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ON TUESDAY 5TH MAY BOBBY SANDS DIED IN LONG KESH. WITHIN A BRENDA EARL RELEASED: FEW WEEKS THREE OTHER HUNGER CHARGES WITHDRAWN.AFTER STRIKERS ALSO DIED: FRANCIS POLICE CONSPIRACY FAILS HUGHES, RAYMOND MCCREESH AND Page 3 PATSY O'HARA. THEIR DEATHS, PARADOXICALLY, TOGETHER COMPRISED THE GREATEST COURT CIRCULAR: VICTORY OF THE REPUBLICAN THE COUNTR YMAN TEAM MOVEMENT TO DATE. BY THEIR GOES HOME AFTER TOP SACRIFICE THEY HAVE TRANS- COP COVER—UP page 5 FORMED THE SITUATION IN IRELAND AND HAVE SUCCEEDED - THERE EXISTS IN IRELAND A COMMUNITY WHICH IN FOCUSING ATTENTION NOT VIEWS THE BRITISH STATE AS ALIEN AND RE — INTERNATIONAL NEWS SIMPLY ON THEIR OWN STATUS PRESSIVE. NEITHER THE HUNGER STRIKE NOR FOCUSES ON ITALY WHERE A MASSIVE TRIAL INVOLV- AS PRISONERS BUT ON THE THE MASSIVE WAVE OF PROTEST FOLLOWING THE ING MEMBERS OF AZIONE DEATHS OF THE HUNGER STRIKERS HAS CON- STATUS OF THE BRITISH REVOLUTIONARIA IS GOVERNMENT IN IRELAND. VINCED THE GOVRENMENT THAT THIS IS THE CASE. IT CONTINUES ITS REPRESSIVE POLICY. TAKING PLACE. MORE NEWS FROM ITALYAND WEST The original aim of the polled more votes than couple of hours of the death BERLIN page 8 hungerstrike was to gain Thatcher did in her COnStit- Qf Francis Hughes alone. In U€nCY- The €leCt0Ial response, the army and police political status [something A REPORT ON THE RECENT which republican and loyal- ViCtOfY Of Fefmanagh/5OUth have killed a number of un- Tyrone was followed by the armed people, including EUNGERSTRIKES IN GERMANY ist prisoners had between AND NEWS OF THE EVENTS 1972 and 1976]. It sprang election of Paddy Agnew and children, Kieran Docherty to Dail " FOLLOWING THE QEATH OF from the ‘blanket' and A GERMAN PRISONER ARE 'no—wash' protests which Eireann (the Irish Republic's In addition to the rioting ON pages 6&7 had continued for four years parliament), something which there has been a fierce es- but it could never be separ- sent the media hacks scurry- calation in the number of PRISON DEATH: THREE ated from the wider issues ing to discover "emotional" attacks by INLA and the IRA concerning the presence reasons for something they on military targets. ‘Several EATLED, A REPORT ON THE LONELY DEATH OF BARRY of British troops in the ~predicted would never happen. policemen have been killed, PROSSER. BLACK FLAG North and the political including one who was killed INDENTIFIES HIS KILLERS future of the country. It The embarrassment of Sands‘ when an RPG—7 rocket was page‘4 is significant that the electoral victory has prompt— fired at a police landrover. "Five Demands" of the pris- ed the government to introduce Four other RUC men were in- an amendment to the "Represen juted in the game attack. IMPRESSIONS ON A TRIP oners have noticeably TO RUSSIA: SOME ASPECTS slipped into the background tation of the People Act" There were mortar attacks which will make it impossible on military posts in Newry OF SOVIET EDUCATION as the hungerstrike gathered page 9 momentum. fQf Prisoners to stand for and Newtonhamliton and I parliament. Democracy is other soldiers have died '“““““_“‘_“““_““'“*“““'““'““AI’LONG LAST BLACK FLAG HAS during shooting incidents. The election of Bobby Sands only permissible when app- BEEN FORCED TO ACKNOWLEDGE as a member of parliament roved candidates are ret- THE LAWS OF CAPITALIST ECONOM This demonstration of the was an outstanding propag- urned. ICS, SPECIFICALLY THOSE CON- existence of a community anda coup. At a stroke it CERNING DEBT, ie IF WE DON'T which views the British dispelled the fiction that Further evidence of wide- START PAYING SOME OF OUR state as alien and rep—R successive governments spread antipathy to the -DEBTS OFF WE FACE THE POSS- ressive, and of an organ- have maintained for over a state's forces in Ireland IBILITY OF WRITING BLACK FLAG isation which is capable of decade - that the IRA is an came with the nightly riot- OFF AS.A TAX LOSS. THEREFORE inflicting military losses isolated minority grouping ing in Belfast, Derry and WE ARE OBLIGED TO INCREASE which is able to exist only other towns during May and p has apparently done nothing THE PRICE OF THE PAPER TO BOP, by intimidating the republic- much of June. More than . i,_-‘I _ _ tQ_a1tet government peligy STILL MUCH LESSTHAN THE PRICE an community. As Bobby three hundred petrol bQm@S_ f* on Ireland, iRepress1on 1S OF.A PINT.AND MUCH MORE ENTER-

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In the heart of the Pyrenees, on the French side, Marcelino Massana ("Pancho" of the Resistance) died in May. "Pancho" was described by the press as "the last Catalan guerillero" — which wasn't quite accurate - but he was

