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This is a flyer (in Italian) that was distributed during the demo against the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Bern on January 21st, 2012.
Comrades from Villa Vegan Squat in Milano, Italy, are translating the communiqués of Marco, Silvia and Billy about the strike, so they will be available soon.
The three green anarchists imprisoned in Swiss prisons decided to join the week of mobilization against the World Economic Forum, which will be held in Switzerland during these days. Marco and Silvia are conducting a hunger strike for 10 days (January 20th–30th, 2012). Billy is abstaining from prison food and refusing to work (working is compulsory in Swiss prisons), in order to protest against the WEF, but also as a response to their prison conditions, more precisely for the liberation of Marco Camenisch in May 2012 and against the glass separator during the visits of friends.
Marco Camenisch was incarcerated in Switzerland in 1991. He’s always been active in green anarchist struggles. Silvia and Billy were arrested, along with Costa, in April 2010 in Zurich for having attempted to attack with explosives the newly built nanotechnology research center of IBM.
We’re not surprised by the fact that this year in the schedule of WEF they will also deal with nanotechnologies, because, as with all the technological systems and even more the new technologies (nanotechnologies, biotechnologies and cybernetics), they are not neutral but subjected to the ones who manage economics, and a further tool in the hands of those who hold power.
While the government leaders and corporations’ bosses meet with each other to impose the new world economic developments, inside the labs experts and researchers study to create new means with which to increase social control, strengthen the soldiers, try to make our lives even more artificial and automatized, till the point of manipulating the living; manipulations that provoke devastating and irreversible effects in the earth equilibriums and on human and non human animals.
We will always fight against those who are turning the earth into a land of plastic and concrete, commodities and technologies, industries and offices: a world devoid of life.
Against the State and Capital which, with their dominating and exploitative logics want human beings to be slaves, the animals to be merchandise and the planet to be an infinite source of things to sack.
The WEF occasion cannot but increase our rage and desire to keep on struggling, inside and outside prisons.
Solidarity with the prisoners on hunger strike!
SOLIDARITY TO MARCO, SILVIA, BILLY AND COSTA
Responsibility claim for arson attacks on car dealerships and the Ministry of Culture
 ‘Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached’
—Franz Kafka
The seemingly invisible
We are going through a period of ‘deep’ economic crisis; another artificial crisis, according to a known and much worn plan. The durability of the capitalist system is tested and, unfortunately, at the same time steeled through similar ‘crises’ for quite many years now. An experiment organized by few, usually with weak-willed and tame citizens as their guinea pigs; people that passionately (and sometimes without any passion) support and praise their right to choose for themselves who will impoverish and deceive them over the next four years. But this ‘beautiful’ flow of capitalism is essentially destroyed day by day, since society is starting to realize that capitalism does not deserve correction, but destruction. The once distant, yet tangible dream of the ‘ideal life’, namely the wasteful and constant consumption, has begun to crumble for a large part of society. In effect, those who once may have kept their mouth shut, for the sake of a dream, are now gradually contaminated with the beneficial virus of reaction. Hence, people become radicalized, as history has shown, in times of systemic crisis.
The existent
But the fairytale somewhere here has an ending, and we return to the most savage and brutal reality. We face a septicemic capitalism, where the systemic crisis is ever deepening, fascist remnants begin to establish themselves in the authoritarian structures and the disorderly bankruptcy of the country seems nearby. The system’s permanent features are the continuing economic impoverishment of society and the repeated attacks on all that resists. However, despite the continued degradation of the ‘quality’ of life, a vast part of society is still unable to trace the enemy and the dividing line between the two camps. We do not know whether there will be a coup d’état, whether military anthems will be heard, whether army tanks will roll into the centre of Athens or if fighters will be sent to the firing squad. But we know, all too well, that the State will endeavor to get rid of anything resisting it all too quickly. Hence, faced with the threat of mass and violent clashes, the State takes off the mask of the erstwhile mighty capitalism and shows its real, ruthless face. The condition of financial ‘collapse’ is not a process for the self-destruction of the economic system but rather for its readjustment, under specific terms of survival, which are imposed on the largest part of society.
