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Trento, Italy: Claim of damage to the headquarters of AXA Insurance

Posted on 2026/02/20 by darknights

Claim of damage to the headquarters of AXA Insurance (Trento, 16 February 2026)

AXA = GENOCIDE

During the night between Sunday 15 and Monday 16 February, under cover of darkness, we damaged the headquarters of AXA Insurance in Trento.
AXA derives enormous profits from the ongoing genocide in the occupied territories of Palestine, as it directly invests more than €170 million each year in companies that produce weapons, a large portion of which also deal in white phosphorus and depleted uranium weapons. Essentially, it contributes to supplying weapons of mass destruction to an army of fanatical Zionist murderers led by an unscrupulous colonialist elite. What could possibly go wrong?
A month ago, we learned of the sentencing of our comrade Juan to five years in prison for a terrorist attack (280bis) against the POLGAI police academy in Brescia, a school that also trained the Zionist militias who are now applying to Palestinians what they learned in Italy. Just one day later, Anan Yaesh, a Palestinian partisan detained in Italy on Israeli orders, was sentenced to five years and six months, also for terrorism, on charges of organising the Tulkarem self-defence brigades, a Palestinian resistance group formed in the same refugee camp.
In a spiral of internal war that the state wages against the proletariat, even more so if they fight for freedom, our task remains to identify the enemy in our own house and act accordingly. Even more so when the racist and murderous ICE militia peeks into our “home”, welcomed with open arms by all those incompetents who hide behind the issue of remigration.
We also report the victory of the British group Palestine Action which, despite having around thirty members in prison on the usual charges of terrorism, managed, with more than 50 days of collective hunger strike, to terminate a deal worth more than a billion euros between the Israeli military giant Elbit and the British government. Various prisoners joined their hunger strike in solidarity, including our comrade Stecco, a prisoner of the state in Sanremo prison.

Freedom for Anan, Juan, Stecco and Palestine Action.
Freedom for Palestine and for all the oppressed people of the world.
Until next time, who knows…

Source: La Nemesi

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 280bis, Anan Yaesh, Anarchist Prisoners, AXA Insurance, Elbit, Genocide, Hunger Strike, ICE, Israel, Italy, Juan Sorroche, Luca Dolce 'Stecco', Palestine, Palestine Action, POLGAI police school Brescia, Trento, Tulkarem self-defence brigades, UK, USA, Zionism

Italy: “Operation City”, a crackdown on the mobilization against 41bis prison regime in Italy and in solidarity with anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito

Posted on 2026/02/16 - 2026/02/16 by darknights

“Operation City”, a crackdown on the mobilization against 41bis prison regime in Italy and in solidarity with anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito

From October 2022 to April 2023, a strong solidarity movement accompanied the hunger strike of Alfredo Cospito, an anarchist prisoner in 41-bis, the most afflictive prison regime in the Italian penitentiary system, a regime of extreme harshness and isolation, a tomb where one spends 22 hours in a cell, with hardly any possibility to communicate with the outside world (censorship on all communications and with only a one-hour visit per month with a family member or a ten-minute phone call, also a month).

Initiatives, demonstrations, direct actions have marked in Italy, and in many other parts of the globe, the steps of a heterogeneous movement that has grown to give strength to Alfredo’s protest. A protest which not only called for the transfer of Alfredo himself from the 41bis regime but also demanded the abolition of this legalized torture together with that of ostensive life imprisonment i.e., life sentences without the possibility of access to parole or benefits, with which the Italian State as of today condemns almost 1300 prisoners to die in prison.

