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Athens, Greece: Summary of actions in solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker (from 20/10/2022) Alfredo Cospito

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

In the past few days, following the actions on the case of the anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, who is on hunger strike until the end of October 20, 2022, the “Open Assembly of Solidarity with Alfredo Cospito” held: Hanging of a banner in foreign language at the Propylaea, hanging of a banner at the gate of the NTUA on Patision and painting inside the building and intervention at the punk live for the legal costs of the 4 imprisoned comrades Fotis D. , Iasona R., Panos V., Lambrou V.

Statement by Alfredo Cospito at the hearing to review the preventive/pre-trial measures for Operation Sibilla

Continuation of the Open Assembly in Solidarity with Alfredo Cospito – Tuesday 4 April, 18:30, ASOEE & The text of the Assembly [IT + EN]

Call for an open assembly to give a response commensurate with the seriousness of the situation regarding the hunger strike (since 20/10/2022) of anarchist Alfredo Cospito by comrades in Italy

ANTI-STATE GATHERING – MARCH IN SOLIDARITY WITH ALFREDO COSPITO

SUNDAY 9 APRIL, 13:00, ISAP THESSIO STATION

“Let the will of destruction never again become a creator.

Nothing needs to be built.

Let action speak, right now, right away.”

Freedom to the anarchist hunger striker (from 10/20/22) ALFREDO COSPITO

Fire at 41bis and all forms of confinement

Open Assembly of Solidarity with Alfredo Cospito

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Foligno, Italy: You bet we’ll remember, and how! About the 41 bis for Alfredo Cospito: Those who are responsible

Posted on 2023/02/16 by darknights

Source: Inferno Urbano

Via & translated by Act for freedom now!

Foligno: You bet we’ll remember, and how! About the 41 bis for Alfredo Cospito: Those who are responsible

YOU BET WE’LL REMEMBER, AND HOW!
ABOUT THE 41 BIS FOR ALFREDO COSPITO: THOSE WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE

In recent days, a media campaign of mystification and lies has been going on around the hunger strike that Alfredo Cospito is carrying on to the last breath against life imprisonment without appeal and 41 bis. We’ve heard it all. The prime minister Giorgia Meloni, with her usual victimhood, went so far as to suspect conspiracies about the coincidence of the start of the hunger strike with the launching of her government.
Another lie circulating is the one about a phantom alliance between anarchists and the mafia, deduced from wiretaps between Alfredo and the only three people he is allowed to see in the prison yard. The State, which decided to lock an anarchist up in 41 bis for the first time, is now instrumentalising the fact that that anarchist speaks to the only human beings he can meet. Sociability groupings which, by the way, are decided centrally by the ministry in Rome! In truth, it was with the creation of the DNAA (Direzione Nazionale Antimafia e Antiterrorismo) that the State wanted to set up a war machine against revolutionary insurgency, a machine that had as its weapons the exceptional tools that hitherto only applied to the anti-mafia. We are witnessing a complete reversal of the facts: those who merged completely different realities into the bureaucracies of the judicial and penitentiary administration are now crying ‘bonding’.

Similarly, we are aghast when we hear again the president of the council Giorgia Meloni assert that she will not negotiate with anarchists. And not just because everyone in Italy knows that the State only negotiates with the mafia. Statements like these denote that those in government have completely lost touch with reality. It is the anarchists who, since time immemorial, have never wanted to deal with institutions.

Anarchists who, as is well known, have no leaders, no ambassadors, no recognised interlocutors. So they have nothing at all to negotiate about. Anarchist conflictuality does not arise from the instigation of a jailed ‘leader’ and is not moderated in exchange for the survival of a comrade held hostage by the executioners of repression. Our conflict arises from visceral class hatred fuelled every day, not by political sophistry, but by exploitation, blackmail, misery, and the injustices of this society. The 41 bis was intended to be a warning to anarchists, it was not! Continue reading “Foligno, Italy: You bet we’ll remember, and how! About the 41 bis for Alfredo Cospito: Those who are responsible” →

Athens, Greece: Message of Resistance – Intervention at the Greek-Italian Chamber as a gesture of solidarity with Alfredo Cospito

Posted on 2022/12/02 - 2022/12/02 by darknights

“The question of the issues, the lever for awakening the insurgent power of the world is therefore Internationalism.” (Alfredo Cospito)

“Because for those who love life, to react when the question of life and death is at stake is an act of duty, from Monday 7 November I am starting a hunger strike” ( Anna Beniamino)

Anarchist prisoner Alfredo Cospito has been on a hunger strike to the death in Italian prisons since 20 October, demanding that the 41bis solitary isolation regime applied against him be lifted.

