This section aims to highlight the importance of prisoner solidarity by means of links to prisoner support websites. As well as supporting class struggle prisoners 'at home', in many countries the state is more repressive than it is in UK, and anarchists find it very hard to organise at all. Some have to go into exile in other countries to avoid imprisonment. So the link between support of asylum seekers, refugees and prisoners cannot be overstated.

The AF is directly involved in prisoner and asylum seeker/refugee support. If you are interested in writing to activists in prison, please get in touch. You may also find info about demos and other activities in support of prisoners via our News Diary page. On-line articles about prisoners and political repression can be found in Organise!, the AF's magazine, and resistance, the our monthly bulletin. Please visit these pages to buy a supporter subscription for a prisoner.

Prisoners' Justice Day 2008

August 10th is prisoner justice day. A day in which those in prison can have a day of mourning & remembrance for others who have died while locked up in prison. Prisoners around the world also use the day for protesting against conditions. For a good history of Prisoner justice day and why it falls on this day see this Canadian anti-prison website.

This year the No More Prison campaign are asking for activists to join together outside HMP Styal to show solidarity with the women locked up inside and to remember those who have died in women’s prisons all over the country.

It will also be a tribute to Pauline Campbell, who’s only daughter, Sarah, died in Styal prison. Pauline campaigned fearlessly against deaths in women’s prisons as well as advocating the clo- sure of all women’s prisons.

Demo to start at 1pm outside the gates of the prison. If you would like to get involved please contact:
Pikiebub2000 [at] yahoo.co.uk www.alternatives2prison.ik.com

• Brighton Anarchist Black Cross Great UK site with loads of information and links to other ABC and prison support groups. A very good starting point if you want to support anarchist prisoners.
• Leeds Anarchist Black Cross - Myspace page - Leeds ABC have produce good leaflets with advice on writing to prisoners.
• Libcom.org prison organising guide - includes a prison survival guide and a prisoner support guide.
• 325 Collective - Anti-prison, insurrection, autonomy. This site rails against prisons and the surveillence society.
• Campaign Against Prison Slavery - CAPS exists to challenge and bring about an end to forced prison labour, and to expose the companies that exploit it. If it's cheap, it could have been made or packaged by a prisoner.
• Close Campsfield  UK protest group against the imprisonment of asylum seekers. See also No Borders Network and Barbed Wire Britain
• No More Prison - for prison abolition.
• Legal Defence and Monitoring Group - supporting activists arrested on demonstrations.
• Miscarriages of Justice UK - UK prisoners support site.
• Wombles, Solidarity & support for prisoners page
• NCADC - UK based National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns.

• Anarchist Black Cross Federation (ABCF) - US based prisoner support federation.
• Mumia Abu-Jamal - campaign to free radical journalist on death row the United States.
• Political Prisoners of War Coalition (PPWC) - web-site created by a UK supporter of the US based PPWC.
• Prisoners' Justice - Canadian site against prisons.
• Prison Activist - US based.
• Prison Legal News - on-line paper by prisoners in Washington State, USA.