Written November 1, 2021

At around noon on Thursday, October 21, there was a violent attack by prison guards – more than 50 – with the aim of tyrannizing the prisoners – less than 20 – who were in the courtyard at the time in section 1 of the maximum security of the Rancagua prison. It is in this context that, along with an equal number of social prisoners, the comrades of the section confronted the cops’ arrogance and stood up to the executioners’ orders, refusing to obey in order to protect their unshakable dignity.

Perhaps we should explain that the usual modus operandi of the prison administration in this prison is to try to bend and break the will of the individual, ordering prisoners to perform degrading acts such as putting their hands behind their backs, standing face to the wall, or doing squats, forms of submission that are constantly refused by the imprisoned anarchist and subversive comrades because they understand well the importance of the right to freedom of expression. There is no textbook that explains this analysis, it is their own conscience and ability to learn from the mistakes of each of our comrades that has led them to choose this path. It is also logical that this kind of response from our comrades leaves the prison guards with a bitter taste in their mouth, which often culminates in violence… This was one of those cases.

Continue reading Prison of Rancagua, Chile: About what happened to the anarchist and subversive prisoners last Thursday →

Anarchist Prisoner Toby Shone Sentenced

Posted on October 19, 2021 by BristolABC

Anarchist prisoner Toby Shone was sentenced to 3 years 9 months in prison for 8 drug offences at Bristol Crown Court on October 13, 2021 after Terrorism charges were dropped. He has already served 8 months of this sentence on remand.

On October 13, 16:15 at noon, comrade  H.M. was forcibly “arrested” outside his house.

After a long procedure that started on 18th of October at 11 am, with statements to the investigator in favour of the comrade by witnesses, among them, neighbours who saw the arrest, as well as his companion, it was decided that comrade H.M. would remain in prison, with the only evidence being the DNA mixture found in a gun magazine after a robbery that took place in 2018 in the area of Zografou in Athens.

The prison he will be transferred to has not yet been decided.

An update will follow.

STRENGTH AND SOLIDARITY TO COMRADE  H.M.

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via: attaque

Metz : Boris is out of the coma

Indymedia Lille / Monday 18 October 2021

For about two weeks now, Boris has not been sedated, which means that he is gradually coming out of the artificial coma. His treatment and legal proceedings (1) may still be long. It is now up to him to decide whether or not to give any updates.

Let each one continue their path towards a world rid of all authority.

Anarchists in complicity and solidarity,

(1): September 28(https://actforfree.noblogs.org/post/2021/09/29/france-anarchist-comrade-boris-gets-out-of-prison-but-is-not-out-of-danger/): Boris is released from prison but is not out of danger

P.S.: Boris no longer needs money for canteen, since his hospitalization. It is possible to contribute to the transportation costs of the people who visit him in hospital. For this you can write to besakattak@riseup.net

Translated by Act for freedom now!

Our comrade Pablo Bahamones Ortiz was arrested along with Herny Mendez (today imprisoned in the former penitentiary of stgo) and Hugo Moraga (in the street after an abbreviated trial that sentenced him to 3 years) while they were being transported in a vehicle on September 8, 2018 under an investigation regarding an explosive attack occurred in April 2017 in the Corporation of Judicial Assistance of Melipilla for which the prosecution asks him 13 years in prison. In addition in said vehicle are found various handmade weapons for which Pablo is accused of manufacturing, transporting and carrying weapons and ammunition, specifically 6 shotguns, 1 box of cartridges, 1 revolver and 12 shots, asking the prosecution 23 years, totaling a total of 36 years of prosecutorial request.

His option and positioning for the permanent confrontation that led him to prison has been maintained and deepened inside the prison being an undeniable contribution both in the intra-prison struggles and in those that take place outside these walls uninterruptedly and without pause. This way of understanding and carrying out life in prison breaks with the passive figure of the victim prisoner that places him as a mere recipient of solidarity aid, positioning the comrade as an active subject in the uprising of varied and confrontational initiatives such as the hunger strike that we carried out together for 50 days demanding the repeal of the amendment to Law 321 and for the release of our comrade Marcelo Villarroel.

Continue reading Chile: Text of Mónica, Marcelo, Juan, Joaquin, Francisco and Juan before the trial against comrade Pablo Bahamondes: Let’s multiply the gestures of solidarity and insurrectionary complicity →

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

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“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!!!!!!

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