Date:          Fri, 21 Mar 1997 13:24:18 GMT + 2:00
Subject:       Leoncavallo Trial's Sentence: Comrades' Communique


Dear comrades,

One of the main focuses of this list is the investigation of forms of 
societal self-management (autogestione) and self-organization of 
struggles. We have always acknowledged, among our various 
international contributions, the importance of the 
historical experience of the Italian revolutionary and antagonist 
movement, in a plurality of expressions, notable among which are the 
Self-managed Social Centres (Centri Sociali Autogestiti). Now, 
probably all of you realize that this interest is not only due to a 
theoretical preoccupation, but that it is connected to the 
collective and personal experience of comrades that for decades have 
been fighting, and still continue to, for what can be defined an 
idea of communism in the face of the brutal repression waged upon 
them by an Italian state for which fascism has consintently remained a 
police and judicial practices when dealing with social mass movements 
cathegorized as "emergencies" by these pigs. I received the 
following message this morning, and I can barely believe to what it's 
written in it. I think people on this list must make their voice 
heard in one way or another. I then transmit the message below with 
an English translation appended. The sentences for the more than 70 
comrades from the Social Centre "Leoncavallo" mentioned range from 5 
months to more than 3 year imprisonment.

AMNESTY NOW!!!
FREEDOM FOR ALL THE IMPRISONED COMRADES!!!
AUTOGESTIONE CANNOT BE TRIALED!!!

Hasta Siempre


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Subject: UN SECOLO DI CARCERE x il Centro Sociale LEONCAVALLO

Milano 20 marzo 1997
CENTRO SOCIALE LEONCAVALLO: UN SECOLO DI CARCERE


Un secolo di carcere per i 73 imputati nel maxiprocesso al Centro Sociale
Leoncavallo e agli altri centri sociali milanesi, e' stata la sentenza
emessa oggi dalla Seconda Sezione del Tribunale di Milano.

Una sentenza tutta politica, che accoglie in pieno le tesi dell'accusa, le
altissime richieste del Pm, l'incriminazione per una responsabilita' di
appartenenza ai luoghi dell'autogestione, che diventa di per se'
immediatamente prova dei reati, e tutta la costruzione teorica dell'accusa,
basata esclusivamente su dichiarazioni della Digos della Questura di Milano.

Una sentenza gravissima, che non potra' non avere ripercussioni sull'ordine
pubblico, e che penalizza fortemente decine di imputati, colpevoli
esclusivamente di avere dato vita a manifestazioni politiche nelle vie della
citta'.

(...)

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        CENTRO SOCIALE LEONCAVALLO
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ENGLISH TRANSLATION:

Milan, 20 March 1997
Leoncavallo Social Centre: One Century Imprisonment

A hundred years imprisonment for the 73 defendants in the maxi-trial 
to the Leoncavallo Social Centre and to the other Milanese social 
centres: this has been the sentence delivered today by the Second 
Section of the Milan's Tribunal.

An entirely political sentence, which fully endorses the accusation's 
arguments, the extremely heavy prosecutors' requests, the charge for 
being responsible to be part of spaces of self-management, which 
immediately becomes in itself a proof of the crime, and a whole 
theoretical construction exclusively based on the testimonies of the 
Digos [political police, FB] at the Milan Police Commission.

A very serious sentence, which cannot but have repercussions on the 
public order, and which strongly penalizes tens of defendants, 
exclusively liable for having given shape to political demonstrations 
in the town's roads.

CENTRO SOCIALE LEONCAVALLO
(message to cslist, Isole Nella Rete, http:///www.ecn.org/)

Franco Barchiesi
Sociology of Work Unit
Dept of Sociology
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