UT• MIIT • SOBARIT • Mark Jasen Sant racite m the anti racist movement have argued for a and through. new law against racist attacks.
We would argue that racist attacks are ar ready illegal and that the real problem lies, not built prisons sucn as with the lack of legisla- Campsfield.
Not surprisingly, this tion, but witn a legal sys. tem that is racist through call for a new law has also proved unpopular Indeed in many cases it amonøst drass roots is the police themselves anti racist campaigners, who are carrying out rac- who have to face the raist attacks, and it is the cism ot the state on a state who lock up assy- day to day basis. lum seekers in specially permanent features of human society... Then, like us, you've probably thought alot about how 1o change the world. Simply wishing things would get better is not enough. Working alone you can change some things a little, for a while; working together with others, you can change the world.
10, 000 young men, referred to as "insumisos', have refused to do military service in Spain. The Spanish state has thrown 150 of them into prison. It hopes to deter other resisters of military service by imposing harsh penalties. Category 1 prisoners spend 23 hours a day In Isolation, Category 2 can mix with other prisoners, Category 3 prisoners are given day release for work and study. Demonstrations against military service and the imprisonment of conscientious objectors show the insumisos that they are not alone. In Zaragoza on November 19th last year "Over three thousand demonstrators marched to a prison shouting slogans in favour of the 'insumisos' and against their imprisonment. We encircled the prison carrying torches and we were heard and seen by four 'insumisos' who had then been on hunger strike for twenty. two days." Category 3 prisoners refuse to recognise the le gitimacy of their punishment by not returning to the prison at night. NORBERTO LAGUIA CASAUS, spoke to MANUES NOGUERAS, a Category 3 prisoner resisting military service for Liberation!
misio"? tary service. daytime. can do? Some are from Britain. bassy in their own country. Mand the civian alternative service and the civilian alternative service (P.S.S.) imposed by the government. I am totally opposed to the army and I wish to live in a non-militarised society. I oppose the P.S.S. because it legitimizes the miliTries of 'insumisos' prisoners?
Marry sa not face the opportion party cannot face the opposition to its policies and so is forced to 'soften' the conditions of imprisonment for total objectors. We were transferred from category two which allows prisoners to live communally with others to category three allowing us temporary freedom in the ORBERTO: Your struggle is not as well i known outside Spain as it ought to be. Is there anything supporters from other countries / ANUES: Of course. We receive l Iters in prison which cheer us i More letters are welcome. Supporters could also write letters of protest to the Spanish emBy the time you read this Manues among oth ers will be imprisoned under stricter conditions for their defiance of their unjust prison sentences. The repression is not going to stop ther and our struggle for a better society.
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Manues Nogueras, Chabler Nogueras, Jose Antonio Aliaga, Txabi Urra are four insumisos. Write to them in prison at: C.P. de Zaragoza, Avda de America 80, 50007 Zaragoza, Spanish State. MOVIMIENTO DE OBJECION DE CONCIENCIA.