krogad@yahoo.fr
NO TO THE CRIMINALIZATION OF THE BRETON LEFT SEPARATIST MOVEMENT !!! 
SOLIDARITY WITH PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO POLITICAL AUTO-DETERMINATION !!!
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GREECE : Solidarity with Nikos Maziotis
You probably heard of the anarchist Nikos Maziotis who had been sentenced to 15 years prison last July 7th, 1999 for attempting a bomb attack against the ministry of industry and development in Athens. His action was a devotion of solidarity with some villagers on struggle in North of Greece against the canadian multinational TVX Gold that is intending to evict them from their land with the help of greek military forces. With his own regret, the self-made device had not exploded and his fingerprints were found on it, what led to his arrest. Nikos had proudly claimed his responsability during his trial, mentioning : "Through the bomb attack, my intention was to send a message to politicians and cops to show up that their projects, their investments and their repression are not gonna be achieved without resistance" (a small and very genuine pamphlet "L'Apologie de Nikos Maziotis" is available in french to our address as well). He was recognized at the same time as a political prisoner by the court, which was the first time it happened in the greek justice History.
Last October 9th, Nikos had lodged an appeal to court. This gave the opportunity for many greek anarchists to show solidarity with those victim of repression and take action again. Anarchists in Greece have been very active since the beginning of social movements launched by the revolt of pupils in the early 90's against educational reforms. They've undertaken many rallies and direct actions in solidarity with prisoners and keep on resorting to arsons as a main means to achieve their political objectives which remain "not to let the State sleep unruffled". We reported here a few infos taken out from the great @-News magazine which publishes every 4 months all the direct actions  carried out by greek anarchists :
       On May 5th, a car own by the Libyan embassy was set on fire in Paraski, claiming freedom for Nikos Maziotis and Kostas Kalaremas and warning that arsons should continue. Indeed, on May 27th, a car own by the university of Athens was set on fire as well, claiming "the right is with the uprisers" and demanding freedom for various greek prisoners among them Nikos. On July 3rd, 2 cars own by a private security company are set on fire in a suburb of Athens, claiming solidarity with prosecuted anarchists. Before another car own by the french embassy  was set on fire again on August 7th, 6 Albanians tried to escape from the Nafplio prison but were shot by cops who injured 2 of them. Again on August 23rd, a car own by the egyptian embassy is set on fire, claiming the release  of the anarchist Simos Seisidis (greek anarchists seem not to like cars as much as state representatives...). Well, the list of direct actions is much too long, but there's one great thing we should get to learn from them : SOLIDARITY !!!
	You can have a look at the periodic @-News magazine by going to : www.anarchy.gr for more infos. Unfortunately we do not know the result of Nikos' appeal court.
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FRANCE : "Long sentence"prisoners mobilize against social-democrats' promises
Urgent need for solidarity with Eric Minetto on unlimited hunger strike !!!
	Eric Minetto has run an unlimited hunger strike since last September 28th at Lannemezan prison. The prisoners from there will explain clearly the situation in their declaration published below. After a over a month on hunger strike now, it is an emergency to show solidarity with Eric. He's been hospitalized in Fresnes since October 24th while the french minister of justice Guigou speaks of her "worries" regarding long sentences. We hardly witness any initiative to modify or even apply laws existing about commutations or parole release. The mobilization in favour of the Action Directe militants and more particularly Georges Cipriani has been slowly buried by bullshit promises (politeness to the media) in spite of efforts from the international solidarity. No very little progression has been concretely made to push officials to change a detail of their reserved conspiracy. "The storm has passed by" and in the meantime, thousands of inmates in french prisons are still slowly passing away in spite of legal ways thanx to which many of them should be released already.
	Eric Minetto is on hunger strike ! His claims are not only his but concern many french and prisoners from other countries. We shall not leave again an inmate on struggle dropped by common indifference !!! We invite you to take initiatives in support of Eric, in opposition to the horror and brutality of long/life sentences while thousands of inmates are releasable. Copy this declaration and spread it, write to the minister of justice before a dead man has to carry weight on her conscience, or tell her that we'll have a long memory to refresh hers in the case she would have problems to... remember. Fill up petitions and return them as fast as possible to : Mme Jeanne-Marie  Minetto, 5 square Locaruo, 95100 Argenteuil or fax them to 01 43 62 95 15 (+0033).

Hunger strike versus slow death
	Today, Eric Minetto, detained at Lannemezan Prison, is starting up with an illimited hunger strike. He's undertaking this struggle following 4 demands for parole release he has formulated since the end of the surety time. It will be a struggle until the end if his release is postponed again. 
	Thursday 28th, September is an important date for Eric, twenty years he's been imprisoned. Twenty years exactly, day after day.
	When he was arrested in 1980, France was still living under Peyrefitte's "security and freedom laws", Barre still was the best economist and Prime minister, Mitterand hadn't been elected yet. In the 14th district of Paris, Eric was a well-known militant within the autonomous movement. He used to live in the squatt in Raymond Losserand street, he fought against property business that was wreaking havoc into this popular neighborhood, against expensive living, against nuclear industry...
	He was twenty year-old, he's now 40.
	Twenty years detained in the french penitentiary system. He went through QHS (french High Security Units) and their inheritants : isolation units. He suffered white torture by induced loneliness and then the horror of the overcrowded units of Fresnes and La Sante prisons. All along these long years, he was part of all struggles and all fights. He paid dearly for that.
	Twenty years prison and he's still detained in a Security prison!!
	This struggle (the hunger strike) reveals the state of hopelessness and revolt caused by long sentences in french prisons. It goes  far over an isolated case or a marginal situation. It's the concern of all of us, political as social prisoners. 
	Since the 80's, the sentences that were given by courts have never been so long. For the same reasons, they have became longer by third or double. At the same time, measures for sentence adjustments felt into disuse or get applied to people who would never have been to prison yesterday still. Substitution sentences do not give any solution to find new ways for reinsertion. They are just used to put more poor and people in complete precary situations under control. 
	Regarding long sentences, there's no more commutation for life sentences, no more concurrency of sentences, less compression to 20 years, and above all, there's no more release on parole. Here in Lannemezan, in the B unit where we are the most numerous, no inmate has benefited from parole release for 6 years. No one. Prisoners here only get out at the end of their sentence. On the exact day.
	For life sentences, the situation is dramatic. There would be over 600 prisoners sentenced for life in France. Among them, 200 ones are releasable since they finished their surety sentence lasting 15 or 18 years. However since her arrival at the ministry, Guigou only granted conditional release to 6 of them !!
	Where are we going ? If we do not react, if we do not struggle together ? 
	Like yesterday for Karim Khalki, today Eric Minetto decided to oppose himself to slow death. And his struggle is all our struggle. That's why we will support him until the end !
	By struggling for Eric's release, we set up a steady limit to the detention of all : 
Twenty years is enough !! 
Freedom for all prisoners having served 20 years. Freedom for all sick prisoners. Abolition of segregation units.
 						Some prisoners, Lannemezan prison, September 28th, 2000

	"Long sentenced" prisoners from Arles prison released a communique last October 19th to express their solidarity with Eric and declared they would take initiatives for his support like in Lannemezan prison where 45 inmates have refused to have their tray meal for 3 days. Prisoners in Arles have started a turning strike of the tray meal as well last October 24th. They call prisoners in other Units and other prisons to take initiatives as well.
	Last November 4th, a demonstration attended by nearly 400 people was held in Paris. The main vindications were about long sentences and the stagnation of procedure application. Screaming "chuck prisons out", demonstrators walked through the city without troubles. Most of them were part of Act-up, which demands the release of HIV positive inmates, of the Action of christians against torture or else, of the association BAN which demands the end of disciplinary units and of the application of double-punishment. The main word of this demo remained "we should not silently expect from politicians to take decisions" and names such as Yves Peirat (FTP) or Eric Minetto (currently running an illimited hunger strike) were refered to.
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PRAGUE : The after demo
	About 12000 people from all over the world had gathered to attend the anti-capitalist demonstration in Prague last September 26th while the powerful of this world were conspiring to bring the entire world to the heel of liberalism and raise even more North/South inequalities. Many riots went on all along the demo since demonstrators had the clear intention to reach the congress building so as to disturb the summit and authorities the clear order to prevent them. Similarly to Koln, Geneva or Seattle, Prague had to turn into a police state where real robocops had for mission to break down this day of resistance requiring the abolition of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Media smear job plainly encouraged repression, claiming that the WB and the IMF actually do take demonstrators' considerations into account. They actually confined to repeat the same absurd argumentation as those who sent numerous protestors directly into prison, which was indeed a great evidence for multinationals' democratic intentions. Clashes with police forces were pretty harsh and 40 demonstrators had to be transfered to the hospital even before the demo ends. There were casualties among cops as well... 
	According to the IAEG (Initiative Against Economic Globalization) that had coordinated this counter- event, nearly 1000 people have been arrested during the demo itself but even more during the night and couple of days that followed. Indeed a massive revenge of police forces has led to a real manhunt for several days and to the imprisonment of numerous militants in very degrading conditions. The reports of those who've been released are horrifying. Many women were forced to undress and execute physical exercise in presence of mostly male police agents in addition of those who were physically searched. Most prisoners were refused access to food, water and deprived of sleep, except for women and fascist detainees. Men had to pay officers so as to get those basic needs. Some entire groups of people were first brought to isolated places and beaten up before being transfered in custody. There as well the beat went on : groups of 40 to 60 people were tortured all together and particularly unappreciated inmates were taken to isolation cells for beating like it was the case in Olanska prison. Some others were handcuffed "fists and   and feet" and then thrown into the stairs. There were also many cases of suffocation like in Olanska again where groups of 22 prisoners were placed into 4 square meters cells. Diabetics were not fed and medical care was globally denied. Worse : it happened that czech police forces allowed the assistance of nazis for manhunt but especially for beatings and "surveillance" in police stations. Many inmates were so terrified that right after their release, the first thing they did was to leave the country as fast as possible and escape from this climat of terror.	
	On October 2nd, 20 people were counted left in detention,  all foreigners, while 800 from the 1000 initially arrested were actually czech. However  this excess of kindness from the police had to be recovered a bit later of course (see below) and at the end, this strategy was just a way to take "better care" for those who had done the trip. This indicates very clearly the police's xenophobic motivation to take revenge for the riots and "the damage caused to their wonderful city of Prague". Indeed many cobblestones were taken out of the pavements to rival with the police and unfortunately, small merchants suffered also damages besides the attacks carried out against banks and multinationals' stores such as McDonalds. Furthermore, it was almost impossible to organize solidarity with the arrested since most attempts had as a only result the arrest of more people, like on the day after the demo where 50 persons attending a non-violent demonstration in front of the ministry of Home affairs got arrested. Abroad, dozens of solidarity actions took place like in Madrid last October 3rd where about 15 people occupied the czech aeronautics' offices in solidarity with the convicts in Prague.
	Parallelly to the demo in Prague, many events against economic globalization were organized. In Tel Aviv, Israel, about 1000 demonstrators gathered to do theater show and other kinds of subversive art and then walked out in the banks' street. In Athens, Greece, hundreds of anarchists, pupils and unionist militants demonstrated. In Wellington, New Zeland, a wide demonstration was attacked by police after 150 people manage to occupy the Westpac bank and about 13 people were arrested while a few others got injured. In Portland, USA, 80 demonstrators partly blocked Broadway and threw eggs on police who responded with tear gas and pepper and finally arrested 6 people.In Chennai, India, 2000 people and a collective of 400 women gathered in front of the governmental building for an anti-capitalist demonstration. Similar actions took place in Ukraine, Canada, Brazil, Sweden, Russia, France, etc.
 	However, repression hasn't ended up to hit in Prague. We are absolutely not sure about the number of people still detained but a rumour says about 15. Anarchist milieus are targeted by a wide conspiracy led by czech investigation services which aims at criminalizing them as the well-organized coordinators of the riots that went on in Prague. It seems like squatts were investigated and some people arrested. We call for sending faxes and emails to protest against this conspiracy and the extended detention of the few S26 demonstrators still held in czech prisons : 
   -Mr Havel, president of Czech republic : 00420 22 431 0851
   -ministry of Home affairs : 00420 261 433 560
Try to organize demos or pickets in front of czech representations !! Let's free our comrades until the last one !!
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TUNISIA : Torture makes one more victim
	Here is a communique of the organization "Verite-Action" (truth-Action) based in Switzerland and which is a human rights non-revolutionary organization. We decided to publish their press release with the intention to let you hear about the harshly repressive and fascistic regime of Tunisia which remains very unknown by many revolutionaries. We consider the use of torture by states against their opponents as being absolutely condemnable, no matter if they advocate an abolitionist position or not. However, such entreprise obviously does not engage us to support this organization nor any other human right organization and remains purely informative : 
	"September will remain a bad memory for the inhabitants of Menzel-Bourguiba, city of Bizerte region in north of Tunisia. M. Ridha JEDDI, father of a 6 year-old child, was arrested on the street on September 17th by police and then brought to the police station from the neighborhood where he was heavily beaten up everywhere on his body by his executioners. He actually succumbed to his wounds but his family still cannot access to the autopsy report. Yet, she noted while washing his body that he had numerous bruises on his face, forehead and thorax. The police who transported him in emergency to the hospital didn't find a better story than "suicide by hanging" to justify themselves to doctors and to his family. Ridha's relatives and neighbours didn't find more clever thing to do than fighting during his funerals to release their anger. 
	A special reporter of the UN mentioned 10 cases of death of political prisoners because of torture. The most well-known case remains M.Faisal Barakat's. Torture and bad treatments have become the common way for the government that chose for solving its problems through the imunity of the ministry of Home affairs and its police sections. Repression has brought about the death of 32 people at least by bullet, torture or died in tunisian prisons (...).
