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Responsibility claim for the arson attack on a mobile phone mast in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito on hunger strike against 41 bis (Grugliasco, Italy, November 3, 2022)

Responsibility claim for the arson attack on a mobile phone mast in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito on hunger strike against 41 bis (Grugliasco, Italy, November 3, 2022)

TO BE DIFFUSED:
NOVEMBER 3, IN GRUGLIASCO (TURIN)
5G ANTENNA SABOTAGED WITH FIRE
ALFREDO COSPITO OUT FROM 41 BIS
41 BIS = TORTURE!
FOR ANARCHY

2022/11/10
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Genoa, Italy: ”Operation Prometeo”: Monday 14th November presence at the court of Genoa in solidarity

Genoa, Operation Prometeo: Monday 14th November at 10am, solidarity presence at the court of Genoa

Presence in solidarity with Beppe, Natascia and Robert, still accused after the acquittal in first instance of having sent an explosive package to the ex-director of the DAP, Santi Consolo, and to two public prosecutors in Turin, Roberto Sparagna and Antonio Rinaudo, responsible for the conditions inside the prisons and the repression of many struggles.

In an increasingly hard moment for all prisoners; faced with the fact that prison sentences for revolutionaries are now around 30 years for actions that, incidentally, only resulted in damage to structures; that an anarchist comrade has been transferred to regime 41 bis (total isolation, the same as that previously imposed on communist revolutionaries) and that the only option for them is hunger strike, we express our closeness to the accused in this umpteenth trial.

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Anarchist prisoner comrade Giannis Michailidis starting a hunger strike as a sign of solidarity with the 11 fighters and hunger strikers from Turkey (Greece)

Hunger strike of anarchist GIannis MichaIlidIs as a sign of solidarity with the 11 fighters and hunger strikers from Turkey

On 7th of October, the 11 fighters from Turkey Ali Ercan Gökoğlu, Burak Agarmış, Hasan Kaya, Sinan Çam, Şadi Naci Özpolat, Halil Demir, Anıl Sayar, Harika Kızılkaya, Hazal Seçer, Sinan Oktay Özen and İsmail Zat started an indefinite hunger strike with the main demand of a fair trial.

From today, Saturday 12 November and for one week I am starting a hunger strike in support of their difficult struggle. Their trial starts this Wednesday 16 November in the courtroom of Korydallos prison.

I also want to send a signal of solidarity to the anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito who has been on hunger strike since 20 October against the torture regime of article 41-bis, but also to the anarchist Anna Beniamino and the anarchists Juan Sorroche Fernandez and Ivan Alocco who are on hunger strike alongside him.

Giannis Michailidis

Smithers (Canada): find the hotel where the special unit in charge of defending the gas pipeline is staying

Smithers , find the hotel where the special unit in charge of defending the gas pipeline is staying

On the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, October 26, around 4:30 am in Smithers (British Columbia), several vehicles parked on the outside parking lot of the Sunshine Inn went up in smoke. Four of the vehicles belonged to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and two belonged to BC Hydro, the energy company that operates British Columbia’s hydro and gas plants.

As anyone on the scene would point out, the small town of Smithers borders the construction area of the CoastalGasLink pipeline, a 670-kilometre-long pipeline through Wet’suwet’en territory, against which a struggle has been underway for several years to prevent environmental devastation and exploitation.

The English-speaking correspondent of the public channel Radio Canada (26/10) did not miss the link between this anonymous arson attack and the gas pipeline under construction, stating that “one of the police vehicles that burned bore the inscription C-IRG”, i.e. the Community-Industry Response Group, the special constable unit created in 2017 to conduct surveillance of opposition to industrial projects, before adding that “C-IRG officers conduct regular patrols on remote logging roads that lead to a Coastal GasLink pipeline construction camp about 100 kilometers from Smithers. ”
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Santiago, Chile: Claim for Explosive Attack Against Sercor S.A. Subsidiary of AntarChile

Santiago, Claim for Explosive Attack Against Sercor S.A. Subsidiary of AntarChile

On the night of October 19, three years after the beginning of the revolt, we attacked the company SerCor located in the Las Condes district, specifically in building 150 of El Golf Avenue, with dynamite.

SerCor S.A. is a company of the corporate center of the Angelini Group that offers consulting and support to company boards for the administrative development of their capitalist businesses. SerCor is under the control of AntarChile, which is a major investment company, also belonging to the Angelini Group, and which manages assets of more than $20 billion.

AntarChile owns more than 70% of the shares of Forestal Arauco, a company with 1.6 million hectares of monoculture plantations responsible for the degradation and devastation of soils and which severely impacts the minimum conditions that a community needs to live, such as access to water and arable land. In addition, the MAPA project promoted by Arauco plans to modernize the pulp industry in southern Chile, reinforcing transnational extractivism in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Uruguay, Canada, the United States, and Panama, among other countries.

