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Solidarity from Indonesia with Alfredo Cospito
Solidarity Poster from Indonesia for Alfredo Cospito who is on hunger strike. Long live the subversive and anarchist prisoners who are on a hunger strike! Indifference and passivity will never be our allies; solidarity will be. As well was expressed in a letter with a bullet inside to the Italian newspaper “Il Tirreno”: “If Alfredo Cospito dies, all the judges are a target”. Let’s let the Italian state know that if Alfredo dies, we will be his worst enemy. freedom for Alfredo Cospito end the 41bis isolation regime!
Dan untuk ini juga kami memberi anda senyuman, pelukan, ciuman, kedipan mata, dan solidaritas abadi kami!
Death to all the state!
Long live Anarchy!
Long Live CCF/FAI-IRF!
Long Live Black International!
Let’s attack the state!
Source: Abolition Media
Italy: Updates about the transfer of Alfredo Cospito to the San Paolo hospital and on the prosecutor general’s request to overturn the 41 bis measure in view of the cassation hearing of February 24
Updates about the transfer of Alfredo Cospito to the San Paolo hospital and on the prosecutor general’s request to overturn the 41 bis measure in view of the cassation hearing of February 24 (Italy)
We publish two important updates concerning the transfer, which took place on February 11th, of anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito to the San Paolo hospital and the request for annulment of the 41 bis measure by the prosecutor general at the Court of Cassation in view of the hearing to be held on February 24th at the Cassation itself following the appeal against the order of the Surveillance Court of Rome which, with the hearing of December 1st, confirmed detention under 41 bis.
We recall that on February 9th the minister of justice Carlo Nordio announced the rejection of the formal request for revocation of the 41 bis that had been made by the comrade’s lawyer. This was despite the opinion of the Direzione Nazionale Antimafia e Antiterrorismo (DNAA, ‘National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Directorate’), which, responding to the minister who was gathering the opinions of various repressive bodies, had said it was in favour of maintaining the 41 bis or alternatively of transferring him to Alta Sicurezza 2 (AS2, ‘High Security 2’, high security sections intended mainly for anarchists and communists). Therefore, currently, as far as the revocation of the 41 bis is concerned, the only pronouncement expected is that of the Court of Cassation (which is only in Rome) with the hearing on February 24th.
Revolutionary solidarity with Alfredo Cospito and all imprisoned anarchists and revolutionaries! Alfredo out from 41 bis!
Alfredo Cospito transferred from Opera prison to San Paolo hospital (Milan, February 11, 2023)
On February 11th, the 115th day of hunger strike against 41 bis prison regime and life imprisonment without possibility of parole, anarchist Alfredo Cospito was transferred from Opera prison (where he had been an imprisoned since January 30th in the Servizio di Assistenza Intensificata, SAI, Intensified Assistance Service) to the San Paolo hospital (also located in Milan), in one of the rooms reserved for prisoners on 41 bis in the prison medicine ward. The transfer was ordered by the Department of Penitentiary Administration following the indications of the doctors. The comrade, according to February 11th, weighs 71 kg (the starting weight at the beginning of the hunger strike was 115 kg) and is in extremely critical health condition. As reported by the doctor who examined the comrade in the morning: ‘he is at risk of cerebral oedema and potentially fatal cardiac arrhythmias’.
Regarding the prosecutor general’s request to overturn the 41 bis measure against Alfredo Cospito in view of the cassation hearing of February 24
The Agnelli family’s [multi-industry business dynasty founded by Giovanni Agnelli, one of the original founders of the FIAT motor company which became Italy’s largest automobile manufacturer] newspapers (‘La Repubblica’ and ‘La Stampa’) revealed in this morning’s (February 12th) edition that the prosecutor general at the Court of Cassation had filed a request for the overturn of the 41 bis measure against Alfredo Cospito in view of the hearing on February 24th in Rome. This is undoubtedly good news, but it should not be overestimated. Naturally because as anarchists we have no faith in bourgeois justice, specifically because it is not uncommon for the cassation to take more radical decisions than those requested by the prosecution itself.
Finally, we cannot forget that Alfredo’s health situation is very serious and that February 24th may be too far away, which could turn out to be a terrible hoax.
We persevere in our claim for an immediate declassification of our comrade, convinced that any outcome will depend solely on the struggle to the last breath that Alfredo has put up and on the international solidarity movement that has been expressed.
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(IT) Aggiornamenti sul trasferimento di Alfredo Cospito all’ospedale San Paolo e a proposito della richiesta di annullamento del provvedimento di 41 bis da parte del procuratore generale in vista dell’udienza in cassazione del 24 febbraio
(EN) Updates about the transfer of Alfredo Cospito to the San Paolo hospital and on the prosecutor general’s request to overturn the 41 bis measure in view of the cassation hearing of February 24 (Italy)
Italy: Review hearing of 41 bis against Alfredo is moved forward: FEBRUARY 24th
Initially the hearing for the review of the 41 bis against Alfredo was scheduled for April 20, 2023, but after pressure from the hunger strike it was moved forward to March 7, 2023.
