(side A): Falling Down - 'Rikki Tikki Tavi' *** New Song - 'D.D.T.' *** How Did They Do This To You? - 'Portobello Bones' *** Bombage Camisole ("tanktop bulging") [live] - 'Désert Culturel' *** Et L'Homme ("and man") [live] - 'Kracha Foutra' * Blue Blitz - 'Blue Blitz' *** You Say You Think - 'Groggy Holly' *** Gloire A Malcolm ("praise Malcolm") - 'Carré Blanc Pour Serie Noire' *** Is That The Law? [live] - 'Washington Dead Cats' *** Pantxoa (boy's name) [live] - 'Kochise' *** Les Oiseaux Chantent ("the birds sing") - 'N°6' *** Hue And Mee - 'Rage Dedans' *** Pouvoir Illégitime ("illegetimate power") - 'The Feebles' *** L'Attaque Surprise Des Chats Volants ("surprise attack of the flying cats") - 'Passwar Et Les Bschrouwicks' *** La Politique ("politics") - 'Samizdat'

(side B): White - 'Davy Jones Locker' *** Apology - 'Gulag' *** Another Noise - 'Tears Of A Doll' *** Fugazi - 'Rage Dedans' *** Engrenages ("gears") - 'Down By Law' *** Happyland Social Club - 'Rikki Tikki Tavi' *** Self Destruct - 'Blighted Area' *** Oscillococcinum (homeopathic medicine) - 'Putrid Offal' *** Corruption - 'Execution' *** Unnamed [live] - 'Davy Jones Locker' *** Guerre A La Guerre ("war on war") [live] - 'Désert Culturel' *** Les Keufs ("the cops") [live] - 'Perfect Kids' *** Love To Death [live] - 'Gehen'

"Isolated Imprisonment Kills, Let's Overthrow It". This is a benefit-tape compiled by the people of Maloka (anarcho-punk collective/label/distro; Dijon), the people of the zines Tant Qu'On Aura La Colère ("as long as we're angry"; Dijon) & State Of Alert (Dijon), and C.A.C.I. (Paris). I got it from my mate Stéphane Ll. (Kalimero distribution, Lille) who made it available around here...

Brob

I was just in charge of distributing copies in the region Nord/Pas-de-Calais. The people who coordinated the C.A.C.I. (Comités d'Action Contre l'Isolement Carcéral ["action committees against isolated imprisonment") set up the project. I was the 'letterbox' for the whole thing... I've no idea what happened to these people...

Stéphane Ll.

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Blighted Area (Montceau-Les-Mines [Dijon-Lyon], Fra): Jean-Marc Moratille (drums; later 'Rawness'), Lamy Fumex (guitar; ex 'Thalidomide'), Alain (bass/guitar), Didier (vocals)

Blue Blitz (Annecy, Fra): Chris (guitar), Ludo (guitar), Marc(o) (drums), Ron/Freddy (bass), 'Skip(py)' Nadine (vocals)

Carré Blanc Pour Serie Noire ("white square for detective-novel") (Paris, Fra): 'Daoenstein' Patrick Da Silva (bass/sax), Lionel Charbonnier (drums)

Davy Jones Locker ("the depths of the ocean") (Thionville, Fra): 'Gelen' Stéphane Jacques (bass), 'Korn' Thierry Korngold (vocals), Jean-Marc Weiss (drums), Philippe Becker (guitar), David Vally (guitar)

D.D.T. / Doigt Dans Le Trou ("finger in the hole") (St.Jean-de-la Ruelle/Orléans, Fra): Jean-Benoit 'JB' Thauvin (bass; later 'Burning Heads'), Jean-Louis 'Loulou' Thauvin (guitar), David 'Boomtah' (drums), Pierre 'Von Pete' Mestrinaro (guitar/vocals; later 'Burning Heads') [contact: Philippe Raynal, Phoque Aime All concerts & Voyageur zine]

Désert Culturel ("cultural desert") (Dijon/Besançon, Fra): Joseph 'Jo' Macéra (guitar/vocals), Steph (drums), Fabrice/Rabin (bass)

