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Italy: Updates on the Genoa trial of Gianluca and Evelin

Posted on 2023/04/28 by darknights

Updates on the Genoa trial of Gianluca and Evelin

UPDATES on the GENOA TRIAL of GIANLUCA and EVELIN.

The undoubted crisis that the capitalist mode of production is going through today manifests itself in an economy that bases its wealth on war, on the robbery and plundering of the commodity-rich global south, and in the sharpening of the class struggle.

While it is true that capitalism continually seeks “alternative” solutions that will ensure its continuation, often succeeding in finding them and thus creating new pockets of profit for the market, it is also true that the resource crisis and especially today’s climate crisis will not grant alternatives to this parasitic presence for long.
The commodity crisis affects not only the production of secondary consumer goods in the technology, war and digital industries, but also primary resources such as water. This leads not only to a change in geopolitical arrangements, but also to internal conflicts between exploited and exploiters as the example of reservoirs in France or mining in Germany highlights. Objectively, even in Italy, beyond the obvious shortcomings of radical opposition initiatives, the “hunt for ore” or residual gas supplies are accentuating the extractive machine of ruthless multinationals that destroy territories to increase their profits, with the favor of state concessions.

But the crisis of production is a possible prospect today, which is why states are organizing in an attempt to assert their interests and prevent radical struggles and forms of internal guerrilla warfare.

Against this backdrop the authoritarian turn underway in Italy and elsewhere takes shape, which on the one hand is evident in the adoption of economic and “social” policies aimed at ever greater class exploitation, and on the other in the tightening of repression against political crimes.

In the last period the authoritarian turn taken by the state has clearly and heavily characterized the exclusively political reading of social events and struggles by entering even the judicial spheres. It has strongly conditioned the use of repression with the application of punitive instruments that remain an objective problem for political prisoners, such as 41 bis, hostility and crimes arbitrarily reinterpreted, reformulated and used in a vindictive way as massacre and associative crimes. Continue reading “Italy: Updates on the Genoa trial of Gianluca and Evelin” →

Posted in Social ControlTagged 41 bis, Alfredo Cospito, DIGOS [General Investigations and Special Operations Division], Evelin Sterni, Genoa, Gianluca Iacovacci, Italy, Repression, ROS [Carabinieri Special Operations], Social War, Trial

Rome, Italy: About the constitutional court hearing on the convictions for anarchists Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino in the Scripta Manent trial + Anarchist Alfredo Cospito ‘interrupted’ his hunger strike undertaken since Oct. 20 [Corrected]

Posted on 2023/04/20 - 2023/04/28 by darknights

DN Note: We have been informed by comrades in Italy that comrade Alfredo has only interrupted his hunger strike, that the isolation that is 41 bis prevents us knowing what his real motivations are at present.

About the constitutional court hearing on the convictions for anarchists Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino in the Scripta Manent trial (Rome, April 18, 2023)

A hearing was held today in the constitutional court on the case of Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino on charges of political massacre (art. 285 c. p.) within the Scripta Manent trial.

The current Cirielli law (year 2005, Berlusconi government) prevents mitigating factors from outweighing aggravating factors in the case of recidivism. In Alfredo Cospito’s case, in particular, this would have resulted in a certain sentence of hostile life imprisonment despite the fact that the action he and Anna are accused of did not cause any victims.

The court therefore found this provision unconstitutional. More, reading the terse press release that came out of the building, the court seems to have raised constitutionality doubts in general with respect to all those cases in which the fixed penalty is configured solely as life imprisonment.

