REPRESSION IN SOUTHERN ITALY !

Statement by the Federation of Anarchist Communists

The State does not appreciate the increase in social struggles and the intensification in union struggles solidifying into one big opposition and struggle movement for social rights and liberties.

So now this... Immediately following the huge demonstration in Florence against the war, and coinciding (entirely coincidentally!) with the general strike of industrial workers, with one eye on the struggle of the workers in Termini Imerese (1) and another eye on the growing anti-war, anti-militarist movement, and worried about the general social discontent in the South [of Italy], the repressive apparatus of the State hits out at around 40 activists in the social movement in (where else) southern Italy (although it is by now par for the course in Taranto!). 

The charges of "subversive association" is intended to strike at the movement. It is an attempt to criminalize hundreds of thousands of activists and to intimidate and terrorize the growing sympathy for the struggle all over the country. The message is clear: you are all under observation, you are all subversive!

• AGAINST STATE AND CAPITALIST REPRESSION!
• SPREAD THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS!
• RELEASE ALL THOSE IMPRISONED!
• DROP ALL CHARGES!
• NO CRIMINALIZATION OF THE WORKERS' STRUGGLES OR THE SOCIAL STRUGGLES!

FEDERAZIONE dei COMUNISTI ANARCHICI

November 2002

(1) Town in Sicily, scene of the announced closure of a FIAT factory.