Palermo, Italy: Gathering at Ucciardone prison and poster in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito from Sicily

Palermo: Gathering at Ucciardone prison and poster in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito from Sicily

Written February 19t, 2023

Democracy always has a massacre behind it

In Sicily, even human geography is capable of bitter irony, of tricks of light and shadow. Portella della Ginestra is twenty kilometres – fifteen minutes by car – from the centre of Palermo. The largest city of the region, capital and stage of political power past and present, has behind it the site of the first massacre of the poor in republican Italy: 11 dead, including 3 children, 30 seriously injured. If it was the Giuliano gang to shoot, the motive was the convergence of interests of the ruling classes and the reason of State. The same reason of State that took out Pisciotta to save the good name of Scelba and Mattarella, as if it was enough to kill a man to eliminate the collective memory that the oppressed retain of their slaughterers and those who starved them. Alfredo’s story not only teaches us the difference between the dignity of an individual in struggle and the civilised barbarity of the bureaucracies of annihilation, but also reminds us how domination is still that mixture of ferocity, lies, idiocy.

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Grand Est,France : sabotage of an EHV pylon, some technical advice

Communique #2: Sabotage of an extra-high voltage pylon in France/

Grand Est

Indymedia Lille, February 12, 2023

In December 2022, in solidarity with the hunger-striking prisoner Alfredo Cospito, we sabotaged an EHV pylon and partially removed its bolts (https://actforfree.noblogs.org/post/2022/12/27/france-grand-est-attack-against-nuclear-infrastructure-in-solidarity-with-alfredo-cospito/). The sabotage of a high voltage line is not without risk and, even if it is done without error, there is always some risk. However, we found this risk acceptable and the action entertaining. Since direct action is always an attempt to motivate and inspire other contexts, we had already announced our intention to give some technical advice:

Choice of target: When choosing the mast, make sure that the insulators (the ceramic coils to which the cables are attached) are vertical! A diagonal or horizontal position indicates a tensile load in the corresponding direction. Choose the most isolated location possible. Make sure that there are no people between the object and the nearest pylons (e.g. busy roads crossing the line). Choose your escape route so that it cannot be blocked by the falling line.

Risk assessment/mitigation: It happens occasionally (although rarely) that electricity pylons bend or fall, even without sabotage. This can happen, for example, due to storms, the weight of snow, or simply material fatigue or inadequate maintenance. The result is a risk of premature collapse of the mast. This risk increases with each screw loosened and exponentially with each foot completely unscrewed. It is up to you, as a group, to decide how far you want to go. In all cases, plan the action taking into account the possibility of the mast falling while you are still there. Both at the base of the mast and where the cables touch the ground, there is a potentially lethal amounts of electricity on the ground within a certain radius! Move away from the object as quickly as possible in the opposite direction of the fall. Ensure that your body remains in contact with the ground at all times (grounding), walking with small “shuffling” steps. Make sure that the weather conditions are favorable. Do not perform this action in strong wind, heavy rain or snowfall!

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Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) France : sabotage the welcoming of the Minister of Labor

Toulouse (Haute-Garonne): sabotage the welcoming of the Minister of Labor

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Welcoming committee for the minister of labor
IAATA, February 11, 2023

sabotage of the railway north of Toulouse

The Minister of Labor was invited to the headquarters of the newspaper La Dépêche on Thursday to promote the pension reform and defend his vision of the world.

As a welcoming committee worthy of the name, the railway line north of Toulouse was sabotaged. The train embodies the supply tool of the economic system in labor and commodities. A system that works Just In Time can be disrupted by attacking these veins.

In solidarity with all those who refuse this world, who are in the streets these last weeks, who fight for a better life

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Hanover (Germany): Siemens under fire

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Hanover : Siemens under fire

de.indymedia, February 10, 2023

On the night of February 7-8, 2023, we placed incendiary devices with delays under four vehicles of the company Siemens in Hannover/Laatzen. Unfortunately, not all of them burned, but we know for sure that at least one of them was completely destroyed.

From Lützerath to Yucatán, Siemens is involved in every sordid affair!

