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Bremen, Germany: Once again a vehicle of prison profiteers torched
“It is companies like Spie, WISAG, Massak, Sodexo […] that keep state rule alive through their pandering.”
Inspired by the compas who already relieved Dussmann Service GmbH of three vehicles at the beginning of the year, we attacked SPIE in the night from Monday to Tuesday and burned out a van in front of their branch at Sielhof.
Both as part of the French nuclear industry and through its cooperation with RWE in the lignite mining in the Hambach Forest, SPIE has already made itself a legitimate target.
But for us, SPIE is one thing above all: a prison profiteer.
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Greece: Solidarity with the four accused in the Gare trial in Athens
On September 29, the trial of two comrades from Berlin and two comrades from Athens will take place in the Evelpidon Court in Athens.
On November 26, 2017, the four people were arrested during the violent eviction of Gare Squat in the Exarchia district of Athens. Among other charges, they are accused of trespassing, attempted dangerous bodily harm, refusal to provide forensic identification, and possession of explosive materials and bombs.
This eviction was the first of three, as a result of this the four comrades were detained for 4 days. They were released after on a bail. Now the trial take place, almost four years later.
After the trial was postponed for a year in September of last year, things have changed. (https://de.indymedia.org/node/101793 Sep.: 2020)
The district of Exarchia has changed in many ways since Nea Demokratia came to power in 2019.
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Greece: New publication from the fund of solidarity to the imprisoned fighters
The preface of the old edition began with the phrase “this book is about illegality.” It was about at least ten different stories, taken from the reality of different periods of the Italian radical movement. Within the pages of the book, the experience of illegality and its importance as a choice, both existential and militant, was depicted, sometimes in a way that leaned towards emotion and sometimes towards political evaluation. The aim is to familiarize the reading public, as much as possible through the pages of a book, with this unfamiliar land of illegality and the people who have occasionally relocated to it.
We have enriched this publication with similar stories of our own domestic experience, which, although they have been more cumulative over the last 17 years, we must say that they extend through time and into the decades previous to post-independence. Reading different experiences from different kinetic environments in different times, we hope to reach, in the light of comparative study and critical observation, conclusions as to how close or far apart the thoughts and feelings of people who, although they never met, nevertheless found themselves in this same land, the land of fugitivity, can come together.
Solidarity Fund for Imprisoned, Persecuted Revolutionaries in Greece
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France: Anarchist comrade Boris gets out of prison but is not out of danger..
via: sansnom
Indymedia Lille, 29 September 2021
[The trial] of 20 September, which would have dealt with the appeal against the 4 year prison sentence, could not take place because of the still critical state of health of our comrade who continues to be in an artifically induced coma.
The judges decided to “release” him without judicial control, and to postpone his trial until further notice.
While we can only rejoice that he is no longer under the control of the prison administration, he is unfortunately not finished with the justice system, since the end of his sentence [of preventive detention] and his appeal are only suspended.
The words and deeds that are multiplying in solidarity with Boris give rise to the desire to live outside of all authority.
Anarchists in solidarity and complicity,
28 September 2021
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Montevideo (Uruguay): Banner in solidarity with anarchist prisoner Boris
The message of this banner is a sign of solidarity with the comrade Boris, who has been in a coma for more than a month, following a fire in the cell that has kept him locked up for a year in French prisons.
“In France and in the world, down with prisons. Courage Boris”.
The action that led the comrade to prison is part of the attack against the structures that capitalism calls “progress”, but whose aim is, in reality, to refine social control. Setting fire to two mobile phone masts is an attack on contemporary domination, and has nothing to do with the fascist/conspiratorial theories that the dis-information media want to display to disorientate us.
We raise our fists and send words of encouragement to Boris and to all those who fall into the hands of institutions of torture.
The banner was placed near the French embassy in Montevideo.
via: attaque. translated by Act for freedom now!
Italy – Mauro Rossetti Busa on hunger strike
via:roundrobin.info Translated by act for freedom now!
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From his correspondence with a comrade, Mauro says he has been on hunger strike since 3rd September. We report a passage from his letter of 5th September: `
…on 3.9.2021 I began a hunger strike, unfortunately in five days my weight has gone down to 61.4 kg. I am aware of what I could come up against considering my health problems, but if this is worthwhile to obtain being transferred to near Tuscany in order to have visits with my family I’ll carry on – I haven’t seen my family since February 2018. There are no other alternatives in order to avoid hunger strike. I have made many requests and just as many were rejected for security reasons in this or in other prisons – now, enough is enough!
I hug you all
Mauro
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A letter from Mauro Rossetti Busa from the prison of Agrigento 20.04.2020
https://roundrobin.info/2020/05/lettera-di-mauro-rossetti-busa/
we receive this letter from who it was sent to, and are publishing it at Mauro’s request
A letter from Mauro Rossetti Busa of April 20 from the prison of Agrigento
…my aspiration has always been based on the ideal of ‘anarchist communism’, especially in the past years where I have always been convinced that our real enemy has always been capitalism, although I must say that capitalism has never been the only enemy but also its dependable state.
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Italy – ”Operation Scintilla”: a two-year journey
via: Roundrobin, Translated by act for freedom now!
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We have decided to have a say ourselves regarding the declaration made during the appeal trial for operation Scintilla in February 2019. We are doing it now on the internet, over two years later, strong from a long, hard and enriching path. The choice of coming out now on the internet is for various reasons. Certainly it is motivated by a debate that has been going on for several months with comrades close to us on the need to widen the retelling of what happened to those who are locked up in Italian jails as well as those who live beyond national borders. Another reason comes from recently published texts which open a level of discussion that we don’t want to avoid, for the completeness of the narrative. We want to make it clear immediately that we didn’t consider the internet an adequate instrument to deal with what happened because of the narrowness of reasoning that this instrument necessarily imposes. In fact, we don’t see this space as adequate to an in-depth and sincere discussion. Therefore we want to point out the limits that this text inevitably carries with it, as it can’t reflect the complexity of the reasoning and ways we have elaborated since we started to face what we had done.
These lines, however, have two aims:
– to inform those who are not informed in spite of the efforts made so far, by reporting a brief chronology of what happened and adding the declaration at the end
– to give a few suggestions concerning the attempt we made to deal with our mistake
The facts are these:
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Athens,Greece: Solidarity with the four persecuted comrades for the eviction of Gare Squat in Exarxeia area
Solidarity with the four persecuted comrades for the eviction of Gare
On September 29, the trial against two comrades from Berlin and two comrades from Athens will take place in Evelpidon Court in Athens. On November 26, 2017 the four persons were arrested during the eviction of Gare Squat, in the Athens district of Exarcheia. Among other charges, they are accused of trespassing, attempted serious bodily harm, refusal of forensic identification and possession of explosive materials and explosive bombs. This eviction was the first of three upcomings in which the four comrades were detained for 4 days. They were released on conditions or bail and now, almost four years later, have to appear in court. Almost one month after the arrest of the anarchist revolutionary Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis, who was for 1.5 years undeground, accused for being a member of the guerrila group “Revolutionary Selfdefense” and one of the four arrested during the eviction of Gare on November 2017.
Gare was a squatted house in Exarhia area, in the center of Athens. For many years was a living space actively going against private property and the establishment of a house as a commodity.Trying to promote a communal way of life in which terms like private were always questionable. People could not just have one private room, but the it was a fully collective space, there for those who need it, making the words collective and communal praxis. But Gare was not only a communal way of living, it was also a political active place, where people get organised and politicized. In order to become an island of liberation and not an island of freedom living there ment to be political active, inside and outside the squat.
Lecce, Italy – Humanity is a risk to be run. Against green pass, compulsory vaccination and much more
via: Disordine.noblogs.org Translated by act for freedom now!
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Humanity is a risk to be run. Against green pass, compulsory vaccination and much more
We have understood for a time that the various questions that present themselves to the world are not disconnected. A world of war presents its bill of misery, dead, people running away. An exploited and polluted planet presents its bill in terms of climate change, devastation of nature, diseases and more people running away. In a world where accumulation of wealth means accumulation of power, the consequence is exclusion and repression of those who can’t access this wealth. These arguments, repeated for centuries, don’t seem to be hitting the point in a period when all the conditions described are becoming quickly and exponentially real. The discourses made around the pandemic, health and the repressive and commodified management that followed, how can they be separated from all the rest?
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Genoa, Italy – Updates on special surveillance against a comrade from Genoa
via: Inferno Urbano, Translated by act for freedom now!
