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Genoa, Italy: Arson attack on IREN group vehicles in solidarity with anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito & anarchist prisoners

Posted on 2023/04/01 - 2023/04/01 by darknights

Received anonymously & transmitted:

Democracy cannot allow certain thoughts to be clearly expressed, and certain words to be used with impunity, because they could make inroads among the oppressed, among the excluded. These words without stakes take on greater weight for me because they cost me and will cost me more years in prison, but it’s my way of resisting, of fighting back.

Alfredo Cospito (January 2021)

On the night of 31 March we attacked some vehicles of the IREN group with fire, a leading company in Italy in the district heating service, operating in the production and distribution of electricity and technological services. IREN is a young company but with a veteran entrepreneurial posture in line with all the other criminal multinationals such as ENI and Benetton that profit from the destruction and looting of territories around the planet. This was enough to put the IREN group in our sights, if we then add, in recent weeks’ news, that IREN has entered into agreements with the Israeli Mekorot water company which implements water apartheid from the Palestinian people, then the choice of attacking her was more than spot on. Our thoughts go to Alfredo who, with his struggle, a true manifesto of dignity and freedom, gave us the strength and courage to put ourselves on the line. May the flames of this attack warm his body after more than five months of hunger strike. We close this article with a clarification: we do not participate in the dichotomy that the regime’s politicians and media are promoting, that of a struggle between an anarchist against the state. Anarchists declared war on authority almost two centuries ago, certainly not on October 20, 2022 – the start of Alfredo’s hunger strike. You must understand that if Alfredo were to die or remain alive, if Alfredo were free or would remain a prisoner, we have already declared ourselves your bitter enemies some time ago and we will continue to be however things go.

WARM THOUGHTS TO ANNA, IVAN AND JUAN.

REVOLUTIONARY SOLIDARITY TO ALL ANARCHIST PRISONERS AROUND THE WORLD!

LONG LIVE BLACK INTERNATIONAL!

LONG LIVE ANARCHY!

DEATH TO THE STATE!

Italy: “Brenner” trial appeal sentence

Posted on 2023/04/01 by darknights

“Brenner” trial appeal sentence

On March 17, the appeal verdict in the trial for the May 2016 anti-borders demonstration at the Brenner Pass was handed down at the Bolzano court.

While there was a general lowering of the sentences (from 150 to 123 years total, with 8 acquittals due to the statute of limitations of the crime), the balance is still heavy (keep in mind that the trial was in abbreviated form). 28 female comrades and comrades received sentences above 2 years, while 5 comrades took more than 4 years (the highest sentence was 5 years and 1 month in prison) for conspiracy to commit aggravated resistance, private violence, injury, etc. The charge of devastation and looting did not hold up, as it did in the first instance.

Another significant element is that the judge denied all and sundry who applied for it access to the so-called Cartabia reform. Although the sentencing date had been formally postponed to allow defendants and defendants to make use of the new law, the request to access it was denied under the pretext of the criminal records and “social dangerousness” of defendants and defendants. But there is an even more emblematic fact: the main argument for the rejection of “substitute sentences” has been the defendants’ failure to abjure their conduct. The increasingly overtly rewarding nature of sentencing applies not only to the supervisory judiciary, but also to ordinary courts. What makes the difference on the type of sentence is not so much the offense itself, but whether or not the defendant “repents.”

For more than 30 defendants and defendants, therefore, prison doors may open in the future.

This ruling only prolongs the structural violence of state racism, that set of laws, neocolonial practices, administrative detention and police devices that produce massacres, mass deaths and a humanity forced into conditions of semi-slavery. From the harvesting in the fields to the many sectors of the “informal economy,” from the blackmail of the residence permit – which weighs on logistics, construction, catering, “care work”… – to the fat black rental market, the terror exercised by the borders is as strategic as it is unmentionable part of capitalist exploitation.

123 years in prison for a motorcade blatantly tells us that we are at war, that the margins of permissible dissent are shrinking, and that non-negotiated conflict is a desertion from the frontline to be punished in an exemplary fashion.

