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  Anarchist Black Cross; International Black Cross; Black Flag - Organ of the Anarchist Black Cross; Anarchist ...
The title "Black Flag" as the organ of the Anarchist Black Cross, is among the copyrighted material of AI.
But the numbers of anarchists who were attacked by reaction in country after country became too vast for the organization - especially when the depression in the USA made it difficult to raise funds in the last bastion of support for them - the foreign language speaking trade unions in America.
The semilibertarian marxian faction of IBC declined slowly, and the anarchistical ABC and IBC in the North, with secretariate in Oslo, became the main basis for the activity and organization.
www.anarchy.no /abc.html   (1824 words)

  
 Anarchist Black Cross - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Anarchist Black Cross (or ABC) is an anarchist political support organization.
According to Rudolph Rocker, once the treasurer for the Anarchist Red Cross in London, the organization was founded during the "hectic period between 1900 and 1905." Most material discussing ABC history points to this era as the birth of this group.
During the 1960s, it was reformed in Britain by Stuart Christie and Albert Meltzer with a focus on providing aid for anarchist prisoners in Franco's Spain.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anarchist_Black_Cross   (736 words)

  
 anarchistblackcrossscream
The great anarchist thinker, Peter Kropotkin was one of the many former political prisoners that owe their freedom to members of this organization.(3) Although these organizations were, in theory, non-partisan, it wasn't long before the Social-Democrats (the followers of Karl Marx) gained control of the organization.
Anarchists outside of the prisons were unaware that the funds given to the Political Red Cross were not reaching their imprisoned comrades.
The Anarchist Black Cross in Milan, at the time, was infiltrated by neo-fascists and it became clear to the police, who were involved in the plot, that Pinelli might be aware of who those infiltrators were, as well as, the very plot against him.
www.ecn.org /abcscream/yelenkysfable.htm   (3102 words)

  
 Unbenanntes Dokument
The Anarchist Black Cross movement is decentralized and anti-authoritarian.
The stated purpose of the Anarchist Black Cross Network is to actively assist prisoners in their fight to obtain their civil and human rights, and to aid them in their struggle against the State/Class penal and judicial system.
The Anarchist Black Cross Network is a decentralized and egalitarian network of organizations committed to the original ideals of the Anarchist Black Cross movement -- of seeing prisons and the poverty, racism and genocide that accompanies them to be symptoms of a social order whose last days are near.
www.freewebtown.com /anc/barrikaden/whatisabc.htm   (1687 words)

  
 Anarchist Black Cross, Brighton
The Anarchist Red Cross was started in Tsarist Russia to organize aid for political prisoners captured by the police, and to organize self-defense against political raids by the Cossack Army.
The Black Cross fell apart during the 1930s depression due to the incredible demand for its services and a decline in financial aid.
The ABC has sought to bring attention to the plight of all prisoners, with an emphasis on anarchist and other class struggle prisoners; and, through contact with and information about prisoners, inspire an anarchist resistance and support movement on the outside.
www.brightonabc.org.uk   (771 words)

  
 ANARCHIST BLACK CROSS
The Anarchist Black Hammer (Southern Africa) is a new support group for jailed class war prisoners, including revolutionaries, activists, dissidents, workers, peasants and the poor formed today in response to the dirty tricks campaign of the SA authorities.
We use the name Anarchist Black Hammer both to remove any possible religious bias that could be inferred by the word "cross" and to symbolise the demolition of all prison walls.
Yesterday, September 4, anarchist comrade George Karakasian was sentenced by the main court of Nicosia, Cyprus, to 7 months prison for ‘assaulting a police officer’ on the demonstration outside the Israeli ambassador’s home on the occasion of a party to celebrate the anniversary of the Israeli State on 18/04/02.
www.geocities.com /abcmelb/abcmelbnews.htm   (8100 words)

  
 Matthew Hart: A History Of The ABC
For close to a century, anarchists have united under the banner of the Anarchist Black Cross for the sole purpose of supporting those comrades imprisoned for their commitment to revolution and to the ideas of anarchism.
The exact year of the Anarchist Red Cross' formation is unclear, but it is estimated, by Rudolph Rocker, that the organization formed during the period of 1900 to 1905.
Because of their activities, the Anarchist Black Cross members experienced constant harassment by the Bolshevik government including the seizure of goods being shipped to political internees, creating laws against the organization thus making its activities illegal, and the murder of ABC activists.
lemming.mahost.org /abr/abc.htm   (3062 words)

