After 25 years of continuous activity as a group, the current members of Brighton Anarchist Black Cross are taking a time-out to concentrate on other activities.
As a consequence, we will also not be maintaining the website but will be leaving a bare-bones version up as much of the information remains relevant.
A skeleton crew will continue to carry out prisoner support activities in the name of Brighton ABC and the group hopes to be hope back one day soon with renewed vigour one day in the international struggle against prisons and in support of anarchist and class struggle prisoners worldwide.
In solidarity
Brighton ABC
Latest news on anarchist and class struggle prisoners...
12/11/24
Toby Shone walked free from HMP Garth on Monday 11th November after serving his entire sentence. He was released at 830am and picked up by friends...
22/10/24
As the result of Toby Shone having given the text "Unsurprising Fact" to Brighton ABC, he had a visit from Counter-Terror Prevent duo Ian Turner and Mick McCormack...
17/10/24
Some things don't surprise us and for sure the recourse to judicial options I find distasteful but expedient. Anarchism is either illegal or it is not anarchism...
27/06/24
Yesterday (19/06/24) Toby was issued with an administrative sanction as a direct result of his “bad attitude” and conveying open letters...
28/05/24
Brighton ABC has now become the third victim of a banning of all contact with Toby Shone on the supposed grounds of "National Security" [sic]...
14/05/24
Hello comrades! If you ever wrote a letter or email to him and didn't get a reply, please get in touch with his solicitor saying what you sent and when you sent it approximately...
11/05/24
The state through the agency of HMP Garth and it's security department continues its attack on Toby Shone and his friends and family by yet again removing one of his contacts from his phone PIN list...
08/014/24
Anarchists and other comrades from Spain, Germany, Sweden, Italy, USA, and UK met in Brighton over the Easter Weekend to share recent experiences of repression...
04/03/24
US web-based The Final Straw Radio Podcast has a new interview with imprisoned anarchist Toby Shone in which he gives a background to Operation Adream...
12/02/24
The solidarity group for Toby Shone would like to ask that anyone writing to him could also take a moment to let us know that you have sent him a letter...
20/01/24
Following the original announcement of the gathering, we have taken on board the input of various potential participants and the focus/theme of the gathering has crystallised...
17/12/23
At the end of November, the anarchist Ruslan Siddiqui was arrested on suspicion of organising the derailment of a goods train in Ryazan province...
27/11/23
Slave labour. That's what the imprisoned call the forced work we're compelled to perform whilst locked up. Imagine the situation where conditions are so bad and the 23 hour lock-up so arduous...
19/11/23
Toby Shone, currently incarcerated in Category B prison HMP Garth, is receiving no mail - including his legal mail from his lawyers - and any money being sent into him...
13/11/23
In the face of escalated attacks against workers, young people, migrants and the living conditions of prisoners, we call for an encounter to learn how we can combine our struggle...
22/10/23
Imprisoned anarchist Toby Shone has been moved 265 kilometres from his home in Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire and nearly 300 kilometres from support in Bristol to HMP Garth in Leyland...
18/10/23
Yakut anti-war activist and member of the punk band Crispy Newspaper Aikhal Ammosov (Igor Ivanov) was placed in a pre-trial detention center at Almaty, Kazakhstan...
21/09/23
Toby Shone is an anarchist who was imprisoned in Wandsworth, Bristol and G4S Prison Parc for nearly two years accused of being the administrator of counter-information project 325.nostate.net...
14/09/23
On 29.08.2023, after almost 27 years of imprisonment, I was released from the high-security area of Freiburg prison with two hours notice. How does a person feel...
21/08/23
The latest news we’ve got about Alfredo, still in prison in Bancali (Sassari) under the 41bis regime, are that his health is stable, he is physically sound...
Gabriel Pombo de Silva Released
12/07/23
We are happy to learn and report thatthe anarchist comrade Gabriel Pombo da Silva is once more on the streets.
03/06/23
We are two imprisoned political prisoners, members of the armed anarchist organisation Revolutionary Struggle, which operated between 2003 and 2017...
04/04/23
The anarchist prisoner Gabriel Pombo da Silva has just been transferred from the Mansilla de las Mulas prison in León to the prison of Navalcarnero, Madrid IV...
08/03/23
I have been an anarchist for decades and I was arrested in October 1996 after a bank robbery, no one was killed or heavily injured. But since that time the state has kept me in prison...
26/02/23
Jorge "Yorch" Esquivel is a beloved compañero of the punk and anarchist community, and a long-time participant of the Okupa Che Guevara...
22/10/22
Imprisoned anarchist Toby Shone is fighting a new battle as he counts down the weeks to his halfway release on December 28th 2022...
10/09/22
Samantha Faulder is a long-term prisoner at HMP Eastwood Park. She recently lost her life-partner, Taylor. She has now had a suspected heart attack in prison but has not been taken to hospital...
27/06/22
Imprisoned Anarchist Toby Shone who is being held at the private G4S prison HMP/YOI Parc in Bridgend, South Wales, is now unable to communicate by phone with his solidarity group and closest loved ones...
18/06/22
“After 8.5 years in prison, after all these arbitrary actions against me, I decided to put an end to my 11 years of suffering, by putting up a mound against the practice of preventive imprisonment..."
28/05/22
It's been almost two years since the 2020 protests in Belarus. The anarchist movement, just like the rest of activists and jounalists, has faced the biggest crackdown ever...
21/05/22
The cell search described by Toby Shone is believed to be an attempt at intimidation by G4S Parc following a month of concerted efforts by those on the outside to call to account...
19/05/22
Alishare, I heard your message of solidarity, thank you, it gave me strength. I would turn the energy with this open letter, and I hope to kick a brick from the walls...
01/05/22
As a minimal gesture I refuse to eat from the prison servery to mark the Revolutionary 1st of May, to join in the demonstrations around the world using my body...
30/04/22
"We will have to go to sea and embark on a journey into the unknown. It is up to us to choose the course from the march. We are free to make mistakes."...
28/03/22
Anarchist prisoner Toby Shone is being held in the Category B facility HM Prison Parc, a privately run prison in South Wales, despite being in reality...
28/03/22
On Dec 8, 2020 a group of seven people were arrested by the French state for alleged terrorist association. All but one of them have been released with no specific charges...
01/03/22
On Tuesday, December 8 2020, 9 comrades were arrested by the DGSI, the French anti-terrorist police unit, across France. In Toulouse, in Dordogne, in the Paris region...
15/01/22
My name is Toby Shone, and I’m an imprisoned anarchist held in Bristol prison who was kidnapped at gunpoint by the anti-terrorist unit, as part of Operation Adream...
05/12/21
On December 8, 2020, several searches took place in the four corners of France, leading to the arrest of nine people. After 96 hours in police custody at the DGSI...
13/10/21
In the first months of 2021, Francisco together with other anarchist and subversive prisoners carried out a hunger strike that lasted more than 50 days...
06/10/21
Toby Shone is currently beginning his trial for possession and supply of psychedelic medicines. He has pleaded guilty to possession and supply but...
05/10/21
At the end of their trial on Monday October 4th, Natascia, Beppe and Robert who were originally arrested on May 21, 2019, as part of Operazione 'Prometeo'...
05/07/21
On May 10 last, the trial of the 'Prometeo' trial began, in which the anarchist comrades Natascia, Beppe and Robert are accused of sending three parcel bombs...
05/07/21
Since 24/05/2021, our friend and comrade, anarchist political prisoner Giannis Dimitrakis is being hospitalised at Lamia with heavy injuries from the murderous attack against him...
16/03/21
On Friday, March 12, 2021, nine months after the arrests of Bialystok repressive operation, Flavia, Robi and Nico were released from prison on conditional bail (remain in their local municpality and night-time curfew)...
04/03/21
Kansk is a city with a population of 90 000 in Siberia, Russia. The closest city with a million inhabitants is Krasnoyarsk, 250 kilometers westwards. Two boys, who turned 15 years old last year, Nikita Uvarov and Denis Mikhaylenko...
16/01/21
Eight students, members of the self organised , occupied, students’ center of Athens University of Economics and Business are facing severe charges including formation of and participation in a criminal organisation...
RIP Brian McCarvill
It is with great sadness that we pass on news of Brian McCarvill, who died of Covid-19 in prison on September 27, 2020, the date of his 68th birthday. As a group, Brighton ABC were able to support Brian, and one of our members kept up a personal corresponce with him, for the last 20 years - he used to say that as a prisoner receiving a letter was better than any medication for depression.
A truely great man, who helped so many others incarcerated with him. He will be greatly missed.
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About Our Prisoners Listings
You may have noticed recently that some of our usually reliable prisoners listings have been a little out of date. This is due to a current shortage in our group numbers and increasing commitments to other projects. You can help by sending any updates/contributions to the listings that you come across. Thanks in advance. In solidarity. Brighton ABC.
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