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A communication text by Alfredo Cospito about Operation Sibilla (Italy)

November 28, 2021
In the hope that they can pass censorship, I throw on paper these few lines. First of all affection and solidarity to the comrades who have been involved in this umpteenth clownish repression. Especially to Michael who is under house arrest and all-the other comrades and comrades of “Vetriolo”, and anarchist sites “Round Robin” and “Malacoda” that have been obscured.
I then send back to the sender the furry “solidarity” that democratic and reformist formations such as “Potere al Popolo”, “Rifondazione Comunista” and “Italian Communist Party” have indirectly given me by solidarizing with the defendants of the operation “Sibilla”. I don’t need your “solidarity” because I spit on your democracy as I spit on your constitution. I have never liked whining about freedom of opinion, so I will not dwell on the lack of respect for freedom of thought. That said, I want to reiterate that I am and we have been investigated not for words in freedom, or some writing on the wall, but for what we are: anarchists and anarchists consistent.

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Attack on the headquarters of the CSIF in Barcelona (Spain)

Attack on the headquarters of the CSIF in Barcelona
On the morning of the 20th of December, the headquarters of the CSIF union, located at 118 Nàpols street, was attacked with graffiti reading “Torturers, Freedom for Prisoners 27F” and an A for anarchy, and one of the windows of the headquarters was smashed.
This union, which wants to cover different sectors of the civil service, is mainly made up of prison guards and police officers. There was mobilised these last few days at the gates of Brians I in order to block their impunity, like the jailers who have a module of Brians confined and benefit from the excuse of alleged aggressions against civil servants. Moreover, this union is part of the private prosecution of the current anarchist prisoners of 27F.

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Italy - General news ,sabotage, actions and Solidarity with anarchists arrested and all those under investigation

”Operation Sibilla”, Italy : All custodial measures annulled

Today the news broke that all custodial measures for the repressive operation Sibilla of 11th November, directed in particular against the anarchist paper Vetriolo, were annulled by the court of review held on 14th December. Therefore there are no more signing and residence obligations for three comrades, or house arrest for Michele Fabiani and pre-trial detention for Alfredo Cospito, who remains imprisoned following a 20-year sentence in the Scripta Manent trial.
The reasons for the decision will be made known within 45 days. Without going into the matter of court waste paper, it seems that the wording “annulment” represents the highest possible denial of the accusatory hypothesises on a technical level. In any case, regardless of the judges’ verdict, we continue to firmly persevere with revolutionary anarchist propaganda, solidarity with our imprisoned comrades and the defence of anarchist publications. The repression doesn’t surprise us: we knew that the recent sentencing against the latest edition of “Croce Nera Anarchica” in the Scripta Manent appeal trial would create an infamous precedent.

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Avis de tempêtes – bulletin anarchiste pour la guerre sociale n°48 (décembre 2021) est sorti.

Pour lire, imprimer et diffuser ce petit bulletin autour de soi (il est en format A5, et celui-ci fait 16 pages), on pourra retrouver chaque nouveau numéro tous les 15 du mois, ainsi que les précédents, sur le
blog :
https://avisdetempetes.noblogs.org
“Le réchauffement climatique, le pic des combustibles fossiles, la fonte des glaces, la disparition de la biodiversité, la déforestation et la désertification, les ouragans et les déluges, tout en étant des
phénomènes aux conséquences éminemment planétaires, n’annoncent pourtant probablement pas l’apocalypse planétaire finale, l’effondrement de l’État et du capital partout sur la planète. Mais ce ne sont pas moins des phénomènes bien réels : ils sont en train de modifier les sociétés humaines, et de redessiner les terrains d’affrontement et de lutte. Des études des assurances aux rapports stratégiques militaires, des projets menés par les grosses entreprises énergétiques aux recherches menées dans les laboratoires : dans toutes les salles de commande qui pilotent
la course en avant de cette civilisation-titanic, on prend acte des
changements qui sont en cours et qui s’annoncent.
Loin des conférences mondiales telles que celles dédiées au climat qui viennent confesser publiquement l’obsolescence politique face à l’ampleur du changement climatique, et pendant que des gens
bien-intentionnés continuent à implorer des mesures fortes, des
centaines de milliers d’experts préparent un avenir avec changement climatique, avec réchauffement de la planète, avec pénurie de matières premières, avec pandémies facilitées par l’urbanisation, la mobilité motorisée et la globalisation.

