Solidarity international calls you for actions during Week of Solidarity With Anarchist Prisoners 23 until 30 August 2025!
Against Prison Society, Towards Connection
Standing at the exterior of the prison we are greeted with the stark reality of alienation and separation. A wall, a fence, guard towers, surveillance cameras, concrete boxes and steel cages aimed at keeping the accused and “guilty” separate from the rest of society, concepts of rehabilitation and repentance constructed from ideologies of States in order to hold onto and secure their power, to freeze territories with fixed national identities and to punish whatever falls outside of their notions of legality, progress, outside of their morality and capitalist value. The thing is, once we stand outside the walls of the prison we realize that it is a touchable construct. It is a wall, it is concrete, it is material. Those who keep it functioning are living beings… Yes, prisons isolate us, but they isolate us as much as we let them, as soon as we accept them. The walls become fixed and permanent to those of us on the outside as soon as we forget and accept the separation they impose. Those on the inside of the boxes can’t forget, as it is everyday they are confronted with the harsh reality of life on the inside. As long as states exist, there will be prisons, and we will find ourselves within their walls.
It is in the carrying forth of memory that we continue the struggle and life of comrades who have died before us, we carry the ideas and actions of those separated by cages and concrete, creating continuity and connection in the endless acts of resistance that make up a life in search of freedom. Prisons and the struggles that take place within their walls are a constant contribution to this collective memory of resistance.
Wether in the bowels of totalitarian dictatorships or in the heart of “social democracy” where State Violence has a different flavor, States hold no breath trying to put of the fires of subordination and resistance, where even having ideas that pierce it’s constructs can put you in it’s crosshairs, under it’s at times seemingly all pervasive gaze.
We recognize solidarity in its many forms – from connections and friendships to exchanges of ideas and dialog, to shared moments of attack – our comrades remain not isolated, but continuous breathing parts of our struggles.
In solidarity with those sneaking past the border walls, those on the run, in exile, in the deepest isolation chambers of solitary confinement, those who died in action, the criminalized.
Against all prisons.
We choose a life of tension and insubordination in the search of connection.
You cannot bury the force of life!
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