300+ police carry out new raids against anarchists in Italy

[Os Cangaceiros]

The Digos, the Italian political police, in the city of Bologna, have executed an operation investigating frequent visitors to the Bologna activist circle ‘Fuoriluogo’. The provision for the operation was decided by the prosecutor of Bologna within an inquiry carried out by the Bologna Digos.

Whilst this morning, more than 300 police have carried out searches in Bologna, Ferrara, Modena, Rome, Padova, Trento, Reggio Calabria, Ancona, Turin, Lecce, Naples, Trieste, Genoa, Teramo, Forli, Ravenna and Milan. The comrades under investigation are accused of belonging to a ‘subversive association for criminal intent’. 60 searches are reported, resulting, so far, in 12 people under precautionary measures and one arrest according to media.

The immense operation in all Italy regards ‘anarcho-insurrectionalist’ militants in the typical jargon of the press. In addition, the indication regarding an anarchist link in relation to the attack perpetrated against ENI Bologna on 29 March 2011 (http://culmine.noblogs.org/post/2011/03/29/bologna-attentato-incendiario-a-uffici-eni-nella-notte/) is reported by the mainstream media as being used by the Digos as a pretext for the Bologna repression wave. The oil company was attacked with multiple incendiary devices and despite no claim or ‘evidence’ being found, the Digos are trying to link it to another attack in the week prior, against IBM’s offices in Bologna, which was claimed by the Earth Liberation Front (ELF).

http://www.anarchistnews.org/?q=node/14390

[red cat]

Do the anarchists maintain a clandestine party-structure ?

[Os Cangaceiros]

I'm not exactly sure what they're political structure is like...Italy has probably one of the more significant anarchist movements in Europe at the moment, though, along with Greece. The main org. as far as I know is the "Informal Anarchist Federation", a designated terrorist group by the European Union. I guess that group is divided between anarchists who want a more PR-friendly anarchist group, and those were involved in actions like the attempted embassy bombings recently and bank robberies and things of that nature.

This is kind of a crappy and sarcastic article (http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/13805) about the Italian anarchist scene, but it's mildly amusing and provides some info.

[Triple A]

"Subversive association" in XXI century, in so-called democracies?

[red cat]

I'm not exactly sure what they're political structure is like...Italy has probably one of the more significant anarchist movements in Europe at the moment, though, along with Greece. The main org. as far as I know is the "Informal Anarchist Federation", a designated terrorist group by the European Union. I guess that group is divided between anarchists who want a more PR-friendly anarchist group, and those were involved in actions like the attempted embassy bombings recently and bank robberies and things of that nature.

This is kind of a crappy and sarcastic article (http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/13805) about the Italian anarchist scene, but it's mildly amusing and provides some info.

From the article it seems that these groups are very small and tend to split every now and then. This is a very suicidal tendency. Also, from the kind of violent actions they engage in, it is very easy for the state to conduct terrorist activities against civilians and then blame the anarchists and unleash more repression against them. Violent revolutionary activities should be directed specifically against state forces, and civilian casualty should be avoided as much as possible, so that the masses can never be turned against the revolutionaries.

Also, if it is so obvious that violent anarchists attack non-violent ones in demonstrations, then it must also be quite easy to identify the violent ones. This means that they have no real clandestine structure. This will become a decisive factor when class-struggle intensifies and the state becomes fascist. To make revolution successfully, it is necessary to maintain both legal or illegal mass fronts for recruiting, and a compact well-organized clandestine structure for carrying out specific military objectives in the initial days of the revolution. Italian anarchists should learn from their experience and realize these facts.

[bcbm]

325 (http://325.nostate.net/?p=2093) has more information

red cat- i think italian radicals more than most european countries would be familiar with the "facts" you talk about, with the whole years of lead thing...

[red cat]

325 (http://325.nostate.net/?p=2093) has more information

red cat- i think italian radicals more than most european countries would be familiar with the "facts" you talk about, with the whole years of lead thing...

Good for them and the revolution, then. Thanks for the link.

[Delenda Carthago]

I'm not exactly sure what they're political structure is like...Italy has probably one of the more significant anarchist movements in Europe at the moment, though, along with Greece. The main org. as far as I know is the "Informal Anarchist Federation", a designated terrorist group by the European Union. I guess that group is divided between anarchists who want a more PR-friendly anarchist group, and those were involved in actions like the attempted embassy bombings recently and bank robberies and things of that nature.

This is kind of a crappy and sarcastic article (http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/13805) about the Italian anarchist scene, but it's mildly amusing and provides some info.
Actually, in Italy, even the more militant forms of politics are mostly by communists.Italy never really had a massive anarchist movement. the closest to that they had was the Proletarian Autonomy movement in the 70s but it was still marxist communists.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Anarchy was big in the early 1920's in Italy.

[Kowalsky]

I'm not exactly sure what they're political structure is like...Italy has probably one of the more significant anarchist movements in Europe at the moment, though, along with Greece. The main org. as far as I know is the "Informal Anarchist Federation", a designated terrorist group by the European Union. I guess that group is divided between anarchists who want a more PR-friendly anarchist group, and those were involved in actions like the attempted embassy bombings recently and bank robberies and things of that nature.


the biggest anarchist structure in italy is the Italian Anarchist Federation (federazione anarchica italiana, you can google to find their website) it is legal

there is also to say that italian police labels as "anarchists" all the activists who not claims themelelf as communist.