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LAG organ the ANARCHIST BLACK CROSS Vol. IV No. 12 December 1976 15p A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR READERS - PLEASE REMEMBER YOUR COMRADES BEHIND BARS! (cover by Cohnnha l.onginorc. Citrragh Military Prison. Eire) ;i**i if. THE UNIFORM NAY BE DIFFERENT BUT THE FACE IS ALWAYS THE SANE NEWS OF THE MURRAYS APPEAL: The Dublin Supreme Court s. •:> t enced Noel Murray to life imprisonment and orderod a re-trial for Marie, to he held in the same no jury Special Criminal Court, on I he original charges of Capital Murder. Continued support and solidarity with the Murrays is vital. The London Murray Defence Group are h.oldin;- a publ ic meeting Friday 14 Jan- uary (.7pm), Conway Ha 1 I , Red Lion Sq^ Lo' flon WC1 We ur^c^ all to attend. Black Flag Vol. IV No. 12 Dec. '76 Provisional List of Libertarian Prisoners BACK IN THE USSR . still in Spanish Jails. Printed & Pub. by Black Flag Grp., The inhuman treatment of thousands of Subs. £3.00 per 12 issues (home) In the Carcel Modelo of Barcelona are people still continues. Vladimir Bukovsky Canada, Australia, N. Zealand Emilio Barbera Guiu, Jorge Cananellas (33) has now spent one third of his life (air mail) £6.00 (U.S. $3.00 Ronsell, Fernando Melallino Serrano. in prison, Since 1972 he has been in Black Flag, Over The Water, Under the October Amnesty, Vicente Vladimir prison, noted for its severity. Sanday, Orkney, KW17 2BL Iglesias Romero has been released. and has contracted a rheumatic heart, a In the prison of Granada are Jose Juan liver complaint and an eye infection as CNT APPEAL Martinez Ginez, Cristona Valenzuela a result of his treatment. He is kept on The National Committee of the CNT in Marcos. a minimum diet, despite the objections Spain has issued a world-wide appeal to In Alicante, remains Fernando Carballo of the prison doctor, and is confined all comrades and sympathisers asking for Blanco, whose case is one of the worst, in an unventilated cell. contributions towards re-establishing the 25 years in prison and still 18 years to Dr. Semyon Gluzman (28) refused a confederal newspaper "CNT." The serve, he has surely suffered more than post at a psychiatric hospital where C.P., Socialists, Social Democrats etc.. one can expect of anyone. dissident mathematician Leonoid Plyushch all have enormous resources at their Cartagena: Jose Luis Pons Llovet is in (now released) was detained. He wrote disposal for the publishing of their own Cartagena. a critique of the official diagnosis, for papers and the myth-making which which he was sentenced to 7 years. While follows. The CNT however, has no In the demonstration for the Murrays in prison with Bukovsky, at camp VS government or "contributions" from in Madrid on 2nd October, and in the 389/35 they wrote a Manual on sympathetic companies to fall back on. protests against the economic measures Psychiatry for Dissidents, -for which the Its financial support rests entirely with of the government, on the 1 2th November, authorities have threatened a new trial. those militants who are prepared to were arrested: - Other dissidents suffering at the hands support it morally, physically and Madrid: Alejandro Nicolas Novaguer, of Russian psychiatrists at present FINANCIALLY! At this crucial Valentin Antonio Gil Opez, Amadeo include Zinovyi Krasivsky and Anatole moment in time they need our help Saguar Ortea. (all detained over the Ponomaryov. badly and it is up to us to ensure CNT Murray demonstrations against the According to Amnesty International that we nive them what we can - and Irish Embassy.) there are 330 prisons and concentration more! In Malaga: Francisco Tomas Lopez de camps in the USSR for political prisoners las Huertas, Aurelio Palma, Francisco alone. Many of these are Ukrainians Jimenez Ruiz, and in Murcia, ten such as historian Valentyn Moroz, comrades, not yet named. Miguel Garcia writes: One of the journalist Sviatoslav Karavansky, lawyer They urgently need support. A Lev Lukyanenko. artist Stefania Anarchist fighters in Spain who becam prisoners aid committee has been set up legendary in his lifetime as organiser o! Shabatura and poetess Iryna Stasiv in Madrid with which the Anarchist the post-war guerrilla resistance in Kalynets, all of whom are serving sentences Black Cross i Pontevedra. has just died in Vigo ranging from eight to fourteen years. Contact: — (August). Jose Luis Quintas Figu SOLIDARITY APPEAL was a member of the anarcho-syndic Committee for Defence of Ukrainian CNT from his youth. Early in 1936, General Defense Committee (IWW). Political Prisoners in the USSR, some armed Falangist attacked the Local 4, in Agana. Guam, is asking for 49 Linden Gardens, Notting Hill Gate, workers