The anti-immigrant wall at the Brenner Pass-which the Austrian police had called a mere “technical solution” …-was not built. Perhaps also thanks to those who fought with generosity and courage that May 7, 2016.

Solidarity with the convicted comrades and comrades.

[Taken from https://ilrovescio.info/2023/03/19/sentenza-dappello-del-processo-brennero/]

Via: La Nemesi

Chile: Propaganda and agitation on March 29 in solidarity with the detainees of the attack on the National Gendarmerie Directorate + Banner from prison/company Santiago 1

Posted on 2023/04/01 by darknights

Source: https://publicacionrefractario.wordpress.com/

Chile: Words of Tomas and Mawvnkho before a new March 29th, day of the combatant youth

Posted on 2023/04/01 by darknights

Today again we hope you can feel the warmth of our words. We thank you for inviting us to share our feelings and reflections. Autumn has arrived and with it comes that mixture of nostalgia, rage, regret… among other emotions that well up in every young combatant and that day by day leads us to embrace our ideas and act coherently with them. If we are gathered here today, we agree that we must continue to nurture this historical and combative memory that we share among different warriors antagonistic to the system. Generations of fighters have made the streets and towns barricades of confrontation against the police, remembering Eduardo, Rafael, Paulina, Norma, Pablo, Araceli… And all those young fighters who committed their lives to fight against the dictatorship. More than 30 years have passed since their bodies perished but not their convictions, their ideas, their love for freedom. All these young people seeded rebellion and today we continue to learn from their successes and mistakes, every autumn we meet again, to observe ourselves, to contrast our realities, to analyze the disastrous context in which we live and although our present is very bitter we continue to resist. From different trenches our spirit continues committed to this struggle, for decades this flame has not been extinguished and every time a young rebel throws himself with his actions into the infinite abyss of the anarchic, subversive, nihil or insurrectional struggle it means that we correspond to those warriors who left us.

We cannot fail to remember through these words our everlasting compañera Luisa. Within these walls we always strengthen our fortitude with numerous memories and/or scenarios that our comrades live or have faced. Luisa is that weychafe woman who inspired and incited many young rebels to continue fighting, she moved us with her words as well as many times she was there with us in the midst of burning tires. In here our thoughts live a chaotic back and forth, but what has made us unbreakable has been the seed that people like Luisa have left us. Only in us is the way to not undermine, we decay, but we must continue standing. The seeds that Luisa left us are an inexhaustible source, as well as those left to us by her family who have never given up their struggle. Today we are transforming the prison into our barricade. The confrontation here is constant, not only with the prisoners, because sometimes the worst policemen are those who wear the cap in their hearts. Luisa urged us to learn from each of our experiences, to not leave or abandon each other, to leave superficial differences aside, because a huge machine is trying to crush us. In prison everything that we detest and repudiate is gathered and intertwined. In spite of everything we continue to use every tool at our disposal, attentive to every breaking point to slip away and break the isolation and silence. Every morning we remind ourselves of who we are, we will not let confinement rot our roots and rob us of our essence. We remember all our fallen comrades with love and rage. Permanently their spirit emerges wildly against every wretched institution, against every wretched authoritarian. None of you is forgotten, neither those who left us nor those who today are held captive in prisons around the globe. We embrace each one of you, as well as each family who lost their child in combat, each one of them lives in our restless minds and hands. Neither jail nor death will stop the permanent confrontation. In memory of all the fallen and their families.

With love, Tomas and Mawvnkho.

Source: Publicacion Refractario

Chile: Words by Mónica Caballero, Marcelo Villarroel and Juan Aliste for the day in memory of Luisa Toledo at Espacio Fénix.

Posted on 2023/04/01 by darknights

Words by Mónica Caballero

Luisa Toledo’s persistence in the beautiful exercise of remembrance was probably one of the triggering factors that made us know and commemorate today the murder of Rafael and Eduardo Vergara Toledo by the police and at the same time that this day became the moment in which we evoke all the fallen young combatants.

It is difficult to separate the small and strong figure of Luisa from March 29th, I see in her resilience forged in the immense pain for the loss of her children, as the substrate that has nourished the path of the generations of young fighters of yesterday, today and tomorrow, who continue and will continue to confront domination in its different forms.

Comrades like the mother of the Vergara Toledo brothers leave us multiple teachings, which can be felt in practice, in their example. An example that shows us that no matter how many blows you receive, you can always get up and that scars heal better among comrades and that they are worthy of pride.

With our pains and our dead we continue in the persistent combative memory.

No one is forgotten
Vergara Toledo Brothers
Luisa Toledo Pte!

Mónica Caballero S.
Anarchist Prisoner

Continue reading “Chile: Words by Mónica Caballero, Marcelo Villarroel and Juan Aliste for the day in memory of Luisa Toledo at Espacio Fénix.” →

Buenos Aires, Argentina: Incendiary Attack against Fiat Cars and Police Patrol Car

Posted on 2023/04/01 - 2023/04/01 by darknights

With the following statement I claim the authorship of the following two actions:

The fire at the Fiat Automobile dealer located at Av. Triuncio y Donado, Villa Ortuzar, which left a couple of destroyed cars, on Wednesday, February 15, 2023 at 02.00hs.

The new incendiary attack on a patrol car of the police of the city of the 41st precinct located in Alfredo F. Buffano and Cesar Diaz, Villa General Miter, on Monday, February 20, 2023 at 01.30hs.

Freedom to Alfredo Cospito

STATELESS.

Source: Contra Info

Via & translated by Abolition Media

USA: No Cop City Anywhere: Governor Unveils Cop City NJ Plans

Posted on 2023/04/01 by darknights

We begin by quoting the recent press release from the governor’s office:

“The Governor’s budget continues to support initiatives that keep communities safe, including supporting law enforcement personnel and community-led prevention programs. As part of the Governor’s efforts to reduce violent crime in the State, the budget makes significant investments in the Division of Criminal Justice to staff new units and expand existing units with a focus on reducing gun violence, auto thefts, and exploitation, such as human trafficking and labor cases.

The budget also makes significant investments to strengthen the ranks of the New Jersey State Police, allocating $120 million to begin building a new training center for the next generation of New Jersey State Police and proposing an additional $5 million for the 166th State Trooper recruit class.

In an effort to ensure that the State’s first responders and law enforcement professionals receive the training and equipment necessary to protect and serve the State’s nine million residents, the Governor has proposed doubling the successful Firefighters Grant Program, bringing the total to $20 million.

The Governor is also recommending over $8 million in increased State funds for the first-in-the-nation statewide expansion of the Alternative Responses to Reduce Instances of Violence and Escalation – the ARRIVE Together program – which pairs police officers and State Troopers with mental health professionals when responding to a person who is experiencing a mental health crisis.”

It is our firm belief that what is to be done here is obvious.

The U.S. white power establishment wants to build cop city everywhere.

You are encouraged to heed the call and example from the Welaunee Forest: give them hell, everywhere.

Your courage, creativity, and connections will determine just how badly the U.S. empire will regret their choice to double down on policing the planet after 2020.

No Cop City Anywhere!
Fuck The Police!
Burn Down The Amerikan Plantation!

-some anarchists

Originally posted on Jersey Counter-Info

France: Statement + communiques concerning comrade S., who is in life-threatening condition following the Saint-Soline protest

Posted on 2023/04/01 - 2023/04/01 by darknights

Statement concerning S., comrade who is in a life-threatening condition following the Sainte-Soline protest

On Saturday the 25th of March at Sainte-Soline, our comrade S. was hit in the head by an explosive grenade during the protest against the giant retention basins. Despite his critical condition, the prefecture deliberately prevented the emergency services from intervening at first, and from transporting him to a special care unit in a second phase. He is currently in a neurosurgical intensive care. He is still in a critical condition.

The massive outbreak of violence that the protesters have gone through led to hundreds of wounded, and many of them suffered serious physical injuries, as we can read in the various reports available. The 30 000 protesters came with the aim to block the construction site of the Sainte-Soline giant retention basin, which is a water-appropriation project defended by a minority for the benefit of a capitalist model that has nothing more to defend other than death. The violence of the armed wing of the democratic State illustrates it vividly.

