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Athens, Greece – Responsibility claim by Anarchists for action in solidarity with Giannis Michailidis

Responsibility claim by Anarchists

Comrade Giannis Michailidis, after 11 years of suffering arrest warrants and fabricated files due to solidarity relations, multiple detentions, torture, convictions for “individual terrorism”, arbitrary deprivation of regular and educational leave, has been in preventive detention for 5 months. Against this latest method, the comrade started a hunger strike on 23/5, raising a barricade against the practice of preventive imprisonment, starting a struggle that, apart from his release, is directly aimed against the regime of exemption of combative prisoners, highlighting the necessity of the overall struggle against power.

In the midst of the presented supremacy of the state and the attack that it has unleashed against the neighborhood of Exarchia, we decided to send a signal of minimal solidarity to comrade Giannis Michailidis, by attacking the riot squad in Ch.Trikoupis street. Continue reading Athens, Greece – Responsibility claim by Anarchists for action in solidarity with Giannis Michailidis →

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Poster in Solidarity with the anarchist Giannis Michailidis (Greece)

Solidarity with the anarchist Giannis Michailidis – On hunger strike since 23/5/22

1 June, 2022

Anarchist prisoner in Malandrinos prison Giannis Michailidis started a hunger strike on 23/5 demanding that his request for release be accepted. While he has served his entire sentence (8.5 years in the cells of democracy) and according to the laws of civil justice he is entitled to be released from prison, the responsible judicial council rejected the 1st application for his permanent release on the grounds that he is “liable to commit new offences” and the 2nd application is still under consideration with the prosecution having recommended against it.

Determined and consistent for years in the struggle against state power, capitalist brutality and all forms of exploitation, he has fought battles through his participation in social struggles and in guerrilla action groups. Present in every form of struggle that promotes rebellion and resistance to power, he has been in practical solidarity with those who have experienced the brutality and vindictiveness of repression. Having been ineffectively accused of a number of baseless cases (robbery in Paros, joining the C.C.F.) and convicted, among others, of the “crime” of robbing a bank, and having managed to escape from the hellholes of democracy (an act for which he has served his legal “debt”), he remains a proud revolutionary without ever signing statements of repentance for his actions and choices. It is obvious, therefore, why the Amfissa magistrates’ court is refusing him the permanent dismissal to which he is entitled.
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Athens, Greece : Taking responsibility by Anarchists

Athens, Greece – Taking responsibility

In view of the court of appeal of D. Chatzivasiliadis and V. Stathopoulos, on 14 May, a march in solidarity with our anarchist comrades was planned, starting from Monastiraki Area . During the march, on Stadiou street at the height of Benaki street, riot police attacked it and managed to break it by throwing chemicals. The riot squads that immediately took over immediately made 14 detentions, of which 5 were arrested with 4 of them being misdemeanor arrests and one felony. The felony charge was the possession/use of a molotov, which only resulted from the testimony of a cop without any evidence. This move is their only way to cover up the unabated use of force during the march.

Thus, on Sunday 21/05 a group of people chose to attack the riot police parked in front of the PASOK offices (political party) in Ch. Trikoupis street with the use of coctail molotovs in response to the repressive forces.

SOLIDARITY TO THOSE DETAINED IN THE 14 MAY SOLIDARITY MARCH

FREEDOM TO THE ANARCHISTS DIMITRIS  CHATZIVASILIADIS AND VAGGELIS STATHOPOULOS

IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF ANARCHIST HUNGER STRIKER

G. MICHAILIDIS

NO ONE ALONE IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE

via: athens.indymedia

Translated by Act for freedom now!

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UK: Text from Anarchist prisoner Toby Shone June 11th

Text from Toby Shone June 11th

War in the Heavens

J 11. Open Letter in solidarity with Juan Sorroche
Hi, Juan. I’m writing this letter to express my solidarity and send you a big flaming hug of anarchy for the date of June 11th. This date, which is the date of the sentencing demands from the prosecutor, and also is the date for the International Mobilization for Anarchist Prisoners, is one more day in our intransigent lives.

Most likely, you may not remember me, but we met approximately 15 years ago, in Carcelona (i.e. Barcelona, a play on words which mixes the word “Barcelona” with “carcel” or prison in Spanish – translator’s note). I recall your broad smile, your laugh, and your warm and strong heart.

I saw your letter in Respiro number two with a collage of sunflower
seeds and a zen squirrel! Comrades from the Anti-repression fund of the Western Alps sent it to me while I was in the prison of Bristol, which I’m now banned from. When I see the artwork letters of my comrades, it gives me strength. I want to share this vitality with you and all the other comrades through this letter.
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Sardinia,Italy: Molotov against the military headquarters? 

