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Italy: “Steadfastness in revolutionary practice” – Discourse at gatherings outside the prisons of Terni and Spoleto

“Steadfastness in revolutionary practice” – Discourse at gatherings outside the prisons of Terni and Spoleto
(1/11/2022)

We are writing these lines on the occasion of the gatherings planned for 1st November 2022 outside the prisons of Terni and Spoleto in conjunction with the call for struggle launched through the hunger strike by anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, locked up in the prison of Bancali; a hunger strike which has also been joined by anarchists Juan Sorroche, locked up in the prison of Terni and Ivan Alocco, locked up in the French prison of Villepinte.

The contribution, both theorical and pratical, that some of the imprisoned comrades have given to the anarchist movement throughout the years, and which they continue to give from inside the infamous cages built by the democratic regimes, still finds a way to escape and become uninterrupted, unmediated borderless agitation between the proletariat and the exploited all over the world: from Chile to France, from Spain to Italy.

On the 5th of May 2022, imprisoned anarchist Alfredo Cospito received notification of his transfer from “Maximum Security 2” to “41 bis”. The decree was ordered by former minister of justice Marta Cartabia.

On July 6th 2022, the Court of Cassation requalified the explosive attack against the school of carabinieri of Fossano of June 2006, claimed by Rivolta Anonima e Tremenda / Federazione Anarchica Informale, which the comrades Anna Beniamino and Alfredo Cospito were accused of, as “Political Massacre”, deferring to a worsening calculation of the sentence that could even become mandatory life imprisonment.

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Germany: SPIE & MIELE Vans Set on Fire in Leipzig – Freedom for our Comrades!

SPIE & MIELE Vans Set on Fire in Leipzig

During the night from 31.10. to 01.11. we set fire to SPIE and MIELE vans in the south of Leipzig. SPIE has been known as a prison profiteer for years. The company is involved in both the construction and operation of prisons worldwide.

For us, MIELE is representative of German imperialism in Greece. The appliance manufacturer has previously been the target of attacks by the Revolutionary Organization November 17 there.

Our hearts burn for all the rebels in the dungeons of the state who continue their struggle. They burn for Alfredo and Juan who are on hunger strike in Italy. They burn for Giannis Michailidis, who was on hunger strike from May to July this year and unfortunately had to suspend it without “success”.

Freedom for Anna, Juan, Giannis and Alfredo!
For anarchy!

source: https://de.indymedia.org/node/235714

via: abolitionmedia

ANARCHIST PRISONER JUAN SORROCHE FERNANDEZ FROM TERNI PRISON, ON HUNGER STRIKE FROM 25/10/2022 FOR AN INDEFINITE PERIOD – IN SOLIDARITY (ITALY)

JUAN SORROCHE FERNANDEZ FROM TERNI PRISON, HIGH SECURITY SECTION (AS2) ON HUNGER STRIKE FROM 25/10/2022 FOR AN INDEFINITE PERIOD – IN
SOLIDARITY

1ST, I DEMAND: THE DOWNGRADING FROM 41BIS OF THE ANARCHIST ALFREDO COSPITO.

– Last May 5th, Alfredo Cospito was placed under the 41bis regime and later transferred to Bancali Prison (Sassari). This was done to
physically prevent him from communicating and contributing to the debate among anarchists, after having already been imprisoned for 10 years in AS2 and subjected several times to correspondence censorship, investigations and trials concerning his writings.
The state wants to silence and annihilate him with the 41bis regime, a prison within a prison, prison of annihilation, it is a scientifically studied torture technique, period: a technique based on deprivation to induce prisoners to deny their beliefs. The 41bis was not only designed for those accused
of association with the mafia, but this imprisonment regime was also and still is used for the purpose of repression of revolutionaries and subversives. For 17 years there have been some communist revolutionaries subjected to this regime.

2ND, -FOR AN ACTIVE SOLIDARITY:

– since I do not perceive myself as isolated, I want to give continuity of solidarity and internationalist struggle because what is happening to us isn’t stand-alone cases of state revenge against us specifically as social prisoners.

