Issue #9 of In Contempt has been released:
In Contempt #9: Black August Approaches, Resistance and Repression in the Aftermath of Prairieland – Against Cooperation and Compromise, Up With Total Liberation!
Tag: Repression
Chaos in the Archipelago of Fire: A Compilation of Texts from the 2025 Insurrection in Indonesia & Subsequent Repression
Click link: https://archive.org/details/archipelago-of-fire
Print-imposed & Read-only PDF’s of the zine “Chaos in the Archipelago of Fire: A Compilation of Texts from the 2025 Insurrection in Indonesia & Subsequent Repression,” Parts One & Two
Adapted from the French-language zine:
Chaos dans l’Archipel de Feu
Sur l’insurrection d’août 2025 en Indonésie et sa répression
Indonesia: Actualización Presxs Palang Hitam
Hemos estado inmersxs en las trincheras del apoyo legal estas últimas semanas. Acompañar a lxs secuestradxs por Densus (ndt: Densus 88, unidad especial policial anti-terrorista de Indonesia) no es solamente una cosa táctica — es como mapeamos sus métodos de represión para desmantelarlos. Por sobre todo, rehusamos abandonar a cualquiera a merced de la maquinaria del Estado.
Estamos disminuyendo el apoyo a Komar, puesto que ya está siendo asistido por ST (ndt: Setapol, Unión de Presos Políticos) y otrxs. Nuestra prioridad siguen siendo lxs presxs restantes del 1 de Mayo 2026 y todxs lxs que aún tienen que enfrentar los tribunales sin solidaridad. Por supuesto, esto incluye Adit, quien seguirá encerrado hasta el próximo año. Continue reading “Indonesia: Actualización Presxs Palang Hitam”
Flyposter: ‘Against Surveillance State UK – Against Facial Recognition CCTV’ (PDF)
As requested, here is the ‘Against Surveillance State UK‘ CCTV article from Dark Nights #47 (2018) as an A4 PDF to be enlarged to A3 and flyposted as a spread, or printed out on to double-sided A4 and handed out. Attack the world of machines and the technological system. “Hit where it hurts”.
PDF: A4 – Against Facial Recognition CCTV
Against Surveillance State UK – Against Facial Recognition CCTV
Britain is an authoritarian surveillance State, which has pioneered how many modern societies look; entirely covered by security cameras at almost every urban point, place, square, road, corner, shop, bus, train, etc. Partially perpetually in a state of decay and disrepair, here they have built a life almost as in a vast prison, and it is what their world looks like. Prison society; endless drab shopping centres, housing estates, tower blocks, industrial and recreational areas capable of being on lock-down at short notice. Regularly practised large-scale multi-agency counter-terror response drills to terrorist attacks, inner-city riots. Mind-control media beams out lies, half-truths, distractions, impossible consumer desires, morning, noon and night. Every potentially disruptive mass event, social and environmental crisis, is hyped by the media as threatening such an abrupt end to normality that at least all the police’s resources will be stretched so thin that the military will have to be involved to restore order under martial law. Austerity, flooding, Brexit, immigration, Islamism. Reactionary, racist, nationalist discourses and ideologies are everywhere; religious and far-right neo-nazi groups are regrouping. Anarchist and eco-action is called “extremism” or “terrorism”, in the double-speak of the police-state. There will never be any chance of individual, social and environmental change without the recreation of daily life into an existence that reflects our desires, passions and joys, rather than a cog in their system of fear. Likewise there is zero possibility of any social change without an insurrection, a social war. Continue reading “Flyposter: ‘Against Surveillance State UK – Against Facial Recognition CCTV’ (PDF)”
Prison transfers and updated addresses for the arrested Italian anarchists
Update: Seven people arrested on June 16 in a crackdown targeting anarchist groups have been released by a judge. They were being prosecuted under Article 270 bis of the Italian Penal Code, which concerns subversive association with terrorist aims. The judge ruled that this offense had not been established. Two other people arrested during the operation remain in separate cases, facing charges of “speech terrorism” after leaflets were seized during searches. Source: Secours Rouge
Here we share the current addresses of the Italian comrades from the last operation. It is importsant to note the solidarity account for donations and also because these are “fixed” directions of high security prisons where the comrades are supposed to spend their pre-trial detention.
