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Anarchist Prisoner Eric King Released to Halfway House After Ten Years (USA)

Anarchist Prisoner Eric King Released to Halfway House After Ten Years

Following nearly ten years of incarceration and numerous attempts by the State to frame, murder, and break him – anarchist prisoner Eric King has now been released and is headed to a half-way house “for several weeks,” reports supporters.

Imprisoned for taking direct action in solidarity with the Ferguson uprising, Eric King survived everything from COVID, to attacks by neo-Nazi prisoners, and years of abuse from guards. In a statement from 2016, King stated:

I stand by my actions. After seeing what happened in Ferguson, so close down the road, I was disgusted by the lack of mobilization in my city. Three hours away people were fighting for their lives and we weren’t even taking to the streets. We were doing nothing. My act as a very personal display of my anger and rage toward the state as well as an act of solidarity to everyone in Ferguson. We never know our own strength until we are tested and even with my ridiculous sentence I feel at least proud to have been able to stand strong and refuse to cooperate with the state.

 

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Rome, Italy: Sentence of the Bialystok appeal trial (28th November 2023)

BIALYSTOK TRIAL SECOND INSTANCE JUDGEMENT

Tuesday 28th November the second instance judgement concerning“Operation Bialystok” was issued. The Public Prosecutor’s appeal request seemed poor from the motivational point of view, so much so that the Attorney General (representing the prosecution at this stage of the trial) asked at the end of the trial that the penalties imposed at the first degree trial be confirmed.
The Court confirmed the acquittal of the person already acquitted for the location of the explosive device at the carabinieri barracks of San Giovanni and further acquitted him of the other charges. The anarchist previously sentenced for the Eni-Enjoy car-sharing vehicles set on fire had his sentence confirmed (1 year’s prison, suspended).

The anarchist sentenced to 7 months in first instance was acquitted of all charges, while another three had their sentence reduced to 3 months following the acquittal of certain minor offences.
The judges have the usual 90 days to file the grounds for the sentence.

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Greece: The 2024 Agenda of the Solidarity Fund for Imprisoned and Persecuted Fighters has been released

The 2024 Agenda of the Solidarity Fund for Imprisoned and Persecuted Fighters has been released

We have chosen to focus on the four years following 2008, judging that they present a qualitatively coherent structure in terms of a new cycle of political developments, of which 2009 was an explosive prelude. The four-year period 2009-2012 unfolds in the wake of the largest violent social explosion during the post-colonial period, on the occasion of the murder of the anarchist student, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, in December 2008 and while the country had already begun to sink into the first eddies of the global economic crisis that broke out in September 2008, with the collapse of the 4th largest US financial giant. These two peculiarities were to be a ticking time bomb for the already fragile climate of that time, causing social competition to explode to unprecedented levels through a veritable armageddon of developments.

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Let‘s give weight to the words Foreword by Stecco from „I giorni e le notti. #8, Anarchist Magazine – October 2018“:

Let‘s give weight to the words

Foreword by Stecco from

„I giorni e le notti.

#8, Anarchist Magazine – October 2018“:

„This text is about the concept of responsibility between individuals and communities, between comrades, in relation to the world as we want it. As in other recent texts circulating in the anarchist movement, there is a common sentiment of trying to illuminate principles, methods and dreams that strengthen and improve our actions as anarchists. I do not claim to be exbaustive on such a complex issue that touches on delicate aspects. Responsibility can be seen from different angles and I am sure that I will not be able to see them all. I will therefore concentrate on the points that seem to me to be the most urgent, and consider this text as a stimulus for reflection among the Companions. It is a text in which I do not intend to give an outline.

My aim is to make a contribution, a wealth of reflections that stimulate me precisely on this delicate subject.“

Dealing with the issue of responsibility today means, above all, dealing with the doctrine of irresponsibility that has been organising this society for some time. By irresponsibility, I mean the goal set by the state, by those in power, and also by science, of driving the exploited to ever greater inattention to the various social problems that afflict the whole of humanity. A never-ending task, so that people stop caring about the impending and imminent social changes. So that they stop thinking more and more. So that they believe that it is not possible  to  live  and  organise life without this social structure. In short, responsibility is to be passed on to others, and nowadays more than ever to some kind of technician. Of course, this development also affects interpersonal relations in all their facets.