When the invisible becomes visible
How will the State infuse fear in the radicalized parts of society, if not by sending the murderers of the MAT police squads to stifle demonstrators with chemical weapons and beat people to death during the protest marches? How will the State gag the free flow of ideas and hinder the youths’ fermentation in the transition of concerns into action, if not by turning the neighbourhood of Exarchia into a militarized zone? How to make the social wrath die down, if not by upgrading terrorism laws? How to send those back home who are ready to lift up their heads, if not by inflicting a ‘blow’ to the anarchist fighters, subjecting them either to annihilating criminal sentences out of vindictiveness, or to unjust pretrial detentions? Amidst all these, as an ever-growing number of imprisoned anarchists can be observed, we can now say with certainty that all who stubbornly refuse to choose their place in this war are at least inconsistent with their place in history, but also with their own life. More »
 The Gondolkodó Autonóm Antikvárium (Gondolkodó Autonomous Bookshop) is the only workers’ movementary distribution place, library and meeting-place in the East Central European region (namely in Hungary) which has been functioning continuously for many years (now for 19 years). Now this place must be renovated because the walls are wet and mouldy, the mortar has been falling, the sets of shelves are rickety, the drainpipe is often clogged up, etc. The condition of the library has been worsening gradually and also the distribution of publications is harder under these circumstances.
Since we cannot pay for all the costs of the general renovation we ask for your financial help so that we could do the renovation during the winter. Please support this aim according to your possibilities (if you can send 10 Euros then do it, but if you have more money you can send bigger amount).
Comrades, activists and sympathizers, please spread our solidarity appeal and support us! Thanks for your help in the name of internationalist proletarian solidarity!
The money should be sent to this bank account: Baki László, HU23 1040 3301 8675 5557 8750 1003, Swift code OKHBHUHB, Swift code OKHBHUHB.
Greetings,
Gondolkodó Autonóm Antikvárium
www.gondolkodo.cjb.net, gondolkodo@citromail.hu
 On Saturday, January 21st, we placed an incendiary device at a pawn shop (loan shark) in Ragavi street in the area of Gyzi. It was a symbolic response to the expansion of the modern mavragorites (black marketeers) in the neighbourhoods of Athens, who are taking advantage of the current generalized poverty, and attempt to plunder our fellow people that strive to survive.
The emergence of black marketeers resulted from the same attack which imposes people’s impoverishment; it is another aspect of the onslaught of State and Capital under an even more intensified sucking-the-blood out of social wealth.
Let’s weigh social solidarity and the social and class violence against all gangs of loan sharks, to stand up against the fierce operation aiming at the wretchedness of our lives.
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On Saturday, January 21st, 2012, a demonstration was held against unemployment, job precariousness and the new austerity measures that the Portuguese government and the IMF/ECB/EU Troika are promoting. This was also a protest march against the repression during the general strike of November 24th, 2011.
During the demo, an organized group of nationalists tried to march together with the rest of the protesters. Spontaneously, people blocked the street, chanting antifascist slogans such as ‘Fascism never again’ and ‘O, Nazi, get outta here!’
When people moved closer, almost surrounding the group of neo-Nazis, some of these scumbags fired smoke canisters and attacked demonstrators along with the cops. People kept pushing them out of the demonstration. Soon after, a police barrier was formed protecting the neo-Nazis, while one protester under the warmest applause burned a flag expropriated from the block of the ‘national opposition movement’ (MON).
In a video from the regimes’ Press (here) one can see the coordinated attack of cops and fascists. It’s good to remember that on March 12th, 2011, the neo-Nazis of the ‘national renewal party’ (NRP) had no problems attending the huge manifestation of the ‘Geração à Rasca/Precarious Generation’ —which emerged through facebook. Back then, the corporate media, too, served and added value to those fascists who were spreading their propaganda of vomiting hate.
This time the people responded through direct action and blocked the neo-fascists, who once more relished the protection of the cops.
The war has begun and we will fight back!
Never again fascism! Our lives in our hands!
—compas’ correspondence
These are neo-Nazis’ photos/ Crash those fuckers now!
 On Monday, January 23rd, at 13.00 a counter-information gathering will take place in the courtyard of the Law School regarding the case of the comrade. Her application for release from prison, in order to receive the appropriate medical care, is still pending; the ruling is expected in upcoming days.
Ideas cannot be suppressed or incarcerated, and the struggle against the State and the power of Capital, the desire and the struggle for freedom will never cease. The anarchist fighters will never be left alone.
Immediate release of Stella Antoniou! Solidarity is people’s weapon!
Banners from PA’s gathering on Saturday, January 21st, in Athens
 “The social revolution is the only response to the crisis
Solidarity with those prosecuted for the Revolutionary Struggle case”
 “Solidarity with the members of Revolutionary Struggle
Solidarity with those prosecuted for the same case
Freedom to K.Katsenos who is prosecuted for the same case”
Dear comrades,
We would like to inform you that on February 8th, 2012, there will be a renewed trial against four members of the Serbian Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative (ASI), as well as two unaffiliated Belgrade anarchists, as part of the fabricated legal case of the Belgrade Six (BG6).
