Anarchist Black Cross

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The Anarchist Black Cross (ABC) ( dt : "Anarchistisches Black Kreuz") is an international organization founded between 1900 and 1906. The network founded as the “Anarchist Red Cross” sees its main task in supporting imprisoned anarchists and organizing solidarity campaigns for them, but in contrast to other prisoner aid organizations, it is opposed to any detention and thus represents abolitionism .

history

During the Russian Civil War (1918–1920), the “Anarchist Red Cross” in Ukraine was renamed “Anarchist Black Cross”, this was done in order to enable a better differentiation from the religiously shaped Red Cross . After the fascist seizure of power in Italy in the 1930s , the “Anarchist Black Cross” expanded its activities on the European continent. Later in the 1960s it also reached Great Britain via Franco- ruled Spain , from where sub-organizations were founded worldwide, e.g. B. In the early 1980s the section for North America , which is divided into the ABC network and the ABC federation.

Publications

The Anarchist Black Cross Federation publishes the quarterly Plain Words , previously called Update . ABC Berlin and ABC Orkan jointly published the magazine Entfesselt every three months . The ABC-Info of the anarchist Black Cross group RTS from the Stuttgart area was published in at least seven issues until December 2005 .

Web links

Germany

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to Rudolph Rocker, once the Secretary-Treasurer for the Anarchist Red Cross, the organization formed during the period of 1900 to 1905. According to his statement, the organization came about during a meeting in London with Vera Figner, who was the treasurer for the political prisoners of the Party of the Socialist Revolutionaries. (Yelensky, B. The Struggle For Equality. p. 20) Recent research has discovered this meeting probably took place in the summer of 1907. (...) Despite Rocker's account that the Figner meeting was the birth of the ARC, earlier accounts have shown an earlier beginning. According to Harry Weinstein, who is considered the father of the Anarchist Red Cross, he and a friend, B. Yelin, began the ARC in Bialystok after being released sometime in August of 1906. Yelensky's Fable: A History of the ABC on abcf. net, accessed August 22, 2010
  2. ↑ Our focus is primarily on the support of anarchist and social prisoners, (...) However, we do not want to be a pure "prisoner support group", nor one that only deals with political prisoners, because we generally reject all prisons, deportation prisons and any penal institutions : What is ABC on abc-berlin.net, accessed August 22, 2010
  3. ↑ Makhno's Black Cross at http://www.nestormakhno.info , accessed August 22, 2010
  4. ↑ Website of the magazine on abcf.net
  5. ↑ The magazine's website at abc-berlin.net