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Greece: Announcement of the hunger strike of Anarchists and Fighting Prisoners in Solidarity with Alfredo Cospito

16th of February, Hunger Strike of Anarchists and Fighting Prisoners in Solidarity with Alfredo Cospito

The 41-bis prison regime is the completion of the prison structure into a masqueraded death sentence. The execution, in this case, does not end in one moment, like with a gunshot, the tightening of the noose, the application of electrical current or the injection of poison into the body, rather it lasts a lifetime in a state of social coma, in a state of non-world. And so, spread through time. Out of this world, the death sentence has evaded history, just like the state pursues oblivion for all the prisoners of the social war who are buried alive in the state of 41-bis. The 41-bis regime has already murdered one fighter, Diana Blefari Melazzi.

The 41-bis regime and the law about “massacre” are the legacy of the european counter-revolution from the time of Piazza Fontana (Strage di piazza Fontana). This civil war never ended. The states, and particularly the Italian one, carry on the counter-revolution so that the flame may never flare up again. All the systems follow, step by step, the examples first introduced as special warfare, e.g. the white cells of West Germany, the F-type prisons in Turkey and the FIES prisons in Spain to the Type-C prisons in Greece or the new high security prison system A.A.; the still active Hitler-inspired law about indefinite extension of one’s sentence on “preventative” grounds, by which comrade Thomas Meyer Falk is being held for another 10 years (25 in total) in Freiburg prison in Germany, to the different methods of extorting declarations of repentance, and from Asinara to Imrali.

Anarchist Alfredo Cospito is fighting for the flame to flare up again. Let’s reassert the fight of the comrade.

It is our duty to defend in deed the battle that Alfredo Cospito is fighting. A struggle for and against time itself. This particular hunger strike does not concern only the comrades in the italian territory, but it is internationalist, and so the star of internationalist solidarity must shine on the side of Alfredo Cospito and all those who are fighting from within a special prison regime. From Greece to every point in the planet – for all those fighting for freedom.

Because defeat is not captivity, but losing one’s faith in the possibility of wining. So, we are collectively going on a hunger strike, according to each one’s capacity, so that we may stand by the side of anarchist revolutionary Alfredo Cospito, but also, against the death regime of 41-bis.

At the same time the struggle against the new prison code in Greek prisons is continuing.

Anarchist and Fighting Prisoners

Giannis Michailidis
(1 day hunger strike)

Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis
(3 day hunger strike)

Thanos Chatziaggelou
(1 day hunger strike)

Iasonas Rodopoulos
(1 day hunger strike)

Kostas Dimalexis
(3 day hunger strike)

Lambros Vougiouklakis
(1 day hunger strike)

Panagiotis Vougiouklakis
(1 day hunger strike)

Stathis Nikolouzos
(1 day hunger strike)

Stergios Kalaitzidis
(1 day hunger strike)

Fotis Daskalas
(1 day hunger strike)

Foligno,Italy : You bet we’ll remember, and how! About the 41 bis for Alfredo Cospito: Those who are responsible

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Foligno: You bet we’ll remember, and how! About the 41 bis for Alfredo Cospito: Those who are responsible

YOU BET WE’LL REMEMBER, AND HOW!
ABOUT THE 41 BIS FOR ALFREDO COSPITO: THOSE WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE

In recent days, a media campaign of mystification and lies has been going on around the hunger strike that Alfredo Cospito is carrying on to the last breath against life imprisonment without appeal and 41 bis. We’ve heard it all. The prime minister Giorgia Meloni, with her usual victimhood, went so far as to suspect conspiracies about the coincidence of the start of the hunger strike with the launching of her government.
Another lie circulating is the one about a phantom alliance between anarchists and the mafia, deduced from wiretaps between Alfredo and the only three people he is allowed to see in the prison yard. The State, which decided to lock an anarchist up in 41 bis for the first time, is now instrumentalising the fact that that anarchist speaks to the only human beings he can meet. Sociability groupings which, by the way, are decided centrally by the ministry in Rome! In truth, it was with the creation of the DNAA (Direzione Nazionale Antimafia e Antiterrorismo) that the State wanted to set up a war machine against revolutionary insurgency, a machine that had as its weapons the exceptional tools that hitherto only applied to the anti-mafia. We are witnessing a complete reversal of the facts: those who merged completely different realities into the bureaucracies of the judicial and penitentiary administration are now crying ‘bonding’.

Similarly, we are aghast when we hear again the president of the council Giorgia Meloni assert that she will not negotiate with anarchists. And not just because everyone in Italy knows that the State only negotiates with the mafia. Statements like these denote that those in government have completely lost touch with reality. It is the anarchists who, since time immemorial, have never wanted to deal with institutions.
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Call for a gathering at the Italian embassy in solidarity with the anarchist revolutionary hunger striker Alfredo Cospito, (Athens,Greece)

SOLIDARITY TO THE ANARCHIST REVOLUTIONARY HUNGER STRIKER SINCE 20 OCTOBER AGAINST 41-bis, | ALFREDO COSPITO 

FIRE TO 41-bis

Alfredo stai ai nostri cuori!

Always with the anarchy!
Face

We call for a solidarity meeting with comrade Alfredo Cospito, at the Italian Embassy, Athens, Greece, on Thursday 16 February, at 18.30
Open Assembly of Ⓐnarchists

Solidarity to comrade Alfredo Cospito! Sempre con l’anarchia! [IT-EN/GR, By Open Assembly of Anarchists (Athens – Greece)

Solidarity to comrade Alfredo Cospito! Sempre con l’anarchia!

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Finché ogni prigione non sarà abbattuta. Sempre con l’anarchia.
Perché per chi ama la vita, reagire quando è in gioco la vita e la morte è un atto di dovere.,
Anna Beniamino

Alfredo Cospito, detenuto anarchico a cui è stata imposta la legge del “massacre” nel caso “Scripta Manent”-sul doppio attentato alla scuola dei carabinieri di Fossano, firmato da FAI-RAT (Federazione Anarchica Informale – Rivolta Anonima e Assordante)-, è in sciopero della fame contro il regime del 41-bis e l’ergastolo permanente dal 20 ottobre nel carcere di Bancali, a Sassari, Sardegna. Già dal 5 maggio e dopo dieci anni di carcere, lo Stato scelse di rafforzare l’incarcerazione del compagno (che fino ad allora aveva dato un contributo significativo al discorso anarchico con lettere, articoli e interventi), attraverso il regime dell’articolo 41-bis (carcere duro), una legge mostruosa che, in sostanza, riqualifica la reclusione in isolamento speciale anche a livello intellettuale e sensoriale. Si tratta di un cordone soffocante che elimina quasi del tutto le comunicazioni e i contatti con il mondo esterno, come tortura di sterminio psicosomatico dei militanti/e per costringerli/e al “pentimento” politico.

Inoltre, questo regime intende creare una barriera al dialogo rivoluzionario-antiautoritario tra i compagii-le compagne all’interno e all’esterno delle carceri. La censura organizzata e il tentativo di eliminare l’ esistenza stessa dei prigionieri politici rivela i denti della democrazia e la paura delle forze di potere nei confronti di coloro che portano e diffondono i semi della rivolta e dell’attacco per la demolizione del mondo dello Stato e del capitale.

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SANTIAGO, CHILE: MITING EMBAJADA ITALIANA EN SOLIDARIDAD CON ALFREDO COSPITO

SANTIAGO, CHILE: MITING EMBAJADA ITALIANA EN SOLIDARIDAD CON ALFREDO COSPITO

14 de febrero Mitting en la embajada de Italia en solidaridad con
Alfredo Cospito Con más de 100 días de huelga de hambre del compañero Alfredo Cospito contra el régimen de aislamiento del 41 bis en las cárceles italianas, el Estado ha vuelto a rechazar cualquier
modificación en su encierro, condenándolo en la práctica a la muerte.
Volvemos a convocar a un nuevo mitting afuera de la embajada italiana para agitar y expandir la solidaridad internacionalista con Alfredo y contra el aislamiento. Martes 14 de febrero a las 19:00hrs en la embajada italiana.

Clemente Fabres 1050, Providencia. Por la vida y la
libertad de Alfredo Cospito: ¡No permitamos su asesinato! ¡Con Alfredo, contra el 41 bis!


¡Salúd, nihilismo y anarquía!

Bologna, Italy: Anti-prison bike demo in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito, against 41 and life sentence without appeal.

Bologna: Anti-prison bike demo in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito, against 41 and life sentence without appeal.

