No Borders
Turin: Three Days at the CPT (detention centre for immigrants)
(The immigration detention centre of Corso Brunelleschi in Turin is run by the Italian Red Cross. This report was written by comrades who managed to get in contact with the prisoners through a mobile phone).
In the night between May 23 and May 24 2008 Hassan, a 38 year old immigrant from North Africa, died in the immigration detention centre. He had pneumonia. According to a number of witnesses, the Red Cross administer psychotropic drugs in the CPT to 'cure' certain kinds of illness such as headache. Hassan had been given psychotropic drugs too and when that night he started having breathing problems, his companions called the doctor on duty in the centre. The latter answered that he was too busy and that his colleague would see Hassan the day after. Too late: Hassan died....(More)
Protests in solidarity with Tony Onouha, killed by cops, Thessaloniki
The state repression hasn't degraded at all, despite the upcoming elections and the hot summer. During the evening of Saturday 18th of August 2007, according to reports, undercover policemen were after the 25-year-old Tony Onouha, immigrant from Nigeria, who had been selling CDs in a cafe in Kalamaria, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Based on denouncements of his fellow countrymen, Tony Onouha, recognised those policemen as the ones who had beaten him up, one year ago. He tried to run away and finally fell from the first floor of the cafe, 5 meters height, to the street, where he died instantly...(More)
Jan 18 Update on the 'Nottetempo' trial, Lecce, Italy
On January 18 another hearing of the Nottetempo trial was held in Lecce. Witnesses for the prosecution, including doctor Katia Cazzato and doctor Ruberti, made their depositions. The doctors had compiled false medical certificates following a violent beating inflicted on immigrants who had tried to escape the Regina Pacis camp. ...(More)
Operation 'Nottetempo' - Lecce anarchists on trial (Italy)
The investigation and prosecution of anarchists from Lecce, is a clampdown on those who aspire to destroy CPT's (Immigrantion Detention Centres) and particulary the anarchists, who want to destroy all cells and borders forever. The detention centre 'San Foca' was a notoriously cruel limbo run by the corrupt priest Cesare Lodeserto, it was closed down, so the investigations, jailings and trial had to begin. Anyone who was seen acting against the detention prisons or showing solidarity with excluded people was seen as also requiring a cell, to stop their agitation igniting any more trouble.
The defendants are charged with 'subversive association'/conspiracy and a number of other crimes, which include attacks against banks, attacks against targets connected with CPT's, actions in solidarity with Mapuche people in Chile and against the Iraq war...(More)
Anarchists in Rovereto refuse identity control
In the night between June 27 and June 28, four anarchists were arrested in Rovereto (Italy) accused of ‘resistance, insult, violence, serious damage and injury to public officials’. The comrades had refused to show their identity documents in the course of the carabinieri’s examination (which was held following the usual procedure: first they called the comrades by name and then wanted to see the documents). ....(More)
From Bologna
Along the banks of the Rhine, stood a shantytown where the undesirables live, as usual, on the fringes of the society, clandestine immigrants who provide the workforce that bosses and little bosses need in order to multiply their profits......(More)
Everybody On The Roof
In the evening of April 18, a prisoner in one of the dormitories of Via Corelli detention camp (Milan), ‘hurts himself’: we do not know whether he swallowed toxic drugs, batteries, pieces of iron or inflicted wounds on himself. We just know that, following this nth case of self-injury, the other prisoners in the camp ask for an ambulance to be called. As the latter does not arrive, the inmates of the dormitory decide that the only solution is to start a protest, which will soon turn into an uprising. As usual, the Red Cross, which is responsible for the management of the camp, call the police: searches are carried out, personal belongings and books (especially copies of the Koran) are destroyed, and beatings are inflicted. The immigrants begin a hunger strike on April 9, which lasts at least ten days, and is carried on over the following weeks by fits and starts......(More)
Outbreak at San Foca
There are more and more undesirables in the world; so many people coming from the poorest countries and escaping war and famine. They search for a better life in 'Fortress Europe', in the same countries whose governments are responsible for their misery.
Because it's rich Europe and the U.S. who spread war, famine and desolation all over the world in the name of capitalist needs, and compel thousands and thousands of people to leave their homeland. Many die during their journey to the rich world, shipwrecked in crammed old boats or hidden in the rear of suffocating vans. Those who manage to arrive safely are soon arrested and taken to concentration camps for immigrants. These are actually prisons for men, women and children, guilty of being 'clandestine'. The few who are finally given temporary stay permits and get out of prison have to cope with sweat labour, terrible living conditions and all kinds of humilation. Most are given an expulsion order and, now deprived of any means of support, are deported to their countries to face almost certain death.....(More)
Welcome to Britain
Britain, like any other country of the western world, is a huge prison for thousands and thousands of people who come here in search of a better life, the so-called 'asylum seekers'. It's not by chance that so many desperate people try to enter the U.K. as well as the other rich countries. They can't do otherwise. In their homeland not even the basic conditions of surviving are left.
The globalisation of capital requires the maximum production at the lowest cost. That's how the bosses move the centres of production from one country to the other searching for the cheapest labour cost. And that's also the way they spread poverty and desolation and rob millions and millions of their resources. When the occasion occurs, the bosses and their armed mercenaries invade other countries to steal their oil or in order to keep some geopolitical context in equilibrium......(More)
Shoot The Red Cross?
The saying ’Shoot the Red Cross’ means to attack the best and most vulnerable people in the world. But is this the case? The Red Cross is not at all a humanitarian organization. It is, on the contrary, a paramilitary institution which has been backing the State wars for one hundred years. The Red Cross is supposed to appease the terriblre suffering brought about by military operations without ever denouncing the latter. This is the other face of militarism, the one which gives credibility to all the lies used to justify bombardment and massacres. In a context of war, the Red Cross must discourage any attempt of rebellion against the occupation troops. Moreover, this ’charitble’ organization must take over the question of the survivors, the homeless, the refugees...under the control of army and police.....(More)