Return Fire vol.6 chap.5 out (with supplement), chap.4 graphics fixed, new texts & posters & flyers in archive
Hi comrades,
Here’s the latest chapter of Return Fire vol.6; chap.5, and here’s a separate version of the covers if printing yourself. Contents:
Reclaim Your Queer Fucking Life!
(fighting talk about the pacification of Pride)
Iranian Anarchists on Protests in Response to Police Murder of Mahsa Amini
& Techno-Sharia, Morality Police and Psychopolice
On Staying Woke in Polycrisis Futurism
& The Red Flags of Just Stop Oil
Earthbound Farmers’ Almanac and Food Autonomy in Bulbancha
& ‘Each of Us Picks Our Own Mischief’
‘Our Anarchy Lives’
& ‘The Vital Space of a State’
‘Lest We Forget’
& ‘It Has Always Been the Time’
For the Love of God
(review: Victor Hugo’s ‘Les Miserables’ & its adaptations)
Rebels Behind Bars
(text by prisoners & repression news)
Poems for Love, Loss and War
‘Not Fighting the Same Fight’
(back to post-Left basics)
Memory as a Weapon
(grappling with ancestry, individualism, & entanglement)
Against the Struggle of the Coward
(everything we risk, the enemy does not)
…and more!
Boves (Somme) France : sabotaging rail traffic.
Boves (Somme): sabotaging rail traffic
“Malicious acts” on the SNCF network near Boves
Courrier Picard, March 28, 2023
Several “malicious acts” have caused disruptions this Tuesday, March 28 on the SNCF network. The TER lines Amiens-Creil and Amiens-Arras suffered delays, between 5 am and 7 am, before traffic resumed normally despite some residual delays until mid-day.
The SNCF does not wish to communicate precisely what these acts of malice are, probably related to the social protest against the pension reform. “It is a disturbance of the tracks that has prevented the movement of trains, several times, “she said. Near the town of Boves near Amiens.
Vinay/Saint-Hilaire-du-Rosier (Isère): sabotaging rail traffic
The SNCF Grenoble-Valence line stopped after the cables are sabotaged
Le Dauphiné, March 23, 2023
Telecom and signal cables were cut in three places in Vinay and Saint-Hilaire-du-Rosier on Tuesday mid-day. These acts have caused a total halt to rail traffic on this line, which is not expected to reopen until Thursday.
According to our information, these actions were carried out at three different points on the line: at kilometre point (KP) 59, located in the municipality of Vinay, at KP 38.100, located in Saint-Hilaire-du-Rosier, and 500 metres further north, at KP 38.600. Probably carried out by people who were familiar with the technical characteristics and function of these cables, the sabotage involved Telecom installations and the power supply to the signalling system of this railroad line: tools without which safety can no longer be guaranteed.
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Mapuche Political Prisoners of Lebu, Angol, and Temuco in Solidarity with Temucuicui and Pilmaiken Against Escalated Government Repression
Mapuche Political Prisoners of Lebu, Angol, and Temuco in Solidarity with Temucuicui and Pilmaiken Against Escalated Government Repression
March 7, 2023
Mapuche political prisoners of the Lebu, Angol, and Temuco prisons issue communiques demonstrating their solidarity and concern faced with the events that represent escalated repression against communities in resistence by the current government.
They also mention the three Mapuche political prisoners in the Angol prison – Palacios Cañuta, Simón Huenchullan Millanao and Jorge Palacios Cañuta, who have been on hunger strike since February 27 for their transfer to CET (Study and Work Center) in Victoria. From Lebu they say they are alert to this situation and do not rule out the possibility of mobilizations.
At the same time they call for the communities in resistence and Mapuche autonomist movement to strengthen themselves in the face of what is a clear persecution on the part of the current social democratic government and in conjunction with sectors of the ultra-right and those which are historically anti-Mapuche. The repressive policies are deepening in order to ensure extractive capitalist investments in Wallmapu (the great Mapuche territory).
Public Declaration of Mapuche Political Prisoners of Lebu Prison:
Roanne (Loire) France : assault on the prison.
Vehicles of the prison administration vandalized at the detention center
Le Progrès, March 21, 2023
This Tuesday, in the beginning of evening, three unmarked vehicles of the prison administration of Roanne were degraded. They were parked at the bottom of the parking lot of the detention center of Roanne reserved for the personnel, accessible by an automatic metal gate and surrounded by a fence.
Prison staff chased off two individuals dressed in black, one of whom tried to set fire to a vehicle. The latter fled in the direction of the canal before the arrival of police officers. This Tuesday, at 8:30 pm, police officers were present at the scene to make observations.
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EN/GR/: Important updates on the health condition and the condition of imprisonment for the anarchist Alfredo Cospito (Italy)
Important updates on the health condition and the condition of inprisonment for the anarchist Alfredo Cospito
Alfredo has NOT ended the hunger strike!
