A letter from Anarchist Comrade Ivan, from the prison of Villepinte

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I am writing to share a few thoughts and to send some news.

I’d like to begin with something that illustrates the methods of the legal system very well. A few days after my arrest the judge conducting the enquiry, Stéphanie Lahaye, sent two cops of the SDAT [the Anti-terrorism Sub-Direction of the judicial police] (among whom judicial police officer «RIO 1237232»  – like machines, they are called by numbers) to interrogate my daughter and her mother. Obeying her orders, following the procedures of the State justice system they tried to put pressure on a young girl of 12 years. After making her wait in the courtyard of the barracks of the local cop station during her mother’s interrogation, they wanted to question her alone.

Her mother obviously refused to abandon her. An ordinary procedure, banal, a necessary act to establish the truth according to judges and cops. In my opinion, an attempt to spread fear. A warning to my dear ones and to everyone that, in the inquisitorial logic of the Law, persons who are or who put themselves alongside an anarchist accused of direct actions are suspect and must be inconveniencedThis is similar to the logic that was used against me. When the same OPJ, during the GAV hearings [questioning when arrested], asked me – accused me – of giving my support to anarchists imprisoned in France and other countries. Of having written to them and every now and then sent them a little money. Of course, I have often written to many imprisoned compas and have done my best to express my solidarity to them.

Because they are anarchists and also because I am convinced of the justice of and need for the actions that some of them are accused of. I think that solidarity, by any means necessary, with compas hit by repression is fundamental. Avoiding open solidarity with them for fear that repression would spread would be playing into the hands of Justice, accepting its logic. A logic that would make us retreat more and more, to the point of abandoning, or almost abandoning, imprisoned revolutionaries.

Now let’s come to the facts for which I am currently in pre-trial detention. Here is the list of the fire-attacks:

  • 22nd January 2022, a Enedis vehicle (in Paris) and one belonging to SFR (in Montreuil);
  • 20th February, a vehicle of Est Républicain (in Montreuil);
  • 4th March, a car with a diplomatic corps plaque and an Aston Martin (in Paris);
  • 24th April, an Enedis vehicle (in Paris);
  • 11th June, a car with a diplomatic corps plaque (in Paris).

As I said in my first letter, I am also an “assisted witness” in another investigation, started by the Paris PJ. This covers 53 vehicle fires between 2017 and 2021, claimed by anarchists. I don’t  know any more about this part of the case.

In this list there are cars of foreign State institutions (or their high officials), in wealthy districts of Paris. Fires which must give a mitigated image of France to the diplomatic personnel of its international partners. For my part (and I know I am not the only one), I think that all States are directly responsible for the wars, exploitation and repression suffered by billions of people. You could see these fires as a small backlash. While looking forward to something better.

There are also some vehicles of wealthy people and big companies, in the energy sector for example (such as Enedis, subsidiary of EDF). Companies that, under the guise of “energy independence”, are creating the nuclear hazards of today, the possible nuclear disasters of tomorrow. There are companies that numb our brains with their propaganda of capitalist and State values (such as the daily paper l’Est Républicain) or that lock us into the digital spider’s web (such as SFR).

Each of these actions has been explained in a claim and I have nothing to add. As far as I am concerned, I can only support the practice of destructive direct action with all my heart. I support these attacks’ choice of targets, their motivations and the act of openly claiming them as contributions to the anarchist struggle against the State and the capitalist system. The same for the practice of internationalist solidarity with imprisoned anarchists, which these actions have often expressed.

As for the news:

5th October I go before the Juge des Libertés et de la Détention [Judge of Freedom and Detention], who will decide whether to prolong my pretrial detention or to let me out.

The new investigating judge in charge of my case (the previous one changed assignment) is Anne Grandjean, still at the court of Bobigny.

My mail (incoming and outgoing) is still blocked, since 19 July. Apparently it should be unblocked soon (well, you have to take into account the speed of the judicial bureaucracy). In any case, as soon as I can receive it, I will try to answer each person who wrote to me, whom I thank in advance.

The file on the case has been deposited at the prison registry, so I should be able (still taking into account the slowness of the prison bureaucracy) to find out a bit more about what the cops are saying.

My heartfelt thanks go to my loved ones, the compas of  Anarchist Bure Cross, the Cassa Antirepressione delle Alpi Occidentali (also for their kind availability for financial support). And to all of you who wrote to me!