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Quebec (Canada): hammer strikes to the cars of journalist-cops

TVA Quebec vehicles vandalized
Le Journal de Montréal/Le Soleil, October 18, 2022 (excerpt)

At least seven vehicles belonging to TVA Quebec [a private Canadian television network owned by telecommunications giant Quebecor] were the target of vandalism on Monday night. Several windows and headlights were smashed by the perpetrators.

The police of Quebec City were called on the scene at around 5:30 a.m., Tuesday. They confirmed that a complaint was filed for vandalized vehicles, belonging to a company located on Wilfrid-Hamel Boulevard. On one of the vehicles, the vandal wrote the letters CAQ, in reference to the government [the Coalition avenir Québec is the party in power since 2018]. On the surveillance cameras of ExpoCité, we see a man in a balaclava approaching the vehicles, he then left on his bike.

It wouldn’t be the first time TVA employees returned to work with a nasty surprise. Their vehicles are often targeted by vandals on the road or during demonstrations, so all the news

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Declaration of start of hunger strike by anarchist Anna Beniamino in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito, alongside Juan Sorroche and Ivan Alocco, against 41 bis

Declaration of start of hunger strike by anarchist Anna Beniamino.
7 November 2022

On October 20th, in the prison of Bancali (Sardinia), Alfredo Cospito began an all-out hunger strike against the 41 bis regime and life sentence without parole. The regime 41 bis was assigned to him from May this year, being accused of maintaining relations through correspondence and editorial activity with the anarchist movement through public writings and interventions from the Maximum Security section where he had been locked up for years.
Life imprisonment without parole is likely to be the outcome of the appeal – made by the cassation ruling of July 2022 of the Scripta Manent trial – for the recalculation of the sentence passed as 285 c. p., “political massacre”, for a double attack on the carabinieri school of Fossano, signed by FAI-RAT [Informal Anarchist Federation – Anonymous and Tremendous Revolt]. The sentence for 285 of the penal code constitutes the keystone of an accusatory architecture which established the existence of a “subversive association with terrorist aims” (made up of only three promoters and with a sporadic existence, to overcome contradictions due to the outcomes of previous trials) and the activity of ‘instigating’ through anarchist blogs and newspapers published over the past 20 years by those convicted.

In short, a monstrous sentence where one is head/factotum of an ‘association’ with uncertain contours, as well as instigators and perpetrators of a “massacre” that never happened and above all never defended as such. That is, as has been repeatedly stated in times past, revolutionary violence is defended by anarchists, and by me among them; massacre is not.

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Italy: “Steadfastness in revolutionary practice” – Discourse at gatherings outside the prisons of Terni and Spoleto

“Steadfastness in revolutionary practice” – Discourse at gatherings outside the prisons of Terni and Spoleto
(1/11/2022)

We are writing these lines on the occasion of the gatherings planned for 1st November 2022 outside the prisons of Terni and Spoleto in conjunction with the call for struggle launched through the hunger strike by anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, locked up in the prison of Bancali; a hunger strike which has also been joined by anarchists Juan Sorroche, locked up in the prison of Terni and Ivan Alocco, locked up in the French prison of Villepinte.

The contribution, both theorical and pratical, that some of the imprisoned comrades have given to the anarchist movement throughout the years, and which they continue to give from inside the infamous cages built by the democratic regimes, still finds a way to escape and become uninterrupted, unmediated borderless agitation between the proletariat and the exploited all over the world: from Chile to France, from Spain to Italy.

On the 5th of May 2022, imprisoned anarchist Alfredo Cospito received notification of his transfer from “Maximum Security 2” to “41 bis”. The decree was ordered by former minister of justice Marta Cartabia.

On July 6th 2022, the Court of Cassation requalified the explosive attack against the school of carabinieri of Fossano of June 2006, claimed by Rivolta Anonima e Tremenda / Federazione Anarchica Informale, which the comrades Anna Beniamino and Alfredo Cospito were accused of, as “Political Massacre”, deferring to a worsening calculation of the sentence that could even become mandatory life imprisonment.

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Lützerath (Germany): incendiary sabotage of coal mine pumps

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Lützerath : incendiary sabotage of coal mine pumps

Fire to the coal infrastructure – reduce RWE to ashes
Translated from German via de.indymedia, 22 October 2022

On the night of October 18-19, we, several small groups from Lützerath, set fire to three pumps of the Garzweiler 2 open pit mine in the vicinity of the village.

The pumps are part of the infrastructure of the open-pit mine for which the village of Lützerath has to be destroyed. In the last two years, Lützerath has become a central place of resistance in Germany against the destruction and exploitation of nature and our ways of living. The attempt to evict the village is imminent. But Lützerath is not the only village threatened by open-cast mining.

On Monday, October 17, RWE [the operator of the giant brown coal mine] began to uproot the trees and demolish the houses in Immerath. Immerath is within sight, only a few minutes from Lützerath. All the inhabitants of the village have been evicted by RWE and large parts of it have already been destroyed.

