24th June – International Day of Action and Solidarity with the Anarchist Hunger Striker Giannis Michailidis
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UK: Communication with anarchist comrade Toby Shone cut off by scum prison authorities G4S
Imprisoned Anarchist Toby Shone who is being held at the private G4S prison HMP/YOI Parc in Bridgend, South Wales, is now unable to communicate by phone with his solidarity group and closest loved ones after the Security Team at Parc, headed by Daniel Hayman, removed these contacts from his permitted phone pin numbers list on Friday 24th June 2022 at 6pm. This together with interference with his post and emails is an attempt to hold him incommunicado in the jail.
He was formally notified of this decision on Saturday 25th June with the following reasons given: giving interviews over the phone, giving detailed information about staff at the prison which has then been published online, and hate speech against some prison staff.
Neither Toby nor his comrades are surprised by this action and Toby remains strong and defiant. The weak and pitiful lackeys that work in the prison camps of capital, locking other human beings up in exchange for a little piece of silver and a small dimension of power over others, are no match at all for the revolutionary spirit and they know it. Neither Toby nor any of us will ever shut up.
Write to the prison to complain and show your solidarity by contacting the Director of HMP Parc:
Janet Wallsgrove
HM Prison Parc
Heol Hobcyn John
Coity, Bridgend, CF35 6AP
South Wales.
Tel: 01656 300200
General Fax: 01656 300316
Email: janet.wallsgrove@uk.g4s.com
or send your messages of solidarity to Toby:
Toby Shone
A7645EP
HM Prison Parc
Heol Hobcyn John
Coity, Bridgend, CF35 6AP
South Wales.
[please be aware that his mail is being interfered with and the prison may not allow him you communication but they WILL know the strength of the solidarity we can show him.]
Down with the prisons, down with capital.
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Athens,(exarxeia area) Greece: Taking responsibility by Anarchists, for the 28/5 clashes as a sign of solidarity with the hunger striker G.Michailidis
Taking responsibility for the 28/5 clashes as a sign of solidarity with the hunger striker G.Michailidis
On Saturday 28/5 we chose to given a life to the neighborhood of the exarxeia little more.
It was clear in our minds to give the state a clear message about how things will be from now on if the struggle of the anarchist G. Michailidis is not vindicated.
The comrade has been incarcerated since 2013 in the Greek prisons and already since 29/12/2021 he fulfils all the formal conditions for his conditional release. However, the judges of the Amfissa Magistrate’s Court rejected his application. Continue reading Athens,(exarxeia area) Greece: Taking responsibility by Anarchists, for the 28/5 clashes as a sign of solidarity with the hunger striker G.Michailidis
GREECE: KOSTAS SAKKAS «VICTORY IN THE STRUGGLE OF HUNGER STRIKER G. MICHAILIDIS».
In the era of the normality of speciesism, of the normality of the exploitation of animals (human or non-human), of the normality of confinement and prisons, of the normality of the culture of deprivation of freedom and, essentially, of life itself, of the normality of poverty, misery, sadness and depression, one does not fight for the obvious but for its reconceptualization.
Confinement, surveillance, lack of self-determination, deprivation of dignity… Prison. Giannis knows that to win the self-evident he must risk everything he has.
To win life he must risk the condition of survival.
Continue reading GREECE: KOSTAS SAKKAS «VICTORY IN THE STRUGGLE OF HUNGER STRIKER G. MICHAILIDIS».
Szczecin,poland: Solidarity banner for Anarchist Giannis Michailidis.
Szczecin,poland: Solidarity banner for Giannis Michailidis.
In this difficult moments our hearts and thoughts are with you, Giannis.
Anarchists
EN/ IT / , Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis)France : letter from prison from Ivan, “Solidarity means attack”
Letter from Ivan from his cell. He has been incarcerated for a few days on remand at the Villepinte prison. Here is his first letter…
15 VI 2022
My name is Ivan, I am an anarchist.
I was arrested by the SDAT1 on Saturday, June 11, around 3:30 am, not far from my home, while I was returning home.
I am charged with six vehicle fires that took place in Paris and Montreuil between January and June, often claimed in solidarity with anarchist prisoners (in the last one, an embassy car was set on fire the night I was arrested, in the 17th district).
For months, the cops set up surveillance tails, wiretaps, installed a camera in the entrance of my building, intercepted my mail (including letters from imprisoned comrades) and watched my bank account.
