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Colombia: Molotov attack on police station in Medellín in response to police rape

Posted on 2021/07/05 by darknights

A few days ago, during the anti-government protests in Medellin, Colombia a 15 year old girl was raped by the police. On July 2, groups of feminists set fire to the police station with Molotov cocktails.

This is not an isolated case, since the protests started, more than 2 months ago, 28 women have been raped.

The uprising in Colombia has hit its 67th consecutive day. Despite hundreds of people being killed and disappeared, and police shooting out the eyes of demonstrators, people have been returning to the streets, fighting back valiently, burning police stations and attacking police.

From: AMW

Athens: Statement by Anarchist Giannis Michailidis at the Court for the Arrests in Agia Paraskevi & Final Sentence at the Trial on 29 June 2021

Posted on 2021/07/05 by darknights

Final news of the terror court trial on 29^th of June, and sentence against our 3 anarchist comrades Kostantina Ahanasopoulou, Giannis Mixailidis and Dimitra Valavani

Giannis Michailidis 26 years ( 20 ‘merged’)

Kostantina Athanasopoulou 2 and a half years

Dimitra Valavani 2 and a half years

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Dimitra Valavani is free! from 30^th of July 2021 she walked out to the streets as she had already been in prison from January 31.01.2020

Konstantina Athanasopoulou had been on the run since she was released on bail for activities related to the Revolutionary Struggle organization. She was sentenced in absentia in 2019 to 35 years and 6 months. Kostantina is still in prison and the appeal court trial of the Revolutionary Struggle organization continues this month, July 2021 also the 2 members of the Revolutionary struggle Roupa Panagiota (Pola) and nikos Maziotis, and one person charalampidis x.

comrades in solidarity

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to send letters to the 2 comrades:

Kostantina Athanasopoulou
(Κωσταντινα Αθανασοπουλου)
Eleonas Women’s Prison
Thebes
T.K. 32200
Greece

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Giannis Michailidis
(Γιαννης Μηχαιλιδης)
Malandrinou prisons (Κ.Κ. Μαλανδρίνου)
T.K. 33053
MALANDRINO
FOKIDAS
GREECE

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Chile: Hunger strike of prisoners transferred from the High Security Prison to Rancagua ends

Posted on 2021/07/05 by darknights

During the last days of June, the hunger strike ended of most of the prisoners transferred from the High Security to Rancagua, in Module 1 (the High Security prisoners) and in Module 2 (Maximum Security prisoners).
The mobilization allowed for a few more hours of yard time, the regularization of an internal and the more or less stable entry of a minimum amount of food, necessary to cope with the decadent diet imposed by the concessionaires (companies that profit from prison food).
Even so, there is a series of battles that will continue to be fought, such as the complete disuse of the call center, both for lawyers and for the threat of using it for future visits.
All with the excuse of health as a repressive engine.
In the same way, it is still urgent the permanent and stable entry of food from outside (considering vegan comrades and medical needs), as well as some other situations of the internal regime.
Today Rancagua is coming out of the strictest quarantine, so that visits to the prison should be resumed.
For their part, the comrades who have participated in this mobilization are in good spirits and firm, receiving the support of the rest of the anarchists and subversives of the different prisons, Monica Caballero and Pablo Baamondes.
The call is always to not to falter in militant solidarity with the comrades.

ISOLATION IS TORTURE!

SOLIDARITY WITH THE PRISONERS MOBILIZED AND ON HUNGER STRIKE!!!!

DOWN WITH THE PRISON WALLS!!!!

Buscandolakalle, news of subversive and anarchist prisoners in struggle in Chilean prisons.