Recall that Alfredo Cospito has been on hunger strike for almost 6 months precisely against 41 bis and hostile life imprisonment. A struggle for which his comrade is risking his life and during which he may already have suffered permanent neurological damage. A struggle that Alfredo has always reiterated is not just for himself, but for everyone, particularly in solidarity with anarchist, communist and revolutionary prisoners. Today’s decision will have consequences not only for the fate of our comrade, but is a blow, however circumscribed, to the institution of life imprisonment in this country. Continue reading “Rome, Italy: About the constitutional court hearing on the convictions for anarchists Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino in the Scripta Manent trial + Anarchist Alfredo Cospito ‘interrupted’ his hunger strike undertaken since Oct. 20 [Corrected]” →

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged 'political massacre', 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Anna Beniamino, Carabinieri students school, Cirielli law, Constitutional Court, Explosive Attack, Fossano, Hunger Strike, International Solidarity, Italy, Life Imprisonment, Milan, Operation Scripta Manent, Repression, Rome, San Paolo hospital, Social War, Trial

Chile: In the face of the removal of the Noticias de la guerra social website

Posted on 2023/04/15 by darknights

In 2014, we started this counter-information project dedicated to disseminating and documenting the various attacks on the domain, some of them claimed and others anonymous, maintaining a simple format that kept alive only in and with the very pulse of the conflict.

Without worrying too much, we decided to use the most popular service at the time, “wordpress,” since the websites hosted in other “alternative” servers (noblogs, espiv, altervista, lahaine, entodaspartes, etc.) were not considered to be “alternative”. [altervista does not qualify as an “alternative” server, since it is part of the Mondadori group, ed.]) were often removed, either due to repressive attacks or simply due to the termination of their respective projects.

In October-November 2022 https://noticiasdelaguerrasocial.wordpress.com/ was removed from the web, losing that valuable archive and tool for communication and information among antagonists. Far from appealing to “freedom of expression” or complaining about the servers’ own “privacy policies,” we merely noted the fragility of Internet-based projects. Fragility that we knew a priori, but we decided to bet on informal communication and the diffusion of living and latent conflict.

Questions remain in the air: what are the characteristics of our media? How solid are they? What is their degree of autonomy? Do we have our own infrastructure of communication and counter-information? How dependent or susceptible are we? We need to draw some collective lessons from the Italian state’s repressive attack on communication tools such as Radioazione, Culmine or “Vetriolo.” Continue reading “Chile: In the face of the removal of the Noticias de la guerra social website” →

Posted in Social ControlTagged 325, 41 bis, Alfredo Cospito, Anarhija.info, Anna Beniamino, Chile, Counter-Information, Croce Nera Anarchica, Culmine, Digitalization, DNAA (Direzione Nazionale Antimafia e Antiterrorismo), Hunger Strike, Iconoclasta, Internet, KNO3, La Nemesi, Malacoda, Noticias de la guerra social, Operation Adream, Operation Scripta Manent, Operation Shadow, Operation Sibilla, Parole Armate, RadioAzione, Repression, Round Robin, Social War, UK, Vetriolo

Athens, Greece: Taking responsibility for the attack on the central MAT riot cops’ den in Goudi area

Posted on 2023/04/15 - 2023/04/15 by darknights

We take responsibility for the massive arson attack that took place at the central premises of the riot police in Goudi on Tuesday 28 March. Our action comes as a minimal response to the orgy of repression unleashed by the New Democracy government against the mass and militant protests against the state-capitalist crime in Tempe.

The government’s law and order doctrine is the other side of neoliberal policies, class inequality, poverty and privatisation. In the run-up to the election period, attacking the law and order doctrine, attacking the forces of repression, causing unrest targeting, among others, the pigs of the police, is a priority in order to defeat in practice this political doctrine that has left dead and wounded in its wake.

The incendiary attack on the central riot police headquarters was a signal of solidarity with those who took to the streets and clashed with the uniformed watchdogs of the State. To those who lost their own people to State-capitalist crime. To those who are thinking of taking the step to move from abstract condemnation, denunciation, peaceful protest, to a political strategy of which revolutionary violence is an integral part.

Against the organised violence and terrorism of the State, with their guns pointing at us and sometimes going off – always by accident – with their truncheons breaking our bones, with their tear gas suffocating us. Organized revolutionary violence that seeks small and large cracks to make itself felt, to fight back, to make fear change sides, is the only solution.

Solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker Alfredo Cospito who is fighting against the regime of isolation and torture 41bis

Solidarity to those who are in the streets of rage in France and who are revolting in the heart of Europe-capitalist castle.

