Hunger strike of anarchist GIannis MichaIlidIs as a sign of solidarity with the 11 fighters and hunger strikers from Turkey

On 7th of October, the 11 fighters from Turkey Ali Ercan Gökoğlu, Burak Agarmış, Hasan Kaya, Sinan Çam, Şadi Naci Özpolat, Halil Demir, Anıl Sayar, Harika Kızılkaya, Hazal Seçer, Sinan Oktay Özen and İsmail Zat started an indefinite hunger strike with the main demand of a fair trial.

From today, Saturday 12 November and for one week I am starting a hunger strike in support of their difficult struggle. Their trial starts this Wednesday 16 November in the courtroom of Korydallos prison.

I also want to send a signal of solidarity to the anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito who has been on hunger strike since 20 October against the torture regime of article 41-bis, but also to the anarchist Anna Beniamino and the anarchists Juan Sorroche Fernandez and Ivan Alocco who are on hunger strike alongside him.

Giannis Michailidis

Declaration of start of hunger strike by anarchist Anna Beniamino.
7 November 2022

On October 20th, in the prison of Bancali (Sardinia), Alfredo Cospito began an all-out hunger strike against the 41 bis regime and life sentence without parole. The regime 41 bis was assigned to him from May this year, being accused of maintaining relations through correspondence and editorial activity with the anarchist movement through public writings and interventions from the Maximum Security section where he had been locked up for years.
Life imprisonment without parole is likely to be the outcome of the appeal – made by the cassation ruling of July 2022 of the Scripta Manent trial – for the recalculation of the sentence passed as 285 c. p., “political massacre”, for a double attack on the carabinieri school of Fossano, signed by FAI-RAT [Informal Anarchist Federation – Anonymous and Tremendous Revolt]. The sentence for 285 of the penal code constitutes the keystone of an accusatory architecture which established the existence of a “subversive association with terrorist aims” (made up of only three promoters and with a sporadic existence, to overcome contradictions due to the outcomes of previous trials) and the activity of ‘instigating’ through anarchist blogs and newspapers published over the past 20 years by those convicted.

In short, a monstrous sentence where one is head/factotum of an ‘association’ with uncertain contours, as well as instigators and perpetrators of a “massacre” that never happened and above all never defended as such. That is, as has been repeatedly stated in times past, revolutionary violence is defended by anarchists, and by me among them; massacre is not.

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“Steadfastness in revolutionary practice” – Discourse at gatherings outside the prisons of Terni and Spoleto
(1/11/2022)

We are writing these lines on the occasion of the gatherings planned for 1st November 2022 outside the prisons of Terni and Spoleto in conjunction with the call for struggle launched through the hunger strike by anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, locked up in the prison of Bancali; a hunger strike which has also been joined by anarchists Juan Sorroche, locked up in the prison of Terni and Ivan Alocco, locked up in the French prison of Villepinte.

The contribution, both theorical and pratical, that some of the imprisoned comrades have given to the anarchist movement throughout the years, and which they continue to give from inside the infamous cages built by the democratic regimes, still finds a way to escape and become uninterrupted, unmediated borderless agitation between the proletariat and the exploited all over the world: from Chile to France, from Spain to Italy.

On the 5th of May 2022, imprisoned anarchist Alfredo Cospito received notification of his transfer from “Maximum Security 2” to “41 bis”. The decree was ordered by former minister of justice Marta Cartabia.

On July 6th 2022, the Court of Cassation requalified the explosive attack against the school of carabinieri of Fossano of June 2006, claimed by Rivolta Anonima e Tremenda / Federazione Anarchica Informale, which the comrades Anna Beniamino and Alfredo Cospito were accused of, as “Political Massacre”, deferring to a worsening calculation of the sentence that could even become mandatory life imprisonment.

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JUAN SORROCHE FERNANDEZ FROM TERNI PRISON, HIGH SECURITY SECTION (AS2) ON HUNGER STRIKE FROM 25/10/2022 FOR AN INDEFINITE PERIOD – IN
SOLIDARITY

1ST, I DEMAND: THE DOWNGRADING FROM 41BIS OF THE ANARCHIST ALFREDO COSPITO.

– Last May 5th, Alfredo Cospito was placed under the 41bis regime and later transferred to Bancali Prison (Sassari). This was done to
physically prevent him from communicating and contributing to the debate among anarchists, after having already been imprisoned for 10 years in AS2 and subjected several times to correspondence censorship, investigations and trials concerning his writings. The state wants to silence and annihilate him with the 41bis regime, a prison within a prison, prison of annihilation, it is a scientifically studied torture technique, period: a technique based on deprivation to induce prisoners to deny their beliefs. The 41bis was not only designed for those accused
of association with the mafia, but this imprisonment regime was also and still is used for the purpose of repression of revolutionaries and subversives. For 17 years there have been some communist revolutionaries subjected to this regime.

2ND, -FOR AN ACTIVE SOLIDARITY:

– since I do not perceive myself as isolated, I want to give continuity of solidarity and internationalist struggle because what is happening to us isn’t stand-alone cases of state revenge against us specifically as social prisoners.

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