Greeting to the memorial for Alfredo M. Bonanno in Carrara, Italy
From Act for Freedom Now!
Comrades,
By raising our insurgent fists from the Greek metropolis, we welcome your initiative to honour the memory of the comrade Alfredo M. Bonanno. A few kilometres away from you, the answer to the question “Why is it necessary to highlight the historicality of the work of the comrade Alfredo”, lies in the simplest of concepts: the constant need of a free person to revolt against misery and the constant necessity for the world of poverty to be completely destroyed.
At a time of political retreat and reform, it is our collective duty to undo the natural death of a comrade, giving breath and vibrancy to the propositions that characterized his life and his passing from every field of struggle. To fight radically and with a point of aggression, to sharpen the conflict in all the fields of social antagonism. To fight to win, not moments, but the totality of freedom.
Through his work comrade Alfredo constantly reminds us that it’s not slavery but consensus for fetters and subjugation that eliminates the totality of freedom. It is ultimately the same subjugated consciousness that reproduces the capitalist cycle of production and its bondage. Consequently, against the illusions of capitalist democracy the only way to step ahead towards freedom, is that of destruction, not reform. Of the destruction of state and capitalism, destruction of the democracy of illusions and subordination, destruction of every relation of power and exploitation that derives from sovereignty.
Comrades,
carrying on our backs the death of our own comrade, the anarchist fighter Kyriakos Xymitiris who lost his life during the early ignition of an explosive mechanism at a house in Ampelokipi on the afternoon of October 31st, the heavy injury and captivity of the comrade Marianna who was with him, then the manhunt of the anti-terrorist forces against the ranks of the anarchist revolutionary struggle with arrests, imprisonments and incrimination of our comrades, we only have to stand with responsibility and our heads held high in the face of the questions raised by the present to each and every one of us. Comrade Kyriakos was a revolutionary who gave this answer by taking the revolutionary cause very seriously. To the questions that arise from the lack that he leaves behind him, comes Alfredo’s theory to answer: anarchist struggle for absolute freedom, continuous insurrectional development, attack, attack, attack.
With revolutionary greetings
Co-operative for revolutionary solidarity
Translated by Act for freedom now!