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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Italian government harasses radicals

The Italian Government is obviously afraid of the new political activism taking place in its country. The following is an example of police harassment from:

Association for Proletarian Solidarity (ASP), http://www.solidarietaproletaria.org/ and Party of the Comittees to Support Resistance - for Communism, http://www.carc.it/ :

JOINT STATEMENTSearched the homes of four comrades of the Caravan of (n) PCI!The publication of the website "Cops hunting!" rouses Magistracy's reprisalThis morning at dawn Vincenzo Cinque of the Struggling Workers Union (SLL),Rosalba Romano and Fabrizio Di Mauro of the Association for ProletarianSolidarity (ASP), Angelo D'Arcangeli of the CARC Party have had searches intheir homes, in their cars and, in the case of the comrade of the CARCParty, also at his parents' home in Priverno (in the province of Latina).The agents of Digos [the political police, Note of the Translator] in Milan,Bologna, Naples and Latina, on behalf of the Public Prosecutor of theAttorney of Bologna Morena Plazzi, seized computers, storage media (portablehard disks, CD, USB keys), cameras, video cameras, some mobile phones, andmuch papery material. The comrades are under investigation within the inquiry the Attorney ofBologna opened on people who manages and joins the website " cops hunting"(http://cacciaallosbirro.byethost7.com) that aims to make known faces,names, cities in which they operate, addresses of policemen, Carabinieri,Digos, etc., who intimidate, beat, shadow, spy on those who struggle todefend human rights and to not pay for the crisis of the masters. We currently have no other news, but that, at least in one case, the Digospresented itself at the door of the comrade of ASP with a "Rambo" policemanwith gun in hand and balaclava on his face, with an intimidating andthreatening attitude. He kept the "equipment" (gun in hand and balaclavas)and attitude, going up and down in the streets of the neighbourhood lookingfor comrade's car parked near her home. The Digos zealous officials, who had already refused to give their names,signed the minutes of searching in an illegible way... in short, pistol inhand, balaclavas on face, illegible signatures on minutes ... they wereashamed to show their faces and sign with name and surname the provocationthey were performing. The only name we know is that of Bovio of the Digos ofBologna who led a team which carried out the searches. This has been nothing but a provocation. After the bedlam roused by themedia about the site "cop hunting "(obscured a few days after the (new) PCImade known its existence by a release), policemen, officials, judges, theirinstigators who lead business committees of business were frightened. Theycan not understand how it is possible that those who usually are recorded,followed, intimidated, threatened and clubbed have found ways to break downthe curtain of anonymity and silence (which is the premise of impunity) andeven allow the masses to participate in a democracy: exposing the beating,the torturers, and infiltrated the guard dogs of masters who workundisturbed on the streets, who infiltrate the movement, which threaten andarrest Communists, vanguards of struggle, workers and combative youngrebels. It is a today's news that two railway policemen of Milan beat to death ahomeless. The masses are not allowed to know the reasons for this murder, toknow names, surnames and faces of these murderers in uniform. Not to mentionthe bookstall keeper died in London during protests against the G20 becauseof the beatings suffered by agents. Maybe is it a crime to file thesecharacters? Maybe is it a crime to make known their faces, names, addresses,or is it an action of democracy and popular control? Is it not a democraticright to know all relevant information to the masses for not live inapprehension of meeting them while they are in their exercise of murdererswho abuse their power? From now on, will the magistracy and law enforcementagencies stop to make photos and movies to those who participate in sit in,protests, marches breaching one of the democratic rights won by the Partisanresistance? If with the searches of the four companions the Attorney Office of Bolognasought to give a signal to those who welcomed with enthusiasm and spirit ofinitiative the creation of the site "cop hunting cop", it flopped. In fact:1. These comrades are already getting the embrace of Communists,combative workers, young rebels' solidarity; we add to this our solidarityand our unconditional support and invite the democratic people, theanti-fascists, the proletarians to do the same. 2. The bourgeois justice and its repressive organs will not be able tokeep standing the social and economic capitalist order by another heavylegal stunt, which harms the political and democratic rights the massesconquered by the victory over fascism in the Resistance. We can get out ofdismissals, exploitation, deaths for curable diseases, precariousness,brutishness and the degradation to which the bourgeoisie is forcing millionsof people only by the struggle to make Italy a new socialist country. Anyprovocation, any act of repression, any persecution can not stop the rebirthof the communist movement that is coming, and of which the (n) PCI is thevanguard in our country. This new inquiry by the Attorney Office of Bologna was opened a few daysbefore the hearing to be held April 17 in Ancona, where the judge PaolaMureddu must decide whether to send for trial three comrades of ASP and theNational Secretary of the P-CARC for "defaming PM Giovagnoli", who canafford to persecute Communists, Anarchists, students and immigrants (gainingby investigations for "terrorism" - often ended up with flops - thepromotion to Chief Prosecutor of Rimini). He, considering himself above theordinary mortals, feels hurt and denounces those who called him by his realname, "the new Torquemada"! Who is defaming who? We invite you toparticipate in the sit in, which will be held in Ancona on April 17!

Do notforget the cameras! Repression will not stop the struggle!
No impunity nor coverage for beaters and spies in uniform and theirsponsors!
Let's send home Berlusconi's gang!
Let's build a People's Block Government!


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