Prison Struggle – Dark Nights

Police Brutally Attack Pro-Palestine Hunger Strike Demo in Pre-Planned Assault (UK)

Posted on 2026/01/26 - 2026/01/26 by darknights

Watch longer video here:
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Violent police assault at the demo for Pro-Palestine hungerstriker Umer Khalid on the grounds of HMP Wormwood Scrubs. On Saturday 24th January a demo happened in solidarity with Umer. The peaceful crowd briefly occupied the entrances, grounds and reception of the prison and then were subjected to a sustained violent attack and mass arrest.

Police kettle, violently arrest over 70 protesters at Wormwood Scrubs

The police and MSM are lying about what happened at Wormwood Scrubs

BREAKING: AROUND 100 ARRESTED AS POLICE VIOLENTLY ATTACK PROTESTORS ON SECOND DAY OF UMER KHALID’S THIRST STRIKE

Previous: Palestine Action Prison Hunger Strike Ends After a Victory in the UK

Free Umer Khalid

Chaos Star case: Anarchist comrade Eat released under house arrest (Indonesia)

Posted on 2026/01/22 - 2026/01/26 by darknights

Chaos Star update 22.1.26

Accused anarchist comrade Eat, in the Chaos Star case, has been released from the West Java paramilitary police compound to house/city arrest. Eat is expected to be watched closely by the Densus88 antiterrorist unit. Comrades and lawyers went to meet him and take him to get nutrition, medicine and rest. Eat remains under investigation and the case is still open. Here’s what Eat’s lawyer had to say about his status:

‘Eat was release by operation of law because the detention period during the investigation stage had expired and could not be extended. However, this release is temporary, as the legal process is still ongoing. The case is currently awaiting transfer from the prosecutor’s office. If it proceeds to the prosecution stage, Eat may be detained again and transferred to Kebon Waru Detention Center for trial.

From a substantive standpoint, Eat actually has a legal advantage in this case. The charges and the investigation report do not meet the required legal elements, particularly those related to incitement. There is no clear evidence of any direct call or instruction to organize or carry out last year’s protest, as alleged. because of this, the prosecutors themselves are hesitant to move the case forward to court.’

This hesitation has also influenced the investigator’s decision not to pursue a second case involving Eat and another named comrade. We thank everyone for their solidarity and support. Without international pressure, we do not believe that Eat would have been released.

Nothing is over. Eat could be re-arrested. There are another 73 accused anarchists and hundreds of prisoners of the uprising still detained. Yet this is a major success, since the Densus88 wanted to scapegoat Eat as the organizational figurehead and leader of the fake Chaos Star network and of the insurrection itself.

Please remain attentive to the health condition and legal process of Eat and that of the other prisoners. Anarchist comrade Dena remains in the West Java compound, and is also ill from lack of HIV medication. Take action and donate to Palang Hitam/ABC Indonesia. We don’t have enough support to adequately provide infrastructure to such a large number of prisoners at a time when the anarchist movement is under attack in Indonesia. To donate, contact Dark Nights, IWOC UK or any long-running established ABC group.

Fire to the prisons!

Palang Hitam/ABC

“Yet Another War of Extermination” – Letter by anarchist prisoner Luca ‘Stecco’ Dolce (Italy)

Posted on 2026/01/21 - 2026/01/22 by darknights

Now that the masses all over the world have expressed their solidarity with Gaza, I’d be curious to know how social scientist Elias Canetti(1) would describe his concept of the “masses” in such a technological, warmongering and at the same time, exterminating age as ours. He says that mass society exists in the mind of human beings before it materially expresses itself. If ancient societies chose certain social and economic forms of mere subsistence, it was because they deliberately chose not to use bureaucratic or authoritarian methods: they foresaw their dangers. Our ancestors, therefore, were perfect political animals, aware and active observers of the community’s social life.

So what are these squares and streets full of people today, if in our daily lives we go back to the riverbed of a life organized and imposed by others?

Now that the “truce” in Gaza is divulged and imposed with the stamp of the army boot and the mediatic hype on the Flotilla, now that they are silencing and dampening the surge against the massacre, how to transform it into an action going beyond the manifestation and expression of opinions? Power uses human emotions as a can opener; often, the former gives its best in its “delayed reaction” empathic emotion and during “emergencies”, and it coagulates in peaks of scorn. A humanity which is nevertheless still alive despite all the efforts to atomize it. Its more progressive components are proving united in the face of the evidence of an extermination. Over the reaction timing, we should reason at length. Unfortunately, we haven’t yet understood in depth how deceitful and blackmailing the tactics of the enemies of life are, to what extent do commodities and quiet living manage to recuperate the movements, even sincere ones, at least here in Europe. In order to be more incisive and longsighted they have to doggedly overcome exactly the traps scattered over the ground of the struggle, which have the precise function of making everyone go back to the wishy-washy pen of the democratic morals, to issues such as the use of liberating violence or not, to inaction. Let’s move from emotions to self-organizing and direct action. If the roads of freedom are hindered, revolutionary movements of the past teach us opacity and going underground.

Continue reading ““Yet Another War of Extermination” – Letter by anarchist prisoner Luca ‘Stecco’ Dolce (Italy)” →

PDF – Misc. notes from an International Anti-Prisons & Anti-Repression Gathering, 2024, UK

Posted on 2026/01/19 - 2026/01/19 by darknights

Download here: International Anti-Prisons Gathering 2024 ZINE

Zine of assorted texts from the 2024 anti-repression gathering hosted in the United Kingdom which have not been circulated until now. For the destruction of all prisons, borders and states.

Contents:

0. Introduction
1. Revolutionary Solidarity by P.P. 1993
2. Documents and notes on hungerstrikes
3. Contribution by Toby Shone
3. A note on the dangerous role of insidious psychology
4. About “anti-extremism” “anti-psychology”
5. Prisoner’s report from HMP Garth

In Contempt #3: RICO Charges Dismissed, Palestine Action UK Prisoners Hunger Strike Ends With a Win, New Prairieland Arrest, & More

Posted on 2026/01/19 by darknights

Though with a delay, we return with the monthly news roundup of analysis on prison rebellions and imprisoned freedom fighters that is IN CONTEMPT! Once again, the US has seen unprecedented authoritarian repression confronting determined community resistance. As we enter another insurrectionary moment, we are reinvigorated by the relentless struggles of political prisoners worldwide who continue to inspire collective action through words and deeds.

https://incontempt.noblogs.org/2026/01/16/in-contempt-3/

Following the closing of It’s Going Down, a new collective will continue publishing monthly “In Contempt” updates on this noblogs. We hope this publication helps develop networks of inside-outside solidarity – over 100 copies are mailed to people behind bars each month! Please submit any updates and calls to action to the new email in_contempt at autistici dot org.

We’re also interested in providing more up to date roundups about international political prisoners, so please contribute if you can, whether updates or translations.

This month’s column includes:

Palestine Action UK Prisoners End Hunger Strike on 73rd Day
RICO Charges Dismissed for All 61 Stop Cop City Defendants
New Arrest in the Prairieland Case
11 Charges Against the Northumberland 2 Dropped
Repression against Indonesian Anarchists
Calls to Action
Phone Zaps
Free Them All!
Political Prisoner / POW Updates
George Floyd Uprising Prisoners
Prarieland Defendants
New Years Eve Prison Demos
ICE Watch
Deaths in ICE Custody
Repression
Media
Birthdays
In Memorium: Sekou Odinga

Two printable zines will be available in the coming days to print & share with our comrades inside, so be sure to check back!

Until All Are Free

Italia – Fuori Alfredo dal 41 bis: dibattito per rilanciare dei momenti di mobilitazione. Sabato 24 gennaio 2026 a Carrara

Posted on 2026/01/19 by darknights

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FUORI ALFREDO DAL 41 BIS: DIBATTITO PER RILANCIARE DEI MOMENTI DI MOBILITAZIONE. SABATO 24 GENNAIO 2026 A CARRARA

Inviamo in allegato l’indizione dell’iniziativa del 24 gennaio al Circolo Culturale Anarchico “G. Fiaschi”, assieme al testo “Una breve panoramica e qualche considerazione sulla lotta contro il 41 bis e la repressione anti-anarchica nell’ambito delle politiche di guerra dello Stato italiano”, come contributo al dibattito. Alleghiamo anche il volantino “Cose vecchie, dell’altro secolo?”, divulgato a Carrara a dicembre 2025.