	Our organization calls the tunisian government to end up the use of torture that hasn't stopped causing casualties without any respect for human dignity, to free all political prisoners*, to promote a law of unconditional and global amnesty and to establish a true democracy by lifting the control it has over associative and political life without excluding any componant of society so as to guarantee freedom of opinion and expression".
							For Verite-Action, Fribourg, September 25th 2000 
*The wide majority of political prisoners in Tunisia are political prisoners because of their involvement into human rights organizations trying to oppose the fascist tunisian regime or for expressing their opinions about that regime.
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POLAND : appeal rejected for Tomek Wilkoszewski
	Tomek Wilkoszewski, who was convicted for the murder of a neo-nazi in the city of Radomsko in 1997 and sentenced to 15 years prison, was lodging an appeal to the Cassation court in Warsaw last September 27th (he was actually attacked by neo-nazis and only committed an act of self-defense. He was a very active antifascist in the in the city or Radomsko. He actually started to carry out anti-fascist actions since he was frequently attacked by nazi skinheads. Fascists are originally from a football fan club and have established a local branch of the right-extremist polish party National Poland for Revival since the local football team has managed to get into second league. 
	The team is one of the few attraction of the town, like it is the case in many small villages economicly excluded in Poland. The lack of perspective for the future and the high unemployment caused by the liberal way the polish government is transforming the country leads many young people to fall into fascism and join parties, gangs, etc. In Radomsko, fascists attack without any remorse, they always attack in groups and resort to scalpels, baseball bats or knifes and represent a real threat. Tomek was arrested after he and a couple of his friends ambushed their meeting place. Indeed, fear and persecution impose a will of fighting back among antifascists.
	Legally, this was his last chance to get a shorter sentence or to be simply reviewed his case but his supporters in Poland are now trying to find other ways to find a solution. Meanwhile, Tomek is very depressed, he's convinced that was really his last chance to get released before 2012 (!). He seems to have financial problems to reply his correspondants (we haven't managed to get a reply from him ourselves) but send him anyway letters of for moral support. Tomek Wilkoszewski : Zaklad Karny, Ul. Orzechowa 5, 98-200 Sieradz, Poland. 
	You can send protest letters as well to the Chairman of the supreme court in Warsaw : Lech Gardocki, Pl. Krasinkich 2/4/6, 00-951 Warszawa 41 - Fax : 48-22-530-9100 - email : ppsk@sn.pl. Any action, picket or else at polish embassies and consulates can be decisive to affect, if not that decision, coming trials against polish antifascists. Poland is being asking to become a member of the european union for a couple of years already and such actions affecting its image can force the polish government to review its policy regarding the prosecution of antifascists whom numerous are already in jail nowdays.
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BRIEF NEWS ITEMS
Eurotop : The summit of the european Union will take place in Nice (South of France) on December 6th, 7th and 8th. Their instigators will mainly discuss the liberalization of health and education sectors and the strengthening of repressive policies. As a strategy to silence social discontent and defend their image of "humane-faced capitalists", they will promote as well the "Charter for fundamental Rights" which they previously discussed during the summit in Biarritz last October 13th and 15th. A counter-demonstration and many actions are planned all along the week-end with the clear intention to disturb capitalists' bloody discussions by all creative ways. The event is coordinated by the No Pasaran, SCALP and Ya Basta networks with the participation of the italian "Tutti Bianchi" and german anarchists from ARACHNE. They are organizing a "Free trains" operation so as to gather as many people as possible for the event.
As for all major summits of the Eurotop and other main economic institutions (IMF, WB, WTO, etc), a huge "security device" is being set up for the summit in Nice to prevent demos to take place and people to reach the city. Acknowledging the precision, the organization, the corruption and the violence of the french police forces, we can definitely expect a strong criminalization and repression of demonstrators and massive arrests. Therefore the support towards victims must be prepared so as to avoid or at leat make headway over what could happen previously in Prague, Seattle or else. Therefore, a phone tree is being set up so as people who will not be able to make the move to Nice could organize a solidarity action locally. You may set up your own local phone tree to gather in front of appropriated representations in the shortest time limit and protest against various abuses demonstrators might be victim of in Nice. For the easiest coordination, we propose you to give us ONE SINGLE phone number by which we could inform you and launch the international solidarity network. Please forward us your phone contact as fast as possible if you intend to participate. Send to : Antifacrew@hotmail.com or abcu@dds.nl or by post to : SCALP C/o Maloka, B.P. 536, 21014 Dijon Cedex, France.
Sweden : On an overcast Saturday afternoon, the 14th of October, approximately 150 anti-racist activists gathered in central Stockholm to protest against state-racism and the inhumane conditions are faced by asylum-seekers in Sweden. The participants, as well as a good number of saturday shoppers, heard speeches by a number of groups, including AtiFascistisk Aktion-Stockholm, No one is illegal and the Network Against Racism (NAR). In Sweden many asylum seekers are often forced into solitary confinement - without having committed a crime other than fleeing life-threatening situations in their homelands. This was the second action of this kind in Stockholm within the last month and was planned in coordination with an international day of action. More infos to : afastockholm@motkraft.net.
ABC-Gent new email address : After one year of trouble, ABC-Gent decided to open a new email address. Note it right !! abc_gent@yahoo.com 
Eugene (USA) : On June 23rd, Jeffrey "Free" Luers and Craig "Critter" Marshall were indicted on nine felony  counts and one misdemeanor, by a Lane County, Oregon grand jury in Eugene. The charges were placed on the "defendants acting together with others as yet unnamed", ensuring a continuous "investigation" into the anarchist community they want to intimidate into hiding. There are serious suspicions about the motives of the state, the lack of evidence and the media smear job they've already done on this case. The "Free and Critter defense committee" call not to let them become isolated 'cause they feel the "investigation" fits all the elements of a classic COINTELPRO-style frame-up. The following charges put on both convicts relate to a fire that occured last June 16th, at the Joe Romanai Car dealership in Eugene : Arson in the 1st degree by starting a fire that led to an explosion, arson in the 1st degree for reckless endangerment of damage not exceeding $50,000, criminal mischief in the first degree for damage to a motor vehicle, unlawful manufacture of a destructive device for knowingly assembling a bomb with an incendiary device, unlawful possession of destructive device. And the following ones relate to an attempted arson on May 27th, against Tyree oil company : attempting to start a fire, criminal mischief, manufacture of bomb, possession of destructive device. 
The maximum penalty if Graig and Jeffrey are found guilty of ALL charges could be up to 86 years ! They've plaid NOT GUILTY to all charges however. A trial had been set for October 3rd, but unfortunately, we were not communicated either if this trial actually did take place nor the result of it. Meanwhile, both men have appreciated the international support and the letters they've received in the almost 4 months they've been wrongfully incarcerated now. Craig's condition is going better as well since he now gets vegetarian meals. Convicts as well as their committee ask to spread the word about their case, all the more since their trial approaches (or maybe has even already taken place). For more infos about the background of their case and the current situation, contact : O.U.R. Credit Union C/o Free Critter legal Defense Fund, P.O. Box 11 922 Eugene, OR 97 402, USA or eae@efn.org. 