Cell of Destabilization

Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1624777/

Via & Translated by Act for freedom now!

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 41 bis, Alfredo Cospito, Athens, Cell of Destabilization, Cop Attack, France, Goudi, Greece, MAT, Molotov Attack, Molotov Cocktail, Repression, riot police, Tempe, Νέα Δημοκρατία Ν.Δ. (New Democracy)

Chile: May 19: Beginning of trial against Mónica Caballero and Francisco Solar

Posted on 2023/04/06 by darknights

May 19, 2023 is the date set for the beginning of the trial against the anarchist comrades Mónica Caballero and Francisco Solar accused of various attacks on power and the powerful. We call to unleash anarchist solidarity in the face of this new judicial lynching that the comrades will face.

Solidarity with Monica and Francisco!

Source: Publicacion Refractario

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged 54th Police Station, Anarchist Prisoners, Carabineros (COP), Chile, Explosive Attack, Francisco Solar Domínguez, International Solidarity, Monica Caballero Sepulveda, Parcel Bomb, Police Station Attack, Repression, Rodrigo Hinzpeter, Social War, Tánica building, Trial

Greece: Financial support of the four comrades in pre-trial detention

Posted on 2023/04/04 by darknights

The following text is the political view of the Assembly in Solidarity with the four comrades in pre-trial detention Fotis D., Jason R., Lambros V. and Panagiotis V.

On November 14th, 2021 an unmarked police vehicle rammed into the comrades Fotis D. and Jason R. as they were in motion and then they were taken to the General Police Department of Attica. There, the uniformed garbage of the Greek Police proceeded to mandatory fingerprinting and DNA sampling, in order to link them to the attack on the Piraeus traffic police on the same night. In a process that took only half a day, they raided their homes, making sure to plant incriminating evidence, thus building a weak case against them. At the same time, the media indulged in their usual vile role, talking about homes being bomb and explosives manufacturing facilities, in an attempt to normalise the new criminal code in the public mind (which upgrades the possession and use of Molotov cocktails to a felony). It is worth noting, that the code came into force the day before their arrest. For the millionth time, the fabrication of guilty people by the media, has socially reinforced the prosecution’s argument and created the appropriate ground for the pre-trial detention of our two comrades, who have been held captive for 15 months in the Korydallos and Avlona hellholes.

With the trial date not being set and the case file still open, the interrogator had room to implicate more people. Following a prosecution conducted by the interrogator, on Tuesday morning 20/9, state cops accompanied by a prosecutor, stormed into the house of comrades Panagiotis V. and Lambros V. The comrades were arrested and detained in GADA, where for several hours the reasons for their detention were not known and they were not given the right to communicate with their lawyers or their close ones. The next day, they were tried by the Single-Member Plenary Court in Evelpidon for violation of the weapons law and were later released. Continue reading “Greece: Financial support of the four comrades in pre-trial detention” →

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged 187A, Assembly in Solidarity with the four comrades in pre-trial detention, Avlona prison, Dimitris Hatzivassiliadis, DNA Sample, Fotis D., Iasona R, Korydallos prison, Lambros B., Media Scum, Molotov Attack, Panagiotis B., Panos Kalaitzis, Piraeus Traffic Police, Pre-trial detention, Repression, Solidarity Fund, Thanos Chatziangelou, Vangelis Stathopoulos

Venice, Italy: Appeal ruling in the trial of anarchist Juan Sorroche: comrade sentenced to 14 years and 10 months

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


Appeal sentence for Juan (Venice, March 28, 2023)

We report that last March 28 our Juanito, sentenced in first instance to 28 years in prison for an action against the League’s headquarters in Villorba (TV) in 2018, had his sentence reduced to 14 years and 10 months by the Venice appeals court. This is still a very high sentence for an action that-beyond the intentions of the anonymous attackers-did not result in any deaths or injuries.

Full solidarity with Juan!

