The Anarchist Black Cross is an international movement that aims to support the struggles of prisoners, and of anarchist and class struggle prisoners in particular. We beleive in the total abolition of the prison system, not it s reform. We are driven by solidarity and not charity.
We note the recent spat between Labour and Plaid councillors over claims of reporting Asian business’s to the UK Border Agency and over claims of racism by the UK Border Agency. The polices of Border Agency, the UK Government and European Governments, mean that the UKBA focuses on business’s where they think they will find [...]
At 11.00am on Tuesday 5th of July activists attended and disrupted a Group 4 (G4S) consultation in Cardiff. G4S are bidding to run a service called COMPASS ( Commercial and Operational Managers Procuring Asylum Support Services). This is a project aimed at finding an outsourced provider for housing asylum-seekers, as well as associated services and [...]
At around 3.00pm the UKBA decided to raid, in broad daylight, a beauty salon on Clifton St. Despite there being children and customers inside the UKBA shut the doors of the shop and closed the shutters. No Borders activists were present and quickly got support and a banner to highlight the reality that this is [...]
On Friday 13th May the Congolese community came together for a lively demonstration against the potential re-election of President Joseph Kabila, a man surrounded by corruption and with his vice-president facing charges of war crimes in the Hague. The demonstration marched from City Hall, along Queen St through the city centre accompanied by songs and [...]
We have an event coming up called Why Anarchy? It will be a brief introduction to the politics of anarchism, looking at media misrepresentation and history, as well as local and global perspectives, followed by a discussion. There will be speakers from South Wales Anarchists and a few others further afield. It will be from [...]
Pissed off with politicians, banks, and other assorted power elites plundering the world? Fed up with politicians’ empty promises? Do you want to actually DO something about it? You need some direct action training! There workshops are to be held in October, November and December and will cover legal matters, the media, organisation etc. Please [...]
Confronting the State! – South Wales Anarchists meeting On Monday 21st March 2011. Meet at 7pm at the Gatekeeper (Weatherspoons), Westgate Street, Cardiff. Due to the now much publicised infiltration of pur group by an undercover police officer known as Marco, Anarchist activity in South Wales has gone through a bit of a slump over [...]
Statement on the infiltration by Mark ‘Marco’ Jacobs For four years the Cardiff Anarchist Network (CAN) was infiltrated by an undercover police officer we knew as ‘Marco’. During that time we believe he had a number of key objectives – to gather intelligence and disrupt the activities of CAN; to use the reputation and trust [...]