Don't let them take another one down ! Free Free ! Free Critter ! Free Rob Thaxton !
Gent, Belgium : 14 squatts were evicted in one week in Gent since the Vlaams Blok (Belgian extreme-right party) has taken over several seats at the City Council (33% of votes at the latest town elections in Gent). The party has made headway since the elections took place nationally last October : it obtained the majority of votes in Antwerpen and Brugge which are now entirely ruled by fascists while most other cities' councils of Flanders are nowdays constituted of a coalition of various right-wing parties which have to compromise with the dominant position of the Vlaams Blok.
France, double punishment : Larbi Sibari, a 30-year-old Moroccan who arrived in France at a very early age and having all his family in France among them his little french daughter, is required to leave the country. Sentenced in 1993 to a 2 year-imprisonment for a hashish story from 1989, Larbi had been condemned in addition to a definitive interdiction to get into the country. In other words, to lifetime banishment. Just a few weeks ago, the judge in charge of his case had confirmed his extradition planned for October 17th. As a bye bye present : 2 of his brothers who came to the retention center to cheer him up were handcuffed and beaten up by police. A witness of the scene warned the public prosecutor. We shall not doubt that this dear official will hurry up to bring cops to court. 
Smear propaganda : Lately, the FBI congratulated itself. According to its own studies, the global criminality in the US decreased of 16% compared to 1995 (what a performance!). It seems satisfied by the effects of zero tolerance, the "all-blue" society as well as the wide installation of video-surveillance "to secure our dear citizens". As well, building up prisons seems indeed to be the hobby-horse of its fierce struggle for "their" rest (as you know, "profits" and "leaders" are not part of the IntelligenCIA's vocabulary of course)...Since 1995, the US prison population has increased of nearly 35% !! Pigs' serenity must have leaped in the air?! Thanx repression for providing social peace !!
	Let's keep going...Echelon is the code-name for a project whose existence has never been truthfully recognized by its instigators, among them the powerful US National Security Agency. It was revealed for the first time by a report from 1997 and ellaborated by the Science and Technology Assessment Panel (itself affiliated to the european parliament in Strasbourg that published the report a year later). According to the STAP, the Echelon network would have the ability to put through a riddle tens of millions of electronic messages a day while being transmitted by satellite through Internet, fax or telephone. 
According to the web list Hacktivism mainly animated by australian, canadian and american activists, an information day was planned for last October 1st. They proposed along this day to test chap messages that would be for sure detected by stations of interception so as to shed light on Echelon. The british MP in Strasbourg and member of the STAP Glyn Ford declared : "I was not aware of this information day ! But I support any initiative that would help informing the public about the existence of this interception network. Pity, the next session in Strasbourg opens on October 27th, otherwise I wouldn't have hesitated to tell my colleagues about it. I'm not against the use of modern means to locate criminals, but Echelon doesn't make any difference. Every fair citizen is concerned". Comrade Glyn asserts that none of the governments involved (US, UK, Canada, Australia and New- Zeland) deigned recognizing Echelon officially but also that "none of them totally belied it" (!!). Well, for those who thought they had a bit of privacy, we just advise you to remain careful with the informations you may send electronically...But postmail is for sure no much more reliable ! So don't forget, Big Brother is watching us.
International  action day in support of Thomas Meyer-Falk : An international action day in support of the german antifascist prisoner Thomas Meyer-Falk took place last November 10th. ABC-Dijon and SCALP had called other prisoner support and antifascist groups to coordinate their efforts on that day to require the end of segregation for Thomas and the immediate restoration of ALL his correspondences. Indeed ABC-Innsbruck who's been supporting him for a pretty long time had called for actions in favour of Thomas and was banned of any contact with him as a result. ABC-Dijon had occupied the german consulate one year ago to require the end of Thomas' ill-treatment and protest against the sanction applied to their comrades from Innsbruck. They were forbidden as well to correspond with this prisoner as a result of their action.
In reaction to these arbitrary measures that doom Thomas to suffer isolation within isolation (his militant correspondences have been cut off, he's forbidden to have political debates along the few contacts he's allowed to maintain with outside, etc), various groups and individuals took initiatives on the action day. Posters were glued in the streets of Dijon, Lyon, Strasbourg, Geneva and faxes were sent also from Germany, Belgium, Austria and England while the german consulate was reoccuppied in Dijon for nearly 3 hours. Thanx to all those who attended this action day on different ways and according to their abilities. You can keep sending protest faxes to the authorities in charge of Thomas' case :
-Petitionsausschuss des Landtages, Konrad-Adenauer-Str.3, 70 173 Stuttgart, Germany. Fax : 711-206-3540 (+0049 for Europe /  +01149 for USA / +0749 for Spain).
-Justizvollzugsanstalt Bruchsal, Schonbornstr.32, 76646 Bruchsal, Germany. Fax :7251-788299 (+0049 for Europe / + 01149 for USA / +0749 for Spain).
-Justizminister Professor Groll, Schillerplatz 4, 70173 Stuttgart, Germany. Fax : 711-2792264 (+0049 for Europe/ +01149 for USA/ +0749 for Spain).
Thomas Meyer-Falk : JVA Bruchsal, Zelle 3117, Schonbornstr. 32, 76646 Bruchsal, Germany
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Coming trial for the FTP 2
	The FTP (Francs Tireurs Partisans, same name as the communist guerilla fighting against nazi occupation during the WW2) are 2 antifascists who were particularly involved in the struggle against the french fascist former party National Front). They were both arrested on October 15th, 1999 in Marseille (south of France) and have been convicted for several attacks they had carried out against the party : On July 14th, 1991, they attacked with molotov cocktails against the NF's headquarters in Marseille. On October 24th, 1992 they destroy with explosives the restaurant "La Truffe Noire" the day before a meeting of the Youth National Front was to take place. On June 6th, 1994 they destroy with explosives the NF's headquarters in Marseille. On December 16th, 1994 they attack with explosives the italian consulate in Aix-en-Provence the day before the visit of S. Berlusconi, leader of the italian government that was made of a coalition with the neo-fascist party Allianza Nazionale at that time. On April 3rd, 1995 they attack with explosives the house of Maurice Gros, district secretary of the NF, after the young immigrant Ibrahim Ali was killed by several members of the NF who were gluing posters. On February 24th, 1996, they destroy with explosives the offices of the NF in the northern part of the town from which the murderers of Ali had left a year before. On October 28th, 1998 they destroy with explosives the electricity generator of the stadium in Vitrolles (city led by the NF) where a racist festival "French Identity Rock" had to take place on the next day. We can add to this list the attack they carried out against the office of the DDTE on May 1st, 1994 in solidarity with the workers of the district's corporations claimed under the name "Angry unemployed people". They had actually carried out actions from 1991 to 1998.
	William Ferrari and Yves Peirat, the FTP 2, were supposed to go before the court last November 7th but their trial was postponed and should take place around mid-December. A week-end of actions was planned in Marseille around the day of their trial but finally only a demo took place last November 4th. Another demo is planned for December 16th.
