Today in Labor History May 5, 1981: Bobby Sands (1954-1981) died from starvation, ending his 66-day hunger strike. Sands was an Irish political prisoner and member of Parliament who had been locked up in the notoriously brutal Maze Prison near Belfast. The strike was an attempt to get the British government to grant political prisoner status to Nationalist inmates, rather than treating them as common criminals.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #ireland #republican #IRA #BobbySands #HungerStrike #maze #prison #PoliticalPrisoner

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#пытки #politicalprisoner

‘The doorbell went at 5am. Six masked men were outside’: Belarus Free Theatre bring totalitarian terror to the Venice Biennale

They’ve been imprisoned, tortured and spied upon. Now dissidents from Europe’s last dictatorship are bringing the sights, sounds, smells and even tastes of brutal repression to the world’s biggest festival of art

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/apr/28/belarus-free-theatre-venice-biennale

#ProtestArt #resistance #VeniceBiennale #ArtMatters #Art #PoliticalPrisoner #PerformanceArt #PoliticalTheatre

#russia умер 64-летний политзаключённый Олег Тырышкин, бывший шахтер, экс-лидер профсоюза, осужденный по статье об «оправдании терроризма», четвертый политзаключенный с начала весны

по данным правозащитников, он скончался около месяца назад, предположительно из-за проблем с сердцем. Точное место смерти не установлено.
#politicalprisoner

Lines in the Sand: Writings on the Gaza Solidarity Encampment & Campus Flood at U.C. Berkeley from an Anarchist Prisoner of War by Casey Goonan

To commemorate Palestinian Prisoners’ Day—April 17, 2026—we are sharing Lines in the Sand: Writings on the Gaza Solidarity Encampment & Campus Flood at U.C. Berkeley from an Anarchist Pris­oner of War, a collection of writing Casey Goo­nan produced while imprisoned at Santa Rita Jail awaiting trial for actions carried out in solidarity with the Palestinian people enduring and resist­ing genocide in Gaza.

As a comrade in many movements—from street uprisings for Black liberation, mass prisoner struggles, and anti-imperialist solidarity in the belly of the beast—Casey’s works (whether in their own name as a guerrilla intellectual or anonymously in uncountable movement contri­butions) have never been bound by barbed-wire barriers or ephemeral abstractions, always seeking to help us to determine what’s possible here and now, especially through their immense efforts in the zine-to-prisoner distro True Leap Press.

Casey’s intellectual curiosity is limitless, and, while what’s collected here is far from the en­tirety of what Casey wrote while at Santa Rita, these are the interventions that Casey drafted, edited, edited again, and sent outside to us in a stack of manila envelopes for us to share widely with those who need them. Writing is a task that never ceases for Casey—they are always reading, reflecting, and sitting down with a pen in hand to poetically untangle not just their context of cap­tivity but the wider stakes of global anti-imperi­alist struggle.

Casey, in their words and in their action, has al­ways sought to intervene directly into the only fight worth intervening in—the struggle for a better world, without walls or cages. Their writ­ings collected here—tactical and strategic assess­ments of possibilities for action, precise analysis of the (material and discursive) political economy of U.S./Zionist settler-colonialism, imperialism, and genocide, as well as personal reflections on the stakes of taking the leap into action—are an invitation for each of us to continue to rigorously interrogate our own sites and scenes of struggle, to hold open concealed possibilities, to break down the walls that divide us from the “we” we could become, and to take the true leap into ac­tion.

This book is the result of inside/outside collabo­ration from a few comrades to the end, lovingly transcribed from hand-written letters, and pre­sented to you as a revolutionary gift and inter­vention in the struggle for Palestinian liberation and abolition of the colonial-imperialist prison world. Casey’s wish to release their writing to the world on Palestinian Prisoners’ Day is also a de­sire to shrink the fabricated distances between our global struggles, which we share with Casey as a serious project for any emancipatory struggle, especially since imprisonment as an institution spreads across the prison world, the prison sky.

It is Casey’s hope that you will read, print, and share this book, reflect on it with those with whom you’re in struggle, and ultimately enter into a broader conversation about what transpired across university campuses in 2024 in solidarity with Gaza as well as what is possible / necessary to do here and now. As a free-to-download, anti-copyright body of work, this collection is an invi­tation to expand our material and collective sup­port for Casey and other comrades behind bars and to also shrink the fabricated distances be­tween “inside” and “outside”—our comrades in­side have much to contribute. Each chapter of this book is also available as a zine for ease of reading and distribution.

For more information on how to write to Casey or to put money on their books, visit: freecaseynow.noblogs.org.

Free Palestine!
Free Casey!
Free Them All!

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Физику Дмитрию Богмуту утвердили приговор в семь лет колонии

51-летний сотрудник Курчатовского института Дмитрий Богмут, участвовал в заседании по видеосвязи.

Апелляция. Физик заявил о своей невиновности и просил вынести оправдательное решение. Ранее суд в Гатчине назначил Богмуту семь лет колонии общего режима по статье о «военных фейках» (ст. 207.3 УК РФ).
#politicalprisoner #russia

Hybachi LeMar Shares Some Thoughts + Updates On Xinachtli

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/04/19/hybachi-lemar-shares-some-thoughts-updates-on-xinachtli/

This week, we’re sharing two segments: an interview with the recently released anarchist organizer and writer #HybachiLeMar, plus a member of the #Xinachtli Freedom Campaign speaks on the incarcerated elder’s condition in Texas prison

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/04/19/hybachi-lemar-shares-some-thoughts-updates-on-xinachtli/

#prison #politicalprisoner

Today in Labor History April 18, 1977: Native American activist Leonard Peltier was found guilty of murdering two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Reservation. However, he was actually framed by undercover FBI agents who were conducting counterintelligence on the reservation. During the trial, some of the government’s own witnesses testified that Peltier wasn’t even present at the scene of the killings. In 2017, President Obama denied Peltier's application for clemency. He was still in prison in 2025 and his health had deteriorated. On June 7, 2022, The UN Human Rights Council's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found that Peltier’s imprisonment violates the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. President Biden, as one of his final acts as president, commuted his sentence to indefinite house arrest. In February 2025, he was released and transferred to the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in Belcourt, North Dakota.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #leonardpeltier #fbi #obama #AmericanIndianMovement #indigenous #prison #racism #nativeamerican #politicalprisoner #pineridge #biden