This week marks 8 years since various groups of the Anarchist Black Cross (ABC) and different individuals around the world raised the initiative to maintain a week of international solidarity with imprisoned anarchists, and that this week coincides with the day on which the anniversary of the legal murder of anarchists Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco by the U.S. government in 1927 is commemorated.

The official history written by the powerful plus the progressive democratic left and a part of anarchism have been especially concerned with creating a victimized image of Sacco and Vanzetti and far from any illegalist practice. All this based on the recognition by the American judicial apparatus that within the criminal process that condemned Sacco and Vanzetti there were many irregularities and that they would be legally “innocent” (information that became known many years after the murder of the comrades). Probably the comrades had no relation with the expropriation of South Braintree, which is important to know and make visible, as it is also important to emphasize that Sacco and Vanzetti were anarchists of action, who propagated anti-authoritarian ideas and exercised different illegalist practices.

Continue reading Chile: Text of anarchist comrade Mónica Caballero from San Miguel prison →

Translated by darknights

In the first months of 2021, Francisco together with other anarchist and subversive prisoners carried out a hunger strike that lasted more than 50 days against the modification of Decree Law 321 and for the immediate release of Marcelo Villarroel.

In 2010 Francisco had already put his body as a barricade of combat in another strike of more than 60 days in the framework of the Bombs Case.

It is during the last mobilization that several blood tests were taken from Francisco by the prison administration, including a suspicious situation, where Francisco was urgently admitted to the prison hospital due to the bad result in the blood tests, but a few minutes later the jailers recanted and alluded to a mistake, returning him to prison.

Continue reading Chile: URGENT! On the recent illness detected in the anarchist comrade Francisco Solar and his delicate health situation →

Friday 8 October 2021, at 11:00 am, solidarity gathering at the court of appeal trial continues of comrade Marios Seisidis for his alleged participation in the robbery of the National Bank in 2006 in Athens.

SOLIDARITY WITH ANARCHIST COMRADE MARIOS SEISIDIS

NO HOSTAGE IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE

Anarchists

via: anarquia.info

“Never using drugs, being very clear about his ideas, and his physical and mental strength have helped him survive in prison despite the FIES. Almost all of his comrades have died. He survived a genocide,” explains the companion of the anarchist prisoner in Oviedo.

Elisa di Bernardo went to Oviedo yesterday to relate the situation of her companion Gabriel Pombo da Silva. She was invited by the group Higinio Carrocera, in collaboration with the Cambalache community centre, taking advantage of her visit to Pombo in the prison of Mansilla de las Mulas in León. Elisa gave a very complete account of both the legal situation of the anarchist prisoner and his life and struggle during more than 30 years in prison. It was a talk that not only provided information about Pombo but also showed how, inside the prison walls, “democracy” disappears and one enters a dark world, subjected to physical and psychological torture, to personal revenge by judges and jailers, to prisons inside the prison (FIES). In addition, Elisa gave us perspective and context on how inequality, misery, injustice and poverty inherent to the capitalist and statist system manufactures ‘criminals’.

Elisa began the talk by taking from her backpack three important books about the situation of prisoners and the world of the anti-prison struggle: “Extreme Destitution, Extreme Violence”, “So You Don’t Forget Me” by Mothers United Against Drugs and the Report on Torture in the Spanish State, which Elisa explained was censored by the police, as it recounts the saddest years of the FIES (files of inmates under special monitoring) regime.

Continue reading Spain: Elisa di Bernardo – “We are winning battles for the freedom of Gabriel Pombo” →

via: es-contrainfo:Published September 8, 2021

August 29, Costa de Oro, Region usurped and plundered by the Uruguayan state.

Responding to the international call in solidarity with anarchist prisoners, on the night of August 29th we stamped our signature of complicity with our kidnapped comrades, in a new activity of ecstatic propaganda. Stubborn propaganda, erased a thousand times and returning again a thousand times to disturb. Propaganda that is an irreverent cry accompanying and announcing acts.

For the destruction of prison society and the freedom of our caged brothers and sisters in struggle!

Let’s ensure that Anarchy lives!!!!!!

Translated by Act for freedom now!

via: sansnom

Indymedia Lille, 29 September 2021

[The trial] of 20 September, which would have dealt with the appeal against the 4 year prison sentence, could not take place because of the still critical state of health of our comrade who continues to be in an artifically induced coma.

The judges decided to “release” him without judicial control, and to postpone his trial until further notice.

While we can only rejoice that he is no longer under the control of the prison administration, he is unfortunately not finished with the justice system, since the end of his sentence [of preventive detention] and his appeal are only suspended.

The words and deeds that are multiplying in solidarity with Boris give rise to the desire to live outside of all authority.

Anarchists in solidarity and complicity,

28 September 2021

Translated by Act for freedom now!

The message of this banner is a sign of solidarity with the comrade Boris, who has been in a coma for more than a month, following a fire in the cell that has kept him locked up for a year in French prisons.

“In France and in the world, down with prisons. Courage Boris”.

The action that led the comrade to prison is part of the attack against the structures that capitalism calls “progress”, but whose aim is, in reality, to refine social control. Setting fire to two mobile phone masts is an attack on contemporary domination, and has nothing to do with the fascist/conspiratorial theories that the dis-information media want to display to disorientate us.

We raise our fists and send words of encouragement to Boris and to all those who fall into the hands of institutions of torture.

The banner was placed near the French embassy in Montevideo.

via: attaque. translated by Act for freedom now!

The destruction of prisons is the destruction of the values of this authoritarian world.

We know that the road to a world without prisons, without authority, requires much reflection and action.

Reflecting on how to solve our problems of today and tomorrow from an anarchic perspective, without falling into authoritarian logics and turning them into action in the different environments we inhabit is a challenge.

Continue reading Montevideo, Uruguay: Presentation of the Grupo Anarquista Anticarcelario website →

On Friday 17/9/21,  at 1pm on the 6th floor of the Loukareos Street Courts, the second degree trial of comrade Marios Seisidis continues for the armed robbery of the National Bank of Solonos Street in 2006.

During the perpetrators’ escape, the state dogs did not hesitate to shoot into the crowd, resulting in the wounding and arrest of anarchist Yannis Dimitrakis. Subsequently, Marios and Simos Seisidis and Grigoris Tsironis were declared wanted and later put on bail for 600.000 €. After almost a decade on the run the 3 wanted comrades were arrested in different places and times. Simos lost his leg to a cop’s bullet in Tauros  area in Athens, Grigoris was arrested in Volos during a raid by the SWAT team (during which Spyros Darvilas took his own life, free) and Marios in the Peloponnese together with Kostas Sakkas. Whereas Simos and Grigoris were acquitted in this case, Marios was sentenced in the first instance to 36 years’ imprisonment as the state mafia had already been irreparably damaged by the acquittals of the other two on the run. With this trial the circle of this case is closing and we must defend the legacy of resistance and solidarity that he leaves, as well as the comrade himself so that he does not remain at the mercy of state repression. Solidarity is our weapon.

EVERYONE AT THE COMRADE’S SIDE

NO HOSTAGE IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE

On Friday 30th July, five people were sentenced to over 14 years between them. Four people were given sentences of over three years for riot.

These five people are the first to receive custodial sentences for the confrontation with the police outside Bridewell Police Station at the Kill the Bill demonstration on 21st March. However, over 75 people have been arrested, 28 of them have now been charged. Two people are currently on remand in Horfield prison.

The sentences are:

• BL 3 years 11 months

• KA 3 years 6 months

• SQ 3 years 3 months

• KS 3 years 6 months

• YS 5 months

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Continue reading A statement by Bristol Anarchist Black Cross and Bristol Defendant Solidarity (Bristol,UK) →

Informative announcement:

Since October 2019, after my injury during the expropriation of a local state casino store in Cholargos (Athens), I went into a state of flight from the grid of preventive and penal repressive control. A consequence of my injury was the discovery of a set of illegal tools of resistance and the revelation of my relationship with the guerrilla organization Revolutionary Self-Defense. As an outlaw, I made public my political responsibility for the intended reconstruction of the guerrilla struggle, starting with the example of the organization Revolutionary Self-Defense. Reversing the condition of political isolation of the one who escapes from extortionate conventions, an isolation that the state pursues and which in turn serves the state (wherever it may come from), I participated to the maximum in the public dialogue of the movement, with a view to the evolution of the revolutionary class struggle.

The period of exile was a transitional attempt to reposition myself in the global socio-political space of the resistance with the aim of fleeing forward. At first, the breach of the embedded obstacles was not achieved. I remained trapped in an isolation related to the collective impasses of the Greek movement.

Continue reading Greece: A First letter by Anarchist prisoner Dimitris Hatzivassiliadis (correct ) →