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Download the PDF version of Edition Three here. The reality is that the offenders were deriving support and encouragement from being together with other offenders and offering comfort, support and encouragement to the other offenders around them. Perhaps too the sheer numbers involved may have led some of them to believe that they were untouchable – […]
January 22, 2012
After a short break, The Paper’s mailbox was full with letters from comrades and fellow travellers both near and far about what they got up to over the summer. — Dear Isabelle, You have asked us to tell you what’s been happening in Spain since 15 May. Well, we’ll try, but it’s impossible to give […]
January 22, 2012
Once again our community has to pick up the pieces of major social unrest. The reasons for this outburst are many and more complex than the responses that have dominated the media in the immediacy of the event, particularly those from our political leadership. The Tottenham Defence Campaign has been formed in defence of the […]
January 22, 2012
In the age of Twitter and Facebook, writing a letter – on paper with a pen – seems pretty outdated, but for those in prison, letters are a serious and needed lifeline. Don’t forget all mail is ‘monitored’ – so don’t write anything that might get you, your friends or others into trouble, but on […]
January 22, 2012
TIFFANY PAGE & NICHOLAS BEURET It would be easy enough to see the farcical nature of the new Tier 4 visa restrictions (those aimed at ‘adult’ students, a.k.a. international university students) as some kind of error or self-defeating bureaucratic fuck up. But, not unlike the management of call centres or emergency housing applications (or the […]
January 22, 2012
NINA POWER Collective expressions of political opposition are the most terrifying thing in the world – if you’re the government, police and courts, that is. The past few months have seen an incredible crack-down on protest and heavy sentences handed down to anyone involved in a public order situation. Just as “rioters” have received lengthy […]
January 22, 2012
MANUELA ZECHNER With many in our movements currently facing criminal trials and long custodial sentences, the role that the courts, legal system and prisons play is made clearer by the day, as is the need for solidarity with those inside. If you’ve been wondering what happened to the student movement of last Spring, the answer […]
January 22, 2012
CARL CATTERMOLE [extract] In calling this a ‘survival guide’ I guess I’ve already wrong footed you: people’s vicarious view of prison is that you’ll arrive, get robbed, get banged up with a psychopath and then get raped in the shower. In reality it’s nothing like this… I ended up on the high-risk wing of one […]
January 22, 2012
KS, KA This guide is a collaborative effort by the partners of some of those convicted in June 2011 at Blackfriars Crown Court, London. It can’t tell you everything, but our lives would have been a lot easier if we’d had a guide like this. Luckily there was a group of us and by sticking […]
January 22, 2012
The accomplice is someone who is not there. Someone you can see only if you see things. To feel the love of the accomplice is to feel safe to be unsafe. The love of the accomplice is known by what he makes vulnerable, by the bodies she teaches to open in conspiracy. To the police […]
January 22, 2012
If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side – Jean Genet The Paper spoke with Haneen Maikey, Director of Al-Qaws for Sexual & Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society, a Palestinian grassroots queer political organisation working throughout Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. At a time when Israeli, U.S., and E.U. […]
January 22, 2012
RACHEL DRUMMOND In August of 2009 the Islington Tribune reported on a story that revealed with unusual clarity the logic at the core of recent ‘regeneration’ projects in the UK. Having already reneged on promises to expand transport services, provide green spaces and social housing to abut the newly built Arsenal Emirates stadium, Arsenal FC apartments […]
January 22, 2012
By the time you read this, I’ll be in jail. I have hurt no one, offended no one, threatened nobody, and yet I am in prison for 18months…I am being sent to jail on the most spurious of charges, just as many others are too. I am not asking you to feel sorry for me. […]
January 22, 2012
Winter is almost here. Sadly, the days of coin-operated electric meters that allowed for knife and string tricks and replacing coins with foreign shrapnel are long gone. So, while 20,000 plus people freeze to death in the UK each year, we can either spend all our money on heating and starve to death, or kill […]
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January 22, 2012
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