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International Solidarity

[London/Glasgow] Actions in Memory of Kyriakos X. and Solidarity with Imprisoned Comrades in Greece

On the night of 16/11, the international day of action in the memory of anarchist Kyriakos X., messages were written on the walls of the South Side in solidarity with the imprisoned comrades Marianna, Dimitris, and Dimitra, and in the memory of Kyriakos.

After the arrest of Nikos Romanos on 18/11 and his subsequent imprisonment based on a single print on a plastic bag, comrades in London put up a solidarity banner:

Since then, one more anarchist comrade has been arrested in Athens in connection to the Ampelokipoi case.

HANDS OFF ANARCHIST COMRADES IN GREECE.

Links:

https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1632827/

https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/2024/11/22/uk-from-london-to-athens-solidarity-to-the-political-prisoners-marianna-dimitra-dimitris-hands-off-romanos-fallen-anarchist-kyriakos-forever-alive/

(an earlier version of this post, with only the Glasgow action, was taken down when BlackBlogs went down for a wee while earlier this month – since then, comrades from London sent us their banner drop – cheers!)

Anti-Fascism

Antifascist zone!

In a night of action in Glasgow’s West End, antifascists put up dozens of posters and dropped two banners; one over the M8 (FUCK NAZIS) and one on Woodlands Rd (Dinnae Be Fash).

The text on the poster reads:

Antifascist Zone – We have recently noticed increased neo-nazi activity in and around Glasgow. This includes stickering and graffiti, increased recruitment efforts, attempts to infiltrate demonstrations, and a recent assault in Erskine.

We know this represents a small minority of pathetic, hateful wee guys. We want to remind them that these are our streets, our neighbourhoods, and their shite won’t go unopposed.

We call on the antifascist comunity in Glasgow to mobilise, to support antifascist initiatives and demonstrations, to counter nazi efforts to lay claim to public spaces, and to organise your own forms of antifascist resistance.

¡No pasarán! – 161

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Intervention/Banner Drop in Solidarity with Alfredo Cospito

On 04/12, as part of the International Week in Solidarity with hunger striker Alfredo Cospito (https://enoughisenough14.org/2022/11/28/we-wont-allow-the-murder-of-alfredo-cospito-on-hunger-strike-sive-october-20-2022-call-for-a-week-of-action-from-november-28-until-december-5/), anarchists intervened at a free screening at the Glasgow Autonomous Space to inform those attending of Alfredo’s hunger strike and struggle against the 41bis prison regime. Some of the comrades attending helped drop a solidarity banner in the South Side.

WE WILL NOT LET OUR COMRADE DIE AT THE HANDS OF THE ITALIAN STATE

41BIS IS TORTURE – FIRE TO THE PRISONS

A group of anarchists holding a banner saying “41BIS IS TORTURE – SOLIDARITY TO ALFREDO COSPITO”
The same banner, dropped on a metal gate.
International Solidarity

Banner Drop – Free Claudio Lavazza!

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.

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Banner Drop/Solidarity Call for Anarchist Prisoner Toby Shone

On the 5th of May 2022, a banner was dropped over the Kelvin in solidarity with anarchist prisoner Toby Shone, facing a Serious Crime Prevention Order in a hearing tomorrow, an extremely dangerous precedent for the political and legal targeting of the anti-authoritarian milieu.
 
The banner reads:
SOLIDARITY TO ANARCHIST PRISONER TOBY SHONE
No politically motivated Serious Crime Prevention Orders
FREEDOM NOW
 
We call on all anarchists and anti-authoritarians in the area to support the solidarity demonstration, 6/05, 08:30, at Bristol Crown Court.
 
Clydeside Anarchist Noise.
 
 
For more information on the case, visit:
https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/tag/toby-shone/
International Solidarity

Banner in Solidarity with the 3 Arrested Comrades in Greece

On 24.02.22, anarchists in Glasgow dropped a banner in solidarity with the 3 comrades who were arrested in Greece on 08/02, and are now being charged under the anti-terrorism law for the constitution of the armed group “Organisation Anarchist Action” following an attack on the Foundation for National and Religious Reflection (IETF).

POWER TO THE 3 ARRESTED COMRADES IN GREECE – KEEP THE FIRES BURNING

More resources on the case
Announcement by G.V. and Th. X. from the Thessaloniki police HQ:

https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/2022/02/20/thessaloniki-greece-text-of-the-two-hostages-comrades-from-the-thessaloniki-police-hq-cells/

Claim of political responsibility for the attack on IETF by Th. X.

https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/2022/02/20/thessaloniki-greece-political-position-of-the-anarchist-prisoner-thanos-hatziangelou-on-the-attack-on-the-ietf-foundation-for-national-and-religious-reflection/

Letter by P. K. from Korydallos Prison:

https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/2022/02/20/athens-greece-letter-of-panos-kalaitzis-from-korydallos-prison/

International Solidarity

Banner Drop – No War but Class War

As a reflex response to the escalation of conflict in Ukraine, we dropped a banner on Great Western Rd. on 24.02.22, with the inscription “SOLIDARITY WITH THOSE AFFECTED BY & STRUGGLING AGAINST INTERSTATE VIOLENCE –  NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR”.

Some resources on the situation, and how you can help, from anarchists and anti-authoritarians on the front lines:

https://crimethinc.com/2022/02/15/war-and-anarchists-anti-authoritarian-perspectives-in-ukraine

https://avtonom.org/en/news/against-annexations-and-imperial-aggression

https://linktr.ee/operation.solidarity

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Banner Drop for Alexis Grigoropoulos on the 6th of December [EN, GR, Gaelic]

‘A bullet in the heart of Alexandros to close the circle of the statist machine’s omnipotence. A bloodstain on the Messolonghiou pedestrian street to open the circle of rebellion that wrecked the legal order and sowed chaos and anarchy in all cities throughout Greece.’- Nikos Romanos, Requiem for a Journey of No Return.

As of today, 6/12/2021, it has been 13 years since the Greek state murdered the anarchist Alexis Grigoropoulos. Alexis was shot by two cops, E. Korkoneas and V. Saraliotis, in the neighbourhood of Exarcheia, following minor clashes with the police. As soon as the news of Alexis’s murder broke, a spontaneous insurrection began. Protests, riots, expropriations and occupations of public buildings were but some of the collective expressions of rage. Despite the attempts of state and capital to depoliticise the murder, we must not forget that Alexis was killed because of his political beliefs – he challenged in practice the authority of the police and, by extension, that of the state. This is the violence faced every day by those whose existence the state deems undesirable, those who are a threat to their social order.

13 years later, the spirit of the December revolt is alive in the resistance of the Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian movement. As anarchists, we stand in solidarity with all insurrections against the state apparatus worldwide, present and future. Our struggles take place in our streets and neighbourhoods, in our workplaces, schools and universities. We will reclaim our space and our lives.

FROM ATHENS TO SCOTLAND, INSURRECTIONS ARE NOT A UTOPIA.

COPS-FASCISTS-MURDERERS

Clydeside Anarchist Noise.

“Μια σφαίρα στην καρδιά του Αλέξανδρου για να κλείσει ο κύκλος της παντοδυναμίας της κρατικής μηχανής. Μια κηλίδα από αίμα στον πεζόδρομο της Μεσολογγίου για να ανοίξει ο κύκλος της εξέγερσης που έκανε συντρίμμια την έννομη τάξη και έσπειρε το χάος και την αναρχία σε όλες τις πόλεις της Ελλάδας.”- Νίκος Ρωμανός, Ρέκβιεμ για ένα ταξίδι χωρίς επιστροφή.

