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Athens, Greece: Taking responsibility – Against the war industry by Anarchists

Posted on 2022/11/25 by darknights

Taking responsibility – Against the war industry

In the days of commemoration of the Polytechnic, we must not forget the anti-militarist implications of the uprising. In the midst of military dictatorship, one of the central slogans of the occupied Polytechnic in ’73 was “Out with NATO”. Picking up this thread, anarchy today must find a way of direct action against those who profit and gain from these wars.

While we try to develop anarchist considerations and analyses of every interstate war conflict, one of the most important aspects of the multifaceted anti-military struggle is often ignored: sabotaging the death machine on the ground we are on.

Since we are in NATO’s territory of influence, we have a duty to sabotage everything used by the armed forces of the Greek state and its allies, the arms industry, the financiers and those who give orders and make decisions.

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Turin, Italy: Public assembly in support of prisoners fighting against 41 bis and hostile life imprisonment and readings and discussion around the book “Which International?” by Alfredo Cospito and many others (Nov. 24, 2022)

Posted on 2022/11/19 by darknights

Public assembly in support of prisoners fighting against 41 bis and hostile life imprisonment and readings and discussion around the book “Which International?” by Alfredo Cospito and many others (Turin, Nov. 24, 2022)

Thursday, November 24, 2022 at Radio Blackout, 21/A Cecchi Street.

– 7:00 p.m.: Public assembly in support of prisoners fighting against 41 bis and hostile life imprisonment.

– 9:30 p.m.: Readings and discussion around the book Which International? by Alfredo Cospito and many others (Monte Bove Editions). We will discuss with some of the book’s editors, editors of Vetriolo.

“[…] Here, I believe that this international must fight against states and capital and feed class hatred, the hatred of the excluded, the poor, the proletariat by directing energies against lobbyists, military, industrialists, the rich, technocrats, politicians, statesmen, technicians, scientists. Against all the included, those who hold knowledge and capital and therefore power whatever it may be […].”

Against censorship, we persevere in anarchist propaganda

Source: La Nemesi

Italy: Solidarity presence at the appeal hearing for the recalculation of sentences against Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino as part of the Scripta Manent trial + Further mobilizations for the imprisoned anarchist hunger strikers

Posted on 2022/11/19 - 2022/11/19 by darknights

Solidarity presence at the appeal hearing for the recalculation of sentences against Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino as part of the Scripta Manent trial (Turin, Dec. 5, 2022)

The Scripta Manent trial has reached its final stages. Last July 6, the Supreme Court requalified as a so-called political massacre one of the crimes (inherent in the double explosive attack against the Fossano Carabinieri Cadet School on June 2, 2006, claimed by Rivolta Anonima and Tremenda / Federazione Anarchica Informale) for which anarchists Anna Beniamino and Alfredo Cospito were convicted in the Scripta Manent trial. Life imprisonment is the basic penalty under the penal code for political massacre. After requalifying the crime, the Supreme Court sent the case back to the Court of Appeals to redetermine the sentences. The hearing that will decide the extent of those sentences is set for Dec. 5 in Turin. We publish below the manifesto for the solidarity presence with the imprisoned comrades.

Solidarity presence in front of the courthouse where the sentence recalculation hearing for Alfredo and Anna will be held

Turin, Monday, December 5, 2022, 09:00 am.

Close 41 bis, free all, free all

Anarchists

Some dates of the mobilization in solidarity with the imprisoned anarchists on hunger strike (Turin, Nov. 20-Dec. 5, 2022)

Since last October 20, the anarchist Alfredo Cospito has been on hunger strike to the bitter end against the 41 bis prison regime to which he is subjected and against the hostile life sentence.

That is why an international mobilization of solidarity is underway for him and for the other imprisoned anarchists who have decided to accompany him on strike: Juan Sorroche in Terni prison, Ivan Alocco in a French prison, and Anna Beniamino in Rome’s Rebibbia prison.

Alfredo has been in prison continuously for ten years, spent in High Security sections until his transfer to 41 bis. The 41 bis is a prison regime of annihilation, in that it is designed to cause physical and mental damage through the technique of sensory deprivation; it is a political and social death sentence designed to sever all forms of contact with the outside world.

Alfredo was convicted, along with Anna Beniamino and other anarchists, in a trial aimed at criminalizing ideas and practices hostile to authoritarian oppression, and now the sentence for Alfredo and Anna has been recast as “political massacre,” the only punishment for which is life imprisonment. The recalculation of the sentence will take place at the Turin Court of Appeals on December 5.

The Italian state, which has always protected fascist mass murderers, now wants to convict two anarchists for massacre for an explosive attack that caused neither casualties nor injuries.

