Anarchist Black Cross Federation was created in 1995 when several North AmericanABC collectives had merged into a federation. The aim of the ABCF is to provide support and defense for Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War. Later support for Social Prisoners was accepted as a secondary goal of the federation.
ABCF believes that it is important to support PPs/POWs must be done before supporting individual prisoners not falling into those categories is "backwards and criminal" 1 (http://abcf.net/abcf.asp?page=whats2). Reasoning behind that is PPs/POWs have themselves helped to build the movement that supports them, and they, therefore, demand that priority support.
Before ABCF takes on a responsibility of support of a prisoner, such prisoner must first supply documentation that proves that one is in fact PP/POW or in the case where such documentation cannot be supplied then "collective judgement will be based on the prisoners overall personal/political history and their overall accountability and responsibility in their action(s)." 2 (http://abcf.net/abcf.asp?page=const1) In any case ABCF insists that the evaluation is based on a factual account and not on a subjective statement of this or that person.
The title "Black Flag" as the organ of the AnarchistBlackCross, is among the copyrighted material of AI.
But the numbers of anarchists who were attacked by reaction in country after country became too vast for the organization - especially when the depression in the USA made it difficult to raise funds in the last bastion of support for them - the foreign language speaking trade unions in America.
The semilibertarian marxian faction of IBC declined slowly, and the anarchistical ABC and IBC in the North, with secretariate in Oslo, became the main basis for the activity and organization.
Anarchists outside of the prisons were unaware that the funds given to the Political Red Cross were not reaching their imprisoned comrades.
Pinelli was targeted because he was a well-known anarchist and it was known that he was in the process of an investigation regarding allegations of a planned fascist coup in Italy prior to his murder.
The AnarchistBlackCross in Milan, at the time, was infiltrated by neo-fascists and it became clear to the police, who were involved in the plot, that Pinelli might be aware of who those infiltrators were, as well as, the very plot against him.
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