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Anarchist Alexey Rozhkov sentenced to 16 years for setting fire to a military enlistment office

Rozhkov carried out the third known arson attack on a military enlistment office following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army. He committed the act on March 11, 2022, as a form of protest and a way to draw attention to the situation. In an interview Ivan Astashin conducted with Alexey in December 2022 — when he had managed to flee to Kyrgyzstan — the anarchist explained his motivation:

“I just understood that I couldn’t stay indifferent. (…) Any war means death for ordinary, simple people. War in the 21st century seems completely alien to me. Especially with such absurd reasons [they gave]. We annexed Crimea in 2014, and even then I said it was all done in vain. Crimea is not ours and never will be. There will be consequences. And that’s exactly what happened.
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Marius Mason’s 2025 Statement (USA)


Greetings and Gratitude to my community,

I want to begin with thanking everyone who wrote a support letter or went to a support event this past year- thank you so much! I know that your solidarity connects incarcerated resisters with so much strength and love. I wish I could have replied to every letter I received – and I will be adding several new contacts to my correspondence list and writing back as much as I can…..This year has been a tough one for me. Continue reading Marius Mason’s 2025 Statement (USA)

(Chile) The Night in Black May When the Mauricio Morales Revolutionary Cells Attacked a Business of the Cop Claudio Crespo with Explosives

The Night in Black May When the Mauricio Morales Revolutionary Cells Attacked a Business of the Cop Claudio Crespo with Explosives

May 7, 2025 / informativoanarquista  Translated by Act for freedom now!

Claudio Crespo has been identified as the cop who shot and mutilated the eyes of a young person on November 8, 2019, when the October revolt was in full swing. A few days ago, the CIPER media released body camera footage of the chilean police [1], in which phrases can be heard like: “we’re going to shoot your eyes out”, “let the fucker burn” or “all these fuckers have to get killed“. In other audiovisual recordings he can be observed tearing out a lock of hair from a detainee’s head and sending a photo of it as a trophy to a Whatsapp group called “Scissors” where it seems it was common practice for these miserable police to send records of their “trophies”.

Days after the release of these videos, the cop Claudio Crespo affirmed that “I regret nothing” and “I don’t give a shit”. [2]

Does this surprise us? No. The police is the armed wing of the powerful, defenders of the flesh and blood of property, modern pacifiers who for a salary have decided to take up arms against those who challenge normality and confront a system of life sustained by hierarchies and obedience using the various practices of political violence. In this sense, the words of the cop in question represent the dynamics of the police, who possess no codes at the time of confrontation and make morbid, mocking remarks as a kind of gesture to show their masters that they work to defend their interests. Like a gaucho hanging the dismembered body of a cougar from the pediment of the plots in Patagonia, so the bosses know about their work, unaware that, at some point, the hunters will become the hunted. Continue reading (Chile) The Night in Black May When the Mauricio Morales Revolutionary Cells Attacked a Business of the Cop Claudio Crespo with Explosives

B(A)D NEWS 90 – Angry voices from around the world

Welcome to BAD News: Angry Voices From Around The World, a monthly English-language podcast by the international A-Radio Network #90 for April 2025! This month, we feature five segments:

  • First up, you’ll hear Črna Luknja from Radio Študent in Ljubljana, Slovenia, with an interview about the upcoming Balkan Anarchist Bookfair with organizers of the upcoming Balkan Anarchist Bookfair that will take place from May 15-18th, 2025 in Thessaloniki. More information, the call and the program for the bookfair can be found here: https://bab2025.espivblogs.net/
  • Next, Frequenz-A shares an interview recorded on April 13, 2025 with Eylem a transwoman and an activist from Istanbul about current protest, queer and feminist perspective, anarchist participation and needs of solidarity. The links on the media which Eylem is mentioning in the talk:
  • Then, Črna Luknja returns with an interview about Disgraça, an anarchist social center active in Lisbon since 2015. In March 2024, they started a process of collectively purchasing the space, as an effort to avoid paying (an always rising) rent, and secure it for the years to come. Lisbon has been devastated by real estate speculation, the housing crisis and the elitisation of culture. Various politically-engaged social centers in the city are facing evictions, seeing their contracts finishing, with no possibility to open new spaces…
  • Following this, A-Radio Berlin interviews a member of the Solidarity Fund for Imprisoned and Persecuted Revolutionaries, also known as Tameio, concerning solidarity and anti-repression work in Greece.
  • And finally, Parias of Athens shares an interview about the new case of political prisoner Nikos Romanos, represented by a person from the Nikos Romanos Solidarity Initiative.