J one of those legendary moun- STATE OT PLAY ON 12TH MAY 1981 tain fighters like ' Dad‘? CR1 Hmqo, Jew <15" "Caraquemada", Facerias and Q51 A C6?! oil‘-rd! NEXT ' ls$HE 1" :1 suascamc Sabate. Printing b‘t " (paid LO o;'A 147.UU The Anarchists who formed A TR‘ the resistance against Postage 146.80 ANN“"H. Stationsr, 8,45 Franco that fought on after 302.25 the civil war had ended, have a place in history, Sales & svoscriptions 129.45 deliberately obscured by Donations“ 44.00 F historians and journal-

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Loss 128.80 Massana went back to Spain a A Deficit c/f 3399.91 1-'* " few years ago for the pub-

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I ' —, $5‘-I ' ‘_- ‘ I -F" -I-: ;_::lI—-I--l-' T ("Massana: Terrorism or TOTAL: -3528.71 resistance?"). [The biography of Sabate by Tellez *LOl"ldOl'\ | was published in England RB £1, EM £10. Cork RC £25. by Cienfuegos Press - that HOME: £5.60 PER 12 ISSUES. of Facqrias is to follow.] _NQlE; 0ur deficit still grows alarmingly, added to which we have He was nOt one of those who further printing H1118; though on CANADA USA AUSTRALIA ‘had any faith in the Allies the other hand we have some accounts NEW ZEALAND Massana with two children whom so many believed would to receive in the way of copies THNHL) rescued from Franco's Spain intervene during or after sold. Indeed, we sadly repeat the the world war. He knew that -<"=:FH':H-...... :|._~=.EIDLD U1::6? (19a6). old refrain that if only everyone the only liberation from paid for their copy Black Flag Franco would come from would be showing a profit and be resistance. Asked what he subsidising the Black Cross which ARLENE MEYERs, A FOUNDER OF thought about the post- is now down to its minimum aid to SIREN, AN ANARCHIST-FEMINIST Franco "democracy", a few our prisoners (for want of funds) PULICATION FROM CHICAGO IN ‘months before his death, since its inception, with the ANARCHIST CENTRE

bulletin coming out every other ::::s:::*819’2::.2:::..l2T: A month istead of monthly. After months of searching, A HEART ATTAc|<. ARLENE NSMADE ’°"a°yfrom above,°a""°t becausebe '°“"Se“tedwhat premises have finaliy been SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIO is given can be taken Black Flag is so well worth its found for the Anarchist TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANARcH- away II price that, notwithstanding our Centre. These are st: 1sT- FEMINIST THEORY AND grossly lax collecting system, we 1st Floor, 0&N Warehocse, MAINTAINED A CORRESPONDENCE

think we ought to get payment of Wapping Wall, Londor ET. -5- NTTH ANARCHISTS AND FEMIN- tfr-s"If-I-I 5% subs and parcel settlements. r’ J '- :- €STS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. ANARCHO—QUIZ. ‘

At the moment the pro~ so, I’.1.1. '1. are being fitted out ,3 . ER LETTERS AND HER COLLECTION 1) What major action in the early THERE IS A NEW GROUP 0F ANARCHISTS decorated. The Organ: are A, RADICAL PERIODICALS HAVE part of the last World War was -l:-L':?".'rJ ,5:H (perhaps in default of anything pos IN WALES HOLDING REGULAR MEETINGS hope to have the Centr; - I. jEN ENTRUSTED TO THE CARE OF itive at the time) regarded by many .r _ CONTACT THEM AT_eLAck DRAGON, BOX open by July. All thos 'I--L‘ I (HE WOMENS COLLECTION OF . 51*‘. anarchist propagandists as an NO 5, C/0 NEGES BOOKSHOP, 31 who can help with the "' . =3RTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, ALEXANDRA ROAD, SWANSEA SA1 SDU building work are urged A EvANsTON, ILLINOIS. FR:ENDs example of anarchy in action? WEST GLAMURGANSHIRE. contact the Centre three; WISHING TO ADD TO THIS cott- Freedom.Press, Angel Alle_ ECTION OR TO MAKE A DONATION 2) The Industrial Workers of the Whitechapel High St, Lord TO THE ARLENE MYERS MEMORIAL World is often referred to in the FROM THE FRONT LINE: E1. FUND ARE INVITED TO WRITE TO: press as the "independent Workers Railton Road (in Brixton) is an FRANCES CHAPMAN, 836 N. of the World". By which authority open wound which even the sun- As soon as the Centre is NEWPORT AvE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS is this the proper style? shine could not hide, all boarded habitable a meeting of *%s 60657. up, squat, and the George pub - membership will be hel’ 1 3) Simone Weil (1909-1943) was a the first placeever to be done by discuss the future of T ; French Jewish writer who became a distinguished Christian mystic, the Racial Discrimination Act back Centre. 1HtR€ in 1964 - absolutely charred, a no"! though she declined to be baptised, ruin - only the Chinese takeaway, There is still time to T;fEEH@PTL_.-/3J€Aiig’ and finally starved herself to the anarchist bookshop and a few become a life member -f;c death while regarding herself as black businesses were left £15. Annual membership is a Catholic. What other seeming e£§ contradiction was there in her life? untouched. £7 and £5 for the unwaged. F’ STANLEY REYNOLDS in THE GUARDIAN. Cheques payable to: "William Godwin Memorial ‘W 4) What distinguished the Still going strong - the Society" send c/o Freedom Woolwich Working Men's Socialist ANARCHIST BO0KSHOP at 121 Press. Club (London) (1900-17) from most Railton Rd, London SE24 (nearest u? socialist and radical clubs of the tube: Brixton). -)(--X-***-X-¥—*TE-é+—)F-K:-?(—-)(--if--It-It-)1-Rf-+9-)t%(-5(-"If-*3!--)(--3? period? _ 0pen Thurs & Fri 2 — 6 and Saturday 12 — 6. Meetings 5) Which Nazi general made a Iv--. ya-0-J‘ passionate appeal to the Polish Saturday 3pm. HIT I Jews to support the German war effort to avenge the anti-semitic