A wink to those who express their solidarity through actions, like the beautiful banner at Bure and that in Caen, the placards at the arrival of Tour de France, the burning of a Vinci van  in Hay-les-Roses, of a company vehicle of Cosmote telecommunications in Athens, of a relais-antenna in Barcelona or the ransacking of relais antennas in the Gers. Thanks!

A fraternal embrace to fellow anarchists locked up in prisons around the world, particularly Alfredo, struggling against 41-bis.

Long live anarchy!

Ivan

Villepinte, 25th September 2022

To write to me:
Ivan Alocco
n. d’écrou 46355
M.A. de Villepinte
40, avenue Vauban
93420 – Villepinte

France

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A letter from the special cell of Lamia Hospital – Giannis Michailidis (Greece)

The following text, originally found here, was written by greek anarchist Giannis Michailidis two days ago, on July 11th, on the 51st day of his hunger strike. You can read his original hunger strike announcement here, and regularly updated news of his situation here.

Yesterday, the date of the next council that will decide on his release has been set to July 25th.


The scorpion is an insect that differs little from its ancestral species, which were among the first animals to walk on land hundreds of millions of years ago. It has been observed that individuals of this species, when trapped among the flames with no visible escape route, do a remarkable thing: they turn their sting on themselves and commit suicide! A behavior that offers no evolutionary advantage, as on the slim chance that the fire would go out, the surviving animals could continue to reproduce. A behavior that contradicts the theory that insects are biological robots because they exhibit standardized behaviors.

The simplest way I can explain this behaviour is that the evolution of life does not build robots, but instead creates neural systems for information processing and decision making. Recurring patterns of behaviour emerge from the complex operation of self-organised neural circuits, which in most cases do indeed favour maximum reproductive potential. So then, these tiny nervous systems with several orders of magnitude fewer neural synapses than our brains produce a behaviour that betrays evidence of their internal functioning:

  1. These animals experience pain, meaning pain as a stimulus that the animal tries to eliminate.
  2. These animals experience fear, meaning fear as an internal mental projection of a future situation.
  3. They have knowledge that they possess a murderous tool with which they kill their prey and defend themselves from their predators: the stinger.
  4. They associate the feeling of pain with their body as they point the stinger at themselves.
  5. The association of pain with self-consciousness, since pain is an elementary form of mental state, and consciousness is thought upon thought, constitutes a primitive form of consciousness. So pain is in a sense conscious.

Since the anthropocentricity of the majority of our society attributes the above mental attributes exclusively to humans, I will probably be accused of anthropomorphism (you will tell me of all you have been accused of, did that bother you?). However, I do not attribute characteristics to scorpions that are not inferred from their behavior, such as rational thought. It is encouraging that newer neuroscientific research suggests that the architecture of neural circuits associated with the function of consciousness in humans and other mammals is even detectable in insect brains.

How does this relate to the current situation? A few hundred million years after the appearance of scorpions, a being walked the earth that constructed permanent enclosure structures for other living beings, including its own kind: cages and guardians.

Many intelligent animals in captivity stop eating and are driven to death (e.g. of the dolphins that are captured, few survive). Countless people in captivity, (since so long ago that the beginnings have been erased) have gone on hunger strikes in prisons to gain their freedom or dignity. This is the equivalent of self-centering by beings with enough intelligence to try to provide a way out of the impasse. That is why nowadays, the hunger strike is internationally recognized as a historically powerful means of struggle, especially for prisoners.

In Greek circumstances (where even the junta of the colonels backed down on hunger strikes) modern judges and prosecutors are governed by a different perspective. The majority are driven by ultra-conservative views and, having caused untold pain to tens of thousands of prisoners who have been deprived of their long-term freedom, they work for a torture industry entrenched behind obvious lies such as correctionalism. Like slaughterhouse workers, or like fighter pilots bombing the enemy’s cities, they have killed any trace of empathy in themselves and can eat their lunch by convincing themselves that they are doing something useful. That is why they see the hunger strike as a means of challenging their omnipotence and show zero tolerance.

How else to interpret, what judges and prosecutors write, up to the 46th day of my hunger strike, when the prosecutor’s proposal of the court of appeal for my release was issued?

I was preceded by two councils where I was tried for what the judges believe I will do and I was held on remand as a “risk of committing further offences”. In the second even theirs they didn’t ask me a single question, not even about the facts and just issued a predetermined decision after 40 days (30 of which already on hunger strike). Without even a rationale, it took them 40 days to write “in accordance with the prosecutor’s proposal, to avoid unnecessary repetition”. I was treated with defiant indifference.