In the sequence initiated by the movement against the pension reform, the police mutilates and tries to assassinate to prevent the uprising, to defend the bourgeoisie and its world. Nothing will dampen our determination to put an end to their reign. On Tuesday March the 28th and on the following days, let’s strengthen the strikes and the blockades, let’s take the streets, for S. and all the wounded and the imprisoned of our movements.

Long live the revolution.
Comrades of S.

PS: If you have any information concerning the circumstances of the injuries inflicted to S., contact us at: s.informations@proton.me

We wish that this statement can be spread as massively as possible.

“In response to the window of possibility that the movement against the pension reform has opened, the police are mutilating people and even trying to assassinate people in order to prevent an uprising, to defend the bourgeoisie and its world.
Nothing will weaken our determination to put an end to their reign.”

Communiqué No. 1 from comrades of S.

“On Saturday, March 26, in Sainte-Soline, our comrade S. was hit in the head by an explosive grenade during the demonstration against the basins [a project of large water reservoirs for industrial farm irrigation]. In spite of his critical condition, the prefecture first intentionally prevented emergency services from intervening, then prevented them from transporting him to an appropriate care unit a second time. He is currently in neurosurgical intensive care. At this time, his life hangs by a thread.

The outburst of violence that the demonstrators suffered inflicted hundreds of injuries, including several serious physical injuries, as announced in the various reports available. The 30,000 demonstrators had come with the objective of blocking the construction of the mega-basins of Sainte-Soline, a project of water monopolization carried out by a small number of people for the benefit of a capitalist model that has nothing left to defend but death. The violence of the armed arm of the democratic state is the most striking expression of this. Continue reading “France: Statement + communiques concerning comrade S., who is in life-threatening condition following the Saint-Soline protest” →

Italy: The request for deferral of Alfredo Cospito’s sentence to house arrest rejected by the Supervisory Courts of Milan and Sassari

Posted on 2023/04/01 by darknights

The request for deferral of Alfredo Cospito’s sentence to house arrest rejected by the Supervisory Courts of Milan and Sassari

27/3/23: The Supervisory Court of Milan replied by rejecting the request for house arrest for health reasons for anarchist prisoner Alfredo Cospito.

At the same time the Sassari court reached the same decision. In both cases with the long motivations already written. The comrade’s behaviour is defined instrumental in obtaining changes in political and judicial decisions.

While contradictions are accumulating within the political and judicial apparatuses (e.g., opinion of the National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Directorate, the Attorney General of the Supreme Court, Sibilla re-examination, etc.) each time one is faced with an organ that has the power to resolve the question raised by the comrade’s struggle immediately, the party of the death sentence applies all its political power to block any possible way out.

This was in all probability the last chance. To all of us the human and historic task to make the State pay the highest possible price for this murder. Now and in the future.

[Taken from canali telegram and republished in https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2023/03/27/i-tribunali-di-sorveglianza-di-milano-e-sassari-hanno-rigettato-le-istanze-di-differimento-della-pena-agli-arresti-domiciliari-per-alfredo-cospito/]

Via & Translated by Act for freedom now!

Athens, Greece: 40 windows smashed of Italian insurance company Generali’s new HQ in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito

Posted on 2023/03/26 by darknights

On Saturday night 18/3 we chose to attack the Italian company Generali, one of the largest insurance companies in Europe. The insurance company sells the illusion of security which we broke when we smashed with hammers about 40 windows of their new headquarters on Syngrou Avenue. The action was done as a minimal sign of solidarity with the anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito who is on hunger strike since 20/10/22 against the barbaric 41 bis prison regime and the sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of appeal. The struggle that Alfredo is fighting is a struggle for all.

Explosion and fire in 41 bis

Fight until the last prison is ended

Solidarity with all the fighting prisoners around the world

Attack on the state, capital and all forms of power

Anarchists

Source: athens.indymedia