“The question of the issues, the lever for awakening the insurgent power of the world is therefore Internationalism.” (Alfredo Cospito)
“Because for those who love life, to react when the question of life and death is at stake is an act of duty, from Monday 7 November I am starting a hunger strike” ( Anna Beniamino)
Anarchist prisoner Alfredo Cospito has been on a hunger strike to the death in Italian prisons since 20 October, demanding that the 41bis solitary isolation regime applied against him be lifted.
41bis is a sensory solitary isolation regime that constitutes torture and is one of the harshest special detention regimes in the European Union. The Italian state’s attack on Alfredo Cospito is not simply a state choice to eliminate an unrepentant anarchist guerrilla. It symbolises the full frontal assault on the choice of armed struggle and is carried out through anti-terrorist policies and special detention regimes.
The comrade’s strike is therefore both a struggle against torture and special conditions of detention and a battle so that the defence of the choice of armed struggle remains relevant and is not defeated through the murderous silence imposed on Alfredo Cospito.
The internationalist solidarity in the face of the comrade with the symbolism it carries must act as a lever of awakening for the international anarchist movement that has not been subjugated to reification and alternativism.
Political prisoners from Italy, France, England, Chile are going on hunger strikes and symbolic protests. While solidarity marches, rallies and attacks are trying to shape the conditions for our comrade’s hunger strike to become the cause of all people who are fighting against prisons, anti-terrorist laws, torture.
On Wednesday 30/11, one day before the court session that will decide whether to prolong the torture of our comrade in 41bis and in the context of the day of action in solidarity with the hunger striker Alfredo Cospito, we visited the Greek-Italian Chamber of Commerce at 102 Solonos Street, where we threw paint and leaflets, wanting to send an internationalist message of resistance to the attempted extermination of our comrade by the Italian state.
Victory in the Hunger Strike of anarchist Alfredo Cospito
Solidarity with the anarchists Ivan Allocco, Juan Sorroche Fernandez, Anna Beniamino who are on hunger strike in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito
Solidarity with the prisoners of the Red Brigades (BR-PCC) Nadia Lioce, Marco Mezzasalma, Roberto Morandi, who have been resisting the 41 bis regime for more than 17 years.
41 BIS IS TORTURE
Message of Resistance
Source: athens.indymedia