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Updates concerning anarchist prisoner Toby Shone

December 20 2022

We receive and spread:

On the day of December 28th the “antiterrorism” unit of the British police will pick him up from Parc prison where he is presently locked up to take him to the ‘semi-open’ detention structure to do the last two years of his sentence. The restrictions that will be imposed on him are particularly severe and consist of semi-open detention: no possibility of contact with the other prisoners, a night curfew from 9pm to 7am, during which he cannot leave the structure, free exit during the rest of the day, but with an obligation to return to report at12 midday and 5pm.

During his free time he is forbidden to attend political demonstrations and meetings, or to associate with those generically defined/defined ‘left-wing extremists’. He will not be able to write on websites and will only be able to connect to the Internet at approved times and in a predetermined place. He will be able to have at most one mobile phone with a SIM card, which will be monitored. He will not be able to delete the history of his phone or computer.
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Italy: Update about the health condition of Alfredo Cospito on the 78th day of hunger strike

12 January 2023 Act for freedom now!

Update about the health condition of Alfredo Cospito on the 78th day of hunger strike (Italy, January 5, 2023)

On January 5th, the 78th 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 second speech by the doctor who is regularly visiting anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, imprisoned in the Bancali prison, in Sassari. As for the update on the 71st day of the hunger strike (December 29th), we report a transcript of the speech and the recording of the broadcast (in italian language):

“[…] All in all, Alfredo’s condition is good. He is holding the hunger strike in an unexpected way, perhaps because he started from a high weight, at the beginning he weighed 115 kg, while today he is 2 kg under the last time I saw him, so we are talking about 83.5 kg. All in all, he is absolutely lucid, well oriented in time and space, he only reports some pressure drops, especially when he gets up, and this is there because he is maintaining a slightly low pressure; however, not particularly, today he had a maximum of 105, a minimum of 70, so all in all a good pressure.
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Athens,Greece: (Whatever the decision, fire to every prison!) Freedom to comrades D. Chatzivassiliadis & V. Stathopoulos

11 January 2023 Act for freedom now!

Athens ; (Whatever the decision, fire to every prison!) Freedom to D. Chatzivassiliadis and V. Stathopoulos

Power fears the revolutionary impulse and is on its knees when the revolutionary perspective for a new world, free and unconstrained, without slaves and hypocrisy, is born. The State begins to disintegrate when the will for its effective deconstruction begins in practice and as a whole. The prisoners of the war of liberation are the vanguard of the struggle and our solidarity is non-negotiable and unconditional.

We stand by the struggles of our comrades in the courts and in captivity. Our struggles against the violence of the State and capital do not stop in the courtrooms or in the prisons!

SOLIDARITY WITH THE HUNGER STRIKE SINCE 20/10 AGAINST 41-bis, OF ALFREDO COSPITO
SOLIDARITY WITH THE HUNGER STRIKE (& THIRST STRIKE FOR 18 DAYS) SINCE 19/12, OF THANOS HATZIANGGELOU
SOLIDARITY WITH THE 11 POLITICAL PRISONERS FROM TURKEY, INDEFINITE HUNGER STRIKERS SINCE 7/10
GREETINGS TO COMRADES DIMITRIS HATZIVASILIADIS & VANGELIS STATHOPOULOS
FIRE TO ALL CELLS!

All at the Court of Appeal (Loukareos) on Thursday 12 January, at 11.00

* In view of the day (12/1) of the announcement of the verdict in the case of anarchists Dimitris Chatzivasiliadis and Vanggelis Stathopoulos for participation in the Revolutionary Self-Defense Organization, we put up banners on Messologiou Street in Exarxeia area and on the bridge of Moustoxidis in athens.