On this matter, see:

https://ilrovescio.info/2022/07/15/lo-stato-condanna-juan-a-ventotto-anni-di-carcere/
https://ilrovescio.info/2022/07/14/col-sangue-agli-occhi/

To write to Comrade:

Juan Antonio Sorroche Fernandez
C. C. of Terni
Campore road 32
05100 Terni

[Taken from https://ilrovescio.info/2023/03/31/venezia-sentenza-dappello-per-juan/]

[Received by e-mail and posted at https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2023/03/29/sentenza-dappello-del-processo-contro-lanarchico-juan-sorroche-il-compagno-e-stato-condannato-a-14-anni-e-10-mesi/]


Treviso, Italy : Northern League premises attacked by Haris Hatzimihelakis Cell/Black International (1881-2018)

Tired of being silent, tired of seeing systematic violence every day through racism, sexism and waged labor that take place in society, whose essential values are authority and profit. Sick of exploitation we see all political parties as main responsible, as they repress freedom with the state, reformist and repressive apparatus (TV, the mass-media, associations, the army, the civil protection, etc.) The state and capital are the biggest criminals, they even violate their own laws, they steal through taxes, they kill through wars and waged labor, rejections of migrants’ boats in the sea, concentration camps for immigrants in Europe and Africa, they contaminate irreversibly men, animals and the entire planet, all for their profit and power.

Let’s not forget the hypocritical complicity of society made of citizens who pretend not to see the horrors of present and past racism and nationalism. This acceptance is the pillar of totalitarianism and democracy: in the course of time the authority based on indifference, fear, apathy was able to create Gulags and nazi concentration camps, and today the concentration camps in Libya and outside our homes. It’s history that repeats itself. Continue reading “Venice, Italy: Appeal ruling in the trial of anarchist Juan Sorroche: comrade sentenced to 14 years and 10 months” →

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged 'indiscriminate massacre', 280bis, 41 bis, Alfredo Cospito, Anna Beniamino, Appeal Court, AS2 (High Security 2), Cell Haris Hatzimihelakis/Black International, Diamante Investigation, DNA Sample, DNAA (Direzione Nazionale Antimafia e Antiterrorismo), Explosive Attack, Hunger Strike, Insurrectional Anarchism, Italy, Juan Sorroche, Lega di Treviso, Lega Nord, Life Imprisonment, Massimo Passamani, Operation Bialystok, Operation Lince, Operation Panico, Operation Prometeo, Operation Renata, Operation Ritrovo, Operation Scintilla, Operation Scripta Manent, Operation Sibilla, POLGAI police school Brescia, Pre-trial detention, Repression, Revolutionary Anarchism, Trento Probation Court, Treviso, Venice

Italy: Zac was transferred from Secondigliano prison to Terni prison + account coordinates to send contributions in support of comrade

Posted on 2023/04/04 by darknights

Zac was transferred to Terni and is in a cell with Juan.

To write to him:

Marco Marino
C. C. of Terni
Campore road 32
05100 Terni

To send solidarity contributions in support of the comrade:

(CORRECT DATA FOR BANKING are those that follow below and not those previously mentioned).

For those who would like to send solidarity contributions for Zac, anarchist prisoner detained in Terni for the repressive operation on Naples and Pozzuoli on March 28, 2023, we invite you to send money by bank transfer:

IBAN: IT07V360810518299544199741
BIC/SWIFT Code: PPAYITR1XXX
Payee: Luca d’Esposito
Description: ricarica

[Received by e-mail and posted at https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2023/04/04/operazione-repressiva-del-28-marzo-zac-e-stato-trasferito-dal-carcere-di-secondigliano-a-quello-di-terni/]

Posted in Social ControlTagged Cop Raid, Italy, Juan Sorroche, Marco Marino 'Zac', Naples, Pozzuoli, Prison Transfer, Repression, Secondigliano prison, Terni prison

Napoli + Pozzuoli, Italy: Raids on houses of comrades in connection to a 270 bis investigation into attacks in solidarity with revolutionary prisoner Dimitris Koufontinas

Posted on 2023/04/01 - 2023/04/01 by darknights

On March 28, two houses, one in Napoli and one in Pozzuoli, were raided and four comrades were taken to the police station, in connection with a 270 bis investigation (anti-terrorist association), which was officialized in May 2022 following several house-searches.

