GET ALFREDO OUT OF 41 BIS
FOR INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY AMONG THE OPPRESSED
AGAINST ALL THE MASTERS OF WAR AND EXPLOITATION
As the four-year application period was coming to an end, the Ministry of Justice announced on April 30 that the 41 bis regime would be extended for another two years for Alfredo Cospito. A hearing regarding the appeal against the Ministry’s decision to extend the regime is scheduled for June 12 at the Supervisory Court of Rome.
Alfredo Cospito is an anarchist imprisoned in 2012 for attacking one of the key individuals responsible for the upcoming nuclear disaster. After nearly ten years imprisonment, he was transferred to the most oppressive prison regime in the Italian prison system. This measure is in line with the repressive maneuvers of all recent governments and is a clear expression of internal war policies imposed to silence him and halt the circulation of his writings. Meanwhile, in the final phase of the anti-anarchist “Scripta Manent” trial, he faced the risk of a life sentence without parole.
The international solidarity movement of 2022–23, which developed during Alfredo’s extremely long hunger strike, shattered the political and repressive balance on which the intent of total annihilation, represented by the combination of 41 bis and a life sentence, was based. At the same time, the movement pierced the veil of silence surrounding a torture prison regime that had previously been untouchable. Finally, last year, 12 anarchists, including Alfredo, were acquitted in Perugia of charges related to publishing a revolutionary anarchist newspaper. The investigation had been a key justification for the transfer to 41 bis.
Alfredo Cospito remains imprisoned under that regime of silent torture, so the struggle is not over. Continuing to fight against 41 bis is not merely a matter of prison conditions and state repression. The imprisonment of certain revolutionaries in special sections serves as a warning to those most active in the struggle against the state and capitalism.
Therefore, continuing to fight against 41 bis is an integral part of a revolutionary vision that won’t die out. For an authentic and complete freedom that does not yet exist in this reality but continues to beat in our hearts and in the hearts of those who gave their all until the very end without reserve. Sara Ardizzone and Alessandro Mercogliano, anarchists who tragically died in action in March, are among these comrades whose coherence and dignity will continue to unsettle power. We take the initiative for them, too.
FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 2026, 9:00 A.M.: SOLIDARITY GATHERING NEAR THE SUPERVISORY COURT OF ROME ON VIA TRIBONIANO.
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