The six Belgrade libertarians have been accused of inciting, assisting in and executing an attack on the Greek Embassy in Belgrade at the end of August 2009, in solidarity with a hunger-striking Greek political prisoner at the time (Thodoros Iliopoulos). Soon after the attack on the embassy, BG6 (Tadej Kurepa, Ratibor Trivunac, Ivan Savic, Ivan Vulovic, Nikola Mitrovic and Sanja Dojkic) were arrested and held in custody for the next six months charged with ‘international terrorism’.
Thanks to a mass mobilization of support, both globally and locally, they were released early before their trial date. In June 2010, they were finally fully acquitted at a High Court in Belgrade, which decided that there is no basis for a guilty verdict on any of the charges.
The prosecution filed a complaint, but the Court of Appeals failed to respond until a moment when suitable political reasons emerged. Only days after antimilitarist protests against the NATO summit that took place in Belgrade in June 2011, at which Ratibor Trivunac was arrested, the Court of Appeals granted the prosecution’s complaint and ruled on a renewed case against BG6.
Currently, there are criminal proceedings against seven members of the Belgrade local group of ASI and they are all politically motivated.
The renewal of the case against the BG6 can only be seen as the continuation of state repression against those who stand up to pillage and exploitation. Bearing in mind that Serbia is a peripheral banana-state, ruled by a layer of compradorial bourgeoisie, it has been shown that in this phase of the struggle, the greatest force against the state repressive apparatus is INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY.
Therefore, we are calling all comrades and compañeras, anarcho-syndicalists, revolutionary syndicalists and class struggle anarchists everywhere to join in an international day of solidarity with BG6, organized on February 6th globally in front of the embassies, consulates and cultural institutions of the Republic of Serbia. The protests should carry a clear demand for the ending of all legal proceedings against the Belgrade libertarians and the dropping of fabricated charges.
The freedom of our comrades depends largely on the activities of the international libertarian movement, and we are convinced that international solidarity will once again show its strength.
Freedom now to the BG6 and all prosecuted comrades!
Death to the State and capitalism!
The International Secretariat of ASI
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Polykarpos (Polys) Georgiadis and Vaggelis Chrysochoidis are two comrades imprisoned since August 2008, accused of accomplice in the kidnapping for ransom of the president (at the time) of northern Greece’s industrialist union Giorgos Mylonas in Thessaloniki by Vassilis Palaiokostas, a prison escapee and widely popular bandit, since “he has never hurt anyone’s life” and used banditry only against thieves such as industrialists, banks, etc. The two comrades refuse any participation in the abduction, but state their solidarity and defend their relationship with the fugitive Palaiokostas, who is accused for the same case. In February 2010, Polys and Vaggelis were sentenced in the first degree to 22 years, based on the testimony of a police-cooperating arrestee. Despite all witnesses failed to recognize or describe them properly during the trial, both are currently serving prison time. Their appeal will be examined in Thessaloniki on February 14th, 2012.
 On a journey that hasn’t ended yet – Polys Georgiadis
A few more words on Mylonas’ kidnapping case in view of the upcoming (14-2/2012) Court of Appeals
“Of course I, too, condemn the act through which a man violently and through ruse takes possession of the fruits of someone else’s labor. But it’s precisely because of this that I made war on the rich, thieves of the goods of the poor. I too want to live in a society from which theft is banished. I do not approve of theft. I only used it as the means of revolt most appropriate for combating the most unjust of all thefts: private property.
[...] The struggle will only end when people will put their joys and suffering in common, their labors and their riches… when all will belong to everyone.”
Marius Jacob, anarchist communist, member of the illegalist proletarian group “Night Workers” [Les Travailleurs de la nuit]
When one early-2007 day I received a call from an old friend, asking for my help to hide from the state watchdogs that were after him, I didn’t need to think twice to accept and unconditionally offer to help him. I was fully aware of the risks that came with my decision. For me, my solidarity with Vassilis Palaiokostas was not stemming from the apotheosis of an illegal fetishism, but fulfilled concrete elements of my anti-authoritarian world-view. More »
 Against the wall of silence surrounding the trial and the political discourse of the accused in the Revolutionary Struggle case and against the criminalization of solidarity as expressed by the prosecutions for the occupation of flash radio station More »
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