A-Infos (en) UK, AFED, Organise - Solidarity Without End - June 11 2026 (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

This year as we are marking the International Day of Solidarity with 
Marius Mason and All Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners we are thinking about 
the nature of solidarity as ever-changing and never-ending. Our 
solidarity is not just for those who are imprisoned, but for all those 
who are harassed, intimidated, deported, hunted, on the run, tortured, 
and even killed - not just for individuals but for the struggles they 
are a part of. Just as repression ebbs and flows and state tactics 
adapt, transform, and innovate, so must our practice of active 
solidarity. We must adapt to the changing terrain and needs of our 
movements.

Solidarity does not end when trial ends and a verdict is reached, when a 
hunger strike has gotten its demands met, or even when somebody is 
released from custody back into the arms of their family and friends. 
The consequences of state repression last long beyond big moments and 
media attention. Whenever one cycle of struggle winds down as the target 
of the state, another will take its place. Whenever one comrade is 
released from prison, another will be taken in. Our support must 
continue to ripple out beyond our friends and immediate networks. It 
must extend beyond the borders of states into all lands and territories 
where people are fighting. It must expand beyond the present moment, 
honoring comrades of the past and thinking of what legacy we will leave 
for those who come after us.

While our tactics and strategies change and evolve over time, we must 
always meet the moment with an impulse to push ahead and not remain 
waiting. We may take moments of evasion and defensive posture, only to 
come back stronger and more intransigent. The context we find ourselves 
is always changing, but our purpose remains the same. Solidarity without 
end means always acting towards the goal of destroying the prevailing order.

The stakes remain the same even as the terrain shifts. The threats 
remain the same even if they are becoming more common. Previously short 
sentences have become longer with terrorist designations and 
enhancements. Camps develop beside prisons. Policing becomes a more 
obvious occupation. Murders become genocides. This isn't new, but really 
a return to a previously escalated state that built the settler-colonial 
empires. The far right reactionaries of the world have been regaining 
influence and power for quite some time, building off of the fear of 
concurrent crises, while the moderates try to cling to a modern status 
quo by treading water in a rising, turbulent tide. The crises are real - 
so are the economic downturns and increasing shortages, and so will be 
the violence handed down from on high as authorities try to maintain and 
further centralize their power.

Anarchists and others who speak and act out are already being explicitly 
targeted in Iran, Russia, Belarus, Indonesia, Italy, Greece, Mexico, the 
US, and elsewhere. Those who seek to maintain the status quo cry out, 
"they can't do that!" We acknowledge they always have, if only on 
smaller and more polite scales in the recent past. The fear of those in 
power is also being realized, as we see the proliferations of uprisings 
around the world crashing like waves upon an eroding beach. We see how 
authority is vulnerable in crisis as the fight returns to old venues 
like workplaces and barricades, while we also plot out new avenues of 
attack.

The consequences for acting against the dominant order seem to be 
escalating, so we are pushed to acknowledge what we've always known to 
be true: half measures are a trap. Collaborating with the left and 
moderate statists on their terms is just empowering them to their own 
coercion and top-down violence should they win out. We find productive 
accomplices when we act on anarchist principles, building empowerment of 
everyone against any new authority. The power over our lives must remain 
in our own hands - unmediated - and it seems a great deal of people 
acknowledge this when data centers and artificial intelligence become a 
focus of resistance.

The ongoing climate catastrophe was acknowledged by our imprisoned 
fighters decades ago while new technologies like AI continue the 
ecocidal course. Preparing for the shortages, we shell up to 
counterattack - ideally without fortifying to the point of not being 
adaptable. As the terrain shifts we can remain mobile, without waiting 
for the new repression. Solidarity without end is anticipatory as much 
as it is active.

Confronting the real stakes of our struggles - life and death - need not 
lead us down the path of constant pessimism. Instead, it can provide us 
with the gift of appreciation for each small victory and mundane, 
beautiful thing. This too, is a cycle of solidarity. There are days that 
break our hearts. There are days that once again fill them up again so 
much we fear they might burst out of our chests. Each comrade is 
precious. As is every release, acquittal, dropped charge, or 
non-cooperating plea to get time-served, each small victory won through 
a strike, each collective action or bold individual revolt despite 
everything telling them its not worth it. We must allow every one to 
bring a smile to our faces, even while so many others remain caged. We 
must allow each small victory to take its place in the narrative of our 
struggles, connecting past to future. We must let this appreciation give 
us strength and daring. This year, we are celebrating the recent release 
of Hybachi LeMar, Peppy, and Casey Brezik. Marius Mason, after nearly 
two decades in federal prison, is set to be released to a halfway house 
in May of this year. Charges are starting to get dismissed for the Stop 
Cop City defendants in the U.S. Monica Caballero in Chile is up for 
another chance at parole. Charges have been dismissed against a comrade 
in Munich and 5 anarchists in Belarus have been released. Active, 
principles, and expansive solidarity continues across the world, 
especially exemplified by comrades in Greece around the Ampelokipi trial.

PRISONER UPDATES

After 17 years, Marius Mason is set to be released from federal custody 
this year, though the timeline is uncertain. He will be going to a 
half-way house in Michigan. From his statement accompanying this 
announcement: "What I really want you all to know is how incredibly 
proud it made me to be part of a community of resistance that stood 
together. It impressed the people I met in prison for so much love and 
solidarity to be expressed so powerfully for someone who was behind the 
walls. It demonstrated that in our movement, though we were physically 
separated, we could stay together in spirit, that solidarity and love 
are action words, and that we are all in it for the long haul."

Michael Kimble, still going through a legal process do get re-sentenced 
and hopefully released, was recently transferred to a lower security 
work release facility. He can now at least get some fresh air. 
Fundraising is ongoing for his legal fees and to support him financially 
in the meantime. Sean Swain is up for parole again. Xinachtli has been 
transferred to a new unit where his conditions of extreme medical 
neglect of only worsened. Despite being unable to walk, he has been 
denied mobility aids. Nevertheless, he continues to write, create, and 
resist.

Casey Goonan, a dedicated community educator, writer, distroist, and 
printer who has lived a life committed to struggles for liberation was 
arrested in June of 2024 for actions, including the arson of a UC 
Berkeley Police vehicle, in response to the University's treatment of 
student protesters for Palestine. In September of 2025, Casey was 
sentenced to 19 years in prison. Casey had been in holdover at FCI 
Mendota, awaiting their permanent placement. Life at FCI Mendota was 
uncertain and challenging, as they were denied access to sufficient 
medical care to manage their diabetes, and had lived without personal 
property, stimulating programs or much time outside their cell. In 
February 2026, Casey was finally to FCI Allenwood in Northern 
Pennsylvania. This placement might be temporary, but for the time being 
they have better medical care, phone access, time out of their cell and 
time in the library. They are working on a habeas petition with another 
legal team in order to appeal their conviction and sentencing.

The Prairieland Case revolves around a noise demo on July 4, 2025 at the 
Prairieland ICE Detention Facility in Alvarado, Texas. It is the Trump 
administration's first attempt at an 'Antifa' terrorist organization 
case. The defendants are facing incredibly lengthy sentences as the 
prosecution has emphasized a conspiracy among a wide network of 
defendants, alleging a planned ambush on officers, and is using this 
case as an opportunity to set a precedent of extreme consequences for 
protesting ICE and the Trump administration. Nine of the defendants have 
undergone federal trial, eight of whom have committed to 
non-cooperation: Autumn Hill, Zachary Evetts, Champagne Song, Savanna 
Batten, Maricela Rueda, Elizabeth Soto, and Ines Soto, and Daniel "Des" 
Rolando Sanchez Estrada. Defendants have weathered confusing antics and 
an initial mistrial from the Trump-appointed judge. Sentencing will 
happen in the early summer, though legal teams are looking at the 
possibilities of appealing the verdict. Additionally Joy "Rowan" Gibson 
and Rebecca Morgan have both signed non-cooperating pleas and are 
awaiting sentencing. Other defendants are have upcoming state-level 
trials. Five of the defendants have chosen to cooperate with the State. 
Attention, support and solidarity for the defendants who have committed 
to non-cooperation will be a long-term endeavor.