N atrocities of Russia? 6) Two Polish Jewish socialist 55 AF ;;H;S, leaders (Ehrlich and Alter) made a .l;;L passionate appeal to the Polish NOTE: THE P ID Jews to support the Russian war FOR THE NEW_ IE; CD2 effort to avenge the anti-semitic atrocities of Gbrmany - what 2% CENTRE IS: *"jr"' ._..*.~,._‘;§|jf B—-IE2‘OOCDITI -4!-Z NMEC\J'I—

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The Scarman inquiry opened early in June to investig- 0N 19TH MAY THIS YEAR BRENDA EARL, A 30 YEAR OLD C ate the causes for the LIBERTARIAN PUBLISHER, AND HER 2 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER, Brixton riot. Evidence BRANNEN CHRISTIE, WERE DETAINED AT HANOYER AIRPORT from the police as wellas As THEY WERE LEAVING TO RETURN HOME TO SGOTLAND, Brixton residents has been AFTER A 3 WEEK HOLIDAY WITH RELATIVES. BOTH heard with predictable dis- MOTHER AND DAUGHTER WERE HELD BY THE FEDERAL BORDER W ﬁI Ii P-—l$li-_- crepancies. The police POLIGE WHEN THE CENTRAL POLTGE COMPUTER IN deny that there was any WIESBADEN INDICATED THAT BRENDA wAs WANTED ON AN harrassment of blacks in ARREST WARRANT ISSUED AGA1NsT HER 1] YEARS PREVIQUSLY I the area; residents have IN FRANKFURT. THIS WAS THE FIRST INDICATION THAT complained of frequent SUCH A WARRANT EXISTED. stoppings and searches by aggressive policemen. One THE CHARGE SHE FACED wAs THAT IN 28TH APRIL 1970 SOMEONE ;§:-21;];-_.,,;:;E;:_;.;.j;; freelance journalist USING THE NAME EARL BOUGHT A TICKET IN COLOGNE FOR AN —-— described how she saw IBERIA A1RwAYs FLIGHT FROM FRANKFURT TO BARGELONA. A police attack a motor cyc- TH1s TICKET, IN THE NAME OF A SPANIARD GALLED SANTOG, AT list who had been taking WAS USED TO CHECK IN A PJECE OF LUGGAGE ON THE FLIGHT pictures of plain clothes 12 DAYs LATER, ON 10TH MAY. THIS PIECE OF LUGGAGE police during the riot. CONTAINED AN INCENDIARY DEVICE. SHORTLY AFTER THE The police, she said, knock LUGGAGE WAS CHECKED IN» A WARNING TELEPHONE CALL WAS ed the photographer off his bike, smashed his camera MADE TO THE AIRPORT AUTHORITIES, THE BAG WAS IDENTIFIED W H 2 and punched and kicked him. AND REMOVED. SIMILAR EVENTS OCCURED AT APPROXIMATELY The man in question has THE sAME TIME AT OTHER MAJOR EUROPEAN ATRPORTG bought a private prosec- INCLUDING GENEYA, BRUSSELS AND HEATHRON(LONDON). NONE ution against the police. OF THE DEVICES WERE ON THE PLANES WHEN THEY WENT OFF,

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5 -I AS WARNING TELEPHONE CALLS HAD BEEN MADE IN GOOD TIME | I | TO ALL THE AIRPORT AUTHORITIES CONCERNED. Brenda and daughter Branwen.

