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Anarchist Comrade Thanos Hatzianggelou was released from prison on Friday 24/5/24

Comrade Thanos Hatzianggelou was released from prison on Friday 24/5 after a long wait for the answer from the council for his conditional release. The restrictive conditions imposed on him are the ban on leaving Thessaloniki, mandatory residence in the house he had declared in Thessaloniki and two days monthly to present at a police station.

We continue our struggles supporting the prisoners, giving them a voice until the demolition of the last prison. To once again walk side by side with our comrades in the paths of rebellion and disobedience. Until total liberation.

Burlotto and fire in all cells/cages

Freedom to all prisoners of war

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Anarchist Comrade Nikos Maziotis Ends Hunger Strike (Greece)

Nikos Maziotis  say that in the disciplinary council held today in Domokos prison (in the presence of the prosecutor and the prison director), he was acquitted of the 2 disciplinary offenses that tried to accuse him of disobedience and threat against the head of the outer guard.

At the same time, he say  that he is suspending the hunger strike after his request to go to the hospital in Lamia without the humiliating physical examination was satisfied.

THE COMRADE IS NOT ALONE
IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF ANARCHIST COMRADE NIKOS MAZIOTIS
FINAL RELEASE OF COMRADE POLA ROUPA
STRENGTH TO THE POLITICAL PRISONERS KIDNAPPED IN THE CELLS OF THE STATE

SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON!

Domokos prison, Greece: Hunger strike of Nikos Maziotis

Not a day has passed since the publication of the text about the kind of care the “penitentiary” system provides and gives the external guard of Domokos prison the right to blackmail prisoners. Today, the external guard of Domokos prison along with its commander in charge refused to transfer me to the hospital of Lamia for an orthopedic examination concerning a 3rd degree rupture of the gastrocnemius muscle because I would not accept their undignified and degrading modality of body search. I did not refuse a body search in general, I refused the humiliating way in which they want to carry it out. They are essentially blackmailing me in order to get the care I am entitled to, putting my health at risk.

In response to the blatant violation of my rights, I am going on hunger strike as of today (14/5/2024) with a request to be transferred to the hospital of Lamia without suffering the humiliating form of investigation demanded by the external guard of Domokos prison.

This request concerns not only this case but any case of treatment requiring transfer to a hospital for examination, surgery or treatment while I am in prison.

Nikos Maziotis, condemned for the action of the Revolutionary Struggle

Domokos prison

via: athens.indymedia

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Free Daniela Klette , solidarity text by Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis from domokos prison. Greece

Free Daniela Klette

Following the captivity of the fighter Daniela Klette, german imperialist counter-revolution, by keeping her in a state of total isolation, is attempting to bury the decades long successful resistance to the counter-guerrilla persecution and to avenge the determination, the capacity and the freedom of the persecuted. To be resilient up against the personalized targeting of the counterrevolution marks a definitive victory for the movements, a victory that cannot be canceled by any state measure for their annihilation and extermination.

Having experienced the counter-guerrilla persecution, I can confirm that open doors, the social solidarity that corresponds to this condition and the comrades who become the daily shadow of the persecuted, they make all the difference in the scales of victory between counter-guerrilla and resistance. An organization, a movement, that can protect its persecuted people, has a necessary political element for the growth of a revolutionary position. As the comrades from International Red Help stress, solidarity is a program, not a slogan.
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Chile: Gendarmerie Intends for Anarchist Comrade Francisco Solar to Carry Out His Sentence in an Exceptional Maximum Security Regimen

Gendarmerie Intends for Comrade Francisco Solar to Carry Out His Sentence in an Exceptional Maximum Security Regimen

April 22, 2024

After ratifying and maintaining the 86 year sentence against anarchist comrade Francisco Solar, the gendarmerie [Chilean prison authorities] carried out a new maneuver in the comrade’s situation within prison. After remaining in unit 2 of Maximum Security of Rancagua prison before trial, he should have been transferred to unit one of High Security given the nature of his sentence along with all the other anarchist and subversive comrades.

But this time, aiming to deepen the legal vengeance, the comrade is taken to a floor in the same unit 2 of maximum security to carry out his sentence in an exceptional regimen of punishment and isolation.

Solidarity and complicity with those who attack the powerful!

Combat the disguised life sentence and isolation of anarchist comrade Francisco Solar!

via : informativoanarquista
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After 16 Years of Prison: Words of Marcelo Villarroel -Chile

After 16 Years of Prison: Words of Marcelo Villarroel

informativoanarquista

This past March 15 marked 16 years of uninterupted prison, since I was detained in San Martin de los Andes, Neuquén province, territory occupied by the argentine state, while fleeing a search and arrest warrant from the chilean state.