Molotov against the military headquarters?

Newspapers, not only Sardinian ones, reported the news that a molotov was thrown at the military headquarters in Via Torino in Cagliari. We’ll have our say to state how things really went and what we think about them. Yesterday there was one of the many demos that have been going on in the city in recent weeks against military exercises, which have invaded our island this month with even more violence than usual.

Yesterday evening the demo went through the streets of the centre promoting tomorrow’s demonstration in Teulada and ending as usual outside the military headquarters, where walls were smeared with red paint to remind of the blood with which they stain their hands every day. Continue reading Sardinia,Italy: Molotov against the military headquarters?  →

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Portovesme, Sardinia – Wind turbine burnt out

 

On the night of 21st April we set fire to a wind turbine in Portovesme.

Every excuse is good to rape and torture our Sardinia with every kind of servitude. The coal plant was not enough… The owners of “clean” energy turbines are the same ones who pollute our air and seas with oil and carbon. Enel is here TO EARN MILLIONS BY ROBBING RESOURCES AND GIVING THE CRUMBS BACK TO US. [The argument] of jobs is just bullshit. What is left to us are very expensive bills to be paid, the countryside and the sea full of turbines and solar panels. There are many new projects and they are scary… the past teaches us what the Italian state and the Sardinian region want to do with sulcis….A LANDFILL.

For this reason we did it and will do it again. All Sardinians must raise their heads against the umpteenth act of violence that wants us to be DEPENDENT SLAVES. We must defend the land that raised us. Continue reading Portovesme, Sardinia – Wind turbine burnt out →

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Bavaria, Germany : G7, again in Schloss Elmau

G7, again in Schloss Elmau

We receive and publish this text-appeal against the G7 which will take place in Elmau, Bavaria, from 26th to 28th June. If we agree with the whole of the reasoning and the tension that animates it, we cannot fail to point out a contradiction between denunciation of “massive financing to digital and to biotechnologies” thanks to the Covid-19 Emergency, and the claim to “vaccination for all”, that is to say biotechnological serums… This said, strength and courage in taking “resistance against this capitalist shit to the streets”.

Smash G7!

Translated from German by de.indymedia.org

The G20-related trials are not yet concluded and the next summit of shit is already underway. The G7 summit, this time for three days, will be held again in Germany from 26th to 28th June 2022 – and will take place in Elmau, Bavaria, as in 2015. The state and government leaders of Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Canada and United States of America (USA) will gather in Schlosshotel Elmau. The seven megalomaniacs (G7, “the biggest advanced economies in the world within the IMF and the richest liberal democracies”) are the most powerful capitalist states, major military powers and the headquarters of the biggest banks and corporations. Their policies are responsible for the poverty, exploitation and oppression of millions of people, for famines and wars.

Do we want once again to organize resistance against the G7 and let people understand that the dominant powers don’t represent us? We should self-critically ask ourselves whether it is meaningful to mobilize again after Elmau or, unlike 2015, if more decentralised actions would be more efficient. But what is the aim actually? To stop the summit? To destroy the G7? A symbolic protest? Continue reading Bavaria, Germany : G7, again in Schloss Elmau →

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Toulouse, France : Let’s go beyond the limits!

Toulouse: Let’s go beyond the limits!

Indymedia Lille / Sunday 5 July 2020

On the night of 26 May, in Toulouse, three electric car charging stations burned down in the Sept Deniers district and on Avenue Crampel.

The nuclear mirage is embodied in open-pit mines and an epidemic of cancers and soon in a vast desert.

We want neither fossil nor nuclear.

Capital is wasting its energy selling us its empty dreams and its race to progress.
Nothing will make industry greener than its demise.

via: attaque Translated by Act for freedom now!

Revolutionary Prisoners News

No one will be left alone Fundraising to support imprisoned anarchists and anti-fascists in Belarus

It’s been almost two years since the 2020 protests in Belarus. The anarchist movement, just like the rest of activists and jounalists, has faced the biggest crackdown ever. Many activists had to leave the country, others got behind bars. ABC-Belarus continues its activity and needs support more than ever. At the moment, there are about 30 imprisoned anarchists and antifascists in Belarus and the number keeps growing.

We are in the middle of a big trial with 10 defendants that would probably last for the whole summer. Read more about the case here – https://abc-belarus.org/?p=13936&lang=en Every week just this case alone costs us 3000 euros. Without your help, we won’t be able to provide support in this trial for long, meaning that the activists will lose their opportunity to get legal aid. Other comrades need lawyer’s visits, food parcels, appeals – all this requires more money than we are able to gather. Continue reading No one will be left alone Fundraising to support imprisoned anarchists and anti-fascists in Belarus →