On Tuesday, January 11, 2022, a D.I.Y. book was published under the title “Words Against isolation or As Long As There Are Prisons, Let’s Write Letters”. There are two main reasons to create this publication. First is to motivate people to write to prisoners, while obtaining funds for anarchists imprisoned in so-called Belarus.

On 110 A4 pages I inform you why and how to write letters. I’m connecting reflections arising from my personal experience of imprisonment as well as collage including fragments of prison correspondence. I want to demonstrate on concrete examples of what can be encouraging for a person behind bars and exciting joy. Perhaps this will allow people who are going to write letters empathize with the situation of the prisoner and it will inspire them.

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Saturday 1 January 2022

While the cops were busy spoiling the party of those disappointed by the cancelled fireworks in the fields, we went and set some off in front of several places of incarceration in the Ile de France.

In front of the Mesnil-Amelot detention centre, we set off fireworks and shouted some messages of solidarity with those imprisoned; for freedom, against confinement. In recent months many revolts and escapes have taken place there, and we wanted to show our solidarity. We arrived a bit late, those detained there were no longer in the yard, so unfortunately we didn’t hear them, their voices going in another direction. But other comrades in the area heard them.

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11/01/2022

We remind you of the call for next Saturday January 22nd at 18:00 hours in the ESLA EKO on the street Ánade 10 (Ateneo Carabanchel 2nd floor) Oporto subway of Madrid.

We want it to be an important debate on the synergies and forms of organization that we need in this XXI century for anarchism; do not miss it.

Cheers to all, we hope to see you there

via: https://anarquia.info

Translated by Act for freedom now!

The state, cops and university lackies decided on 31/12/2021 to realize an eviction that has already been announced the previous months. After unofficial threats for an upcoming eviction of the Biologica squat during the previous years, in September a project agreement was signed and assigned to a contractor, with the aim of “remodeling” and “utilizing” the spaces on the ground floor of the Biology building were the squat used to be. In the plans, of course, they included the squatted area with the intention of demolishing the surrounding walls and turning it into a secretariat room and a waiting room. In New Year’s Eve as in the long gone 1992 – at that time they build the door of the squat – the university campus is surrounded by police forces while underground cops are moving towards the area of the squat. They invade our liberated ground and after conducting a thorough search, while destroying anything that was in the squat, they take pictures of their “grand” findings and they give the space to the workers to finish off the first stage of their plan, the demolition of the walls. After their intervention all of the ground floor appears to be vandalized. We never doubted the pure hate of the state, cops and university lackies towards liberated spaces.

Thessaloniki’s assembly of the Solidarity Fund for Imprisoned, Persecuted Revolutionaries found a home between these walls in 2016. During all these years the squat has been the starting point of struggles and solidarity actions for imprisoned and persecuted companions, both from the structure of the Solidarity Fund and from other groups and individuals with a central idea to resist the state and capitalist barbarism and stench and defend the prisoners of this war. Political and cultural events, book presentations and self-organized bookstores, screenings, collective kitchens and workshops, local and panhellenic assemblies, bars and concerts for the financial support of political prisoners or to cover court expenses … A few words cannot describe the political bonds, trust and companionship that developed within these walls that we found demolished. This demolition cannot destroy them, as they are our way of life and memories which are reflected in our every thought and action.

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THE INTERNATIONAL IS HAPPENING AT NIGHT…

Friday 7^th January 2022

5pm: Reading and discussion of the book “Which international?” by Alfredo Cospito and many others (Edizioni Monte Bove, 2021)

«Left-wing unions and parties no longer function. Their role as fire-extinguishers has been replaced by weapons of mass distraction such as racism and patriotism. But for how long? The popular sovereignist madness is weakening parliamentary democracy, undermining it from the foundations. This sort of “populism” is producing contrasting and irrational pulsions which are difficult to manage for those who unleashed them. Today the possibility that our action can open up a crack is becoming real» (Alfredo Cospito, “Vetriolo”, issue 3, February 2019).

7pm: Dinner followed by a raffle for the self-financing of Circolaccio

AGAINST CENSORSHIP LET’S PERSEVERE WITH ANARCHIST PROPAGANDA

Circolaccio Anarchico

Viale della repubblica 1/A – Spoleto

E-mail: circolaccioanarchico@inventati.org

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Translated by act for freedom now!

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Making ideas into a revolt

-Conversations at the Desquiebre Bookstore

The necessity of sharpening our ideas and positions, of seeing each other’s faces and being able to discuss our concerns, invites us once again to talk about different topics, proposed with fellowship for this month of January, a collective approach from our own anti-authoritarian perspectives.

The physical spaces, the concrete instances where we get together to discuss, sharpen and give & receive feedback are vital for the circulation of our black ideas, to enhance our experiences in continuous learning, always in a non-hierarchical way.

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For a long time, it has been an anarchist tradition to go to the jail on this day and start the new year with all prisoners and demand their freedom.

Now it may seem strange to some people when we talk about the freedom of all prisoners, because there may also be people there whose actions we deeply despise. This is also true, and yet we are convinced that a critical and solidarity-based approach to prisoners is needed.

The majority of those who spend days, months, years or even their entire lives in prisons are there for social reasons. In other words, their deeds are the result of social misery. They are thieves or burglars who have not physically harmed anyone, but merely wanted to survive in a world that has cast them out. They are people who have been caught driving illegally too often because tickets are becoming more and more expensive. Likewise, refugees are locked away, some of whom have travelled incredible distances to flee political persecution or simply to live a better life. From the beginning of our lives, we are confronted with laws and rules that we never decided or wanted. If we do not comply with them, there is punishment. The highest form of punishment in this State is prison, because this seems to people to be the most humane form of punishment. People look arrogantly at other countries that still carry out corporal and or death sentences. But let’s be honest, isn’t a (life) sentence also just a death sentence in instalments? Prisons are not hotels, life there is neither fair nor free of exploitation and oppression. It is also expensive.

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