Updates on the Genoa trial of Gianluca and Evelin
UPDATES on the GENOA TRIAL of GIANLUCA and EVELIN.
The undoubted crisis that the capitalist mode of production is going through today manifests itself in an economy that bases its wealth on war, on the robbery and plundering of the commodity-rich global south, and in the sharpening of the class struggle.
While it is true that capitalism continually seeks “alternative” solutions that will ensure its continuation, often succeeding in finding them and thus creating new pockets of profit for the market, it is also true that the resource crisis and especially today’s climate crisis will not grant alternatives to this parasitic presence for long.
The commodity crisis affects not only the production of secondary consumer goods in the technology, war and digital industries, but also primary resources such as water. This leads not only to a change in geopolitical arrangements, but also to internal conflicts between exploited and exploiters as the example of reservoirs in France or mining in Germany highlights. Objectively, even in Italy, beyond the obvious shortcomings of radical opposition initiatives, the “hunt for ore” or residual gas supplies are accentuating the extractive machine of ruthless multinationals that destroy territories to increase their profits, with the favor of state concessions.
But the crisis of production is a possible prospect today, which is why states are organizing in an attempt to assert their interests and prevent radical struggles and forms of internal guerrilla warfare.
Against this backdrop the authoritarian turn underway in Italy and elsewhere takes shape, which on the one hand is evident in the adoption of economic and “social” policies aimed at ever greater class exploitation, and on the other in the tightening of repression against political crimes.
In the last period the authoritarian turn taken by the state has clearly and heavily characterized the exclusively political reading of social events and struggles by entering even the judicial spheres. It has strongly conditioned the use of repression with the application of punitive instruments that remain an objective problem for political prisoners, such as 41 bis, hostility and crimes arbitrarily reinterpreted, reformulated and used in a vindictive way as massacre and associative crimes.
Particularly with regard to prison, this political and institutional climate found resistance and opposition with the battle of anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, who challenged the aleatory nature of these political maneuvers. By stirring dormant consciences, he was able to trigger a movement of struggle that transformed Alfredo’s act of hunger strike into a potential energy, propagating its effects. Alfredo’s struggle against 41 bis and hostile life imprisonment succeeded in blocking this repressive spiral by breaking down the wall of silence and indifference. An excellent starting point, because the struggle is not the end but the means. The international mobilization succeeded in removing Alfredo from the sentence of hostile life imprisonment, clearly highlighted a point of view against imprisonment, alongside the revolutionary prisoners. This also remains very important today because it renders futile the attempts animating several recent anti-anarchist operations, namely to criminalize the theoretical and practical principle of solidarity with prisoners.
The same principle that is being recriminalized in the investigation in which an anarchist comrades are being charged with possession and carrying of explosive material and attempted manufacture of explosive/explosive devices, following a March 2022 repressive operation by DIGOS [General Investigations and Special Operations Division] and ROS [Carabinieri Special Operations] in Genoa. The operation led on March 16, 2022 to the arrest of both in Rome, the subsequent release for one of the comrades, and the detention under house arrest with all the restrictions still in place for the other comrade.
The trial, according to the ordinary procedure, opens the first-instance phase of the trial with a hearing on May 16 at 9 a.m. at the Court of Genoa, where the prosecutor’s witnesses will speak. Subsequent hearings are scheduled for June 7 and June 8 for defense consultants and discussion, and a first instance ruling likely by the end of the summer.
Indifference to injustice and prevarication, or the isolation of the exploited themselves, leaves further ground for the chasm created in recent decades on the terrain of social conflict; a further vacuum that grants political space to the worsening conditions of labor exploitation, patriarchy oppression, racist policies or logics that consider migrants useful labor-power, and the Earth a pantry for capital to plunder.
Solidarity with revolutionary prisoners is one of the many elements that return to sender the attempts to liquidate revolutionary struggles into the oblivion of the past and the vague desires to push today through repression and state violence, to a priori disassociation future generations.
Therefore, we reiterate solidarity with all prisoners and comrades facing repression.
STRENGTH AND SOLIDARITY TO THE PRISONERS OF THE SOCIAL WAR!
STRUGGLE AGAINST THE STATE AND CAPITAL!
PDF: Aggiornamenti sul processo di Genova a Gianluca ed Evelin
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