Another person (we only know each other by sight, but I hold him in high esteem) has been followed, listened to, etc., but not implicated. Also, but not implicated. Courage, my old friend!
The SDAT investigation began in February 2022 on the orders of the prosecutor Laure-Anne Boulanger, from the Bobigny prosecutor’s office. Continue reading EN/ IT / , Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis)France : letter from prison from Ivan, “Solidarity means attack”
- Anti-Terrorist Subdivision of the Central division of the Judicial Police ↵
Medical opinion for the anarchist comrade hunger striker Giannis Michailidis(Greece)
Medical opinion for the hunger striker Giannis Michailidis
On 24th of June 2022, I examined as his personal physician the detained hunger striker Mr. Michailidis in Lamia Hospital, who is hospitalized in the pathology clinic under surveillance.
From the clinical examination, as well as from the examination of his laboratory and paraclinical tests, the following results emerged: The hunger striker Mr. Michailidis, who is already on his 34th day of strike, has lost more than 21% of his body weight and has started to present serious health problems.
Specifically, I must point out that vital organs such as the liver, heart and spleen have already started to malfunction. Hunger striker Giannis Michailidis is already suffering from anaemia, thrombocytopenia, hypercholesterolemia and hypoalbuminemia.
He suffers from tachycardia and haemodynamic instability, severe gastrointestinal disorders and blood clotting disorders.
My medical assessment is that, in a very short period of time, he may develop severe multi-organ failure (circulatory, gastrointestinal, respiratory) as well as severe and irreversible failure of vital organs (liver failure, kidney failure, heart failure, brain haemorrhage), which may lead to “multi-organ failure”, a life-threatening condition for the hunger striker, or to the creation of permanent damage that will result in significant permanent disabilities.
The medical director of the National Health System,
Virgopoulou Pantelia
Thessaloniki, Greece: Arson attack on Eurobank ATM by anarchists
The anarchist hunger striker Giannis Michailidis is on his 33rd day of hunger strike and is being treated in Lamia hospital with his health condition being extremely poor.
The state, exhausting its vindictiveness, is pushing the hunger striker into a life-or-death struggle, a struggle for freedom or submission. The games played by the Ministry of Propaganda and the Amfissa Judicial Council, which for the umpteenth time rejected the comrade’s request for temporary release, clearly demonstrate that their “correction” against the declared enemies of the state and capital is extermination and torture. Continue reading Thessaloniki, Greece: Arson attack on Eurobank ATM by anarchists
CRETE, HERAKLION, GREECE: CLAIM FOR ATTACK ON DISTRICT COURT BY ANARCHISTS .
Solidarity to the hunger striker from 23/5 Giannis Michailidis
Comrade Giannis Michailidis has been on hunger strike for almost a month now, aiming for his release, refusing to accept that political, agonistic and generally «undisciplined» prisoners will be left at the mercy of each service and each council as to when they «qualify» for release. We support the comrade’s struggle, knowing that it is not an individual solution, but is added to the more general attack we face inside and outside of prisons.
We chose to attack, on 16/6, with paints at the Heraklion District Court, sending a signal of solidarity and strength to the comrade who continues his struggle and calling for a multiplication of aggressive movements until Giannis is released from prison.
We support the international day of action on 24/6
Immediate satisfaction of the hunger striker’s demand
Cops, Judges, Politicians have no reason to sleep in peace
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TRANSLATION:: ANARQUÍA
Eleonas-Thebes & Domokos prisons, Greece: Victory in the Struggle of Comrade Michailidis
Eleonas-Thebes and Domokos prisons, Victory in the Struggle of Comrade Michailidis
Solidarity to comrade Michailidis who is on hunger strike demanding his freedom. Despite the 
fact that he has served his sentence, the state repeatedly refuses to release him. No comrade should be left alone in the struggle for freedom.
VICTORY IN THE COMRADE’S STRUGGLE – IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Pola Roupa 3rd ward, Eleonas-Thebes prison
Nikos Maziotis 4th ward Domokos prison
members of the Revolutionary Struggle
20th June
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GREECE: STRENGTH AND FREEDOM FOR GIANNIS MICHAILIDIS, STATEMENT BY PRISONER ANARCHIST FOTIS TZIOTZIS.
