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Ireland Solidarity with Italian Anarchist on Hunger Strike: Alfredo Cospito
From Derry Anarchists blogspot<https://derryanarchists.blogspot.com/2023/03/ireland-solidarity-with-italian.html>, March 24th
This week has witnessed a number of actions across the country with Italian anarchist, Alfredo Cospito, who has been on hunger strike for the last 155 days.
In Dublin as in Belfast activists gathered outside the Italian Embassy and Consulate in both cities to express their solidarity with Alfredo and his demands for an immediate end to the Italian Government prison regime of forced isolation policy known as 41-Bis. In each location activists gathered to highlight the demands to end this torture treatment of political prisoners as part of an international action. A banner hung outside the Italian consulate in the university area of Belfast, called of an end to the 41-Bis regime as anarchists held a vigil.
In Derry, activists gathered at the cities iconic Free Derry Wall in the Bogside with a banner echoing to call to end the state torture of political prisoners. Meanwhile in a Milan hospital, under tight security, anarchist hunger striker, Alfredo Cospito life hangs in the balance. In the past few days he has suffered a heart attack as his hunger for justice takes its toll on his body. Despite this he remains confident in his demands for an immediate end to the 41-Bis policy introduced by the ruthless prison system within Italy.
As actions continue in the streets across Italy against his imprisonment, his family and comrades are grateful for the international solidarity already received since Alfredo embarked on his hunger strike over 155 days ago.
A spokesperson for the revolutionary union, Industrial Workers of the World, whose members also include incarcerated workers said that: “The Industrial Workers of the World extends its love and solidarity to Alfredo Cospito, anarchist political prisoner in Italy, who is currently on hunger strike for 154 days, in a stand against the isolation of 41 bis!
“As part of an international call for solidarity we echo the demands of Alfredo in demanding an immediate end to the Italian State’s policy of isolation an torture through the 41 Bis regime. Alfredo’s demands that this policy must end immediately as he continues his hunger strike!”
End 41 bis!
End State torture of isolation!
Ireland: Solidarity Graffiti with Alfredo Cospito
Graffiti slogan:
“Ireland Solidarity Alfredo Cospito
FIRE TO THE PRISONS” at
Cherywood bypass, N11 road, Co.Dublin
Alfredo Cospito, along with Nicola Gia, were incarcerated in 2012 for kneecapping Roberto Adinolfi, managing director of Ansaldo Nucleare. Their action was carried out against the nuclear power company in direct retaliation for the nuclear disaster in Fukushima – in which the deadly ecocidal effects are felt to this very day, poisoning the ocean and local wildlife. Alfredo and Nicola were sentenced to ten years and eight months. From the outset the cowardly left condemned Alfredo and Nicola’s action against the dangers of nuclear power.
During their trial Alfredo released a statement which included:
“I am an anti-organisation anarchist because I oppose all forms of authority and organizational constraints. I am nihilist because I live my anarchy today and not in waiting for a revolution, which -if it ever came about – would only produce more authority, technology, civilization.”
During his sentence Alfredo was given additional charges as part of a larger trial involving many anarchists known as the Scripta Manent Trial. Many of the charged were convicted and given harsh sentences, Alfredo was given an extra twenty years for bombing a police training college in 2006 with his partner Anna Beniamino who was sentenced to sixteen and half years. The Italian Supreme Court of Cassation changed Alfredo’s conviction to “Political Massacre” and gave him life in prison without parole plunging him into the concrete depths of the 41 bis prison regime. This regime was first created to be used against mob bosses to stop them communicating on the outside to diminish their power. It wasn’t long till the Italian state used this regime against “subversives”. The barbaric regime includes: solitary confinement for twenty two hours a day, a one hour visit once a month, heavily restricted communication to the outside world, no reading materials allowed sent in.
Since Alfredo’s first sentence he had constantly communicated and took part in the anarchist movement debates via publishing writings and interviews. So the Italian state has gagged Alfredo and totally isolated him by burying him alive in a concrete tomb of 41 bis.The Italian state has labeled Alfredo as the leader of the Informal Anarchist Network – which is a leaderless, informal movement, with no organizational structure. It is a battle name of action, if they choose, to use as a signature for attacking and a means to collaborate with other anarchists of shared affinity for action across the globe without ever having to meet each other communicating through communiques of direct action claims. Alfredo never shied away or denied his support and involvement in the anti-organisational project of the Informal Anarchist Federation despite being condemned by much of the cowardly leftist elite including many liberal “anarchists”.
Many in the so-called “anti-capitalist movement” condemned Alfredo and his comrades as “terrorists”, “adventurists”, and “vanguardists”. The cowardly leftists couldn’t conceive that the I.A.F don’t act in the name of the oppressed, or in the hopes of inspiring the moribund “working classes” to rise up against the system but act through an individual will and motivation to take action against the murderous mega machine that is capitalist society in the here and now – not waiting for a mass revolution that more than likely will never happen.
From Instagram page:
Éirí Amach : Cells Of Mother Earth
Fonte
Many in the so-called “anti-capitalist movement” condemned Alfredo and his comrades as “terrorists”, “adventurists”, and “vanguardists”. The cowardly leftists couldn’t conceive that the I.A.F don’t act in the name of the oppressed, or in the hopes of inspiring the moribund “working classes” to rise up against the system but act through an individual will and motivation to take action against the murderous mega machine that is capitalist society in the here and now – not waiting for a mass revolution that more than likely will never happen.
From Instagram page:
Éirí Amach : Cells Of Mother Earth
Fonte
https://www.anarchistfederation.net/ireland-solidarity-graffiti-with-alfredo-cospito/
