Poster and flyer distributed and posted up in Lecce
The State is the slaughterer!
December 12 marks the anniversary of what is known as the “mother of all massacres”, the one in Piazza Fontana, at the Banca dell’Agricoltura in Milan, in 1969. Planned and carried out by fascists in collusion with State apparatuses, many more followed and over the following decade much blood was shed. These were scientifically planned massacres that attempted to impart an even more authoritarian turn to the young Italian Republic.
On December 5 in Turin, the courts began deliberating the sentencing of two anarchist comrades – Alfredo and Anna – accused of “political massacre” for having placed two explosive devices outside the carabinieri school near Cuneo in 2006, without causing any fatalities or injuries. They both risk life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Alfredo is being held under the 41 bis regime since May.
It seems logically absurd to hold a trial for a massacre without a single death, but not when the defendants are anarchists. The State wants to imprison them for life, not for what they have allegedly committed, but for the ideas they carry in their hearts and the actions that are an expression of those ideas.
Whoever placed those devices did not want to strike indiscriminately people in a bank, a station or on a train, but carefully chose their target. A carabinieri school is one of the places where the defenders of the established order are trained, those who enforce this state of affairs and who carry out a slow but relentless slaughter: people killed in the streets, in the barracks, in prison; deported, sent elsewhere to die, or killed directly in war zones around the world where Western States carry out their missions.
The same carabinieri involved in the Piazza Fontana massacre and all the ones that followed came of one of these schools.
The act for which Alfredo and Anna risk being locked up for life, besides not having claimed any victims, differs from State massacres in another respect: the ethical depth that distinguishes it. The gesture they are accused of did not aim to impose authoritarianism and repression, but its opposite: to open a horizon of freedom in a world of chains, by attacking one of its main links.
As anarchists we cannot yield to a repressive leap that increasingly aims to prosecute ideas and intentions. Precisely because and in spite of this, we must continue to affirm that we are, and always will be, for the destruction of the State and the creation of a world free of prisons, hierarchy and authority, that we are for the violent attack against structures and people of State and capital, and for insurrection – the only possible way to open a path not marked on any map, a path that is called freedom.