Σήμερα, 06/12/2021, έχουν περάσει 13 χρόνια από τη δολοφονία του αναρχικού Αλέξη Γρηγορόπουλου. Ο Αλέξης πυροβολήθηκε από δύο μπάτσους, τον Ε. Κορκονέα και τον Β. Σαραλιώτη, μετά από μικροσυγκρούσεις στη περιοχή των Εξαρχείων. Μόλις κυκλοφόρησε η είδηση της δολοφονίας του Αλέξη, μια αυθόρμητη εξέγερση ξεκίνησε. Πορείες, συγκρούσεις, απαλλοτριώσεις και καταλήψεις ήταν μερικές από τις συλλογικές εκφράσεις οργής. Παρά τις προσπάθειες κράτους και κεφαλαίου να αποπολιτικοποιήσουν τη δολοφονία, δεν ξεχνάμε ότι ο Αλέξης πέθανε λόγω των πολιτικών του πεποιθήσεων – αμφισβητούσε έμπρακτα την εξουσία της αστυνομίας και, κατ’επέκταση, αυτή του κράτους. Αυτή είναι η βία που αντιμετωπίζουν καθημερινά εκείνα που το κράτος κρίνει ανεπιθύμητα, εκείνα που αποτελούν απειλή για τη τάξη τους.

13 χρόνια μετά, το πνεύμα της Δεκεμβριανής εξέγερσης είναι ζωντανό στην αντίσταση του Αναρχικού/Αντιεξουσιαστικού χώρου. Ως αναρχικά, στεκόμαστε αλληλέγγυα με όλες τις εξεγέρσεις ενάντια στους κρατικούς μηχανισμούς ανά τον κόσμο, στο παρόν και στο μέλλον. Οι αγώνες μας διεξάγονται στους δρόμους και στις γειτονιές, στους χώρους εργασίας, στα σχολεία και τις σχολές μας. Θα διεκδηκήσουμε ξανά τους χώρους και τις ζωές μας.

ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ ΜΕΧΡΙ ΤΗ ΣΚΩΤΙΑ, ΟΙ ΕΞΕΓΕΡΣΕΙΣ ΓΙΝΟΝΤΑΙ ΔΕΝ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΟΥΤΟΠΙΑ

ΜΠΑΤΣΟΙ-ΦΑΣΙΣΤΕΣ-ΔΟΛΟΦΟΝΟΙ

Clydeside Anarchist Noise

An-diugh, 6/12/2021, tha e air a bhith 13 bliadhnaichean on a mharbh stàit na Grèige an t-anargaiche, Alexis Grigoropoulos. Chaidh loisgeadh air Alexis le dithist phoileasman, E. Korkoneas agus V. Saraliotis, ann an sgìre Exarchia, às dèidh comhstrì ghoirid leis a’ phoileas. Cho luath ‘s a chaidh an naidheachd air murt Alexis mun cuairt, thòisich ar-a-mach neo-uallaichte. Bha caismeachdan, aimhreitean, goidean agus for-ghlachdaidhean de thogsalaich phoblach am measg nam freagairt air an fheirg a bh’ aig daoine. A dh’aoindeoin gach oidhrip leis an stàit agus leis a’ chalpa gus am murt a dhèanamh neo-phoilitigeach, feumaidh cuimhne bhith againn gur ann air sgàth a bheachdan politigeach a chaidh Alexis a mharbhadh – bha e na dhùbhlan ann an dà-rìribh do dh’ùghdarras a’ phoilis agus – mar sin – na stàite. Is e seo am fòirneairt a sheasas an aghaidh na feadhainn anns nach faic an stàit luach sam bith, na feadhainn a tha nam bagairt air an òrdugh acasan.

13 bliadhnaichean on uair sin, tha spioraid ar-a-mach na Dùbhlachd fhathast beò ann an coimhaireachd na h-iomairt Anargaich/ana-ùghdarasaich. Mar anargaichean, seasaidh sinn giùlan ri giùlain leis a h-uile aimhreit an aghaidh inneal na stàite air feadh an t-saoghail, san là a th’ ann agus san àm ri teachd. Tha ar strì a’ gabhail àite nar sràidean is coimhearsnachdan, nar n-àiteachan-obrach, sgoiltean agus nar n-oilthighean. Gheibh sin air ais ar n-àite is ar beathannan.

EADAR ALBA IS AN AITHNE, CHA PHÀRRAS AN AIMHREIT.

POILIS-FAISISTICHEAN-MURTAIREAN

Clydeside Anarchist Noise