The only viable path. Poster in solidarity with the anarchist Alfredo Cospito

THE ONLY VIABLE PATH 

Our comrade Alfredo Cospito finds himself imprisoned under the 41bis regime. This measure was ordered after months of censureship of correspondence and following the repressive operation Sibilla of November 2021, for which he received an arrest warrant in prison. Behind this repressive aggravation of Alfredo’s conditions of imprisonment there is the overt will of the State to silence a comrade who, during these years of imprisonment has contributed to the anarchist debate enormously with articles and interventions.

The 41 bis is a hard prison regime created to isolate, silence and annihilate the prisoner, in an attempt to get him to cooperate with Justice. Established in the late 1980s, it was initially applied in exceptional cases of riots or serious emergency situations within prison institutions. In 1992, after the Capaci massacre, it was extended to Mafia prisoners. Since 2002, it has also been applied to those convicted of terrorism and subversion, thus as an instrument of political repression. Some prisoners belonging to the communist organisation BR-PCC are also currently in this regime. Originally established as a detention regime of a temporary nature, from emergency to emergency, this exceptionality has become the norm. A mechanism, this one, which has become daily bread for the majority of the population since the proclamation of the so-called pandemic. It is now clear: once an emergency measure is established, there is no going back.

The transfer of Alfredo to 41bis, like the recent sentences of Juan, 28 years for an explosive attack against a leghist premises, and to Anna, sentenced along with Alfredo for political massacre, are a veritable warning from the State: whoever spreads anarchist and revolutionary practices and ideas will be buried alive. The anti-anarchist operations of recent years are also an example of the repressive escalation we are experiencing. Faced with this, we cannot reduce ourselves to absorbing the blows the State deals us as best we can, awaiting better times.

It is urgent to lay the foundations for concrete revolutionary, international solidarity.

The only antibodies to confront the catastrophe into which the the State and the bosses are driving us day by day, are a propaganda and action that goes to the roots, expressing the innermost meaning of our struggle: the destruction of the existent without mediation of any kind.

ALFREDO OUT FROM 41 BIS. EVERYBODY FREE.

DEATH TO THE STATE, LONG LIVE ANARCHY!

Anarchists

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