In the month of August the result of the appeal against a special surveillance measure against a comrade from Genoa was made known; the request for reviewing the measure, applied with all restrictions, was rejected and it appeared obvious how, even if the charge of terrorism, fundamental pillar of the prosecution theorem, 
was dropped, the measure remained completely in place again for the same reason, i.e. “adhesion to the anarchist ideology”, “open demonstrations of solidarity with militants of the Informal Anarchist Federation”, “support to imprisoned anarchists”, “inciting direct action”, spreading counter-information material. Still in the month of August, following a proposal by Genoa’s prosecutors, further measures were inflicted on her [the comrade] in addition to surveillance, measures aiming at limiting her freedom even more extensively, striking her in the sphere of her affections, adding new limitations and difficulties to the authorization, granted at last after 7 months’ waiting, to visit her family who live outside the municipality where she has compulsory residence. Moreover her driving licence was confiscated on the absurd pretext that it could be functional to her committing crimes.
The usual refrain continues to propose itself stubbornly and monotonously like a cracked record: the comrade in question is anarchist, therefore dangerous, and this is confirmed by the fact that she is being investigated as an anarchist. Things standing this way, they could go on for ever.
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Berlin,Germany: Fight For KøpiPlatz TAG X 15.10.21
Køpiplatz bleibt, damn it! The Wagenplatz needs your support and your presence now more than ever! We have received the date of eviction for the 15th October, but we will still not be silenced.
After a year of ups and downs, empty promises from politicians and the city, discussions in the BVV (the Berlin-Mitte district politicians assembly), false hopes and crushing realities, we are still shocked by the devastating news that we will be evicted from our homes in just three weeks.
But we will continue to fight! KøpiPlatz is here to stay!
We suspected that the election would have an impact on our date. In fact, we received the letter only six days before the German elections. This conveniently takes away the responsibility of this Government and the next during the interim period.
At this point, everyday leading up to the eviction is crucial. We are sad, emotional, and ANGRY, but we are not afraid. We have been preparing for these weeks to use every available way to fight. But now is the time that we also need our friends and supporters. With solidarity comes strength. If we plan to continue with our collective spaces in Berlin, where we live together, work together, laugh and cry together, we must also fight together! This is why we would like to call on our friends and community in Berlin and around the world to stand with us in the weeks before the eviction, to scream a message to the system that we are bigger and more powerful than they can possibly imagine.
Berlin is a city full of alternative and autonomous spaces, particularly in our beloved unruly neighbourhoods. Each one weaves something special and different into the fabric of our communities. But this does not mean that we should be complacent, and let these spaces slip through our fingers. We should not allow our streets to become beige and uniform. We need to stop this now before it is too late. Wir Bleiben Alle!
Upcoming action from Køpiplatz and Comrades
‘DEFEND KØPIPLATZ’ DEMO: Saturday 2nd October at 8pm Køpiplatz will organise the ‘Defend Køpiplatz’ demo. It will take place in and around our rebellious neighborhoods and on OUR streets.
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Hamburg, Germany: Broken glass and flood of paint at Hamburg job centres
In the night of 14 September, job centres in the districts of Altona and Rahlstedt were attacked with hammers, stones and paint.
“The top 10 per cent of the population own about two-thirds of Germany’s total wealth” (quote: werhatdergibt.org).
The gap between rich and poor is constantly growing. Even during the Corona crisis, the wealth of the rich few multiplied. In contrast, workers, especially in the precarious sector, have lost their jobs. Many struggle with existential fears and depend on support from the state. They are exposed to the arbitrariness of the Job Centre system, which will continue its repressive measures after the end of the lockdown.
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Amboise (Indre-et-Loire), France: Three ATMs set on fire
France Bleu / Sunday 12 September 2021
If you live in Amboise, you may have noticed three burnt-out cash machines on Sunday morning. The ATMs of the Caisse d’Epargne, the Banque Postale and the CIC, located along the quai du Général-de-Gaulle, were deliberately set on fire during the night.
The gendarmes of the Amboise company confirm that they intervened at around 4am for the fires. A suspect was detained.
via: attaque
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Fire Set in Prison Construction Office in Dresden, Germany
Fire set in engineering office involved in jail construction
Dresden, September 17, 2021
For some time now, militant resistance has been stirring against the ongoing construction of prisons in Zwickau. In the meantime, many companies involved in construction, planning or logistics have been affected. Particular attention was paid to the construction company Hentschke Bau, whose boss had also attracted negative attention through donations to the AfD. However, such a large project involves many participants and we do not want to be accused of forgetting anyone.
So in the night from September 16 to 17, we dedicated ourselves with a few liters of gasoline to the engineering office Rathenow in the Albertstadt. We broke two windows and placed incendiary devices in the rooms. We hope that the fire disturbed the smooth running of further prison planning and that the company understands: Whoever earns money from the construction of prisons will have to bear the consequences! On the area we found additionally still another Bonzenschlitten, we set it without further ado on fire.
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