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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On New Year’s Eve we will be alongside the social and political prisoners in Larissa prison this year again.

We will travel by bus and return immediately after the meeting.

Thessaloniki: gathering at the Polytechnic at 21:00.

Departure by bus at 21:30 exactly.

For information, places, contact : solidar@tutanota.com [until 27/12]

We are changing the year outside the prisons, until we radically change this world…

WE SUPPORT THE IMPRISONED FIGHTERS MORALLY, MATERIALLY, POLITICALLY

NO ONE ALONE IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE

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Translated by Act for freedom now!

pdf : PANFLETOMARCHACIE IN ENGLISH

AGAINST THE CIES, THE NATIONS, THE BORDERS AND THE SYSTEM THAT PERPETUATES THEM

On May 17, 2021, a geopolitical conflict between the Spanish and Moroccan states led to the opening of borders in Morocco, with the consequent crossing of people under inhumane conditions on the border beaches between the two countries. In response, the Spanish State increased its military presence in Ceuta, carrying out hot returns and other humiliating treatment, reducing people to mere merchandise. On August 30 of this year, due to military and economic interests, an unsustainable situation has been generated in Afghanistan forcing people to leave the country.

These are clear examples of the role of democracy and capitalism in the management of our lives, through the development of infrastructures, control of population flows, treaties, laws and borders. All this generates an important business that seeks to control the oppressed populations and use them for their miserable self-dealing and political games.

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Biologica squat has been a political and cultural reference central point for the city of Thessaloniki for 34 years. It has been the ground for many political and cultural assemblies, public events and workshops while supporting the DIY culture in every possible way. Through the years it has a space in the university campus that constantly shouts against discrimination, exploitation and every type of authority. It has hosted many open assemblies, collectives and has been one of the places in the city where people of the anarchist, LGBTQ, punk and student scene come together against anti-commercialism, gentrification and organise against the capitalist way of life that the city of the rich imposes on our lives. At the moment, Biologica squat is the home of the collective “Biologica”, a group of people supporting the DIY scene in anti-commercial terms, the Solidarity Fund for the support of persecuted prisoners and Terra Incognita, an anarchist collective supporting the struggle with all means. In the earlier years of Biologica, other collectives were also active while other groups supported the space by organising public events.

With continuous political interventions in the university campus, the Biologica squat and other groups and individuals who are in solidarity with it, create grounds where manifestations, banner-drops, stickers, and other means strike against the university’s sterilized ideas and manage to bring into the offensive anti-sexist, anti-speciesism, anti-commercial and anti-authoritarian ideas.

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Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info

On Saturday, more than sixty people acting in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land defenders blocked the CN main line in Saint-Lambert south of Montreal for over six hours. It was the longest rail blockade in Quebec since the winter of 2020, interrupting Via Rail service and immobilizing six freight trains. These notes reflect the experience of a couple participants in Saturday’s blockade.

Nostalgia mixed with anticipation as we arrived at the tracks where they cross rue Saint-Georges, with banners ready to hang across the rail crossing and no police in sight. It was a bright morning, temperatures just below freezing and the ground snowless, a contrast with that first night in February 2020, when temperatures sunk to 25 below and snow could be piled into mounds atop the rails.

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Demo
18.12 16:00
Theaterplace, Basel

Down with the EU`s borders!
Against a state of indifference!

For weeks now it has been clear that inhumane conditions also prevail at the Polish-Belarusian border. With the onset of winter, the situation has worsened: Thousands of people are stuck at the Polish border, trying to find their way into the EU through the cold and harsh forests. Poland’s border policy – like the policies of the rest of the Schengen states – leaves no room for doubt: The European Union is building on ever-higher walls. The border is under constant strict technological and military surveillance and illegal push-backs – the deportation of those who do make it across the border – are not the exception but the rule. Journalists and aid organizations are still denied access to the Polish border area. What images are released to the public is part of a political calculation and is solely in the hands of the authorities.

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We share a poster in memory of Sebastián Oversluij Seguel, murdered in 2013 by a bank guard in a region controlled by the chilean state, when when he was preparing to carry out a bank expropriation.

“Take the leap, dream that praxis will grow stronger

lone animals no one can stop us

not even a thousand walls

with the idea held in that head

make your way

imagine every fence is on the ground

to hell with this disastrous society

perhaps romantic friends there is nothing more beautiful

than to feel free of its laws while relishing the delight of death

of civilisation at sunset

I chase a thousand destructive dreams in the dark

fire feeds my senses

the howls of the insurrectionary pack

fertile ground for living and dying in search

of total liberation.

The idea is in the mind with actions it creates

versatile communities

affinities in the struggle

not prisoners of imposed tasks

for the freedoms you desire

and if thousands of limits surround us

you use every resource you can get hold of.”

(Fragment song “La Idea”, Palabras en conflicto, 2012)

COMRADES SEBASTIÁN OVERSLUIJ SEGUEL IS WITH US!

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Actforfree received by email: in Spanish and translated to English

Saturday, December 18th. ANTIPRISON AND KOUNTERCULTURAL DAY FOR SUBVERSIVE AND ANARCHIST PRISONERS

“To advance in an uncompromising way and against all the odds has been our life choice, betting precisely on the confrontation of the struggle through ant-like work, taking tangible millimetric steps, in which each free, solidaristic and conscious individual manages to propagate and spread the message of total liberation”. -Pablo Bahamondes Ortiz

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From the historic Simón Bolívar community we extend the invitation to every individuality, group, network and anti-authoritarian collective to participate in this day that intends to agitate and show solidarity with our captive comrades who today are condemned to decades of political imprisonment for having dealt multiple blows to power and its infrastructures from an autonomous subversive position.

Continue reading Santiago, Chile: Saturday, December 18th. 21, ANTIPRISON AND KOUNTERCULTURAL DAY FOR SUBVERSIVE AND ANARCHIST PRISONERS →