A government that is strongly characterizing its policy on the tightening and embitterment of laws and sentences, obviously had no problem ignoring, and sometimes mystifying, that struggle that highlighted the State’s torturer’s true face and it certainly would not have given in, if Alfredo, after 6 months of struggle, had not interrupted his hunger strike. But the objectives of protest and mobilization remain on the table of causes worth fighting for. Obviously that same government, which probably would have left our comrade to die of hunger, did not delay in presenting the bill with investigations and trials in various territories and cities where the solidarity mobilizations of those months spread like wildfire. Continue reading “Italy: “Operation City”, a crackdown on the mobilization against 41bis prison regime in Italy and in solidarity with anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito” →

Posted in Social ControlTagged 41 bis, Alfredo Cospito, Hunger Strike, Italy, Operation City, Repression, Turin

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

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

https://darknights.noblogs.org/files/2026/01/scrubs.mp4

Watch longer video here:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DT62Nr9iKec

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

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged Anti-Prison, Brize Norton 5, Demo, Elbit, Fascist Israel State, Fascist UK State, Filton 24, HMP Wormwood Scrubs, Hunger Strike, Israel, Israel Gaza War, Palestine, Palestine Action, Repression, UK, Umer Khalid

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

Posted in Cognitive Liberty, Library, Prison StruggleTagged "anti-terrorist law", 'Anti-Extremism', 'Domestic Terrorism', A note on the dangerous role of insidious psychology, About "anti-extremism" "anti-psychology", Anarchist and Single Issue Terrorism), Anti-Psychiatry, Anti-Terrorist Police, Ashley Fussell, Brighton, Brighton Anarchist Black Cross, Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology, Counter-Terror National Security Division, Cowley Club, Deradicalisation Program, Desist and Disengagement Programme, Developing Dialogues, ERG22+, Extremism Risk, Fascist UK State, Healthy Identity Intervention, High Risk Prisoner, HMP Garth, Hunger Strike, Insidious Psychology, International Anti-Repression Gathering 2024, Italy, LASIT (Left, LASIT (Left-Anarchist-Single-Issue-Terrorism), MAPPA (Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements), Motivational and Engagement Intervention, National Security Division, PDF, Plan C, Prevent Scheme, Probation, Psychopolice, Punitive Psychiatry, Repression, Revolutionary Solidarity, Toby Shone, UK, Zine

Italia: Proiezione di “To Kill a War Machine” su Palestine Action (Carrara, 11 gennaio 2026)

Posted on 2026/01/08 - 2026/01/08 by darknights

PROIEZIONE DI “TO KILL A WAR MACHINE” SU PALESTINE ACTION
(CARRARA, 11 GENNAIO 2026)

Proiezione di To Kill a War Machine su Palestine Action
Domenica 11 gennaio 2026

Ore 18:00. Proiezione del documentario To Kill a War Machine (2025) sull’attività di Palestine Action contro l’industria bellica nel Regno Unito.

Il percorso di Palestine Action e lo sciopero della fame attualmente in corso nelle carceri britanniche da parte degli aderenti al collettivo Prisoners for Palestine ci interrogano sulle prospettive e i limiti delle forme di attivismo contemporanee. Mentre gli Stati si attrezzano per la guerra e le condizioni di sopravvivenza qui da noi si fanno sempre più difficili, non è più rimandabile lo sviluppo delle lotte antimilitariste in una prospettiva antiautoritaria e internazionalista.

A seguire aperitivo a buffet.

Circolo Culturale Anarchico “G. Fiaschi”, via Ulivi 8/B, Carrara

Posted in GeneralTagged anti-militarism, Anti-Militarist, Arms Industry, Circolo Culturale Anarchico “Gogliardo Fiaschi”, Fascist UK State, Genoa, Hunger Strike, International Solidarity, Israel Gaza War, Italy, Palestine, Palestine Action, To Kill a War Machine (Film), UK

Solidarity event in Derry for UK Palestine Action Hunger Strikers (Northern Ireland)

Posted on 2025/12/22 by darknights

Solidarity with Hunger Strikers at Free Derry this evening as several political prisoners have now entered their 48-day of action. Families of the two Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) hunger strikers, Patsy O’Hara and Mickey Devine, issued moving tributes in solidarity as many of those gathered held deep memories of those tragic days in Derry back in 1981.