Update 28/06:
Yesterday, June 27th, Stefano and Toni were transferred.
We share updated addresses:
Stefano Marri
Pietro Rosetti
Terni Central Prison
Strada delle Campore 32
05100 Terni (TR)
Andrea Toniolo
Francesco Benedetti
Rossano Central Prison
Contrada Ciminata Greco 1
87064 Corigliano Rossano (CS)
There is still no confirmation about Nico and Arnau but we know they were also transferred yesterday.
Micol remains in the AS2 of Rebibbia.
Micol Marino
C.C. Rebibbia femminile,
via Bartolo Lungo 92,
00156 Roma
A PostPay account has been opened to support comrades:
Giovanna di Romano
IT67E3608105138259570159586
PostPay Card Number:
5333174809836489
Statement by Benjamin “Champagne” Song (U$A)
Benjamin “Champagne” Song was sentenced to 100 years in the Texas Prairieland ‘Antifa’ Frame-Up, solidarity to the defendants and all those who resist, tear all borders and prisons to the ground:
I don’t hate. I don’t hate anyone. I don’t hate cops. I don’t hate Trump. I don’t hate Nazis. My beliefs are composed thus:
First, that we should help each other.
And second, that we should protect one another.
I never want to see anyone get hurt. I never want to see good people, standing up for what they believe in, gunned down in the street. What we all saw happen to Renee Good and Alex Pretti is my worst nightmare.
It was the kind of thing I had feared for a long time, after dealing with officers who could be reckless, who could be bullies, who could be violent. But fear is not hate. Sadness is not hate. Wanting people to live is not hate.
So, when I was standing in the street on July 4th, 2025, in plain view with reflective safety strips and high visibility clothing, what I saw right in front of my eyes was my worst nightmare. Continue reading “Statement by Benjamin “Champagne” Song (U$A)”
Hamburg, Germany: Against the police and the world that needs them!
On the night of May 17–18, we smashed the windows with hammers at the “Police IT Cooperation” office at Notke Straße 13–15 in Hamburg.
The “Police IT Cooperation” is an alliance of five state police forces that jointly develop software for day-to-day police work and provide interfaces to national and European databases.
Other state police forces, the Federal Police, and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) also use the software.
This involves the digital, AI-supported expansion of the police control and surveillance system to enforce the prevailing order, which results, among other things, in deportations, forced evictions, and repression being carried out violently.
Conspire for a world where everything is different and everything is possible!
Against the police and their violence!
Love and strength to those in the underground and in prison!
Source: de.indymedia
Greece: Update on the transfers of the comrades charged in connection with the bank expropriation in Kato Tithorea
Following the interrogation on Friday, May 15, before the investigating judge and the subsequent decision to order pretrial detention for six suspects, the comrade subject to this measure was taken to the Western Attica Criminal Investigation Department in Ano Liosia, while the other five suspects were transferred to GADA. On Monday, May 18, the comrade was transferred to the Korydallos women’s prison; the following day, Tuesday, May 19, one of the five comrades was transferred to the Korydallos men’s prison. Three days later, on May 22, three more comrades were transferred to the prisons in Trikala, Larissa, and Malandrino, respectively. This morning, May 26, the last comrade was transferred to the prison in Nafplio, after more than two weeks of detention at GADA.
The vindictive—yet predictable—scattering of our comrades across prisons throughout Greece, with the intent of limiting their communication and psychologically breaking them, comes as no surprise to us; after all, we are well acquainted with the mechanisms of the State and its collaborators.
“We do not fight for the liberation of political prisoners out of charity or humanitarianism. Through the struggle for their liberation, we reclaim the hidden history and the experience of the struggle. But above all, we reclaim the concept of the political legitimacy of counter-violence.” (Action Directe Prisoners’ Collective)
Source: athens.indymedia
Fort Worth, Texas, U$A: Eight Federal Prairieland Defendants Sentenced Today to Prison Terms Ranging From 30-100 Years for Common Protest Activity
FORT WORTH, TX – Eight Prairieland defendants were sentenced in federal court today, three months after their convictions on a variety of federal charges, including riot, material support for terrorists, attempted murder, possession and conspiracy to use explosives, and conspiracy to conceal documents. Family members and supporters, who sat stunned as US District Judges Mark Pittman and Reed O’Connor delivered sentences ranging from 40-100 years in prison, called the punishment cruel, callous and starkly disproportionate to the defendants’ actions. In a rally and press conference held after the sentencing, supporters expressed defiance and vowed to continue fighting for the Prairieland defendants’ freedom.
