A complicit greeting. Francisco Solar’s words for the Week of Solidarity with the Anarchist Prisoners
Revolutionary, anarchic solidarity is a mutual relationship that requires in an indispensable way a clear and decisive positioning of war both from the prisoners and from the like-minded environments of the street. On this basis, this week of solidarity with the anarchist prisoners comes to strengthen this relationship based on combat, which is nothing other than the existing complicity that threatens every expression of authority.
To break with welfarism and victimhood is to stop seeing the prisoner as an unquestionable subject by the mere fact of his or her situation of temporary confinement. Therefore, it is also to break with practices that tend to hierarchize and become authoritarian. It is essential to keep this in mind at all times in order to strengthen the anarchic anti-prison struggle.
A complicit salute to all groups and individuals who make their own the war against authority, which is inseparable from the anarchic struggle against prisons. Their actions and attacks are an important respite from the oppressive prison life.
A complicit greeting also to all the anarchist prisoners locked up around the world. A special embrace for comrade Alfredo Cóspito who is in an exceptional situation of imprisonment that the Power intends to make it perpetual.
An end to the sentences of the military justice on Marcelo Villarroel!
Let the prisons explode!
Francisco Solar
La Gonzalina Prison – Rancagua.
End of August, 2022.
Words by Marcelo Villarroel1 for the Week of Solidarity with the Anarchist Prisoners
An irreducible greeting of resistance to the prison society!
To all the revolutionary anti-authoritarian prisoners of all tendencies.
For the Mapuche prisoners of the Chilean state who walk the path of the encounter between rebels of these territories and those who fight common enemies.
For the initiatives of combative support, of insurrectional complicity, of constant solidarity between the weichan and the social-antisocial war.
For those who by going on the offensive flee from the clutches of authority and live fugitives, illegally and clandestinely in different parts of the planet, making their lives a continuous act of subversive defiance to the laws imposed on us by power and its terrorist monopoly of state violence.
For Monica and Francisco, dear brothers and sisters in struggle who are preparing to face the revenge of the ruling class that seeks to bury them for decades in tons of concrete and metal penitentiary.
To Alfredo Cospito, in Italian prisons who faces brutal isolation with true anarchic temperance.
To Juan Sorroche, also kidnapped by the Italian fascist state and recently sentenced to 28 years in prison.
To Claudio Lavazza, a resistant comrade today in the prisons of France.
For Gabriel Pombo da Silva, kidnapped in a perpetual prison undercover by the Spanish state.
For the eternal Mumia Abu Jamal and his long resistance to the Yankee prisons, the worst on the planet.
For Nikos Maziotis and Pola Roupa, urban guerrillas of Revolutionary Struggle, hostages of the Greek state.
For Emilio Berkhoff, Luis Tranamil and all the Mapuche political prisoners who keep the weichan alive.
For Juan Aliste and Joaquín García my brothers of daily and millimetric struggle against the unhealthy prison confinement.
For all the worthy prisoners who are part of the struggles in their territories defending life against the devastation of the planet, against the extractivist capital, against the authority seeking autonomy in all aspects for a good life.
A fraternal greeting, a sincere embrace, an invitation to continue constructing in all possible spaces the urgent Offensive Resistance through the permanent multiplication of communities of struggle.
Also a necessary call for the annulment of the sentences of the military justice that today are imposed on me to justify a clear State kidnapping. To agitate, to spread, to propagate, to insist, to persist is the attitude and will for our present demand in which we are collectively in order to be able to go out to the streets as soon as possible.
Memory, resistance and subversion!
As long as there is misery there will be rebellion!!!
Marcelo Villarroel Sepúlveda
Anti-authoritarian subversive prisoner
Prison of Rancagua
End of August 2022.
Words of the subversive prisoner Juan Aliste2 before the Week of Agitation and Solidarity with the Anarchist and Anti-Authoritarian Prisoners
Enemies of the state is not a slogan or a pamphlet, it is the conviction of life that allows us to travel without return in the intense, violent and beautiful path of social war.
Confronting without pause the power with a continuity of struggle, apostating from anarchism and subversion to continue strengthening the urban guerrilla.
No prison or sentence will stop the beating of the black hearts of our brothers and sisters in struggle. Monica and Fransisco our complicity and love in war.
Solidarity and complicity with those who attack the powerful and repressors!!!
Annulment of the sentences of the military justice for Marcelo Villarroel!
Anarchist subversive and Mapuche prisoners to the streets!!!
Juan Aliste Vega
Subversive prisoner
Prison of Rancagua, 6th region, territory occupied by the Chilean state, end of August 2022.
Joaquin Garcia’s3 words for the Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners
In times when charity solidarity invades every space of the anti-prison struggle, dragging every space of complicity to a perpetual logic of martyrs and spectators, it is urgent to rebel against the comfortable immobility of this conception of solidarity, to take it out of the stagnant limitations of purely material aid and to weave in complicity actions, trust and spaces where antagonistic violence finds fertile ground for its praxis.
Like the acts of complicit solidarity, the anarchic, antagonistic projection is kept alive independently of the social situation and the ups and downs of the demands of the moment, it finds its niche in those individualities who, against all odds, make of their lives a constant attack against Power, sharpening the conflict with both theory and praxis.
Antagonistic solidarity with every comrade prisoner!
Freedom to Marcelo Villarroel!
Joaquín García Chanks
Anarchist prisoner
Prison company of Rancagua.
End of August 2022.
From Chilean prisons. Words by Mawünhko and Tomás4 in the context of the Week of Solidarity with Anarchists in prison
A few words in solidarity with anarchist and long-term prisoners.