Revolutionary Prisoners News

Spain : Prison of Brians I: updates on the anarchist comrades arrested on 27th February

Some people decide to stay inside
Alberto Frisetti – Albo to his friends – refuses to get out of jail on bail, or rather by paying a ransom of 45,000 euros to the Spanish State, in line with the common declaration made by the 27th February Prisoners following Jeanne’s release: “Either all or none”. Albo refuses this compromise despite the generosity of his father who would have paid the disproportionate amount of ransom.
The frame-up against them accusing them of attempted murder has collapsed, but the judge who has been holding them in jail for 9 months and who for a long time had concealed a fire brigade report exonerating them from the serious charge, contrived this latest obscenity of exorbitant ransom, a blatant attack on the Presos del 27F beyond any criminal charge, thus revealing the true highly political face of this trial: laws are only bludgeons to strike the enemy.

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Marseille, France: A few revengeful blows against RTM  

In the night between 6th and 7th December, the building of RTM [Régie des transports métropolitains, the public transport agency of Marseille and surroundings] on boulevard Clemenceau had its windows smashed and a message was written on the floor outside the entrance door: “RTM murderers”.
This was a minimal gesture of revenge following the murder of Saïd M’Hadi* at the end of September, killed by RTM ticket inspectors; these are the same inspectors who take part in police raids in their daily operations.
* Note of the Italian translator: Said died suffocated on 22nd September at an underground station in Marseille. RTM officers pinned him to the ground after a ticket control he allegedly reacted against in a “virulent” manner, according to inspectors (Said had learning disabilities).
via: ilrovescio.info Translated by act for freedom now!
Source: attaque
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Fugative Ink: Anarchist newspaper against prisons and prison society N°2 Second half of 2021.(Chile)

Fugative Ink: Anarchist newspaper against prisons and prison society.
N°2 Second half of 2021.
With a print run of 1,000 copies and free distribution, we continue with the need to go back to paper with a clear perspective and a deepening of the anti-prison issue.
You can find “Tinta de Fuga” in various bookstores, fairs, events or anti-authoritarian spaces in the territory dominated by the Chilean State.
Sedition against the State and its prisons!
tintadefuga@riseup.net
In this issue:
*Editorial
*Intra-prison news…
*Predictable breakdowns
*On prison resistance and the need to extend the autonomous anti-prison struggle (1st part)/Marcelo Villarroel
*Prison and prison society, two faces of the same oppression
*Victimism and farce
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Translated to English by Act for freedom now!
via:publicacionrefractario
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(SPAIN)MARCHA AL CIE DE ALUCHE 30 DE DICIEMBRE EUGENIA DE MONTIJO ES/EN

pdf : PANFLETOMARCHACIE IN ENGLISH
AGAINST THE CIES, THE NATIONS, THE BORDERS AND THE SYSTEM THAT PERPETUATES THEM
On May 17, 2021, a geopolitical conflict between the Spanish and Moroccan states led to the opening of borders in Morocco, with the consequent crossing of people under inhumane conditions on the border beaches between the two countries. In response, the Spanish State increased its military presence in Ceuta, carrying out hot returns and other humiliating treatment, reducing people to mere merchandise. On August 30 of this year, due to military and economic interests, an unsustainable situation has been generated in Afghanistan forcing people to leave the country.
These are clear examples of the role of democracy and capitalism in the management of our lives, through the development of infrastructures, control of population flows, treaties, laws and borders. All this generates an important business that seeks to control the oppressed populations and use them for their miserable self-dealing and political games.