This affair breaks into the increasingly grim repressive climate with which we all find ourselves dealing: that is why the struggle of Alfredo, Juan, Ivan and Anna is close to the heart of those who do not want to resign themselves to a world that is increasingly an open-air jail.

Their struggle is our struggle!

Rebels and solidarity, always!

Some events of the mobilization in Turin

– Sunday, Nov. 20, 10 a.m., Michelotti Gardens parking lot, solidarity presence around the city.
– Thursday, Nov. 24, 7 p.m., at Radio Blackout (Via Cecchi 21/A), assembly for mobilization; 9:30 p.m., readings and discussion around the book Which International?, by Alfredo Cospito and many others, by the editors.
– Sunday, Nov. 27, 3 p.m., Cavallotti Gardens (Vallette), procession against prison and repression.
– Thursday, Dec. 1, 7 p.m., at Radio Blackout (Via Cecchi 21/A), assembly for mobilization.
– Monday, Dec. 5, 9 a.m., solidarity presence in front of the Palace of Justice where the sentence recalculation hearing for Alfredo and Anna will be held.

Source: La Nemesi

Toulouse, France: ‘Borne… to be burned!’ New electric car charging station burned

Posted on 2022/11/19 by darknights

New electric car charging station burned down on boulevard de Suisse, in Toulouse, this Thursday, November 10.

Energy is their future. Fossil or renewable, and especially nuclear, imported or not, production is always increasing, defining our needs and ruining lives.
The French state wants to stay in the race of energy markets. The restructuring of the car fleet is one of them, with the announced plan for 2030 of 2 million electric cars; this means new lithium mines, whole fields of photovoltaic panels and windmills, cities closed to all those who cannot afford to buy the new Zoe or a Tesla. If the planned goal of 100,000 electric charging stations has not been reached this year, it may be because this future is only of interest to car shareholders and a few hypertechnology enthusiasts. Since this summer, several recently installed charging stations have been destroyed in Toulouse, one of the test cities of the LEZ (low emission zone subject to the crit’air sticker). We participated in this resistance. The LEZ is an ecological decoy and a social injustice. Because we do not see a transition but an accumulation of energy resources whose exploitation conditions the survival of this shitty system. We see with joy that a resistance is also unfolding everywhere in many ways, and more broadly against the industries that pump all the energy.

Source: lille.indymedia

Italy: Same story, same place, same shack. Discovery of bug in a Rome apartment

Posted on 2022/11/19 by darknights

Probably in the days leading up to the November 12 demonstration in Rome in solidarity with Alfredo and the other comrades imprisoned on hunger strike, someone snuck into the house where we live to plant a bug. Perhaps with a sense of irony, or perhaps with investigative “acumen,” that in the continuing misinterpretation of the “solidarity and complicity” that develops among anarchists will have caused them to anticipate a collective hunger strike, the intruders thought that the most suitable place to house their bug was the back of the kitchen oven. Powered by the cord of the same appliance, it was also equipped with a battery. The incident is aggravated by recurrence, as another bug had already been found in the same place, powered by the same power cord, several months ago. Time passes but control remains.

We will not be intimidated by the attention paid to us by some among those responsible for the detention of revolutionary prisoners.
Our thoughts are fixed on the comrades who even from inside a jail are continuing the struggle.
To them all the esteem, anger and love they deserve.

Marco and Sandro

Source: fuoridallariserva

Thessaloniki, Greece: Microphonic solidarity to the hunger striker Alfredo Cospito

Posted on 2022/11/18 by darknights

Microphonic solidarity to anarcho-nihilist Alfredo Cospito. Hunger Strike from 20/10/22

STOP NOW THE ISOLATION (41 bis)

In solidarity they have started a hunger strike and the comrades:
Juan Sorroche Fernandez (from 25/10/22),
Ivan Aloccο (from 27/10/22),
Anna Beniamino (from 27/10/22),

Source: Anarxiko Steki Nadir

Italy: Against 41 bis, from Alessandria prison: communiqué of Nicola De Maria in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito, Nadia Lioce, Marco Mezzasalma and Roberto Morandi

Posted on 2022/11/16 - 2022/11/16 by darknights

We publish the following communiqué by Nicola De Maria, militant of Brigate Rosse – Colonna Walter Alasia (‘Red Brigades – Walter Alasia Column’) imprisoned since February 1982, currently in the High Security section of the Alessandria prison, on the initiative – extension of the time outside the cell, against the strict provisions of prison regulations – undertaken by him on November 9 in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito, anarchist comrade on hunger strike to the bitter end since October 20 against 41 bis prison regime to which he was transferred in May this year, and with Nadia Lioce, Marco Mezzasalma and Roberto Morandi, militants of Brigate Rosse per la costruzione del Partito Comunista Combattente (‘Red Brigades for the construction of the Combatant Communist Party’) imprisoned in 41 bis for 17 years.

