Celebrating 30 years of the Base for Anarchy and Solidarity in Easton (BASE)

From The Bristol Cable

As the Easton-based social centre reaches its thirtieth birthday, we explore the history of the much-loved volunteer-run community space, which began life as a squat back in the mid-1990s

As the winter of 1995 drew in, a group of Bristol’s anarchist squatters started to talk about where to go next. One comrade heard that a building at 14 Robertson Road, which had previously housed the Bristol One Parent project, had been empty for over six months.

Anarchists launch bid to buy Bristol's iconic Turbo Island

From Bristol Live, UK by Paul Greaves

A plot of land is up for grabs at auction next week

A bid to buy Turbo Island has been lodged by a group of self-styled anarchists. A group called Seditionist Distribution has posted that it would make ideal custodians of the land in Stokes Croft and keep it 'just the way it is'.

Bristol man was recalled to prison after visiting an anarchist social centre

From The Bristol Cable by Tom Anderson

Original title: Under surveillance: how a Bristol man was recalled to prison after visiting an anarchist social centre

Toby Shone’s arrest by counter-terrorism police surveilling the BASE centre in Easton shows the state’s escalating clampdown on political dissent.

Banner Hung in Solidarity with Anarchist Nihilist Comrade Alfredo Cospito

From Act for Freedom Now!

On a typical bleak winter night on this grey prison island, during a typical poster sticking session, we hung a banner, in the Easton area, as a minimal sign of solidarity with our anarchist nihilist comrade Alfredo Cospito, who is on hunger strike since 20th October & is in conflict with the Italian fascist state after it put him in the torturous isolation prison system of 41 bis.

Anarchist comrade Toby Shone’s SCPO was rejected by the court!

from Dark Nights

To the wild celebrations in the public gallery, the presiding judge rejected the application for anarchist comrade Toby Shone’s Serious Crime Prevention Order, declaring there were no grounds for it to be applied under the circumstances. Shouts of ‘Not one step back!’ were responded to with Toby shouting ‘The Revolution is inevitable!’ The result of the court means that comrade Toby will now be released at the latest in August of this year, without the extreme conditions of surveillance and control, that would have led to him not only being cut off from his comrades, but his family, friends and partner.

Bristol, UK: 5th Anarchist / Radical Bookfair

Saturday, September 3, 2022
11AM – 5PM
The 1 in 12 Club Bradford
21-23 Albion St., Bradford, UK

We are pleased to announce that the 5th annual Anarchist and Radical bookfair is planned for the 3rd September 2022. There will be stalls and hopefully some other events, talks poetry and discussions.

If you would like a stall please get in touch, we expect to charge £10 per stall for this one with all proceeds going towards the 1 in 12 Club!

Although tbc we have the following stalls lines up:

Toby Shone speaks from the dungeons

from Act for freedom now!

Full title: Bristol UK: Toby Shone speaks from the dungeons of Bristol prison, explaining his case.

Operation Adream is a montage, fitting together disparate, unconnected elements, typical of repressive operations in Southern Europe which has spread across the continent. This is now being deployed by the British police. Operation Adream seeks to present the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire as a continuation of the armed Marxist-Leninist revolutionary organisation November 17th. This is an important fantasy for the purposes of repression in this operation as November 17th is a proscribed group in UK. Most importantly, Operation Adream sought to present the diverse range of anarchist groups, publishing projects and prisoner support initiatives as an array of organisational hubs for the execution and glorification of terrorism.

We are proud of those who fought back against the police

from Bristol Anarchist Black Cross

A statement by Bristol Anarchist Black Cross and Bristol Defendant Solidarity

We are writing this statement to make clear that we support those who have been sentenced today, and that we are proud of them for fighting back. We need to be ready to defend ourselves against the police, and stand with those facing repression and criminalisation.

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