Although the investigation is still ongoing, one comrade was placed under preventive arrest, accused of an arson attack against the Greek consulate in 2021. The prosecution contextualizes this attack within the campaign in solidarity with revolutionary Greek prisoner Dimitris Koufontinas, who at the time was on hunger strike.

The comrade has now been taken to the Secondigliano prison and is placed in the AS2 section (high security unit), while the three other comrades were released. According to the case’s files, the timing of the arrest was influenced by the relentless solidarity actions with Alfredo Cospito, an anarchist prisoner currently on hunger strike against the 41 bis regime and life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

This operation is part of a witch hunt that wants to frame anarchists as a public enemy to be eliminated. In the context of the countless actions in solidarity with Alfredo in Italy and abroad, we clearly see this repressive blow as part of the state’s attempt is to stifle every and any spark of rebellion.

When faced with repression, our solidarity will never stop.

Assembly against prisons and repression

To write to Zac:

Marco Marino

c.c. di secondigliano

via Roma verso Scampia 350

80144 Napoli (Na)

Italy

For those who wish to support to Zac, anarchist prisoner locked up in Secondigliano following the repressive operation in Napoli and Pozzuoli on March 28, 2023, contributions can be sent here:

Luca D’Esposito

IBAN IT07V3608105138299544199741

BIC PPAYITR1XXX

Posted in Social ControlTagged 'Subversive Association', 270bis, 41 bis, Alfredo Cospito, arson attack, Arson attack on Greek Consulate 2021, AS2 (High Security 2), Cop Raid, Dimitris Koufontinas, Greece, Hunger Strike, Italy, Life Imprisonment, Marco Marino 'Zac', Naples, Pozzuoli, Repression, Secondigliano prison

USA: No Cop City Anywhere: Governor Unveils Cop City NJ Plans

Posted on 2023/04/01 by darknights

We begin by quoting the recent press release from the governor’s office:

“The Governor’s budget continues to support initiatives that keep communities safe, including supporting law enforcement personnel and community-led prevention programs. As part of the Governor’s efforts to reduce violent crime in the State, the budget makes significant investments in the Division of Criminal Justice to staff new units and expand existing units with a focus on reducing gun violence, auto thefts, and exploitation, such as human trafficking and labor cases.

The budget also makes significant investments to strengthen the ranks of the New Jersey State Police, allocating $120 million to begin building a new training center for the next generation of New Jersey State Police and proposing an additional $5 million for the 166th State Trooper recruit class.

In an effort to ensure that the State’s first responders and law enforcement professionals receive the training and equipment necessary to protect and serve the State’s nine million residents, the Governor has proposed doubling the successful Firefighters Grant Program, bringing the total to $20 million.

The Governor is also recommending over $8 million in increased State funds for the first-in-the-nation statewide expansion of the Alternative Responses to Reduce Instances of Violence and Escalation – the ARRIVE Together program – which pairs police officers and State Troopers with mental health professionals when responding to a person who is experiencing a mental health crisis.”

It is our firm belief that what is to be done here is obvious.

The U.S. white power establishment wants to build cop city everywhere.

You are encouraged to heed the call and example from the Welaunee Forest: give them hell, everywhere.

Your courage, creativity, and connections will determine just how badly the U.S. empire will regret their choice to double down on policing the planet after 2020.

No Cop City Anywhere!
Fuck The Police!
Burn Down The Amerikan Plantation!

-some anarchists

Originally posted on Jersey Counter-Info

Posted in Social ControlTagged Anarchists, Atlanta Forest, Division of Criminal Justice, New Jersey, New Jersey State Police, Police Military Training Facility, Repression, USA, Welaunee forest, [Alternative Responses to Reduce Instances of Violence and Escalation] ARRIVE Together program, “Cop City”

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