Category Archives: Revolutionary Prisoners News

Italy: Claim for the attack on the villa of slaughterer Giorgio Del Papa, in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino (Spoleto, January 2023)

2023/01/29
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Claim for the attack on the villa of slaughterer Giorgio Del Papa, in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino

November 2006. Umbria Olii explodes and four workers die. One of many massacres in the name of profit, in a company known for its devastation of the land. But the arrogance of capital knows no limits and the boss Giorgio Del Papa will go so far as to demand 35 million euros from the families of the victims, accusing them of causing the accident.

The power of money, a huge amount, difficult even to imagine for the workers’ families, some of them migrants. The power of money that will prove to be useful, obtaining the attribution of responsibility on the workers themselves, resulting in the reduction of his sentence to four years.
Hearts full of hate, thinking of our comrades Anna Beniamino and Alfredo Cospito, we decided to give a face, a name, an address to the slogan ‘It is the State that Massacres’.

Because Anna and Alfredo risk life imprisonment for two bombs against the Carabinieri Cadets Barracks in Fossano, on June 2nd 2006, which unfortunately caused neither dead nor wounded. While the true slaughterers, the industrialists, the capitalists, are living it up in their villas.
Continue reading Italy: Claim for the attack on the villa of slaughterer Giorgio Del Papa, in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino (Spoleto, January 2023)

Clashes and demonstration in Trastevere in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito on 101st day of hunger strike (Rome, Italy 28th January 2023)

via: Lanemesi translated by Act for freedom now!

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We are publishing a short contribution on the demonstration held Saturday 28th January in Rome in solidarity with comrade Alfredo Cospito 101 days from the beginning of the hunger strike.
Near the gathering in piazza Trilussa – which lasted several hours and from which a demonstration had been unable to set off – after some of those present had slipped out of the encirclement, there were some clashes with the repressive forces, they soon found themselves in difficulty due to being partially surrounded and to the determination of comrades to hold the streets (but they managed to stop a comrade near Piazza Trilussa). After the clashes, a demonstration was held in the small streets of Trastevere.

At the end of the demo a few dozen comrades were stopped by the DIGOS, police in riot gear and carabinieri. All 41 people apprehended during the day, taken to the police station and released without restriction from the early hours of Sunday 29, were charged with Article 337 of the Criminal Code (resisting a public official). Below is a brief informative note issued on 29 January itself.
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Anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, on the 103rd day of hunger strike, was transferred to the Opera prison in Milan (Italy, January 30, 2023)

Alfredo Cospito was transferred from the prison of Bancali to the SAI (Intensified Assistance Service) inside the lager of Opera, in Milan. In this prison there is a hospital section for prisoners in 41 bis prison regime. The new address is:

Alfredo Cospito
Casa di Reclusione di Milano Opera
via Camporgnago 40
20141 Milano
Italy
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EN/IN/Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia: Graffiti in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito.

Received by mail: Anonymous in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia is making graffiti in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito. this was a response to the imprisonment carried out on Cospito who found himself under 41BIS.

For information current condition of Alfredo Cospito after one hundred days of his hunger strike: https://actforfree.noblogs.org/post/

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Diterima melalui surel: Anonim di Surabaya, Jawa Timur, Indonesia membuat grafiti solidaritas dengan Alfredo Cospito. ini adalah tanggapan atas pemenjaraan yang dilakukan terhadap Cospito yang berada di bawah 41BIS.

Untuk informasi tentang kondisi Alfredo Cospito saat ini setelah seratus hari mogok makan, cek di: https://actforfree.noblogs.org/post/2023/01/27/update-about-the-health-condition-of-alfredo-cospito-on-the-99th-day-of-hunger-strike-italy-january-26-2023/

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Update about the health condition of Alfredo Cospito on the 99th day of hunger strike (Italy, January 26, 2023)

With the publication of the following texts – an update circulated yesterday, January 26th, and two transcripts of as many radio speeches by the trusted doctor, dating back to January 26th and 19th – we provide an update on the current serious health condition of anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito 100 days after the start of the hunger strike.

