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CHILE: MITTING ONE YEAR AFTER THE ARREST OF MÓNICA AND FRANCISCO.
Mitting, one year after the arrest of Monica and Francisco. Friday, July 23 – 18.00 hrs. University of Chile Theater Freedom to the anarchist prisoners NOW!
CHILE: UPDATE ON THE SITUATION OF MÓNICA CABALLERO AND FRANCISCO SOLAR.
The anarchists, who were raided, arrested, formalized and imprisoned on July 24, 2020 and who have been in preventive detention for almost a year, had a hearing of reformalization of charges last Wednesday, July 14 by the hand of the prosecutor Claudio Orellana. During the virtual hearing, the prosecutor’s office maintained the charges of crimes under the arms control law, the penal code and military justice. The measure responds to a more specific clarification of the accusation in order to
ABOUT THE REACTIONARY DRIFT OF SOME “COMRADES”
We write this text to warn against the umpteenth worrying reactionary drift of some well-known characters who still find accessibility within the anarchist scene, in Italy (less and less) and abroad, despite the fact that in recent years they have accumulated a series of alliances and embarrassing speeches, tending to the most extreme populism and increasingly close to the right-wing world. We are talking about the organizers of the Three Days against Technoscience, also involved in the website Resistance to
THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF CARLO GIULIANI
On July 20, 2001, 23-year-old anarchist Carlo Giuliani was shot dead by police during protests against the G8 summit. To his credit, he succeeded in attacking the police van with a fire extinguisher. At the time, the global movement was facing off against capitalism. 1999’s Battle for Seattle had inspired the forces opposed to global capitalism’s human exploitation and devastating effects on the environment the world over. Further remarkable actions against George Bush’s election and inauguration, at the World Bank/IMF
CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL WEEK OF SOLIDARITY WITH ANARCHIST PRISONERS 2021 // 23 – 30 AUGUST
There is a fundamental lie in the capitalist society. A promise that never comes true. The promise of freedom – you just have to work hard. Every time we stumble upon the crisis of capitalism we are reminded about that. More than one year of Covid-19 lies behind us. Some say, that Covid-19 is a health crisis. But it is not! Covid-19 is another crisis caused by capitalism. Provoked by the urge of more wealth and growth. Which contaminate fertile
USA: ERIC GIVEN ANOTHER 6 MONTH GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE RESTRICTION.
Not the post we wanted to be making, but on July 7th after his communication restrictions expired SIS (special investigation services) from FCI Englewood gave him word that they were renewing the expired restrictions. For another 6 months, Eric will be unable to communicate with anyone who is not family. This will bring him to a total of a year and a half being held incommunicado from the public when this restriction ends. Like the last two blocks this one
ITALY: ANARCHIST ANNA BENIAMINO TRANSFERRED FROM THE PRISON OF MESSINA TO THAT OF REBIBBIA IN ROME
Anarchist Anna Beniamino transferred from the prison of Messina to that of Rebibbia in Rome (Italy, July 17, 2021) Anna has been transferred to the Rebibbia prison in Rome [the comrade was sentenced to 16 years and 6 months of imprisonment in the trial Scripta Manent]. Her new address is: Anna Beniamino C. C. di Roma Rebibbia femminile via Bartolo Longo 92 00156 Roma Italia SOURCE: ACT FOR FREEDOM NOW!
CZECH REPUBLIC: FINALLY THE PHOENIX IS DEAD
After more than two years, the verdict for the four anarchists and one environmentalist is acquittal, only one of them was recognized guilty for small offenses, and the court dropped from his punishment. The main charges concerned the support and promotion of the Network of Revolutionary cells (SRB), insurrectional anarchism, as well as blackmail and harm of others property. SRB focused several years on sabotage of the property of police and capitalists. So far, no one was convicted and condemned
ITALY: UPDATE ON ALFREDO’S SITUATION IN TERNI PRISON
At the end of June we heard the news that Alfredo had been transferred to Terni prison, where there is a section for imprisoned revolutionaries. To date, however, Alfredo is still being held in the “transit” section, despite the fact that the period of isolation imposed by the Coronavirus emergency regulations has been over for several days. We do not know why Alfredo is still in isolation, we do not know and are not interested in the plans of the
ITALIA: NATASCIA TRANSFERRED TO REBIBBIA
In her 24th day of hunger strike Natascia has finally been transferred. At the moment she is in Rebibbia, because in the prison of Vigevano (the closest one to Turin and Genoa that has an AS section) it seems that at the moment there is no place. To write to her: NATASCIA SAVIO c/o C.C. of Rome Rebibbia via Bartolo Longo 72 00156 Rome Italy SOURCE: IL ROVESCIO TRANSLATION: ANARQUÍA
NANCY/BESANÇON, FRANCE: SOME INFORMATION ON THE SITUATION OF BORIS
On April 10, 2020, during the first imprisonment, the anarchist comrade Boris set fire to two cell phone antennas of the four telecommunications operators of the Jura region, which also house the communications of the police and the gendarmerie. As he himself has explained from the prison where he has been incarcerated for ten months: «The time has come for the acceleration of flows and data, for the connectivity of everyday objects to control, listen, track and spy more and
AGAINST THE TIDE – GUSTAVO RODRÍGUEZ
-The dilemmas of the contemporary «anarchist movement» versus the instituting character of the «social movements.»1. «Vulgarly it is held that the «great mass» could not remain without religion; the communists extend that claim.» Max Stirner, My Enjoyment of Myself, in The Only One and His Property. «To see what we have in front of our noses requires a constant struggle.» George Orwell, In front of your nose. Contrary to what all the verbal diarrhea of post-modern neo-Leninism claims about
GREECE: TEXT BY NIKOS MAZIOTIS, MEMBER OF REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE, ON THE DENIAL OF EXIT PERMIT.