The cases that encouraged that moment of clandestinity and which were spread profusely at the time have already been fulfilled:

I was sentenced to 14 years for two bank robberies. This date was met December 16 of last year, counted from December 16, 2009, the moment I was extradited from argentinian territory to be judged in chile.

Currently I still have 46 more years of sentences for cases emanating from pinochet’s military court in the early 90s framed in the urban guerrilla practices of my old militancy in the armed group Mapu-Lautaro which has been extinct for more than 3 decades.
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Italy: ‘The carousel of repression’ – by Anarchist comrade Anna Beniamino

THE CAROUSEL OF REPRESSION

Almost eight years after the arrests for Scripta Manent, for the second time the Court of Cassation, on 24th April 2024, will pronounce judgement on the crime of “political massacre”, pursuant to art. 285 c.p., against Alfredo and myself, the last remaining fragment pending in the process (i), after a whirlwind of delays, recalculations, and repressive-jurisprudential manipulations (ii).

Although the repetition of error numbs the horror, and we are living in times of multiple horrors flaunted and total anaesthetisations, I believe there are still some words to be said about the ongoing annihilation attempt, about reactions, successful and attempted. Not so much because I believe this may be useful for our personal fates, but out of a kind of stubborn “romanticism” that considers silence and resignation always and even more lethal in a political process.
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Chile: Words of Anarchist Comrade Lucas Hernández for March 29th

April 2, 2024 / informativoanarquista

From the cell I remember the smell of the barricade, the smoking tires, the springs after the mattress was consumed and the neighbors with their contributions to the bonfire. I remember the mask like yesterday, the gloves, the iron in the belly, the clean bullets, the heavy backpacks, the desire to see if one day, a 29th, they’d pay this time and not us. I remember gathering the materials, coordinating with comrades, leaving to the street, the neighbor who told me “take care, son”, or the neighbor who asked me if I was going to hunt ghosts, the whistle of the first shot, I remember the crying eyes after the first teargas, running up to the post, the parapet and the moment. Advancing dressed like the night, good moments, that I hope many can and want to live, because it’s necessary to return the blows, nothing can remain unpunished.

March 29th commemorates Mauricio Maigret, Paulina Aguirre, brothers Eduardo and Rafael Vergara who were heinously assassinated, in memory of their ideas, their consequence, and their valor for, in a context of dictatorship and death, daring to do something in the bloodiest moments of this country. Not letting fear immobilize them, motivated by inequality and love for their peers, neighbors, families and comrades, these desires of justice faced with so much abuse that remains present today as yesterday. As new generations we learn from the history of those who fought before, releasing ourselves from arrogance, we must learn from the successes and errors in order to be more prepared facing the repression of power. On the 29th the street is ours, on the corners of the neighborhoods the stage for combat is set.
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Chile: Words of Comrade Kuyen After 6 Months of Preventative Prison

March 30, 2024 / informativoanarquista

Time has passed since I wrote my last communique, concerning my situation as a prisoner as well as expressing my perspective and general reflections that I’ve gained in this process. Summarizing these six months that have passed, since I was detained and put in preventative prison by the state  I can only say that I remain equally convinced by the path that I’ve decided to take, even if I walk it alone or alongside other individuals. I’ve decided that my life will be eternal war, carrying this responsibility to the end of the consequences that it carries with it, always sustaining that ideas without actions that back them up aren’t worth anything.

This said, I was to speak about a point that’s been present with me for a while but which has been defined with clarity after half a year in preventative prison. This is about the supossed individuals who label themselves anarchists and anticarceral. These labels that they’ve decided to put on stagger at the first expression on the part of power or when these positions take an active role in the various situations that come up in this adverse and uncertain path. I can’t avoid pointing out that these “comrades” who consider themselves in solidarity but who, as I mentioned before, when it’s moment to do something concrete that requires leaving their comfort for the cause which they say they’re a part of or for the situation of another  comrade, they vanish.
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Chile: Words of Anarchist prisoner Mónica Caballero on a New March 29th

“If the Streets Spoke”: Words of Mónica Caballero on a New March 29th

March 31, 2024 / informativoanarquista

If the streets of this city spoke, they’d tell us stories of barricades and of fire, mixed with sweat, blood and tears. In these stories would be the small and resilient figure of Luisa Toledo, who moved generations with a few words. It was also she who, the more years that passed since the murder of her sons Eduardo and Rafael at the hands of the police, never stopped going out on the street so that their death wouldn’t stop being commemorated and above all their lives as combatant youth.
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Chile: Interview with Espacio Fénix EN/ES

ES: (Chile) Entrevista a Espacio Fénix

Opening the tensions of dialogue, we present the following section of interviews with individuals, collectivities and related spaces that make up the anarchic body in different parts of the world.

The interviews are a valuable contribution to the observation in detail and depth; they come, in a certain way, to broaden the view to give us feedback among comrades and to debate with perspectives and projections, that although they may be different, they converge in the ideas and practices of freedom against all authority.

Without further ado, we have in this first venture of dialogues the comrades of Espacio Fénix.

1-How and when did Espacio Fénix arise, and what projects converge in the space?
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DEMO AT CARDIFF CITY PROBATION OFFICE FOR TOBY SHONE (UK)

DEMO AT CARDIFF PROBATION OFFICE FOR TOBY SHONE

On March 6th 2024, anarchists demonstrated outside Cardiff Probation Office to show their solidarity with Toby Shone as his parole pre-hearing meeting approaches. For the last 3 and a half years, probation officers including Lewis Thomas, Ashley Fussell, Gillian O’Brien, and Paul Smith amongst others at Cardiff probation office have collaborated with police such as Philip Gay at the National Security Division (NSD) and SouthWest Counter Terror Police (SWCTP) to target Toby for his anarchist beliefs and his alternative lifestyle. The UK police state is trying to criminalise such beliefs.

Toby was initially arrested on terrorism charges related to the 325.nostate.net website. This case fell apart the day before the trial in 2021. The Crown Prosecution Service had no evidence to offer the court. He was instead sentenced to three years and nine months in prison for a minor drugs charge. Released on licence in December 2022, Toby was recalled to prison on 19th September 2023 after attending a prisoner letter-writing night and dinner at the anarchist social centre BASE in Bristol. This meeting was being watched by two Counter Terror Officers.
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Greece: Updates from the mobilization in Lamia city and Domokos prison in solidarity with comrade Nikos Maziotis (videos and photos)

Updates from the mobilization in Lamia and Domokos prison in solidarity with comrade Nikos Maziotis

FREEDOM TO COMRADE NIKOS MAZIOTIS

YOU FROM THE BARS AND WE FROM THE STREETS, TOGETHER WE WILL CRUSH THE STATE AND THE LAWS

STATE AND CAPITAL ARE THE ONLY TERRORISTS – SOLIDARITY WITH THE ARMED GUERRILLAS

On Saturday 23 March 2024, dozens of comrades (from Athens, Lamia, Patras, Thessaloniki) were in the city of Lamia, holding a solidarity meeting and a microphonIiki gathering in the city, a demo to Lamia court and a gathering outside of the prison of Domokos where the political prisoner Nikos Maziotis is being held.

The mobilisation on 23 March was held in solidarity with the convicted member of the Revolutionary Struggle, anarchist comrade N. Maziotis. A supportive, politically, solidarity intervention on the occasion of the comrade’s 5th in a row request for his conditional release, which has been systematically rejected for political reasons since January 2022. His new request was submitted on 12 March and is expected on the one hand the relevant recommendation of the prison prosecutor, and on the other hand the relevant decision by the competent judicial council of Lamia.
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(Heraklion, Crete Greece) Solidarity with anarchist political prisoner Errol

[Heraklion, Crete] Solidarity with Errol

Freedom for Errol, an anarchist political prisoner in the holding cells of Diavata prison in Thessaloniki, who is awaiting a repeat hearing re his deportation from the Greek state, because he is an anarchist . On Wednesday 13/3, two banners of solidarity with anarchist Errol were hung in Heraklion, Crete.

The banners were placed at one of the entrance doors to the old town of Heraklion (Kommeno Bedeni) and at the entrance of an abandoned house in the area of Lakkos.

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LAMBROS FOUNTAS IS IMMORTAL by Pola Roupa and Nikos Maziotis (Greece)

 

 LAMBROS FOUNTAS IS IMMORTAL

10/03/2024

It has been 14 years since the death in a clash with policemen of our comrade Lambros Fountas on March 10, 2010. All these years, whether in the underground continuing the action of the Revolutionary Struggle when we dedicated to him the attack on the Central Bank-ECB-IMF in 2014, or in prison, we always had him on our minds. And of course he will be in our memory and our heart as long as we are alive.

It is known that when we assumed political responsibility for our participation in the Revolutionary Struggle, we publicly announced with the “Political Letter to the Society”, that Lambros Fountas was killed in a preparatory action of our organization, in an attempt to sabotage the country’s inclusion in the memorandum, i.e. in the program of the IMF, the ECB and the EU, something that had already been decided by the then government of G. Papandreou and we had predicted as an organization since the fall of 2009. He is the first and last dead fighter of the social resistance against the memoranda, against an era that opened with the imposition of the 1st loan agreement in the spring of 2010.

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