In the face of this squalor, I started a hunger strike. And in the announcement of its opening, I listed both the arbitrary acts against me and numerous examples where the judges have opened wide the doors when it comes to children of the system (cops – murderers, prison guards – torturers, fascists, big capitalists).

Meanwhile, in the midst of my strike, Alexandros’ killer, one of Zack’s killers who did as much jail time as I do hunger strike time, and rapist Filippidis have been released early on the improbable grounds that the potential victims are not at risk because he is now known for his actions and will avoid him. And I who completed 3/5 of my sentence 7 months ago “have not yet been corrected as not enough time has passed” according to the prosecutorial reasoning! Unrepentant murderers are enjoying what I have been fighting to earn for 50 days risking my life, what I have been entitled to for 7 months, freedom.

Seemingly unrelated, and yet relevant, is the murder of the chimpanzee that escaped from Jean-Jacques Leshwar’s wild animal prison. I wonder if Greek ‘justice’ will deal with a serial killer and torturer of wildlife? Too much money…

Anyway at this moment, my own stinger has already pierced my body and is spreading poison destroying its vital organs, probably irreversibly. However, it will inevitably pierce, even if only temporarily, the murderous order that sustains this system of generalized enslavement and exploitation of nature (human and otherwise)…

THE ONLY DEFEATED STRUGGLE IS THE ONE NEVER GIVEN

FREEDOM OR DEATH

11/7/2022,

Giannis Michailidis

 

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Operation Sibilla: solidarity communiqué from Bure

A new repressive operation, named “Sibilla“, is targeting anarchists in Italy.

At dawn on November 11, there were numerous house searches in different cities (Cagliari, Cosenza, Cremona, Genoa, Lecce, Massa, Perugia, Rome, Taranto, Spoleto and Viterbo) and 6 companions were served with judicial surveillance orders. Alfredo Cospito, already imprisoned in Terni, was given a preventive detention order (sic!). Michele, a companion from Spoleto, has been placed under house arrest with an electronic bracelet. Four other companions are under various forms of judicial control (forbidden to leave the commune of their home, obligation to report to the police station three times a week).

The companions are charged with the crime of association with the purpose of terrorism and subversion of the democratic order (article 270 bis) because of the design, printing and distribution, also by digital and electronic means, of the anarchist newspaper Vetriolo. They are also charged for graffiti considered as outrage and instigation, in addition to a case of damage to property belonging to others. In addition, they are charged for incitement to crimes and offenses (article 414), for the drafting and dissemination of communiqués inciting the commission of crimes against the personality of the State, with the aim of terrorism and subversion of the democratic order.

In addition to this, two counter-information websites are targeted: roundrobin.info and malacoda.noblogs.org, which are considered an aggravating circumstance of the crime of provocation to crimes and offenses (by means of a digital instrument).

From Bure we want to express our solidarity and support for those charged by the Sibilla operation and also to those of the other repressive operations against anarchists in Italy: operations Lince, Scintilla, Renata, Prometeo, Scripta Manent.

These operations remind us of the investigations for criminal association and anti-terrorist investigations that have been affecting the French anarchist milieu for some years. Last June, the trial for criminal association in Bure took place, after several years of judicial control which included, according to the defendants, the prohibition to contact other defendants, to go to the departments around Bure, to leave France, the obligation to report to the police station, etc. In a climate of surveillance and repression, the state’s stated objective was to crush anti-nuclear resistance by targeting the struggle against the radioactive waste burial project at Bure.

In March 2020, an anti-prison week was organized at the ex-train station of Luméville, near Bure, with the aim of creating international links. During the week, there were many discussions about repressive operations, borders, prisons, being on the run and other reflections about the punitive system. These discussions were facilitated by speakers from different countries and accompanied by a translation system to facilitate the exchanges. Writing workshops for prisoners were offered in order to break the isolation.

Also, before the event, prisoners were individually solicited to participate in the week by writing. Among the contributions was that of Alfredo Cospito. The letter was about the strategies of struggle in the anti-nuclear and anti-authoritarian movements. He wrote, among other things, that “when one of us finds himself inside, the best way to resist is to continue the struggles for which you found yourselves ‘chained’ and you are giving me this opportunity”.

In the Sibilla operation, Alfredo Cospito is charged with the crime defined by article 414 for this letter, and also for a text addressed to an anti-prison assembly of June 2019 in Bologna, as well as for the book-interview “What international?”. The state is thus trying to prevent our incarcerated companions from taking part in the struggle by expressing their anarchist convictions and ideas, and is reinforcing, ever more so, prison isolation.