I am already serving 8.5 years in prison for the activities of the organization Lucha Revolucionaria. I have been sentenced for all the attacks of the organization to 137 years in total, of which the new CP stipulates that in 20 years are suspended. According to the «penitentiary» code, even with the latest modifications made by the government last November, when it increased the limits for granting leave to convicts with 10 years or more of sentence – from 1/5
GREECE: CONCLUSIONS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE TRIALS FOR THE ATTACK ON THE ECB (ECB BRANCH) AND IMF – POLA ROUPA
On 14/4/2021 the curtain fell on the four courts that judged the attack of Revolutionary Struggle against the CBE, the ECB branch in Greece and the IMF, action that took place on 10/4/2014. The decision to sentence me to 6 years for »simple complicity» in the attack and 3 months for »stealing the car» used in the action, shows the huge discrepancy with the first judicial sentence imposed on me, which was life imprisonment and 26 years of imprisonment. A
THE PRECURSORS OF ANARCHISM – EMILE ARMAND
ANTIQUITY Certainly, it is not easy to know exactly, and what documents could tell us? – when the governmental or state authority began. No few explanations have been given as to the foundation and establishment of authority. Are we to believe that groups of men, as they became more and more numerous, were compelled to entrust the administration of their affairs and the settlement of their disputes to the more intelligent or the more feared: the sorcerers or the priests?
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA: 4 YEARS AFTER THE DEATH OF ANARCHIST COMRADE SANTIAGO MALDONADO
Four years after the murder of Santiago Maldonado we continue to vindicate our comrade. Because anarchic memory is action, we call to remember Lechu, emphasizing the ideals and perspectives of our comrade. We do not forget that Santiago was killed by the repressive agents of the State at a barricade in the Puelmapu, nor do we forget the usurpation that reformist sectors and supporters of this society made of his death, using his look and his body for their political
GERMANY: 20 YEARS OF GENOA, DISCUSSION DAYS AND EVENTS, SUMMER OF RESISTANCE – AUTUMN OF REPRESSION
July 20th of this year marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Carlo Guiliani. Between the 18th and 22nd of July 2001, the 27th Summit of the world’s most powerful took place in Genoa, Italy. After the anti-globalization movement gained momentum with the first major protests in Seattle in 1999 and the protests in Gothenburg in the early summer of 2001, resulting in many more militant large-scale demonstrations with international participation, hundreds of thousands of people from all over
ATHENS, GREECE: FINAL SENTENCE AT THE TRIAL AGAINST ATHANASOPOULOU, MICHAILIDIS AND VALAVANI.
Final news of the terror court trial on 29th of June, and sentence against our 3 anarchist comrades Kostantina Ahanasopoulou, Giannis Michailidis and Dimitra Valavani Giannis Michailidis 26 years ( 20 ‘merged’) Kostantina Athanasopoulou 2 and a half years Dimitra Valavani 2 and a half years Dimitra Valavani is free! from 30th of July 2021 she walked out to the streets as she had already been in prison from January 31.01.2020 Konstantina Athanasopoulou had been on the run since she
ITALY: OPERATION PROMETEO – ONGOING TRIAL UPDATES (MAY-JULY 2021)
On May 10, the trial of the «Prometeo» operation began, in which a comrade, Natascia, and two comrades, Beppe and Robert, are accused of sending explosive envelopes to the former director of the DAP [Department of Penitentiary Administration], Santi Consolo, and to two Turin prosecutors, Roberto Sparagna and Antonio Rinaudo. The trial is being held before the Court of Appeal of Genoa, as the indictment (art. 280, paragraph 1 and paragraph 3) provides for a sentence starting from 20 years
GREECE: SOLIDARITY FUND FOR THE IMPRISONED ANARCHIST COMRADE GIANNIS DIMITRAKIS.
Since 24/05, our friend and comrade, anarchist political prisoner Giannis Dimitrakis is being hospitalized at Lamia with heavy injuries from the murderous attack against him at Domokos prison. At the very moment, it appears that Giannis has overcomed the danger of the first hours. The injuries that he sustained however, have caused multiple hematomas in the head that influence basic functions of his brain. On the murderous attack against anarchist comrade Giannis Dimitrakis Since 24/05, our friend and comrade, anarchist
UNITED KINGDOM: SHOOTING TOWERS WON’T BE USED AGAIN
«on 12th June we headed to Stutton shooting estate in Suffolk we picked this date because it coincides with the birthday of our comrade Annna Campbell, who was killed by the fascist Turkish state while fighting for liberation in Rojava though once a glamorous shooting estate, it’s now seen better days many of the woods were thick with undergrowth, while release pens already lay dismantled that’s good. our job was done for us. but we found two shooting high seats
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