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Alfredo Cospito Documentary: Fino All’ Ultimo Respiro (Until My Last Breath) with English Subtitles

Posted on 2023/04/01 by darknights

Since 20 October 2022, Alfredo Cospito, a 55-year-old individualist anarchist, imprisoned for years for various actions publicly claimed by himself, has been on hunger strike against the 41-bis detention regime and the life sentence to which he has been subjected for several months now.

His is not only a personal protest, but a political battle against the 41-bis and life imprisonment in general, a battle that he declares he wants to continue with different forms in case these provisions are revoked and which, otherwise, will lead forward to the extreme consequences.

Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino have been charged with participating in and organizing a series of attacks that took place in Italy with rudimentary explosives in the early 2000s, actions that caused minor damage, no deaths or injuries. Their participation in these attacks has never been directly and convincingly proven, nor has it ever been claimed by them.

However, for these facts they were initially sentenced for the crime of “common massacre”, to 15 years in prison, precisely because it was a massacre, but without victims or injured… But the crime was later further reclassified in the Supreme Court as a crime of “massacre against the security of the State”, one of the most serious crimes in the Criminal Code, which provides for the fixed penalty of life imprisonment.

The 41-bis, also known as “hard prison”, a particularly afflictive regime, born to counter the mafias in 1992 and extended in the 2000s to terrorist organizations, is a regime whose constitutionality, and the methods of its application have raised significant doubts for numerous jurists.

Alfredo Cospito is the first and only anarchist to whom such prison measures have been applied in Italy.

The documentary attempts to reconstruct the events which Alfredo Cospito, through the hunger strike, undertook, as an anarchist prisoner, a battle against the Italian State and its disproportionate use of force.

https://streeen.org/film/fino-allultimo-respiro/

https://archive.org/embed/fino-all-ultimo-respiro-until-my-last-breath-eng-subs

Partisan ’22: Russia’s Anti-Putin Underground

Posted on 2023/03/26 - 2023/03/26 by darknights

When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, anti-Putin Russian partisans began to launch sabotage operations against Kremlin infrastructure inside their country.

After almost one year of war, these cells in Russia have grown exponentially. From Moscow to Vladivostok, there have been more than 80 confirmed anti-government attacks in the past 12 months.

‘Das Netz’ the Unabomber, LSD and the Internet

Posted on 2023/03/02 - 2023/03/02 by darknights

After the fall of Fascist Germany, the creation of another totalitarian regime should have been made impossible. The goal was to have a democratic, world society, made up of free, equal and emancipated human beings. Global computer networks, mirrors of reality, which would be accessible to all, would make this dream possible. The euphoria for new, emerging technologies fuelled their hopes. With Cybernetics, System theory and Constructivism being their bibles, they thought of the human brain as an information processing system, which hence could be connected to similar electronic systems.

In personal interviews, this film tells their story, which is also the tale of the birth of the Internet.

It also tells the story of the traitor. The man from within their midst, who decided to turn his back on their utopia; who left the machine and tried to bring it down.

CLODO (…when matches were the “off” button)

Posted on 2022/09/28 by darknights

Fanzine and review of the documentary on CLODO (Committee for the Liquidation or Destruction of Computers)

A documentary delves into the mystery surrounding a group of anonymous activists who carried out a series of arson attacks in Toulouse in the 1980s.

In the 1980s, the French city of Toulouse was home to a number of companies that used computers to further the aims of France’s police and military-industrial complex. These companies, such as Sperry Univac – a major U.S. equipment and electronics company – were among the first to create digital surveillance systems and manufactured products that would make warfare easier for the state by improving the accuracy of missiles.

In addition to housing these private military companies, Toulouse was also home to a milieu of radicals, including Spanish anti-fascists fleeing Franco; Action Directe guerrillas; and a new left forged in the aftershocks of May 1968, when students and workers staged a series of strikes that rejected the authority of the ruling Gaullist party and the orthodox Marxism of the French Communist Party.

It was in this context that an activist group called the Committee for the Liquidation Or Destruction of Computers (CLODO) emerged, which carried out several arson attacks against computers of military technology companies in Toulouse during the 1980s. Not much is known about CLODO. It disappeared completely after committing some six successful and two unsuccessful attacks against technology companies, leaving satirical communiqués as the only proof of its existence.

An introduction to the translation of one of its communiqués suggests that the group may have emerged from a citywide coalition to prevent the construction of the Golfech nuclear plant on the local Garonne River. In 1981, when this movement reached a stalemate, some participants resorted to an intensive campaign of sabotage. CLODO, who claimed to be computer workers, may have taken this sabotage impulse and applied it to computers, which in their view were “the preferred tool of the rulers. They are used to exploit, file, control and repress”. Continue reading “CLODO (…when matches were the “off” button)” →

Chile: 13 years after the fall in combat of comrade Mauricio Morales + ‘Sharpening ideas against prison. Reflections by Mauricio Morales’ (in Spanish)

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

On May 22, 2009 the anarchist comrade Mauricio Morales dies after the accidental detonation of the explosive device he was carrying to the Gendarmerie School. A comrade fled and the police unleashed a repressive hunt against his circle, seeking to put an end to the almost one hundred explosive attacks perpetrated by anti-authoritarian groups.
The recollection and memory of Mauri joins with that of the rest of the anarchists killed in struggle and confrontation with the State, in this way every year May is transformed into new impulses to sharpen the confrontation with power and strengthen the community of negation.

Another May, another 22nd, again the recollections, again the memory in offensive… it is already impossible to imprison his memory in those who knew him or were close to him, his memory has the forms and slogans of those who bring him to the present in each conspiracy, without leaders or representatives, there are no official voices. The insurrectionary memory can simply be everywhere. Continue reading “Chile: 13 years after the fall in combat of comrade Mauricio Morales + ‘Sharpening ideas against prison. Reflections by Mauricio Morales’ (in Spanish)” →

[Estado Chileno/Brasileño] Solidaridad con lxs presxs subversivxs y anarquistas de largas condenas

Posted on 2021/08/10 - 2021/08/10 by darknights

Gesto audiovisual editado de manera conjunta en solidaridad con lxs prisionerxs subversivxs y anarquistas de largas condenas en lucha en las cárceles chilenas por el Ciclo de Cine Anticarcelario (Chile) y Antimidia (Brasil).

Source: Contra Info