FASCISTS AND POLICE THE USUAL SERVANTS OF THE BOSSES
The Northern League and Forza Nuova are playing a dirty game organizing rallies in the city centre, torchlit processions, pseudo security patrols, inciting racial hatred and homophobia; in perfect accord with the powers that be, democratic politicians and wealthy tycoons, they are in favour of war, the war of poor against poor; just ask your grandfather who they are, what happened with Mussolini in Russia, or ask your mother if she remembers the Bologna massacre…
While this is going on under the disgusted eyes of many people of Modena, the Police, faithful ally of the right, have intimidated, banned, repressed and arrested antifascists. In 10 days alone: 2 comrades are banned from the city after getting ‘orders to leave’ by the police chief: they’re guilty of putting posters whose antifascist content could lead to unrest. 2 antifascists are arrested following a provocation set up by the police as they go to raid some squatted council flats. 26 antifascists are served with ‘injunction to pay’ (a total of 70,000 euros) for an ‘unauthorized’ demonstration in solidarity with Emilio, a comrade from Cremona brutally injured after being ambushed by neo-fascists.
13 communist militants are ordered to report to the police station every day following a demonstration against ACER and its disgusting policies on housing issues.
For 7 months our comrades Tommi, Pippo and Andre have been held under house arrest, accused of sabotaging neo-fascist premises in the Parma area.
In a world where the only interests that will ever be defended are those of banks and industrial giants, it is normal that policemen are brandished as defenders of order and the fascists are having their political legitimacy restored. The role chosen by fascists and policemen throughout History is that of the bosses’ guard dogs ready to defend the privileges of the rich against any claim for social justice and freedom.
So we’re not surprised that at times when social tension is rising and the contradictions of the democratic farce come to the surface, repression and fascists are recycled to weaken the ‘antagonist’ and revolutionary movement.
As antifascists we chose which side of the barricade we want to be on a long time ago, against all arrogance and injustice and for freedom without compromise.
To all women and the men who are surviving in everyday life and see society as the problem and not the solution, we remember that no one ever gives anything away in this world!
Change is possible but it requires people’s awareness passing to action without delay! Workers in struggle who block production in the factories that exploit them, immigrants who set fire to the concentration camps they’re locked up in, youths who throw stones and firecrackers at fascist rallies and the police vehicles that protect them… all demonstrate that the need for change can’t be put off!
Our city, Modena, has a glorious history of resistance: years of peasants’ and workers’ struggles, the first GAP partisan groups, liberation from the fascists, the struggle in the iron foundries, the widespread disgust for the soldiers who occupy Palazzo Ducale, the local centre of identification and deportation ransacked by the prisoners themselves…
LET’S TAKE THE EXAMPLE OF THE PAST AND CARRY ON ALONG THE SAME ROAD!
ANARCHISTS AND ANTIFASCISTS OF MODENA
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From Machorka
Translated by act for freedom now