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From Threat Library – Repressive Operations
On the night of May 4 to May 5, 2024, an excavator was set on fire at the construction site of a highway project.[1] On October 12, 2024, Louna was arrested and accused of setting the excavator on fire. Several other people were arrested and released soon after.
CCTV footage from the arson site showed two people setting fire to the excavator, and one of them burning themselves accidentally. In the hours following the arson, Louna was brought by car to a nearby hospital, where she was admitted for burns allegedly compatible with those visibly suffered by the person who burned themselves in the footage.
After her arrest, Louna was detained in isolation for four months — she was in isolation because she was in a men’s prison despite being a (trans) woman.[2] After her arrest, she claimed responsibility for the degradations against the excavator. She is currently under judicial supervision pending trial.
On February 15, anarchist comrade Salvatore Vespertino (Ghespe), who had been a fugitive for the last 2 years or so, was arrested in Madrid. According to the regime, his arrest was the result of cooperation between the authorities of various countries, including Greece.
The comrade was transferred to Italy on March 4th, initially to the Rebibbia prison in Rome and is currently imprisoned in Spoleto prison of Spoleto.In the early days of his detention in Spain, Ghespe was subjected to pressure and harassment by guards. At Rebibbia, the correspondence wasn’t delivered to him; visits and phone calls were not allowed until shortly before his transfer to the prison of Spoleto.
He was sentenced to 8 years in prison on charges of possession, manufacture and transport of an explosive device, grievous bodily harm and damage in the context of the Panico operation in 2017 in Florence. More specifically, he is accused of an improvised explosive device that was placed outside a fascist bookstore in Florence on New Year’s Day 2017.The device exploded in the hands of a pyrotechnics cop who did not even follow safety protocols, resulting in the loss of an arm and an eye.
Continue reading Greece: INTERNATIONALIST SOLIDARITY WITH COMRADE SALVATORE VESPERTINO GHESPE IN ITALY
It is unclear what the struggle for Palestinian liberation will look like in the coming days. At the time of this writing a ceasefire has just been reached between Hamas and the Zionist entity, at the same time the Zionist entity continues to devastate Gaza and the West Bank.
Last year a specific struggle against a local technology company connected the dots between Palestinian liberation, local gentrification, education, militarism, and borders. The company in question, Ghost Robotics, has come under fire for creating robot dogs used by the Israeli Defense Forces.
WE GREW WHERE WE WERE NOT SOWN IN SCORCHED EARTH
On Thursday 07/11/24, 17-year-old comrade K. K. is arrested in Messolongghi Town, accused of setting fire to a police investigation van, which occurred on 11/10/24, almost a month before his arrest. The charges he faces include arson, explosion, manufacturing and possession of explosives and damage to other people’s property. As part of a demonstration of state power, the comrade is transported with excessive police forces to the courts for his statement, is remanded in custody and on 13/11 is transferred to the juvenile prison of Kassavetias. Another flimsy indictment based on incomplete video footage recording a moving figure on the streets of the city, another vengeful prosecution by the mafia of the Hellenic Police and the judicial authorities in the wake of the state repression against those who resist.
“The social war is here and it is widening day by day, it is our duty to open wide comradely relations and the values of self-organization. Hotbeds of struggle everywhere from Messolonghi Town to Chile, from theory to practice and back again. Nothing is lost, nothing is over, and we continue to march against the state, capital, fascism, patriarchy, relations of exploitation until our last breath… for a free world.”
LET’S BRING EVERY PRISONER OF WAR BACK TO THE STREETS
FREEDOM TO COMRADE K. K.
A MULTIFORM STRUGGLE FOR ANARCHY
Open solidarity meeting with the anarchist prisoner K. K. / Patras
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In the early hours of March 28, we placed six incendiary devices inside the ΕΥΔΑΠ (Hellenic Water Company) construction site in the Cholargos area, which engulfed state vehicles in flames. We are actively questioning the power of the state and the structure of its sovereignty, trying to weaken it by striking. We remind you that resistance action against the state and capital does not have one front, but many.
In order to achieve our promoted goals, it is necessary to overcome the limits of bourgeois legitimacy.