The news circulated in the media these days is false and slanderous, as is now the habit in this story: he was offered milk, but Alfredo refused it. If he decides to start eating again, he will follow the instructions given to him by his trusted doctor some time ago.
In view of the hearing on April 18, he decided to resume supplements: potassium to stabilize the heart, vitamins to try to stem the neurological problem in the lower limbs, and proteins. After the hearing at the constitutional court in Rome, called to express itself on the legal legitimacy of granting or not extenuating circumstances in relation to the conviction for 285 c. p. (“massacre for the purpose of undermining the security of the State”, which only provides for life imprisonment) decreed by the cassation in the context of the Scripta Manent process, will decide how to proceed.
Anti-State Gathering-Demo in Solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker (since 10/20/22 in Italy) Alfredo Cospito on Sunday April 9th, at 13:00, Thiseio Metro Station (Athens,Greece)
Anti-State Gathering-Demo in Solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker (since 10/20/22 in Italy) Alfredo Cospito on Sunday April 9th, at 13:00, Thiseio Metro Station .
FREEDOM TO ALFREDO COSPITO
FIRE TO 41 BIS AND ALL FORMS OF INCARCERATION
Alfredo Cospito is an anarchist who has always been active in the frontline of struggles. He was never willing to compromise nor to give up. He is a comrade who has been fighting since the end of the 80’s, a period during which he was imprisoned as a total conscientious objector (for refusing to serve mandatory military services).
Alfredo has always been active in defending comrades affected by repression, in every corner of the world. He has been contributing for many years with articles, editorial projects and proposals to the international anarchist discussion/debate. For this reason, he has been censored many times and his communication with the “outside world” has been forbidden. He has been in prison for 10 years (since 2012), during which he was in High Security prison sectors until he was transferred to 41bis inMay 2022, from Terni prison to Bankali prison in Sassari.
The 41bis prison regime entails 24/7 electronic surveillance, 1 person per cell of 2×3 meters, 1 hour per day for socializing in a group of 4 people (the seperation into these groups is decided directly by the bureaucrats in Rome and is valid for several months), 1 visit per month of 1 hour with no physical contact, separation with glass divider, under electronic surveillance, with audio and video recording (only if the family members are unable to visit, a monthly 10-minute phone call is allowed as an alternative, but to do so, the prisoner’s family member must go to a police station or in some prison), no physical contact, censorship and control of written material, presence at court only through video-conferences.
Venice, Italy: appeal sentence for Anarchist comrade Juan Sorroche
Venice: appeal sentence for Anarchist comrade Juan
We’re making it known that on March 28 our Juanito, sentenced to 28 years’ prison in first grade for an action against the premises of the League of Villorba (TV) in 2018, had his sentence reduced to 14 years and 10 months by the appeal court of Venice.
Nevertheless this is still a very high sentence for an action which – beyond the intentions of the anonymous attackers – caused neither dead nor wounded.
Full solidarity to Juan!
via: https://ilrovescio.info/2023/03/31
Translated by Act for freedom now!
Necessary Words: After 15 Years in Prison Text from comrade Marcelo Villaroel (Chile)
Necessary Words: After 15 Years in Prison
Text from comrade Marcelo Villaroel
March 15, 2023
I have been in prison for 15 uninterrupted years. 22 months in Patagonia, territory occupied by the Argentine state where I was detained and the other 13 years and 2 months in the maximum and high security sections of Santiago and Rancagua where I write these words today.
Necessary words as an unequivocal reference of the passage of time and its implications.
As an inescapable trace of a memory oiled with the gasoline that has ignited thousands of barricades and implacable fires demanding the release of anarchist and subversive prisoners through the years of struggle and resistance inside Chilean prisons.
For 15 years, I have been living in high and maximum security confinement regimes in which sensory deprivation tends to be normalized along with the hostilities of the environment, the structure and the whole internal order of the daily life of prison. The goal is to break your will and make you a citizen prisoner, respectful of all its repressive and authoritarian internal order built to break the indomitable spirit of those of us who walk with our heads held up, dignified and without fear within the prison reality through which we have had to pass.
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Vince is free! (France,Italy)
Vince is free!
Following the great news of March 28th (https://www.msn.com/it-it/notizie/italia/vincenzo-vecchi-l-ultimo-anarchico-condannato-per-il-g8-di-genova-anche-per-lui-niente-estradizione-dalla-francia/ar-AA19deCp), we receive and spread the following:
After numerous hearings, court proceedings, rulings for and against, opinion of the European court of justice etc. etc.
In France Vince is finally free.
In fact, after last Friday’s ruling effectively refusing to accept the European arrest warrant, the French prosecution decided not to appeal in cassation.