	William was released by bail after a couple of weeks in custody while Yves is still detained over a year after their arrest. Yves actually claimed all the action both had led against the NF through 2 writings along which he declared being the only member of the FTP. The trial will be a great opportunity for Yves to explain the sense of the FTP's actions and expose the threat that the raise of fascism represents in France through the application of racist laws and the existence of political parties such as the NF (which doesn't exist anymore nowdays). 
	The FTP always claimed being part of radical antifascism and carried out actions in an anticapitalist and internationalist state of mind. Their intention was never to teach anything or to show people the right example to follow. The region in which they were active is under the threat of many scourges : mafia, cooperation between authorities and fascists, 4 NF townhalls, wide-spread xenophobia, racist violence frequently occuring, etc, and they just consider their actions as one of the many ways to fight back the fascist threat. Like all anti-imperialist and anti-fascist militants imprisoned, they don't need to be glorified as "the most radicals of the radicals" because they carried out such attacks. We and they have much more interest in setting up a strong practical and political support rather than admiring those "who crossed the borders". Repression must bring about solidarity between all the comrades of our movement to strengthen us, no martyr elites !!!
Get the latest infos at : www.samizdat.net/solidarite/html/kit.htm.
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 JUSTICE for Mark Barnsley !
	For those who haven't been informed about Mark's situation over the last months, we publish here 
a short updating.
	In April this year, Mark was beaten up by screws along with 6 other prisoners at HMP Long Lartin and charged with "barricading  a cell". His transfer from Full Sutton prison to HMP Long Lartin was the starting point of a wide conspiracy launched by the penitentiary administration to silence Mark and isolate him from his supporters. After being unlawfully segregated and regularly moved from prison to prison for nearly 5 months, he was briefly held at Wakefield prison in early September where an "adjudication" (internal prison service court) was held over the incident at Long Lartin. All along every 6 prisoners' adjudication, Long Lartin screws blatantly lied about what happened and Mark was subsequently found guilty of "barricading a cell door". As a result, he will spend an extra 3 weeks in prison through lost remission (Mark was actually sentenced to 12 years following what is known as "the Pomona Incident". You can contact for further infos abou it).
	In their eagerness to rush this process through, HMP Long Lartin have acted unlawfully, withholding evidence (including CCTV video footage of the incident) from the prisoners' lawyer which would show clearly that Mark and the 6 other inmates were in fact locked up in a cell and then beaten up by screws. Whilst at Wakefield, Mark was refused legal assistance and advice, refused access to law books and a current copy of the Prison Discipline Manual, refused witnesses and denied legal phone calls. Therefore the verdict of this trial could not be else than pre-oriented so as to punish Mark by offering him the least chance to face false accusation by screws. But Mark actually received such sentence for the resistance he's been opposing to his ill-treatment and his numerous actions. The accusation following the incident at Long Lartin simply arranged the prison administration to obtain a "legal way" to frame him up. Yet, his supporters in England are confident that this guilt will be overturned in the long term and the widespread brutality and systematic ill-treatment of prisoners at Long Lartin exposed.
	In the meantime, Mark was transfered to HMP Frankland last September 13th which is located much closer to his family and friends in the North of England. He's currently amongst the general prison population (out of segregation) and shouldn't be transfered again in the  near future. Mark and the Justice for Mark Barnsley Campaign would like to thank everyone who responded to their calls for support over the last months. Your letters, faxes, e-mails and phone calls to government and prison officials over Mark's ill-treatment have certainly sent a clear message that this won't go unchallenged.
However we cannot confine to the fact that Mark's situation is going better ! He's still unfairly detained and must then be supported till he wins his freedom again. We can't ignore this extra 3 weeks sentence either and which constitutes a revenge for Mark's tenacity faced with the conspiracy he's victim of, for Mark's resistance to the class justice ! Protest against this unlawful punishment !!! 
  -Paul Boateng MP, Minister of State, Home office, Queen Anne's gate, London, SW1H 9AT, UK
  -Martin Narey, Director General of Prisons, Prison Service HQ, Cleland House, Page Street, London, SWT 4LN, UK. Fax : 0207-217-66-64.
Here follow some extracts from an excellent text written by Mark Barnsley about miscarriages of justice and the british prison system :

The next time you're strip-searched, insulted, humiliated, threatened, assaulted...
	"So remember fellow hostages, the next time you're strip-searched, insulted, humiliated, threatened, assaulted, transported around the country in a tiny steel box, made to urinate in a plastic cup, forced to eat in a toilet, or locked in a cell for 23 and a half hour out of 24, you're being treated with humanity.
	There's so much humanity here at HMP Parkhurst, that those visitors who are able to successfully negotiate the nefarious visits booking system, and actually manage to get here, make it through the numerous searches and humiliations, and into the visiting area, may if they so wish, and have an open visit, kiss the prisoner they're visiting for 6 seconds! Though they should be warned that if this is misinterpreted by the over zealous custodians of humanity they be attacked, throttled, assaulted, arrested, strip-searched, and/or ejected. All presumably with what the Prison service obscenely calls humanity. The only humanity that exists in these places is that which prisoners manage to keep alive in their hearts, the humanity that refuses to be crushed by a system that is anything but humane. As with most of the proclamations of the British Prison service, their mission statement is utter bilge.
	Officially, the Prison Services attitude to miscarriages of justice is an entirely impartial one, they simply exist to keep those of us committed to prison by courts, rightly or wrongly, in lawful custody. But as every victim of a miscarriage of justice well knows, any supposed impartiality by the Prison Service on the issue is as much a falsification as the myth of their vaunted humanity. In reality, those protesting miscarriages of justice are regarded as subversive (which is fair enough in my case), they're consistently victimized, and every possible effort is made to interfere with their lawful right to contest their conviction (...).
	The above (...) was only a foretaste of what was to come after my wrongful conviction. At HMP Full Sutton, for example, legal files contained on computer disk were destroyed on more than one occasion by Security. My legal papers have frequently been ransacked and damaged, documents have been stolen, and they have been withheld from me for periods of weeks or months. Not only has legal mail been delayed, withheld, or simply disappeared altogether. And of course all legal phone calls are unlawfully monitored. 
	In terms of my campaign, the Prison Service have done everything possible to prevent me fighting my miscarriage of justice. At HMP Long Lartin and HMP Cardiff, there has been a massive amount of both incoming and outgoing mail. At Full Sutton, I was forbidden to write anything for publication on my case, an act which is in direct contravention of Prison Standing Order (5b). At Long Lartin, all incoming campaign material was simply stolen, even when it was sent in "recorded delivery". At Cardiff there was a systematic attempt to prevent me communicating with my campaign, my MP, MOJUK, and with journalists investing my case. 
	In this year alone I have been ghosted 4 times so far*, to prisons which are ever less accessible to my family, solicitor, and in the case of HMP Parhurst to just about everyone. I had barely got off the category A van when I was being quizzed about my campaign. My legal papers have been withheld from me for more than 3 months, making impossible for me to work on my case. These are just a few brief personal examples, but I know many other miscarriage of justice victims have suffered similarly at the hands of the supposedly "impartial Prison Service".
