Trawling through our lives

Like the nets of a trawler which rakes ceaselessly along the seafloor, we are witnessing something similar with the series of actions and trials directed at the most active elements of what was (?) a movement with great promise, a rising tide.

The inquests and operations of the repressive forces of the State have been steadily increasing since the days of the G8 in Genoa, way back in July 2001. Looking again today at the killing of Carlo, it seems to have been the beginning of a definite project to prevent any growth of the burgeoning radicalization of social dissent.

Every day, there are fresh and heavier sentences being handed down in cases arising from police provocation and violence at demonstrations, as was the case in Cagliari with Luisa, Massimo and Matteo who were caught in the trap of the so-called forces of law and order and what passes for a system of justice. Recently, the strategy of physically attacking demonstrations has become clear to see and is ably directed by the same people who ran things during the G8 in Genoa, aimed at removing any form of direct opposition.

It could be opposition to capitalist globalization, as those under investigation for subversive activities in Cosenza; opposition to war, as we found out in Mestre recently during the anarchist anti-militarist demonstration; it is also directed at those who fight on ecological matters or in defence of animal rights, such as during the events in S.Polo d'Enza. These are just some of the events which have come to a head during November, as if there was an autumn escalation just in time for the strikes and class-struggle mobilizations. And, coincidentally enough, these are all areas in which a new generation has started to become more active and show its anger at the way things are moving. Maybe it is yet another worry for our capitalist rulers to see to?

And this is the reason why demonstrations and public spaces are becoming less and less enjoyable and more and more dangerous, thanks to the heavy hands of the boys in blue?

It's a bad sign, and no mistake. There is no escape from oppressive control and repressive police violence even for the most combattive sectors of the class, or at least those best protected by their unions. This became clear with the case of Fabrizio Acanfora. Even the public transport workers have lost their freedom of speech and of action with regard to their working conditions and can be fired, fined or sued for these things!

But the heavy machine of the State never actually stopped crushing lives, pulverizing futures, sinking the ships of dreams, imprisoning beings they consider "foreign" and therefore "inferior". And it is to these people that we give the most active solidarity possible, because their freedom and their struggles and ours and so is the enemy.

from Alternativa Libertaria Dec.04
News-sheet of the Federazione dei Comunisti Anarchici