  
 Carnival anarchism in Melbourne 1970-1975 - Dingo, Working Peoples Association, Collingwood Freestore, Free Legal Aid ...
Outside the anarchist student activism in the universities (see Melbourne Anarchist Archives Vol 1), the other major anarchist current in Melbourne was what was loosely termed 'carnival anarchism'.
Anarchist common storehouse economics relies on the principle that people take what they need and leave their surplus produce in a common storehouse.
The Melbourne Anarchist Black Cross was formed in 1973, initially by a number of Spanish Anarchists in exile in Melbourne around Vicente Ruiz.
www.takver.com /history/melb/carnival1970_75.htm   (2409 words)

  
 Sacred Lands - Anarchist Links
Onward is an anarchist newspaper intending to facilitate both a report of anarchist actions worldwide and foster analysis of current events from an anarchist perspective, all in the process of building an intelligent, well informed and powerful revolutionary movement.
Real liberation is freedom in every sphere of life; we must dissolve all forms of hierarchy that tangle the world in coersion, oppression, and domination and replace them with liberatory and cooperative structures guaranteeing all to participate in reshaping the local and world communities.
The fl and green network is a collective of international green anarchist groups and individuals attempting to create a database and complete listing of what is going on, who is doing what, and so on.
www.sacredlands.org /anarchistlinks.htm   (1376 words)

  
 Black Cross
In the Middle Ages, the Black Cross on a white background was the design for one of the official flags (the Kroaz Du) of Brittany, a large peninsula in northwest France.
For anarchists, the fl colour symbolises dried blood, hunger, misery and death.
They have a clear belief that Jesus was an anarchist against the State and that early Christianity was fine, until it was corrupted by the rise of the authoritarian church.
www.seiyaku.com /customs/crosses/black.html   (492 words)

  
 Black Flag | libcom.org
Black Flag is a class struggle anarchist magazine which was founded in 1970 by Stuart Christie and Albert Meltzer.
Originally the "organ of the Anarchist Black Cross" prisoner support group it was best known in the late 1970s and early 1980s when its frequency reached fortnightly and covered international struggles, the Angry Brigade and the CNT in Spain amongst other things.
Born in Barcelona, he was active in the anarchist movement in his youth, being a militant in the 'Faro' group of the FIJL (Iberian Libertarian Youth Federation).
libcom.org /library/black-flag   (998 words)

  
 Anarchist Black Cross conference forms prisoner solidarity network: a socialist feminist reports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The one hundred or so other participants, clad in fl, were mostly in their late teens and twenties.
Primarily aimed at helping political prisoners while advancing anarchist ideals, the Black Cross Anarchist Network will also try to assist social prisoners, those who are jailed because the system is rigged against poor and workingclass folks.
There were tasty, low-cost meals, effective facilitators, and dynamic speakers like Robert King Wilkerson, a former Black Panther who spent 29 years in solitary in Angola prison after he was framed for the murder of a guard.
www.socialism.com /fsarticles/vol23no3/Anarchist.html   (795 words)

  
 Makhno's Black Cross
The Black Cross units in various cities of the Ukraine were for purposes of workers' self defence as well as for purely "ambulance" type activity.
The Ukrainian "Black Cross" arose out of purely defensive needs, in order to protect workers occupying their places of work, to defend demonstrations in the streets, and so on.
The Anarchist Black Cross is still active internationally in defence of anarchist and class struggle prisoners.
www.nestormakhno.info /english/mak_bl_cross.htm   (471 words)

  
 History of Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
It was sustained economically by Russian anarchists in the U.S.A. During the Russian civil war,when the Red Cross was active in organising relief, the anarchists changed the name of their organisation to the Anarchist Black Cross in order to avoid confusion.
After the Bolsheviks seized power, the ABC moved to Berlin and continued to help prisoners of the new regieme in Russia, as well as victims of Italian fascism and others.
The Black Cross collapsed during the 1930's economic depression due to the huge demand for it's support and a decline in financial aid.
www.j12.org /ps/abchis1.htm   (231 words)

  
 Anarchist Black Cross Federation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anarchist Black Cross Federation (ABCF) was created in 1995 when the North American ABC collectives from Paterson (NJ), Bronx (NY), and Washington DC merged into a federation.
Soon after, the Bronx and DC groups left to form a separate Anarchist Black Cross Network, but the New Jersey ABC and others continued to build the ABC Federation and attracted new ABC groups to carry it on.
The stated goals of the ABCF are "the abolishment of prisons, the system of laws, and the Capitalist state." The ABCF believes in armed resistance to achieve a stateless and classless society.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anarchist_Black_Cross_Federation   (434 words)

  
 About The Anarchist Black Cross   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The ABC aims to recognise and expose the struggles of prisoners in general, and political prisoners and prisoners of war in particular.
An Anarchist *Red* Cross was formed in Tsarist Russia to organize aid for political prisoners and their families, and self-defense against political raids by the Cossack army.
During the Russian Civil War, the organization changed its name to the Black Cross in order to avoid confusion with the Red Cross who were organizing relief in the country.
www.anarki.net /abc/about.html   (479 words)