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Fire of Solidarity for Alfredo Cospito by Autonomous Cell Anna Maria Mantini in (Berlin, Germany)

Fire of Solidarity for Alfredo Cospito by Autonomous Cell Anna Maria Mantini

In the early hours of 31 October, we set fire to a van belonging to the GA-Tec company. This company for building and facilities management technology is 100% owned by the Sodexo group and runs prisons itself (in England and Chile) and is a big profiteer of the prison industry. The van burnt out in the Lichtenberg district, where a number of cars have been burnt recently.

Not only to cause damage to the company, but out of an inner motivation we could not help but make such an attack against our oppressors. The news that the comrade Alfredo Cospito is being tortured in the so-called “41bis” regime of justice by the Italian state leaves us anything but indifferent. Alfredo is not only to be muzzled, his existence is on the verge of extinction. We unite with his militant push. Together with his hunger strike, we break the total isolation. We also call on all other comrades to take direct action now and decisively shorten the reaction time of the anarchist international struggle. To snatch Alfredo Cospito from the regime of extermination and unleash a revolutionary force in the coordinated offensive. Not to live in prison or in the isolation regime means a great responsibility. In the struggle combined with hunger strikes, we cannot wait until the prisoner also has to go on thirst strike.

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Poissy (Yvelines north-central France): spray the hatch with gasolineand cut the internet to the city

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Poissy. The arson of a telecom room sprayed with gasoline causes a huge internet cut
78Actu, October 31, 2022

Since Sunday, October 30, the Internet network is cut in the area of Poissy (Yvelines) following a fire in a telecom room. The cut should last a week.

This is an inconvenience that professionals and individuals in the area of Poissy (Yvelines) would have been well without. At 6:47 a.m. on Sunday, October 30, firefighters were called to a trash can fire in a residential area of Poissy, rue des Capucines.
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An important update regarding anarchist Alfredo Cospito: the re-examination hearing for the 41 bis measure will be held on December 1 (Italy)

2022/11/08
An important update regarding anarchist Alfredo Cospito: the re-examination hearing for the 41 bis measure will be held on December 1 (Italy)
Update on the situation of Alfredo Cospito, who has been on hunger strike since October 20 against the 41 bis and life sentence without possibility of parole.
Alfredo has lost 16 kilos to date and is in good health overall. He is not yet taking any food supplements. We also inform that the re-examination of the 41 bis measure against him has been set for December 1st. The hearing is very important as it will have to rule on the legitimacy of the decision of the previous minister of justice Marta Cartabia to apply the 41 bis prison regime against our comrade.
Note of “La Nemesi”: The hearing will almost certainly be held at the surveillance court in Rome, which has sole jurisdiction over the decision to ratify or terminate detention under the 41 bis regime. 
[Translated by: https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2022/11/08/an-important-update-regarding-anarchist-alfredo-cospito-the-re-examination-hearing-for-the-41-bis-measure-will-be-held-on-december-1-italy/]
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(IT) Un aggiornamento importante riguardo l’anarchico Alfredo Cospito: il 1° dicembre si terrà l’udienza di riesame per il provvedimento di 41 bis
(EN) An important update regarding anarchist Alfredo Cospito: the re-examination hearing for the 41 bis measure will be held on December 1 (Italy)

Porto Alegre, Brazil: Our response: direct action!

Our response: direct action!

Faced with the anarchist debate about voting and elections, our response was, is, and will be direct action against all authority. It is urgent to move from paper to action.

At dawn on Election Day we set fire to more than 300 electoral flags and pamphlets that ignited the tires of a barricade on the overpass of Avenida Silva Só, an area close to the city center. With this action we cut the flow of normality of the citizens resigned to voting as a way of life.

On the banner, and on the flyers that accompanied the fire, was written: “Against all politicians, Against all authority, Long live anarchy!”

(Thanks to social media, curious neighbors and more for the images…)

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Translated by Act for freedom now!

Germany: SPIE & MIELE Vans Set on Fire in Leipzig – Freedom for our Comrades!

SPIE & MIELE Vans Set on Fire in Leipzig

During the night from 31.10. to 01.11. we set fire to SPIE and MIELE vans in the south of Leipzig. SPIE has been known as a prison profiteer for years. The company is involved in both the construction and operation of prisons worldwide.

For us, MIELE is representative of German imperialism in Greece. The appliance manufacturer has previously been the target of attacks by the Revolutionary Organization November 17 there.

Our hearts burn for all the rebels in the dungeons of the state who continue their struggle. They burn for Alfredo and Juan who are on hunger strike in Italy. They burn for Giannis Michailidis, who was on hunger strike from May to July this year and unfortunately had to suspend it without “success”.

Freedom for Anna, Juan, Giannis and Alfredo!
For anarchy!

source: https://de.indymedia.org/node/235714

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