Mark Barnsley speaks on prison resistance.

dublin | crime and justice | event notice Wednesday September 21, 2005 19:14 by Jack White - wsm

Ex fitted up anarchist talks about ‘Resisting the Prison State’

Mark Barnsley has been consciously active as an anarchist since the late seventies. In that time he has been involved in everything from anti-nuclear protest, militant anti-fascism, producing anarchist publications and in prisoner support. But it’s actually as an anarchist prisoner that Mark is probably best known.

In 1994, while out with his partner and child, he was attacked by 15 drunken, middle-class thugs who were armed with bottles, drinking glasses and a knife. He tried to defend himself and ended up being convicted and sent to jail for 8 years.
While in jail Mark continued to act on his anarchist beliefs and as a result ended up being punished with solitary confinement, loss of privileges and being moved from prison to prison.

After an international solidarity campaign Mark was released from prison in 2002 and has resumed his work in prisoner solidarity activites – focusing on prison labour amongst other issues.

He will be speaking in Dublin on the 26th of September at 8 in the Teachers Club, Parnell Square on the subject of ‘Resisting the Prison State’.