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Presentation and Discussion: 7pm, Tuesday 11th June at Touchpaper Anarchist Library (South London, UK )

Something’s Missing?
Portland in Revolt 2020-2024
Presentation and Discussion: 7pm, Tuesday 11th June*

In the uprising ignited by the police murder of George Floyd in 2020, the city of Portland had a particularly long, hot summer – with its own trajectory of revolt and militaristic repression. Anarchists from this context will present their experiences and perspectives.

In Portland as in many other places, anarchy is lived and experimented by those who don’t wait for streets filled with angry crowds or popular assemblies filled with revolutionary declarations. Instead it is found in the here-and-now attacks on power, in plain words and destructive acts. But what happens when the possibilities change rapidly as they did in Portland? Can anarchists bring something to such a moment that (proto-)politicians and organisers can’t?

“In our view it is necessary to resist the sirens of recognition, if not political, also social. We are not generals searching for soldiers, neither shepherds searching for sheep. We don’t need pats on the back or smiles from the people. We don’t have to be accepted, since we neither want to convert nor guide anyone. We want individuals to unleash themselves because – as, in a far away past, an anarchist prince once privately confided –“without disorder, revolution is impossible”.”

“Only the one who rebels and has already rebelled, albeit only in the microcosm of their own life, only one who has already braved the consequences of this rebellion and lived them in depth, can have nerves sensitive enough and the intuition necessary to grasp the signs of an insurrectionary movement in the making.

[…] The strongest moments of the people in arms eliminate, of course, all prior procrastination and uncertainties. They allow to see clearly what yesterday was just a blur. But they cannot illuminate what does not exist. These moments are a powerful reflector that allows the realization of a revolutionary and anarchist project, but this project must exist already, if only in its methodological outlines. It must already have been worked out, even if not in every detail, and, as far as possible, have been tried and tested.”

* 11th June = international day of solidarity with Marius Mason and all long-term anarchist prisoners. Library open as usual from 4pm. Let’s read together and discuss the statement from J11 2024

June 11th International Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason & All Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners

June 11, 2024: No Separate Worlds

We once again approach June 11th, a day of remembrance and active solidarity, in a world of multiple crises and struggles for liberation. All of these are interconnected; there are no separate worlds. Across borders, languages, contexts, and identities, both catastrophes and victories of spirit and defiance reverberate around the globe. One environment is not untouched by another. The personal is not separate from the political. The positive project is not separate from that of destruction. Prison is not separate from the “free world.” Means are not separate from ends. Bridging these divides is a shared curiosity and commitment; bridging these divides is solidarity.

This is not to flatten or oversimplify diversity and differences in circumstance, intensity, and consequence. Rather, that these different pieces are held together like organs of the body held by connective tissue. So we consider: how do we strengthen this connective tissue? How do we remain strong, yet supple and flexible? Bridges, connection, must also be built through time, especially in a world that moves too fast, from one crisis to the next. June 11th aspires to be one of these bridges: to build solidarity across borders, between movements, and among generations. Remembering and supporting long-term prisoners, as well as carrying on shared struggles, are two ways to strengthen this connective tissue. A stronger connective tissue will, in turn, bolster us against further repression.
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Anarchist Comrade Thanos Hatzianggelou was released from prison on Friday 24/5/24

Comrade Thanos Hatzianggelou was released from prison on Friday 24/5 after a long wait for the answer from the council for his conditional release. The restrictive conditions imposed on him are the ban on leaving Thessaloniki, mandatory residence in the house he had declared in Thessaloniki and two days monthly to present at a police station.

We continue our struggles supporting the prisoners, giving them a voice until the demolition of the last prison. To once again walk side by side with our comrades in the paths of rebellion and disobedience. Until total liberation.

Burlotto and fire in all cells/cages

Freedom to all prisoners of war

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Anarchist Comrade Nikos Maziotis Ends Hunger Strike (Greece)

Nikos Maziotis  say that in the disciplinary council held today in Domokos prison (in the presence of the prosecutor and the prison director), he was acquitted of the 2 disciplinary offenses that tried to accuse him of disobedience and threat against the head of the outer guard.

At the same time, he say  that he is suspending the hunger strike after his request to go to the hospital in Lamia without the humiliating physical examination was satisfied.

THE COMRADE IS NOT ALONE
IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF ANARCHIST COMRADE NIKOS MAZIOTIS
FINAL RELEASE OF COMRADE POLA ROUPA
STRENGTH TO THE POLITICAL PRISONERS KIDNAPPED IN THE CELLS OF THE STATE

SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON!

Domokos prison, Greece: Hunger strike of Nikos Maziotis

Not a day has passed since the publication of the text about the kind of care the “penitentiary” system provides and gives the external guard of Domokos prison the right to blackmail prisoners. Today, the external guard of Domokos prison along with its commander in charge refused to transfer me to the hospital of Lamia for an orthopedic examination concerning a 3rd degree rupture of the gastrocnemius muscle because I would not accept their undignified and degrading modality of body search. I did not refuse a body search in general, I refused the humiliating way in which they want to carry it out. They are essentially blackmailing me in order to get the care I am entitled to, putting my health at risk.

In response to the blatant violation of my rights, I am going on hunger strike as of today (14/5/2024) with a request to be transferred to the hospital of Lamia without suffering the humiliating form of investigation demanded by the external guard of Domokos prison.