Thessaloniki, Greece – Explosive attacks against employer violence and class exploitation by Anarchist Action Organisation

Posted on 2021/07/04 - 2021/07/07 by darknights

Defeat is not loss, nor is it death. Defeat is acceptance. It is the oblivion of the dead of the class war. It is the bloodless surrender of collective history to the dustbin of oblivion. Defeat is assignment and messianism. Prolonging the battle, truce and compromise to a life below the class necessities and circumstances of the times. Defeat is not to give one’s life and freedom for the struggle, but to live deadened by the lack of social solidarity and class consciousness. To look to save your own skin when the person next to you is losing his steps, being left behind, dying. The times we live in are characterised by a profoundly dystopian condition, where everything seems predetermined. It is a time of dilemmas and great decisions. In the face of this dark period, it is our revolutionary duty to light the way with the hope of overthrow. To believe in our powers, to justify the loss of those who believed in them and are no longer with us. That is the stakes today: to keep alive the flame of subversion, the flame of insurrection until it becomes a fiery revolutionary conflagration. To be the link between the struggles of yesterday and tomorrow. For this land will only be cleansed by fire. Only with revolution.

The concerted attack of the state and the bosses on the ranks of the exploited social base leaves behind dozens of dead every day in the sweatshops of wage slavery. The barbarism in this society is the normalization and acceptance of the death of the proletarian base for the profits of the employers. A condition which is enshrined through class blackmail and methodical intensity of exploitation by the bosses. And it is not only the pervasive lack of determination and social solidarity that prevails in the ranks of the exploited. It is the very need for survival that narrows the thought of assertion and negotiation in the face of collective doom. It is the steady work of the employers’ trade unionism of the GSEE and the reformist left to jointly deconstruct the class barriers and degenerate the workers’ struggle. Abuse workers’ rights, assimilate and manipulate the radical aberrations of the workers’ struggle. To bury any attempt to overcome class exploitation, opening an unbridgeable gap between representative protest and collective resistance and subversion. And while the list of the dead of our class grows longer, avenging their loss is a matter for fewer and fewer of us. But class duty remains unabated.

Our daily life is drenched in blood. A dead construction worker, a dead supermarket worker. A work accident at a power station, in the sweatshops of the multinationals. And the proletarian rank and file, spectators to their loss and with tears in their eyes, bow their heads in resignation to life. The responsibility is suffocating us more and more every day. For all those whose names history will not record, for all those whose lives were sacrificed for the great interests, for the great overcoming of the crisis of neoliberalism. For all of them we are still here to fight every day. So that they are not forgotten. For their loss not to become mere statistics and numbers on analysts’ lists. For all of them we are here to fight our daily battles, with our small forces. Because the losses on the field of class warfare do not bear any more tears but are a cry for new hostilities.

Every dead worker is a bullet in the chamber of class revenge.
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Italy: Anarchist Alfredo Cospito transferred to Terni prison

Posted on 2021/07/04 by darknights

Anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito has been transferred from the Alta Sicurezza 2 (“High Security 2”) section of Ferrara prison to that of Terni. Below the new address:

Alfredo Cospito
C. C. di Terni
strada delle Campore 32
05100 Terni
Italia – Italy

The comrade has been in prison since September 14, 2012, following the repressive operation that led to his arrest and that of another comrade, both accused of having shot and wounded Roberto Adinolfi, the CEO of Ansaldo Nucleare, on May 7 of that year in Genoa. The action, claimed by the Nucleo Olga of Federazione Anarchica Informale – Fronte Rivoluzionario Internazionale (“Informal Anarchist Federation – International Revolutionary Front”), was then claimed individually by the two comrades also during the first degree trial held in Genoa. The comrade had been imprisoned in Ferrara’s AS2 since 2013.

We also recall that Alfredo, in addition to the 9 years and 5 months sentence received in the trial for the action against Adinolfi, was sentenced to 20 years in first and second instance of the Scripta Manent trial held in Turin since 2017 and derived from the arrests of September 6, 2016. Around twenty comrades were charged in the trial, with regard to the activities of the FAI (later FAI–FRI) in Italy, involving also specific charges relating to a series of actions realized between 2005 and 2016 and for some anarchist publications and websites run by comrades. In the appeal sentence of November 24, 2020, three comrades were convicted for subversive association with the purposes of terrorism and subversion of the democratic order and for “incitement to commit crimes”. Among these three comrades, Anna Beniamino and Alfredo Cospito were convicted for some actions (explosive attacks and parcel bombs) carried out between 2005 and 2007. In addition, ten other comrades were sentenced for various reasons only for “incitement to crimes”. Currently, in addition to Alfredo, Anna is imprisoned (in Messina prison), sentenced to 16 years and 6 months.

