Greek prisons: Anarchist prisoner Kostas Sakkas admitted to hospital on June 17th

Solidarity banner in Agrinio: “Immediate release of anarchist Kostas Sakkas, who is on hunger strike since 4.6.2013”

On the morning of June 17th, Kostas Sakkas was evacuated from the Koridallos prison’s hospital to the general hospital of Nikaia, in Piraeus. The comrade is in critical condition.

Message from a fellow prisoner in struggle, on [...]

Turkey: Brief update on repression

Last night, Sunday the 16th of June 2013, it was calm in the city of İzmir. People gathered in Alsancak, at Gündoğdu Square, but the repression forces didn’t react. This is probably the current police strategy. They attack with huge forces in İstanbul and Ankara, but ‘let the other cities be’ for the time being. [...]

Fault line of Istanbul – Insurrection notes from Taksim

Actually it was NOT totally unpredictable, but we somehow couldn’t see it was coming. What have people of Turkey being doing until this revolt? Students have beaten up the teachers who gave them grades lower than they deserved. People stabbed doctors who neglected their loved ones. They shot sergeants to run away, and [...]

Greece: Solidarity banner for anarchist Kostas Sakkas from inside the prison in Larissa

June 15th, 2013: Prisoners at the second wing of Larissa men’s prison unfolded this banner that reads: “Solidarity to hunger striker Kostas Sakkas!”

Greece: Responsibility claim for arson attack on bank ATMS in downtown Athens

Banner in Kavala (northern Greece): “Solidarity to comrade Kostas Sakkas, hunger striker from 4/6”

Banner at Kamara, in Thessaloniki: “30 months pretrial incarceration – Hunger strike since 4/6 – Freedom for anarchist Kostas Sakkas – Fire to the galleys”

For 30 consecutive months, anarchist Kostas Sakkas remains in custody. The comrade is on [...]

Italy – ‘Operation Boldness’: Alessandro and Giuseppe released from pretrial detention; Paola and Giulia free from house arrest

Cassa di solidarietà Aracnide (solidarity fund against repression) reports that comrades Alessandro Settepani and Giuseppe Lo Turco were released from Ferrara prison on June 12th, and now have an obligation to stay in Montegabbione (Terni) and Catania (Sicily), respectively, as well as the restrictions of signing in at the nearest police station (for Alessandro [...]

Athens: The Social Health Space in PIKPA squat (May 2012)

Click image to read about the ongoing process of self-organization in Health through the project ‘Social Health Space’ of the neighbourhood assembly in Petralona, Thissio and Koukaki.

Greek prisons: Kostas Sakkas’ fight for freedom

[Northern Athens] Freedom for anarchist Kostas Sakkas, hunger striker as of 4/6

[Chania, Crete] Immediate release of Kostas Sakkas, on hunger strike since 4/6 – Nobody hostage in the hands of the State

Over the past few days, numerous acts of solidarity took place throughout Greece in solidarity with imprisoned anarchist [...]

Turkey: This is just the beginning; fight on

This is a revolt

Urban transformation projects have long been threatening living spaces of Istanbul residents. First slum demolitions, and then 63 million square meters of forests to be pillaged for the third bridge, shopping malls built one after another, luxury hotels, and while the pedestrianization project continued, next was Gezi Park. Istanbul [...]

Greece: Text of imprisoned anarchist Panagiotis Argirou

As has been known, in the first days of January 2013, I suffered a serious head injury after an accident. What followed were two successive head surgeries and a three-month stay in various hospitals. Of course, for some time now, I have escaped danger and I’m on the mend, awaiting a final restoration surgery [...]

İstanbul: Cops stormed Taksim on June 11th

Announcement by the Revolutionary Anarchist Action (Devrimci Anarşist Faaliyet, DAF):

Against the State and police terror: Our rage is growing, so does our struggle!

The ongoing occupation of Taksim Square and Gezi Park was attacked by the police this morning (June 11th, 2013). After the meeting of the council of ministers yesterday, the police [...]

Athens: Responsibility claim for explosive attack on vehicle of the Koridallos prisons director, in the district of Dafni, on June 7th, 2013

PHOENIX PROJECT Freedom for anarchists of praxis incarcerated in Italy

i. ‘Return of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire from the ashes’

Only in those moments when our tension for freedom is rejoined with practice do we truly manage to live anarchy, here and now. Unfortunately the dream we carry [...]

Turkey: Fans of three major football teams marched as İstanbul United

Gazi

Beşiktaş

On June 8th, in İstanbul, Çarşı group gathered at approximately 7pm in the district of Beşiktaş and marched to Taksim Square.