The eight Prairieland defendants sentenced today are Savanna Batten, Zachary Evetts, Autumn Hill, Meagan Morris, Maricela Rueda, Daniel Rolando Sanchez Estrada, Benjamin Hanil Song, and Elizabeth Soto. All defendants, with the exception of Sanchez Estrada were convicted of rioting, providing material support to terrorists, conspiracy to use an explosive, and use of an explosive device, which referred to the consumer grade fireworks used on July 4. Sanchez Estrada was convicted of concealing a document—political literature—and, along with Rueda, conspiracy to conceal documents. Song was additionally convicted of attempted murder of an officer and discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime. Continue reading “Fort Worth, Texas, U$A: Eight Federal Prairieland Defendants Sentenced Today to Prison Terms Ranging From 30-100 Years for Common Protest Activity”
Italy: IN TIMES OF WAR About the anti-anarchist raid of June 16th
IN TIMES OF WAR
About the anti-anarchist raid of June 16th
Tuesday June 16th, in Rome and elsewhere, yet more raids struck the anarchist movement, with six arrest warrants for as many comrades various others under investigation, searches all over Italy and the eviction of the occupied space in Rome, Bencivenga.
As well as that, two comrades have been arrested with the new charge of “terrorismo della parola” [terrorism of the word] (270-quinquies) for possession of a number of pamphlets found during the raid.
While the information leaked by the media is scarcer and more patchy than usual, it is quite clear that the investigations concern a number of acts of sabotage of railway lines, in particular that carried out on February 14th on the Rome-Florence line, against the Cortina war Olympics in 2026.If the media’s efforts of mystification and defamation against anarchists is certainly nothing new, we cannot avoid pondering for a moment on the level reached by the propaganda of the regime this time (in particular by the ineffable TG1[main TV news]), which is particularly grotesque: “they would meet in a farmhouse like the Mafia”, “they were planning the strategy of tension”, “they were intending to carry out violent actions”, “anarchist terrorism”… It is worth pointing out to these gentlemen that for anarchists the Mafia is as bad as Authority, and that the “strategy of tension” was carried out in this country by the State, it is not difficult to see that behind these filthy words there is a precise intention: that which led, in 2015, to transforming the National Antimafia Direction (DNA) into National Antimafia and Antiterrorism Direction (DNAA). With the result that the same absolute ‘monsterisation’ and relative treatment previously reserved for real or presumed mafiosi is now being applied to anarchists (and moreover has been inflicted on the revolutionary communists for decades).
With the aggravation, for revolutionaries, of not carrying out violence for reasons of profit or power, but as a kind of end in itself for the sheer joy of destruction or who knows what death wish. As if thousands of people had not opposed the winter Olympics for very clear reasons: the presence of the military (not in uniform for the occasion), of the Israeli team, the escort of the ICE gangs of murderers, the devastation of the Alpine environment in the name of the usual “grand event” – and as if these motivations had not been claimed, unequivocally, in the communique following the sabotage. As for the usual accusation of “terrorism”, we believe that Gaza has clarified this question sufficiently – and that there can be no more doubt about who spreads the terror.
In times of war, an old poet said, the first victim is truth.
While Alfredo Cospito remains in 41-bis like a kind of scapegoat for the “sins” of the whole anarchist movement, the State has reached the point of criminalising the very intention of doing something to stop him being tortured. While we are still recovering from the shock of the death of Sara and Sandro the State is trying to use this against us.
We don’t know if those arrested and under investigation carried out the actions they are accused of. We can only repeat what we have written many times in similar cases: if they are “innocent” they have all our solidarity, if they are “guilty” they have it even more.
Solidarity to Nico, Bibi, Micol, Arnau, Stefano, Giulia, Luna, Pietro, Tony, to all those under investigation and those raided.
Alfredo out of 41-bis!
With Sara and Sandro in our hearts.
Anarchists of Trento and Rovereto
Translated by Act for freedom now!