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Anarchists Sabotage Train Lines in Northern California in Solidarity with Palestine.( United States)

Anarchists Sabotage Train Lines in Northern California in Solidarity with Palestine

This action was taken in response to a larger call coming out of the Bay Area to protest against the continued bombing of Gaza and the violation of the Ceasefire by Israel.

On the morning of December 2nd at 5:00am we sabotaged various strategically located train lines in Northern California: in Pittsburgh, Oakland, Niles, Bahia, and Lodi. We used a tactic shared by natives and accomplices of the Wet’Suwet’en tribe in so called Canada. We took large gauge copper wire and wrapped it around both rails of the same train track. Doing this completed the low voltage current running thru the rails notifying the train operator that the track is occupied and cannot be used until the obstruction is found and removed. This method for stopping train traffic yields the lowest possibility for derailment, and thus the least likely to cause harm to human or animal life. We did this in solidarity with the ongoing resistance to genocide being waged against Palestinians by the so called state of Israel.

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Greece: Anarchist prisoner Thanos Chatzianggelou ‘The Palestinian Resistance as a reference point for the declaration of the anti-imperialist civil war’

Message of the imprisoned member of the Anarchist Action Organisation, Thanos Chatziangelou, on the strategic diversion of the Palestinian Resistance in the heart of the imperialist centres.

Car bomb attack of Red Army Faction at the HQ USAFE and HQ 4th ATAF parking lot of Ramstein Air Base in 1981

The Palestinian Resistance as a reference point for the declaration of the anti-imperialist civil war in the Western metropolises

“A sacrifice today for tomorrow

the numbers suck their blood

Good morning, you’ll say good morning to me again on Saturday.

wrapped in a shroud.”

The Zionist atrocity of the Israeli occupation forces and the Western allies is growing day by day. Invoking the provocative narrative of the rules of war, they baptize entire migrant camps, hospitals, churches, playgrounds and entire urban centres as Hamas bases and operational centres in order to legitimize the exemplary massacre of the Palestinian resistance for communication purposes. Israel’s war crimes are officially underwritten by the North Atlantic Alliance, with bilateral military support and the legitimisation of Israeli interventions by Western media propaganda. The Western narrative cuts off the practical popular resistance of dozens of Palestinian organizations from the Palestinian right to self-determination and independence, wanting to criminalize and drown in blood any attempt at liberation defined by the popular base, moving outside and against the imperialist Western centers.

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A Communique on Sabotaging Zionist Infrastructure: Shutting Down Friends of the IDF -Water Main Cemented

For Palestine.

To rebels everywhere.

With deepest love and ancestral rage,

We gathered with heavy hearts and humble hands holding a promise for a world safer from white supremacist, settler-colonial violence. Those who declare war on original peoples and pillage sacred life and land will face retribution. There has been a great fire building, may it overflow and take all enemies of life with it. May it create fertile grounds for victory against violent occupiers.

We took it upon ourselves to make sure these fascists could not gather. Rather than the constant reactivity and rigidness of mass protest spectacles, we wanted to hit them where it fucking hurts.

On November 5th, the Zionist fascist scum, “Friends of the IDF,” who represent the interests of wealthy American capitalists in their direct support of the settler colonial state of Israel and its continued campaign of genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people, attempted to hold a fundraiser gala at Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, California.

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Czech Republic : Alfredo M. Bonanno zemřel, ať žije anarchie! (Alfredo M. Bonanno is dead, long live anarchy!)

Alfredo M. Bonanno zemřel, ať žije anarchie!
7thDec. × ’23
 

Dne 6. prosince 2023, ve věku 86 let, zemřel dlouholetý anarchista Alfredo Maria Bonanno. Prožil neuvěřitelný život a ještě před 14 lety, ve svých 72 letech, čelil obvinění z vyloupení banky. Mimo jiné napsal knihu “Ozbrojená radost“, kterou soudce nařídil zakázat a spálit všechny její výtisky. Za vydání knihy byl uvězněn. Alfredo byl jedním z nejlepších autorů povstalecké tendence a jedním z nejpozoruhodnějších anarchistů 20. a 21. století, pokud jde o jasnost jeho myšlenek a teoretický vliv. Nechť je jeho život inspirací pro nás všechny.

