From: "FRANCO BARCHIESI" <029FRB-AT-cosmos.wits.ac.za>
Date:          Tue, 3 Jun 1997 10:37:30 GMT + 2:00
Subject:       ITALY-Repression Update, 3 June 1997


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> Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 09:56:33 +0200
> To: cslist-AT-ecn.org
> From: hobo <hobo-AT-iol.it>
> Subject: police charges against sit-in in Venice 

While we are writing, violent police charges are going on against 
comrades who are picketing the entrance of Mestre's court, where 
the trial of eight defendants from the "Serenissima Venetian 
Army" [the separatist group which occupied the St.Mark's Bell Tower 
in Venice two weeks ago, FB] is going to start this morning.

Police has firstly charged trying to drive the comrades back from the 
court's entrance, wounding one comrade and an elderly person who was 
passing by, unaware of what was going on. Further harsh charges have 
followed when a march of high-school students has entered the square 
and when the comrades have prevented LIFE [European Federalist 
Entrepreneurs' League, a bosses' racist and separatist-minded 
organization inciting to "fiscal revolt", FB] members Padovan and 
Rocchetta to deliver their racist propaganda in front of the 
court.

Our strong militant presence prevented the Nazi of "National Youth" 
from being present on the scene as announced to express their 
solidarity with racist secessionism (and they were right to be 
scared), while LIFE's militants took on to the streets (the bravery 
of thoughtlessness), openly supporting the armed separatist action 
by the "serenissimi".
All available evidence show by now that nazi and leaguist racists are 
two sides of the same coin: nationalisms converge under different 
facets. The comrades who came to picket Mestre's court want to expose 
current attempts at croatization and to prevent, by any means 
necessary, that the nazi-racist marriage gains political space. They 
want to show that there is a possible and viable alternative to the 
statism-secessionism scissor: that is the self-government of local 
communities, that can be expressed here and now through societal self-
organization. Against nationalism and racism. Beyond centralizing 
statism, but also beyond secessionist and federalist options.

For the self-government of cooperative, solidarity-based 
municipalities.

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