Open Assembly of Ⓐanarchists

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EN/EL/Greece : Statement of comrade Dimitris Chatzivasiliadis – speech of internationalist solidarity in the context of the trial of the Organization Revolutionary Self-Defense

11 January 2023 Act for freedom now!

Statement of comrade Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis – speech of internationalist solidarity in the context of the trial of the Organization Revolutionary Self-Defense

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5/1/23

FOR INTERNATIONALIST SOLIDARITY

There are moments when silence is an invitation to crime. There are moments when silence is complicity. Georges Ibrahim Abdallah

You are guilty not only when you commit a crime, but also when you do nothing to prevent it when you have the opportunity. Dimitris Tsafendas1

Since May ’22, a counter-revolutionary trial has been taking place against anarchist fighters, for participation in the armed Organization Revolutionary Self-Defense. This trial comes at a time when the state-capitalist regime is climaxing its aggression against the oppressed, the exploited and excluded. The anarchist Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis is also on trial for this case, while he has taken responsibility, both in public and in this courtroom, for his participation in revolutionary struggle through the Organization of Revolutionary Self-Defense, as well as for keeping the weapons (which in the repressive operation of November ‘19, fell into the hands of the state), in order to continue the guerrilla struggle through the experience and strategy of the Organization Revolutionary Self-Defense. The court of appeal of this particular military tribunal of the counter-revolution will be completed in January ‘23.

Throughout the course of this trial, Dimitris Chatzivasiliadis has been defending the right of revolutionary struggle, the necessity of guerrilla organization and of the armed social self-defense against the tyranny of power, and has been deconstructing and attacking bourgeois justice and its counter-revolutionary laws, inside the enemy field. With an eye to the world revolution, from the beginning of the trial, Dimitris Chatzivasiliadis is speaking about movements and struggles in all parts of the globe, expressing solidarity with those who are struggling, with current struggles, with the political prisoners and their fight today, and with reference to fighters who have been killed. These days, a struggle in italian prisons is taking place; comrade Alfredo Cospito is on hunger strike already for more than 65 days, against the state of total isolation, 41-bis, that has been imposed on him. With the awareness of how critical Alfredo Cospito’s struggle is, comrade Dimitris made extensive reference to Alfredo’s fight, during the trial. Meanwhile, the italian authorities rejected Alfredo’s demand for his removal from the 41-bis regime, and the comrade is continuing the hunger strike.
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Rome,Italy : New year same shit

8 January 2023 Act for freedom now!

Rome: New year same shit

Having nothing to celebrate we decided to attack, taking advantage of the chaotic new year’s eve festivities.

So in the night of the 31st we set fire to a fibre optic pole in the hope that this would jam the dense network of connections that now pervades cities.

An ever tightening network, between control and social anesthesia, but which also means that its links and nodes are everywhere therefore everywhere attackable.

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General Hospital of Serres,Greece: Declaration by hunger and thirst striker (since 19/12) comrade Th. Chatzianggelou, of Anarchist Action Organisation, concerning attempts to force feed him.

3 January 2023 Act for freedom now!

Declaration by hunger and thirst striker (since 19/12) comrade Th. Chatzianggelou, of Anarchist Action Organisation, concerning attempts to force feed him

Both I and the Anarchist Action Organization have stood by the side of the struggling medical community over the years, through forms, fronts and actions of revolutionary violence that have shown solidarity in practice.

My respect for the vocation of this community of people fighting for the collective health of the social base, completely sidelined by the State and capitalist monopolies, is strictly the same.

But if they act as prosecutors in violation of my conscious will, they will see a man they have not known till now. Unfortunately for my tormentors, I still have plenty of breathing room to defend political responsibility.

The red line is in my veins. If blood is spilled, it will not be mine alone.

Thanos Hatzianggelou, captured member of the Anarchist Action organization
General Hospital of Serres
01/1/2023

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via: athens.indymedia Translated by Act for freedom now!

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Omar Nioi – Scripta Manent: a political trial against 20 years of history of revolutionary anarchism

1 January 2023 Act for freedom now!

Letter – Intervention of the anarchist comrade from Sardinia Omar Nioi (convicted in the trial of “Operation Scripta Manent”) at the event held in Athens (A.S.O.E.E.) on December 19, 2022 regarding the anarcho-nihilist hunger striker Alfredo Cospito.

First of all, a greeting to all the comrades who were present in this initiative, a greeting and a special thanks to the comrades who promoted it. To this day, the weaving of international relations, exchanges and comparisons continues, as in the past, to be an essential element and always a living part of revolutionary anarchism, in order to strengthen our intentions.

Scripta Manent:

A political trial against 20 years of the history of revolutionary anarchism

The events:

At dawn on 6 September 2016, 32 comrades throughout the Italian State were awakened by the civil police (DIGOS). The result of the first part of the police operation called “Scripta Manent”, ordered by the Turin Public Prosecutor’s Office through its investigator Roberto Maria Sparagna, is 15 suspects and 7 arrests. On the other hand, an eighth anarchist, in charge of the Anarchist Black Cross publishing project (now closed), is arrested after a house search against him in which batteries and an electrician’s manual were found. In addition to comrades Alfredo Cospito and Nicola Gai, already in prison since 2012 having been tried and convicted for the injury of Roberto Adinolfi, (CEO of Ansaldo Nucleare) action taken by “Nucleo Olga of FAI/FRI”, comrades Alessandro, Marco, Danilo, Valentina and Anna are arrested. For the comrades, articles 270 bis (on association with terrorist purposes), 280 bis (on terrorist acts with lethal or explosive devices) and 285 (on massacre) are triggered for various reasons, which are in question starting from as far back as 2003 and all relating to a series of attacks specifically signed by the “Informal Anarchist Federation” through the cells FAI/Narodnaya Volya (FAI/ People’s Will), “Cooperativa Artigiana Fuoco e Affini FAI/Collaboration of Fire and Artifacts (Occasionally Spectacular))”, “FAI/RAT ((Rivolta Anonima e Tremenda/Federazione Anarchica Informale – Anonymous and Tremendous Revolt/Informal Anarchist Federation)” and “Nucleo Olga FAI/FRI” (FAI/IRF Cell Olga).

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Italy: Update about the health condition of Alfredo Cospito on the 71st day of hunger strike

1 January 2023 Act for freedom now!

Update about the health condition of Alfredo Cospito on the 71st day of hunger strike (Italy, December 29, 2022)

On December 29th, 71st day of the hunger strike to the bitter end against 41 bis and life imprisonment without possibility of parole, the antagonist radio station Radio Onda d’Urto broadcast a speech by the doctor who is regularly visiting anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, imprisoned in the Bancali prison in Sassari. We report a partial transcript of the speech and, at the end of the update, the recording of the broadcast (in italian language).

“[…] So, let’s consider that Alfredo is now 70 days into his hunger strike. He started from a weight of 115 kg and today he is at 84 kg. Surely he has a strong physique, he started from a fairly high weight so he has a better chance than others of being able to sustain this hunger strike. It is clear, however, that everything has an end at some point; in the sense that currently his haemato-chemical parameters are quite good, except for the fact that it is going down a bit with the electrolytes.

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Athens,Greece: Claim for the incendiary attack on the Italian embassy’s First Counsellor’s car

31 December 2022 Act for freedom now!

Claim for the incendiary attack on the Italian embassy’s First Counsellor’s car

Alfredo Cospito has been on hunger strike since October 20th, against the torture regime 41 bis imposed on him by the Italian State. Alfredo Cospito has been in prison since 2012, after claiming responsibility for the wounding of Roberto Adinolfi, CEO of Ansaldo Nucleare, an action carried out by the Informal Anarchist Federation/International Revolutionary Front (FAI/IRF). Ever since then the comrade has remained unrepentant and continues to be dedicated to the cause of social liberation. That is why the Italian State decided, from May 5th, to impose the 41bis regime on him, a prison within the prison, where he is held in isolation 23 hours a day, with one hour’s exercise period during which he can only meet with a restricted number of prisoners decided by the prison management.

Visits from family are limited to an encounter of one hour a month, to take place through a glass partition, and one ten-minute phone call, which a family member must make from inside a carabinieri barracks or another prison. The number of books and other printed material allowed is also limited, as is his correspondence. This prison regime, which the Italian State imposes on political prisoners through article 41bis, is now being applied throughout the whole sentence, not limited to the 4 years for which it was originally foreseen.

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