Upřímnou soustrast jeho parnerce Annalise a synovi Alfredovi. Člověk, kterého jste ztratili, pro Vás jistě znamená ještě víc než pro nás všechny v anarchistické galaxii, kteří jsme četli jeho spisy a byli jimi ovlivněni.

Soudruhu, odpočívej v síle. Byl jsi skutečný. Ať žije boj za sociální revoluci. Ať žije anarchie

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Anarchist comrade Alfredo M. Bonanno has died on 6th December at the age of 86

You will always be alive with us through our action and our lives. “ACTION REPLACES TEARS”

Alfredo Maria Bonanno, born in 1937 in Catania, Sicily, is one of the most prolific contemporary anarchists, responsible for Anarchismo editions and other publishing ventures. In 1977 he was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his book La Gioia Armata (Armed Joy). This book had been published at a historical moment when the Italian revolutionary movement was openly going on the offensive, while similar conditions existed in other European countries (Germany, Spain, England, Greece, Chile and more) and the question of violence was on the daily agenda. His contribution lies in a celebration of the pervasive class violence that liberates and satisfies the individual, but at the same time he sounds the alarm about the emergence of the armed party, which reduces the class conflict to a militaristic dimension, imposing the mediation of a small minority of armed men on the complexity of tens of thousands of people struggling by all means against the current reorganization of Capital, which at that moment seemed weak.

In the spirit of the book, all authentic liberating and destructive action comes from a logic of satisfaction in the struggle, not a self-sacrificing duty in accordance with the dictates of a micro-bureaucracy. The Italian Supreme Court ordered the destruction of the copies of the book that were in circulation, and sent a circular to public libraries to dispose of any copies they might have had.

Several librarians objected to this Nazi-inspired tactic. Its circulation was generally banned, and copies were confiscated from the homes of anarchist militants in the context of police raids on houses.

Shortly afterwards, the author was accused of being an “instigator” of the Azione Rivoluzionaria, an armed organisation of 1976-79, which operated on the basis of “affinity groups” throughout central Italy, mainly against newspapers and party offices, and similar “manipulative mechanisms of consensus-building”. In 1979 the organisation was practically dismantled with the arrest of 86 people and the arrest of Salvatore Cinieri and Gianfranco Faina. The first went on to die in prison in a scuffle with criminal inmates when he defended a prisoner suspected of submitting an escape plan, while the second was released to die of lung cancer after being diagnosed with a tumour while in custody.

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South ,London: Week 3 : Discussion Series ,’Gradualism’ ‘On Syndicalism’, The Anarchist Revolution Errico Malatesta

In this series of discussions we will go back into the heritage of anarchism to look at specific written contributions to the theory and practice of attack, informal organisation and permanent revolt. Each week some extracts will be shared beforehand which can be read to prepare for the next discussion or not. Each discussion will start with a short presentation of the book.

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Ciao, Alfredo

Μercoledì scorso è morto, a 86 anni, Alfredo Bonanno.

Per oltre un cinquantennio, Alfredo ha dato un contributo importantissimo all’anarchismo rivoluzionario, come editore, come teorico, come uomo d’azione, come sperimentatore di metodi organizzativi basati sull’affinità e sull’informalità. Quello che lo differenziava radicalmente da qualsiasi intellettuale non era solo il suo rifiuto di ogni carriera accademica e di ogni rappresentazione mediatica, ma il fatto che analizzare lo Stato e il capitalismo non serviva per lui ad andare a dormire con le idee più chiare, bensì a trarne delle precise conseguenze – etiche, pratiche, organizzative – nella vita quotidiana.

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Vivere è un problema qualitativo. Se non lo si vede in questa prospettiva, che senso ha la vita? (Alfredo M. Bonanno)It/Es

2023/12/07
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Vivere è un problema qualitativo. Se non lo si vede in questa prospettiva, che senso ha la vita? (Alfredo M. Bonanno)

Il compagno anarchico Alfredo M. Bonanno è morto a Trieste il 6 dicembre 2023, a 86 anni.