We hope you enjoy this episode and check it out monthly by visiting A-Radio-Network.Org, where you can find other member shows, a back catalog of episodes and information about our network including how to join. Also, we have a mastodon account on Kolektiva.social where we occasionally post. Take care!

UPDATE FROM THE COURTS OF MESSOLONGI DOWN ABOUT OUR ANARCHIST COMRADE KOSTANTINOS K. (Greece)

2/5/25/ : Comrade K.K. was found guilty of 4 of the 6 charges and innocent of 2. He will be released with a reprimand and a fine. The gathering outside the Messolonghi courts was joined by approximately 70 comrades.

THE PASSION FOR FREEDOM IS STRONGER THAN ANY CELL

Open solidarity meeting with comrade K.K. | Athens

(Chile) Preparation of Trial Against Anarchist Comrades Aldo and Lucas Hernández

April 25, 2025 / informativoanarquista

During the first week of April 2025, preparation for the trial against anarchist comrades Aldo and Lucas Hernandez, who have been incarcerated since December 2022, was carried out.

This instance is the direct prelude to the trial that the comrades will face shortly. The democratic inquisition requests sentences of 90 years in prison for Aldo and 26 years for Lucas. Accused of participating in the explosive attack against the National Police Headquarters and of arms possession, respectively.
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Santiago, Chile: Banner and Fliers in Solidarity with Comrade Marcelo Villarroel

Agitating for the release of anti-authoritarian comrade Marcelo Villarroel, prisoner in Rancagua prison.

Individuals released propaganda in the sector of Dignity plaza, to visibilize the abhorrent legal situation that the comrade is living through while also acknowledging his resistance to carceral society in a complicit manner.

With our prisoners, fugitives, and dead, we continue in the daily struggle against all authority.

With Tortu and Belén in our hearts and active hands, we say:

Freedom for Marcello Villarroel!
End Pinochet’s military court sentences!
Permenant agitation now!

April 2, 2025 Santiago, Chile

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Athens,Greece : Solidarity attacks for comrade D. Klette

Daniela Klette, now 66, joined the revolutionary movement as a teenager. In 1978, a year after the “German Autumn” with the deaths of the “historical members” of the RAF in Stamheim prison, the 19-year-old Klette joined the local Red Help group (a solidarity organization for revolutionary prisoners) in Wiesbaden. There she met Birgit Hogefeld and Wolfgang Grams, who together would join the RAF’s armed struggle a few years later.

Together with other comrades, they will carry out actions of high
political importance, even in the conditions of capitalist restoration
in East Germany and “German unification”. Among other things, the German police charge Klette with participation in the bombing and complete destruction of the Weiterstadt prison and in the attack on the American embassy during the invasion of Iraq.

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Athens,Greece : A coordination’s attacks in solidarity with the anarchists M.Μ, D.Ζ. | Deprivation of health care is torture by Anarchists

A coordination’s attacks in solidarity with the anarchists M.Μ, D.Ζ. | Deprivation of health care is torture

31/10/24 will remain forever engraved in our hearts, it will be a constant reminder of the reasons we are fighting for. On that day, in Arkadias Street, in Ampelokipi, an explosion occurs following the processing of explosives, with the tragic consequence of the death of the anarchist guerrilla Kyriakos Xymitiris and the serious injury of the anarchist Marianna M.