The reponsibility for the A year and a half later turned out to be negative. attacks was claimed by the Stuart Christie was arrested As a result of this she was Iberian Federation of Liber- and charged with"Conspiracy released immediately on tarian Youth (FIJL) as part to Cause Explosions" - the Wednesday 27th May. The of an international campaign case was to become known as next day she left Germany against Spanish tourism and the ANGRY BRIGADE TRIAL and to fly home to Scotland the execution and torture was one of the longest in and arrived home safely on of Spanish anti-fascists. British judicial history. the Saturday to be reunited This organisation had been Included in this conspiracy with her family. carrying out anti-Francoist charge was the incident at activities in and outside Frankfurt airport (and the The Arrest Warrant stated Spain since the end of WW2 other related incidents). that: "There is strong and none of these propagan- At no time was Brenda evidence to support the charged, nor did any evid- E dist activities involved : charge that, the accused :- injury or loss of life to ence emerge during the was knowingly implicated 21 anyone. cgprse of the trial to link in advising and assissting her in any way with the the preparation of a bomb Brenda Earl was thoroughly activities of the ANGRY explosion". investigated by Scotland BRIGADE or the FIJL. Community Policing in Brixton (a plainclothes cop on patrol) Yard's Special Branch and More startlingly it went the Airport police at We believe the reasons for on to say: "The accused The inquiry is clearly in- Heathrow for alleged in- the arrest of Brenda in is further implicated in volvementin this same Hanover on 19th May 81 was tended to defuse the situa- that she is known to co- tion in Brixton and to try series of incidents within due: habit with the English a few days of the event a) to the fact that her name to end the polarisation of anarchist James Stuart feeling among the community occuring, in May 1970. had never been removed from Christie". Shorly after the incidents the Central Police Computer and the police. If Scar- And further: "The man's "previous" is anyth- the home of Brenda Earl b) the embarrassment of the accused is a member of a ing to go by, the report, and Stuart Christie was German security forces criminal organisation of which is expected in raided one morning at 6am following the recent dis- anarchists". after Stuart had left for closures that the Grey Uctober, will exonerate work. Brenda was quest- Wolves and other fascist the police. His inquiries into outbreaks of violence ioned intensively by the paramilitary terrorist Brenda and Stuart would '\ in Northern Ireland and police who tried to groups are operating freely like to thank all their pressurise her into making in West Germany. in Red Lion Square have friends and comrades for deservedly been popularly a confession, and put her on Forced to act against all their help and described as whitewashes. an identity parade, which ‘enemies of the sTate' they support. -1‘- turned out to be negative. moved against anti-fascists Help is still needed A As there was nothing to and socialists such as .....Meanwhile, the case however to assist in of the anarchists arrested link her or Stuart with Brenda. When arrested the paying the legal fees any of the incidents, she police threatened her with in Brixton drags on. The etc - please send attempt by the media, was released. a stay in prison for anyth- donations to: Box Lidice, ing up to 9 months until inspired by David McNee, to Over the Water, Sanday, the case was heard, even if blame the spontaneous err- Later in 1970 both Stuart Orkney Islands, Scotland. and Brenda were questioned they could not sustain uption of rioting on on many other occasions by the charge against her. "outside agitators" fell Special Branch about these flat when the only evidence called in support of this and other anti-Francoist After comrades had been nl1':mu|'r|‘T 5 A” aunt. \..v-O‘Ts? activities throughout contacted by Stuart imm- ANARcH}:'I' view was the much publicise Europe and these interviews ediately he heard the news 5»-rsn ac: ed arrest of 2 anarchists, on charges of possession of ahd depositions are a of Brenda's arrest,the IQ matter of record. The only German prosecutor was inun- stolen goods. Jean Weir, referedce the police made, dated by telegrams and .\\‘LpF-'.\4 one of those arrested earl- at the time to the name -A letters of protest from all ier, on a charge of poss- "Earl" was on 5th October over the world. There were ession of an offensive 1970, when D.l. David demonstrations on her behalf weapon, was described by the Palmer Hall asked Stuart if in England, France, New police in charge of the he used the name Earl when Zealandand elsewhere and ‘I’ case, as a member of the Red booking journeys abroad, to others were being organised Brigades at her last court which Stuart replied that In the face of this barrage appearance. The magistrate he did not. Brenda was not of protest the German pros- clearly unimpressed, granted asked the question, nor NEE ecutor was forced into "-—-_|.*0‘-‘- bail. No evidence was HI she questioned about any action. Brenda was placed * produced to support the allegation. £mge_3 visit to Germany. on an identity parade, which N“ Y“Q Roon an Aboot

