AGAINST SOCIAL AND POLITICAL REPRESSION

A parliament with a neo-fascist majority is about to approve a law (known as DDL1660) that aims to criminalize any form of dissent and limit everybody\u2019s freedoms, including twenty-four items such as new crimes, sanctions and aggravating circumstances for existing crimes.

This new law is part of the exclusively repressive strategy with which the Meloni government wants to suppress any form of social and political opposition in Italy, and which has already seen the \u201canti-rave\u201d decrees, Cutro decrees, Caivano decrees and the new traffic laws.

We are confronted with the acceleration of a repressive pathway that has been implemented by all successive governments, whose sole objective has been the progressive contraction of the spaces of freedom and social and political action. The anarchist movement is particularly under attack, and is being hit with all the means at the disposal of the state not only for its presence in situations of struggle but also at the level of freedom of expression. There is an increasingly pervasive use of control technologies and police measures: the presumption of guilt allows for the control of anyone regardless the commission of any crime. Urban Daspos [an administrative measure preventing somebody from attending certain places on the ground of arbitrary assessment of \u201cdanger\u201d] and expulsion orders are imposed on the mare basis of alleged “social dangerousness”.

Even at the local level we are witnessing an increase in repressive situations. With the excuse of urban decorum, also in function of tourist exploitation, certain categories of “undesirable” people also identified through ethnic profiling, are being expelled from some urban areas. In the city of Rome, with the jubilee of the Catholic Church, these measures will see a certain increase.

The presence of the military in the streets remind us that the big problem of governments is the internal enemy: the proletarians, the exploited, the migrants, the non-homologated, the poor, over whom the “criminal law of the enemy” is exercised. The doors of prisons and CPRs [expulsion camps for migrants] are always open for them, and now exported across borders in an absurd escalation of hatred towards people who only seek to escape from hopeless situations.

The anarchists of the FAI confirm their commitment to the struggle for freedom in a society without controllers or prisons.

The XXXII Congress of the Italian Anarchist Federation -FAI, Carrara 3-6 January 2025

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