This request concerns not only this case but any case of treatment requiring transfer to a hospital for examination, surgery or treatment while I am in prison.

Nikos Maziotis, condemned for the action of the Revolutionary Struggle

Domokos prison

via: athens.indymedia

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Free Daniela Klette , solidarity text by Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis from domokos prison. Greece

Free Daniela Klette

Following the captivity of the fighter Daniela Klette, german imperialist counter-revolution, by keeping her in a state of total isolation, is attempting to bury the decades long successful resistance to the counter-guerrilla persecution and to avenge the determination, the capacity and the freedom of the persecuted. To be resilient up against the personalized targeting of the counterrevolution marks a definitive victory for the movements, a victory that cannot be canceled by any state measure for their annihilation and extermination.

Having experienced the counter-guerrilla persecution, I can confirm that open doors, the social solidarity that corresponds to this condition and the comrades who become the daily shadow of the persecuted, they make all the difference in the scales of victory between counter-guerrilla and resistance. An organization, a movement, that can protect its persecuted people, has a necessary political element for the growth of a revolutionary position. As the comrades from International Red Help stress, solidarity is a program, not a slogan.
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Chile: Gendarmerie Intends for Anarchist Comrade Francisco Solar to Carry Out His Sentence in an Exceptional Maximum Security Regimen

Gendarmerie Intends for Comrade Francisco Solar to Carry Out His Sentence in an Exceptional Maximum Security Regimen

April 22, 2024

After ratifying and maintaining the 86 year sentence against anarchist comrade Francisco Solar, the gendarmerie [Chilean prison authorities] carried out a new maneuver in the comrade’s situation within prison. After remaining in unit 2 of Maximum Security of Rancagua prison before trial, he should have been transferred to unit one of High Security given the nature of his sentence along with all the other anarchist and subversive comrades.

But this time, aiming to deepen the legal vengeance, the comrade is taken to a floor in the same unit 2 of maximum security to carry out his sentence in an exceptional regimen of punishment and isolation.

Solidarity and complicity with those who attack the powerful!

Combat the disguised life sentence and isolation of anarchist comrade Francisco Solar!

via : informativoanarquista
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After 16 Years of Prison: Words of Marcelo Villarroel -Chile

After 16 Years of Prison: Words of Marcelo Villarroel

informativoanarquista

This past March 15 marked 16 years of uninterupted prison, since I was detained in San Martin de los Andes, Neuquén province, territory occupied by the argentine state, while fleeing a search and arrest warrant from the chilean state.

The cases that encouraged that moment of clandestinity and which were spread profusely at the time have already been fulfilled:

I was sentenced to 14 years for two bank robberies. This date was met December 16 of last year, counted from December 16, 2009, the moment I was extradited from argentinian territory to be judged in chile.

Currently I still have 46 more years of sentences for cases emanating from pinochet’s military court in the early 90s framed in the urban guerrilla practices of my old militancy in the armed group Mapu-Lautaro which has been extinct for more than 3 decades.
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Italy: ‘The carousel of repression’ – by Anarchist comrade Anna Beniamino

THE CAROUSEL OF REPRESSION

Almost eight years after the arrests for Scripta Manent, for the second time the Court of Cassation, on 24th April 2024, will pronounce judgement on the crime of “political massacre”, pursuant to art. 285 c.p., against Alfredo and myself, the last remaining fragment pending in the process (i), after a whirlwind of delays, recalculations, and repressive-jurisprudential manipulations (ii).

Although the repetition of error numbs the horror, and we are living in times of multiple horrors flaunted and total anaesthetisations, I believe there are still some words to be said about the ongoing annihilation attempt, about reactions, successful and attempted. Not so much because I believe this may be useful for our personal fates, but out of a kind of stubborn “romanticism” that considers silence and resignation always and even more lethal in a political process.
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Chile: Words of Anarchist Comrade Lucas Hernández for March 29th

April 2, 2024 / informativoanarquista

From the cell I remember the smell of the barricade, the smoking tires, the springs after the mattress was consumed and the neighbors with their contributions to the bonfire. I remember the mask like yesterday, the gloves, the iron in the belly, the clean bullets, the heavy backpacks, the desire to see if one day, a 29th, they’d pay this time and not us. I remember gathering the materials, coordinating with comrades, leaving to the street, the neighbor who told me “take care, son”, or the neighbor who asked me if I was going to hunt ghosts, the whistle of the first shot, I remember the crying eyes after the first teargas, running up to the post, the parapet and the moment. Advancing dressed like the night, good moments, that I hope many can and want to live, because it’s necessary to return the blows, nothing can remain unpunished.

March 29th commemorates Mauricio Maigret, Paulina Aguirre, brothers Eduardo and Rafael Vergara who were heinously assassinated, in memory of their ideas, their consequence, and their valor for, in a context of dictatorship and death, daring to do something in the bloodiest moments of this country. Not letting fear immobilize them, motivated by inequality and love for their peers, neighbors, families and comrades, these desires of justice faced with so much abuse that remains present today as yesterday. As new generations we learn from the history of those who fought before, releasing ourselves from arrogance, we must learn from the successes and errors in order to be more prepared facing the repression of power. On the 29th the street is ours, on the corners of the neighborhoods the stage for combat is set.
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