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Rome, Italy: Claim of the explosive attack against the carabinieri barracks in the San Giovanni neighbourhood by the Santiago Maldonado Cell / FAI-FRI

Posted on 2022/12/08 by darknights

Five years later, we publish – taken from the website anarhija.info (DN: English translation from Insurrection News) – the claim text of the explosive attack against the Carabinieri barracks in the San Giovanni district of Rome. Consistent with the need for support for the practices of attack and international revolutionary solidarity, we consider it equally important and necessary to find, and therefore disseminate, the documents and claim texts.

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Claim of the explosive attack against the carabinieri barracks in the San Giovanni neighbourhood by the Santiago Maldonado Cell / FAI-FRI (Rome, 7 December 2017)

In times of social peace and compliance there is no better reply than action. A stimulus, a continuity and a jolt to wake up those who sleep.

Acting on one’s own initiative breaks the compliance and inaction and ignites those whose blood boils.

The anarchic praxis of attack must be the basic stimulus of anarchy, otherwise it is a walking dead. Action is necessary to make us alive in the ways we consider opportune, removed from every program, hierarchical and vertical structure. Many revolutionary practices are part of an anarchism in its bowels.

We have decided to take our lives into our own hands by breaking the oppressive peace that surrounds us.

On the night of the 6th to the 7th of December we placed a steel thermos containing 1.6kg of explosives outside the carabinieri barracks in the San Giovanni district in Rome.

Continue reading “Rome, Italy: Claim of the explosive attack against the carabinieri barracks in the San Giovanni neighbourhood by the Santiago Maldonado Cell / FAI-FRI” →

Posted in Direct ActionTagged Alfredo Cospito, Ansaldo Nucleare, Benetton, Carabinieri, Carabinieri Barracks, Cellula “Santiago Maldonado” / FAI–FRI, Communique, European Commission, Explosive Attack, Fortress Europe, Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI), Informal Anarchist Federation - International Revolutionary Front (FAI/IRF), Italy, Libya, Marco Minniti, Olga Cell - FAI/IRF, Repression, Roberto Adinolfi, Romano Prodi, Rome, San Giovanni, Santiago Maldonado, Techno Industrial Military Complex, Technocracy, Technocratic State, Urban Guerrilla

Rome, Italy: Damage to an ATM in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito on hunger strike

Posted on 2022/12/06 by darknights

Rome – damaged a postamat for Alfredo

On November 30, I couldn’t sit on my hands while the next day some shitty judges would decide on my comrade’s life.

Individual Action

Source: La Nemesi

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, ATM, ATM Attack, Hunger Strike, Italy, Rome

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

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Anna Beniamino, Ansaldo Nucleare, Argentina Theater, Detention Centres, Hunger Strike, Intervention, Italy, Ivan Alocco, Juan Sorroche, March 2020 Italian Prison Uprising, Migrants, Roberto Adinolfi, Rome

Italy: Same story, same place, same shack. Discovery of bug in a Rome apartment

Posted on 2022/11/19 by darknights

Probably in the days leading up to the November 12 demonstration in Rome in solidarity with Alfredo and the other comrades imprisoned on hunger strike, someone snuck into the house where we live to plant a bug. Perhaps with a sense of irony, or perhaps with investigative “acumen,” that in the continuing misinterpretation of the “solidarity and complicity” that develops among anarchists will have caused them to anticipate a collective hunger strike, the intruders thought that the most suitable place to house their bug was the back of the kitchen oven. Powered by the cord of the same appliance, it was also equipped with a battery. The incident is aggravated by recurrence, as another bug had already been found in the same place, powered by the same power cord, several months ago. Time passes but control remains.

We will not be intimidated by the attention paid to us by some among those responsible for the detention of revolutionary prisoners.
Our thoughts are fixed on the comrades who even from inside a jail are continuing the struggle.
To them all the esteem, anger and love they deserve.