We send an affectionate greeting and embrace to the anarchist and long-sentenced comrades who today are held hostage in the prisons. Against all obstacles of the prison regime, we remain attentive to every event and news about you. Know that in every sigh of tiredness and exhaustion we are revitalized by the strength and energy that each one of you has shown us, not only through your words but also with your own fortitude, because every day that passes the Power tries to break you and in spite of sometimes withering, your ideas continue to proliferate!!!
It is frequent to observe how the prisoners desperately look for excuses and arguments to intensify the conditions of isolation in which they find themselves, it is not enough for them the absurd sentences that they have imposed or wish to impose but they constantly glimpse their greatest weakness and that is nothing more than the very strength of their ideas where no prisoner will ever be able to enter. The greatest frustration for them must be to observe them 24 hours a day and still not find the path that leads to that forest full of their deepest longings and memories.
In that imaginary that they have not been able to destroy, that is where we find ourselves, that is where we observe them… In spite of the distance, that is where we feel them and look for them. This forest, like all the others we know, has memory comrades and here in each outbreak is the essence of their actions! From the complicit and insurgent solidarity that keeps alive the flame of antagonistic ideas that endure beyond any circumstance, we believe it is important to keep our heads up to continue on this long journey. We send our strength to all individuals who are captivated by their daily actions that have made them eternal enemies of the established and miserable authoritarianism.
With love and affection resisting behind bars,
Mawünhko and Tomás, Winter 2022
Mayo’s5 words from San Miguel Prison for the week of solidarity with anarchists in prison
Mainly to thank the comrades who are working on our behalf. Every scratch, every stone, every disturbance of the social peace shows that we are not forgotten and that the kidnapping by the state of those who fight to live differently does not go unpunished. Each action is a grain of sand that brings us closer to the street, that shows that ideas cannot be imprisoned. Imprisonment is the ultimate sign of state domination over the individual and this threat hangs over the heads of all those who decide to respond to the daily violence exercised by this system against all, as it exploits us, pollutes us, reduces us to mere numbers that produce and consume. For Marcelo Villarroel, Joaquín García, Francisco Solar, Mónica Caballero, Felipe Ríos, Juan Aliste, Jalea and so many others who chose not to be just another number for this system and became part of the resistance.
A fraternal greeting from your compañera Mayo from the prisons of the Chilean state.
All text sourced from Publicacion Refractario
DN Notes
1 Marcelo Villarroel. Former member of Mapu Lautaro and political prisoner in the 90’s current Subversivo Autónomo Libertario.
Marcelo is accused of participating in an assault on the Santander bank (Valparaiso September 2007) and the Security Bank in October 2007 where the agent of repression Luis Moyano died in an armed confrontation.
After remaining a fugitive, he was arrested in March 2008 in Argentina along with Freddy Fuentevilla and prosecuted for illegal possession of weapons. Finally, at the end of 2009 they were expelled to Chile. After going underground, Marcelo breaks with the “parole”, a right that he had kept after being released from the streets for the convictions of the 90s.
After an extensive trial, on July 2, 2014 Marcelo is sentenced to 14 years in prison for the robberies of Banco Santander in Valparaiso and Banco Security in Santiago. He must also serve the previous sentence described above (by the military prosecutor’s office). In sum, the sentences end on February 28, 2056.
From prison the comrade is raising and participating in an intra-prison instance of “anarchist and subversive prisoners” together with other comrades behind bars.
Sentenced to 14 years + Sentenced by military prosecutor’s office (previous sentence).
Support group: Anti-prison Solidarity Network with Juan and Marcelo /
Contact: rsanticarcelaria@riseup.net
2 Juan Aliste Vega. Former member of Mapu Lautaro and political prisoner in the 90’s, accused of participating in an assault on the Santander bank (Valparaiso September 2007) and the Security Bank in October 2007 where in the retreat the agent of the repression Luis Moyano died in an armed confrontation, in addition to another assault on a third bank.
Juan remained a fugitive until July 2010 when he was arrested in Argentina and deported a few days later. The prosecution requests life imprisonment plus 20 years, accusing him of killing the policeman, wounding the other one and carrying out 3 robberies.
After an extensive trial, on July 2, 2014 Juan was sentenced to 42 years in prison, divided into: 18 years for the murder of Moyano + 10 years for the attempted murder of the policeman Abarca + 14 years for the assault on Banco Santander in Valparaiso and Banco Security, in addition to being acquitted for the assault on Banco Santander in Agustinas.
Sentenced to 42 years.
3 Joaquín García. Arrested on November 19, 2015 following the arrest of Kevin Garrido after the attack on the prison training school. The police point out that they would have been under investigation for months. Joaquin was formalized for the explosive attack against the 12th police station of San Miguel by the “International Conspiracy for Revenge/Deflagration Cell Gerasimos Tsakalos”, charged under the law of arms control. After remaining in prison he manages to access house arrest from where he escapes to be captured in September 2016 carrying a revolver and ammunition, returning to pre-trial detention. Convicted under the Weapons Control Law for the attack against the 12th police station (10 years) + The carrying of a revolver when he was on the run (3 years): Total 13 years in prison.
4 Tomas & Mawünhko, comrades arrested together in May 2022, after a confrontation following an identity check. Being accused of carrying a weapon, ammunition and attempted double homicide against the police. Both are still under investigation.
5 Marjorie “Mayo”. Arrested together with Renata “Jalea” on May 17, 2022 accused of burning 3 buses of the transantiago in Peñalolén in March of the same year. Still under investigation.