We are publishing a text by Anna Beniamino from the women’s prison of Rebibbia:

AN IMMORAL FAIRYTALE

Anarchists read a lot and write even more, perhaps this is because of some excess of book culture which shouts at the top of its voice about ethics, while they find it difficult to understand it and forget to apply it in the reality of everyday life. And… as soon as they realize the mistake has been made they write more pages and pages (it is not clear whether for private use or for a selected audience) redundant with rectifications which sound even more shaky and hypocritical than declarations during trials, when not amusing in their anxious contradictions.

I don’t enjoy acting the moralist locked up between four walls, but as I recognize that certain silences risk being filled with others’ chatter, I think it is the case to dwell upon a curious phenomenon of inversion of sense and references in speech, a phenomenon which is two years old and not yet clarified.

Continue reading Italy – Words from anarchist comrade Anna Beniamino →

5G: Rete della società cibernetica by Silvia Guerini and Costantino Ragusa, Asterios Editore, a series of militant leaflets, no. 56,  4.90 euros, 48 pages, July 2021

This short essay seeks to highlight the deep social, ontological and anthropological transformations which will derive from the G5 network and from the society that is structuring itself thanks to it. The 5G network is not the simple development of the previous 2G, 3G, 4G and is something more than greater speed in transmission of data: besides being faster, it will allow more connections at the same time and the simultaneous passage of data with practically zero delay. These are essential characteristics for the development and voracity of artificial intelligence, which will progress thanks to data extrapolated from the digital world. Data which, before being grabbed and captured by algorithms, were our lives, our feelings, our body in the flesh, now product and producer of its own surveillance on a large scale. Continue reading Italy – 5G: Rete della società cibernetica [5G: The cyber society network] – Silvia Guerini, Costantino Ragusa – Asterios Editore →

Il Rovescio / Wednesday 6 January 2021

Let’s stop the 5G network and the digitalisation of our lives

Let human imagination prevail over artificial stupidity

THE MYTH OF PROGRESS

Our era is based on the myth of progress, a myth that imposes the attainment of every possibility offered by technological development, without considering the consequences that might result from it. Industrial society, in order to solve the current catastrophe and the irreparable consequences of technological development, is giving us digitisation, automation, artificial intelligence, smart cities and objects as the only solutions. Further irreversible damage can only come from technological society, so the starting point must be to radically question it.

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The Glonass system, comparable to the American GPS, is a Russian global navigation satellite system used for tracking and tracing. It is also used as a back-up or support positioning system, which can provide a faster fix and greater accuracy than GPS.

This device was found in our car. It was connected to the power supply of the control unit underneath the steering wheel on the left-hand side and had been placed there with a magnet, insulating tape and a heating cloth. It consists of an antenna (QC in the photo) connected to a multi-frequency positioning receiver box containing a micro SIM card. On the same side, a long cable ran along the inside of the internal side pillar linings of the windscreen to the underside of the roof of the car. All on the driver’s side. At the top of the cable were two microphones.

Glon-my-ass!
On the Road Again!

Two anarchists in Genoa

[Received and published by malacoda.noblogs.org, August 2, 2021].

Torino, 18 May  2021

It may be due to the fact that I will spend a large portion of my remaining life in a prison, that lately I feel inclined to “necrophilia”, to “historicize” what has just been. After all, the last action claimed ‘Federazione Anarchica Informale – Fronte Rivoluzionario Internazionale’ in Italy was “just” a year ago. Usually we historicize the things “dead”, past, but in me the fear that everything that has been deleted or worse, distorted, has taken over. And I say this with the conviction (maybe I’m wrong) that the FAI-FRI has exhausted its vital charge and has passed the “baton” to something more essential, the revolutionary campaigns. Campaigns that, from one continent to another, relaunch revolutionary solidarity, not by an organization but by groups and individual comrades who never need to know each other personally.

Dynamic alive, linear process as effective in the world goes by the name of “Black International” and that in fact does not even need the coordination, there is no need to meet, to know each other personally. The anarchists of action usually neglect the historical introspection, the anarchists who postpone the violent action instead tend to exhume distant experiences that are more unlikely to give rise to criminal retaliation and “imitations” in today. “It was a different time …”, this phrase still rattles in my head repeated to me as a boy endless times by anarchists / and more conscientious, anarchists / and other times precisely …

Continue reading Contribution of Alfredo Cospito from the AS2 section of the Ferrara prison for the cycle of presentations “Guerrilla and Revolution” →

On Sunday 18 July, at around 6.30pm, a fire broke out in the Pozzallo hotspot in Sicily (Ragusa province), after some migrants set fire to their mattresses. The European Union hotspot was housing around one hundred migrants, including twenty minors, who had recently arrived in Italy on makeshift boats. Locked up in this structure for the duration of their Covid quarantine, they were then to be directed towards other detention centres in Sicily.

Continue reading Pozzallo, Italy: incendiary revolt in the centre for migrants →

Natascia is well and her mood is high, especially since she knows that Anna [anarchist comrade sentenced to 16 years and 6 months in the Scripta Manent trial against the Federazione Anarchica Informale, “Informal Anarchist Federation”] has also arrived and received her greetings, even though Natascia is in a solitary confinement cell far away from the one she is in, which makes it impossible for her to hear directly from Anna. It seems that her transfer to Rebibbia prison in Rome is a permanent relocation, which she does not mind at all: in fact, she said she does not want to ask for other transfers and wants to stay there.