in Galicia; the anarchists were a steady flow of contributions that will London W2 4HG. Campaign Against Psychiatric Abuses, ready for them, and in the ensuing go to the aid of our imprisoned comrades c/o Dr. Lawrence Ratna, Napsbury battle Luis Collazo. leader of the in the Philippines. Thousands languish Hospital, St. Albans, Herts. Galicia Falange, was killed and Quintas in the "detention centres" of the Marcos wounded. He was taken to hospital, dictatorship. Their crimes: opposing HURRY HURRY! BOOK NOW! from which he escaped on the 20th July Marcos and his fascist "New Society." The A.B.C. will be organizing the to join the fighters in the civil war. In One need only read the daily new papers British Premiere f two films by the 1939 he continued the fight inside and weekly news magazines to know that anarchist Pacific Street Film Collect- Spain. the torture of class-war prisoners is ive: Martin Sostre and Red Squad. Eventually Quintas was captured practiced every day. Local 4 hopes to This is a unique opportunity to see and charged with the murder of Collazo; provide more concrete information in two excellent anarchist films so if condemned to death but commuted to the future. But for now we need your you wish either to see it in London 21 years which he served in the prison help! or arrange to have it shown in your Make your cheques and money orders of Santona. town let us know as soon as possible. He was buried in the civil cemetery of payable to "G.D.C., Local 4," and P.P. ZAHL Letters of support to:- Pereiro the coffin covered with a indicated that they are earmarked for aid defiant flag of the CNT local and to our Filipino fellow workers. Mail Rochusstr. 350. 5000 Koln 30, Germany. followed by relatives, friends and them to G.D.C., P.O. Box 864, Agana, militants. Guam, 96910, USA. intended to kill the Prime Minister him- military officer at all. What was he? ANARCHO-QU1Z self. Though McNaghton was found to 5. For the first time in the history of Paschal Grousset (1845-1909). member be not responsible for his actions, which the Russian Empire, and never repeated of the Paris Commune - afterwards trans- political tendency was accused of incite- since, on February 1st 1918 and for ported to New Caledonia -- escaped to ment? nearly a fortnight thereafter, there England and, after the amnesty, returned 3. When Peel did die. who did Queen were no political prisoners, no State to France as an Independent Socialist Victoria blame at the time at least? massacres, no deportations, no oppresion, deputy. What newspaper did he edit from 4. During the revolution in Paris of no State theft. True or false? exile which transformed French life, 1848, the crowds saw "General" 6. When it came down to it, which traditional values and even physical Chateaurenard in the Boulevard du party in the USA did Karl Marx support? condition? Temple, and carried him off triumphantly (answers on page 15) 2. When, in 1843, McNaghten killed Sir to the Hotel de Ville, to make him Robert Peel's secretary, it was alleged he governor of Paris. But he was not a TERRORISM From the bashing that "terrorism" gets to another. They consider their nation a special armed police to fight the in the press one would think it has super- is at war with another nation. It is workers' organisation - and when the ceded the nuclear war as the major purely a matter of which side you're on workers fought back it was "terrorism." danger facing the human race. The word as to whether the French Resistance is But when the armed forces of the State has changed its meaning drastically but called "terrorist" (the Germans called it rose up against the Republic itself, this even in the current meaning, one would such, the Allies didn't). Precisely the was never regarded as terrorism (even by have thought it a lesser evil to war, same reasoning applies to the Irish or its enemies). For the first time, too. especially on the levels it can reach these the Arabs. They are indiscriminate in Spanish anarcho-syndicalism was not days. Yet journalists who are silent about their attacks because they are nationalist "terrorist!" the struggle Wd-^was napalm bombings in warfare can work - as long as they "hit the enemy" it does "legal." But because it did not surrender themselves up, over drinks, to a fine not matter to them what their position in ll)3l). but carried on the struggle display of written invective against in society is. They differ from national after legal recognition was withdrawn, it "terrorist attacks" — which happen to armies such as the British. German. became "terrorist" once again. But not involve fewer casualties than drunken Russian, American, only in status. The immediately. For six years it escaped driving.