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Russia: Radical Resistance 15 – 22.11.22

Posted on 2022/11/25 by darknights

Vladivostok

On November 16, a colonel, Vadim Boiko, who worked with the mobilized, was found shot dead in his own office.

Eyewitnesses heard five shots. The first one to run into the office was the duty officer, who saw the body of the colonel with gunshot wounds to the chest. Forensics found five casings and four Makarov pistols. No suicide note was found.

Colonel Vadim Boyko was deputy head of the Pacific Higher Naval School, head of the technical support department.

Rostov-on-Don

November 17. During one night, an unknown guerrilla attacker damaged eight police cars in the Zheleznozhozhny district. All cars had their windows broken.

Novosibirsk

On 18 November in Novosibirsk anarchists destroyed an outdoor surveillance camera.

Moscow

On November 21 a warehouse of Ministry of Internal Affairs burst into flames at Moscow-Leningradskaya station. The warehouse was 10 meters away from the building of MIA. When the fire began to spread, the employees themselves fled, but there was enormous material damage: dozens of printers and scanners, 50 chairs, 20 armchairs, 10 tables and two air conditioners (and also a whole sports simulator and a bunch of gloves with masks) were burned. A criminal case has been opened.

Grozny

On November 21 a daredevil attacked a police inspector with a knife while he was performing prayers. The partisan attacked him from behind while the servant of the regime was ablution and stabbed him to Allah.

The assailant thus seized the policeman’s service weapon, but was unable to use it because he was shot dead by the killer’s colleagues. The murder of the assailant was reported by Ramzan Kadyrov himself. It is reported that the identity of the assailant has not been established, and that he most probably acted alone.

This is not the first attack on police officers in Grozny. Specifically, on December 28, 2020, two policemen were attacked by indviduals in the center of the city, armed with knives and tried to seize their weapons. As a result of the attack, one policeman died and another was wounded and hospitalized. Both attackers were killed.

On December 17, 2020. The Investigative Committee opened another criminal case over an attack on police officers in the Kurchaloysky district of Chechnya. According to preliminary data of the investigation, the attack happened around 1 a.m. on December 17 after two men in a VAZ-2114 car refused to stop on demand of policemen. During the pursuit the intruders opened fire at the policemen with an assault rifle, they were killed in return fire. Continue reading “Russia: Radical Resistance 15 – 22.11.22” →

Posted in Direct ActionTagged Anarchists, Anti-Militarist, arson attack, Camera Sabotage, Chechnya, Cop Attack, cop vehicle smashed, Enlistment Officer Attack, Grozny, Irkutsk, Krasnobsk, Krasnodar, Military Enlistment Office, Military Propghanda Attack, Military Recruitment Center Attack, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Molotov Attack, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Oust-Ilimsk, Railway Sabotage, Repression, Rostov-on-Don, Ruslan Zinin, Russia, Torture, Vladivostok

Portland, USA: Attack on Adidas Headquarters in Retaliation for 2022 Qatar World Cup

Posted on 2022/11/25 by darknights

A communique and call to action:

Early November 20th, several hours before the opening ceremony of the 2022 World Cup, we smashed up most buildings at the Adidas North American headquarters in Portland, Oregon. We shattered windows, broke doors and covered walls with paint across the corporate campus, including office buildings, the gym and cafe. Adidas is one of FIFA’s primary long-term partners, and a main sponsor of the World Cup in Qatar this year.

The history of the World Cup is one of death and displacement. Every stadium stands upon the dead bodies of workers who built it. In Qatar, over 6,500 migrant workers from South Asia died during the decade of preparations for the 2022 World Cup, forced to work in slave conditions. The World Cup was made possible by hundreds of thousands of migrant workers forced into labor through a combination of physical violence, threats of imprisonment, passport confiscation, debt bondage, and more. Every World Cup involves the violent evictions and displacement of thousands, replacing whole neighborhoods with stadiums and other infrastructure. The entire operation is protected by huge increases of militarized policing and surveillance, with 3,000 riot cops sent from Turkey, 4,500 soldiers from the Pakistan army and forces from the British Royal Navy and Air Force coming to Qatar to enforce control during the World Cup.

All this is enabled by the huge companies that sponsor the World Cup and FIFA in the interest of profit.

We reject the logics of global capitalism and the state, and the endless violence they create together. All that’s left to do is fight back.

In every city you can find the property and infrastructure of companies complicit in the World Cup. Continue reading “Portland, USA: Attack on Adidas Headquarters in Retaliation for 2022 Qatar World Cup” →

Posted in GeneralTagged Adidas, Adidas Headquarters, FIFA, Migrant Workers, Oregon, Portland, Qatar, USA, Window Smashing, Wold Cup 2022, Worker Deaths

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.

Continue reading “Athens, Greece: Taking responsibility – Against the war industry by Anarchists” →

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 'Tren Maya' project, 41 bis, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Anarchists, Anti-Militarist, arson attack, Athens, Chiapas, DB Schenker, Deutsche Bahn, Dimitris Hatzivassiliadis, Exarcheia, Greece, Gyzi, Hunger Strike, International Solidarity, Kurdish Struggle, Mexico, NATO, Piraeus Traffic Police, Polytechnic Uprising '73, Russia, Russia Ukraine War, Turkey, Ukraine, USA, Vehicle Burning, Zapatista

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

 

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged 'What International?', 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Edizione Monte Bove, Event - Discussion, Hunger Strike, Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI), Informal Anarchist Federation - International Revolutionary Front (FAI/IRF), Italy, Olga Cell - FAI/IRF, Public assembly, Radio Blackout, Turin, Vetriolo

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

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged 'political massacre', 'What International?', 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Anna Beniamino, Carabinieri students school, Court of Appeal, Explosive Attack, Fossano, Hunger Strike, Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI), Italy, Ivan Alocco, Juan Sorroche, Olga Cell - FAI/IRF, Operation Scripta Manent, Rivolta Anonima Tremenda - Federazione Anarchica Informale, Solidarity Demo, Turin

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

Posted in Direct ActionTagged arson attack, Car Sharing, Ecological Decoy, Electirc Cars, Electirc Vehicle Charging Station, Extractivism, France, Green Capitalism, Green Energy, Hypertechnology, LEZ (Low Emission Zone), Lithium Mining, Nuclear Industry, Photovoltaic Panels, Tesla, Toulouse, Zoe

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

Posted in Social ControlTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Audio Surveillance, Hunger Strike, Italy, Repression, Rome, Surveillance

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

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Anarchist Steki Nadir, Anna Beniamino, Greece, Hunger Strike, Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI), International Solidarity, Ivan Alocco, Juan Sorroche, Microphone Gathering, Olga Cell - FAI/IRF, Operation Scripta Manent, Thessaloniki

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)

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alessandria prison, Alfredo Cospito, AS2 (High Security 2), Bancali prison, Brigate Rosse - Partito Comunista Combattente, Brigate Rosse – Colonna Walter Alasia, Communique, Hunger Strike, Italy, Marco Mezzasalma, Nadia Lioce, Nicola De Maria, Repression, Roberto Morandi

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.

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Anna Beniamino, Bank Attack, Deutsche Bank, Hunger Strike, Italy, Ivan Alocco, Juan Sorroche, Trento, Window Smashing

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