Down By Law (Los Angeles, California): David Nazworthy (drums), Ed Urlik (bass), Chris Bagarozzi (guitar), Dave Smalley (vocals/guitar)

Execution (Limoges, Fra): Bruno Blancher (vocals), Xavier 'La Brute' Blancher (bass), David 'Alf' Rivet (guitar), David 'Abi(gail)' Garat (guitar; replacing Hervé), Chrisitan 'Domestos' Marie (drums)

Gehen (german for "walking") (Clichy, Fra): Manu(el) Salvador (zzz), Nénu (drums), Pétard (vocals), Myriam (bass), Mike (guitar), Aul (guitar)

Groggy Holly (Paris, Fra): Don Rockdillo (vocals), Ian Turner (vocals), 'Brice' Fabrice Brunet/ Manuel Bujan (drums), G.G. Le Cub (guitar), Fred (guitar), Few (bass), Yannick Teurnier (zzz), Thierry

Gulag / Γκούλαγκ (Thessaloniki, Gre): Kostas Apostolidis (guitar), George T. 'Vampire' (bass), Konstantinos Karkalis (drums), Alekos Kantartzis (vocals)

Kochise (Agen, Fra): Géraldine Doulut (bass/vocals), Alex(andre) Doulut (drums), Olivier (vocals), Fred (sax)

Kracha Foutra (Champagnole, Fra): Kristof David () [contact: Carole Guidotti]

N°6 (Dijon, Fra): Carole (bass), Samuel (sax/vocals), Marc (guitar/vocals), Yannick (drums)

Passwar Et Les Bschrouwicks (Jemelle, Bel): Azill (guitar; also 'Hiatus'), 'Bal Musette' (drums)

Perfect Kids (Lille, Fra): Mick (vocals), 'Nounours' (guitar), Bony (bass), Bruno (drums), François (percussion), Michalon (guitar)

Portobello Bones (Tours/Orléans, Fra): Lionel Fahy (vocals/guitar), Fabrice Métais (bass), Franck Leprêtre (drums), Jean-Christophe Tabuy (guitar)

Putrid Offal (Douchy-les-Mines, Fra): Franck Peiffer (guitar/vocals), Frédéric 'Fred' Houriez (bass), Boris Reisdorff (drums; replacing Ludo(vic) Loez; later Laye Louhenapessy)

Rage Dedans ("rage inside") (Villejuif, Fra): Frédéric 'Fred' Brasselet

Rikki Tikki Tavi (Bellevue, Washington): John E. Humphr(e)y (drums), Chris Kolb (bass/vocals), Jeff Hayes (vocals/guitar), Chris Eckley (guitar); later Alexis 'Lex' Spahr (vocals)

Samizdat (Villeurbanne/Lyon, Fra): Fred (), Patrice Rouchouse ()

Tears Of A Doll (Paris, Fra): François L'Homer (guitar; ex 'Heimat-los'), François Truillet (bass), Norbert Mension (vocals; ex 'Heimat-los' - replaced by Astrid Orion), 'Garfield' Serge Camagna/ 'Brice' Fabrice Brunet (drums), Denis 'Nydeu' (guitar; ex 'Kromozom 4')

The Feebles (Ambérieux-en-Dombes/ Villars-les-Dombes [Lyon], Fra): Didier (noise), Eric (guitar), Sébastien Charme (drums/vocals), Sodo (bass/vocals), Yvanie (vocals)

Washington Dead Cats (Paris, Fra): Mathias 'Mat Firehair' Jeannin (vocals), 'Daoenstein' (bass/sax), Lionel Charbonnier/ Mat(hieu) Carasco (drums), Eric 'Rico' Kerridge (guitar), 'Pacman' (trumpet), Dugudu Racuir (sax), Defraie (sax) ---

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The tape came with an extensive booklet. Here's the first 2 pages (translation below). Anyone interested in the complete informations, get in touch...

SOLITARY CONFINEMENT DESTROYS, LET'S DESTROY THE ISOLATION.

From the Bastille [castle-prison in Paris, its storming started off the French Revolution] to Bicêtre [fortress that became a hospital, a lunatic asylum and a Parisian prison], yesterday it was called: solitary confinement. Prison-administration and political power proclaim that this time is over with the abolition of high-security sections, reinforced security sections and sections with more surveillance.