From Bure, we support the importance of international solidarity against the repression of our companions. Against all authority, let us share our thoughts. Let’s do it on an international scale. Let’s share the thoughts of our incarcerated companions. The struggle does not stop at the bars: let us thwart repression.

Solidarity with the newspaper Vetriolo, with the websites RoundRobin and Malacoda that the state has tried to censor, solidarity with Indymedia and the other websites that continue to publish counter-information, despite the house searches and repressive pressure.

Solidarity with the defendants of the Sibilla operation and with those of the Renata, Prometeo, Scintilla, Lince and Scripta Manent operations. Support to those close to them.

For an international solidarity that thwarts repression and strengthens our means of struggle.

Some companions from Bure

 

 

For more information:

https://malacoda.noblogs.org/post/2021/11/14/la-sibilla-prevede-tempesta/

https://malacoda.noblogs.org/post/2021/11/23/comunicato-di-roundrobin-info-sulloperazione-repressiva-sibilla-dell11-novembre-it-en-fr/

https://attaque.noblogs.org/post/2021/11/12/italie-incitations/

 

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Letter from Alfredo Cospito

Contribution on the occasion of the 3rd anti-prison days in Bure from March 2 to 8, 2020

We publish below a text by Alfredo Cospito, sent to us from the high security prison of Ferrara (Italy) As a member of the informal urban guerrilla group FAI-FRI, Alfredo is accused, among other things, of shooting Roberto Adinolfi, the head of the state nuclear agency, in the legs in 2012 – one year after Fukushima. The same year he was arrested with another companion and was sentenced to 20 years in prison in April 2019.

Even if we do not share the political practice of the FAI-FRI and armed struggle is far from the daily reality of our resistance against nuclear storage at Bure, we want to make this text available as a contribution to the debate. It does not matter if we share Alfredo’s views in detail. In any case, the text addresses some important questions concerning the movement’s strategy in our struggle (such as the diversity of tactics) and the revolutionary perspective in the whole anti-nuclear movement and thus seems to be an appropriate basis for discussion. We also consider it essential to give a place to the voices of comrades that the nuclear state and its vassals are trying to silence with all their strength.

Anarchist Bure Cross, March 2020

Contribution to the anti-prison days at Bure.

In the following text, although your initiative is an anti-prison initiative, I will only briefly mention my current situation as an anarchist prisoner. For two reasons, the first one is that I don’t want to miss the opportunity to express myself about the struggle of “bure”, knowing that many of you participate in this struggle and that I feel it as my own as well as all the struggles against the nuclear monster. The other reason is that I want to emphasize the fact that when one of us finds ourselves inside, the best way to resist is to continue the struggles for which you have found yourselves “chained” and you are giving me this opportunity. I don’t know much about the situation of the prisoners’ struggle in France. This means I could be talking nonsense, that’s why I’m joining my contribution to an anti-prisoner meeting that is taking place these same days in Naples, Italy, maybe things are not so different from us, and the same considerations (with the distinction of facts) can also apply to you. I thank you very much for this opportunity that you give me.

It is a great honor for me (an anarchist terrorist currently detained in a cell of an Italian prison) to contribute with a text (although a modest one) to your struggle, which I also feel as mine. Let me start by introducing myself, 8 years ago I shot the CEO of Ansaldo Nucleare, designer and builder of nuclear power plants, in the legs. It is good to know that Italy, even if it does not have nuclear power plants, exports them in all tranquillity to countries like Romania, Croatia, Albania… The objective of this action was to revitalize the anti-nuclear movement in Italy, giving an aggressive acceleration to the fight against the techno-industrial system. With a “resounding” action, we wanted to show that the anarchists could strike in the “living flesh” one of those responsible for the revival of nuclear energy in “our” country. For once, we did not “limit ourselves” to the only destructive action against things, but we took another direction by striking directly at those responsible for the destruction of “our” planet. We claimed this action with the acronym “Nucleo Olga (FAI-FRI)”.

