Trento, Poza also in prison
From yesterday, Januray 11th, our friend and comrade Poza finds himself, like Rupert, in the prison of Spini di Gardolo (Trento), under the regime of “semi-freedom” [day release]. He must complete 2 years and 8 months as residual sentence for convictions of operation “Renata” and for another final sentence.
To write to him:
Andrea Parolari
via Cesare Beccaria 13
38121 Spini di Gardolo
Trento
Bologna: ATM of the BPER and an Amazon collection point attacked with hammers in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito and all revolutionary prisoners.
We receive by anonymous mail and publish:
The other night we decided to strike an ATM of the BPER [Banca Popolare dell’Emilia Romagna] and an Amazon collection point with hammers.
A small gesture of solidarity with Alfredo on hunger strike since October 20th against 41 bis and life imprisonment without appeal. Solidarity with Thanos, Ivan, Juan, Anna, Toby and all revolutionary prisoners and anyone who finds themselves behind bars.
Against all jails and borders. For freedom. for anarchy.
On January 12th, the 85th day of the hunger strike to the bitter end against 41 bis prison regime and life imprisonment without possibility of parole, the antagonist radio station Radio Onda d’Urto broadcast a third speech by the doctor who is regularly visiting anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, imprisoned in the Bancali prison, in Sassari. As for the updates on the 71st (December 29th) and 78th day (January 5th) of hunger strike, we report a transcript of the speech and the recording of the broadcast (in italian language):
“He has lost even more weight, and significantly more than last week: he lost another 4.50 kg, so he weighed 80 kg today. So for his height of about 1.93 cm, he is about 10 kg below his target weight. The musculature is getting progressively smaller […]. He was a bit angry because today four members of parliament from Partito Democratico [Democratic Party, PD] went to visit him [in Italy parliamentarians can, by their own decision, visit prisons at any time] and he reiterated that his struggle is not just for him, but is for all those who are imprisoned in 41 bis.
Continue reading Update about the health condition of Alfredo Cospito on the 85th day of hunger strike (Italy, January 12, 2023)
6/1/23
Ivan on 16th day of hunger strike!
We hear from France about the new hunger strike that anarchist Ivan Alocco has been on in solidarity with Alfredo since last December 22 [the comrade went on a first hunger strike, which lasted 35 days, between October 27 and December 1].
Ivan is fine, he takes sugar in his water instead of meals and also a little salt in the morning, which prevents his tension from dropping too much causing him great dizziness (however, the lowest blood pressure he has reached so far is 50 minimum and 80 maximum). Glucose is okay, toxins some days are a bit high, but nothing to worry about.
Continue reading Update on imprisoned anarchist Ivan Alocco, on the 16th day of new hunger strike alongside Alfredo Cospito (France, January 6, 2023)
Athens: today16/1/23,at the appeal trial court found not guilty.
Anarchist comrade Charis Mantzouridis was found not guilty today after being held in pre-trial incarceration for 14 months.
Another rigged trial by the state prosecution machinery, based on a dna sample, has been foiled.
Another trial has become a conviction of the state!
STRENGTH TO ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS
FREEDOM TO THOSE IN THE CELLS
UNTIL THE TERMINAL PRISON IS TORN DOWN
Affinity: In the desert, hell
Life can be a parody of itself or simply a choice. When banality creeps into the guts, horror is always at hand, lurking, to make everything seem normal. If we were to think of the world today, in addition to the ongoing massacre of war and the genocide of consciences in the last two and a half years in the age of contagion, we could, without euphemism, think of the desert. In the desert, everything tends towards the identical, and the most distressing thing is that one never sees the end of it, even when thirsty for oases of shelter.
On the night of 3 June, an entire section of the prison of Cremona goes up in revolt. That place catches fire, the cages are one with black smoke. A few days earlier a prisoner attempted to strangle a screw. The revolt is put down in a great hurry also by cops and firefighters who’d rushed to protect authority, i.e., the segregation of those bodies. About eighty prisoners are evacuated. Who knows how long that section will remain unusable.
Athens: Event-information on the case of the anarchist comrade Charis Mantzouridis
On Thursday 20 January, 18.00, at the Self-managed Canteen of the Law School, there will be an informative event on the case of comrade Charis Mantzouridis, with a telephone call from the comrade himself from the Psychiatric Hospital for Prisoners of Korydallos Prison.
The themes of the event:
Information and discussion concerning the case of H. Mantzouridis.
– Inclusion and mental health: a discussion with the Ps.
– dna as a weapon to build prosecution.
* The comrade’s phone call will start at exactly 18.30.
IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF H. MANTZOURIDIS
AGAINST EVERY FORM OF CONFINEMENT
Assembly of Solidarity with imprisoned, fugitive and persecuted militants
Rome: Two EV charging points damaged in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito and Ivan on hunger strike
We receive by anonymous mail and publish:
In the night of December 23 we attacked two charging points for electric vehicles with expanding foam in an affluent neighbourhood of north-west Rome.
If we cannot eat, the rich can walk!
In solidarity with Alfredo and Ivan on hunger strike.
Victory for Alfredo Cospito’s request: end 41 bis!
via: infernourbano
Support economically and politically the 4 persecuted comrades, who are under trial at 6 February 2023. The 4 anarchists are being persecuted, under “anti-terrorist” law, for participating in an allegedelly “terrorist” organization named “comrades”. No one alone against the state! International revolutionary solidarity!
https://www.firefund.net/solidarity4comrades
The first solidarity banner for the 4 comrades, Exarcheia 10th March 2020. Banner, “In a world that human relationships are being criminalized, we are all comrades”
Chronicle of the prosecution
On March 8th and 9th 2020, after a state security operation three male and one female comrade are arrested. Τhe authorities’ sole piece of evidence was two cops having ‘visually’ identified the first arrested person on a video of the attack against the Mitsotakis* Foundation. The other three were arrested due to their friendly and comrade relationships. They now find themselves charged with an enormous case file which includes 55 attacks.
Continue reading We are all comrades: Support the 4 persecuted anarchists (Greece)
via: sansnom
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Russian railroads are the target of sabotage six times in 2023
7/7 (Belgium), January 5, 2023 (excerpts)
An eventful start to the year for Moscow: in just five days, “partisans” have managed to damage Russian railroads six times, according to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. These attacks are making life difficult for Putin’s military trains. Those responsible for these operations are not known at present. However, an anarchist and communist movement, ‘BOAK’, known for perpetrating this kind of sabotage, is the main suspect*.
This is not the first time that traffic on the Russian railroads has been interrupted by guerrilla techniques. This is at least the sixth case of destroyed alarm units, and blocked or damaged railroads, according to Ukraine. In 2022, at least forty sabotages were committed, mainly targeting railway transformers as well as locomotives.
Continue reading Russia: about the anti-war railway sabotage
via:sansnom
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Istres : the police station of Prépaou burned during New Year’s Eve
La Provence, January 5, 2023 (excerpt)
Flames licked the entrance of the Prépaou municipal police center and municipal police officers were helpless in facing the disaster. While an undeclared fireworks display was held in the neighborhood, as in many other municipalities to celebrate the New Year, in the presence of many families, the situation degenerated once the residents returned home.
Some young people set fire to some containers and attacked the municipal police officers on the site. When they were called, the national police immediately dispatched half a company of CRS officers from Miramas. But the municipal police station had already been damaged by nearby garbage can fires. “Five arrests were then made during the night for arson and the investigation is ongoing,” confirmed the police prefecture.
INTERNATIONAL CALL TO ACTION IN SOLIDARITY WITH ALFREDO COSPITO AND THE END OF THE 41BIS REGIME (January 22-28).
We extend the call for an international campaign in solidarity with comrade Alfredo Cospito during the week of January 22-28. More than 80 days after the beginning of his hunger strike against the 41 bis regime, it is urgent for us to deepen and multiply the gestures of internationalist solidarity and to deploy all our forces against all expressions of domination. We hope that this initiative can be translated and spread to all anti-authoritarian comrades throughout the world. We also hope that this campaign will go beyond the walls that isolate comrade Alfredo and that he will feel all our solidarity and complicity in war. LET’S NOT LEAVE ALFREDO ALONE!
END THE 41 BIS REGIME!
FREEDOM FOR ALFREDO CÓSPITO!
LONG LIVE THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL!
DEATH TO THE STATE AND LONG LIVE ANARCHY!
Received on January 12, 2023
https://lapeste.org/2023/01/llamado-internacional-a-la-accion-en-solidaridad-con-alfredo-cospito-22-al-28-enero/
Information concerning comrades V.Stathopoulos and D. Chatzivasiliadis from the Court of Appeal in Athens.
The trial of Revolutionary Self-Defence has ended
Comrade Vanggelis Stathopoulos was acquitted of the charges of membership of a terrorist organization, possession of weapons as a terrorist act, theft (O.Π.Α.Π.) and aggravated weapons possession.
Found guilty of simple possession of weapons involving a taser, an iron fist and a pocket knife, of the 19 years of imprisonment he was sentenced to in the first instance, he was sentenced to 10 months. A mitigating factor of subsequent good behaviour was recognised and the sentence was suspended.
Comrade Dimitris Chatzivasiliadis was found guilty on charges of forming and joining a terrorist organisation, possession of weapons as a terrorist act, theft (Ο.Π.Α.Π.) and simple possession of weapons. He was sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment instead of the 16 years of the first instance.
The struggle continues! Until the last prison is torn down!
Updates concerning anarchist prisoner Toby Shone
December 20 2022
We receive and spread:
On the day of December 28th the “antiterrorism” unit of the British police will pick him up from Parc prison where he is presently locked up to take him to the ‘semi-open’ detention structure to do the last two years of his sentence. The restrictions that will be imposed on him are particularly severe and consist of semi-open detention: no possibility of contact with the other prisoners, a night curfew from 9pm to 7am, during which he cannot leave the structure, free exit during the rest of the day, but with an obligation to return to report at12 midday and 5pm.
During his free time he is forbidden to attend political demonstrations and meetings, or to associate with those generically defined/defined ‘left-wing extremists’. He will not be able to write on websites and will only be able to connect to the Internet at approved times and in a predetermined place. He will be able to have at most one mobile phone with a SIM card, which will be monitored. He will not be able to delete the history of his phone or computer.
Continue reading Updates concerning anarchist prisoner Toby Shone (UK)