Oltre agli allegati, riportiamo qui di seguito alcuni collegamenti a dei siti internet che hanno pubblicato la locandina e i testi.

Fuori Alfredo dal 41 bis: dibattito per rilanciare dei momenti di mobilitazione. Sabato 24 gennaio 2026 a Carrara + “Una breve panoramica e qualche considerazione sulla lotta contro il 41 bis e la repressione anti-anarchica nell’ambito delle politiche di guerra dello Stato italiano”
* https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2026/01/18/fuori-alfredo-dal-41-bis-dibattito-per-rilanciare-dei-momenti-di-mobilitazione-carrara-24-gennaio-2026/
* https://ilrovescio.info/2026/01/18/carrara-24-gennaio-fuori-alfredo-dal-41-bis-dibattito-per-rilanciare-dei-momenti-di-mobilitazione/

“Cose vecchie, dell’altro secolo?”
* https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2025/12/16/cose-vecchie-dellaltro-secolo-volantino/
* https://ilrovescio.info/2025/12/15/da-carrara-cose-vecchie-dellaltro-secolo-fuori-alfredo-cospito-dal-41-bis/Italia:

Urgent update on health situation of Eat and Dena, imprisoned anarchists in Chaos Star case

Posted on 2026/01/14 - 2026/01/22 by darknights

14.1.2026

We received the information that imprisoned anarchist comrades Eat (Reyhard Rumbayan) and Dena (Maditya Dena), are still held in the West Java paramilitary police compound in the fabricated ‘Chaos Star case‘, and that they have badly declined in health. In the case of Eat, severely. Both comrades have HIV+ diagnosis and are struggling to receive adequate healthcare, food and nutrition for their serious condition. Eat is suffering constant extreme pain from atrophy in his arm which is paralyzed.

Eat’s condition is in an advanced stage and we call for increased attention and pressure on his case. We remind that Eat is long-known anarchist who was imprisoned and took responsibility for the incendiary attack against a bank as part of revolutionary solidarity to Luciano Tortuga’s situation, after the latter was injured in an attempted bombing in Chile, 2011. We will never leave our comrades alone inside the prison and we will seek our vengeance.

We hold the Indonesian regime responsible for the abuse, the torture, the lives of our comrades.

After the uprising in August 2025, the anarchist movement is being blamed for causing the unrest, but this conceals the fact that the mass popular insurrection did not belong to the anarchists, it belonged to everyone. From Iran, to Indonesia, to the USA, we will fight back!

For international revolutionary solidarity! Free the prisoners!

Palang Hitam/Anarchist Black Cross

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Write to Eat and Dena

[Name]
Jl. Soekarno Hatta No.748,
Cimenerang, Kec. Gedebage,
Kota Bandung,
Jawa Barat 40292,
Indonesia

INDONESIA – Letter from Prison by Comrade Dena a.k.a Apip a.k.a Scoobydoomz

Posted on 2026/01/14 by darknights

Letter from Prison by Comrade Dena a.k.a Apip a.k.a Scoobydoomz

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Detention Center, West Java Police Headquarter. January 13, 2026.

Greetings, comrades! I hope this message finds you well. As I write, I’ve just been informed that my case has been submitted to the prosecutor’s office. The police investigator told me I have only a few more days left in this cell. I hope to be transferred to Kebon Waru Prison by the end of this month, where I can reunite with other comrades, even if it’s under the condition of being “imprisoned.”

To those of you outside, trust in the fire burning in your chest–it won’t easily fade if you believe in it. This struggle is fated for anyone who stands by it. We didn’t start this war; we’re simply fighting back! We resist the tyranny of the powerful, the violence of the authorities, the massive land evictions, the monopoly on natural resources, the criminalization of those who speak out, those who defend their rights, indigenous communities, and our fellow comrades. We’re only fighting back against all of that!