The attempted annihilation against Alfredo was ratified by the State in July and December last year, first (by the Court of Cassation) with the reclassification as ‘political massacre’ of a charge in the Scripta Manent trial, then (by the Court of Surveillance in Rome) with an order confirming his detention in 41 bis, the most afflictive detention regime in Italian prisons, to which Alfredo was transferred on May 5th.

In the face of this attempt at annihilation, it is of the utmost importance that the ideas, deeds, and contribution of the comrade are not forgotten, condemned to oblivion as desired by the repressive apparatuses with the Scripta Manent trial, Sibilla repressive operation, and the transfer to the 41 bis prison regime. To the isolation and censorship of the State and its prisons we oppose, today as yesterday, the tenacity and consistency of our ideas and practices.

Continue reading Update about the health condition of Alfredo Cospito on the 99th day of hunger strike (Italy, January 26, 2023)

Communiqué from different territories of Abya Yala in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito, who is since almost 90 days on hunger strike against the 41 bis punishment and isolation regime.(América Latina)

Public declaration by anarchist, subversive anti-authoritarian, nihilist, anti-speciesist and anarcho-feminist affinities regarding the current situation of comrade Alfredo Cospito, locked up in the Italian fascist prisons and since almost 90 days on hunger strike.

As comrades with affinity to the anarchist struggle against prisons, prison society and the system of domination, we want to express through these words our unwavering support for comrade Alfredo Cospito, kidnapped by the Italian state and held in the prison of Bancali, Sassari, Sardinia – an extermination center where he is detained after having been subjected to the infamous 41 bis regime. This regime aims to destroy him as a person by preventing him from maintaining contact with any of his comrades inside, as well as outside the prisons.

Alfredo has been on hunger strike since almost 90 days. He demands the end of the application of this annihilating regime, which blackmails anyone who enters it, through the torture of isolation, to choose between collaboration with justice or death – the only two occasions in which 41 bis ceases to be applied.

As comrades in affinity we repudiate the torture applied to Alfredo and any other comrade. We know that they fear us because of our uncompromising commitment to end with the system of domination, a commitment that does not end either with torture, prison, or death itself and, for this reason, Alfredo is risking his life firmly and without hesitation.

Continue reading Communiqué from different territories of Abya Yala in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito, who is since almost 90 days on hunger strike against the 41 bis punishment and isolation regime.(América Latina)

$hile: Words of Anarchist Comrade Mónica Caballero with Alfredo Cospito

Words of Comrade Mónica Caballero with Alfredo Cospito

November 22nd, 2022

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A few days ago, I received the news that the indomitable Alfredo Cospito began a hunger strike to demand his release from the 41 bis legal torture regime.

For those who do not know Alfredo Cospito, he is an anarchist comrade kidnapped by the Italian state, since 2012, for an attack against one of those responsible for the nuclear disaster in Fukushima. This action was claimed by the Olga FAI-FRI faction and Alfredo took responsibility for it.

Since this conviction, the comrade has been prosecuted in several repressive operations, such as Scripta Manet, Sybilla, which have managed to obtain convictions and have added more years to the comrade’s already long sentence.
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XXVI ANTI-PRISON MARCH, CATALUNYA

Account from some anarchists who joined from out of town last saturday:

14/1/23

Shouting the whole way with passion and rage, 80 of us marched for over hour out of the town of Martorell, to the two prisons of Brians in the Catalan countryside. With chants, music and fireworks, we let the people held captive know they’re not forgotten, despite all the state’s intentions to isolate them. And through the walls and layers upon layers of fences, they called and whistled back.

The Catalan government want to build two more hellholes in the Zona Franca area of Barcelona by 2027: a 800-person “open regime” men’s prison, and a 600-person women’s prison to replace the existing one of Wad-Ras. Development has been delayed after the discovery of heavy metals in the soil. The government says it wants to develop the women’s prison “from a feminist perspective, describing the plans as “gender sensitive” and supporting “female empowerment”! Here we see the inevitable endgame of leftist politics: prison societies with enhanced perceptions of freedom, built on the dying embers of social war….