Introduzione a Oltrepassamento e superamento

Il problema della qualità non è una questione filosofica, appartiene alla vita e da questa, e dalla ridda selvaggia di urticanti ambasce che ne vengono fuori, trova poi sistemazione e acquietamento nella riflessione.

Vivere è quindi un problema qualitativo. Se non lo si vede in questa prospettiva, che senso ha la vita? Sarebbe una morte pagata a rate, un avvicinamento a qualcosa considerata futura che invece è di già accaduta, quasi senza destare sensazione alcuna. Chi resta immerso nella quotidianità del quantitativo, superando, di volta in volta, i vari problemi che lo fanno sembrare vivo, è un fantasma senza saperlo.
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Chile : Sentences for Anarchists Comrades Monica Caballero and Francisco Solar

Sentences for Comrades Monica Caballero and Francisco Solar
December 8, 2023
Today, December 7, 2023, the 6th Oral Criminal Court of Santiago decided to impose long sentences on the freedom of the comrades, attempting to strike and bury in concrete anarchist ideas and practices with this nauseating sentence. In detail the sentences are as follows:
    
    For Monica Cabellero 12 years in prison, convicted of being an accomplice in the double explosive attack against the Tánica building (https://es-contrainfo.espiv.net/2019/07/29/santiago-chile-adjudicacion-de-atentados-con-paquetes-bomba-contra-rodrigo-hinzpeter-y-el-mayor-de-carabineros-manuel-guzman/) in February 2020.
    

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Greece: December 6 – We don’t forget, we don’t forgive

 

Greece: December 6 – We don’t forget, we don’t forgive

15 years have passed since the night of December 6, 2008 when the murderous cop Korkoneas killed the anarchist student Alexandros Grigoropoulos with his colleague Saraliotis watching.

15 years since the night that shocked the whole society and led to a huge social uprising that exploded like a bomb across the country and lasted for months.

15 years since night-time stopped. The promises we made then remain open. They show us all that has been lost and all that needs to be done now.

15 years and the murders have not stopped, just as the beatings, arrests, abuse and torture have not stopped. The State has continuity. Before and after December 6. That is why we continue to be in the streets.

We don’t forget, we don’t forgive.

Calls for 6 of December:
• Athens: Propylaia, 12:00 | Propylaia, 18:00 (Tsamadou gathering 16:00) | Messolonghiou, 21:00


• Thessaloniki: Kamara 12:00 | Kamara, 18:00

Patras: Annex, 12:00 | Annex, 18:00

CITY OF VOLOS : Tholos, 18:00

• Agrinio city : Pl. Dimadis, 18:30

•City of  Karditsas: Pl. Eleftherias, 18:30

• City of Komotini: Palaia Nomiki, 19:00

• Down of Chalkida: Pl. Post Office, 19:00

• City of Kavala: Municipal Garden, 18:00

https://athens.indymedia.org/feature/10556/

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Athens, Greece: Fire to the ATTIKO METRO machinery! By Anarchists

Athens,Fire to the ATTIKO METRO machinery! (excerpt)

In the early hours of November 17th, we attacked and set fire to 3 ATTIKO METRO machines at the construction site of line 4 in the area of Kaisariani at the junction of Ethnikis Antistaseos and Filolaou streets.

Our action is the conceivable sequel of the slogan that we shouted so many times together with thousands of other demonstrators at the gatherings and demonstrations against the destruction of Exarchia square by the cooperation of the state-contractors-Attiko Metro-municipal authority. Mobilizations that have intensified recently, after the invasion of the machinery in the square with the aim of clearing the area of trees, bushes, etc.

Finally, we chose our incendiary attack to take place at a time and day (early morning on November 17, 2023) when, according to media reports, 5000 thousand policemen were patrolling the streets of Athens ahead of the mobilizations for the 50th anniversary of the Polytechnic uprising. Our arson attack took place within breathing distance between the Kaisariani police station and the headquarters of the YMET (special units of the Greek Police)in Oulof Palme avenue, proving that the city belongs to those who wish to destroy order and not to those who are paid to enforce it. Now and always.

DEVELOPMENT SABOTAGE, FIRE TO THEIR PROJECTS!

Arson Committee “Σπεύδε Βραδέως”

https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1627947/