From the multiple demonstrations, to the extensive clashes with stones and Molotov cocktails in the central Syntagma Square, to the arson of state machinery, we are promoting the revolution everywhere and always.
KYRIAKOS YOU LIVE FOREVER A FIGHTER
EVERYTHING IN THE HANDS OF SOCIETY
CONSCIOUSNESS IS BUILT IN MASS STRIKES, OCCUPATIONS AND ON THE STREETS
EVERYONE ON THE STREETS ON MAY DAY
Revolutionary Coordination
via: athens.indymedia
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The whole game of the German state on the comrades Daniela Klette, Ernst Volker Staub and Burkhard Garweg is an operation of psychological warfare, what they call in their terminology psy ops. In addition to the always fruitless attempt of the counter-insurgency to isolate revolutionary struggle, in this hunt it wants to torture the living history, to bury it under the concrete, in order to spread the idea that all resistance is eventually exterminated, to instill terror in the new revolutionary generations. The act of evading from the counter-insurgency’s dragnet is an important resistance: It removes from the state the opportunity to hold the ritual of the “final act”. For this reason, its vengeance against defiant history, now manifested on the body and person of comrade Daniela, is rampant.
The fugitives prove that the passage to free life cannot be blocked. Despite the capitulation of the revolutionary organization, the three comrades have lived for decades in the struggle for the self-organization of proletarian life against the chains of class discipline and bourgeois civilization that kills for money. Now it is in the hands of all of us to pass on the history of the comrades to the current resistances. The hearts that refuse to live enslaved do not leave the final act to any master. And because every “final” word of the state, political, judicial, economic, scientific, determines the crushing of the common body, we will do everything to end Daniela Klette’s captivity.
Continue reading Greece: Message of Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis for the trial of comrade Daniela Klette (25/3/2025)
Information retrieved from local news sites
On March 18, one Tesla was torched in the downtown area of Calgary, AB. The next day, a cybertruck was arsoned at a Tesla storage lot.
No Tesla is safe. You don’t reform a dystopia.
Anonymous Submission to North Shore Counter-Info
“Injustice is not anonymous, it has a name and an address”
Bertolt Brecht
In the early morning hours of June 27th [2024] we attacked the house and the police guard of the President of the Supreme Court, Ioanna Klapa, in the Papagos area. That summer evening found the cop who happened to be on duty instead of carelessly gazing at Instagram photos or playing slots (in earlier watches this seemed to be how those on duty spent their time) screaming from the Molotov cocktails that burned him and then being rushed to the emergency room by his colleagues, badly injured. And Klapa, instead of sleeping, fearfully putting out the fire in the entrance and garden of her house.
But why did we choose to attack Klapa while her house was being guarded?
Continue reading ‘Provocateur Faction’ takes responsibility for the incendiary attack on the house and police guard of the Supreme Court President Ioanna Klapa (Athens,Greece)
THE BEST DAYS ARE WHEN IT RAINS…
The rallies of February 28th have left a resounding impression behind them. Everyone (government, think tanks, parties, media) sees the crowd gathered in terms of statistics and votes, “national mourning”, “indignation” and “expectation of a better state”. It is a convenient reading: it is wise to homogenize the widespread social dissatisfaction and anger – not only for the Tempi – under pandemic “national needs” because it is dangerous. To fit it into molds of loyalty and “peaceful protest” . To give “presence” to the Constitution – as if it were not a strike – but a social media event. To make the Tempi case a riddle to be solved by “experts” and “uneducated judges”. The people who took to the streets had somehow to conform to a savoir vivre defined by some abstract “common mourning”, to define themselves permanent victims (a favorite role of the left) who are only seeking a little state care and affection and not to express their anger at the oppression they receive on many fronts. To be indignant about the “cover-up” while forgetting something basic, that there is a permanent and concrete “cover-up”: in the world of the state, the bosses and the patriarchy, “accidents” happen to disposable lives. So it’s not just trains, but all of everyday life: from accidents in the workplace (45 dead already in 2025), the “deflected” police bullets on the bodies of “undesirables”, to the murders of immigrants at the borders…
Continue reading The most beautiful days are when it rains…stones on the streets (Athens,Greece)
Some updates on Ghespe’s situation
After about two years, on the night of February 14-15, 2025, a police arrest ended Ghespe’s status as a fugitive. From the moment of his arrest, the Spanish state guards were immediately notable for their characteristic cowardice. The beatings, threats, and what even the comrade recognized as psychological and physical torture led him to make an extreme act in order to be able to escape from a situation of absolute danger to his safety. In order to leave the Soto del Real prison in Madrid, he cut the veins of his arms and was transferred to the psychiatric hospital. As a matter of procedure, endangering one’s life leads consequently to a TSO (psychiatric compulsory treatment), so the comrade was inoculated with sedatives and antipsychotics. He is very concerned to point out that the act was not done with suicidal intentions, nor did such thoughts ever cross his mind. The amount of blood he lost was such that he had to receive transfusions.