For over 100 days Alfredo Cospito has been on hunger strike. His is a battle against the torture of 41 bis and a life sentence without appeal. But even more so, it is the battle of those who do not want to remain defenceless in the face of the violence that the jails, the courts, the unjust ‘justice’ of this system unleashes daily on thousands of people.
DI STATO SI MUORE. [OF THE STATE YOU DIE]

However it turns out, Alfredo will not fight alone.

EVERYBODY FREE!
Anti-prison bike ride – The only good chain is the bicycle one
Bologna, Friday 10 February 2023
Ore 15:00 – Meet at the steps of Piazza VIII Agosto
Ore 17:30 – Arrival and gathering outside the Dozza prison

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Santiago, Chile, : Alfredo out of 41 bis! Protest outside the Italian embassy in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito on hunger strike for 107 days (3 February 2023)

2023/02/07

Santiago: Alfredo out of 41 bis! Protest outside the Italian embassy in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito on hunger strike for 107 days (3 February 2023)

On February 3rd 2023, at over 100 days’ hunger strike of the comrade Alfredo Cospito against the brutal isolation of 41 bis in the cells of Italy, about 50 of us called a protest in front of the Italian embassy in order to put internationalist solidarity into practice.

The anarchist and subversive prisoners in the Chilean prisons have started a fast in solidarity with Alfredo’s hunger strike. In this context and despite the considerable presence of police armed with water cannon and tear gas, we managed to push our way in front of the walls protecting the representatives of the Italian government, the same government that is currently taking the assassination of Alfredo upon itself behind the bars.

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Bologna, Italy: From a cell in 41 bis an anarchist is making a State tremble – Leaflet given out at the gathering on February 3rd ,2023

Bologna: From a cell in 41 bis an anarchist is making a State tremble – Leaflet given out at the gathering on February 3rd

Written February 5th 5, 2023

We receive and publish the leaflet distributed on Friday 3 February during the gathering, then demonstration, that moved from the Regional Penitentiary Administration Department to the juvenile prison.
In late afternoon of Friday 3 February in Bologna, a protest was held outside the headquarters of the Regional Penitentiary Administration Office, with noise, speakers and banners in solidarity with Alfredo against life imprisonment without appeal and 41 bis. Surrounded by a barrage of cops and journalists, a hundred or so comrades then moved along Via del Pratello where a large writing read ‘No 41 bis. Like Iran and Egypt, Italy also tortures and condemns to death’. The demonstration ended outside the juvenile prison where there were repeated riots in December. Alongside Alfredo! Let’s keep coming out into the streets!

From a cell of 41 bis an anarchist is making a State tremble!

Alfredo Cospito, along with 749 other prisoners, is buried deep in the dungeons of the 41bis regime. And it is precisely from the most hidden place in which the State’s vengeance against its most bitter enemies is carried out that he began his struggle: since 20 October 2022, he has been on an unremitting hunger strike against the 41bis regime and life imprisonment without appeal, i.e. the hard prison regime and life imprisonment without access to alternative sentences.

These two prison institutions are the clearest and most straightforward expression of what the State is: power ruled by institutionalised violence and vengeance.

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Rest in Power, Tort. Love from Berlin.

On Sunday January 22nd in Berlin, Germany a group of anarchists and comrades from different parts of the world came together to grieve the death of Tort, an indigenous comrade who was killed at the hands of the Atlanta police on Wednesday. A beautiful human who didn’t have to die, but did so fighting for us.

We came together to show comrades in Atlanta and beyond some love, solidarity and strength. We came together to mark this moment in time to honour and mourn Tort, and to connect the struggle in Atlanta to here. The forest occupation in Lützerath Germany, a site of resistance to an open pit coal mine, was evicted days before the heart breaking news of Tort’s murder. We came together to connect these struggles to ecological destruction and state violence world over.

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$hile: Posters and Agitation in the Streets of Santiago in Response to the International Call for Alfredo Cospito

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Posters and Agitation in the Streets of Santiago in Response to the International Call for Alfredo Cospito

January 26, 2023

Responding to the international call for mobilization in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito’s hunger strike against the disgusting 41bis and life imprisonment, the early morning of January 25 we went out to walk the streets of the center of the capital with propaganda and paste to spread information about Alfredo’s situation.

We also took advantage of the occasion to agitate for the subversive prisoner Marcelo Villarroel and the anti-speciesist comrades of the Susaron case.

