WORLD WORLDWIDE GREECE News Journal Update - (en) Greece, Anargyro - Kamaterou: Text by N. Maziotis FOR THE DEPARTED COMRADE ALFREDO BONANNO (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Comrade Alfredo M. Bonanno passed away at the age of 86. He lived a

whole life in the world of struggle and anarchy. He was one of the main
representatives of the insurrectionary tendency of the Italian anarchist
movement with a great theoretical contribution and publishing work. He
was editor of Anarchismo magazine and other anarchist publications. For
his action he was repeatedly persecuted and imprisoned by the Italian
state together with other comrades, in the 1990s for example for the
O.RAI case (in 1996), the armed expropriation of the rural Savings Bank
of Serravalle in the Trento area in 1994 and other attacks.

He had come to Greece several times. The first time I met him was in
January 1993 when he visited me in the military hospital 424 in
Thessaloniki after 50 days of hunger strike that I had carried out. I
had just been released from being a prisoner in the Thessaloniki
military prison for refusing to do military service. In 1999 he had also
come to Greece and had testified as a political defense witness in my
trial for the placement of a bomb that I had carried out in the Ministry
of Development in December 1997 as an act of solidarity in the then
dynamic struggle of the inhabitants of the villages of the Strymonikos
gulf in B.A. Halkidiki (Olympiada, Varvara, Stavros, Asprovalta) against
the installation of the Canadian multinational gold TVX GOLD, which has
been succeeded today by Hellas Gold, a subsidiary of Eldorado Gold. It
was a historic political trial in the then annals of the Greek anarchist
movement where for the first time in Greece after the fall of the junta
there was a defense of armed-dynamic forms of action. In that trial, in
addition to the Greek comrades/comrades, they had testified after an
international call for solidarity, in addition to Alfredo Bonanno,
Costantino Cavalleri, a comrade of the insurrectionary tendency of the
Italian anarchist movement, and comrade Hellyette Bess, who was a member
of the French organization guerrilla Action Directe and had been
imprisoned for several years for her participation in the organization.
The 3 then imprisoned members of Action Directe, Jean-Marc Rouillan,
Joëlle Aubron and Nathalie Ménigon, had also sent a written message of
solidarity to the court.

The last time I saw Comrade Alfredo was in 2010-'11 in Korydallos
prisons when we were remanded in custody for our participation in the
Revolutionary Struggle. He was also remanded in custody on the charge of
bank expropriation in Greece. With Comrade Alfredo despite the different
approaches to the struggle and the way of acting, we are connected by an
invisible thread as with so many other comrades around the world who
dedicate their whole lives to the struggle to free humanity from the
shackles of the state and capital.

COMPANIES STAY ALIVE IN OUR MEMORY AND STRUGGLES

Nikos Maziotis, convicted

for the action of the Revolutionary Struggle

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