Marco and Sandro

Source: fuoridallariserva

Posted in Social ControlTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Audio Surveillance, Hunger Strike, Italy, Repression, Rome, Surveillance

Rome, Italy: Claim of sabotage act against rail lines in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito on hunger strike

Posted on 2022/11/15 by darknights

On the night of November 6, we sabotaged high-speed rail and other train lines in several places in the city. Writings against 41 bis were left at the site. The goal of this action was to give visibility to the struggle of Alfredo and the other prisoners on hunger strike.
The action, despite being successful (we verified that there were heavy delays to circulation the following day) was silenced by the media.
We recognize the state and its institutions responsible for Alfredo’s condition and health, and these attempts to invisibilize his struggle will not stop us: we will continue to stand by Alfredo because his struggle is our struggle.

NOT A STEP BACKWARD!
GET ALFREDO OUT OF 41BIS!
CLOSE THE 41BIS!
WITH JUAN, IVAN, ANNA AND ALL ANARCHIST PRISONERS!
LONG LIVE DIRECT ACTION!
LONG LIVE ANARCHY!

Source: La Nemesi

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 'Not one step back', 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Anna Beniamino, Hunger Strike, Italy, Ivan Alocco, Juan Sorroche, Rail Sabotage, Rome

Rome, Italy: Shattered windows and smashed ATMs in solidarity with Alfredo, Anna, Juan and Ivan on hunger strike

Posted on 2022/11/15 by darknights

On the night of November 12, on a street in Rome, we smashed the windows and ATMs of Unicredit, Benetton and Banca Popolare di Milano and threw firecrackers at RAI in solidarity with anarchist comrades on hunger strike. To Alfredo, Anna, Juan and Ivan goes our boundless solidarity.

A conspiratorial salutation to the Mapuche people in struggle.

Against 41 bis, against life imprisonment without parole and against any jail.
For anarchy.

Source: La Nemesi

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Anna Beniamino, ATM, ATM Attack, Banca Popolare di Milano, Benetton, Firecrackers, Hunger Strike, Italy, Ivan Alocco, Juan Sorroche, RAI, Rome, Unicredit, Window Smashing

Rome, Italy: Streets blocked by anarchists for 3 hours in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito, Anna, Juan & Ivan. Clashes with cops outside Regina Coeli prison (12th November)

Posted on 2022/11/13 - 2022/11/13 by darknights

Today (12 November), the main street of the center of Rome was completely blocked for more then 3 hours in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito, Anna, Juan and Ivan. The clashes started in Trastevere, when 400 anarchists tried to go in front of the prison of Regina Coeli. Their Fight Is Our Fight!

DN Note: Update from Radiofragmata twitter account.

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Anna Beniamino, Demo, Italy, Ivan Alocco, Juan Sorroche, Regina Coeli prison, Road blockade, Rome, Trastevere

Rome, Italy: Spontaneous demonstration in the Centocelle district in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito on hunger strike

Posted on 2022/10/28 - 2022/10/28 by darknights

On Sunday, October 23, on the margin of the planned reading against 41 bis in Piazza delle Gardenie, some of the people who attended decided to take part in a small demonstration in the Centocelle district of Rome. Blocking traffic and trams, slogans, sticking posters and writing on walls to shout that Alfredo’s fight is ours too. Strength comrade!

The mobilisation is only just beginning.

Close 41 bis!

In solidarity with Alfredo Cospito on hunger strike.

[Published in italian here: https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2022/10/24/corteo-spontaneo-nel-quartiere-centocelle-in-solidarieta-con-alfredo-cospito-in-sciopero-della-fame-roma-23-ottobre-2022/]

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Demo, Hunger Strike, Isolation, Italy, Rome, Torture

Rome, Italy: Italian Amnesty International headquarters occupied in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito on hunger strike against 41 bis

