Act for free received by email 18.12.21

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I didn’t know I was Harry Houdini

26/11/2021

Today I was taken from the cells of G-wing, Bristol prison to the City Hospital under a security escort. This was to detect any reoccurrence of cancer in my abdomen and pelvis. In the reception area of the prison, I had the usual strip search, and I was forced to change out of my own clothes into prison-issue clothes.

This offended my dignity as even when I was being held in Wandsworth prison in London under “antiterrorist” conditions I could at least go to the hospital in my own clothes. Whilst I was waiting for the screws to finish the paperwork, I got a glance of my cover sheet at my file – “escape list” marked in red. I was shackled to a screw with an escort and another two and I was driven by four screws in an unmarked van to the radiology unit. Along the way and back, of course, I was a witness to the pathetic, belittling ,racist, misogynistic “chats” of the screws who consider themselves experts of all aspects of life. At the radiology unit there were discussions between the medical staff and screws with some referral to their superiors, as, without any foresight on the screws part, they hadn’t realised that I couldn’t be shackled inside the MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) machine. Despite the MIR machine being within a sealed room with a single door, I was forced to wear a pair of plastic zip tight cuffs which were tightened so tight they cut into my wrists.

Continue reading A letter from prison by Toby Shone (UK) →

The Solidarity Fund continues this year the series of diaries / calendars in Greek language that chronologically record some of the most important moments of the social and class war in Greece

After presenting the period 1974-1990 (diary / calendar 2020) and the 1990s (diary / calendar  2021), this year we attempt to record the five-year period 2000-2005. In this way, we hope to contribute our part in preserving the thread of our collective memory, the memory of radical struggles. It is precisely this thread of collective revolutionary memory and tradition that the State and capital are increasingly attempting to sever once and for all.

Continue reading Greece: The new 2022 Diary has been published by the Solidarity Fund for Prisoners and Persecuted Fighters →

via: anarquistasanticarcelarixsTranslated by Act for freedom now!

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Understanding this instrument of communication as a tool to give voice to the prisoners in struggle, we publish this interview with comrade Marcelo Villarroel from the prison of Rancagua (territory dominated by the Chilean state). Months after having ended a hunger strike with other anarchist and subversive prisoners, Marcelo, a long-term prisoner with a long history of struggle, tells us about his experience in the strike and the reasons for his transfer to the prison of Rancagua, among other things. We thank Marcelo for his willingness and contributions and the comrades who made the interview possible.

THEY CAN IMPRISON THE BODY, BUT NOT THE IDEAS. FREE MARCELO!

• We would like to know about your current situation in the Rancagua prison and the relationship between the prisoners there. 

The transfer that took place in the first days of June this year, 5 months ago, corresponds with the repair, maintenance and re-foundation of the high and maximum–security system in the high and maximum–security prison in Santiago de Chile. In this place where the anti-capitalist fighters, the anarchic subversives of the last 25 years in the history of the Chilean prison structure have historically been housed.

Continue reading Interview with Subversive Comrade Marcelo Villarroel Sepúlveda (Chile) →

“Whatever decision the court takes, I personally as an anarchist will continue to resist and fight on the side of the oppressed and the  with all my strength, as I myself am part of them.”

Marios Seisidis

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Our comrade Marios’s  trial is number 1, so it will definitely start and probably end on Friday

A case that four and a half years ago gave him a 35-year sentence. This trial is expected to close another judicial chapter, the last, of a case that has occupied the domestic radical movement for at least fifteen years, and which exposed four comrades to the vengeful fury of the State authorities, with bounties on their heads, years of illegality, imprisonment, and a serious injury and amputation for one of them, Simos Seisidis.

Continue reading Athens, Greece: Appeal trial of anarchist comrade Marios Seisidis starts Friday 26 November 2021 at 9am. Call for solidarity at the Court of Appeal →

This trial, as well as the repressive operation that preceded it, the subsequent management by the anti-terrorist police, the massive dissemination of false news and the creation of a climate of terrorism by the well-known media centres, is a standard methodology followed by the State and is part of the strategies of pre-emptive counter-insurgency that have been applied fiercely against the movement for more than a 10 years..

The solidarity movement stands by the comrade because it knows well that whoever forgets the prisoners of the social – class war will eventually forget the war itself. Because the consistent presence of the comrade and his multifaceted contribution to the movement opens up paths, proving that struggle means political commitment and loyalty to the cause.

