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Oral declaration to the court by Pola Roupa, member of Revolutionary Struggle – October 24th, 2011

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Let me begin by commenting on the main accusation against us, that we have founded a ‘terrorist organization,’ by which ‘we were targeting the country’s established constitutional order seeking its overthrow or even its alteration.’ I would like to underline this point. This charge by itself is the biggest proof that this is in fact a political trial. There is no better confession that this is an armed group which has turned against the establishment, against the established order. This charge by itself is a confession that we are political subjects, who have shared political objectives, and that the action of our group was clearly political.
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Prison Authorities Subvert Decision of Parole Board

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John Bowden (2011)

On the 9th July, 31 years after I was sentenced to life imprisonment, the Parole Board delivered it’s judgement on my continued imprisonment in clear and explicit terms recommending my transfer to an open prison in preparation for my probable release in 12 months time. The Ministry of Justice and prison system decided to ignore and effectively sabotage the recommendation, raising the question of exactly what real legal authority the Parole Board has over the prison system in determining how life sentenced prisoners are progressed towards release, and maybe more critically what real motives underlay senior prison management’s attempts on occasion to subvert the recommendations of the Parole Board?
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LETS MAKE THE BEGINNING IN GREECE FOR A WORLDWIDE SOCIAL REVOLUTION Text of the three imprisoned members of Revolutionary Struggle (2011))

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LETS MAKE THE BEGINNING IN GREECE FOR A WORLDWIDE SOCIAL REVOLUTION
Text of the three imprisoned members of Revolutionary Struggle

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