The prison has just authorised her to have four hours of visits per month, both with the comrade with whom she had visits before the transfer to Santa Maria Capua Vetere, and with her father. Her father will go when he can (given the distance, Natascia has also been authorised to make video calls with him), while the comrade intends to have regular visits every month, possibly by pooling the visit hours available to her, so as to reduce the cost of the journey from Turin to Rome and back. Continue reading ”Prometeo Operation”: updates on Natascia from Rebibbia prison (Italy, July 2021) →

Giovanni Lindo Ferretti’s concert was interrupted on 9^th June in Bologna. The banner read: “A republic founded on massacres”. The intervention concluded with a message of solidarity with Juan, Alfredo and Anna.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k31i2uzydg

ilrovescio.info :Translated by Act for freedom now!

Yesterday, Thursday July 8, 2021 banners in solidarity with all prisoners, with Nat on hunger strike, against prison and its torturers, against surveillance and isolation appeared all over Bologna.

Banners read:

“Surveillance, prison, isolation; against the state no reformation”

“52 rotten apples? Let’s chop the tree down!”

“Santa Maria Capua Vetere is no exception! Prison is torture!”

“Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Guantanamo, DAP, ministry, screws = torturers and murderers!”

Writings on walls:

“Yesterday like today piazza Verdi”

“Davide Delogu free”

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Translated by Act for freedom now! via: ilrovescio.info

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ABOUT THE REACTIONARY DRIFT OF SOME “COMRADES”

We write this text to warn against the umpteenth worrying reactionary drift of some well-known characters who still find accessibility within the anarchist scene, in Italy (less and less) and abroad, despite the fact that in recent years they have accumulated a series of alliances and embarrassing speeches, tending to the most extreme populism and increasingly close to the right-wing world.

We are talking about the organizers of the Three Days against Technoscience, also involved in the website Resistance to Nanoworld, the magazine L’Urlo della Terra and in the documentation space La Piralide in Bergamo.

For the three international days against technoscience that will be held in Alessandria (for the third consecutive year), characters such as Maurizio Martucci and Daniela Danna are invited to speak this time.

Continue reading EN/IT : ABOUT THE REACTIONARY DRIFT OF SOME “COMRADES” IN ITALY →

Anarchist Anna Beniamino transferred from the prison of Messina to that of Rebibbia in Rome (Italy, July 17, 2021)

Anna has been transferred to the Rebibbia prison in Rome [the comrade was sentenced to 16 years and 6 months of imprisonment in the trial Scripta Manent].

Her new address is:

Anna Beniamino
C. C. di Roma Rebibbia femminile
via Bartolo Longo 92
00156 Roma
Italia – Italy

[Published by malacoda.noblogs.org].

UPDATE ON ALFREDO’S SITUATION IN TERNI PRISON

At the end of June we heard the news that Alfredo had been transferred to Terni prison, where there is a section for imprisoned revolutionaries. To date, however, Alfredo is still being held in the “transit” section, despite the fact that the period of isolation imposed by the Coronavirus emergency regulations has been over for several days.

Continue reading Italy : Update on anarchist Alfredo’s Cospito , situation in Terni prison and Anarchist Anna Beniamino transferred from the prison of Messina to that of Rebibbia in Rome →

We receive and spread:

Shit loves being close to shit – that’s a fact. Be it because it comes from the same arsehole or because it floats in the same sewer, that’s the way it is. But certain shit also likes to be near chocolate or at least it would like people to believe so. Boasting about being nutritious is not enough, isn’t sufficient.

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Theatre is life, but life is not theatre. On 8^th March 2020, 9 prisoners in the prison of Modena lost their lives following the violent repression of a revolt inside it. For over a year many have been trying to shed light on the matter, the details of which are still unclear thanks to attempts made by the institutions to mislead and archive the investigations, silencing the voices of dissent and testimonies from inside. In this humanly chilling scenario, the Teatro dei Venti are bringing about a theatre project inside this prison, showing their indifference concerning the events that occurred and without the least empathy towards the people who lost their lives. In fact, the only cynical public comment on the affair was the acknowledgment of having lost an actor (because he was dead) and of having had to replace 90% of the other actors/prisoners (presumably because they were transferred after the revolt or because they refused or were forbidden to carry on with the project).

Continue reading Italy – Theatre and PRISON… An embrace  →

UPDATE ON ALFREDO’S SITUATION IN TERNI PRISON

At the end of June we heard the news that Alfredo had been transferred to Terni prison, where there is a section for imprisoned revolutionaries. To date, however, Alfredo is still being held in the “transit” section, despite the fact that the period of isolation imposed by the Coronavirus emergency regulations has been over for several days.

We do not know why Alfredo is still in isolation, we do not know and are not interested in the plans of the DAP (Department of Penitentiary Administration). What we do know is that the provocations and pretexts of the guards can not erase a historical fact: the existence over the years of an anarchism of action can not be erased by convictions in court or by the pretexts of the jailers.

Continue reading Update on anarchist Alfredo’s situation in Terni prison (Italy, July 13, 2021) →

On her 24th day of hunger strike Natascia was finally transferred.

At the moment she is in Rebibbia (Rome), because in the prison of Vigevano (the one closest to Turin and Genoa that has a high security section) there seems to be no place at the moment.

To write to her:

Natascia Savio
C. C. di Roma Rebibbia femminile
via Bartolo Longo 92
00156 Roma
Italia – Italy

For more information (in english) on the ongoing trial in Genoa for Prometeo repressive operation: https://malacoda.noblogs.org/post/2021/07/05/operazione-prometeo-aggiornamenti-sul-processo-in-corso-maggio-luglio-2021/

[Published by malacoda.noblogs.org].