WORLD WORLD ITALY News Journal Update - (en) Italy, Poenta Chisolfa: "LIBERATION" BETWEEN CPR AND PRISON - WHAT ARE WE CELEBRATING? On the 25th of April (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 We asked ourselves what value can be attributed today to a day, such as that of

April 25th, which now appears completely disconnected from the liberating
conflict of which it should - instead - be the bearer. ---- To avoid falling into
the rituality of the "party", we therefore propose - precisely on Liberation Day
- to focus our gaze and attention on the places of imprisonment and internment
present in our society. The chronicles of the violence and abuses in uniform
carried out inside prisons are well known, as is the imprisonment against those
who, political prisoners, refuse to accept forms of human annihilation. Actions
such as writing, reading and communicating inside the prison - this is the case
of 41 bis - have been assumed by the state as apt to hypothetically place it in
danger, since to exercise them they would be subjects considered socially hostile
or subversive. Obviously, these are restrictions on the freedom of the inmate
that would envy the prison devices of fascism. But that is not all.

There is, in fact, what we can define as one of the greatest examples of
continuity between 'fascist injustice' and 'democratic justice': the
"Repatriation Centers", shared in their constitution by all governments and
destined to multiply under the pressure of the current one. "One per region" was
in fact - indecently - decreed by this government only a few days after the
shipwreck of Cutro, yet another state massacre.

The CPRs (previously CIE) are places of the state and managed by the latter to
multinationals: they are therefore places subjected to the ruthless law of profit
to be obtained on the skin of the inmates in which men become real 'damned on
earth', persecuted for the simple fact of being on Italian territory without a
document (considered) "valid". No crime, except that of having placed your feet
on the sand or having crossed the Italian passes, fleeing wars, hunger and
despair produced and reproduced by the capitalist West.
Those who are interned in these centers (they were established in 1998 by the
Turco-Napolitano Law with the name of C.P.T. - Centers of Temporary Stay -, later
called C.I.E. - Centers for Identification and Expulsion - by the Bossi-Fini Law
of 2002, and finally renamed C.P.R. - Centers of Permanence for Repatriations -
from the Minniti-Orlando Law of 2017) has the only "fault" of leading one's life
without the approval of the law. But which law is it? Of the 'democratic' one
which, while generically proclaiming some human rights, institutes forms of
surveillance and punishment which aim to annul and mortify those who are
"illegal" because they are not recognized by the state. These are men who live in
a worse condition than they would in any prison: in the CPR the inmates are
stripped of even those few rights that are (formally) recognized to every
prisoner. The result? Beatings, violence of all sorts, abusive administration of
psychopharmaceuticals, self-mutilation, suicide attempts.

Here then are the internal riots: the only fire in the night, the only hope for
the end of this unspeakable 'democratic' massacre.
Political responsibilities are transversal and multi-party; no party, least of
all the PD, can claim any opposition to the CPR. We say it clearly: the CPR
cannot be reformed, improved or "humanised", rather they must be eliminated and
abolished.

https://ponte.noblogs.org/2023/3233/sul-25-aprile/
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