Digitization, automation, data and signal transmission, energy generation, electrification, extension of the railway network – Siemens provides the infrastructural basis for capitalist and neo-colonial exploitation worldwide.
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Solidarity to Alfredo Cospito

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Solidarity to Alfredo Cospito
Written 15th February, 2023

After the coup de théâtre arrived on 8th February 2023 deposited in the secretary’s office where the deputy prosecutor Piero Gaeta asks the court of cassation the annulment of the 41 bis regime, Alfredo informed his lawyer Caterina Calia that he does not want to commit suicide but struggle against 41 bis.

He recommenced taking potassium, supplements and honey. Alfredo began his hunger strike on October 20th 2022 as an instrument of struggle a mechanism of nonviolent protest used since antiquity. A struggle that nowadays is mainly used to achieve fundamental rights denied by the State and those who govern us, and to protest against injustices inflicted… Yes, because the 41 bis is torture.

Alfredo wants to live, every cell of his body has resisted for 118 days, and still today resists against his hunger strike. His strike is for everyone, not only for himself, he want to live and also wants the other prisoners, who are imprisoned in the hard prison regime to be able to live.
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The State is weak

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The State is weak

The decision of the supervisory court in Rome’s made public on 19 December confirming the detention of the anarchist Alfredo Cospito under 41 bis is in fact a death sentence in view of the comrade’s decision not to break the hunger strike to the bitter end that he began on 20 October. The State is flexing its muscles and preparing for the showdown. Its motto could be summed up as kill one to arrest one hundred, aiming at the liquidation of the anarchist movement, at least that of our generation. What it is actually giving is proof of is its weakness. We have been telling ourselves for two months that this is not the time for analysis and reflection, that the situation is urgent, that action must be taken. Yet, if it is true that for anarchism theory is never separate from practice as they are inextricably intertwined, then perhaps this is precisely the time not to stop and reflect, but to reason while continuing to act.
In a nutshell. We believe that the Italian State has made a big mistake by deciding to apply 41 bis to an imprisoned anarchist for the first time. This mistake has led to the occurrence of the largest mobilisation of denunciation and struggle, concrete and international, against the 41 bis since this infamous regime of annihilation and torture was inaugurated in 1992. This movement is not led by sincere democrats, but is driven in its propulsive essence by the individual action of an indomitable comrade, who is risking his own life in this struggle, and by the many actions and initiatives, individual and collective, of an anarchist movement that has been able to regain its anger and vitality.
In the face of all this, paradoxically, today the State might consider that – since the mistake has now been made and it will have to be paid for – killing Alfredo Cospito could be the least painful option.

The alternative would be defeat and having to take a major step backwards, not least because the international anarchist movement does not, for its part, promise to take steps backwards in exchange for the life of a comrade. Anarchism is not bartering (nor could it ever), a kind of disarmament in exchange for Alfredo’s declassification. Thus the State has no guarantee that the anarchists will stop. On the contrary, it fears they will be invigorated by a victory against 41 bis.
It is a risky bet. And Alfredo’s life today rolls on the dice of these vile gamblers.

Anarchists in 41 bis: genesis of a political-military

Breakthrough attempt It is spring 2022. The country is supported by the government of Unità Nazionale [National Unity] led by what many believe is the most influential man of the European political and economic elites: Mario Draghi. Social peace is suffocating. On the other hand, there is war, real war, on Europe’s doorstep. The Draghi government, particularly its centre-left component, is a fervent supporter of NATO policy. By far one of the most warmongering governments in the alliance. This causes enormous sacrifices for the population. Draghi knows this well and he knows equally well that social peace is a fragile marriage that can collapse at any moment. Draghi knows this well precisely because, as head of the European Central Bank, he is one of those responsible for the social butchery in Greece.

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The homeland of Beccaria? A homeland of gravediggers by Anarchist Anna Beniamino (Italy)

The homeland of Beccaria? A homeland of gravediggers

So many people are digging for a corpse, but no one takes the responsibility of being the executioner. At the same time, it’s full of gravediggers ready to throw shovels of mud preparing the grave for the anarchist. A confused and dishevelled ballet around the gallows with many bit players: ‘zero tolerance’, institutional blame-game, audience depending changes of course, the spectre of anarchy that keeps the government, or rather the state, ‘under checkmate’, and then the ‘mass-murdering’ anarchists colluding with the mass-murdering mafiosi, with the appearance on stage of the PD [Partito Democratico, “Democratic Party”].