They have also hanged this banner from the Atatürk Cultural Centre, in Taksim (Optik, pictured on the banner, is a man that formed Çarşı and gave Beşiktaş sport club’s supporters [...]

Spain: Francesco Puglisi, convicted in the ‘Genoa 10’ trial in Italy, was arrested in Catalonia

Anarchist comrade Francesco ‘Jimmy’ Puglisi, who went on the run after being sentenced to 14 years in prison following a trial for ‘devastation and looting’ in regards to the 2001 Genoa revolt, was arrested on the 5th of June 2013 in Barcelona.

Comrades in Spain estimate that he may have been taken to a [...]

Athens – 10 June 2013: First day of the trial against comrade Tasos Theofilou

Banner in Thessaloniki: “Solidarity to Tasos Theofilou – Fire and arson to all prison cells – Trial 10/6”

In August 2012, Tasos Theofilou was arrested in Athens and remanded on grave charges. He is accused of an armed bank robbery on Paros Island that happened previously that summer, and resulted to the fatal shooting [...]

Lausanne, Switzerland: The Loc(A)motive squat in pictures

Solidarity banner with the drawing of Delta squat in Thessaloniki, Greece: “From Greece to Switzerland we take the houses back! Struggle against all forms of domination.”

“The rebels have no fatherland – Solidarity with the Autonomous Hangout in Kavala (Greece)”; support message to the comrades in the city of Kavala. On April 8th, [...]

Granada, Spain: Noelia Cotelio on hunger strike since May 29th

Solidarity with Noelia

Noelia Cotelo, prisoner in struggle, started a hunger strike on May 29th as a mean of struggle against the latest attacks she has suffered in the prison of Albolote (Granada, southern Spain).

Latest examples of the ill-treatment she’s undergoing are serving several old punishments in a row, personal belongings [...]

Paris: Young antifascist beaten to death by fascists

Short statement about the comrades’ death:

“In the night of Wednesday, June 5th, 2013, as he was leaving a clothes store near the Gare Saint-Lazare in Paris, Clément Méric, 18, antifascist and trade-unionist, was beaten to death by members of a far right group. He had left the city of Brest to study political science [...]

Italy – ‘Operation Boldness’: Immediate release of the 5 anarchist prisoners!

İstanbul: Reportback from Beşiktaş and Taksim

The TV channel CNNtürk broadcasted a documentary about penguins at the same time that thousands of people were clashing out on the streets, so somebody made this video to mock them:

In the morning of June 3rd, after two days of heavy clashes in the district of Beşiktaş, police presence there was huge. Cops were [...]

L’Hospitalet, Catalonia: Five banks attacked in solidarity with the 5 prisoners of Sabadell (Barcelona)

We have been active as a group for around a year, during which time we have seen a slight increase in the kind of actions with which we identify. We also have taken similar actions and have decided to make them public through this indymedia, to encourage their replication.

Besides us, there was recently an [...]

Athens: Anarchist Kostas Sakkas on hunger strike from the 4th of June 2013

On Tuesday, June 4th, at 18.30, comrades call for a political discussion at the Athens Polytechnic School, in the Gini building, towards organizing solidarity actions for hunger striker Kostas Sakkas. There will also be telephone communication with the comrade, who will speak directly from Koridallos prison.

Kostas is an anarchist prisoner that currently stands [...]

Turkey: Raw news from the Taksim Gezi Park struggle and ongoing riots

Banner on Lesvos Island (opposite Turkish shores): ‘Solidarity with the rebels in Turkey’

On June 1st we were in Taksim at about 3pm. After clashes that started in the morning, police was forced to leave the area. The cops disappeared for some hours. For two hours there was no police presence in any area [...]

Barcelona: The Expropriated Bank in Gracia in danger of eviction

A few days ago, we received a letter from the court summoning us to a civil trial against the Expropriated Bank in the Gracia hood of Barcelona. We did not know that there was a civil process opened against our space (Banc Expropiat de Gràcia), and so we did not expect this letter. The [...]

Italy – ‘Operation Boldness’: The Milan prosecutor asked for further extension of the precautionary measures against 5 imprisoned anarchists

The public prosecutor of Milan has requested another six months of pretrial incarceration for Alessandro, Stefano, Sergio, Elisa and Peppe [all incarcerated since June 13th, 2012]. In the prosecutor’s request it is specified that, despite their imprisonment, the comrades continue to communicate with members of the same space outside the prison, and promote ‘solidarity [...]