Given the growing political crisis in Italy as a result of the hunger strike of the comrade and the multiplication of solidarity actions at the international level, the date has been rescheduled for February 24, 2023.
At this hearing, the appropriateness of maintaining Alfredo Cospito in this regime of extreme isolation will be discussed once again. The comrade from prison has assured that he will not stop the hunger strike until he gets out of that concrete cemetery.
Solidarity with the hunger strike against 41 bis!
To prevent the assassination of Alfredo!
Santiago, Chile: Gathering outside the Embassy of Italy
After more than 100 days of hunger strike of comrade Alfredo Cospito against the brutal isolation regime of 41 bis in Italian prisons, on February 3, 2023 about fifty people gathered in a rally outside the Italian embassy to make palpable the internationalist solidarity.
From Chilean prisons anarchist and subversive prisoners began on January 31 a hunger strike in solidarity with Alfredo’s strike. In this context, despite the heavy police presence, which included water cannons and gas, they managed to break through the walls guarding the representatives of the Italian government, the same government that is currently plotting Alfredo’s assassination behind bars.
Banners, pamphlets, stickers, scratches and shouts flooded the streets around the Italian embassy, and then headed towards the Chilean-Italian cultural institute a few blocks away.
Alfredo out of 41 bis!
Stop the murder of Alfredo by the Italian State!
Subversive prisoners and anarchists to the streets!
Continue reading “Santiago, Chile: Gathering outside the Embassy of Italy”
$hile: Urgent words in the face of an extinguishing flame. Written by Mónica Caballero in response to Alfredo Cospito’s hunger strike.
I have had the pleasure of reading the words of comrades from different territories, who showed their fervent solidarity with the hunger strike of Alfredo Cospito, to get out of the torture regime of 41 bis. In these lands a group of subversive, anarchist, anti-authoritarian, anti-speciesist and nihilist prisoners also expressed our unconditional solidarity with the comrade. To fraternize with a comrade as valuable as Alfredo, and even more so in the difficult moment he is going through, is a necessity for those of us who position ourselves as negators and antagonists to the current life governed by authority. Sending words of solidarity from prison to a like-minded comrade is never too much.
In my case, when I have received words of solidarity from a comrade while imprisoned, I have always valued and treasured them as something very precious. But at this moment comrade Alfredo Cospito needs words to be transformed into actions, to attack, coerce, subvert, manipulate, threaten, etc. To all those who have the power to change his prison situation and/or who sustain the 41 bis regime.
Alfredo’s situation is no longer preoccupying and has become urgent. The matter is simple, if Cospito’s request is not granted, he will die and there are not too many days left if he continues his hunger strike.
To make the decision and carry out a mobilization such as a hunger strike, has many difficulties, your struggle is in multiple scenarios, on the one hand you have a whole repressive and judicial framework with several tools that bet on dissuading you to stop the strike, on the other hand there is your own survival instinct, your own body! Continue reading “$hile: Urgent words in the face of an extinguishing flame. Written by Mónica Caballero in response to Alfredo Cospito’s hunger strike.”
Bolzano, Italy: Statement at the appeal trial for the Brenner demonstration
Today, Feb. 3, the last hearing prior to sentencing in the appeal trial for the anti-border march (Brenner, May 2016) was held at the Bolzano court. This is the statement read in the courtroom, signed by some 20 defendants:
Statement at the appeal trial for the Brenner demonstration
If there is a place where words do not express mere opinions without consequences, this is certainly the court. In a few days, in this courtroom, it will be decided whether and for how long our future will consist of bars and prison.
This is no reason to keep silent.
In the repressive doggedness that the various public prosecutors’ offices in this country have long reserved for the anarchist movement – of which the 130 years in prison dispensed in the first-degree verdict in this trial is a good example -, in these days it is reaching its zenith. The state seems determined to condemn to death fellow anarchist Alfredo Cospito, now on his 107th day of an all-out hunger strike against the torture of 41 bis and against hostile life imprisonment. Alfredo’s determination, on the one hand, and institutional ferocity, on the other, decisively overshadow for us the outcome of this trial and our individual fates.
In a country marked by a long trail of real massacres carried out by state apparatuses with the manpower of neo-fascists-this is not only a historical truth, but even a judicial one-, to be convicted of “political massacre” are … two anarchists (Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino), for “a massacre without massacre attributed without evidence.” The most odious falsification of the anarchist idea and practice, taking Alfredo to the grave for living of 41 bis.
If this is the logic, then 130 years in prison can be doled out for a demonstration that caused, according to the same prosecution, 8,000 euros in damages. Consistency, as they say, is in the whole.
While there is talk of the Constitution, the rule of law and peace, reality tells us that the democratic governments of the West are leading us straight toward conflict with Russia, that is, on an inclined plane at the bottom of which is World War III, with the accompanying annihilation of terrestrial life.
The fury against dissent in general and against anarchists in particular is the home front of that war. The 41 bis is prison of war.