During his stay in the psychiatric ward, he continued to suffer torture, such as pressure on open wounds by hospital staff. After being discharged from the hospital, on March 4 he was extradited to Italy, specifically to the Rebibbia prison in Rome, his first stop after his flight from Madrid.
Continue reading Some updates on Anarchist comrade Salvatore Vespertino Ghespe’s situation en/it (Italy)
Trentino, Massimo imprisoned in “semi-freedom”
From yesterday, Wednesday 26th March, our dear friend and comrade Massimo finds himself in the prison of Spini di Gardolo (Tn), in the so-called “semi-freedom” regime, for an accumulation of definitive sentences from 2 years and seven months (the main sentence, of little over 2 years, is related to clashes that took place in Rovereto on the occasion Salvini’s visit: one of the episodes for which Giulio also finds himself locked up). Given that his request for semi-freedom has been accepted, in about two weeks’ time he will be able to go out to work: which attenuates, but doesn’t extinguish, the rage of knowing him imprisoned.
Continue reading Trentino, Italy: Anarchist Massimo Passamani imprisoned in “semi-freedom”
Pisa, Carrara, Police raids in Pisa and Carrara related to the action against the court during the campaign in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito
Two house searches took place at dawn on Wednesday, March 26th 2025, in the cities of Pisa and Carrara under articles 110, 56, 424 of the penal code, aggravated by article 270 bis 1, regarding the placing of an incendiary device at the court of Pisa [collocazione di un ordigno incendiario presso il tribunale di Pisa] found by the Italian State security forces in February of 2023. The latter was part of the large-scale mobilization in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito against 41 bis and life imprisonment without appeal..
The investigation, carried out by the Anti-Mafia and Antiterrorism District Directorate of Florence, are, like all the investigations against the anarchist movement, intended to threaten revolutionaries and the spirit of initiative which characterizes them.
The struggle continues.
The suspects
[Received via e-mail and published in https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2025/03/27/perquisizioni-a-pisa-e-carrara-26-marzo-2025/]
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Aupa compañerxs e amigxs!
Abrazos, salud & Anarquía
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Hi comrades and friends!
Here we send you the definitive poster for the Agro-Crust XIII.
Awaiting that you’re animated to take part and have a good
time at the gathering/festival. There aren’t all acts in the poster
which will be realized in the day-time (like speachs, workshops).
The full programm we’ll spread later.
Please DON’T PUBLIC the poster in the SOCIAL MEDIA!!!
(to avoid that not-invited people get it)
Thanx a lot, see yeah soon!
Hugs, health & Anarchy
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Aupa Companys i Amics/ges!
Aquí us enviem el pòster definitiu per a l’Agro-Crust XIII.
Esperem vostres ánims de participi i gaudiu de la
trobada i festival. No apareixen al cartell tots els actes
concrets (xerrades, tallers, etc.) que es farà durant el dia.
El programa complet enviarem més a endavant.
Perquè no arribi a persones no invitades, us ho demanem
NO PUBLIQUEU aquest pòster a les XARXES SOCIALS !!!
Moltes gràcies, ens veiem aviat!
Abraçades, salut & Anarquia