The path we have chosen to live is clear, without bargaining or retreat. It is the path of freedom, the path of dignity. The same path chosen by comrade G. Michailidis, who fights against them with the most precious means at his disposal, his own life. Looking them in the eye, he fights for the most precious thing in life, freedom.
I am by his side. You know he is not alone, there are too many of us and that is a «problem» for the wretches of life. The puppets of the State. Our struggle will win.
There are people who are not afraid of you and no matter how many illegitimate means you use to achieve your goal you will not succeed.
Continue reading GREECE: STRENGTH AND FREEDOM FOR GIANNIS MICHAILIDIS, STATEMENT BY PRISONER ANARCHIST FOTIS TZIOTZIS.
Germany : Mobilization action for the International Day of Action June 24 in solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker Giannis Michailidis in Greece.
Mobilization action for the International Day of Action June 24 in solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker Giannis Michailidis in Greece.
On Saturday 18.06.2022 there were short mobilization actions in Kreuzberg with flyer distribution to call for the rally on 24.06.2022 at Kottbusser Tor 6 pm, and to draw attention to the hunger strike of Giannis Michailidis in Greece. For this purpose, the surrounding neighborhoods around the Kottbusser Tor were visited, where various neighborhood activities took place.
The solidarity assemblies with the anarchist hunger striker Giannis Michailidis in Greece call for an International Day of Action and Solidarity on June 24.
[International Day of Action and Solidarity with Anarchist Hunger Striker Giannis Michailidis].
Since May 23, anarchist Giannis Michailidis, who is in preventive detention in Maladrinos Prison, has been on hunger strike to demand his immediate release. He has served 3/5 of his 20 year sentence and 2/5 of his sentence for escape from prison. As scheduled, the prison authorities have asked him to sign his application for conditional release on December 29, 2021. Giannis Michailidis is now demanding his right to be released from prison through the hunger strike.
Continue reading Germany : Mobilization action for the International Day of Action June 24 in solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker Giannis Michailidis in Greece.
Glasgow, UK: Solidarity Event [Glasgow Autonomous Space
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Athens Kaisariani, Greece: Responsibility claim for the arson of luxury vehicles
The anarchist prisoner Giannis Michailidis is being treated in Lamia hospital, being on hunger strike since 23/5 demanding the obvious. His release from prison, which the Council of Amfissa is vengefully denying him.
We take responsibility for the arson of 8 luxury vehicles in the area of Kaisariani in the morning of 18/6.
We make it clear to all those responsible for the torture of our comrade that for every day that passes and his health deteriorates , we will make sure with all our efforts to disrupt the normal functioning of the metropolis. In the person of Giannis, the judicial mafia is taking revenge for consistency and commitment to the anarchist struggle, trying to terrorize each and every person who dares to fight.
Continue reading Athens Kaisariani, Greece: Responsibility claim for the arson of luxury vehicles
GREECE: FOR IMMEDIATE PERMISSION FOR POLA ROUPA, MEMBER OF REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE.
For the second time in a period of months, the Elaiona Prison Council has rejected the request of comrade Pola Roupa – who has already served 7 years in prison – for a permit to be able to see her son for a few days.
Note the political background in terms of sovereignty, both the development of both sessions with questions to Pola Roupa about her ideological-political opinions and their public expression as well as about her political defense in court, and the consequent political underpinning of the support for the rejection decisions on the basis, in short, of the criminalization of political opinion and its public expression as well as of the political stance and revolutionary defense in court.
As clearly stated in the 1st decision (Council Decision no. 20/17/02/2022), the criminalization of the comrade’s uncompromising stance of not renouncing her revolutionary activity and not revising her anarchist position, as defended in her defense in court, arises «After listening to the detainee, from the letters and interviews published recently and earlier, in any case in the time after her arrest, on the internet and in the media.» Moreover, the total criminalization of the anarchist struggle, consistently and through the identification of Pola Roupa with the anarchist space («she has been identified with the anarchist space that develops the action outside the law», as written in the same sentence), on the basis of the public expression of anarchist ideas through counter-information that does not recognize borders «inside and outside the walls», blatantly demonstrates the openness of the regime of exception in relation to the expression of political discourses and attitudes, from the prisoners of the State who continue to resist with coherence and integrity, to the margins of the struggle itself in general.
Continue reading GREECE: FOR IMMEDIATE PERMISSION FOR POLA ROUPA, MEMBER OF REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE.