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Solidarity Poster: Solidarity with Alfredo Cospito, anarchist imprisoned in 41 bis. (Italy)

Posted on 2022/05/21 - 2022/05/21 by darknights

On May 5, imprisoned anarchist Alfredo Cospito was notified of his transfer from “High Security 2” to 41 bis. The decree was ordered by Justice Minister Marta Cartabia. The 41 bis is an afflictive penitentiary regime that provides for: isolation and silence, the absence of sociability and any internal activity, censorship of correspondence and the blocking of a good part of it, one hour of monthly interview with the dividing glass, recording of the interview itself, ten minutes of phone calls per month with an authorized and forced family member from a barracks, the prohibition to receive and buy newspapers and books, and the limitation in the availability of objects inside the cell.

This transfer is an attack on a comrade anarchist who never lowered his head: who, after his arrest and in the trial that followed, claimed head-on to have shot in the legs the CEO of Ansaldo Nucleare, Engineer Adinolfi, one of the top nuclear executives in Europe. In recent years, Alfredo has been a thorn in the side for investigators because of his constant contribution to the revolutionary movement, a contribution they would now like to silence. Continue reading “Solidarity Poster: Solidarity with Alfredo Cospito, anarchist imprisoned in 41 bis. (Italy)” →

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged 41 bis, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Ansaldo Nucleare, Appeal Court, AS2 (High Security 2), International Solidarity, Isolation, Italy, Marta Cartabia, Olga Cell - FAI/IRF, Operation Scripta Manent, Operation Sibilla, PDF, Poster, Repression, Roberto Adinolfi

Rome, Italy: For an international revolutionary solidarity

Posted on 2022/05/21 - 2022/05/21 by darknights

“…I think that the new can only come from their collision (of anarchist terrorism and creative anarchy), because life is contrast: rational and irrational, hate and love, everything but the mortal, static “balance”. Harmony is the daughter of “imbalance”, of chaos. “*

Well, what has been hovering for a while has finally manifested itself: on May 5, the anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, already detained in the AS2 section [High Security 2; Att.Nt) of the Terni prison, received the notification of the application of the 41 bis against him.
This detention regime, requested by the judges and approved by the Ministry of Justice, with the signature of the Minister Marta Cartabia, as we know, involves: the annihilation of the individual, an extension of the isolation, the deprivation of books, the lack of information and news from the outside world… in short, torture. Continue reading “Rome, Italy: For an international revolutionary solidarity” →

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged 'What International?', 41 bis, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Ansaldo Nucleare, Appeal Court, AS2 (High Security 2), International Solidarity, Isolation, Italy, Marta Cartabia, Olga Cell - FAI/IRF, Operation Scripta Manent, Poster, Roberto Adinolfi, Roberto Sparagna, Rome, Terni prison

Milan, Italy: An ATM machine of Intensa-San paolo bank destroyed

Posted on 2022/05/21 by darknights

May 11–An ATM at the Intesa-San paolo bank branch on Via Rapisardi in Milan was smashed with a hammer.

This action is aimed at targeting one of the many businessmen involved in the war in Ukraine. Intesa-San paolo, the leading banking group in Italy, has 28 branches in Russia, holds 1.3 billion in assets, has issued more than 5 billion in loans to Russian companies and owns more than 50 million in government bonds. In 2017 it acquired 19 percent of the share capital of Rosneft, a Russian oil giant. In Ukraine it controls Pravex bank. It is currently undergoing a strategic review to reconcile its profits with Western sanctions.

It is necessary to sabotage the war by lashing out at homegrown capitalists and warmongers, eschewing the mobilizations of civilized pacifism.

Side by side with those who are fighting, rebelling and not giving up.

Maximum support for Alfredo Cospito, recently subjected to 41bis.

Solidarity with all anarchists and anarchists imprisoned in Italy, Chile, Greece, England, Spain, Russia, Belarus, etc.

No Peace – War on Power

Source: Il Rovescio

Posted in Cognitive LibertyTagged Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Anti-Militarist, ATM, ATM Attack, International Solidarity, Intesa-San paolo, Italy, Milan, Pravex, Rosneft, Russia, Russia Ukraine War, Ukraine

Italy: Against 41 bis, revolutionary solidarity with anarchist Alfredo Cospito

Posted on 2022/05/09 - 2022/05/09 by darknights

Thursday, May 5, the imprisoned anarchist Alfredo Cospito received notification of the provision against him of the penitentiary regime of 41 bis. At the moment Alfredo is still detained in the prison of Terni, in the dedicated section. We do not know if this is a provisional destination and if it will be followed by a transfer to another institute. The decree has been ordered, as foreseen by the law, directly by the Minister of Justice Marta Cartabia, former president of the Constitutional Court. Let us recall, very briefly, that 41 bis is a particularly afflictive penitentiary regime, which provides, in order to prevent any form of communication, isolation, absence of sociability and any internal activity, silence, censorship of correspondence, one hour of monthly meetings with the glass partition and the “intercom”, then the recording of the meeting itself, 10 minutes of phone calls per month with an authorized family member forced to call from inside a Carabinieri barracks. Inmates are forbidden to receive newspapers and books, most correspondence is blocked in advance because of its contents, moreover, it is not possible to buy newspapers and there is a strong limitation in the availability of objects inside the cell (books, clothes, food, paper and pen are limited).

It is not the first time that such a measure is applied to revolutionaries, in 2006 four prisoners of Brigate Rosse were interned in such facilities (one of them, Diana Blefari, committed suicide in October 2009, shortly after being declassified from 41 bis). This is a precedent that, despite the mobilizations, has not yet been disarticulated.

In these first hours of anger, we must dwell on two issues.

On the one hand, we note the personal, physical attack on an anarchist comrade who in these ten years has never lowered his head: a comrade who claimed to have shot in the legs the CEO of Ansaldo Nucleare, Mr Adinolfi. The fact that Alfredo could not be isolated and his revolutionary contribution silenced was a thorn in the side for investigators. This has led in recent years to further restrictive measures against him, such as the censorship of correspondence and the serving of an arrest warrant in prison for Operation Sibilla on November 11, through which the repressive forces have attempted to remove from circulation a newspaper and publications that over the years have reported the articles and contributions of the comrade. We must make Alfredo feel the solidarity of a movement that is not tamed, that has not forgotten him, that does not leave him alone; we must make sure that this solidarity breaks the bans and breaks the isolation. Continue reading “Italy: Against 41 bis, revolutionary solidarity with anarchist Alfredo Cospito” →

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged 41 bis, Alfredo Cospito, Anna Beniamino, Ansaldo Nucleare, AS2 (High Security 2), Brigatte Rosse, Diana Blefari, International Solidarity, Isolation, Italy, Juan Sorroche, Marta Cartabia, Olga Cell - FAI/IRF, Operation Scripta Manent, Operation Sibilla, Repression, Roberto Adinolfi

Athens, Greece: Update and contribution from the event on the case of anarchist Claudio Lavazza on 14 April at ASOEE

Posted on 2022/05/04 - 2022/05/04 by darknights

On Thursday, April 14th, the event of the Anarchist Initiative against State Killings, concerning the case of the anarchist comrade Claudio Lavazza, took place at the ASOEE with a relatively massive presence of comrades. The presentation was read as well as the transcript of an interview Claudio has given about his case and a video was shown concerning the expropriation of a bank in Cordoba and the subsequent confrontation with the police forces where he was arrested. Finally, comments and statements were made by comrades about the connection between Claudio’s experience of struggle, especially the years he participated in the Italian movement, and the present day, and it was decided to call an open assembly to organize a meeting at the French embassy on May 17, the day when the comrade’s appeal against the decision of the bourgeois justice system that forces him to serve another 5 years in prison until he is released will be heard. Below is the text of the submission where you can also find a Pdf file.

We will begin our submission by answering the simple question. Why do we consider solidarity with the comrade Claudio Lavazza important today? We answer by saying that in Claudio’s person we see a part of the revolutionary memory of contemporary revolutionary history.

Claudio from an early age was an insurgent proletarian who was actively involved in the mass movement and proletarian struggles of that period in Italy. But what was the historical context that fuelled the great struggles of that period?

“The post-war environment and the Cold War”

On a macro-level, the end of the Second World War and the new balances of terror that took shape in the international environment after the use of nuclear weapons of mass destruction in 1945 in Japan by the US and the subsequent nuclear arms race from 1949 onwards (when the USSR acquired the corresponding technology), influenced the intensity of the historical period of the Cold War, the milestones of which were the Greek civil war (1946-1949), the Chinese revolution in 1949, the Korean civil war (1950-1953), the lifting of the Berlin Wall in 1961 and the Cuban missile crisis a year later in 1962. These developments were decisive for the so-called transition to the so-called ‘peaceful coexistence’ process, which largely involved the establishment of strict non-intervention zones. These zones were in the perceived centre of the western and eastern world, i.e. almost the entire northern hemisphere of the planet, which of course did not prevent any of the main Cold War competitors from intervening even militarily in their own immediate zones of influence and even more so on the periphery of the perceived undeveloped world, moving the hot fronts of warfare to Latin America, Africa and Asia. Continue reading “Athens, Greece: Update and contribution from the event on the case of anarchist Claudio Lavazza on 14 April at ASOEE” →

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged 'Armed Proletarians for Communism', Armed Robbery, Armed Struggle, Athens, Bank Robbery, Claudio Lavazza, Corboda Case, Expropriation, Ficheros de Internos de Especial Seguimiento - FIES, France, Giuseppe Pinelli, Greece, Italy, Luigi Calabresi, Organized Communists for Proletarian Liberation (COLP), Piazza Fontana Massacre, Presentation, Spain, Strategy of Tension, Years of Lead, ΑΣΟΕΕ (Athens University of Economics and Business)

Italy: Social Credit Score – Rome & Bologna testing new app that monitors & rewards behavior

Posted on 2022/05/03 - 2022/05/03 by darknights

In line with recommendations being laid out by the World Economic Forum and the UN 2030 Agenda, Bologna, Italy, plans to launch a social credit style app that has striking similarities with Communist China’s social credit system. The app rewards or punishes its citizens for their behavior. Dubbed “Smart Citizen Wallet,” the app will track activities such as recycling, public transportation use, and energy management.

The primary argument for the program is to “save resources” and promote climate-friendly behavior. Those displaying good behavior will collect digital coins and receive discounts at local shops based on the given scores.

The app is already active and in experimental stages in Rome and is set to go live in Bologna in Autumn. Bologna Mayor Matteo Lepore and Massimo Bugani, director of the city’s “Digital Agenda,” discussed the project at a March 29 conference. Bugani indicated the app was part of a more comprehensive effort by the city to invest in digital innovation. 

In 2020, Italy and six other nations signed an agreement to become “Agile Nations” in partnership with the WEF. Besides Italy, the deal—co-organized by the OECD—includes Canada, Denmark, Japan, Singapore, UAE, and the UK and sets “each country’s commitment to creating a regulatory environment in which new ideas can thrive.” Expressly—with the Fourth Industrial Revolution front and center. Continue reading “Italy: Social Credit Score – Rome & Bologna testing new app that monitors & rewards behavior” →

Posted in Social ControlTagged 4th Industrial Revolution, 5th Industrial Revolution, Analysis, Anti-Civilization, Anti-technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, BKA, Bologna, China, Contra Toda Nocividad, Counter-Insurgency, Counter-Surveillance, Data Surveillance, Great Reset, Italy, Red Army Faction, Rome, Skynet, Smart Cities, Smart Citizen Wallet, Social Credit System, Surveillance, The Uncivilized, World Economic Forum (WEF)

International Zine of Social War – ‘War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society’, Dark Nights #51

Posted on 2022/05/02 - 2022/05/02 by darknights

PDF: Dark Nights #51 ‘War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society’

International zine of social war against militarism, against nationalist and imperialist wars, for the insurrection, revolution and internationalism.

Another expanded 16 page edition with articles on the continuing hunger for war by nations, capitalism and civilization. Articles from Italian comrades, of a much needed anti-militarism and calling for the international in response to the war we fight all our lives under the existent. Direct actions and communiques of an anti-militarist nature and examples of past attacks, including Direct Action Cells, attacks from Germany and UK attacks against military targets.

Print it out, distribute it, leave it in a random place!

‘We sabotage the war, Triggering the International!’

  1. ‘War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society’
  2. ‘We sabotage the war, Triggering the International’ – Beztomivny
  3. ‘We do not enlist’ – Anarchists from Spoleto
  4. ‘Anti – Militarism & Social Insurrection’ – Wolfi Landstreicher
  5. ‘Another war is possible’ – Responsibility Claim for arson & incendiary attacks by Cells of Anti-Militarist Action
  6. ‘Heretics’ – Gabriel Pomba da Silva

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Posted in LibraryTagged 'We sabotage the war - Triggering the International', 325, Anti-Militarist, Bezmotivny, Dark Nights, Gabriel Pombo da Silva, Germany, Greece, Insurrection, International Co-ordination, Internationalism, Italy, PDF, Publication, Revolution, Social War, UK, Wolfi Landstreicher, Zine

Lecce, Italy: Down with the army!

Posted on 2022/04/14 by darknights

Published by disordine.noblogs.org on 2022/03/22

Via & Translated by act for freedom now!


An act of violence.

This is the definition given to what happened in Taranto a few days ago when insults and stones were launched at a Navy frigate as it pased by. What can we say? We can only agree… It is an act of exceptional violence that a missile frigate, a military operational unit named after the carabinieri army, can return to an important NATO base in grand style following a mission, crew lined up on deck. These are images that lacerate your heart.

Fortunately that day, near the revolving bridge, there were some enemies of militarism who expressed all their disgust at this violent repulsive spectacle. Their shouts and insults thrown at the military broke the deafening, complicit silence of those who held back, enjoying the show, and the stones thrown at the frigate tore away the grey area of silent collaborationism of those who never have the courage to call things by their name.

Giving substance to one’s antimilitarism – especially in this period of war propaganda, which has passed uninterruptedly from covid to war – is the sign of a particularly admirable ethical tension. While the whole of the national press and politicians hastened to label the demonstrators “pacifists” and condemn the gesture, we think that shouting “Murderers!” at the military, regardless of historical contingencies, is the truth, pure and simple. Continue reading “Lecce, Italy: Down with the army!” →

Posted in Social ControlTagged Anti-Militarist, Biblioteca Anarchica Disordine, Italy, Lecce, NATO, Russia, Russia Ukraine War, Ukraine

Italy: War on war. Internationalist mobilization on 25th April in Spoleto and on 1st May in Carrara

Posted on 2022/04/14 by darknights
PDF POSTER IT:

PDF POSTER EN:

WAR ON WAR

Price increases and sackings, massacres in jails and at the workplace, energy crisis and return to nuclear power, green pass and repression. This is the war against which we are called upon to fight. Our war is against the State and capital, in continuity with practices of conflict and with our imprisoned comrades in our hearts. We won’t enlist in response to the bourgeoisie’s call to arms, we won’t go to fight against other exploited inside and outside borders.

For internationalist solidarity.

AGAINST WAR, AGAINST NUCLEAR POWER, IN DEFENCE OF THE ANARCHIST PRESS, IN SOLIDARITY WITH IMPRISONED REVOLUTIONARIES AND THE PRACTICES THEY ARE ACCUSED OF.

LET’S DERAIL NATIONAL UNITY

Internationalist demonstrations:

Spoleto, 25th April 2022, Piazza Garibaldi, 3pm
Carrara, 1st May 2022, Piazza Alberica, 2:30pm

During the days: comizi, speeches, distribution of anarchist publications

Contacts:

— Circolaccio Anarchico, Viale della Repubblica 1/A, Spoleto (e-mail: circolaccioanarchico@inventati.org).

— Circolo Culturale Anarchico “Gogliardo Fiaschi”, Via Ulivi 8, Carrara (e-mail: gogliardofiaschi@gmail.com).

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Source: ilrovescio.info

Via & Translated by act for freedom now!

Posted in Prison Struggle, Social ControlTagged Anarchist Prisoners, Anti-Militarist, Carrara, Circolaccio Anarchico, Demo, Energy War, Green Pass, International Solidarity, Internationalism, Italy, Nuclear Industry, Repression, Spoleto, War on War

Italy: Update about the comrades arrested on March 16th: Evelin’s arrest order annulled and Gianluca’s confirmed

Posted on 2022/04/10 by darknights

On April 6th was held the hearing of the re-examination court on the precautionary measures for Gianluca and Evelin, anarchist comrades accused of “possession of deflagrant and explosive material, attempted manufacture of improvised explosive devices and possession of deflagrant material with the aim of attacking public safety”, arrested on March 16th on a warrant from the public prosecutor’s office of Genoa and later transferred under house arrest.

Today, April 8th, the comrades were notified of the result of the hearing: the arrest order against Evelin was “annulled for lack of serious evidence of guilt”, therefore the comrade is released from house arrest, while it is confirmed for Gianluca, who remains under house arrest, without any change in the specific restrictions (no communication with persons other than close family members, no leaving the perimeter of the house even to buy food, no receiving correspondence, etc., and periodic checks by the police).

We remind that a solidarity fund has been activated to support the expenses of the comrades (currently the fund is only active on italian territory). The coordinates for sending contributions are:

Postepay account number: 4023 6010 2286 1819
Tax code: BGNPPL79M18E472O

Solidarity with Gianluca and all imprisoned anarchists!

Posted in Social ControlTagged Anarchist Prisoners, Evelin Sterni, Genoa, Gianluca Iacovacci, House Arrest, International Solidarity, Italy, Repression, Rome, Solidarity Fund

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