We wanted to make the different perspectives evident in their feasibility and to stimulate a greater openness to the different forms and practices of anarchist ecological action. To reject the taboo that only actions against things could have a justification. To challenge the absurd conviction of the absolute inviolability of human life, even that of those who, in the name of the science of progress, carry out massacres. The objective was only marginally achieved (even if it made many comrades think) because the practice of “multiform” action has not yet been fully understood (at least here in Italy) and even less practiced in all its potentiality, and many prejudices still remain. Many people see from “peaceful” blockades to street confrontations, from attacks on people to attacks on things, from the use of persistent acronyms to give continuity (like FAI-FRI) to temporary acronyms… Few people realize that all these practices have their own reason, their own specific purpose and are not necessarily in conflict with each other. And in certain situations (like at Bure), if they are practiced without prejudice, they complement each other and become really effective, devastating and disorienting for the power. That is, of course, if you don’t cry “excommunion” when certain actions go further, hitting harder. These are all practices that, if pursued in parallel, without contradicting and opposing each other, can make a difference, reach the goal. The absence of one of these practices weakens the strength of all of them. The important thing is that they contain the rejection of all institutional contamination, otherwise it becomes an acceptance of the system, only counterproductive palliatives. A specific struggle on a circumscribed territory like “Bure” can be reinforced not only by actions in the rest of the country but even further. It is enough to think of this kind of “black international” which, without needing a centralizing organization, has proven time and again that it has the strength to support “our” struggles from outside (from the four corners of the world).

I will never tire of saying it, at the risk of becoming repetitive, we anarchists have a powerful weapon of extraordinary effectiveness in its simplicity: the “affinity group”. Comrades bound by deep affection and trust who decide to act, to strike and return home in good health, and then to strike again. The “affinity group” when it becomes an “action group” finds its strongest meaning in illegal, destructive and risky action. These groups do not depend on the plenary assemblies, they are something else, they have nothing to do with the organization, they live of liberating, destructive gestures and can become really dangerous for the system. Especially when they do not include contempt or superiority towards the people, their assemblies of struggle. When individual or small group action is not antagonistic to the “popular” struggle, it strengthens it, it pushes it further. Violent and armed action is only one (important) part of the life of an anarchist, and there is nothing contradictory to find oneself after having acted alongside the “people” in an assembly to have a say, or on a barricade or a roadblock, the only thing to avoid a priori is the dialogue with power, with the institutions. But these observations are useless, because it is precisely from France that very clear examples of the implementation of “informality” and generalized direct action have come in recent years. News of the actions carried out in your part of the world is constantly reaching us (even within these four walls), giving us ideas and feeding our enthusiasm. I conclude this speech by telling you that even in Italy there are scattered deposits of nuclear waste, in the last few years the State has decided to gather them all on one site. In the past, there have been attempts to stop the transport of waste, for example in the Valsusa region, the waste came from you in France. I am convinced that your example will be important for us too. It is clear to all that this is a struggle for the survival not only of our species, but of the very life of “our” planet, as nature is in danger of being “monstrified” day by day. Nuclear science and technology are disrupting the chaotic order of nature from its foundations. We do not have much time if we really want to change things and reverse this self-destructive process. We must not, and above all, we can no longer set limits to the action, we must overcome the fears and abandon the scruples and go for it.

Alfredo Cospito

February 2020

To write to him :

Alfredo Cospito

C. C. di Terni
strada delle Campore 32
05100 Terni
Italia – Italy

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Boris gets out of prison but is not out of danger

We republish here an article published yesterday on Act for freedom now.


[The trial] of 20 September, which would have dealt with the appeal against the 4 year prison sentence, could not take place because of the still critical state of health of our comrade who continues to be in an artifically induced coma.

The judges decided to “release” him without judicial control, and to postpone his trial until further notice.

While we can only rejoice that he is no longer under the control of the prison administration, he is unfortunately not finished with the justice system, since the end of his sentence [of preventive detention] and his appeal are only suspended.

The words and deeds that are multiplying in solidarity with Boris give rise to the desire to live outside of all authority.

Anarchists in solidarity and complicity,
28 September 2021

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Solidarity with Boris

A few days before the beginning of the Rayonnantes camp, we send all our solidarity to Boris, imprisoned in Nacy-Maxéville since september 2020.

Boris was imprisoned in the context of repression against the wave of incendiary attacks on relay antennas, in his particular case those of the Mont Poupet, which Boris claimed. You can read his declaration here.

A few days ago, a fire started in Boris’ cell and he was transfered to Metz hospital. You can find a communique about his situation here.

You can also find more information on the procedure here.

 

Our struggles against this energy-consuming world, that pushes the commercialization and artificialization of the world, from Cigeo to relay antennas, are the same.

Our struggles for freedom and autonomy stand against every prison.

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Nancy: Relay antenna fires, 4 years, 2 in prison for B.