Marianna is transferred to Evangelismos Hospital with multiple injuries and a haematoma in her head. The anti-terrorist gang don’t miss an opportunity to take a blood sample from her, as long as she hasn’t fully regained consciousness. In the following days, a horror show begins inside the hospital, with her comrade isolated, her privacy violated and the interrogator herself pressuring her to testify, while she was not yet in a position to talk. The climate of revenge culminates with her transfer to prison on 15/11, just one day after undergoing surgery. From then on, imprisoned in Korydallos women’s prison, she is faced with miserable sanitary conditions and total lack of medical care. These conditions constitute a form of torture that shows the eternal hatred that the state has for every captured and oppressed activist. Marianna has not been given a CT brain scan to monitor the haematoma during the months she has been held in prison, with her dizziness constantly worsening. On the contrary, she has been informed by the prison neurologist that unless she has an epileptic seizure, she will not go to hospital.
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Italy: Anarchist comrade Juan Sorroche. Open letter re the invitation to participate in the Anarchist Publishing and Propaganda Fair in Rome as an anarchist prisoner

Juan Sorroche: Open letter re the invitation to participate in the Anarchist Publishing and Propaganda Fair in Rome as anarchist prisoner. To those who organised it, those who are going to it, and all the comrades, anarchists and not, who would like to read my considerations

Hola comrades everyone,

I received the books with the Fair material at the beginning of March and read them with great interest, particularly concerning the Publishing and Propaganda Fair due to be held in Rome on 4-5-6 April 2025. I thank you for the invitation to the prisoner comrades to participate and keep up the discussions between outside and inside and not break the link of solidarity with those of us who find ourselves locked up. And I thank you for the sign of solidarity

But I feel obliged to answer, concentrating in this letter and in your organized space exclusively on the net positions you have decided to take. The discourse, yes, is very divisive, so I think it’s very important and fundamental that there be collective perspectives and the broadest possible continuity in this respect, also with us, prisoners and not only. With compromises among comrades. For me personally compromise is not negative and not always enemy in absolute, on the contrary. I am for clear compromises between all comrades, male and female. Concerning the net position you have decided to take. As far as I am concerned these are a priori decisions, with automatic mechanisms and methods, decided elsewhere. It is therefore deciding exclusively whether to adhere and then perhaps discuss questions that have clearly already been decided.

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Text of the imprisoned anarchist Kostantinos K. from the Kassavetia prisons (Greece)

Text of the imprisoned anarchist Kostantinos K.

“To govern you is to watch you. To inspect you, to spy on you, to direct you, to encase you in laws, to regulate you, to record you…To control you, to measure you, to weigh you, to censor you, to order you… It means to tax you, to drink your blood… To terrorize you, to beat you, to disarm you, to strangle you, to imprison you, to try you, to condemn you, to deport you…
This is government, this is its justice, this is its morality.”

-Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

As long as we experience modern totalitarianism, as long as the blades of domination cripple us, solidarity will heal our wounds like medicine. Even if they bury us, like seeds we will sprout, here and there, irregularly. In the most barren soils. We will bloom at unspecified times where they least expect it. Contaminating the fields of modern states.

On 12/11/24, I was sentenced to 6 months of pretrial detention. From the first days in prison, I submitted a request for release, which was rejected 40 days later. I submitted a second request and after waiting two months, I received a negative response, while at almost the same time, the case was scheduled for trial on May 2. This, in my opinion, is a ploy, as they rushed to set the court date without me having time to make a third request. Because in this case, for bureaucratic reasons, the procedures regarding the file would cease and therefore the result would be that I would be released due to the end of the term. However, I am quoting this as a note. I believe it is more important to mention what these responses of the judicial councils were regarding my requests. These are 30 pages of unfounded allegations and successive leaps of logic. In them, a ridiculous story unfolds where, given my guilt, they argue that the methodology and characteristics of this action demonstrate a person capable of committing more similar crimes, taking into account my particular personality, which they refer to again and again.

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Greece: INTERNATIONALIST SOLIDARITY WITH COMRADE SALVATORE VESPERTINO GHESPE IN ITALY

On February 15, anarchist comrade Salvatore Vespertino (Ghespe), who had been a fugitive for the last 2 years or so, was arrested in Madrid. According to the regime, his arrest was the result of cooperation between the authorities of various countries, including Greece.

The comrade was transferred to Italy on March 4th, initially to the Rebibbia prison in Rome and is currently imprisoned in Spoleto prison of Spoleto.In the early days of his detention in Spain, Ghespe was subjected to pressure and harassment by guards. At Rebibbia, the correspondence wasn’t delivered to him; visits and phone calls were not allowed until shortly before his transfer to the prison of Spoleto.

He was sentenced to 8 years in prison on charges of possession, manufacture and transport of an explosive device, grievous bodily harm and damage in the context of the Panico operation in 2017 in Florence. More specifically, he is accused of an improvised explosive device that was placed outside a fascist bookstore in Florence on New Year’s Day 2017.The device exploded in the hands of a pyrotechnics cop who did not even follow safety protocols, resulting in the loss of an arm and an eye.
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Patras, Greece: Poster, Freedom for the anarchist prisoner K. K.

WE GREW WHERE WE WERE NOT SOWN IN SCORCHED EARTH

On Thursday 07/11/24, 17-year-old comrade K. K. is arrested in Messolongghi Town, accused of setting fire to a police investigation van, which occurred on 11/10/24, almost a month before his arrest. The charges he faces include arson, explosion, manufacturing and possession of explosives and damage to other people’s property. As part of a demonstration of state power, the comrade is transported with excessive police forces to the courts for his statement, is remanded in custody and on 13/11 is transferred to the juvenile prison of Kassavetias. Another flimsy indictment based on incomplete video footage recording a moving figure on the streets of the city, another vengeful prosecution by the mafia of the Hellenic Police and the judicial authorities in the wake of the state repression against those who resist.

“The social war is here and it is widening day by day, it is our duty to open wide comradely relations and the values of self-organization. Hotbeds of struggle everywhere from Messolonghi Town to Chile, from theory to practice and back again. Nothing is lost, nothing is over, and we continue to march against the state, capital, fascism, patriarchy, relations of exploitation until our last breath… for a free world.”

LET’S BRING EVERY PRISONER OF WAR BACK TO THE STREETS
FREEDOM TO COMRADE K. K.
A MULTIFORM STRUGGLE FOR ANARCHY

Open solidarity meeting with the anarchist prisoner K. K. / Patras

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Greece: Message of Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis for the trial of comrade Daniela Klette (25/3/2025)

The whole game of the German state on the comrades Daniela Klette, Ernst Volker Staub and Burkhard Garweg is an operation of psychological warfare, what they call in their terminology psy ops. In addition to the always fruitless attempt of the counter-insurgency to isolate revolutionary struggle, in this hunt it wants to torture the living history, to bury it under the concrete, in order to spread the idea that all resistance is eventually exterminated, to instill terror in the new revolutionary generations. The act of evading from the counter-insurgency’s dragnet is an important resistance: It removes from the state the opportunity to hold the ritual of the “final act”. For this reason, its vengeance against defiant history, now manifested on the body and person of comrade Daniela, is rampant.

The fugitives prove that the passage to free life cannot be blocked. Despite the capitulation of the revolutionary organization, the three comrades have lived for decades in the struggle for the self-organization of proletarian life against the chains of class discipline and bourgeois civilization that kills for money. Now it is in the hands of all of us to pass on the history of the comrades to the current resistances. The hearts that refuse to live enslaved do not leave the final act to any master. And because every “final” word of the state, political, judicial, economic, scientific, determines the crushing of the common body, we will do everything to end Daniela Klette’s captivity.
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Poster in Solidarity with N. and M. en/de/nl

poster pdf: ende/ netherlands

FOR MORE ATTACKS AND HATE AGAINST EVERY STATE

In February 2025, the public prosecutor of Munich again carried out a repressive operation  against anarchists, this time in the form of raids and arrests. The Bavarian police state, embarrassed by anarchist publications and anonymous attacks, invents accusations and looks for suspicious individuals to blame. The anarchist agitation of recent years has developed a subversive reach that is difficult to assess but certainly is uncontrollable. Anarchist ideas spread on paper and put into practice can prove to be a dangerous mixture contributing to the spread of social revolt.

During these raids, the cops arrested our comrades, N. and M. who are currently still held in pre-trial detention. The reason: an ongoing case which suspects the comrades of having been part of an alleged editorial team, declared a criminal organisation, for the anarchist newspaper Zündlumpen. The invention of this accusation led to several raids in 2022, the confiscation of an entire print shop and the closure of the Munich anarchist library Frevel.

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