A-Infos (en) Sicilia Libertaria: Letter from Sulmona prison - Abolish 41 bis and life imprisonment (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Unfortunately, Italy does not comply with the repeated requests of the 
Council of Europe. The Strasbourg Convention has long asked for the 
introduction of rules that provide for the revision of 41 bis because it 
limits freedom and is at the limit of the constitution, and that provide 
for the review of trials judged unfair by the Court itself. ---- All the 
battles that concern certain arguments, such as that for the livability 
of prisoners, must not be sectoral, but broader and for everyone without 
privileging one category. A valid and sacrosanct request is the total 
abolition of 41 bis, and, hopefully, also of life imprisonment.

Therefore it is important that when we set objectives we do so for all 
prisoners and it is always good to be careful not to engage in overly 
personalistic battles and to take into account how a claim of people or 
a category can merge with everyone's claims.

All struggles are very valid and must be supported by everyone according 
to their own beliefs and in the ways that everyone deems appropriate. 
Because there is not a single path or a single idea that leads to 
freedom; it is only the richness of experience that brings together 
everyone's ideas. You succeed, you mature and you take steps towards 
your emancipation.

The pacifism and passivity of certain movements and people have led us 
to be like little lambs ready to be eaten by wolves. We support 
counter-information, which supports action and direct action not only 
within the struggle movements, but aimed at all the exploited. May words 
always be supported by action, the only thing that gives credibility to 
us and our words; the enemies are television, newspapers, lies and 
blackmail. We have love, truth and courage, creativity and intelligence 
that qualify the actions of those who rebel against power. There are 
thousands of books on the evils of war, industry, pollution, on the 
wrongdoings of governments. Putting on a label of any kind, whether 
communist or environmentalist, does not make us any less complicit. 
Freedom is not part of this world, because if we look carefully there is 
no country where we can say there is freedom. Freedom belongs only to 
those people who act and fight to be free from torturer governments. 
From how this society works we can decide how to behave in the face of 
laws that others have established for us.

Even before asking ourselves whether or not it is right to punish those 
who break the rules with prison, we must ask ourselves who decides the 
rules of this society, why is the worst violence - think of wars or the 
hunger imposed on millions of people - perfectly legal? Why do you end 
up in prison for an accident but make a career or even become a "hero" 
if you bomb an entire population?

I've spent more than 50 years in prison and I still don't see any light; 
everything I present is rejected. This is because I don't want to sell 
myself and I don't want to lose my dignity; I know well that they will 
make me die in prison but I don't change my life rules and self-respect 
at all. Living, fighting, rejoicing, suffering and dying in the pursuit 
of freedom is worth more than the most comfortable and peaceful life 
that an exploited person could desire.

We must be aware that we cannot just rejoice because life is full of 
many aspects. I would like to tell many people how disgusting and 
wasteful they were, for the harm they did. But I have to say thank you 
to others, I am convinced, even if I often feel alone with myself, they 
are close to me! It is difficult to understand which side is right to 
place the heart on, because it would be attackable on every front. The 
more the years pass, the more disappointments increase; the more years 
that pass, the more difficult it is to understand what part of your 
heart to show; the more years that pass the less I know how to do it, 
yet they say that not even the loneliest of the loneliest is alone. But 
then no one is alone!!! I say it, I repeat it to myself, I try to 
convince myself, I provoke it, but I think I will remain incapable of 
understanding it and giving myself a comprehensive answer. I will 
continue to trust in the fact that time will help me with its 
discontinuous course and that instinct will always suggest to me its 
most hidden paths.

Antonino Faro

Sulmona prison

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