Imprisoned since his indictment on September 24th 2020, for the burning of two relay antennas in the Jura during the first confinement, today B. was sentenced to 4 years, two of which in prison.
He was tried behind closed doors, without a lawyer, the only public a journalist and two members of his family, while about twenty people were present outside the court of Nancy to show their solidarity.

A dozen cops came specially to prevent us from entering the court, and we were given a lecture by the proc on justice, sanitary version. Hearings are public but only a little. Only family members can go in “exceptionally”. He was careful not to mention that this doesn’t concern journalists.

The comrade demanded a postponement in order to better prepare his defence, that the hearing be really public and in the presence of his lawyer, who having been informed too late had been unable to come.

He reaffirmed his act and his reasons. Unfortunately, for the moment we have not been able to have a retransmission of what he said. The proc asked for 3 and a half years, 2 of them in prison. As a reminder, the prosecution had offered him a CRPC (appearance on prior admission of guilt), which he had refused.

He has 10 days to appeal, more information to follow.

As soon as the verdict was pronounced we were able to see B. surrounded by guards who put him straight into a car. We followed him for a few metres, making him hear our rage and our cries of freedom.We are not surprised that the judges chose to refuse the postponement, to judge him without the presence of the public and a lawyer, to go beyond the prosecutor’s requisitions, and send our comrade back to the prison of Nancy-Maxeville for many more months.

They would like to see us bow our heads and say we are sorry, but we haven’t stopped rebelling!
Until the destruction of the last of the cages!

Comrades of B.

 

[Translated by Act for freedom now!]

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Nancy/Metz: Boris in a coma

For more information on the situation of Boris prior to what just happened, see this article. We don’t want to speak on his behalf, so we invite you to read a text he wrote two months ago: Why I burned the two antennas of Mont Poupet. We republish here an article published yesterday on Indymedia Lille.


Our comrade Boris, incarcerated in the Nancy-Maxéville jail since September 2020 for the fire of two antennas in the Jura during confinement, is currently in an artificial coma in the department of burn victims of the hospital in Metz. The fire would have started around 6:30 AM in the cell on saturday, august 7.

The only certainty is that the prison is a system of institutionalized torture, and that the State -from the police to the justice system to the prison-, is directly responsible for this situation.

May the sadness turn into rage against all authority…

Friends, accomplices and comrades of Boris,
August 8, 2021

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Solidarity with Abtin Parsa and anarchists from Iran

Note from Anarchist Bure Cross: in this article, we relay (too late) the call for a week of solidarity (12th-19th of July 2021) with the anarchist Abtin Parsa, published by the Federation of Anarchism Era. We also relay a text from Abtin Parsa published on the 8th of July 2021 about their current situation. Finally, we relay a series of articles from Abtin Parsa in 2018 about torture and prison experiences of anarchists in Iran.

You can find more news from the Federation of Anarchism Era on:

  • Their website asranarshism.com. It does not seem to be accessible through Tor at the time of writing this article – if you’re using Tor, you can use a free web proxy to access it.
  • Their Twitter account @asranarshism, which is currently sharing news of uprisings and riots going on in Iran and facing very hard repression on the streets.

This article is also available in french.


International call for a week of solidarity with the anarchist Abtin Parsa (12th-19th of July 2021)

Initially published on https://asranarshism.com/1400/04/18/international-call-for-a-week-of-solidarity-with-the-anarchist-abtin-parsa-12th-19th-of-july-2021

The anarchist Abtin Parsa is a former political prisoner from Iran with the atheist view imprisoned by the Islamic regime for one year and a half in 2014. Abtin Parsa, 16 years old at that time, was arrested by IRGC [1] for an anti-Islamic and anti-state public speech in his high school, “Shahid Chamran,” in the city of Zarqan. Even after his release from prison, Abtin was continued to be pressured and controlled by the Islamic regime, forcing him to escape to Greece in 2016.

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June 11, 2021: International day of solidarity with Marius Mason & all long-term anarchist prisoners

Below, we republish a call initially published on june11.noblogs.org.


Against another year of state encroachment, against the restriction of free movement under the auspices of “safety,” against the continued brutalization of our friends in prison, we call for a renewal of solidarity on June 11, 2021: International Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason & All Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners. For 17 years, June 11th has been an occasion for celebration, mourning, and revolt. It has been a moment to breathe, to remember those fallen and those in cages, to remind ourselves of why we remain committed to the Beautiful Idea of anarchism. Through our letters, demonstrations, fundraising, and solidarity attacks we keep the beacon lit for those who have given years of their lives for their conviction that the State is a horror against which we must wager our lives.

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