  
 Anarchist Black Cross Network: Resistance is Global
The Anarchist Black Cross has sought to bring attention to the plight of all prisoners and to inspire an Anarchist resistance and support movement on the outside.
A new version of "Anarchist Black Cross Information and Resources," with articles, some new and past pieces on criminalization and updated addresses is now available online.
The first Anarchist Black Cross conference in North America since 1994 forms the ABC Network.
www.anarchistblackcross.org   (140 words)

  
 [PRISONACT] ALERT: FBI visits Anarchist Black Cross Federation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The FBI is in the middle of a manhunt for Black Liberation Army combatant Azikikwe Onipedo, accused of shooting at a police officer in Neptune, New Jersey.
The Anarchist Black Cross Federation, in building its support and freedom programs for Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War, dialogues and works actively with PP/POWs, including many former Black Panthers and BLA soldiers.
Those interested in the Anarchist Black Cross Federation, starting a chapter or for more information about our work are encouraged to contact ABCF via its website at www.abcf.net, e-mail at info@abcf.net or toll-free in the U.S. at 1-877-852-9500 ext.
www.prisonactivist.org /pipermail/prisonact-list/2001-March/003593.html   (302 words)

  
 ANARCHIST BLACK CROSS CENTENARY 1905-2005 : IMC-SA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
This year, the Anarchist Black Cross (ABC), which started life in Bialystok in Tsarist-occupied Poland in about 1905, turns (at least) 100 years old with sections in 64 countries across the globe including southern Africa (the latter founded in 2002).
In the Ukraine, the Black Cross was organized as defensive units under the
anarchists abroad, the Communist government was forced to release them.(13) At least two ARC members actually converted to Bolshevism, only to have their lives destroyed during the Stalinist purges.
southafrica.indymedia.org /print.php?id=7761   (3193 words)

  
 Anarchist Black Cross
In the 35 states, new court commitments for the Blacks entering prison stand at 51.3% of all the admissions, according to the US Bureau of Justice statistics.
The Anti-Fascist Defense Committee has received worldwide support from various anti-fascist organizations, labor organizations, anarchist groups, and socialist groups who have either written letters to the Hennepin County Attorney's office, sent moneta ry aid, or have given updates about what's been going on in their areas.
She is the sole survivor of "death night," in Stammheim prison on Oct. 18, 1977, when the state murdered Gudrun Enssl in, Jan-Carl Raspe, and Andreas Baader, after an RAF cell failed to hijack a Lufthansa jet to Somalia.
www.spunk.org /texts/pubs/lr/sp001715/abc.html   (3445 words)

  
 sandiego.indymedia.org | Anarchist Freethink Movement/Anarchist Black Cross Volunteers Needed!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Local San Diego Anarchist Organisation, the Anarchist Freethink Movement (AFM) is planning to work alongside the Los Angeles Anarchist Black Cross (Federation) to become an independent, autonomous branch of the international Anarchist Black Cross movement.
The Anarchist Freethink Movement (San Diego) is looking for volunteers to participate in the struggle to educate the community about Anarchism and the endeavour to free political prisoners.
As an up and coming Anarchist Black Cross autonomous organisation, the Anarchist Freethink Movement is calling on all San Diego/LA Anarchist/anti-authoritarian activists to join in our efforts to raise funds for political prionsers, educate the public about Anarchist aims and purposes, and network community activists for direct-action, events, and propganda campaigns, etc.
sandiego.indymedia.org /es/2002/03/812.shtml   (254 words)

  
 Anarchist Black Cross
All Blacks, except two were excluded from the jury, in a city which is over 40% Black.
The government's response was swift and decisive—covert operations, mounted with the intent of destroying the Panthers and all Black activists.
The men and women in the house were asleep when the police kicked in their door, threw tear gas inside—setting the couch in the corner of the front room on fire—Rambo-ing and Waco-ing their way in, indiscriminately firing on anything inside with the obvious intent to kill.
www.spunk.org /texts/pubs/lr/sp001716/abc.html   (3012 words)

  
 Anarchist Black Cross   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Thanks to the financial support of comrades from all over the world organized by NJ ABC and those Jacksonville ABC members who were not in priosn, we were able to hire a good lawyer and destroy the criminal case that was built against us.
Chris Plummer is an anti-racist anarchist activist currently being held captive in the state of Texas.
This is a follow-up to the case of the three Black Autonomy brothers arrested in Chattanooga, Tennessee on May 19, 1998 to protest the shooting deaths of two Black men within a week (May 1st and May 8th) by racist city cops.
flag.blackened.net /agony/abc.html   (2859 words)

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