Letter from Russia
from CrimethInc.
On the Protests of January 23
from CrimethInc.
On the Protests of January 23
Letter from Anarchist Prisoner Beppe on Strike in Pavia, Italy
Prison of Pavia, December 3rd, 2020
Dear comrades,
I am writing to inform you that as of December 2nd, 2020, I have started a strike (the umpteenth after several hunger strikes during this year in this prison!) of the air and the common rooms (the only four hours available to get out of the cells in 20 hours). With this strike I ask for treatment for my illnesses which have been amply documented for about a year by my lawyer Fabio Sommovigo! The reports and complaints submitted by my lawyer have not been enough!
from London ABC
This December London ABC wants to launch a special prisoner letter-writing: virtual, but with the same aim. Send some warmth and complicity, towards a world without cages or barriers.
via Enough 14
Solidarity message by anarchist Abtin Parsa to anarchist Mikola Dedok
The purpose of writing this solidarity statement is to inform the comrades about the anarchist Mikola Dedok status and also to express our solidarity with him. As a former political prisoner and anarchist who has been politically active in Iran, I can understand that anarchist Mikola Dedok is through in what tortures and harassments by totalitarian regime of Belarus.
from attaque via AMW
Anarchist Prisoner Natascia Begins Hunger Strike in Piacenza Prison, Italy
One year, two months and 24 days.
This is the time that has passed since my arrival here, in the Piacenza jail; time filled with emptiness, time wasted trying to tame all of your senses, experimenting with a self-discipline that transforms, like an alchemy, the waste of a life into a formative experience. I have never looked for conflict, even if everyday life here is a constant series of occasions for conflict; when I set my reasons against this system of neutralizing the individual, I tried to do it with “civility,” with forced respect for roles, trying to appropriate them, at least as weapons, these illogical dynamics of which the guards make their banners: rules, rights, duties, protocols. And I’m certainly not saying it to brag about it, on the contrary; nevertheless, in jail, human experience is so distant from any form of good sense, common sense or just plain sense, that we must play, even if we know very well that the dice are rigged.
From Act for Freedom Now!, Italy
These short notes from a brief reading of the papers at my disposal concerning so-called Operation Bialystok were written to enlighten, albeit superficially given my subjective point of view, some of the salient contents of this new anti-anarchist investigation and the consequent repressive developments. The cyclical movements of the social conflict have always been followed by repressive waves, to the point that we often end up stating there is “nothing new under the sun”. However, analysing the changes in paradigm and the instruments being used along with those occurring in society as a whole means we can put them in context, identify their causes and specific goals and develop appropriate strategies of resistance and counter-attack. In fact repression changes and understanding it in its transformations should be of interest to those who are determined “always to do better” in the anarchist struggle against all power.
via Anarchist Black Cross Belarus
Maria Rabkova, an anarchist from Minsk, recently worked at the Human Rights Center “Viasna”. She was detained on September 17, 2020 on charges of organising training or financing riots (Article 293.3 of the Criminal Code). She was declared a political prisoner.
Kept in:
SIZO-1, 2 Volodarskogo St., Minsk, 220030, Belarus
Maria Alexandrovna Rabkova
via The Final Straw
We got word that Sean Swain has had his email, phone and mail blocked, likely in response to his “An Open Letter to Annette Chambers-Smith,” available via DetroitABC, as well as his soon-to-be-published book, “Ohio” (parts 1-3 of the first half available here in zine form, soon via LBC). Pass it on…
Some words from anarchist Natascia from the prison of Piacenza
via: ilrovescio.info
A year and three months have passed since the day of our arrest, on 21st May 2019, and, a little late perhaps, after the thousands of private pages I feel the need to write a few lines publicly about this affair.
via Nantes Indymedia
Letter from Imprisoned Anarchist Comrade Carla
Salut!
After 536 days on the run, I was arrested on July 26th near Saint-Etienne. I experienced the arrest as the first performance of a scene repeated a thousand times in my head, or rather 536 times? Everything seemed to happen in slow motion: the hooded cops pointing their rifles at me, put me down and ask me the name that I’ve so often been called lately. It felt strange to pronounce it.
From AMW English
The following text is a letter from the anarchist Giuseppe Bruna, imprisoned since May 21st, 2019, for the “Prometeo” repressive operation, currently imprisoned in Pavia prison. To write to him: Giuseppe Bruna, C. C. di Pavia, via Vigentina 85, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
From Anarchist Federation (Greece)
To the anarchist movement and everybody in the USA that participates in the struggle, to everybody that is out in the streets fighting racism and authority.
From AMW English
From the High Security Prison to the streets on fire: A subversive greeting from Juan Aliste Vega
From AMW English
Letter / translation received along with the photo on 01/21/2020: