Anti-Jubilee Party – Fundraiser for Bristol Defendant Solidarity
Tear the bunting down and come have a boogie!
Location: Glasgow Autonomous Space (53 Kilbirnie Street)
Time: 10PM (Free Shop from 8PM)
Music: DJ Suzie, Elanda
BYOB – Donations in Cash Only
All forms of bigotry will not be tolerated and will be challenged – Please bear in mind that GAS is a drug-free space.
Claudio Lavazza has faced over 118 years of incarceration for a life spent at the heart of armed anarchist struggle in Europe, including involvement with the Proletari Armati per il Comunismo in Italy in the 1970s, and a number of expropriations from state and capitalist targets.
The comrade, according to French law, has been eligible for release since the 11th of December 2021 with the completion of 25 years of imprisonment, as his sentences should have been merged. However, as we have often observed in recent years, a regime of exception applies for political prisoners, for those who, like Claudio, remain unrepentant in their anarchist ideas, continuing the struggle in the cells as they did in the streets.
So, on the 17.05.2022, the day that the comrade’s appeal for release is going through court in France, we dropped a banner in solidarity on Eglinton St. in Glasgow.
INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY WITH ALL ANARCHIST PRISONERS
Liberté pour Claudio Lavazza!
Clydeside Anarchist Noise.
Submitted anonymously to our email.
May Day, International Worker’s Day, is a day of struggle. It was established out of the struggle to free Chicago anarchists, arrested following the armed defence of a workers’ strike for the eight-hour day in May 1886. Four anarchists were hanged for it, and one more robbed the hangman with a bomb. From the moment the hangman’s rope was set around their necks on an autumn’s day in 1887, this day has been commemorated as a day of revolt by anarchists and anti-capitalists around the world. For, as has been proven time and again, the only dead movements are the movements that forget their dead.
Today, we find ourselves in the midst of a so-called “cost of living crisis”. We have lost count of the unending capitalist crises we have lived through in the past few years; market crashes, wars and pandemics. This one takes the form of a direct attack on the most exploited within society, as the cost of our most basic nessecities (housing, energy, water and food, among others) skyrockets. Once again, we are the ones expected to bear the brunt of their crisis, to sacrifice ourselves at the altar of profit for crumbs.
Thus, on the 1st of May 2022, 136 years after the Haymarket affair, we chose not to join the yearly demonstration of the decaying left, where the same people march through the same roads, shouting the same chants, a slight bit weaker each time. Instead, we chose life, joy and action over mere survival, returning to a miniscule extent the harm caused to our communities by defacing the facades of the following targets on Byres Road, in the West End of Glasgow:
Acta Non Verba – For the Uncompromising Struggle Against State & Capital
