Bibliographic record
Abstract
2*30/&2 0-*%"2*49 */ 4)& $%&" !$%& $"%% W e are Bristol Anarchist Black Cross (Bristol ABC) prisoner support group, from southwest England.We are part of a loosely connected international network 1 in which groups organize autonomously, with their own priorities and local interests.The primary concern of Bristol ABC is prisoner solidarity from an anti-prison and anti-state perspective -we are ideologically opposed to the incarceration and control of humans by an all-powerful state and government that acts primarily in the interests of the ruling class.A social prisoner and prison resister (name withheld), locked up for over 30 years, has this to say on the role of prisoner support: "The most important advantage of real prisoner support is that it assists prisoners in struggle to transcend their isolation and captivity and defeat one of the most central functions of prison -to isolate and dis-empower those held captive".The history of the ABC can be traced back to 1872 when political prisoners and their families inside Tsarist Russia were in need of support.In 1905-1906 this support spread internationally when many political agitators fl ed Russia into exile in Europe and North America. 2 This activity has continued ever since wherever ABC groups have existed, providing support for both local and international political prisoners, primarily anarchists, because if we did not look after our own nobody else would.ABC groups in the UK have diversifi ed or branched out from supporting only anarchist prisoners over the last 30 years, however, for three main reasons.Firstly, there have been few anarchist prisoners in the UK.Secondly, there have been a number of other political prisoners in need of support, including Irish Republicans, peace activists, animal rights campaigners, and (particularly in the 1980s) workers engaged in prolonged and bitter industrial disputes.Thirdly, there is a growing awareness that social prisoners who have fought back against the repression of the prison system are part of the larger anti-state struggle.3 From the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, the UK witnessed a high number of prison revolts and disturbances, provoked by inhumane conditions as well as a petty and oppressive prison regime, culminating in the Strangeways (HMP Manchester) uprising of April 1990 and simultaneous disturbances in at least 15 other prisons.4 Since then revolts have declined, partly because of the internal redesign of prisons isolating prisoners from one another, and also due to changes in prison management procedures alongside schemes designed to control prisoner behaviours through incentives and punishments.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.056 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".