Ukrajina

The time has come to elaborate further on our attack on Holosiivskyi district court in Kiev.

Among the commentaries on the attack, we’ve read more than once that some people don’t understand our motives. They don’t get how does Azat Miftakhov’s arrest in Moscow have anything to do with a courthouse in Kiev. We’ll try to explain, because it’s important to get this seemingly obvious message across.

Choosing the target:
We decided to go for a government court building. A lot of us have a good idea of what exactly is a courthouse today. Who among us hasn’t been in court? Who’s never had a friend or acquaintance on trial? Everyone felt this utter disdain for judicial robes, those who are fainter of heart – even fear. Why do we have to respect and accept them? Someone gave them the right to take our freedom and our lives, so now they sit there, up high, when you are languishing underneath, behind bars, with a watchdog in uniform hovering over you.

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La mattina del 12 marzo 2019, la polizia ha riferito di un attacco al tribunale.

Il giorno prima, noi – gli anarchici di Kiev, abbiamo tenuto un’azione di solidarietà con l’anarchico Azat Miftakhov detenuti a Mosca.

Una volta in carcere, nelle grinfie del sistema punitivo, i nostri compagni dovrebbero essere consapevoli del nostro sostegno, che di solito si esprime sotto forma di concerti, picchetti, lettere…. Ma più importante è la fiducia che la loro causa continua a vivere, la fiducia nella ragione e nella coerenza della loro lotta. Non ci interessa il coinvolgimento di Azat in esplosioni e negli altri episodi, perché chi si definisce anarchico è già colpevole e merita una punizione dal punto di vista dello Stato.

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[In italiano]

Anarchy Today Note: Ukrainian Media are unwilling to report the fire at the training center, yet the news and the photo are published in the Internet. We received the information by mail on September 20 2018. Тranslated by Anarchy Today.

Repressions and prisons have become part of our lives, as well as of lives of all those recalcitrant comrades who prefer to conduct an offensive struggle against the state and capital, attacking all manifestations of power and destroy the oppressive order. More and more often in the course of this struggle, we hear calls from all corners of the world for solidarity with repressed and imprisoned like-minded people, we hear stories how yet another one of us was put behind bars, beaten, tortured or even killed , and also hear how this or that infrastructure of anarchists was destroyed, plundered, how this or that initiative suffered from raids from punitive groups of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD).

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