Malik Muhammad spent much of this past year in solitary confinement at 
two different facilities in Oregon. Malik has stayed active sharing 
writing, learning to draw, and embarking on hunger strikes and phone 
zaps to protest their mistreatment and that of other prisoners. On the 
heels of a phone zap campaign to get Malik out of solitary, they 
disappeared from prison databases for a week during an interstate 
transfer. Malik is now in prison in South Carolina, a move that is 
retaliatory in nature due to Malik's identity and recalcitrant political 
activity.

A new case came about against several anarchists after an accidental 
explosion in an apartment in Greece on Halloween of 2024. Several who 
weren't present were acquitted, including Nikos Romanos who was charged 
after a single fingerprint of his was found on the outside of a trash 
bag. Unfortunately, Dimitra received an 8 year sentence for merely 
lending a key to the apartment for visitors to stay in, and Marianna 
received 19 years just for being present in the apartment while her 
partner, Kyriakos, worked on the device. Marianna was severely injured 
in the explosion, and the counter-terrorism unit (always aggressive 
towards anarchists) crossed many lines with her as the took samples of 
her DNA while she was unconscious in her hospital bed, for instance. A 
week of solidarity began in the week leading up to the April start date 
of the trial, and scuffles occurred outside the courtroom between 
supporters and police quite early on. Throughout the course of these 
events we are shown how anarchists can be "proudly faithful to the 
concept of active solidarity" and continue to advocate for freedom, even 
under duress.

This spring in Chile, Mónica Caballero will be under review for 
conditional release once again. The commission of judges from the court 
of appeals has previously denied her release, despite meeting all legal 
requirements, due to her anti-authoritarian politics. This comes as no 
surprise to those that remain enemious to the authorities and their 
order. Her accomplice, Francisco Solar, returned to general population 
last year after five years in solitary. He remains defiant, as evidenced 
by his words for Sara and Alessandro, who died in Italy this past March 
while making an explosive device.

Italian anarchists have been undergoing waves of repression. After a 
demonstration in March of 2023 in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito during 
his incredible 6 month hunger strike, the Italian state has turned its 
ire toward many of the demonstrators present that day. "Operation City" 
is the pursuit of those comrades in Turin who sought to undermine 
Italy's attempt to kill Alfredo, and to protect themselves in the course 
of the protest. More than 60 people were charged, interrupting their 
lives. Those 18 comrades facing conspiracy to commit aggravated damage 
and conspiracy to commit assault against a public official have now been 
convicted with sentences ranging from one-and-a-half to five-and-a-half 
years. The comrades accused of complicity in acts of vandalism, 
aggravated resistance, and possession of offensive objects now face a 
trial which is expected to begin in November of this year. Alfredo 
remains imprisoned under the draconian 41 bis regime, where his 
supporters expect his torturous conditions to continue.

In Belarus, anarchists Andrei Chapiuk, Akikhira Hajeuski-Khanada, 
Mikalai Dziadok, Pavel Shpetny and Aleksandr Kozlyanko have been 
released! This typically means being expelled from the Belarusian 
territories and needing support in starting over. In 2025, nine 
anarchists had their prison terms extended - from 6 months to 2 years - 
for "persistent disobedience to prison administration." Early this year, 
Nikita Dranets, Aleksey Golovko, and Aleksandr Frantskevich also remain 
in prison after receiving up to an additional year on their sentences. 
At the end of February, the KGB updated the "List of persons involved in 
terrorist activities" to include anarchists from the Black Nightingales 
group: Siarhei Zhyhaliou, Trafim Barysau, Dzmitry Zakharoshka, 
Aliaksandra Pulinovich, and Maryia Misiuk. This means that in addition 
to the 10-13 year sentences they received for "plotting anti-war 
sabotage," they also can't receive any money transfers - meaning they 
can only purchase goods using funds that were already in their accounts 
beforehand, or money they "earn" through labor in the colony they were 
transferred to. Maryia Misiuk, a Ukrainian citizen, was released and 
deported last November, but was then exchanged in a Russia-Ukraine 
prisoner swap immediately after and sent back to prison in Belarus - she 
and her codefendants were also only teenagers at the time of their 
arrest. ABC Belarus continues doing support work for these and others, 
including holding an event in Germany about the 2020 protests and the 
repression of the Anarcho-Partisans who continue their two decade sentences.

