Anarchist Black Cross

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The Anarchist Black Cross (ABC), formerly the Anarchist Red Cross, is an international network of anarchist organizations that supports political prisoners. The movement originated in the early twentieth century in the Russian Empire as the Anarchist Red Cross. The group provides prisoners with political literature and also organizes material and legal support for class struggle prisoners worldwide. It commonly contrasts itself with Amnesty International, which is concerned mainly with prisoners of conscience and refuses to defend those accused of encouraging violence. The ABC openly supports those who have committed illegal activity in furtherance of revolutionary aims that anarchists accept as legitimate.

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