Long-time prison abolitionist Jacques Lesage de La Haye reflects on decades of anti-prison organizing in France and his personal journey from inmate to activist.
Long-time prison abolitionist Jacques Lesage de La Haye reflects on decades of anti-prison organizing in France and his personal journey from inmate to activist.
This and the Behind the Bastards episode on Makno really emphasize the importance of prison activism to anarchist revolution. With enough anarchists and anarchist literature on the other side of the wall, prisons become universities of political theory. Anarchist ideas have helped prisoners organize and strike for better living conditions inside, and several prominent anarchists who have changed their communities and the world for the better discovered their anarchism with the help of other prisoners, including Jaccques Lesage de La Haye and Nestor Makno.