ACTIVISM IS MY REVENGE! is the text of a talk given by Mark Barnsley in Amsterdam in 2003, and previously only available on CD. In it Mark talks about his life and about his time in prison, his campaign for freedom, the struggle against repression, prison abolition, prisoner solidarity, and what happens to the cops when the revolution comes!
ACTIVISM IS MY REVENGE! features an introduction by Henk Zwart of Amsterdam Anarchist Group, a foreword from Leeds ABC, and a further introduction by Mark Barnsley.
Building on the existing range of pamphlets from Leeds ABC, ACTIVISM IS MY REVENGE! is a further contribution to the struggle against prisons and an informative text about a subject of which there are still only a few worthwhile first hand accounts – repression and resistance in British prisons.
Available for £2.50 (plus 50p postage)
IF IT WAS EASY THEY WOULDN’T CALL IT STRUGGLE
Mark Barnsley has been involved in the anarchist movement all his adult life–spending time fighting in Lebanon, editing The Sheffield Anarchist, supporting striking miners, confronting fascists, and spending ten years in prison. Held in twenty different maximum or high security prisons, and eighteen different segregation units, he has always taken the fight to the Enemy in jail. Released from prison in 2002, Mark continues to be as active as ever. This pamphlet consists of edited portions from two talks Mark gave after his release from prison.
“I don’t want to do my imprisonment ‘easy,’ to succumb to a living death, I want to do it ‘hard’ even if it means that I am brutalized. Even in prison I want to know that I am living every day of my life, to fight back as best I can.” –Mark Barnsley Available for £3ppd in the UK
WITH A SMILE AND A TWINKLE IN MY EYE
Translation of an interview with Mark Barnsley that was first printed in the German anarcho-syndicalist paper Direkte Aktion in 2003. A6 pamphlet – available for £1.50 ppd in the UK