Forgetting the prisoners of the social war means forgetting the war itself: revolutionary solidarity with the imprisoned anarchists.

Some anarchists in solidarity
July 1st, 2021

[Published & translated by malacoda.noblogs.org].

“WE ARE NOT LEAVING WITHOUT THE BEAGLES”, FREE THE MBR BEAGLES.

Posted on 2021/07/04 - 2021/07/04 by darknights

The UK is seeing a resurgence of action against vivisection and it seems they have chosen a target. MBR Beagles is a factory farm breeding and selling beagles for vivisection. They have existed for almost fifty years and have continuously operated under different names including Harlan and Interfauna.

Interfauna was a previous target of the ALF. More than one raid was carried out in the past, including the notable 82 beagles and 26 rabbits liberated from the place in 1990.

During the SHAC campaign, MBR Acres was also the target of heated demonstrations and a relentless campaign to shut down the factory farm.

For over a year, local campaigners have run “Stop Animal Cruelty Huntingdon”, which focused on demonstrations against MBR Acres and Covance. Since undercover footage captured with a hidden camera was released showing beagles transported from the sheds and into vans, the campaign has become a lot more than just a local effort.

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Portland, USA: SUV Tires Deflated In Solidarity With Climate Liberation Front

Posted on 2021/07/04 - 2021/07/07 by darknights

Submitted Anonymously

Last night, over 100 tires on large SUVs were deflated in solidarity with recent actions by the Climate Liberation Front. From Portland to Arlington, we see ya.

An awl through the sidewall is quick and quiet.

It was hot as fuck during the day, over 110 degrees, so we took full advantage of the night. The city would never even get this hot if not for the gases these SUVs emit into the atmosphere, and the miles of dark, heat-absorbing asphalt that have been put down for them to drive on.

Fuck cars, fuck industry, let’s make a hot crime summer.

We all grieve in different ways. For us, attack was a fitting ritual to celebrate everything that was, and mourn all that could’ve been.

In loving memory of H.

-angry ghosts

From: Rose City Counter-Info

Portland, USA: Report Back – action in response to PPB’s murder on 6/24

Posted on 2021/07/04 by darknights

Submitted Anonymously

In response to the Portland Police murder of Michael Ray Townsend on June 24, a parking lot containing multiple Portland Police Bureau squad cars was attacked. A hole was cut into the surrounding barbed wire fence, and a dozen vehicles were hit. All cars had their windows, windshields, lights and mirrors smashed, and abolitionists / anarchists messages were painted across their exteriors. A fire extinguisher filled with paint was used to completely cover multiple squad cars, as well as their interiors.

Everyday the pigs turn our public spaces into open air prisons. We call on all abolitionists to take the defunding and disarming of the pigs into their own hands.

Be bold! Sabotage is fun!

From: Rose City Counter-Info

Italy: Words of Anarchist Natascia Savio in Solidarity with the Mobilization and Hunger Strike of the Chilean Imprisoned Anarchists

Posted on 2021/07/04 by darknights

I write these words during my tenth day of hunger strike, in solidarity with the Chilean comrades once again on hunger strike: you are not alone.

A fraternal embrace to every imprisoned comrade.
For an active and revolutionary solidarity everywhere.

Natascia, imprisoned anarchist
June 26, 2021

[Published & translated by malacoda.noblogs.org].

Genoa, Italy – Itinerant Gathering Against Special Surveillance

Posted on 2021/06/25 - 2021/06/25 by darknights

From: Inferno Urbano Via & Translated by Act For Freedom Now!

GATHERING AGAINST SPECIAL SURVEILLANCE

From the struggles against the devastation and plundering of the earth to the struggles against borders that divide people and split up the world, from the antimilitarist struggle against the massacres of war and arms trafficking to the struggle of those who fight against work exploitation… The enemy is always the same: power, neo-liberal domination, the capitalist system that grabs everything for the privileges of the few to the detriment of the many.

For power those who rebel become dangerous individuals to be monitored. Repression transforms affinity between people into terrorist cells and subversive associations. Our response to these attacks is self-organization and carrying on the struggle in spite of the repression.

TUESDAY 15TH JUNE AT 6:30PM – START OFF