In Germany, repression presents itself as authorities are frustrated 
over their inability to catch or prosecute infrastructure saboteurs. A 
raid in March on Infoladen and Scherer 8 house project in Berlin tried 
to connect anarchists to these acts. Many prisoner support events have 
occurred there in the past, and will continue. In Munich, the Zündlumpen 
case continues its rollercoaster trajectory. Unable to link a third 
person to the anarchist paper, the state had to dismiss the case of 
criminal association, but the other charges persists. The two anarchist 
comrades, Manuel and Nathalie, who remain persecuted, face charges of 
arson and theft, respectively. The latest hilarious write up calls into 
question the dubious claims around the state's body odor evidence and 
their claims to unwarranted wiretaps, but concludes: "We in any case 
will leave the jurists to their legalism and would rather stick to our 
anarchism."

In 2025 ABC Moscow carried out several successful evacuations of 
anarchists facing criminal charges in Russia. They also continue to 
fundraise for Ruslan Sidiki's legal fees as he awaits a ruling on his 
appeal against a 29 year sentence for anti-military actions. Ruslan has 
been denied access to reading material and the state refuses to 
investigate the torture he endured during his arrest. He received a 
record-setting sentence for a non-lethal drone bombing of a military 
airfield and derailing a freight train in 2023. The Russian state has 
also retained custody of Nikita Uvarov by opening a new case against him 
during his final month in a penal colony. He had nearly completed his 
five year sentence for hanging up posters in support of prisoners, 
talking about blowing up the FSB building in minecraft (literally), and 
playing with firecrackers with his friends. He was originally convicted 
when he was just 14 years old. Moscow ABC was also criminalized so a new 
organization called Fires of Freedom has been created to operate legally 
in the country. They recently began a fundraiser for anarchist and 
former 20-year political prisoner Ilya Romanov, who requires the help of 
a full time caregiver.

After incredible anti-government riots in Indonesia in 2025, dozens of 
cases have been opened against anarchists. According to a few of the 
anarchist prisoners, "703 political prisoners - although we reject that 
label - are still undergoing legal processes or are detained" as of 
March 2026. The approximately 70 anarchists facing charges includes 
Albi, Pem, Herdi, Adit, Naufal, and Dena, who all have trials beginning 
in April of this year. Rizky Ardiansyah (known as Riky) and Muhammad 
Rafli Andriansyah (referred to as Kipli), among the first to be arrested 
after the uprising, face severe charges that are said to be more 
political than factual. In at least one instance, Alfarisi bin Rikosen 
(one of 32 anarchists detained in Surabaya) died as a result of the 
police torture he endured. Such abuse seems widespread among all 
detainees. Many of the anarchists face 5 year sentences for riot, arson, 
and property destruction - but a handful face more than 20 years each 
stemming from accusations of more violent actions and supposed 
leadership. One of these comrades, Adit, is a part of the 
state-fabricated, 40 person "Chaos Star Network" - and the state has 
successfully accumulated a great deal of trial-ready evidence against 
him. He was already under surveillance, possibly stemming from the case 
against him from 2024, in which he, Opal, Pem, Herdi, and one person who 
turned informant, are accused of blowing up a police outpost in 
solidarity with Alfredo Cospito, Nikos Romanos, and all anarchist prisoners.

