For Gianfranco Sanguinetti (1948-2025)

FromAutonomies

We only recently learned of Gianfranco Sanguinetti’s death, on October 3rd of this year. In a modest gesture of homage to this late member of the Italian Section of the Situationist International, we share below his classic text, On Terrorism and the State, in a translation by Bill Brown.

Italy: Updates about the anarchist Salvatore Vespertino “Ghespe”

From Dark Nights

After months of managing to have a linear correspondence with the anarchist comrade Salvatore Vespertino, presently locked up in the prison of Spoleto and with application of censorship of mail, we have noticed progressive delays in correspondence getting in and out.

Arrests and Search Operations in Relation to the 2023 Attack on the Pisa Courthouse

From Abolition Media - Italy

On the morning of 11 September, a police operation coordinated by the DDAA [District Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Directorate] in the main city of Tuscany and conducted by the DIGOS [General Investigations and Special Operations Division] in Pisa and Florence took place in the municipalities of Carrara, Montignoso, Pisa and Sarzana.

Ciao Mario

From Umanità Nova

Today we say goodbye to a free man. A "rebel," as he liked to call himself.

And Mario Candotto's life was a work of art and a hymn to rebellion and freedom. Anti-fascism, the Resistance, and deportation. Then came the dream of building socialism in Yugoslavia. A dream that almost immediately revealed itself to him as a scam or a nightmare. He then returned to Ronchi and the construction site, becoming more and more drawn to the anarchist group.

Claim for the burning of 17 cars at the Tesla dealership, Rome, 3/31/25

From Act for Freedom Now! - Rome, Italy

Few people in the world today incarnate absolute Evil equal to that of the infamous technocrat billionaire Elon Musk. It would be simplistic though to see him as a classic cartoon “baddie”, a character which none the less suits him perfectly, without realising that this contemptible individual is only the product of an economic and social system marching towards its very self-destruction and that his expansionist ambitions symbolically sum up those of the system itself.

Goffredo Fofi has died

From Rivista Malamente

The infosphere of what remains of the left in Italy is exploding with obituaries, crocodiles, and memories.

We too are doing our part, but please don't lump us into the rubble of the "left that once was," a stale position that doesn't belong to us. We salute Maestro Fofi as the editorial team of a small, provincial, anti-capitalist and anarchist social critique project, which Goffredo held in high esteem.

From equals to equals. Against identitarian authoritarianism

From La Nemesi

We are some anarchist comrades who took part in the “Sabotiamo la guerra” assembly. With this writing, we want to speak out on a troubling episode that occurred at our assembly, (not the only one of this kind, but the most serious) but above all on a forma mentis and an ideology that now make such episodes systematic. If we present ourselves in such a circumscribed manner, it is because “Sabotiamo la guerra” is precisely an assembly made from time to time by those who participate in it, and we cannot speak on behalf of all its many past, present, and future participants. Having said that, let us begin to explain ourselves.

A Tribute to Aurora Failla (1951-2025)

From Centro studi libertari - Archivio G. Pinelli

Yesterday, Sunday 6 April 2025, Aurora Failla left us.

Aurora, born with her twin sister Gemma in Syracuse in 1951, can be said to have been an anarchist from birth. Daughter of Alfonso Failla and Eufemia Pastorello, she was politically active from an early age, first in Carrara, where she lived with her family, and then, starting in the mid-1970s, in Milan, where she joined the editorial staff of "A Rivista anarchica" and the Bandiera Nera group.

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