On December 5th 2017, Revolutionary Struggle members Pola Roupa and Nikos Maziotis were forcibly removed from Koridallos prisons (both were subjected to headlocks, holds, etc.) and were involuntarily admitted to the General State Hospital of Nikaia. The prison prosecutor pressed physicians to force-feed the two hunger strikers. The hospital doctors […]
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Revolutionary Struggle members Nikos Maziotis and Pola Roupa are on hunger strike since November 11th 2017. The two imprisoned comrades are fighting against isolation measures; against specific provisions of the new correctional code aimed at repressing them as high-security prisoners; against the proposed detention of high-security prisoners in police stations; […]
November 11, 2017 THE ROTTEN SYSTEM AND THE ABSENCE OF RESISTANCE ARE THE REASONS FOR THE ROTTING OF SOCIETY Almost 10 years after the outbreak of the crisis with the collapse of the financial system, bank bankruptcy, and seven years after the commencement of the era of the memorandum and […]
via SeanSwain.org (January 12th 2017) We received word recently from a friend of Sean’s that Sean is currently on hunger strike and has been placed in a suicide cell. Although details are still murky, we know that Sean has been without food since December 26th 2016. He was charged with […]
On August 1st 2016, a riot erupted at Holman prison in Alabama following an altercation where several inmates and at least one prison guard were injured. Prisoners barricaded themselves inside the C-dorm, which houses 114 inmates, setting fires and resisting the antiriot squad (CERT) that arrived to suppress the rebellion. […]
Thank you for the opportunity to issue a statement on the June 11, 2016 Day of Solidarity with Long-term Anarchist Prisoners. First and foremost: as a California prison rebel and trans woman who has been incarcerated for 26 years, I truly appreciate the solidarity and support I’ve received from sisters […]
Fighting back: every day! When I look back on the day of my arrest 20 years ago, I wasn’t imagining what I would have to experience during the next decades of my life. The first decade they kept me in solitary confinement; since 2007 I’m in population. But I don’t […]
June 11, 2016 (A statement for the June 11th International Day of Solidarity with Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners) First, I’d like to give warm revolutionary greetings to all those who have shown solidarity and supported me. Without that solidarity and support, I don’t know how I would have survived for so […]
Received on September 15th: We’re not sure what’s going on, but Sean Swain has been blocked from receiving (and presumably sending) JPay emails. He also has not called his primary supporters, or The Final Straw for a new radio segment. We’ll probably hear from him via snail mail sooner or […]
Intro Letter: 1, 2 Deposition: In the State of Ohio ss In the County of Scioto I, Sean Swain, being duly sworn according to law, hereby depose to state: 1. I am competent to testify to the facts related herein, to which I have direct knowledge. 2. I write this […]
Comrades, we inform: That as subversives who inhabit the High Security Prison (CAS in Santiago), from 00:00 today, May 18th 2015, we join the hunger strike that Juan Flores, Guillermo Duran and Nataly Casanova have assumed as a form of struggle. We do this with a deep sense of anti-prison […]
previous related post On April 20th 2015, it became known that anarchist prisoner Enrique Guzmán has also been on hunger strike since April 14th. Anarchists Nataly Casanova (under isolation in San Miguel women’s prison), Juan Flores (in Wing 1 of Santiago 1 prison), Guillermo Duran (in total house arrest) and […]