Fire Ant: Anarchist Prisoner Solidarity #10
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Fire Ant is a quarterly publication focused on spreading the words of anarchist prisoners and generating material solidarity for our 
imprisoned friends. Begun as a collaboration between anarchist prisoners and anarchists in Maine, Fire Ant seeks to raise material aid for anarchist prisoners while fostering communication between anarchists on both sides of the walls.
Issue #10 features essays, letters, and poetry from anarchist prisoners Michael Kimble, Pepe, Thomas Meyer-Falk, and Sean Swain; as well as an introduction by Robcat to the new Fire Ant Food Autonomy Project.
by Bloomington ABC
Spain: Elisa di Bernardo – “We are winning battles for the freedom of Gabriel Pombo”
via: anarquia.info
“Never using drugs, being very clear about his ideas, and his physical and mental strength have helped him survive in prison despite the FIES. Almost all of his comrades have died. He survived a genocide,” explains the companion of the anarchist prisoner in Oviedo.
Elisa di Bernardo went to Oviedo yesterday to relate the situation of her companion Gabriel Pombo da Silva. She was invited by the group Higinio Carrocera, in collaboration with the Cambalache community centre, taking advantage of her visit to Pombo in the prison of Mansilla de las Mulas in León. Elisa gave a very complete account of both the legal situation of the anarchist prisoner and his life and struggle during more than 30 years in prison. It was a talk that not only provided information about Pombo but also showed how, inside the prison walls, “democracy” disappears and one enters a dark world, subjected to physical and psychological torture, to personal revenge by judges and jailers, to prisons inside the prison (FIES). In addition, Elisa gave us perspective and context on how inequality, misery, injustice and poverty inherent to the capitalist and statist system manufactures ‘criminals’.
Elisa began the talk by taking from her backpack three important books about the situation of prisoners and the world of the anti-prison struggle: “Extreme Destitution, Extreme Violence”, “So You Don’t Forget Me” by Mothers United Against Drugs and the Report on Torture in the Spanish State, which Elisa explained was censored by the police, as it recounts the saddest years of the FIES (files of inmates under special monitoring) regime.
[Uruguayan State] Propaganda for the international week of solidarity with imprisoned anarchists
via: es-contrainfo:Published September 8, 2021
August 29, Costa de Oro, Region usurped and plundered by the Uruguayan state.
Responding to the international call in solidarity with anarchist prisoners, on the night of August 29th we stamped our signature of complicity with our kidnapped comrades, in a new activity of ecstatic propaganda. Stubborn propaganda, erased a thousand times and returning again a thousand times to disturb. Propaganda that is an irreverent cry accompanying and announcing acts.
For the destruction of prison society and the freedom of our caged brothers and sisters in struggle!
Let’s ensure that Anarchy lives!!!!!!
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Buenos Aires, Argentina: Update of Material “Expanding the Revolt”.
From the project “Expanding the Revolt” in Buenos Aires, we wanted to provide different comrades with an update of the work that we have been doing in the last year in terms of anarchist zines, magazines and books.
For us it is extremely important to make our own editions, some of them coming from our own pens, and others from the research, compilation and selection of different comrades to tell diverse stories and deepen our anarchist memory.
In addition to the dissemination and the always attentive call that the material we produce be destined for the social war and not for the product in itself or historicist labour, we bring these words to encourage the need for a greater quantity of our own productions, ceasing to delegate our memory to representatives of state institutions or to eternal reprinting without updating of materials produced decades ago.
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Censorship applied to anarchist Alfredo Cospito (Italy, September 2021)
We inform that just over a week ago comrade Alfredo was subjected to a three-month censorship of correspondence.
Updates will follow.
The address of the comrade:
Alfredo Cospito
C. C. di Terni
strada delle Campore 32
05100 Terni
Italia – Italy
[September 30, 2021].
via: malacoda
Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis), Paris, France: The van of Valmy street
This is the story of an eiffage van. A brand new van. Because it has obviously replaced the one that, as we read, was burned earlier this year in the same area. A brand new van, therefore, which ends up burning.
An Eiffage van is most often used to build cages.
Sad cages with colors that sound false. Cages to get us used to conformity, to prepare us for work and to play the social role we have been assigned.
Cages that are depressing or full of noise and lights that make our heads spin, supposed to motivate us to waste our time and energy in occupations that are too often useless or harmful.
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Italy – ”Operation Prometeo”: prosecutors demand 17 to 18 years and 4 months for Nat, Beppe and Robert and flyer and poster for a gathering in solidarity and complicity on Monday, October 4, in front of the court in Genoa
via: infernourbanoTranslated by act for freedom now!
On 20th September, at the court of the assizes in Genoa, prosecutor Federico Manotti and the civil party representing Rinaudi were heard at the Prometeo trial. 17 years were demanded for Robert and Natascia and 18 years and 4 months for Beppe, the latter two comrades having been locked up for over two years in Rebibbia and Bologna respectively. The main charge remained that of article 280 (attack with purposes of terrorism) with continuation of the crime and the aggravating circumstance 
constituted by the offended party in question (two prosecutors and the chief of DAP [Department of Prison Administration]). The lethal element was excluded from the demand but article 270 sexies remained for [the charge] of having acted with purposes of terrorism.