A poorly written and poorly acted theater, a scramble of ignorant ‘experts’, of professional and compulsive liars, of low journalism, sloth and cowardice that does nothing but reveal what is the potential of an individual waging a struggle alone against the state moloch. A moloch, by the way, that by its own makers claim must be very fragile if a few writings on the walls, broken shop windows and a few burnt cars are enough to put it in ‘danger’.

Whichever way you look at it, the struggle of an anarchist thrown into a torture regime has broken the prevailing narrative. Despite the ridiculous attempt to credit him as colluding with (or, even worse, directed by…) the Mafia, despite the ridiculous attempt to misrepresent his acts and words, it would seem that a little critical sense prevails, and that the attempt to undermine his credibility and integrity achieves the opposite effect of bringing out the linear coherence of anti-authoritarians and revolutionaries who continue to defend their ideas and practices without being distracted by the fireworks of post-modern media politics. And that unite, whereas repression would divide.
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Five years after the evacuation of Bois Lejuc: ANDRA’s Flux branch burnt down in Osne le Val near Bure. FRANCE

Five years after the evacuation of Bois Lejuc: ANDRA’s Flux branch burnt down in Osne le Val near Bure.

It took two decades of struggle to create a situation allowing an open balance of power against the CIGEO project with the occupation of Bois Lejuc, which was defended for nearly two years under pressure and attacks from ANDRA mercenaries* .

It has now been five years since this front line broke following the violent and brutal eviction of the occupiers by 500 gendarmes on February 22, 2018 and, with it, a central place of resistance disappeared.
What followed was an unprecedented wave of repression in the region; Surveillance, raids, arrests, trials, prison sentences and other repressive instruments implemented have prevented and made difficult an offensive reorganization of the struggle.

The psychological wounds left by this difficult and traumatic time are slowly healing and there will forever be a scar in our hearts. Despite the evacuation of the forest, the resistance continues today on many levels.
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3 machines burned in honor of Tortuguita to defend Weelaunee (usa)

3 machines burned in honor of Tortuguita to defend Weelaunee

Yesterday, it came to Our attention that an area of Weelaunee Forest next to the river, near BlackHall Studios had been clear-cut. The machines they used were left on-site, so in the early morning we came and torched an excavator,bulldozer, and a front-end-loader.

Fuck a machine. Fuck the cops. Fuck liberals who don’t get their hands dirty and try to potray our fallen comrade like some white-washed version of something It (Tortuguita preferred “It” pronouns) was NOT. We believe & hope that Tort did shoot that cop, plain & simple…

At dawn this morning a sacred fire burned in their honor – We just wish more Georgia State Patrol vehicles could have joined the inferno.

– The Joint Task Force to Avenge Tortuguita

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EN/DE : Alfredo Cospito – Call for Day X

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13.02. 2023

Since October 20, 2022, the anarchist Alfredo Cospito has been on hunger strike. As of today February 13, 2023, that makes it 116 days!
For 116 days the Italian state has been trying to murder Alfredo!
For 116 days Alfredo has been fighting non-stop, against the torture of the 41bis prison regime!

In these 116 days, many things have happened. There were events organized, texts were written, there were direct actions and much more. All of this in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito and other political prisoners, or all prisoners. Each of these things tried to inform about Alfredo’s situation, to draw attention to it, and to directly harm the actors who were getting their fingers dirty. Either the direct culprits, like the Italian state, or the representatives of this crime, like the cops and prisons around the world. They all deserve the same.

In spite of all these things, the Italian State has maintained its murderous line until now. The rulers try to torture and kill a person, hoping his ideas would die with him. Forgotten and alone, in a tiny cell, forced to lie in a hospital bed, far from loved ones……But they forget that Alfredo’s ideas, of a Free and Just World, are also ours. That we have heard and will always hear his voice, that we stand by his side and continue to fight. That what unites us all is the belief that only a world without domination, without authorities and without exploitation, can be a free and just one. That is why we fight for Alfredo and that is why we fight for anarchy.
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