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Hunger strikes against the solitary confinement of anarchist prisoner Alfredo Cospito in Italy
From the newspaper El Salto Diario, an article by Pedro Castrillo (30/11/2022). Alfredo Cospito, an Italian anarchist militant, has been on a hunger strike for more than a month in protest against the solitary confinement he has been subjected to … Continue reading
In solidarity with Alfredo Cospito
Today, outside this cell, I don’t know what is left of this project. After the disillusionment in the Val Susa struggle, many comrades should perhaps reflect on the need to better calculate one’s action and not lower it, but aim … Continue reading
Enzo Traverso: Readings and erasures of the past
The political violence of the 1970s was part of a political era that concluded with a defeat of the Left, of the workers’ movement, of alternative movements. This defeat has never been processed. Rather, this past has been repressed. At … Continue reading
Red Shadows
In the early hours of the 28th of April, French police descended upon the residences of 10 exiled Italian political militants of the 1970s. Seven were immediately arrested, an eighth would later turn himself in, and the whereabouts of two … Continue reading
For Cecilia Mangini (1927-2021)
Italian photographer and documentary film director Cecilia Mangini died on January 21. What follows is a modest tribute to an artisan-artist for whom the making of images was always an act of engagement with her subjects and her audience.
Protest in pandemic times: Naples
From Roarmag (03/11/2020) … Italian authorities have blamed “fringe elements” for the violence during the anti-lockdown protests, but the reality on the ground tells a different story. The complexity of Italy’s anti-lockdown protests I wasn’t surprised by what I saw, … Continue reading
For Paolo Finzi (1951-2020)
Ciao Paolo: a tribute to Paolo Finzi from the collective of Centro Studi Libertari A tribute to the Milanese anarchist, author and publisher. (libcom.org 22/07/2020) We are deeply saddened to announce Paolo Finzi’s passing. Yesterday, July 20 2020, he took … Continue reading
In solidarity with Vincenzo Vecchi and all imprisoned anarchists
News of the arrest of Vincenzo Vecchi in france last week reminds all of us yet again of the determination of State authorities to silence and criminalise dissidence, by whatever means available. Vecchi was finally condemned by italian courts in … Continue reading
For Nanni Balestrini (1935-2019)
Epic Prologue here I am once more sitting in front of the poetry audiencethat is sitting benevolently in front of melooks at me and is waiting for poetryas always I have nothing to tell itas always the poetry audience knows … Continue reading
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Carlo Levi: A witness to freedom
… all history unfolds in every individual life. Of course this only happens when history does unfold, because it can also stop, or turn backward or spin emptily on its own axis like a mechanical top. Carlo Levi, The Watch … Continue reading →