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A letter from prison by Toby Shone (UK)

Act for free received by email 18.12.21
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I didn’t know I was Harry Houdini
26/11/2021
Today I was taken from the cells of G-wing, Bristol prison to the City Hospital under a security escort. This was to detect any reoccurrence of cancer in my abdomen and pelvis. In the reception area of the prison, I had the usual strip search, and I was forced to change out of my own clothes into prison-issue clothes.
This offended my dignity as even when I was being held in Wandsworth prison in London under “antiterrorist” conditions I could at least go to the hospital in my own clothes. Whilst I was waiting for the screws to finish the paperwork, I got a glance of my cover sheet at my file – “escape list” marked in red. I was shackled to a screw with an escort and another two and I was driven by four screws in an unmarked van to the radiology unit. Along the way and back, of course, I was a witness to the pathetic, belittling ,racist, misogynistic “chats” of the screws who consider themselves experts of all aspects of life. At the radiology unit there were discussions between the medical staff and screws with some referral to their superiors, as, without any foresight on the screws part, they hadn’t realised that I couldn’t be shackled inside the MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) machine. Despite the MIR machine being within a sealed room with a single door, I was forced to wear a pair of plastic zip tight cuffs which were tightened so tight they cut into my wrists.

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International Campaign for Revolutionary Anarchism and Solidarity with Revolutionary Prisoners Greece)

International Campaign for Revolutionary Anarchism and Solidarity with Revolutionary Prisoners
With the capitalist destruction of earth and life continuing unhindered and the nearing prospects of an ecological collapse, there is, perhaps more than ever, a serious and immediate need for global revolutionary movements. Where do our movements here in Europe stand faced with the immense challenges and demands of our epoch? Can we retrace our revolutionary roots? Can we become the creative force that can effectively abolish the cannibalistic authority of the rich few over the many?
Outside of Europe, the revolutionary spirit has reaffirmed its historical strength with armed and organized insurrections in Chiapas and the Middle East paving the way for the liberation of life through the self-organization of the people on the bottom, on terms of equality and communitarianism. But also all around the world in recent decades we see that combative resistance and insurrections are breaking out as a result of the increasing violence and totalitarianism of capitalism.
Let’s draw our inspiration from the Black resistance movement in the U.S. and the uprising in Chile. These were popular people-led movements using militant and insurrectionist strategies to directly confront the oppressors and their armed thugs (the police). Daily images of barricades, burning banks and attacks against cops flooding global news are the reminder that the world of those in power is easily set ablaze when the rage of the oppressed finds a collective expression.

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General News Action Sabotage, solidarity in Greece

Athens,Greece: International Solidarity Call for Community of Squatted Prosfygika [ENG,FR, GER, SPA, IT, TUR]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE DEFENSE OF THE COMMUNITY OF SQUATTED PROSFYGIKA ON ALEXANDRAS AVENUE IN ATHENS, GREECE
Hello comrades,
We address this call to collectives and individuals from all around the world to join the combative defense of PROSFYGIKA against the imminent repression. The attempted evacuation of our neighborhood must be turned into a central event of resistance and a victory against political power and the gentrification of our neighborhoods in the metropolis.
WHAT WE INVITE YOU TO DEFEND
The building complex of Prosfygika was built in 1933 for the refugees coming from Asia minor. In the conditions of the time, a vibrant working class neighbourhood with communal characteristics emerged. Today,it is one of the biggest building complexes in the center of Athens, which is still not gentrified and exploited by big investors or the state. It is a place of strategic significance, since it is located between the two ‘pillars’ of authority – the Supreme Court on one hand and the Police Headquarters on the other.