After five years of imprisonment in Mexico, and several more years of 
legal fights (and four ongoing years of exile), Mazatec anarchist Miguel 
Peralta beat the attempted murder charges stemming from his 
participation in the defense of the Xangá Ndá Ge River more than ten 
years ago. This February 2026 resolution could help alleviate the 
judicial burden on much of Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón where more than 
50 arrest warrants were issued around indigenous resistance to resource 
extraction companies and other incursions of capital and the state. At 
the time of this writing we are awaiting a full acquittal for Miguel. 
Anarchist Arturo Lugo was arrested in Guadalajara on January 8, of this 
year, likely in retribuion for his participation in the protests at FES 
Acatlán school (UNAM), where he was stood up against institutionalized 
sexual harassment in 2020. In Mexico last year, Jorge "Yorch" Esquivel 
was not provided prompt or adequate medical aid for his chronic 
gastrointestinal issues by prison authorities. He died in hospital on 
December 9th, 2025.

The genocide continues against Palestinians; atrocities continue against 
the people of Sudan; wars continue in Ukraine, Iran and Myanmar; and 
clashes continue in Syria and Rojava. The millions fleeing violence and 
persecution create populations of refugees in camps as well as diasporas 
and intermingling of revolutionaries across borders. There is an 
increase in not only arrests and imprisonment but state executions. Iran 
has already sentenced to death dozens of protesters from the uprising 
earlier this year. Among the hundreds of Iranian detainees are 
anarchists Soheil Arabi and Afshin Heyratian. Israel is posed to execute 
possibly thousands more Palestinians under a new law. Anarchists, 
because of our orientation of constant hostility towards the state and 
other oppressors, always face a baseline of oppression. We must assess 
how this repression evolves not only in right-ward turns and collapsing 
empires, but also in times of all-out war, within and even beyond the 
borders of all the involved states. "Rights" and what we come to expect 
from police behavior and court proceedings can be trusted less and less. 
States of exception become the norm. Anarchists and anti-authoritarian 
internationalists must figure out how to adapt to these changing 
conditions, resist the narratives of state-vs-state conflicts, and be 
pro-active in defending each other and offering radically different ways 
of living.

The state pursuing cases of conspiracy around movements, ideas, values 
and associations is likely to only grow. If they can't catch individual 
actors, they will move to make us all suffer. While this context might 
be unique in some ways, the methods are a regurgitation of what has come 
before, a repetition of what has always been. This approach is meant to 
instill a paranoia and fear in us; it is meant to create a fear that 
breaks us. To make us fear our relationships and see those around us as 
only a potential 'risk' to our sense of safety or comfort. It is in 
committing to turn away from this fear and instead choosing to bolster 
ourselves, our relationships, our networks of counter-repression and our 
capacity towards action in all its forms, that we can grow to be truly 
strong, bold, and moving towards freedom, regardless of the changes in 
the terrain of laws, alliances, prisons and the ruling order.

Things in the world are shifting and unraveling. Each moment of revolt, 
when anything feels possible, is inevitably followed by lulls, burnouts, 
repression, and the threat of a suffocating routine. Experimentation and 
taking different types of risks is necessary, as is the constant balance 
of living in the present while considering the terrain of our lives and 
movements, long-term. Where in your own life might you try something 
new? Learn to take a chance on something intangible, or move on 
something with a measurable effect? How can those in jail or prison be 
better included in what is happening in your life? What are some ways to 
widen the crack in the facade of impenetrability that those in power 
intend to impose? How might you handle repression in your life and help 
those around you cultivate ideas and practices that empower us to stand 
up against the state? How might these practices be innovated, multiply 
and trickle beyond our worlds?

Our practice of solidarity is not just one of obligation, but of 
recognition that an ever-expanding and never-ending solidarity as part 
of the path to all of our freedom. Because we know ourselves to be more 
connected, stronger, and ultimately more capable when it is always a 
part of what guides us. We know there is no fixed limit or end, and the 
need for solidarity will always be there. We know that we find richness 
in the ways that it deepens our movements and selves.

https://organisemagazine.org.uk/2026/06/11/solidarity-without-end-june-11-2026/
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