ABAJO LOS MUROS DE LAS PRISIONES!
DOWN WITH EVERY STATE AND NATION!
FOR FREEDOM, FOR ANARCHY.

From Chile to Italy. A loud cry of insurrectional complicity for Alfredo Cóspito (Marcelo Villarroel)

November 23rd, 2022
via: informativoanarquista

Words of comrade Marcelo Villarroel from prison. From Chile to Italy –
A loud cry of insurrectional complicity for Alfredo Cóspito!!!
Alfredo Cóspito is an anarchist comrade from Turin imprisoned since September 2012 after the kneecapping of Roberto Adinolfi (on May 7), executive director of Italian nuclear company Ansaldo Nucleare. This act claimed by the “Olga” Cell Informal Anarchist Federation / International Revolutionary Front for which he was sentenced to 10 years and 8 months. He was also sentenced to 20 years (first degree), for the explosive attack on the Carabinieri training school in Fossano (Cuneo) on June 2, 2006, claimed by Terrible Anonymous Revolt – Informal Anarchist Federation, which provoked the state response through the operation “Scripta Manent”.

Alfredo has been an anarchist comrade in active praxis for decades. Always consistent with his anti-authoritarian projectuality, he has maintained several antagonistic initiatives for which, even though he has been in prison for more than 10 years, the Italian fascist state does not forgive him.

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$hile: Words of Anarchist Prisoner Lucas Hernandez From Prison/factory Santiago 1 January 7, 2023

Words of Anarchist Prisoner Lucas Hernandez From Prison/factory Santiago 1 January 7, 2023

(Received at informativoanarquista@riseup.net)

In the early morning of December 22, 2022 after a series of raids by the south metropolitan high complexity Prosecutor’s Office, as part of an investigation for an explosive attack at the National Directorate of the Chilean Gendarmerie…

We were arrested 2 comrades, my brother/comrade and I.

On that day, the 22nd, the official press published our faces like a trophy, making a spectacle of us. And as usual, condemning in advance all those who decide to rebel against this world of control and punishment.

Continue reading $hile: Words of Anarchist Prisoner Lucas Hernandez From Prison/factory Santiago 1 January 7, 2023

Words of Anarchist Prisoner Aldo Hernández Valdés From a Cell of Module 12 of “la gonzalina” Prison Rancagua $hile. January 7, 2023

Words of Anarchist Prisoner Aldo Hernández Valdés From a Cell of Module 12 of “la gonzalina” Prison Rancagua
I am going to write a few lines to deeply thank the anonymous and anarchist support that I have received through these solid walls that currently imprison me.
More than a decade ago I decided to try to reflect the ideas that I carried in this black heart of mine with action. I knew it was a duel to the death, to fight this prison society and all those who sustain this model of misery.
History has been stained with the unyielding blood of those of us who fight. The restlessness of these beautiful minds helps us to maintain the presence of our fallen while giving us the clarity of those who deserve our insurrectional commitments. It sustains all our eternal contempt for authority and for anyone who takes the beauty of freedom away from us. Freedom that is treasured in our black hearts.
Thank you to the different political prisoners who have been attentive since I arrived at this extermination center.
To Juan Aliste and Marcelo Villarroel who from the first moment communicated, to make my situation known.
To the tight embrace of energy and strength from Comander Ramiro.
To Francisco Solar and Juan Flores who sent me packages. That gesture did not go unnoticed among the other common prisoners who admired and respected that expression of solidarity between rebels, subversives, autonomous, anarchists and combatants. Expressions that reflect that solidarity is not just a written word.
“At this point there is no hesitation, the decision has been made and there is no turning back. I abandon the comfort of the established order and venture into the uncertainty of confrontation.” Kalinov Most
“It is necessary to offer the exquisite elevation of the arm and the mind to life. I face society with the same weapons, without bowing my head, that’s why I am considered and I am a dangerous man” Severino Di Giovanni.
A fraternal greeting to my friends and comrades. To my brother and beloved comrade who are under investigation in the Santiago 1 prison for this same case.
To the comrades in the street that have been giving us love and support through the days and nights since they raided the 6 homes looking for me.
Tight hugs to the families, wolfpacks, comrades, lawyers, friends, affinities and conspirators from all over the world.
The war continues…nothing is over. Let’s bash the enemy over the head with certainty 
Long live anarchy!
Aldo Hernández Valdés- Anarchist prisoner Module 12 / La Gonzalina extermination prison. 
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(Hamburg,Germany) Arson attack in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito and Lützerath // Strabag truck torched

