Since 20/10 Alfredo Cospito has been on hunger strike against the prison regime imposed on him by the Italian state, under the name 41 bis. Alfredo Cospito has been a prisoner since 2012, having taken responsibility for the shooting of Roberto Adinolfi, director of Ansaldo Nucleare, an action carried out by the Informal Anarchist Federation/International Revolutionary Front (FAI/IRF). Since then the comrade remains unrepentant and continues to be committed to the cause of social liberation. For this reason, the Italian state decided to impose the 41 bis regime on him from 5 May, a prison within a prison where he will be in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day, with one hour of pre-trial detention and meeting with other prisoners, who will be decided by the prison management, imposing full control over him, including which of his fellow prisoners he will associate with.

Communication with friends and relatives will be limited to one hourly meeting per month, behind glass, or a 10-minute telephone call where the relative will have to make it from a police station or another prison. His right to possession of books and printed materials is also restricted, as is his correspondence. The exemption regime imposed by the Italian State on political prisoners and detainees through the 41 bis is now promoted for the entire consideration of the sentence and not the 4 years for which it was originally valid.

41 bis is a regime of political, social and sensory extermination, aimed at the complete elimination of all contact with the outside world. The aim is none other than the physical and moral extermination of those who choose the path of revolutionary vigilante justice against the tyranny of the state and capital. The extermination or the forcing of them to renounce their action is the essence of the laws of bourgeois justice, the so-called “anti-terrorist” laws, which provide for special conditions, wards and detention centres, isolation, torture and exterminating sentences, intended primarily for revolutionary organisations and their members, as many as the states label terrorists.

This is where the double contradiction of state terrorism emerges. First, it labels as terrorists those who rebel against the class-imposed terrorism of the rulers, reserving physical and moral extermination through its mechanisms, and at the same time the same mechanisms do not recognise the status of political prisoner or political opponent in those whom they try to exterminate. The State, therefore, cannot do real justice because it cannot speak the truth. Bourgeois “justice” is nothing but a mechanism for imposing and perpetuating class power over society.

Since the 1960s and its own storming of the heavens, the archipelago of the revolutionary, antagonistic movement on Italian soil, with armed guarded marches, occupations of factories and houses, self-motivations, organization of armed feminist movements and revolutionary organizations has proved that nothing is unattainable. From the actions of the BR/PCC in the 90s and 00s, to the attacks of the FAI/IRF and comrade Alfredo Cospito, the revolutionary thread continues to be woven with acts of resistance and emancipation that actively declare that nothing is over, and that revolutionary projects and visions remain relevant and alive in the ranks of the oppressed. And it is this thread, the historical continuity and memory that the fascist Meloni government, and every government before it, wants to silence and eradicate. The Italian state, faced with the archipelago of the revolutionary movement in its territories, has been forced to develop a series of repressive and counterinsurgency tools for decades, of which the 41 bis regime is an evolution. To this day, with the life-long imposition of the 41 bis torture regime, the Italian state is clearly leading its political opponents, those who try to do justice for the oppressed, into isolation and torture.

This attack on insurgent and militant prisoners is not detached from the general deepening of the fascistisation of the Italian political system. This government, using far-right rhetoric and practices, talking to the most reactionary parts of society, is trying to build a fortress Italy both inside and outside the borders. With a criminal anti-immigration policy, a ban on the entry of immigrants into the country and the murder of thousands of them at the maritime borders, the Italian state is an important part of the racist and fascist policy of the EU.

The shift to the extreme right is a condition that we find not only on Italian soil, but all over the European territory, as a response of the ruling classes to the prolonged crisis of the last decades. This is the condition we have to face in the Greek territory too, with an unprecedented attack on the grassroots, which includes the systematisation of state killings by cops and the army in the territory and at the borders, a deepening of the economic and social exclusion of the oppressed and a brutal repression against the resistances coming from the ranks of the oppressed. A common thread between the two states is the attempt to bury ever deeper souls in concrete graves. The comrade’s hunger strike takes place at a time when Greek prisons are also boiling over with prisoner mobilizations in the country’s largest establishments. Thousands of prisoners and prisoners are opposing the new prison code, expressing their resistance and dissent on a daily basis. A code that targets those prosecuted under 187 and 187A (thus those prosecuted for criminal and terrorist organizations), reduces leave, marginally abolishes conditional release, gives overriding powers to the respective prisons and comes to dismantle prisoners’ struggles for a better life in prison.

While the judicial system clearly states that its role is to torture anyone who resists and that its place is alongside the oppressors, the states talk to each other and impose ‘order’ through diplomatic bodies. Bodies which are nothing but the natural evolution of colonialism, the bureaucratic and material expression of imperialism, and which perform the role of the custodian of the interests of each state and the reproduction of the capital they serve, in the international capitalist system. This system is not impersonal, it is staffed by people who occupy positions in its hierarchy, people who, by this choice, consciously choose sides in the generalised class and social war. The acts of revolutionary antiviolence that target them, then, returning a bit of the fear they sow against society, letting them know that they are not invulnerable and that their decisions have a cost, is also the targeting of the system’s policies and designs. With an eye on the social revolution and internationalist solidarity, we decided to send our own signal of solidarity to the comrade and the struggle against the 41 bis regime. We chose to attack the vehicles of the First Counsellor of the Italian Embassy in her private residence at 68 Blesa Street, Papagos. We appeared in the night and we disappeared into it, taking an active part in the war we are living. A war in which we have to be on the offensive, demanding justice. By putting forward revolutionary counter-violence and continuous struggle. For the bloodied of war, our brothers and sisters who have not returned home, the oppressed of this land, those who are fighting for a world that holds many worlds. Always for Anarchy.

COMRADE ALFREDO, NO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY TRY TO BURY YOU, WE WILL NEVER FORGET YOU.

VICTORY IN ALFREDO COSPITO’S HUNGER STRIKE

SOLIDARITY WITH THE PRISONERS OF WAR AND COMBATANTS IN THE GREEK HELLHOLES

WE WILL HAVE THE LAST WORD

“Carlo Giuliani” Vengeance Cell

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