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Solidarity text by Rigaer94, 34 years are not enough! Solidarity with Biologica squat in Thessaloniki

Biologica squat has been a political and cultural reference central point for the city of Thessaloniki for 34 years. It has been the ground for many political and cultural assemblies, public events and workshops while supporting the DIY culture in every possible way. Through the years it has a space in the university campus that constantly shouts against discrimination, exploitation and every type of authority. It has hosted many open assemblies, collectives and has been one of the places in the city where people of the anarchist, LGBTQ, punk and student scene come together against anti-commercialism, gentrification and organise against the capitalist way of life that the city of the rich imposes on our lives. At the moment, Biologica squat is the home of the collective “Biologica”, a group of people supporting the DIY scene in anti-commercial terms, the Solidarity Fund for the support of persecuted prisoners and Terra Incognita, an anarchist collective supporting the struggle with all means. In the earlier years of Biologica, other collectives were also active while other groups supported the space by organising public events.
With continuous political interventions in the university campus, the Biologica squat and other groups and individuals who are in solidarity with it, create grounds where manifestations, banner-drops, stickers, and other means strike against the university’s sterilized ideas and manage to bring into the offensive anti-sexist, anti-speciesism, anti-commercial and anti-authoritarian ideas.

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Consulting the dictionary: concepts and definitions of “sectarianism”part ii

In Defence of Associative Specificity – Concerning (Inherently) Anarchist “Sectarianism” Part I.

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From anarquia.info, translated by Act for Freedom Now!
According to the Diccionario de uso del español1 María Moliner,2 it is defined as:
Sect: Doctrine taught by a teacher and followed by his adepts. Particularly, the doctrine and the group of its adepts. desp. Doctrine considered erroneous, or that departs from the traditional or official, and, especially, that which is considered pernicious for its followers: “Destructive sect”. A group of the followers of a sect.
Sectarian: -a (adv. sectarian) 1 adj. and n. (of) Follower of a certain sect. 2 Applied to one who fanatically follows a doctrine, and its attitude, opinions, etc. → *Intransigent, * partisan.
Sectarianism: m. Quality or attitude of sectarian.

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  1. Surely, this explanatory segment will be boring (and even petulant to many comrades), for which I apologize in advance. I confess my supreme ignorance, so I have no other recourse than to go through the books on the subject at hand. ↵
  2. Moliner, María, Diccionario del uso del español, Editorial Gredos, Madrid, 2007, p. 2674. ↵
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Grenoble, France: Support to the defendants of 8/12: the Palais de Justice is decorated 

via: attaque Indymedia Lille / Wednesday 8 December 2021

On December 8, 2021, a year has passed since cops raided several places in France (Toulouse, Rennes, Ile de France, Dordogne) to take 9 comrades, in the name of anti-terrorism. They took them to the offices of the DGSI in Levallois-Perret in order to interrogate them before incarcerating some and placing others under judicial control (and leaving 2 under witness status).
It seems that this repression on the part of the State and the cops is a response to the accusation that they hate the State and the cops. In the midst of the social movement against the Global Security Law, as usual, the media have been able to brandish the headline of an anti terrorist affair in the “extreme left” and have given themselves a great deal of pleasure in magnifying this affair by repeating the police’s accounts. […]

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Report-back from a Rail Blockade in Saint-Lambert (Montreal,Canada)

Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info
On Saturday, more than sixty people acting in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land defenders blocked the CN main line in Saint-Lambert south of Montreal for over six hours. It was the longest rail blockade in Quebec since the winter of 2020, interrupting Via Rail service and immobilizing six freight trains. These notes reflect the experience of a couple participants in Saturday’s blockade.
Nostalgia mixed with anticipation as we arrived at the tracks where they cross rue Saint-Georges, with banners ready to hang across the rail crossing and no police in sight. It was a bright morning, temperatures just below freezing and the ground snowless, a contrast with that first night in February 2020, when temperatures sunk to 25 below and snow could be piled into mounds atop the rails.

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