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Prague,Czech Republic: A colorful message at the Belarusian Embassy in Prague

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A colorful message at the Belarusian Embassy in Prague

On Friday, October 21, 2022, a colorful message was placed on the Belarusian Embassy in Prague: first, the wall was marked with red paint and then on this background was written “FREEDOM FOR IHAR A.”

The red color symbolizes the blood of people who are massacred by the Belarusian police at demonstrations and in KGB cells. Moreover, with the current war aggression in Ukraine, the Belarusian state is a very close partner of the Russian state. Thus, the Lukashenko regime is also complicit in the bloodbath of people outside Belarus.

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Solidarity banner and graffiti in solidarity with comrade hunger striker Alfredo Cospito. (North of Greece)

Solidarity banner and graffiti in solidarity with unrepentant comrade
hunger striker Alfredo Cospito.

Anarchy squat Utopia A.D. Komotini Greece

CHILE: URGENCY REQUIRES FORCEFULNESS – LET’S GET ALFREDO CÓSPITO OUT OF ISOLATION BY ANARCHIST PRISONER FRANCISCO SOLAR. en/es/el

CHILE: URGENCY REQUIRES FORCEFULNESS – LET’S GET ALFREDO CÓSPITO OUT OF ISOLATION
BY FRANCISCO SOLAR


The hunger strike as a tool of struggle is the last resort that the prisoner has to combat the suffocating life of prison.
It is an extreme measure in which the body is used as the final trench of combat. Urgency determines the decision to carry out a struggle with these characteristics. An urgency that, undoubtedly, the situation of comrade Alfredo Cóspito, whom Power tries to silence under an insane isolation, presents today.

They perceived his actions as hard blows which, if replicated and multiplied, would put the imposed order in jeopardy.

They saw in his writings and proposals important contributions to seditious ideas and practices that constitute a danger to any expression of authority.

And they are not wrong.

For these reasons they have decided to apply the 41 bis to Alfredo. In the face of this attack we have no choice but to respond with strength, with decision, being clear that this is a struggle for Alfredo and for all of us who take a stand against power. Understanding the importance of fighting this battle, seeing it as an opportunity to strengthen ties and complicities in an internationalism of action.

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Athens,Greece: For the upcoming court dates of Anarchists V. Stathopoulos and Dimitris Hatzivassiliadis

Regarding the upcoming court dates of Anarchists V. Stathopoulos and Dimitris Hatzivassiliadis

The presence and support of our comrades is necessary.

In particular, the following hearings have been scheduled:

Tuesday 1st, Thursday 10th, Wednesday 16th, Tuesday 22nd and Tuesday 29th of November.

Floor : 6th floor – Room : D120B

loukarews street courts of appeal in Αthens

AGAINST STATE PLOTS – STANDING WITH OUR COMRADES

Excerpts from a letter of comrade Vangelis Stathopoulos:

…….So I have been summoned to a trial, in which I am being tried for the concept of solidarity. Solidarity is a relationship and a selfless relationship between people. A social relationship, a concept that particularly inspires the wider resistance movement and a basic component to build a world against the exploitation of man by man. A common component also within resistance movements worldwide, a basic foundation of their history….

….Solidarity is being tried in my case with the most serious charges because I helped an injured comrade. My prosecution and trial is based solely on political criteria, on the attitude of dignity and solidarity that I have followed  consistently in my life. I have nothing to save but my own life, I have nothing to defend but the constant struggle against the murderous fury of the State and capital! If my practical solidarity is the crime for which I must be condemned and punished, I declare myself unrepentant!

Assembly of Solidarity to the anarchist Vanggelis Stathopoulos

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https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1621437/

Translated by Act for freedom now!

