Anarchist and Subversive Prisoners Begin Fast in Solidarity With Alfredo Cospito, 104 Days on Hunger Strike
January 31, 2023
For Alfredo Cospito:
A loud war cry!!!
A call for internationalist solidarity!
A clear call to action!!!
In the course of the mobilizations in solidarity with the hunger strike of Italian anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, which has been going on for 104 days, today, January 31, anarchist and subversive prisoners held in the La Gonzalina-Rancagua Prison are beginning a solidarity fast. This is a minimal gesture of complicity in the face of such a transcendental and decisive struggle that the comrade is carrying out to end the isolation the Italian State has subjected him to and against his recent life sentence.
The situation is extremely urgent and there is no room for moments of waiting and reflection that only strengthen apathy and inaction.
Nor is it the time to be passive spectators while the Italian State lets Alfredo die, in one of the clearest demonstrations of authoritarian brutality.
Are we going to wait for our comrade to die before deciding to act?
This fast is also meant as a call to those with anti-authoritarian consciences and their consequent wills to action throughout the world.
During this extensive mobilization we have seen the importance of every subversive gesture outside the borders of those who today keep him in this nefarious regime, demonstrating the effectiveness of internationalist solidarity of a combative nature.
It is now necessary to use all our imagination, to give life to our relations of affinity focused on confrontation and to make use of our experience, since this is the only way that we can activate the insurrectionary complicity to try to get Alfredo out of the evil 41 bis.
Tomorrow may be too late, so it is essential to act immediately and to each take this struggle into our own hands, involving ourselves fully in this fight that cannot wait.
In this sense, the ongoing struggle is not only crucial for Alfredo, but also for all of us who take a stand against prison and the world that needs it, insofar as what is being applied to our comrade will be quickly extendable and exportable to anyone who rebels against and confronts the established order.
That is why we do not forego clear and concrete demonstrations to get all of our comrades around the world out of prison, all those who have had to endure decades in Nazi-fascist regimes of confinement that seek to degrade the rebellious human dimension of every insurrectionary who rebels against this reality of oppression and misery.
Certainly today the key to get Alfredo out of isolation is not in our hands, but we will not fail to do our small part so that this happens as soon as possible.
What does depend on us is our decision to actively involve ourselves in the struggle, making those who torture him feel that they will not be safe as long as they keep the comrade inside this infamous regime.
For the extension of militant solidarity in the struggle of insurrectionary complicity with comrade Alfredo Cóspito!
Let’s get Alfredo out of 41 bis!
As long as there is misery there will be rebellion!
Until the last bastion of prison society is destroyed!
May all prisons explode!
Long live anarchy!
Revolutionary anti-authoritarian prisoners of all tendencies out of the prisons now!
Marcelo Villarroel Sepúlveda.
Juan Aliste Vega.
Joaquin Garcia Chancks.
Francisco Solar Domínguez.
La Gonzalina-Rancagua prison-company.
Territory occupied by the Chilean state.
January 31, 2023
104 days into the comrade’s hunger strike.