Comrades, the actions you take–whether through resistance or defiance–are nothing compared to the injustice they have inflicted upon us. Stay strong and unshaken! Fighting back is the truest form of love.

-Scoobydoomz

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Dena, also known by his stage names Apip and Scoobydoomz, is a radical rapper who performs in urban ruins, conflict zones, and similar spaces. He was imprisoned for his role in the destruction of buildings during the protests against the military bill, particularly the burning of Hana Bank in Bandung on March 21, 2025. He is currently grouped under the “chaos star” case, classified as a nihilist/egoist/insurrectionist anarchist by the police.

FULL OF LOVE AND PASSION, OUR SOLIDARITY WITH ALL ANARCHIST PRISONERS ACROSS THE NATION. WE WILL NEVER ABANDON YOU.

Going Underground / F.A.A.F

Post-August Mass Action Manhunt in Surakarta (Solo): Arrest of Comrades Riky and Kipli a.k.a Blazevomit – Indonesia

Posted on 2026/01/10 - 2026/01/10 by darknights

As the authoritarian regime of Prabowo and Gibran tightens its grip on Indonesia in 2025, dissent has erupted across the nation. What began as a mass wave of protests against corruption, oppression, and systemic violence has turned into an unrelenting campaign of state-sponsored repression. In the streets, solidarity movements bloomed in the wake of a tragic event: the brutal killing of Affan, an online motorcycle driver run over by a Brimob [Mobile Brigade Corps- Special operations, paramilitary, and tactical unit of the Indonesian National Police] armored vehicle during a protest in Jakarta. This act of violence ignited an even greater fire of resistance, yet it also marked the beginning of a systematic crackdown on comrades, journalists, and anyone challenging the regime.

Two comrades from Solo, Rizky Ardiansyah, known as Riky, and Muhammad Rafli Andriansyah, or Kipli, were among the first to fall victim to the regime’s wave of arrests. The two were arrested in November for their involvement in a mass action in August at the Brimob Headquarters, Battalion C Pelopor, Manahan, Solo. They were charged with a range of serious offenses, including alleged property destruction and involvement in creating incendiary devices such as Molotov cocktails, accusations that were heavily inflated and fueled by visual evidence obtained by the police.

But the real story here is not just about the charges. They are a smokescreen, a tool used by the state to criminalize dissent and stifle the growing resistance. Both Riky and Kipli now face trial in Surakarta, with their hearings set for January 2026, but their plight is a reflection of a much larger reality: the state’s war against anyone who dares to oppose it. Continue reading “Post-August Mass Action Manhunt in Surakarta (Solo): Arrest of Comrades Riky and Kipli a.k.a Blazevomit – Indonesia” →

Arrests and torture in Bali, Makassar and Surabaya (Indonesia)

Posted on 2026/01/06 - 2026/01/06 by darknights

via IWOC:

General Situation in Indonesia

On September 16, 2025, 14 individuals were arrested by the Bali Police on charges of vandalizing buildings and vehicles in the area of the Bali Police Headquarters and the Bali Regional Representative Council during the August 30 demonstration.

Since September, 288 people have been arrested for the August uprising in Surabaya, East Java. Some of whom have been released in poor condition, since the police tortured them badly for three days. This leaves around 80 people remaining imprisoned in Surabaya, including approximately 30 accused anarchists there. This week, some of them will undergo their first trial. The case in Surabaya is particularly sad because many of those arrested are ordinary people, such as workers or online motorcycle taxi drivers who happened to be in the vicinity of the riots. Some were simply watching the riots but were then arrested sporadically. Although they were eventually released in a battered state, some of their property, such as their cell phones, was not returned by the police/ Motorcycle taxi drivers did not even get back the motorcycles they used to make a living.

In addition, the police continue to arrest anyone proven to have been involved in the August demonstrations, especially students and activists in various cities. This time, they involved infiltrators in the Movement to map out arrest targets. As a result, many people are paranoid and suspicious of each other. Continue reading “Arrests and torture in Bali, Makassar and Surabaya (Indonesia)” →