Yet today, this practice still exists.

Who can deny it?

Three- to fivehundred prisoners have to endure solitary confinement for months or even years. For all of them this draconian disciplinary regime is synonymous with physical and psychological torture:

* being alone twenty-four hours a day, without any contact with other inmates;

* mail systematically censored;

* frequent transfers from one cell to another, from one prison to another;

* body-searches at the slightest transfer within the prison;

* searcheing of cells from top to bottom...

The prisoners in solitary confinement no longer have any notion of the time, of the weather. Completely cut off from everything, they lose all sensory reference and all social connection. Because of this regime, the prison-administration and the chancellery [ministry of justice] want to leave them with only three ways out: madness, suicide or absolute and blind submission to their authority.

But why do they seek to wreck these prisoners then?

You don't have to be a 'monster' to be placed in solitary confinement.

People are in isolation because they refuse to submit:

* because they refuse the unbearable conditions of detention inside prisons;

* because they reject this class-justice that keeps imprisoning more and more unemployed, precarious persons, immigrants; and acquits the rich, murderous police officers and high officials;

* because they reject the rotting away in prison of those left behind because of the crisis.

Faced with the desire to destroy the protesting prisoners, whether political or of 'common law', let's not remain spectators. Faced with the testimonies, let's not run away from reality. Get informed, join, let's act together:

For the abolition of solitary confinement

contact the National Coordination:

C.A.C.I. [Comités d'Action Contre l'Isolement Carcéral; Action Committees Against Solitary Confinement])

c.o. Kalimèro / P.O. Box 21 / 59007 Lille

ONE CRIME SHOULDN'T HIDE ANOTHER!

TOTAL REMOVAL OF ISOLATION-SECTIONS

Why this tape-compilation 'Abolish Isolation'? First of all because we support the prisoners' struggle and their demands. Today, 60.000 prisoners are in French jails. For more than 3/4 of the proletarians, victims of the economy and bourgeois politics, those excluded from a system that doesn't spare and doesn't hesitate to condemn heavily. The sentences for the same offense have increased over time, which explains the permanent growth of the prison-population. Almost 150.000 people go to prison per year: that is social-democratic politics! To 'host' even better and more, successive governments have built new prisons, probably to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the creation of these places, at least in their own way.

Some brief history.

1974: great revolts, some ten prisoners are killed by the forces of the law. Some demands of the prisoners are conceded, among others: the abolition of wearing a uniform, obtaining a radio ... but, alas, the creation of the Q.H.S. (High Security Sections).

1981: abolition of the death-penalty and the Q.H.S., and immediate creation of slow death sections, prison-isolation (sensory).

1985: the first revolts against the isolation-sections (Q.I.) by a handful of prisoners (hunger-strike, refusal to go on 'promenade'). The years follow but they don't resemble, the revolt grows, becomes tougher, the first jails ignite. Awareness is spreading.

1988: The Q.I. are filled up. On September 13, a national day of action is organised, nearly 10.000 prisoners take part; it's a success. The national movement of prisoners is created, with a platform for demands (5 points; the most important in order to destabilise this institution):

* Abolition of solitary confinement

* Elimination of the isolation-cells ('dungeon') and the internal tribunal

* Minimum wage for workers in prison

* Obtaining intimate visiting-rooms

* Amnesty for all mutineers

With this last demand, we notice that there's a lot of solidarity between the prisoners.

End of 1989 / beginning of 1990: the movement weakens following some major governmental repressions: it's pooring trials against the rebels, additional prison-years are generously given out and new prisons are built (hence creation of Q.I.). But the prisoners don't give up, far from it, they continue to fight to obtain their demands. The abolition of isolation remains the flagship claim because it's the most repressive, destructive issue for the 600 prisoners who languish there...

SO: INSIDE OR OUTSIDE, SAME FIGHT: CLASS SOLIDARITY!

This tape was produced by MALOKA, the zine STATE OF ALERT, the zine TANT QU'ON AURA LA COLERE [As Long As We Have Anger] and the C.A.C.I.

To contact these associations, write to: MALOKA, P.O.Box 536, 21014 Dijon