Over the coming days, other solidarity actions are being planned locally as several of those hunger strikers edge closer to death. Calls for their immediate release and those of the Filton 24 have also been repeatedly made before this evenings action came to a close.

A member of the DAC commented afterwards, stating: “We are all too aware that this situation should not have been allowed to get to this stage. But as we know, only to well, the actions of the British State have once again attempted to crush a movement opposed to their military machine and its authoritarian regime. A grassroots movement that is fundamentally opposed to the unfolding terror and deliberate genocide on the people of Palestine. Many have taken to the streets, taken part in direct action, and have been forcibly silenced or unjustly imprisoned.

“The widespread solidarity shown here today to demand immediate humanitarian intervention to help bring an end the hunger strikes. To help bring an end to their unjust treatment of all of the prisoners involved, and to see their immediate release will continue to grow. They can not silence or imprison all of us, we are seeds!”

More pics here…

@prisoners4palestine @freethefilton24

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged Derry, Derry Anarchist Collective (DAC), Elbit, Filton 24, Hunger Strike, International Solidarity, Ireland, Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), Israel, Israel Gaza War, Mickey Devine (INLA), Palestine, Palestine Action, Patsy O'Hara (INLA), Solidarity Demo, UK

Spoken contribution by Toby Shone for the Tattoo Circus, Bristol, 2025

Posted on 2025/12/01 - 2025/12/01 by darknights

This is from a talk by Toby at the Bristol Tattoo Circus, which took place a few weeks ago at a squatted venue in the city. After the talks and workshops there was bands, DJs and a benefit party. Free the prisoners!

Hello everyone,

Ok, we’re at Tattoo circus, my name is Toby Shone, I’m an ex-prisoner and anarchist. Tattoo Circus was started around 20 years ago in Italy as a way to fund anarchist prisoner solidarity campaigns.

I want to thank the organisers for inviting me here to speak, it’s very important as a released political prisoner to be able to come back into the community. Especially after living for a considerable amount of time distanced from the social movement. So overall, I want to communicate any lessons that can be told. Some of you already know me, so I’ll try not to bore you with what you know already, but for others I’ll just re-cap the case that I was involved in, then I’m going to simply give some anecdotes about my time in prison, and then speak about solidarity briefly.

I was arrested in the November 2020 Operation Adream case, and I was imprisoned for three years in conditions of solitary confinement and monitored for a year in line with UK-wide anti-terrorist restrictions by the National Security Division and Counter-Terror Police. From the evidence I’ve seen, it indicates that there is an ongoing investigation by the anti-terrorist units into the social movement in the South West region, and we can conclude that it’s also taking place across the country. I think it is certainly not for us to have to justify our harmlessness, but to really think about what it is going to take, long-term, for the type of social changes we’re aiming for. Continue reading “Spoken contribution by Toby Shone for the Tattoo Circus, Bristol, 2025” →

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged Alfredo Cospito, Anna Beniamino, Anti-Prison, Bristol, Counter-Terror Police South East (CTSPE), Covid-19, HMP Bristol, HMP Garth, HMP Parc, HMP Wandsworth, Hunger Strike, International Solidarity, Isolation, Ivan Alocco, Janet Wallsgrove (G4S), National Security Division, Operation Adream, Repression, Solidarity Demo, Southwest Counter Terror Police (SWCTP), Steven Sollars (Screw), Tattoo Circus, Toby Shone

A Basket of Thoughts – Italian Anarchist Massimo Passamani Solidarity With Hunger Strike

Posted on 2025/11/17 - 2025/11/17 by darknights

In the twilight zone of sorts I find myself in- neither free nor fully imprisoned – I have decided to give up my daily work release from prison for the next week, as a gesture of solidarity with the Palestine Action comrades on hunger strike in British prisons, a strike my friend and brother Stecco has also joined. I know that my staying in prison instead of going to work will not bother the prison administration in the least. But my message is not addressed to prison management – whom I have nothing to say to and nothing to ask of but to those who are fighting against the genocide of the Palestinian people, alongside its indomitable resistance.

