Anarchist Black Cross

Dear friends, welcome to our latest update! But first, we need to ask for your help. When Russia invaded Ukraine, in February of 2022, we decided to widen our focus by supporting anti-war prisoners – up till that point, we had supported only anarchist and anti-fascist prisoners. However, as of October 2022 we have run out of almost all funds to support anti-war prisoners and we decided to launch a fundraising effort…

An biography of two of the women who first founded the Anarchist Black Cross. This article was first published by Belarus Anarchist Black Cross.

Interview was made by German anarcho-pacifist paper Graswurzelrevolution, and is published in the new issue of the paper in German. English translation by ABC Moscow.

An interview with Xinachtli, a Chicano anarchist communist political prisoner serving a 50-year…

UK news pieces from Black Flag #219 (2000) covering the fascist International Third Position attempting to buy a village in Spain, plans for London Mayday 2000, the closing of the UK Anarchist Black Cross Network and the sacking of the editor of the virulently anti-immigrant Dover Express.

A biography and obituary of Brian McCarvill, an anarchist prisoner in Oregon who…

Article from Black Flag in 1986 about Searchlight's attempts to influence Anti-Fascist Action.

An article on the history of the international Anarchist Black Cross movement. Made available online…

The Anarchist Black Cross Bulletin was produced by London ABC in the early 1990s, covering prisoner solidarity, prisons, miscarriages of justice…

Partial online archive of Taking Liberties, a 1990s newsletter of the Anarchist Black Cross covering…

Article from Black Flag #216 1999.

The first issue of the Bulletin of the Anarchist Black Cross, kindly scanned in by the comrades at Centre international de recherches sur l…