The next reading group is Sunday 25th Jan, 3-5pm at Bridge 5 Mill on the topic of Filton 24 (a group of prisoners associated with action against companies that are profiting from the war in Gaza. Some of these prisoners were part of the Prisoners for Palestine hunger strike).
Reading List:
- Maddy Norman, 'Death and Resistance: A Dispatch from HMP Low Newton', https://www.ebb-magazine.com/essays/death-and-resistance (Maddy used to live in Manchester and is a friend of several of us at Partisan, as is Yulia, another of the Filton24)
- Turner, J. (2018) Internal colonisation: the intimate circulations of empire, race and liberal government. European Journal of International Relations: https://files01.core.ac.uk/download/pdf/84743862.pdf
- Campaign substack: https://substack.com/@filton24
- Nor meekly serve my time : the H-block struggle, 1976-1981, edited by Brian Campbell, Laurence McKeown, Felim O'Hagan; compiled by Brian Campbell, 'The Second Hunger Strike Begins,' pp.146-176
PDFs of the H-Block book and academic article here: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1oG5YCABspDO4pDCwhLrl8-h3Jspqk8hc
You do not need to have read everything! Come along just to chat, listen and learn. There are some guiding questions below that the group can use to structure the chat or you can use whilst reflecting on the reading:
- Who are the Filton 24, what are they accused of, and why?
- What is the function of anti-terrorism law?
- What links does Maddy draw between life in British prison and life in Palestine? How could this inform our politics?
- What lessons did the Prisoners for Palestine hunger strikers take from the H-Block hunger strike? What did they have in common and what was different?
- How can we support prisoners, including (but not limited) to those incarcerated for leftwing political activity?