Hamburg: Arson attack in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito and Lützerath // Strabag truck torched

In thought of anarchist prisoner in hungerstrike Alfredo Cospito, we torched a ‚Strabag‘ truck in the Schanze¹ neighborhood during the night of January 4th.

Not only does the Strabag company build prisons. Ever since the struggle for the Dannenröder foresti² they were also often attacked for their active role in the destruction of the natural world. Our fire is also supposed to donate some strength to those fighting in and around Lützerath³. The eviction has already begun now.

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Bologna, Italy: ATM of the BPER and an Amazon collection point attacked with hammers in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito and all revolutionary prisoners.

Bologna:  ATM of the BPER and an Amazon collection point attacked with hammers in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito and all revolutionary prisoners.

We receive by anonymous mail and publish:

The other night we decided to strike an ATM of the BPER [Banca Popolare dell’Emilia Romagna] and an Amazon collection point with hammers.
A small gesture of solidarity with Alfredo on hunger strike since October 20th against 41 bis and life imprisonment without appeal. Solidarity with Thanos, Ivan, Juan, Anna, Toby and all revolutionary prisoners and anyone who finds themselves behind bars.

Against all jails and borders. For freedom. for anarchy.

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Update about the health condition of Alfredo Cospito on the 85th day of hunger strike (Italy, January 12, 2023)

On January 12th, the 85th day of the hunger strike to the bitter end against 41 bis prison regime and life imprisonment without possibility of parole, the antagonist radio station Radio Onda d’Urto broadcast a third speech by the doctor who is regularly visiting anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, imprisoned in the Bancali prison, in Sassari. As for the updates on the 71st (December 29th) and 78th day (January 5th) of hunger strike, we report a transcript of the speech and the recording of the broadcast (in italian language):

“He has lost even more weight, and significantly more than last week: he lost another 4.50 kg, so he weighed 80 kg today. So for his height of about 1.93 cm, he is about 10 kg below his target weight. The musculature is getting progressively smaller […]. He was a bit angry because today four members of parliament from Partito Democratico [Democratic Party, PD] went to visit him [in Italy parliamentarians can, by their own decision, visit prisons at any time] and he reiterated that his struggle is not just for him, but is for all those who are imprisoned in 41 bis.
Continue reading Update about the health condition of Alfredo Cospito on the 85th day of hunger strike (Italy, January 12, 2023)

Update on imprisoned anarchist Ivan Alocco, on the 16th day of new hunger strike alongside Alfredo Cospito (France, January 6, 2023)

6/1/23

Ivan on 16th day of hunger strike!

We hear from France about the new hunger strike that anarchist Ivan Alocco has been on in solidarity with Alfredo since last December 22 [the comrade went on a first hunger strike, which lasted 35 days, between October 27 and December 1].

Ivan is fine, he takes sugar in his water instead of meals and also a little salt in the morning, which prevents his tension from dropping too much causing him great dizziness (however, the lowest blood pressure he has reached so far is 50 minimum and 80 maximum). Glucose is okay, toxins some days are a bit high, but nothing to worry about.
Continue reading Update on imprisoned anarchist Ivan Alocco, on the 16th day of new hunger strike alongside Alfredo Cospito (France, January 6, 2023)