For an August of black memory of struggle…

The absence they leave behind for their comrades must have an impact on the daily lives of those who knew them, those who exchanged more than a few words with them must miss them, and how could they not? Who is prepared for the death of a brother or sister? Even if we can put ourselves in the situation, the scenario, there is no certainty of being prepared. All feelings are personal and individual; what one feels inside must be experienced firsthand in order to speak of the loss.

We did not walk with you, we did not know you, but our comrades bear witness to your determined and resolute journey to face this reality.

These lines are to bring Luciano, Belén, and Lupi to mind, so that no comrade has to die in a distant memory, but rather be present in every moment that one decides to confront the establishment.

For Luciano, Lupi, Belén, Santiago Maldonado, Macarena Valdés, and so many others who died or were killed…

First week of a Black August.
Aldo and Lucas from “La Gonzalina” and “Santiago Uno.”

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Sunday 31 August 2025

BASE Bristol – Easton – 14 Robertson Road – BS5 6JY

18:00 Food
19:00 Talk

The International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners[1] takes place every year between 23-30 August to commemorate the murders of the Haymarket martyrs in Chicago, 1886, who died for freedom, labour rights and dignity.
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International Week of Solidarity with Imprisoned Anarchists 2025 Porto Alegre.

Saturday, August 23, 3 p.m., Utopia e Luta, Borges staircase, historic center

4 p.m. Discussion circle: From the multiple expressions of struggle for the liberation of Sacco and Vanzetti in the 1920s around the world and in Porto Alegre, to the current agitation for our comrades kidnapped by the States.

5:30 p.m.: Anti-prison activity: Writing postcards to imprisoned comrades

Stands with publications and zines, Pandemia Distro, and Biblioteca Anárquica Kaos.

A movement that forgets the prisoners is doomed to failure!

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PT:

Semana Internacional de Solidariedade com xs Anarquistas Presxs 2025 Porto Alegre

Sábado 23 de agosto, 15 horas, Utopia e Luta, escadaria da Borges centro historico

16 horas Roda de conversa: Das múltiplas expresões de luta pela
libertação de Saco e Vanzetti nos anos 20 no mundo e em Porto Alegre, à agitação atual por nossos companheirxs sequestradxs pelos Estados.

17.30 horas: Atividade anticarcerária: Escrita de cartões postais para companheirxs presxs

Bancas com publicações e zines, Pandemia Distro e Biblioteca Anárquica Kaos.

Um movimento que esqueçe seus presxs está fadado ao fracaso!

We call for actions during Week of Solidarity With Anarchist Prisoners 23 until 30 August 2025!

Against Prison Society, Towards Connection

Standing at the exterior of the prison we are greeted with the stark reality of alienation and separation. A wall, a fence, guard towers, surveillance cameras, concrete boxes and steel cages aimed at keeping the accused and “guilty” separate from the rest of society, concepts of rehabilitation and repentance constructed from ideologies of States in order to hold onto and secure their power, to freeze territories with fixed national identities and to punish whatever falls outside of their notions of legality, progress, outside of their morality and capitalist value. The thing is, once we stand outside the walls of the prison we realize that it is a touchable construct. It is a wall, it is concrete, it is material. Those who keep it functioning are living beings… Yes, prisons isolate us, but they isolate us as much as we let them, as soon as we accept them. The walls become fixed and permanent to those of us on the outside as soon as we forget and accept the separation they impose. Those on the inside of the boxes can’t forget, as it is everyday they are confronted with the harsh reality of life on the inside. As long as states exist, there will be prisons, and we will find ourselves within their walls.

It is in the carrying forth of memory that we continue the struggle and life of comrades who have died before us, we carry the ideas and actions of those separated by cages and concrete, creating continuity and connection in the endless acts of resistance that make up a life in search of freedom. Prisons and the struggles that take place within their walls are a constant contribution to this collective memory of resistance.
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Brotherly words from prison, before the trial against Aldo and Lucas Hernández

Words by Francisco Solar

To greet comrades Aldo and Lucas Hernandez in this difficult stage of the trial against them is, once again, to validate the insurrectional action. It is to support and understand the necessity of the forceful action for which Aldo is accused. An action that, by the way, shook the daily life inside this prison. An action that, like few others, made solidarity be felt in all its breadth.

The judicial spectacle is prepared, the anti-anarchist Prosecutor already has all his cards ready to return to condemn anarchists of action to harsh sentences, however, in the face of this adverse panorama, they will find themselves with dignified and whole comrades assumed in a life of combat as they have well demonstrated during these years of confinement. Aldo’s situation has been complicated by being classified and locked up, these last months, in a maximum security module where it is not clear when he will be able to get out.

All the strength for Aldo and Lucas with the certainty that no sentence is eternal and knowing that every action is worth it.

Aldo and Lucas to the streets!

Let the prisons explode!

Francisco Solar

La Gonzalina Prison – Rancagua

June 2025

Words by Joaquín García

Before the beginning of the trial against comrades Aldo and Lucas;

In the next few days a new theater of Power will begin: two comrades will begin the final stage of the judicial inquisition, the last media feast; after this, nothing is public….

I know, it is clear to me, that they will face this stage with all the solidity that characterizes them, firm in their convictions, as they have shown in and out of jail, in word and action. Continue reading (Chile) Brotherly words from prison, before the trial against Aldo and Lucas Hernández →

June 26, 2025 / informativoanarquista

Translated by Act for freedom now!

After more than 2 and a half years in pre-trial prison, the Oral Trial against comrades Aldo and Lucas Hernández begins this July 10. In this trial, the High Complexity Prosecutor, the Gendarmerie of Chile and the Minister of the Interior aim to prove that our comrades are responsible for the crimes of which they are accused and then condemn them to long sentences.
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