1-I--— In an extraordinary atricle in the Daily Mail (15th April) a second—rate journalist, Tim Miles, The anarchist"mole" who went makes a series of vituperative into the National Front rec- remarks against Jean Weir, though ently had a precedent in the without naming her She was in a French movement. In 1922 "Brixton flat occupied by anarch- BARRY PROSSER (37) DIED IN A STRIP CELL, IN THE HOSPITAL E/'ING a young anarchist, Germaine ists" - they were living there AT WINSON GREEN PRISON, BIRMINGHAM, ON 79TH AUGUST 7980 HE WAS BEING Berton, knocked at the door when police raided the premises HELD ON REMAND, IN CUSTODY FOR MEDICAL REPORTS HIS CHARGE — of Charles Maurras, one of the after the riots "Political docu- "CRIMINAL DAMAGE" TO A DOOR HANDLE ' directors of the Action Fran- ments and other material were caise - the extreme royalist and taken away from the flat for later fascist journal. She told examination" (For the record, the man at the desk that she this is supposed to be a free inquest wanted to reveal "the secrets" country, and political documents of the anarchist movement which, are not necessarily criminal ) she said, was planning to ass- 6l"dlC'|‘ assinate leading members of the Jean Weir is described as "a party, beginning with Alphonse committed anarchist, a white Daudet. She asked if he were woman, with a long history of still living at 31 rue de Belle- alleged participation in crimes chasse. This was in fact Daudet's carried out in Europe for rev- mothers house; it had never been olutionary ideals" WE are disclosed that Daudet lived there. puzzled as to how one can have It was merely a guess on her part. a "history" of "alleged part- I1 gh t BARR Y The man agreed he was and she went icipation", she was arrested PROSSER round to see him with an automatic in France and Italy true, but released and left Melvyn pistol in her handbag. Jackson, one of But here Tim Miles shows him- his murderers She was not admitted however, so she left a note stressing the selfiin unblushing colours as of urgency of what she had to tell. clearly identifiable sympathies Daudet, suspicious, communicated "While in custody, the woman Barry Prosser was beaten and kick- 5) N0 one at the prison seemed with the police but meanwhile freely expressed her sympathies ed to death by 12 screws, led by to know about the injuries until Germaine Berton called back at the with the anarchist movement But senior hospital screw Melvyn Jack— the auto s a public prosecutor was to rule P Y Action' Francaise' with a message son during the administration of a for Maurras "from Daudet". She that there was not enough evidence tranquilising injection Medical The evidence clearly shows that was interviewed instead by organ- to proceed with the charges against experts at the inquest testifumd SHO MELVYN JACKSON led screws iser Marius Plateau, who laughed her and she was released" H that Barry Prosser's body was cov- ERIC SMITH HOWARD PRICE THOMAS at the "information" she had to clearly feels that if she admitted ered from head to foot in bruises, BARI, DAVID PINHEY, MALCOLM give him. He told her he knew all her sympathies with the anarchist and that death was due to a blow WATKINS and 3 others in a deadly the tricks of the anarchists, rev- movement, that was enough to con- to the stomach, probably caused by attack on Prosser But the case ealed information he had from the vict her of crimes Someone dP°PPlO9 onto him with was DISMISSED‘ by a Birmingham police and explained how Action thelr k“PeS as he 19Y naked on a Stipendary Magistrate who ruled Francaise relied on co-operation For your information Mr Miles, it mattress, which caused his stomach *thore was insufficient evidence with hihg-ranking police and isn't But thinking that it is, and oesophagus to burst They all for the case to go to trial military intelligence. No doubt is enough to show where yQg_stand agreed that the injuries could not he was doing this to depreciate The Donald Duck/Joseph Goebbels be self-inflicted the value of any information sne Prize for Journalism to the had, thinking, perhaps, she was latest genius to hit Fleet street selling it. But Germaine real- with an penful of prejudice \§%.f-'r:F"‘-in ised the importance of the man she Pub! was seeing, which was_greater than that of Maurras or Daudet; here was the man who represented French reaction at its most efficient. She shot him dead.