What I can offer, along with this small gesture, is a basket of thoughts, a handful of words with which to express what is in my heart.

The strength that comes to me from British prisons which, in turn, reflects the tenacity of that resistance which Zionist prisons and administrative detention centers are unable to bow, despite the isolation, the torture, and the rapes has not only the form of a commonality of ethics and ideals, but also the intensity of the emotions I feel in reading the hunger strike statements. Continue reading “A Basket of Thoughts – Italian Anarchist Massimo Passamani Solidarity With Hunger Strike” →

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged Hunger Strike, International Solidarity, Israel, Israel Gaza War, Italy, Letter, Massimo Passamani, Palestine, Palestine Action, UK

Italy: Luca Dolce – Hunger strike in solidarity with UK prisoners and Palestinian resistance

Posted on 2025/11/12 by darknights

Yesterday, November 4th, I received news of the start of a hunger strike called by tens of political prisoners imprisoned in the United Kingdom for their struggles in solidarity with and for the liberation of Palestine.
In recent months, I read about comrade Teuta “T” Hoxha’s hunger strike, and was able to follow her story and that of comrades Casey Goonan and Malik Muhammad. I had time to ponder in case, as I expected, another chance presented itself to join a struggle which I feel an affinity for, which I feel deeply is my own.
The struggle against prison and the military techno-industrial system is essential for a struggle of broader scope, of revolutionary and internationalist resistance.
I am joining in the hunger strike, starting on November 8th, and will carry it out with an eye to the tactics and approach proposed by the comrades who initiated it. If it continues indefinitely, I will go on while paying attention to my body’s limits, deciding for myself whether and when to stop and continue the protest by other means.
I will take the time I need to share further thoughts as the protest continues. The reasons for this struggle, the actions for which these comrades are now imprisoned, speak for themselves.
I stand by their side with serenity and resolve.
Currently, I do not know whether the Palestinian comrade Anan Yaeesh, imprisoned in Melfi, is still on hunger strike. Regardless, my solidarity with him, Ali, and Mansour is vivid and strong.
With humility and respect, I close these lines by quoting the Kurdish comrade Sakîne Cansiz:
“On the other hand, facing the enemy on your own is also a special thing. Revolutionary will gathers in you. You can feel within yourself conviction, determination, the pure desire to fight. It is the most beautiful part of revolutionary struggle. Nothing distracts you, and you demolish the enemy with the strength of your personality. It is something to do with you, but also with the enemy’s image reflected in you. In your defense, it recognizes its impotence.”

Luca Dolce, known as Stecco, anarchist comrade
Sanremo prison
11/05/2025

Luca Dolce
c/o Casa Circondariale Sanremo
Strada Armea, 144
18038, Sanremo (IM)
Italia

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged Anarchist Prisoners, Hunger Strike, International Solidarity, Israel Gaza War, Italy, Luca Dolce 'Stecco', Palestine, Palestine Action, Repression, UK

USA: In Contempt – November edition – International report

Posted on 2025/11/10 by darknights

The new edition of In Contempt, a monthly roundup of news and analysis on political prisoners and prison rebellions is live.

In Contempt #1: UK Palestine Action Prisoners Launch Hunger Strike, Phone Zap to Get Malik Out of the Hole, Repression on the Rise, & More

https://incontempt.noblogs.org/2025/11/04/in-contempt-1/

Political prisoner updates, calls to action, and other relevant news can be shared to the new email in_contempt at autistici dot org

Past columns of In Contempt are still up to view at
https://itsgoingdown.org/category/columns/in-contempt/

Until All Are Free,

IC

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged Hunger Strike, In Contempt, Palestine Action, Repression, UK, USA

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