	 Something that certainly affects every one of us is the so-called incentives and earned privileges scheme, which specifically discriminates against those who continue to protest their innocence. Because we are appealant, we are entitled to less visits, less private cash, and are penalized in a whole number of other ways. Parole is another obvious area where miscarriages of justice victims are discriminated against. Such is the system that most of us will spend longer in prison than if they were guilty.
	Nobody should harbour any illusions that the Prison Service, as an arm of the State, is in any way fair or impartial. It is just as much a part of the crooked system as the cops. Crown Prosecution Service, and judges, and will use every dirty trick in the book to deny us justice in the same way as its co-conspirators. We are hostages of the class war and we should expect no favours from the hired lackeys of the opposing side. What we should expect is at least some level of honesty, and not to have our intelligence insulted by ridiculous mission statements which fly in the face of all evidence, and have about as much moral integrity as the notorious sign over the gates of Auschwitz proclaiming "Arbeit Macht Frei" (work will make you free) which I suspect Jack Straw may introduce before too long. And no doubt all in the interests of humanity".
							Mark Barnsley, August 10th, 2000 whilst at HMP Parkhurst.
*Mark Barnsley was transfered (ghosted) again 4 times before being eventually taken to the following location where he's now being detained :
Mark Barnsley WA2897 - HMP Frankland, Brasside, Durham, DH1 5YD, England.  
A pamphlet edited by the Justice for Mark Barnsley Campaign "Beaten up, Fitted up, locked up" which synthesizes Mark's case, writings, the Pomona incident, etc, is available at our address for 20ff + 6,80ff for postage (free for prisoners but postage). Benefit to Mark's support campaign.
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SPAIN : The FIES keep on struggle
	The struggle against FIES (isolation units in the spanish state) which started in November 1999 keeps on going. Resistance in spanish prisons are not new since protest actions and solidarity movements such as hunger strikes and courtyard strikes have always existed. The FIES isolation untis were created by the minister of Home affairs Antonio Asuncion at the time where numerous prisoners were involved in the dynamic movement APRE. This movement was so developed that the state had to create the FIES as a repressive response to break it down. Some of the inmates who were involved at that time are actually involved in the struggle against FIES. 
	This "new" movement came out from individuals who have been detained in the most inhumane FIES units over the spanish state. Its extension is a result of the fact that many prisoners in FIES have realized the real need for coordination they have, to make the fight more effective and to obtain the implication of collectives and individuals outside prisons. This initiative for coordination is itself a consequence of extreme life conditions (tortures, extreme isolation, unclarified deceases) and the starting point of protests : prisoners denied their exits to the courtyard, etc. Considering that the consequences of their struggle would be minimum if it didn't extend to other prisoners as well as if prisoners on struggle didn't get support from outside, a substantial increase of repression would be the only result they could get. Therefore they took initiatives to spread the fight step by step to other prisons through letters and communiques to support groups who may show solidarity with their struggle outside. As a result of these efforts that were paid by worse conditions, other inmates who were not detained in FIES have taken part into the fight. This is meaningful regarding the fact that it is not exclusive to prisoners detained in FIES and that the struggle involves every prisoners' concern. 
	Indeed, the idea of coordinating a 4 day hunger strike in various prisons of the spanish state was growing up and took place eventually last March 16th to 19th. The result was quite a success and 400 inmates detained in 21 different prisons got involved amongst prisoners who had been ignored for years by the political movement. This hasn't happened since the beginning of the 80's in Spain. There was also a deal about the 3 main vindications of this fight :
  1. ABOLITION OF THE F.I.E.S. UNITS AND ANY KIND OF ISOLATION UNITS.
   2. END OF DISPERSALS (staying in prisons far out from home, dispersal between prisoners in different prisons and dispersal between prisoners in one single prison).
   3. RELEASE OF THE SERIOUSLY ILL PRISONERS.
	As a consequence of this massive collective hunger strike, the movement has grown inside and outside prisons on an important and unexpected way. Meanwhile in Barcelona, the AAPPEL (Assembly in support of the jailed people on fight) spread the information through conferences, radio stations and various publications. A demonstration cutting off one of the biggest roads of Barcelona was held on February 26th in support of strike actions. During this demo, 2 comrades simulated a suicide by hanging themselves to a high bridge as a protest against the continuous torture and deaths happening in FIES units. Sabotages were done in the Bask Country and Galizia while in Madrid, many other actions took place in spite of the differences of opinion existing between the various groups and individuals involved. The daily paper "El Mondo", one of the biggest spanish newspapers, was attacked because of the lies it exposed about prisoners' struggle, 2 demonstratins ending in front of the office of the penitentiary affairs took place (amongst one where about 30 people stood naked there "against torture"), explosives were placed at the USO (office of the prison officers union), etc. Other actions took place as well in other spanish cities.
	Here is a summary of all that happened over the past 8 months in relation with the FIES struggle. Not only numbers, or a bunch of dates, if not the fight of courageous people, it's a fight that comes from the cells and has been directly taken to the streets. 
# March :
  -16th to 19th : 4 day hunger strike attended by 400 inmates in 21 prisons.
   -22nd : a bomb was found in front of the court hall in Espluges de Llobregat (Catalunya). The action was claimed by the "nucleus of 
inviduals" in solidarity with the prisoners on fight.
# April :
   -1st : Rally to Soto del Real Prison (in the Madrid region), a sadly famous prison because of the extremely violent treatment of inmates.
Soto del Real is an example of the modern penitentiary complexes built up during the 90's. The rally was closely accompanied by police
that made impossible any attempt to get closer to the prison. 
   -4th : 2 prisoners escape from Acebuche prison in Almeria (South of Spain).
   -8th : Sabotage of the Milan-Barcelona railway in solidarity with the prisoners on struggle in FIES units. 
   -9th : Rally to Topas prison, at the same time as the anti-prison conference was taking place in Salamanca during the week-end.
   -11th, 12th, 13th : Gatherings in Roma against repression. Concentration in front of the spanish embassy, assembly at the university of
Roma about FIES units.
   -15th : Rally to Quatre Camins Prison in Barcelona which was organized by the AAPPEL.
   -16th : Gathering in solidarity with the prisoners detained in Valencia. Public Act at Plaza de la Virgen.
   -17th : The web page of the Association against Torture is closed down by the police thanx to a judicial warrant because of containing
information about prison and police officers involved in tortures.
   -18th : Daniel Ramirez Cordoba, one of the very active prisoners involved in the FIES struggle is tortured at Villanubla prison. Some 
days later, this prisoner makes a proposal of doing a collective and illimited hunger strike.
   -24th : An inmate is found hanged up at Granada prison.
   -25th : J.M. Zuloaga, a well-known reporter of the newspaper "La Razon" for his attacks against prisoners' fight, receives a mail-bomb
that is neutralized by police. The action is imputed to the ETA by the media.