‘Crisis, war, repression against workers, unemployed, students’

In this context, the 41 bis prison regime for revolutionary prisoners has recently been extended; a regime that aims at the annihilation of their identity and psycho-physical integrity.

On November 9, 2022, I extended the time outside the cell in:

– solidarity with Alfredo Cospito, anarchist prisoner on hunger strike to the bitter end in the Bancali-Sassari prison against 41 bis;

– solidarity with the Brigate Rosse–PCC prisoners, Nadia Lioce, Marco Mezzasalma, Roberto Morandi, who have been resisting the 41 bis regime for more than 17 years.

Nicola De Maria, imprisoned militant of Brigate Rosse – Colonna Walter Alasia

[Published in italian here: https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2022/11/16/contro-il-41-bis-dal-carcere-di-alessandria-comunicato-di-nicola-de-maria-in-solidarieta-con-alfredo-cospito-nadia-lioce-marco-mezzasalma-e-roberto-morandi/]

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(IT) Contro il 41 bis, dal carcere di Alessandria: comunicato di Nicola De Maria in solidarietà con Alfredo Cospito, Nadia Lioce, Marco Mezzasalma e Roberto Morandi
(EN) Against 41 bis, from Alessandria prison: communiqué of Nicola De Maria in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito, Nadia Lioce, Marco Mezzasalma and Roberto Morandi (Italy)

Trento, Italy: Smashed windows at Deutsche Bank branch in solidarity with Alfredo, Juan, Ivan and Anna

Posted on 2022/11/16 by darknights

On the night of Nov. 10-11, the windows of the Deutsche Bank branch in downtown Trento were smashed. They left the inscriptions “With Alfredo on hunger strike” and “Warmongers.” Alongside Alfredo, Juan, Ivan and Anna.

Daje!*

Source: Inferno Urbano

*DN Note: Slang for come on. can be used to tell someone to hurry up, to encourage someone, often used in sporting context.

Greece: Pola Roupa and Nikos Maziotis: For Alfredo Cospito. Text of Solidarity by the Members of Revolutionary Struggle

Posted on 2022/11/16 - 2022/11/16 by darknights

For Alfredo Cospito

Text of Solidarity by the Members of Revolutionary Struggle

Pola Roupa and Nikos Maziotis

The physical and moral extermination of revolutionary fighters and political prisoners, or the coercion of them into political renunciation and repentance, has been the goal of the State and capital throughout time. In order to achieve this aim, States have created special conditions of detention and isolation for those who took up arms against the regime, for those they call “terrorists”.

One example of special detention today is the Italian model under Article 41 bis.

Under Italian law, the Minister of “Justice” is given the right to lift the rules of treatment of some prisoners and order their transfer to special conditions of detention. The special conditions based on Article 41 bis impose complete social and sensory isolation, limiting contacts with other prisoners, limiting visits to one (1) per month with relatives, not by physical contact but through a glass partition, limiting, prohibiting, correspondence and the possession of books, shrinking prisoners’ exercise period to one (1) hour per day and increasing the time of confinement inside the cell.

These conditions are a form of torture aimed at crushing militant prisoners and in general those under this regime. Continue reading “Greece: Pola Roupa and Nikos Maziotis: For Alfredo Cospito. Text of Solidarity by the Members of Revolutionary Struggle” →

Canada: Solidarity Rail Sabotage in Eastern Ontario

Posted on 2022/11/16 by darknights

Anonymous Submission to North Shore Counter-Info

In the early hours of Nov 5, groups of anarchists acted in solidarity with Sleydo’s call for action to support the ongoing Wet’suwet’en battle to protect the yintah and kill the drill. Rail lines were sabotaged at several points in a disruption of business-as-usual along main arteries of the freight system. They will continue to be sabotaged at random far into the future, at every corner of rail line across the turtle’s back.

Others are encouraged to take this route however, wherever, and whenever they can – grab yourself some bolt cutters or copper wire. Grab a friend or go alone. Enjoy the birds, the wind, the silence.

The night sky yawns and the stars and moon stare down at us, working in the night. They cast their gaze upon us near and far, as they do also on the shimmering waters of the Wedzin Kwa. The drilling begins, and while we weep for the water, the salmon, and our beloved dead, our rage begins to burn, a lit fuse.

CGL, RBC, Kkkanada – you are not safe and you have ignited something that will never die.