Posted on 2022/10/28 by darknights

Today 25/10/2022 we occupied the Italian headquarters of Amnesty International in Rome, in solidarity with the anarchist prisoner Alfredo Cospito, who is on hunger strike since six days in the Sassari prison against the 41 bis and the life imprisonment without possibility of parole. The 41 bis is a form of prisoner annihilation, for the first time used against the anarchist movement. Alfredo was transferred to 41 bis, after more than ten years of imprisonment in high security sections, with the declared aim of shutting his mouth and silencing his contribution to the revolutionary debate.
We denounce what happened during the 20 October hearing at the Sassari surveillance court, as an exemplification of the brutality of the 41 bis Cayenne: during the hearing, which the judge imposed behind closed doors and with the comrade connected by videoconference, Alfredo attempted to read an articulate defence brief through which he expounded the reasons for the beginning of his struggle. The judge interrupted the comrade, preventing him from concluding his speech in the only – and perhaps last – opportunity to communicate with the rest of the world since he was transferred to 41 bis, by simply cutting off the audio. His contribution has been sealed like everything else from the black hole of 41 bis. If the lawyers decided to disclose it, they could face penal consequences.
An unprecedented decision that clearly shows how the state is afraid of anarchist ideas and the practices that these ideas inspire. This is unacceptable. We want to read our comrade’s words immediately!
We have nothing to ask of humanitarian associations such as the one against which this morning’s initiative is directed: we know that their alternating current grievances only denounce the misdeeds of some exotic regime, preferably an opponent of western imperialism. We are not asking you to say anything about it… we just wanted to spit in your face your false conscience!

Close the 41 bis! Break the silence!
In solidarity with Alfredo on hunger strike!

Source: La Nemesi

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 41 bis, Alfredo Cospito, Amnesty International, Anarchist Prisoners, Banner Drop, Break the silence!, Hunger Strike, Isolation, Italy, Occupation, Rome, Sassari

Rome, Italy: Report of the initiative at the DNAA, ‘National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Directorate’ (September 30, 2022)

Posted on 2022/10/12 by darknights
On Friday, September 30, the announced mobilization took place near the Direzione Nazionale Antimafia e Antiterrorismo (‘National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Directorate’, DNAA) in Rome. We were in the square, and we will be there again, to shout our opposition to the current repressive turn, which hits the anarchist movement with particular vehemence. A tightening that has become explicit in recent months with the heavy 28-year sentence for Juan Sorroche, accused of the attack on the headquarters of the Lega in Villorba (Treviso, 2018), with the reclassification as “political massacre” of the charge against comrades Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino for the explosive attack against the carabinieri barracks in Fossano (Cuneo, 2006), with the trickle of repressive operations, special surveillance and other police measures, as well as the seizure of anarchist books and papers, and the closure of counter-information websites.

In particular, the DNAA is directly responsible for the transfer of the anarchist Alfredo Cospito to 41 bis prison regime. An almost total isolation regime, designed with the declared aim of annihilating the prisoner in order to induce him to cooperate. An unprecedented decision as far as imprisoned anarchists are concerned, marking a turning point in the war between the State and anarchism, but one that has already been used for years against some prisoners of the organization Brigate Rosse per la costruzione del Partito Comunista Combattente (BR-PCC). The DNAA, more generally, plays a coordinating and strategic role for the counterrevolution in Italy.

Numerous speeches concentrated on denouncing the maximally oppressive nature of 41 bis, on showing the true face of the anti-mafia, revealing how behind the facade of a popular institution dedicated to fighting organised crime is in reality hidden an emergency institution with exceptional powers aimed at repressing the internal enemy, linking Alfredo’s particular condition and the attack against revolutionary anarchism within a broader repressive climate. Some speeches emphasised how this authoritarian turn comes at a time of profound crisis in international and national capitalism, after two years of pandemic and within the war policies that dominate the governments’ agenda. Faced with the difficulties of capital, the state responds with a pre-emptive social war against its historical enemies. The climate of military mobilization, on the other hand, constitutes the best context for the liquidation of those subjectivities that are unwilling to mediate with power.

After about two hours near the DNAA headquarters, we marched through the streets of the city centre chanting chants, and after a brief moment of tension with the police the demonstration continued towards Campo de’ Fiori square. Crossing the market with slogans and leaflets, another short round of speeches communicated the reasons for our anger to those in the square. The demonstration then came to an end.

Instead, our mobilization is only just beginning. Continue reading “Rome, Italy: Report of the initiative at the DNAA, ‘National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Directorate’ (September 30, 2022)” →

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 41 bis, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Demo, DNAA (Direzione Nazionale Antimafia e Antiterrorismo), International Solidarity, Italy, Mobilization, Repression, Rome

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