That is why Alfredo’s great courage and the solidarity he was able to muster are so frightening. They are part of that humanity that will never side with NATO bombs, just as our comrades in Russia do not side with Putin’s bombs.
While it is up to you to choose whether to join the chorus of repression that is nowadays more disproportionate, our thoughts and hearts are with Alfredo.
Bolzano, February 3, 2023
Giulia Perlotto, Carlo Casucci, Kamilla Bezerra, Massimo Passamani, Manuel Oxoli, Luca Rassu, Roberto Bottamedi, Marco Degosus, Arianna Viola, Mattia Magagna, Roberto Bonadeo, Agnese Trentin, Andrea Parolari, Stefano Diani, Benedetta Antonucci, Matteo Nascimben, Sirio Mafrini
Source: Il Rovescio & oltre il Ponte
Via: La Nemesi
$hile: Words of Mawünhko and Tomás from prison in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito
Alfredo, today the weight of a mountain is trying to knock you down. We wonder how many times a day you struggle with your own mind. You have let us know the strength of your convictions, your body is emaciated, yet you have said it yourself “I will let myself die. My body is the last protest.”
Dangerous and highly contagious is your essence, every day in prison we think of you. A mighty forest dwells in your mind and only untamed spirits lurk in it.
Undecipherable to the powerful is your inexhaustible source of subversion. Until the last of your days you will continue your battle, from a small, dark cell, without communication, only with yourself. But in the dimension of your thoughts with your most beautiful memories, with each of your battles pumping through your veins, strengthening each millenary tree that stands in that forest.
A labyrinth with no exit is your mind for the slaughterers, for us a sweet and pleasant passage that you have let us visit, feel, observe…
For the end of the 41bis regime! Active solidarity with Alfredo Cospito!
Fire to all the prisons of the world!
Mawünhko, from San Miguel prison.
Tomás, from Santiago 1 prison.
Source: Publicacion Refractario
$hile: Communiqué of anti-speciesist prisoners for the Susaron case in solidarity with the hunger strike of Alfredo Cospito
With these words that carry the ballast of the innocuous, and the impotence of not being able to embrace you with exorbitant roars and hypnotic, nameless, denying flames, which cross continents and borders.
We sit down to write from our cages with a deep sense of pain, rage and fraternal admiration.
The machinery of global domination considers you so dangerous and unyielding that they have made it a priority to slice away the most threatening portion of your existence. Your zest for life, your pride, joy and lucidity. Because they fear. Because you managed to represent an indomitable threat that was never diluted in words.
From the state captivity of Santiago, Chile. We shout with the brutality of a thousand floods!
Down with the regime of torture and annihilation 41 bis!!!! 98 days of hunger strike!!!
We shout from continent to continent: Resist brother, here on the other side of this pestilent world you have warriors attentive to your steps.
We never waited for the conciliatory venia with the enemy for the resolution of our battles and necessities. And we will not do so now.
May the gestures of rampant audacity make the ground vibrate and the streets of the entire globe dominated by the machinery of subjugation burn with fire!
Until we get Alfredo out of this adverse situation, and overthrow that hideous psychopathic regime called 41bis.
ALFREDO COSPITO TO THE STREET!!!
TOGETHER WITH ALL THE PRISONERS OF THE SOCIAL-ANTISOCIAL WAR ALL OVER THE PLANET.
FIRE TO ALL THE PRISONS FOR HUMANS AND NON-HUMANS. WITH THEIR JAILERS INSIDE.
VEGAN STRAIGHT EDGE PRISONERS, SUSARON CASE.
-C.D.P. SANTIAGO 1 PRISON.
-SAN MIGUEL WOMEN’S PRISON.
Source: Publicacion Refractario
International call for mobilisation at Italian embassies in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito and for the end of 41 bis prison regime EN/ES/PT/IT/FR/GR/IN
INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR MOBILIZATION AT ITALIAN EMBASSIES IN SOLIDARITY WITH ALFREDO COSPITO AND FOR THE END OF 41 BIS PRISON REGIME
More than 100 days after the start of Alfredo Cospito’s hunger strike we extend the call to all like-minded individuals, groups, organizations and collectives to convene within their territories a mobilization outside the Italian embassies to put pressure on the Italian state and Alfredo’s executioners.
The comrade is dying because the state wants him to die. This is not just a ‘humanitarian’ problem, the comrade’s struggle is a call for international revolutionary action. Indifference and passivity will never be our allies; solidarity will be.
As well was expressed in a letter with a bullet inside to the Italian newspaper “Il Tirreno”: “If Alfredo Cospito dies, all the judges are a target”. Let’s let the Italian state know that if Alfredo dies, we will be his worst enemy.
The comrades from Chile and Colombia will be present this Friday, February 3th outside their embassies. We hope this initiative will spread further.
CALL, ORGANIZE AND ACT!
FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF ALL PRISONS!
END TO THE 41 BIS REGIME!
LONG LIVE THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL! Continue reading “International call for mobilisation at Italian embassies in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito and for the end of 41 bis prison regime EN/ES/PT/IT/FR/GR/IN”