We receive and gladly disseminate this contribution – distributed in Palermo during a solidarity march with the comrades affected by the repression, and at a demonstration of solidarity with Palestine – which rightly frames the precautionary measures against the Sicilian militants of Antudo in the climate of mounting war. From Palestine to Sicily… Solidarity with those who rebel!
GO AND EXPLAIN THAT IT’S SPRING
The winds of war are blowing. From the confrontation between NATO and Russia on Ukrainian soil to the genocide of the Palestinian people perpetrated by Zionist barbarism, the states of the Atlanticist bloc are moving to preserve their geopolitical dominance while those of the other side try to undermine them. For the exploited on both sides, if the bosses’ plans are not stopped, the prospect is the same: misery, repression and death.
When states are preparing for confrontation with the enemy outside their borders, they begin to mobilize their populations: it has been reported in recent months that Denmark has extended military conscription to women as well, France wants to raise the age limit for reservists from 65 to 72 years, and Germany, after investing €100 billion in rearmament, is considering reintroducing compulsory military service.
But the mobilization of the population is not only a strictly military issue, it also involves the sphere of the imaginary through war information and the clearance of the presence of the army in the streets and in the places of culture and the production of ideology, as has happened in Palermo these days on the occasion of the International Forum for Peace, Security and Prosperity, an event in which thousands of middle school students, university students and cadets of military academies from different countries met to hear leading exponents of the military world talk about peace and prosperity: freedom is slavery, war is peace, ignorance is strength!
In order for the total mobilization against the external enemy to take place, the State also needs to wage war against its internal enemy: the rebels, those who with their voices and their actions make their negation resound. It is no coincidence, then, that in recent years we have witnessed a stiffening of penalties for comrades, of which the application of the 41bis prison regime to Alfredo Cospito and the accusation of terrorism to some anarchist comrades from Carrara for the publication of the newspaper Bezmotivny are perhaps the most striking cases.
And it is in this context that on March 21 the Palermo Police Headquarters carried out a pre-trial detention in prison and two signature obligations for three Antudo militants: the charges refer to the publication of a video showing the throwing of a Molotov cocktail at a headquarters of the Leonardo Spa armaments company in the Sicilian capital. The repressive operation is orchestrated by the National Anti-Mafia Directorate, which in 2015 became the National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Directorate, thus also starting to deal with political crimes.
All this should stir the minds of those who live on this island: we know all too well how the spectacle of the anti-mafia subsumes every imaginative impulse under the suffocating cloak of legalism and the cult of the servant of the State and how this spectacle is born and develops right here starting from our minds and our bodies, making it difficult to develop and put into practice the tension to emancipation from all domination. Initiating a radical critique of all this may be difficult, but it is an increasingly urgent act that is impossible to postpone.
We do not know – nor are we interested in knowing – who attacked the Palermo headquarters of Leonardo Spa on November 26, 2022, but we do know that when individuals find the lucidity and courage to return, in the form of emancipatory violence, some of the indiscriminate violence that this company of death distributes around the world, we can only be in solidarity, as we know that when a counter-information site gives voice to these actions, it is doing its job in the best possible way.
COMPLICITY AND SOLIDARITY WITH THOSE WHO ATTACKED LEONARDO SPA
COMPLICITY AND SOLIDARITY WITH THE COMRADES OF ANTUDO AFFECTED BY THE REPRESSION
LEONARDO SPA SLAUGHTERS AND ASSASSINATES
Source: Il Rovescio