   -26th : Some posters appear in Donosti (Bask Country) against Daniel Mugica, pointing him as the creator of the FIES units. The next day,
the action is imputed to the support groups of the ETA (Daniel Mugica is actually the spanish "Defender of the people").
   -28th, 29th, 30th : Camping action in front of the retention center (prison for asylum seekers) in La Vemeda (Catalunya). In this center,
immigrants are detained into a basement without ventilation nor natural light and are horribly fed. They're steadily restricted regarding 
visits and lack of health assistance as well as translators.
   -30th : 500 people demonstrate in solidarity with Abderrazak Mounib's family who protests against his decease due to medical denial
at Can Brians prison (Catalunya).
# May :
   -1st : The building of the unions CCOO, UGT and CGT is fully covered of paintings in solidarity with prisoners and denouncing their complicity with the state. "A prison officer is not a proletarian!" was the main message appearing.
   -2nd : An article appears in "ABC", one of the biggest newspaper in Spain, where the most active prisoners in the fight are criminalized.
Most of informations it publishes actually come directly from the ministry of Home affairs, which explicitly shows the role performed by media to break down the fight.
   -10th : gathering at the information science university in Madrid about prison with the participation of ABC-Madrid and other collectives
and other collectives involved in the CSPP (Support Committee in solidarity with the imprisoned people).
   -12th : Pedro Carlos Rama Martinez is tortured in an extremely violent way at Soto del Real prison.
   -13th : A communique sent to GARA newspaper and to other counter-information agencies by a group self-defined as "Los anarquistas"    
claims the mail-bomb sent to J.M. Zuloaga which was a solidarity action with prisoners' fight.
   -15th : Some prisoners detained in FIES units at Villanubla prison start a courtyard strike (denial of the one hour exit to the prison courtyard)
and expose 10 vindications in solidarity with the anarchist group that sent the mail-bomb to the journalist J.M. Zuloaga.
   -18th : information picket at the public market of San Cosme (Barcelona).
   -20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th : A couple of prisoners held in FIES units at Soto del Real prison run a 5 day huger strike in response to the brutal repression they've been suffering.
   -24th : demo in front of the Gerona court hall (Catalunya) in solidarity with the FIES prisoner Roberto B. Catrino Lopez who's on trial. The lawyer of        
Roberto read a manifesto written by demonstrators during the audience.
   -28th : Rally to Burgos prison.
# June :
   -Someday in June (??) a bomb is placed in Sant Ammbrogio Cathedral in Milan during a service for prison officers. The action is claimed
by "Solidaridad Internacionale" in solidarity with the prisoners on fight.
   -1st :An illimited courtyard strike starts at Teixeiro Prison. Prisoners of the FIES units from that prison make the proposal to to launch an
illimited hunger strike to face the tensed situation that has been going on since the collective mobilizations from March. The office of 
penitentiary affairs increases the pressure to repress this initiative.
   -3rd, 4th : Some prisoners at Duenas prison run a 2 day hunger strike. They propose then a 2 day hunger strike each month. "Only" 2 day because there are ill imprisoned comrades who do not have the energy to run an illimited hunger strike. Some of them have the VIH Virus and others are just coming out from personal and long hunger strikes. 
   -7th : 2 kg of explosives burst in front of the court hall in Valencia. "Solidaridad internacional" claims this action.
   -9th : 20 prison officers beat Jose Manuel Luengas up at Moraleja prison in a FIES unit of the prison and handcuffed him naked for 24 hours. 
The FIES prisoners from that prison confirm their participation in the collective mobilization planned for the 1st week of July.
   -26th : 30 people got naked in front of the office of the penitentiary affairs direction (DGIP) in Madrid to protest against tortures. This event
takes place during the Social Fight Week (celebrated every year in various spanish towns). 
# July :
   -1st : Claudio Lavazza (from the Cordoba 4) and Gilbert Ghisiaia, 2 of the most active prisoners in this fight, are transfered to from Picassent
prison to Huelva prison to disturb their participation in collective mobilizations while Antonio Porto Martin is tortured and confiscated his  medical treatment in that same jail by the prison officers. Antonio tries to suicide and another prisoner called Paco dies as a result of brutal successive tortures. The official explanation for his death is an overdose. The same day, a public gathering takes place in front of Wad Ras and Modelo prisons in Barcelona. Their walls are painted in solidarity with prisoners who were actually running a courtyard strike from the 1st to the 7th of July. The demo as well as the strike are still : END of FIES isolation units, End of the dispersal and the immediate release of prisoners suffering from serious and/or incurable diseases. 
   -2nd : Gathering in front of Martuene prison (Bask country). A dozen of persons did a  public representation of "what happens behind the walls?" and spread infos
in the city of Santurtzi. 
   -6th : Molotov cocktails are thrown into the office of the Socialist party, which had established the FIES isolation units while on government,
in Madrid. A gathering takes place as well at Urquinaona square in Barcelona in solidarity with the prisoners on fight. On the same day, 3 fake parcel bombs are sent to the ABC, La Razon newspapers and the Movement against intolerance (which contributes to the manipulation of informations regarding the FIES struggle and solidarity together with the media). Again another public gathering takes place in solidarity with the prisoners on fight with some dramatization performances.
   -8th : Gathering in front of the Unionist building in Barcelona to denounce the role performed by unions to defend the rights of the torturers.
A public gathering in front of El Periodico and La Vanguardia newspapers as well as in front of the CIRE (Center of Initiatives for reparation)  press agency to denounce the rip-off jobs done by prisoners exploited by this public entreprise.
# August :
   -5th, 6th : A collective hunger strike is launched in some prisons. Some prisoners detained in FIES units at Soto del Real destroy their cells
as a protest against the every-day torture.
# September :
   -9th : Bask groups and individuals against prison gather to discuss actions to do in case where some prisoners launch an illimited hunger
strike. 	
	In the meantime, some of the inmates have had a proposal for a collective and illimited hunger strike since the latest initiatives but which hasn't started yet. It is supposed to start in the course of November but nothing seems to have been decided about it for now (15.11). However if it takes place eventually, such a situation would require a big support. The AAPPEL and other collectives supporting the FIES prisoners on fight call for support by the maximum of people to spread the information and to undertake actions to support directly our comrades. You can contact them at :
   -AAPPEL : Blasco de Garay 2, 08004 Barcelona, Spain.
   -Apartado 156085, 28080 Madrid, Spain.
   -Presoen Aldeko Talde : apdo 365/ 20100 Orereta - Guipuzkoa.

Communique to the prisoners
(This communique was published on the end of August by the Presoen Aldeko Talde Anarkista (PATA), a pro-prisoner support collective from Orereta, Bask Country).
	"The first thing we have to tell you is that you're the ones who have to take the decisions for what to do, when doing it and how doing it inside prisons (hunger strikes, courtyard strikes, ...). The people in the streets can help coordinating and informing about what's happening inside through the means that each one can estimate as appropriate ones. In this point is where the polemic flaws, as the pro-prisoner movement is very diverse and the understanding regarding certain ways to work out isn't possible, the union in the streets is not possible. The biggest problems in the streets are the attempts of some associations and anarchists groups willing to monopolize the fight by not spreading the communiques to certain groups they're not interested in. This has as a result silenced the fight in many cases (...).
	The libertarian movement in the spanish state is just a movement that has a few (political) prisoners. Some of the few prisoners detained because of an anarchist action in the state are the 4 italians arrested in Cordoba. The libertarian movement, instead of supporting it in a total way (what actually should be expected from the people self-labelled as "anarchists") treated the comrades in a "criminal way" because it didn't do it. Thinking of people that left alone to comrades are going to support social prisoners, is not just utopian but science-fiction.
	There are people who are trying to rebuild the libertarian movement from the sufferings of prisoners. These people (most of them with a good intention) are falling into an error, that is trying to look for support in people who are never going to give it. 
	If the libertarian movement wants to grow up should do it through its own reflection, after analyzing why it doesn't have any social incidence, why it isolates itself, and principally realizing that the idea of an anarchist revolution is dead in our time. We consider that anarchism can rebirth but not at the expenses of interfering in the affairs of something that is out of the movement, as the situation of prisoners (...). We interrupt these remarks which, to our mind, need to be contested here. As a prisoner support group, in the same way as the PATA defines itself, it seems fundamental to us to reassert our position regarding what remains absolutely our meaning and motivation in doing such work, moreover on the occasion of publishing their communique.
	First of all, supporting prisoners has nothing to do in our mind with "interfering with the affairs of something which is out of the movement". By the way we do not understand how the PATA, which we remind considers itself as a pro-prisoner collective, may expose such a divise and sectarian position whereas it seems to be involved itself in the support of our imprisoned comrades. For us, the struggle against prison and the support of those mobilizing from their cells corresponds to a struggle which is an integral part of the anticapitalist one, of the libertarian movement, i.e. of our class' struggle. Our work towards prisoners comes within the scope of unifying all those identifying closely or not to this class, no matter how "political" they are. It is not about "rebuilding the movement from the sufferings of prisoners" but actually to support their claims. This is about taking under consideration the common interest that such work represents for our movement on the same level as our class. Like the PATA exposes it, it seems like few "political" prisoners are involved amongst those mobilizing for the struggle against FIES units. However, that cannot be considered as a reason for not supporting/not paying attention to "social" inmates. It would be all the more unacceptable since, we remind it, they achieved a great step towards their own politization and greatly contributed to prisoners' mobilization. By showing solidarity with a movement launched initially by "the political", they're now suffering even harder conditions, not to mention those who were not even detained in FIES units basically. We cannot ignore the cost they've paid for their mobilization which has led them to suffer a treatment similar to "the political". That's why it seems fundamental to us to put them both on equal footing regarding the support they deserve, considering of course that we cannot and do not intend to be the vanguard of prisoners who are not willing to stand up by themselves.
	Furthermore, we are attached to mention that a support which would be exclusively granted to "political" prisoner, at the expense "social" prisoners moreover politicizing through the fight, can only contribute to their division. Consequently : to the weakening of the entire prisoner mobilization and of the "libertarian movement", to an increased repression fed by such division, and eventually to the crushing of our class.
	We do consider the efforts of pro-prisoner collectives towards "social prisoners" as being even more important. Without their support, without their solidarity with "the political" -which is class solidarity- our struggle is damned to end in a nowhere. It must be clear that "the libertarian/anarchist movement" will not have any incidence on political nor social levels indeed as long as it doesn't come within the scope of the unified struggle of our class. So for us, our work is not about "rebuilding the libertarian movement" (which will not bring us anywhere) but definitely about unifying our class within class war. Let's precise that this has nothing to do with class consciousness : for us bringing the struggle further is not about changing our class as a politically correct one but about recognizing its enemies, our enemies, and filling ourselves with the anger that results from it. Towards insurrection!
	In our opinion, the remarks made by the PATA are absolutely reprehensible. Not only call they to the division of our "movement" but to the division of our class while the fight against FIES units has arised as a great step in a moment where the unity of this class remains lukewarm.
	Regarding the struggle of prisoners itself, such remarks are in themselves the denial of every prisoner's efforts as well as the price they paid for them. Above all, these comments are a true call for dropping the fight and demoralizing those who confided their hopes to the solidarity between every imprisoned comrade and to the one of our class. We remind that prisoners on fight call for the support of those outside and point to the fact that their struggle's projections plainly depend on what we, outside, are able to pass on. It would be probably enough for the members of PATA to get arrested for "an anarchist action" and face a judge before being sent behind the barres to understand that the support from our movement and the prisoners' struggle are closely linked. They would certainly understand therefore how needful our support, without any discrimination between the "political" and the "social politicized", is if they were taking part in a prisoner fight. Our support and prisoner's fight remain definitely interdependent. Consequently, their inter-action is all the more fundamental in a moment where an increasing number of our
comrades are targeted by class war and have become the hostages of it.
	But I guess we'll agree with the PATA on the idea that the fight must bring THE END OF FIES-ISOLATION UNITS, THE END OF DISPERSAL AND THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF ILL PRISONERS. But the struggle may reach these goals only if we, outside, recognize all prisoners involved as deserving the same support. And as a conclusion we will take over the well-known (but apparently contested formulation : ALL PRISONERS ARE POLITICAL!!!
Here are some addresses of some prisoners active in the fight against FIES isolation units :
   -Claudio Lavazza/Gilbert Ghisiain : C.P. Huelva II, Crtra. La Ribera s/n, 21610 Huelva, Spain 
   -Gabriel Bea Sampedro : C.P. Teixeiro, 15310Curtis, A Coruna, Spain.
   -Santiago Cobos/Laudelino Iglesias* : C.P. Palencia, La Moraleja, 34210 Duenas, Palencia, Spain.
* Laudelino startted an illimited hunger strike last September 9th, asking for his right to be released after spending 20 years in detention. This is the maximum time one can serve according to spanish law but like it is France, this law is rarely applied. His support group Amaitu is collecting signatures to get his cause to court. Contact it to : Amaitu, P.K. 179, Barakaldo-Bizkaia, Spain. 

"Our attack to J.M. Zuloaga is a sign that shows direct action is easily driven to the practice by any proletariat, without the help of any political vanguard of the salvation, neither from armies nor from its embryos. Revolt doesn't need militant structure and even less from "revolutionary" hierarchies (...). 
WE MAKE A CALL TO OUR SISTERS AND BROTHERS IN FIGHT BEHIND THE WALLS : AS YOU CAN SEE WE'VE MADE OUR FIGHT. TAKE INTO ACCOUNT OUR STRENGTH AND THE STRENGTH OF OTHER COMRADES WITHOUT FRONTIERS. MAYBE WE'RE NOT MANY ONES BUT DECIDED ONES". Communique "From somewhere" of the group "Los Anarquistas". 

Anarchist Black Cross - Dijon C/o Maloka, B.P. 536, 21 014 Dijon Cedex, France. 
abcu@dds.nl - http://www.chez.com/maloka/