The civil party didn’t submit any demand for compensation, maintaining that “17 years are sufficient and there is no desire to be overzealous” (sic!).
Cagliari, Sardinia – Communique on the trial for “operation Lince”
The second part of the trial for operation Lince has taken place yesterday in Cagliari. Exactly two years after the closure of the investigation, the Judge for Preliminary Hearings accepted prosecutor Guido Pani’s requests relating to 43 of the accused, whereas 2 of them were granted temporary suspension. Despite the inconsistency of the evidence and the tenuousness of the charges, the trial will go ahead with the charge of 270bis for five comrades and with the aggravating circumstance for another twenty, while the others have been charged with minor offences.
In recent years prosecutors all over the Italian State have been amusing themselves notifying crimes of association: more or less eccentric theorems raining down here and there, imposing custodial measures, searches and so on. Luckily in the majority of cases the prosecutors’ eccentric theories have clashed with investigating judges who weren’t inclined to believe their stories, therefore dropped the crimes of association. This was not the case here and we’ll come to terms with it. But a design that wants extreme criminalization for any minimally organized and determined form of dissent is becoming clearer and clearer.
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Italy,Greece: The book Varkarides. I battellieri (Biblioteca Anarchica Sabot, 2021) is available
The book Varkarides. I battellieri. Il gruppo nichilista di Salonicco. 1898–1903 [Varkarides. The boatmen. The nihilist group from Thessaloniki], first Italian edition by Biblioteca Anarchica Sabot, is available
“… we are a handful of fanatics descending the vast river of history shouting with joy. And there we will arrive.”
In 1894 thirteen-year old Macedonian students Yordan Yordanov (Ortzeto) and Konstantin Kirkov went to Thessaloniki – in the Ottoman era – to attend grammar school. A year later along with their schoolmates they form a revolutionary nucleus and lead student mobilizations. In 1897 they form the group of AGITATORS and make contact with anarchist-nihilist circles in Geneva. The group evolves and takes the name of BOATMEN. Their “ideology” is terrorism.
Bremen, Germany: Once again a vehicle of prison profiteers torched
“It is companies like Spie, WISAG, Massak, Sodexo […] that keep state rule alive through their pandering.”
Inspired by the compas who already relieved Dussmann Service GmbH of three vehicles at the beginning of the year, we attacked SPIE in the night from Monday to Tuesday and burned out a van in front of their branch at Sielhof.
Both as part of the French nuclear industry and through its cooperation with RWE in the lignite mining in the Hambach Forest, SPIE has already made itself a legitimate target.
But for us, SPIE is one thing above all: a prison profiteer.
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Greece: Solidarity with the four accused in the Gare trial in Athens
On September 29, the trial of two comrades from Berlin and two comrades from Athens will take place in the Evelpidon Court in Athens.
On November 26, 2017, the four people were arrested during the violent eviction of Gare Squat in the Exarchia district of Athens. Among other charges, they are accused of trespassing, attempted dangerous bodily harm, refusal to provide forensic identification, and possession of explosive materials and bombs.
This eviction was the first of three, as a result of this the four comrades were detained for 4 days. They were released after on a bail. Now the trial take place, almost four years later.
After the trial was postponed for a year in September of last year, things have changed. (https://de.indymedia.org/node/101793 Sep.: 2020)
The district of Exarchia has changed in many ways since Nea Demokratia came to power in 2019.
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Greece: New publication from the fund of solidarity to the imprisoned fighters
The preface of the old edition began with the phrase “this book is about illegality.” It was about at least ten different stories, taken from the reality of different periods of the Italian radical movement. Within the pages of the book, the experience of illegality and its importance as a choice, both existential and militant, was depicted, sometimes in a way that leaned towards emotion and sometimes towards political evaluation. The aim is to familiarize the reading public, as much as possible through the pages of a book, with this unfamiliar land of illegality and the people who have occasionally relocated to it.
We have enriched this publication with similar stories of our own domestic experience, which, although they have been more cumulative over the last 17 years, we must say that they extend through time and into the decades previous to post-independence. Reading different experiences from different kinetic environments in different times, we hope to reach, in the light of comparative study and critical observation, conclusions as to how close or far apart the thoughts and feelings of people who, although they never met, nevertheless found themselves in this same land, the land of fugitivity, can come together.
Solidarity Fund for Imprisoned, Persecuted Revolutionaries in Greece
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France: Anarchist comrade Boris gets out of prison but is not out of danger..
via: sansnom
Indymedia Lille, 29 September 2021
[The trial] of 20 September, which would have dealt with the appeal against the 4 year prison sentence, could not take place because of the still critical state of health of our comrade who continues to be in an artifically induced coma.
The judges decided to “release” him without judicial control, and to postpone his trial until further notice.
While we can only rejoice that he is no longer under the control of the prison administration, he is unfortunately not finished with the justice system, since the end of his sentence [of preventive detention] and his appeal are only suspended.
The words and deeds that are multiplying in solidarity with Boris give rise to the desire to live outside of all authority.
Anarchists in solidarity and complicity,
28 September 2021
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Montevideo (Uruguay): Banner in solidarity with anarchist prisoner Boris
