Anarchists in Lecce, Southern Italy, face a new trial by a vengeful state after their efforts helped lead to nearby San Foca immigration detention centre being closed down.
Revolutionary Solidarity against the Italian State - Burn all Prisons
Revolutionary Solidarity against the Italian State - Burn all Prisons
Consumers of fear in a world of insecurity: this is what they want us to be. In order to achieve this goal and defend their power and privileges the States inculcate people with fake fears and create imaginary monsters. The obsession of security, unleashed by various security laws, identifies the enemy of the moment: Romanians, Roma people, car window cleaners, prostitutes and more broadly foreigners become targets for the citizens' anxiety. In fact, the reasons for this anxiety, the loss of jobs, the deaths at work and unaffordable rents and medical treatments have a different source.
The machinery of State terror, hidden in the shadow of democracy, presents all projects of abuse as useful and necessary: from nuclear power to eco-devastation infrastructures, from war to the latest repressive initiatives of majors turned sheriffs. By prohibiting to eat in the street, to beg, to clean car windows and to build sandcastles in the beach, the government throws dust in the eyes of those who, alienated and tired of propaganda, cannot realize that all these activities had never been regarded as problems before.
In this way we are no longer sure of what to be afraid of. And what if tomorrow water and food were not more available in the supermarkets? What if an unexpected disease hit us and we were unable to fight it back? We would no longer have the ancient skills that allowed people to be self-sufficient, nor would we take advantage of solidarity relations between individuals.
We would not be the masters of ourselves and would be unable to take care of our own lives.
We would have chased an enemy that doesn't exist, whereas the real responsible of the catastrophe, bosses and governors of all colours, would still be at their place planning new devastations. Most importantly, we would have lost the awareness of reality and of ourselves in a sea of indifference and rancour while power constantly modifies the past making us lose the memory of our history and culture. We would accept, as we are already doing, that poor foreigners be locked up in detention centres and then kicked out of the fortress because their presence wouldn't be decent enough for our sight. We would accept the crawling racism that kills and the fact that people drown in the sea while searching for a possibility of survival.
In order to get out of the quagmire of social peace in which they want us to be submerged we must take a different course. It is what some anarchists did in these last years with their struggles, in particular that against the Regina Pacis catholic detention centre of San Foca (Lecce, southern Italy). Struggles carried out from below following patterns that are peculiar to anarchists: self-management, informality, horizontal relationships, direct actions... struggles and methods that the State wants to stop with terror, trials, sentences and years in prison.
On October 9 the second grade of the Nottetempo trial against twelve anarchists will start in the Lecce court. Solidarity towards them is a first essential step to start deserting the fear.
The machinery of State terror, hidden in the shadow of democracy, presents all projects of abuse as useful and necessary: from nuclear power to eco-devastation infrastructures, from war to the latest repressive initiatives of majors turned sheriffs. By prohibiting to eat in the street, to beg, to clean car windows and to build sandcastles in the beach, the government throws dust in the eyes of those who, alienated and tired of propaganda, cannot realize that all these activities had never been regarded as problems before.
In this way we are no longer sure of what to be afraid of. And what if tomorrow water and food were not more available in the supermarkets? What if an unexpected disease hit us and we were unable to fight it back? We would no longer have the ancient skills that allowed people to be self-sufficient, nor would we take advantage of solidarity relations between individuals.
We would not be the masters of ourselves and would be unable to take care of our own lives.
We would have chased an enemy that doesn't exist, whereas the real responsible of the catastrophe, bosses and governors of all colours, would still be at their place planning new devastations. Most importantly, we would have lost the awareness of reality and of ourselves in a sea of indifference and rancour while power constantly modifies the past making us lose the memory of our history and culture. We would accept, as we are already doing, that poor foreigners be locked up in detention centres and then kicked out of the fortress because their presence wouldn't be decent enough for our sight. We would accept the crawling racism that kills and the fact that people drown in the sea while searching for a possibility of survival.
In order to get out of the quagmire of social peace in which they want us to be submerged we must take a different course. It is what some anarchists did in these last years with their struggles, in particular that against the Regina Pacis catholic detention centre of San Foca (Lecce, southern Italy). Struggles carried out from below following patterns that are peculiar to anarchists: self-management, informality, horizontal relationships, direct actions... struggles and methods that the State wants to stop with terror, trials, sentences and years in prison.
On October 9 the second grade of the Nottetempo trial against twelve anarchists will start in the Lecce court. Solidarity towards them is a first essential step to start deserting the fear.