ITALY: FIRST OF NOVEMBER TERNI – SPOLETO: GATHERINGS IN SOLIDARITY WITH ALFREDO, JUAN AND THE PRISONERS IN REVOLT

Act for freedom now! received by email and translated to English
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FIRST OF NOVEMBER TERNI – SPOLETO: GATHERINGS IN SOLIDARITY WITH ALFREDO, JUAN AND THE PRISONERS IN REVOLT

ALFREDO OUT OF 41 BIS
END 41 BIS
EVERYBODY FREE

The anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito has been on hunger strike since 20th October in the prison of Sassari against the regime of 41 bis that he has been subjected to since last May, after ten years in Maximum Security. The unprecedented decision to keep an anarchist in 41 bis is just the tip of the iceberg of the authoritarian backlash in act in Italy, a backlash inaugurated with the prison massacre in March 2020, followed by investigations against trade union struggles, with logistics workers accused of ‘extortion’ against the boss because they demanded wage increases, in a particularly fierce preventive counterrevolution against the anarchist movement as indicated by the seizures of books and newspapers, the endless special surveillance, the sentencing of Juan Sorroche to 28 years’ prison and the Court of Cassation of the scripta manent trial.
TUESDAY 1ST NOVEMBER
10am – Prison of Terni
2pm – Prison of Spoleto
SOLIDARITY GATHERINGS
• We will bring news of Alfredo’s struggle against the 41 bis sections!
• In solidarity with Juan, maximum-security prisoner in the prison of Terni!
• In solidarity with the medium-security prisoners in the prison of Terni protagonists in the revolt of last October 16!
• In solidarity with Roberto Morandi, revolutionary communist in 41 bis in the prison of Spoleto!

The only viable path. Poster in solidarity with the anarchist Alfredo Cospito (Italy)

The only viable path. Poster in solidarity with the anarchist Alfredo Cospito

THE ONLY VIABLE PATH 

Our comrade Alfredo Cospito finds himself imprisoned under the 41bis regime. This measure was ordered after months of censureship of correspondence and following the repressive operation Sibilla of November 2021, for which he received an arrest warrant in prison. Behind this repressive aggravation of Alfredo’s conditions of imprisonment there is the overt will of the State to silence a comrade who, during these years of imprisonment has contributed to the anarchist debate enormously with articles and interventions.

The 41 bis is a hard prison regime created to isolate, silence and annihilate the prisoner, in an attempt to get him to cooperate with Justice. Established in the late 1980s, it was initially applied in exceptional cases of riots or serious emergency situations within prison institutions. In 1992, after the Capaci massacre, it was extended to Mafia prisoners. Since 2002, it has also been applied to those convicted of terrorism and subversion, thus as an instrument of political repression. Some prisoners belonging to the communist organisation BR-PCC are also currently in this regime. Originally established as a detention regime of a temporary nature, from emergency to emergency, this exceptionality has become the norm. A mechanism, this one, which has become daily bread for the majority of the population since the proclamation of the so-called pandemic. It is now clear: once an emergency measure is established, there is no going back.

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Carrara, Italy: The two dragons of my anarchism. Writings of Juan Sorroche

Translated by Anarchists of the anarchist project Act for freedom now!

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The two dragons of my anarchism. Writings of Juan Sorroche

I DUE DRAGONI
DEL MIO ANARCHISMO  
[THE TWO DRAGONS OF MY ANARCHISM]

PDF: ITALIANO

 

 

 

 

 

 

Writings of Juan Sorroche

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INDICE

Introduction 5
Counterpoints 7
Ecce a male homo!
When will the anti-authoritarian emancipation from the male role be? 12
The cult of hatred!!! 18
Everything changes, everything is in constant motion… 23
My” “individual-existentialism-mystic-anarchism” 27
First statement at the trial for the action at the Lega di Treviso premises 33
Second statement at the trial for the action at the Lega di Treviso premises 37
Appendice 41

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The two dragons of my anarchism

Introduction

Hola comrades,
I am happy to take part in the anarchist book fair in Carrara, 2022, and to intervene through my friends and comrades with this pamphlet, and in the presentation of issue 14 of ‘i giorni e le notti’, an anarchist magazine of which I feel an intrinsic part.
Books, fanzines, anarchist journals…I believe that editorial collaboration, non-commercial book fairs, or collaboration in creating a book or reading it and analysing it together, is for me a process of praxis and realisation, which goes far beyond a purely mechanistic question. The relations, the relationships, the contrasts of the different individualities create a diversified whole of organic and living development in its symbiosis of unrepeatable and unique human relations and relationships.

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