She then tried to shoot herself but was only wounded. She told

1 the police "I had no accomplices I I wanted to avenge the deaths of Jaures and d'Almeyreda for which Daudet is responsible". Jaures (socialist leader) and d'Almeyreda at‘-i'fl*i?'*",% (anarchist) had both been victims of Action Francaise. Jaures was killed at the outbreak of war because he had the confidence of the majority of workers and the n§g’ Winson Green prison officers Howard Price (left) and Eric Smith arriving ‘\'““ qt)/ifs for the inquest hearing in Birmingham right wing feared he might be ~-\““i‘ “T anti-war. ‘L Of course I In her defence the famous civil love my coun rights lawyer Maitre Torres said On 15th April B1 the coroner's NOTE Since the article n tr but I this was a "symbolic crime". It - not a fanatic jury returned a verdict of was written Melvyn Jackson was meant to avenge Jaures and about it "UNLAWFUL KILLING" City Coron- and others have been re- the acts of violence of the er, Dr Richard Smith, said that charged with Prosser's "Camelots du Roi" ( a French ..:"” “sis there were 5 unanswered questions murder and released on fascist group). This was hardly bail a plea with any force in law but 1) No record of force being used in the hospital occurence book the jury sympathised with Germaine and understanding the 2) No initials of prison offic- f menace of fascism, acquitted. ii itk ials had been recorded in the /if‘ qE:::LA::flO;§ remand wing occurance book and imwzfltkrouv This was not the only political OF cQfi.\Q\\$lI\' there was nothing to indicate that acquittal; French juries of the anything unusual had happened 3) Hospital officers ERIC JMITH 20s were often representative of public opinion. Only later, in & HOWARD PRICE had apparently our day, was the position of the ' soiled their clothes A) PRICE had a fresh injury on Anarchist caricatured and that of iii" ”"§!ilfl~ibi=»» the Fascist mass murderers his neck when he had apparently glorified, in the press. We , only given an injection to an salute our comrade Germaine unrestrained prisoner Breton, Anarchist and Anti- Fascist. Page 4 Preece's conviction was Ji-L 1.. 12% largely due to Clift's R Black Flagk" evidence during the trial about the blood groups of Preece and the victim. Clift has been suspended “ Court Circular Micky Morris, sentenced in ‘ . for the past 4 years after 1979, to 1A years imprison- other mistakes had come t0 ment had his appeal against light; though he continues conviction heard in May. | 1 1 _ ' ' to draw his full salary — Micky was the victim of a more than £12,000 per year i particularly vicious grass, -)(-*-X--)(--)t-)(--)(--X--)(--)(--)(--)(--)t-if--3(--Ii-ii--)(--It-ii-+2--)t~3(--)6--)5--)(-* William Amies, whose expl- -X-it-It-)(--X--)6-)(-it-)€'-it-)E-3(--ii--3(--it-it-)(-it-)$-J(--)t-)t-)(--)(-**-)(- ll oits included sexually A prisoner from Albany, assualting his victims Isle of Wight, won an impor Ray Barron, who was ac- during robberies. Amies, Operation Countryman, the tant case against the quitted last year on the chief prosecution investigation into corrup- prison department in May. charges of conspiracy to witness, ins a long history tion in the City of London It concerned the right of a rob, has decided not to of mental illness which and Metropolitan police prisoner to write to"a sol- stand trial on further made him an especially forces was finally wound icitor or MP without inter- charges and has jumped unreliable witness. He up in June. Originally ference from the prison bail. also received the induce- briefed to investigate the authorities. Steven ment of a 5 year sentence City of London force alone Raymond, serving a 1O year Ray was re-arrested im- in return for his testimony it was compelled to look sentence for theft, applied mediately after his ac- farther afield as more and for an immediate custodial 4 quittal at the Old However, the Appeal Court more evidence came to light sentence for the governor Baileyand was held for judges upheld Micky's implicating officers from of Albany because he had several days before conviction, although they other forces. However the repeatedly stopped prisoners being charged with 9 out his sentence to 1O investigation was blocked mail to their legal advisors. counts of robbery. years. Micky continues by the unwillingness of the The request, heard at the Shortly afterwards he was to deny any involvement police in London to assist Law Courts in the Strand, released on bail. in the robbery for which the investigating team. London, was rejected by he was convicted. He is the judges who neverthless Ray's attitude to his currently seeking permiss- To date there have been a upheld Steve's complaint. chances in his forth- ion to write to an MP to number of attempted pros- coming trial may have point qut the discrepancy ecutions arising from Steve is currently sojourn- been conditioned by the between the amount of Countryman but none of them ing at Parkhurst - guess he fact that in his last remission that a prisoner have been successful. is not wanted at Albany! encounter with the police in Northern Ireland can Recently 2 detectives were he was planted with a earn and the amount that acquitted of taking £12,000 -)6-)(--it***************%-X--K-*-X-X-*** shotgun and masks - some- other prisoners in the rest part of the proceeds of a thing the jury noted as robbery, in return for sup- Dr Alan Clift, a Home Office of the UK can earn. y they acquitted him. ressing evidence against a Forensic scientist, is man. Gilbert Kelland, a under investigation for a -it-It-)6-3(--ltié-ii--it-3+-it-ii--It-it-)(--)(--)t-9€--)(--)€--)t-)(--X-*-X--)(--)£--)(- At Oxford Crown Court senior Yard officer, said series of major "mistakes" earlier in June Ray's that reports of massive which have resulted in at sureties were given BLACK FLAG'S COURT CIRCULAR corruption within the force least several wrongful tries to demonstrate the convictions. The most one week to pay up. One ._._-7 were widely exaggerated and of them, Time Out news workings of the law in this celebrated victim of asked how much credence editor, Duncan Campbell, country. The law is a could be given to evidence Clift's mistakes is John was ordered to hand over powerful tool in the hands from criminals? Something Preece, who has just been the £1,000 he had put up of the ruling class. It is that many convicted pris- relgased after serving 8 for Ray. the means they employ to oners who were sentenced years of a life sentence mask their rule and to give for a murder he did not on the word of super- -X--)6*****-ii-*-X-****-)t***-)€-*-X-*-X-** it a sense of legitimacy grasses might well agree! commit. and authority. It is important therefore, from 1 _ ‘E4- their point of view, to attempt to show that the law is impartial, adminis- . II tered equally to everyone. If people go around preaching The same pattern of smash-ins, Unknown trial - or the Anarchists violence and revolution and a arbtrary arrests and detentions was ‘Trial, as the press and lawyers The COURT CIRCULAR, by now refer to it, though the judge bombing exists in that context, followed in the Persons Unknown focusing on the way the law insisted at the time that it was they must expect to be the case, though here not only was the police, the prisons, not a political trial. objects of police attention. nobody killed or injured, some of and the judiciary operate, — Inspector Habershon on the the crimes alleged had not even by examining concrete in- Time and again the police say of a mass raids in the Angry Brigade taken place; and some were only stances, seeks to destroy clearly racialist murder or ass- period.“ alleged after the trial was over this myth and show that and the people acquitted. ault that it is not racial, that the law exists to protect it is an ordinary crime - even What if they preach violence the interests of capital A though the culprits admit their and racialism? Then they can One has only to compare this att- andproperty and that it has allegiance to Nazi associations. expect the police to deny all itude with that taken towards the nothing, even remotely, to connection with their words and fascists. Hundreds of racialist do with justice. Compare the 1O year sentences the actions that take place; and attacks have been made by people there will be no raids.) openly declaring themselves to be served by the A who were convicted We depend on information members of racialist and fascist in the Angry Brigade trial, only from prisoners, and others for possessing firearms — they During the Angry Brigade period organisations. There have been about specific cases. If were acquitted of causing es- hundreds of homes of libertarians murders and injuries ensuing and you have something for us, plosions — withthe sentences of and sympathisers were broken into.~ all these assaults are clearly please write to BLACK 6 months or so occasionally Warrants were obtained without called for in the Nazi press. FLAG'S COURT CIRCULAR, passed on the murderous heavily- difficulty, people suspected of BOX A, OVER THE WATER, armed fascist paramilitary nothing but libertarian sympath- Whereas screaming headlines pro- SANDAY, ORKNEY, SCOTLAND. groups. Even a 3 year sentence ies were rounded up and questioned, claimed conspiracy in the Persons because top establishment figures Unknown case (to committ acts never works out at less than that **********e*************s** served by those who were had been attacked and Government mentioned in court thereafter) and IML lwmNTFW acquitted in the anarchist case. property destroyed, though no a prejudicial atmosphere created q?_Z CHRISMUS IS M‘ person was ever killed or injured. - which failed to convince the i1MmiFRmw“fi§F' I It was made perfectly clear by jury but was intended to do so - When it is said that New Cross was not a racialistic attack, '/ d the press and police invarialby E \\ Commander Bond, that these people '——-II h |_ r -I . - play down racialist murders. how can the Black community, or -1- were raided because of their _._.¢.-. ::.l-IIIII '*"'lI" - opinions - he had no hesitation in The mad fascist, who the other anyone else, be expected to believe the police..when prec- saying to Christie when arrested week kidnapped an innocent "You have publicly admitted being woman driver, put her in the boot, isely the same thing is said about every racialist murder a member of the anarchist move- and drove it into a left wing ment." Inspector Habershon bookshop to set it (and her) on and assault. indeed expressed great satisfaction fire, gets all the courtesy of Yet does the public regard the at not having raided any members of the press. Its sub judice - don't ;-‘__‘:__ Page 5 the "legitimate Left" in which was mention it? Compare that with the continued on page 9 included the Communist Party. press coverage of the Persons scan the whole area. On the At 11 am on 16th April RAF member outside wall of thesilent wing Sigurd Debus (32) died in the there is a double loudspeaker. eleventh week of the collective It gives the command which ends hunger strike. 25 RAF prisoners

--| . ___.in_l.l.| -----J-\-|--I'|-1--I---|--ll the exercise period and probably called off the hunger strike after records what we are saying. the West German Minister for Inside,every sound we make is Justice had given an assurance monitored electronically, indic- to Amnesty International that none ated by different coloured lights of the prisoners would be kept any showing which microphones are on. longer in conditions of isolat- ‘*1 During exercise we are guarded by ion but placed together in several 2 or 3 female screws and one small groups. Karl Heinz Dellwo guard carrying walkie-talkies. and Heinz Herlitz carried'on the Their walkie-talkie network hunger strike for a further 2 days

= *I i covers every contact they have because even worse conditions ‘_ IE . afi- E with us, from serving out meals applied to them in Calle prison. a ' 535. = -i 1215 % i to taking a shower." i_ E -is “I I . - _ - _ - - . . | 1 1 -_-_-._-._._-.It‘:-_I_'.'.:|.;_|;|;I_.|1.:_‘-:_.:_::::?-;|lE:.i::::E:51?: (Report by 5 women in Lubeck SOLIDARITY ACTIONS Gabrielle ROllDiCk., Mgnica BerberiQh_ Knut Folkerts. isolation wing). & RESISTANCE -s On 2nd February RAF and 2nd June Movement prisoners in The widespread support and solidar "The artificiality of theisurround the isolation wing of West Berlin (Moabit) and Stammheim prisons began ity all over the country for the ings and the stress of isolation a hunger strike against the isolation of political prisoners, for imp- hunger strikers was blamed by DER are the means by which tensions rovements in prison conditions, demanding political status, and the SPEIGEL on an organised network of are created between prisoners. release of Gunther Sonnenberg ( who suffers from brain damage as a "Revolutionary Cells"(RZ) and These tensions are noted by the result of being shot in the head when he was captured) and Verena "circles of anti-fascist struggle" control and increased through Becker (who has tuberculosis). See RAF hunger strike socument in last (Antifa). manipulation. Programmes of issue. The strikeispread quickly to 77 prisons throughout West Ger- many, as well as to 3 political prisoners in Switzerland and one in privileges and punishments are Militant opposition still exists Austria. At the same time numbers on hunger strike were swelled by devised to fit each individual in the "model Germany" despite the prisoner, noting every nuance of "ordinary" prisoners joining in out of solidarity with the actions of attempts of the West German state the prisoner's behaviour. This the politicals and making their own demands for improvements in to criminalise all support for the is an attempt to influence where prison conditions. At one time the numbers of prisoners on hunger hunger strikers and supress all strike reached 300 they have so Ear failed: our resistance; despite the silence i torture in the silent cells of minds, our will to resist, our from the media and their refusal On 15th March fourteen 2nd June high Security wings _ many far consciousness - to destroy it all" to partray the armed resistance as Movement prisoners in Berlin sus- long periods _ with no aSS0Cia_ (Andreas Vogel & Till Meyer - anything more than bandits or im- pended their hunger Strike after tion periods at all, some of them Moabit prison). moral lunatics manipulated by the goverment had conceeded to foreign governments in some grand have no excercise either. The The policy of criminalisation of their minimum demands: one extra web of conspiracy. isolation cells are air-condit- political prisoners in Western visit per month; the stopping of ioned, soun oofed, white- isolation; granting of open visits E ********************************** i where the giass partition was E taken away and physical contact CALENDAR OF EVENTS: with visitors allowed. 21st Februar : Bomb attack (20lb In Bern Gabrielle Kroecher- plastiquei on the American radio Tiedmann, Christian Moeller and station "Radio Free Europe" & Rolf Clemens Wagner suspended "Radio Liberty" in Munich. 8 their hunger strike after receiv- people injured and propaganda ing a promise of being allowed to broadcasts to Eastern Europe inter associate with 4 others. Mean- rupted by the blast, which caused while in Cologne, Dusseldorf and over £1%m damage. Rhsponsibility Cells, Karl-Heinz Dellwo;»Stefan claimed by the "Armed Secret Org- Wiesniewski and Gerd Schneider anisation". were force fed. Dellwo reached a critical condition, passing 2nd March: Bomb (6.6lb of expl- blood in his urine, and a second osive) found in a storage room attempt at force feeding was ab- of the Berlin company Kraftwerk andonded because of the danger Union, which builds nuclear of suffocation. By 20th March A power plants. prisoners in Berlin: Regina Arson attack on a nuclear reactor Nicolai, Andreas Vogel, Gudrun construction site near Munich Stuermer and Gabrielle Rollnick- causes £250,000 damage. Both had also reached danger point. attacks follow a weekend of Gabrielle Kroecher-Tiedemann Rollnick suffered damage togher Siegfreid Haag..- iiiiiM protests against the building of eyesight but resisted an attempt walled and constantly lit. Sur- Europe and the way in which a nuclear power plant near to force feed her. veillance of the prisoners is political prisoners are subjected Hamburg. total. If prisoners do have to special programmes of imprison- Knut Folkerts became dangerously association it is behind a part- ment and treatment is a crucial 4th March: 24 relatives of hunger ill in Stammheim and was moved to ition window of bullet proof part of a co—ordinated strategy strikers occupy the offices of the psychiatric wing of Hohenas- glass. Visits are for one hour intended to deny the political berg in an attempt to isolate him DER SPEIGEL in protest at the ref- per month in similar conditions, nature of the struggle, both ins further and break his hunger usal of the West German media to if permitted at all. Strip side and outside the prisons. publish information on the hunger strike. Angelike Speitel in Col- searches take place for prisoners strike. The Goethe Institute in ogne was force fed even though and visitors before and after any "Torture and the murder of pol- her condition was not serious” Amsterdam is also occupied in sup- visit or association. The state itical prisoners as well as enough to warrant it. Christoph port of the prisoners‘ demands. has acknowledged the political executions on the streets are now Wackernagel, Hanna Krabbe and content of their struggle by the not only matters of police tactics Waltraub Warmbier also reached a 16th March: 2 men arrested in methods it employs to try to within a state that is the direct critical condition by 21st March. arson attack on the Reichstag crush it. inheritor of fascism... Now German building which causes £10,6OO imperialism starts on its third damage. A third escapes. On 22nd March seven lawyers rep- "Optical and accoustic surveill- run for world power not as the opp resenting the prisoners had talks ance has been systematised and onent but the ally of US capital, with the federal attorney general 21st March: 1,000 people demonste perfected. In the silent wing not alone but functioning within rate outside Moabit prison (Ber- Rebmann, who is responsible for itself a camera is installed, lin) in support of the hunger implementing the programmes US foreign policy. The NATO high while in the yard, where nobody commanddirects the torture and strikers. against the prisoners and demanded enters except us, seven cameras murder of political prisoners as In Heidleberg buses are painted full negotiations. Rebmann well as the assassination squads with slogans stating the hunger refused to consider any of the in Turkey, Ireland, Italy and strikers‘ demands. prisoners demands unless the Spain. And through the Wist hunger strike was called off first German federal criminal bureau and BO people arrested during a nat- The next day Rebmann set off for the secret service they attempt to ional demonstration in support the USA. enforce these mthods of repression of the hunger strikers that takes The West German state applies to be used in all western count- place despite a Government ban. special programmes of imprisonment ries. It was this same NATO high 3 of those arrested are charged against those prisoners who come command which recently... gave with "advertising a terrorist

_-' - - .J - | I . | "ii-_ . J _ _ . _ _' _ _ _ 'l.||'._._ .- .' _-I.-_-1: -' - . _ _--_ . . I . - _- - ._ |_ - I - . _ _ . _ | _ .I_i,:'_ |_,iI. I _ l_. ._Il _r.|:_. _ , __ _. orders that the demand for group". from militant anti-imperialist I >- -- .-*i<;;;'.__|| _- ' ' I _ -._--P |l . - - -. I - .-.-. __-- . _ ll r F ‘ll I L l.:'_- I I I _' '.|r.' P. :l|'--| I -I . . --'-I-'-I political status should not be I-I I. . . I I. _._ -_ - I F _I';::.;,¥; I I - .-- I I :- , --.- resistance groups. These prison- _ - . . . .. PI‘: ll F -' PE 5311'-;?':fE;|-_ F - I‘ I ' _.-.'_' ' E; . - . . - I ' :-:|- I ' I _:_.|r_ 1-_ - : . I ers are subjected to isolation _-In . _"'q',|"' _ - l_:. ' . - ;;.':,__'EE']Ej:£:.|r;I;':I;:§|,:. II .' i __ '| I . granted." At the end of March a video of the Guenther Sonnenberg (RAF hunger strike declaration DER SPEIGEL occupation, which has