“THE ROSES, WHERE ARE THE ROSES?”
Chronicles and reflections on expressions of affection for Sara and Sandro, and on the anti-Mafia movement as a tool for counter-insurgency

During the night of Thursday 19th to Friday 20th March, a loud bang shook the neighbourhoods of eastern Rome near the Parco degli Acquedotti; inside the park, an explosion caused part of an abandoned farmhouse to collapse. The explosion and the collapse killed two of our comrades, Sara and Sandro. Their unwavering consistency between idea and action led them to take risks and cross the line between life and death. Continue reading Italy: “The roses, where are the roses?”. Chronicles and reflections on the displays of affection for Sara and Sandro and on the anti-Mafia movement as a counter-insurgency mechanism. →

In central Athens, there is a squatted community were over 400 people from 27 different regions, speaking 20 different languages live together. They have managed to create their own self-organized reality building more than 20 infrastructures to take care of their health, education, culture. In June 2025, this community received new threats of eviction. However, what the extreme right wing government of Kiriakos Mitsotakis does not understand is that inside these 8 buildings there is so much more than walls and property titles.
Continue reading From Napoli to Athens, solidarity is our common language-Ogni sgombero, una barricata (Italy,Napoli) →

We are putting together and publishing some short texts and images from the initiative of domenica 29 marzo a Roma [Sunday March 29 in Rome] in memory of the anarchist comrades Sara Ardizzone e Alessandro Mercogliano. In spite of the attempt to block the morning’s appointment, a demonstration was held in the early afternoon leaving from the Quarticciolo. All those arrested in the morning (at least 91) were taken to the immigration office of Rome police station and released in the evening. Yet again, the day of Sunday showed the attempts of the repressive forces to isolate Sara and Sandro – first by unleashing a mass-media campaign aimed (in vain) at undermining their integrity, then systematically trying to block the moments and initiatives in their memory – but did not obtain the desired effect. Soon we will also be publishing other texts and images of 29 March in Rome.

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Continue reading With Sara and Sandrone, with heads held high. About the initiative in Rome on March 29th 2026 (Italy) →

Sometimes our life places us before a choice; and sometimes that choice asks everything of us.
Our comrades have dedicated their lives to fighting oppression, in the name of a better world for all, free from domination and exploitation.
We remain by their side, today and forever, carrying their struggle into the streets again and again, and holding their strength, their courage, and their unbreakable determination in our hearts.
Our comrades have fallen for an ideal, an ideal in which we continue to belive with stubborn resolve, with all our hearts and all our strength.

For this reason, Sara and Sandrone, nothing is over…everything continues, until we see rise that beautiful sun called Anarchy.

[it, es, fr, de, en]

Stronger than death

There is an enormous difference between the violence of the oppressed and that of the oppressors: the former follows an ethic, the latter doesn’t.
(Sara Ardizzone)

Our ability to speak and communicate does not allow us to venture down the unbeaten paths of personal accountability for the risks we take. Any discussion along these lines remains inevitably tentative and inadequate. To truly seek freedom — in its authentic and complete form, not in the counterfeit versions bestowed and imposed by the state — means entering into the realm of risk inherent in the quest itself. In this realm, our choices — often wild and solitary — carve out a path of no return. Freedom is a quality that is experienced by putting oneself at risk.

We say this without resorting to any rhetorical indulgence: the two anarchists found dead after the collapse of a farmhouse in Rome, Sara Ardizzone and Alessandro Mercogliano, are our close comrades, we are proud to have them as our comrades. The paid hacks, from whose trashy paper we learned of the incident, write about the detonation of an explosive artefact. The attempts to distance oneself, always aimed at ensuring a shameful sense of security, do not belong to us. We are used to never believe what is uttered by the propaganda machine, but if there is a glimmer of truth about the “leaked” information we cannot fail to dwell on the fundamental fact: Sara and Sandro died in action, died in the battle. Social war is not a stunt, a life style or a subculture. It is, first and foremost, a war. Sara and Sandro are a shining example of the inseparable bond between thought and deed which inspires the anarchism, revolutionaries until the very last moment of their lives, and in death. Continue reading Text written on March 21st in memory of our anarchist comrades Sara Ardizzone and Alessandro Mercogliano. (Italy) →