Continue reading Greece: The trial of the social fighter Polycarpos Georgiadis, accused of “aggravated possession of weapons”, has been set for December 6/ 2021 →

19 years in prison without evidence

In April, 2021 the anarchist Vangelis Stathopoulos was sentenced by the Criminal Court of Appeal to 19 years in prison. Our comrade has been in custody since November 2019, in the first repressive operation of New Democracy – after coming to power – regarding the imprisonment of militants through trumped up charges and blatant plots.

Vangelis Stathopoulos, when asked, provided first aid to an injured comrade. The court of appeal, presided over by Maria Giannakopoulou – the same judge who had convicted Tasos Theofilou in the first instance – sentenced him to 19 years in prison for participation in the “Revolutionary Self-Defence” organisation and for theft in an ΟΠΑΠ store (the biggest  Gambling company in Greece).

Continue reading Greece: Update on the appeal court of anarchist Vangelis Stathopoulos, set for 9 February 2022 →

Athens: for the anarchist comrade Harris  Mantzouridis

On 13/10/21 the state mechanism through the ELAS ( general greek police} and more specifically the ΥΔΕΖΙ (crimes against property) service proceeded with the kidnapping of comrade Harry Mantzouridis outside his house, where he lives with his partner and their child. The tactic is well known and much used over the years, they surrounded him, ostensibly to take him to the GADA (Attica General Police Directorate)  under the pretext of arraignment because after an “anonymous phone call” (sic) a week earlier, he was suspected of robbery and was summarily found handcuffed, beaten before the eyes of the surprised neighbourhood and surrounded by the security guards.

We know the character of the police officers and if there is a reason to analyze and enumerate their atrocities, it is simply so that one does not forget who we are up against and what they are capable of doing. For the organs of the state it is just a Wednesday where they use disproportionate violence to stomp on a man in front of his young child, it is just a Wednesday when they handcuffed a man who is not charged with anything and according to them is indicted, it is just a Wednesday when they defame a man and spread the word that he molested a young girl, it was just a Wednesday.

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From the centre of Santiago, region dominated by the Chilean State, we broadcast: The streets speak, defending our autonomous subversive libertarian prisoner comrades who have held up their fist with clarity and decisiveness throughout all the years of confinement in which power has buried them under tons of cement and penitentiary metal. For more than 24 years of prison in 3 different periods that have not been able to break the decision to fight against power and all authority.

MARCELO VILLARROEL AND JUAN ALISTE PRESENT IN THE SUBVERSIVE STRUGGLE!!!! MAY SUBVERSIVE PRACTICE STRENGTHEN AND PROPAGATE THE BOND OF INSURRECTIONARY COMPLICITY!!!!

● FREEDOM FOR PABLO BAHAMONDES!!! FOR THE LIFE AND HEALTH OF FRANCISCO SOLAR AND ALL THE PRISONERS OF THE SOCIAL WAR!!!

● ACTIVE SOLIDARITY WITH THE SUBVERSIVE AND ANARCHIST PRISONERS IN STRUGGLE IN THE CHILEAN PRISONS!!!!

● FOR THE ANNULMENT OF THE CONVICTIONS OF THE “MILITARY JUSTICE” THAT IS STILL SHAMEFULLY IN FORCE!!!

● TO REPEAL THE MODIFICATIONS TO D.L 321!!!!

● FREEDOM FOR MARCELO VILLARROEL!!!!

● FOR THE EXTENSION OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE SUBVERSIVE & ANARCHIST PRISONERS, PRISONERS OF THE REVOLT AND MAPUCHE LIBERATION!!!!

Buscando la kalle

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GR: Από το κέντρο του Σαντιάγο, μια περιοχή που κυριαρχείται από το κράτος της Χιλής, διαδίδουμε τη λέξη. Οι δρόμοι μιλούν δικαιώνοντας τους συντρόφους μας,ελευθεριακούς,αυτόνομους, ανατρεπτικούς κρατούμενους που κράτησαν τις γροθιές τους ψηλά με σαφήνεια και αποφασιστικότητα όλα τα χρόνια του εγκλεισμού όπου η εξουσία τους έθαψε κάτω από τόνους σκυροδέματος και μετάλλου φυλακής για περισσότερα από 24 χρόνια φυλάκισης σε 3 διαφορετικές περιόδους που δεν μπόρεσαν να παραβιάσουν την απόφαση να πολεμήσουν ενάντια στην εξουσία και κάθε εξουσία.

Continue reading en/ gr/ es / : MARCELO VILLARROEL AND JUAN ALISTE PRESENT IN THE SUBVERSIVE STRUGGLE!!! (Chile) →

When persistence and insistence becomes a war cry that spreads through different territories and in different languages, but with the same language of war as the genuine voice of struggle for the destruction of prison society, capitalist normality, domination and all its devices of assimilation, control and punishment.

This cry came out of prison more than 20 years ago and was reaffirmed again loudly almost 13 years ago and today. It is part of the practical-theoretical arsenal of many in the unavoidable framework of the Social War!!!

“AS LONG AS POVERTY EXISTS THERE WILL BE REBELLION!!!!

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ΟΣΟ ΥΠΑΡΧΕΙ ΜΙΖΕΡΙΑ ΘΑ ΓΙΝΕΤΑΙ ΕΞΕΓΕΡΣΗ!! Περιοχή Concepción 8a, περιοχή όπου κυριαρχεί το κράτος της Χιλής, χειμώνας 2021.

Όταν η επιμονή (και η ισχυρογνωμοσύνη) μετατρέπονται σε μια ανεξίτηλη πολεμική κραυγή που εξαπλώνεται σε διαφορετικά εδάφη και σε διαφορετικές γλώσσες αλλά με την ίδια γλώσσα πολέμου ως γνήσια φωνή στον αγώνα για την καταστροφή της κοινωνίας των φυλακών, της καπιταλιστικής κανονικότητας, της κυριαρχίας και όλων των συσκευών αφομοίωσης, ελέγχου και τιμωρίας.

Continue reading EN/ GR/ ES : AS LONG AS POVERTY EXISTS THERE WILL BE REBELLION! Concepción 8th region, territory dominated by the Chilean State, winter 2021. →

A week ago, thanks to the official media, it became common knowledge that a young first-time inmate within the prison system was doubly kidnapped: first by the State and secondly by another group of inmates, where he was tortured for several weeks. The number of days varies according to the media outlet.

We do not want to detail the suffering to which this person was subjected, as we are well aware that the atrocities committed are appalling. Instead, we consider it more important to emphasize that these events of great magnitude are a consequence, not only of the prison as a system and institution, but also of the world that encompasses it.

Continue reading Critical Perspectives on Uruguayan Prisons →

On 8^th December 2020, several searches took place all over France, leading to the arrest of nine people. After 96 hours in custody at DGSI (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Intérieure) [General Direction of Internal Security], seven of them were charged with “criminal association of a terrorist nature”. Five of these people were subsequently imprisoned, all as “prisoners submitted to special surveillance” (DPS). At the end of April 2021, after five months of freedom deprivation, two of them were released. More recently, in mid-October 2021, another comrade was released on bail conditions in spite of the prosecutors’ appeal. These arrests took place in a context of the growing criminalization of social movements. Recourse to the charge of criminal association is being increasingly made to break up militant collectives and to crush the struggle. We have been seeing an excess of legislation for several years: a law on global security, a law on separatism, the Darmanin decrees, the SILT law, etc.… the administrative authority is gaining the upper hand on judicial power. With the enforcement of a form of predictive justice, everyone is allegedly guilty and people are judged on the basis of a presumption of their intentions. The letter that follows, as well as the poem and the drawing are from the comrades still imprisoned.

A letter from isolation – Bois d’Arcy – Summer 2021

For more than a month and a half I’ve wanted to write about isolation again but I can’t begin, I can’t concentrate enough. Either my mind evaporates into nothing like a little cloud or it condenses in a sort of molasses so dense that it blocks everything in my brain and gives me a headache. Even if the former might appear lighter (it is like being drugged and in a state of confusion), both situations give me a painful sensation. In fact, witnessing the loss of one’s intellectual abilities and one’s decadence is a particularly violent sensation. It is in this mental condition that I am working on this text.

Continue reading France – A letter from isolation, a poem and a drawing that escaped from inside a prison →

NOT A STEP BACK

25/10/2021

The masks of hypocrisy are slowly falling apart and the real reasons for the rejection of my request for leave are being revealed.

According to the prison council, which rejected my request for leave for the third time, the reason was the very text I had published last June when my request was rejected for the second time.

Here is the whole rationale for the prison council’s decision: “As it is clear from recent public statements and views expressed via the internet in the public media through which he urges an indefinite number of persons to commit criminal offenses and which are taken into account as elements of his conduct and personality in general,

and of his general personality, it does not appear with certainty that there is no risk of committing new criminal acts (during his leave) occasioned by these statements.

Continue reading Text of the political prisoner, member of Revolutionary Struggle Nikos Maziotis ( Greece) →