Freedom for Marcelo Villarroel!
Tortu, Ita, Ru and Panda to the streets! No jails or cages!
Alfredo out of 41bis now!

INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR MOBILIZATION IN ITALIAN EMBASSIES IN SOLIDARITY WITH ALFREDO COSPITO AND THE END OF THE 41 BIS REGIME. ES/EN/PORTUGUES/IT/FR/GR

ESPAÑOL:

LLAMAMIENTO INTERNACIONAL A LA MOVILIZACIÓN EN LAS EMBAJADAS ITALIANAS EN SOLIDARIDAD CON ALFREDO COSPITO Y EL FIN DEL RÉGIMEN 41 BIS.

A más de 100 días del inicio de la huelga de hambre de Alfredo Cospito, extendemos el llamado a todas las individualidades, grupos,
organizaciones y colectivos afines a convocar dentro de sus territorios a una movilización a las afueras de las embajadas italianas para presionar al Estado italiano y a lxs verdugxs de Alfredo.
El compañero está muriendo porque el Estado quiere que muera. Esto no es solamente un problema ‘humanitario’, la lucha del compañero es un llamado a la acción revolucionaria internacional. La indiferencia y la pasividad nunca serán nuestras aliadas; la solidaridad si.

Como bien se le expresó en una carta con una bala al periódico italiano “Il Terreno”: “Si Alfredo Cospito muere todxs lxs jueces son un objetivo”. Hagámosle saber al Estado italiano que si Alfredo muere seremos su peor enemigo.

Lxs compañerxs de Chile y Colombia se harán presentes este viernes 3 de febrero a las afueras de sus embajadas. Esperamos que esta iniciativa se extienda aún más.

¡CONVOCA, ORGANIZA Y ACTÚA!
¡POR LA DESTRUCCIÓN DE TODAS LAS PRISIONES!
¡FIN AL RÉGIMEN 41 BIS!
¡VIVA LA INTERNACIONAL NEGRA!

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ENGLISH:

INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR MOBILIZATION IN ITALIAN EMBASSIES IN SOLIDARITY
WITH ALFREDO COSPITO AND THE END OF THE 41 BIS REGIME.

More than 100 days after the start of Alfredo Cospito’s hunger strike we extend the call to all like-minded individuals, groups, organizations and collectives to convene within their territories a mobilization outside the Italian embassies to put pressure on the Italian state and Alfredo’s executioners.
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Clashes and demonstration in Trastevere in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito on 101st day of hunger strike (Rome, Italy 28th January 2023)

via: Lanemesi translated by Act for freedom now!

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We are publishing a short contribution on the demonstration held Saturday 28th January in Rome in solidarity with comrade Alfredo Cospito 101 days from the beginning of the hunger strike.
Near the gathering in piazza Trilussa – which lasted several hours and from which a demonstration had been unable to set off – after some of those present had slipped out of the encirclement, there were some clashes with the repressive forces, they soon found themselves in difficulty due to being partially surrounded and to the determination of comrades to hold the streets (but they managed to stop a comrade near Piazza Trilussa). After the clashes, a demonstration was held in the small streets of Trastevere.

At the end of the demo a few dozen comrades were stopped by the DIGOS, police in riot gear and carabinieri. All 41 people apprehended during the day, taken to the police station and released without restriction from the early hours of Sunday 29, were charged with Article 337 of the Criminal Code (resisting a public official). Below is a brief informative note issued on 29 January itself.
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EN/IN/Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia: Graffiti in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito.

Received by mail: Anonymous in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia is making graffiti in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito. this was a response to the imprisonment carried out on Cospito who found himself under 41BIS.

For information current condition of Alfredo Cospito after one hundred days of his hunger strike: https://actforfree.noblogs.org/post/

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Diterima melalui surel: Anonim di Surabaya, Jawa Timur, Indonesia membuat grafiti solidaritas dengan Alfredo Cospito. ini adalah tanggapan atas pemenjaraan yang dilakukan terhadap Cospito yang berada di bawah 41BIS.

Untuk informasi tentang kondisi Alfredo Cospito saat ini setelah seratus hari mogok makan, cek di: https://actforfree.noblogs.org/post/2023/01/27/update-about-the-health-condition-of-alfredo-cospito-on-the-99th-day-of-hunger-strike-italy-january-26-2023/

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