41bis is a sensory solitary isolation regime that constitutes torture and is one of the harshest special detention regimes in the European Union. The Italian state’s attack on Alfredo Cospito is not simply a state choice to eliminate an unrepentant anarchist guerrilla. It symbolises the full frontal assault on the choice of armed struggle and is carried out through anti-terrorist policies and special detention regimes.

The comrade’s strike is therefore both a struggle against torture and special conditions of detention and a battle so that the defence of the choice of armed struggle remains relevant and is not defeated through the murderous silence imposed on Alfredo Cospito. Continue reading “Athens, Greece: Message of Resistance – Intervention at the Greek-Italian Chamber as a gesture of solidarity with Alfredo Cospito” →

Rome, Italy: Interruption of a performance at Argentina Theater in solidarity with imprisoned anarchists on hunger strike against 41 bis

Posted on 2022/12/02 by darknights

Today, Nov. 26, 2022, the performance of “Hamlet” at the Argentina Theater in Rome was interrupted. Despite the fact that the theater workers turned into a full-fledged security service to protect the interests of the bosses, we determinedly managed to go on stage, unfurl a banner that read “There is something rotten in Italy: no to 41 bis,” throw leaflets, and read part of the communiqué, which, below, we quote in full:

We are here because Alfredo Cospito is in 41 bis. 41 bis is a detention regime specifically designed to annihilate the individual. We are here because Alfredo has been on hunger strike for more than a month. We are not here to cry over an injustice suffered by our anarchist comrade, because it is not. Just as it is not a legal aberration. It is the logical reaction of the democratic-state to the attacks launched by Alfredo. First physical, with the wounding of the bureaucrat Adinolfi, at the time CEO of Ansaldo Nucleare and for which he finished serving the sentence to which he was sentenced. Then with the words with which, while in high-security detention, he contributed to debates in the anarchist movement. The 41 bis to Alfredo is not only revenge, it is also a willingness to take away the word. Because speech, when it does not remain a mere rhetorical exercise: it is a weapon.

Alfredo has been on hunger strike for more than a month to get his downgrade and against hostile life imprisonment.

He has been joined by anarchists and prisoners Juan Sorroche, Ivan Alocco and Anna Beniamino. They use the hunger strike because in the condition of isolation in which they find themselves it is, perhaps, the only form of struggle available to them. With strength and courage they put their safety, their lives on the line … while you are sitting here watching a sham and do not realize that everything is. Daily something is taken from you, for the moment, on you it has no consequences and then you turn away. Blinded by your privileges you think democracy is the best possible system and you look indignantly at exotic nations where people are trampled. You want truth and justice for Giulio Regeni and you don’t give a shit about the 14 deaths made in prison on March 8, 2020 by Italian democracy. You don’t give a shit about the 80 prison suicides that have occurred since January. You don’t give a shit about the migrant concentration camps scattered around the beautiful country.

We have not come to raise your awareness. If you still sleep soundly-we spoil your fun.

We break the social peace in which you bask.

Death to the state!
Long live Anarchy!

Source: La Nemesi

Genoa, Italy: Solidarity intervention of French embassy gathering

Posted on 2022/10/15 - 2022/10/15 by darknights

10/10/2022
Via: https://sansnom.noblogs.org/archives/13877

Friday 7 October in Genoa, a conference in the French Alliance, organized by the French Institute, the French embassy and the Genoa university, was intervened by banners, speeches and flyers in solidarity with the anarchists Vincenzo Vecchi and Claudio Lavazza, explaining their specific repressive conditions.

Since the conference cycle was about democracies future, the protection of minorities and rights, citizen mobilizations, it was recalled the role of French and Italian democracies in racist policies and borders closing ; in their direct participation to aggression wars of the past 20 years, from Afghanistan to Libya or in the active support of Ukrainian armament, in the social conflicts repression, by the means of European arrest warrants, showing the mutual solidarity democracies maintain when it is about repressing the struggling ones.

Freedom for Vincenzo Vecchi*
Freedom for Claudio Lavazza
Solidarity with all the social war prisoners *

Ndt : 11 october, the court of cassation (last french juridic institution) of paris will have to decide about the European arrest warrant (MAE) execution issued by italia after the mid-july opinion given by the European Union Justice Court (CJUE), which estimated that france could not oppose itself to the italian warrant.

(originally translated from italian at Il rovescio, 10 october 2022)

France: Multiple direct actions across the country

Posted on 2022/10/15 - 2022/10/15 by darknights

Leftovers of the municipal police car

Thouars (Deux-Sèvres) : Municipal police targeted 10/10/2022 https://sansnom.noblogs.org/archives/13868

Municipal police targeted in Thouars

~~Courrier de l’ouest/La Nlle République (newspaper),~~ 10 octobre 2022

It was 6.30am, this 10 october monday, in Thouars city hall backyard (department Deux Sèvres), when a maintenance worker heard crackin noises. And noticed someone escaping. In the night, he saw flames devouring a vehicle. Firepeople quickly intervene : 31 firepeople are engaged and a fire hose is used. The calcined corpse is the one of the second intervention vehicle from municipal police.

This monday morning, the staff of the town hall is appalled. Firepeople limited the spread of flames to the wood parts of a reprography office, located in an annex building of Thouars town hall. A computer has also been damaged and the office will be unusable for some times. Upper floor windows, which is the temporary local of the municipal police, are also heavily damaged. The investigation was taken by the national police.

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Rome, Italy: Interruption of a democratic kermesse in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito

Posted on 2022/09/25 by darknights

On the evening of September 20, in Rome, we interrupted a democratic kermesse that took place at the Troisi cinema. The evening’s special guests were the critical philosopher Noam Chomsky and the committed filmmaker Ken Loach. We stormed in with a banner that read ‘Against every prison. 41 bis = torture. Freedom for Alfredo’, threw leaflets and read the following text.

ALFREDO OUT FROM 41 BIS
FREEDOM FOR EVERYONE

Since May 5, our comrade Alfredo Cospito has been imprisoned under the 41 bis regime.

The 41 bis is a regime of institutionalised torture, created to isolate, silence and annihilate the prisoner, thus trying to bring him to collaboration with justice. We do not want to demand more comfortable cages, nor do we want to be victims. We are against all prisons, we would like to see them burn. We are not surprised or outraged, we know very well that all this happens within a democratic regime. Democracy is based on the annihilation of the internal and external enemy. This is not a novelty linked to the advent of the so-called pandemic, this mechanism is inherent to representative democracy which, because it provides for representatives, necessarily creates an unbridgeable gap with the represented. Quite simply, for the past two years, we think that democratic regimes have dropped their masks: repression for all, permanent states of emergency, compulsory vaccination, green passes, persecution of those who do not play by the rules, rationing, etc. The situation is self-evident.

The state is giving us a warning: those who spread anarchist and revolutionary practices and ideas are buried alive. Examples of this are the recent convictions of Juan Sorroche (28 years in prison for an attack on a Lega Nord headquarters) and Anna Beniamino (sentenced together with Alfredo for political massacre, a sentence of life imprisonment). The repressive tightening we are experiencing cannot go unnoticed, we cannot get bogged down in wait-and-see. These are hard times, but better times will not come if we do not act now.

That is why it is important to pretend for Alfredo’s removal from 41 bis with all our strength, to spread anarchist ideas and to claim the practices for which he was convicted, practices that have always been part of the anarchist movement.

To the democrats and false critics we have nothing to say… we just wanted to spoil your party.

FREEDOM FOR THE PROSECUTED ANARCHISTS
DEATH TO THE STATE, LONG LIVE ANARCHY

[In italian: https://fuoridallariserva.noblogs.org/post/2022/09/21/roma-interruzione-di-kermesse-democratica-in-solidarieta-con-alfredo-cospito/].

South London, UK : ‘Life means intervention, decision, struggle, not to be a battery for the machine to work.’

Posted on 2022/07/26 by darknights

This morning 25.7.22, some anarchists interrupted a commuter train on the Docklands Light Railway, connecting the (rapidly transforming) ghettoised districts of Newham and Lewisham to London’s financial centre.

Words from the heart were sprayed on the exterior of the train, especially the name of Giannis Michailidis. A banner carrying a quotation from his public letter from 2013 (‘Tracking my journey in the world of insurrection resistance and solidarity’) was hung from the rail bridge over the central junction of Deptford.

The following text was distributed by throwing hundreds of flyers into the train carrige and off the railway bridge:

Freedom is not an array of consumer choices and ‘experiences’. It consists in the living choice to take your life into your own hands in the struggle.
We can see what happens when, for years, each project of power is left to expand its tentacles over us.
– Neighbourhoods are wrecked to construct vacuum-sealed palaces for the pleasure and profit of the beneficiaries.

– “Economic Strategies”, like raising the prices of food and fuel to discipline everyone back to work post-lockdown, are greeted meekly like a natural law and, accordingly, accumulate astronomical profits for global corporations. Continue reading “South London, UK : ‘Life means intervention, decision, struggle, not to be a battery for the machine to work.’” →

Exarcheia, Athens, Greece: Intervention at an airbnb

Posted on 2022/07/24 - 2022/07/24 by darknights

The analyses about the gentrification of the Exarcheia neighbourhood are now well known and part of the discourse and practice of the anti-authoritarian space. Evictions of houses, cop culture, frugal tourists that frolic undisturbed in their new playground. Squatter evictions, mega real estate companies, and so much more that we see in our neighborhood every day.

Gentrification is our violent exchange with first class citizens and visitors. For what purpose? For political deadening, for counter-insurgency, for profit. But the actions of our diverse movements will sweep them away once again.

As a minimal act of support for the struggle of Exarchia, we intervened in the airbnb on Tsamadou by throwing buckets of stinking paint into its courtyard and breaking the electric bells at the entrance. This building has been targeted many times with spray paint and so on, as it was the site of the Omokentro squat a few years ago. Also the homeless man who had been living across the street from the airbnb for a long time, suddenly disappeared from his place by magic… With a little talk with the neighborhood one understands that this man did not leave there by accident, but most likely he was evicted by the owners so as not to ‘spoil’ their image.

The targets are many and they are everywhere. Right down to the destruction of the last airbnb.

REDEVELOPMENT MEANS POOR DISPLACED PEOPLE

NO TO THE SUBWAY, REDEVELOPMENT OF THE HILLSIDE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF LUXURY HOUSING

COPS – INVESTORS OUT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD

angry neighbours

Source: athens.indymedia

Athens, Greece: Update on the intervention on Kontra channel about the anarchist G. Michailidis

Posted on 2022/07/14 - 2022/07/14 by darknights

On Tuesday 12/7 and while our companion is on his 52nd day of hunger strike, an intervention by 20 people took place on Kontra channel during a broadcast by A. Yamalis. During the intervention, a banner was put up and parts of the text of the assembly in solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker G. Michailidis were read.

The comrade is now in danger of severe multiple organ failure. After 8.5 years of detention, he demands the obvious. The release to which he has been entitled for 7 months according to their own laws. In order to justify the indefinite hostage-taking of the comrade, the pretext is used that the prisoner “does not meet the essential conditions for release, as there is a risk of committing new offences”.

In addition to the exceptional regime against political prisoners, whi Giannis is fighting with his body barricaded, it also exposes the whole mechanism of cover-up and bias that reflects what their “justice” really is; while our comrade is melting in a miserable cell of the Lamia hospital, to defiantly release “their people”. Lignadis, Hortarias, Filipidis, Korkoneas, Leventis.

We have no illusions. The justice system that has released murderers and rapists in the last few days is classist. We declare in all tones that our anger will drown you. Street justice will not let you exterminate our comrade.

EVERYONE ON THE MARCH IN SOLIDARITY WITH HUNGER STRIKER G. MICHAILIDIS ON THURSDAY 14 JULY AT 19.00 AT SYNTAGMA

JUSTICE IS SOCIAL JUSTICE

JUSTICE WILL BE JUDGED IN THE STREETS

Solidarity assembly in solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker Giannis Michailidis

Video of the intervention:

Source: athens.indymedia