Memory and struggle for the anarchist comrades Sara and Alessandro!

From Act for Freedom Now! - Chile, 29th March 2026

On March 20th, some sad news reached us from the other side of the ocean: two anarchists are dead. They were preparing an attack against capitalist inertia. An attack against desperation, against the convenience of obedience, which is always the easier road compared to the uncertainty of rebellion.

P0rt0 Al3gre. For Sara and Sandro at the Italian Consulate

From Act for Freedom Now! - Brazil

The affinity we share and expand is in large part realised by our confrontation with power, which we communicate through actions, calls, responses, and reflections that spur us on to further action. That affinity also comes, and deeply so, from tenderness between comrades, which is one of the forces that drives us to act, so that they feel that in the anarchist struggle, we are here too!

With Sara and Sandrone, with heads held high

From Act for Freedom Now!

About the initiative in Rome on March 29th 2026

We are putting together and publishing some short texts and images from the initiative of domenica 29 marzo a Roma [Sunday March 29 in Rome] in memory of the anarchist comrades Sara Ardizzone e Alessandro Mercogliano. In spite of the attempt to block the morning’s appointment, a demonstration was held in the early afternoon leaving from the Quarticciolo. All those arrested in the morning (at least 91) were taken to the immigration office of Rome police station and released in the evening. Yet again, the day of Sunday showed the attempts of the repressive forces to isolate Sara and Sandro – first by unleashing a mass-media campaign aimed (in vain) at undermining their integrity, then systematically trying to block the moments and initiatives in their memory – but did not obtain the desired effect. Soon we will also be publishing other texts and images of 29 March in Rome.

An idea of freedom. For Sara and Sandro

From Act for Freedom Now! by Biblioteca Anarchica Disordine

That Sara and Sandro’s gesture was the decisive affirmation of the “here and now”, we can only imagine. As anarchists and comrades we feel a strong need to stand by them and defend them from anyone who allows themself to slander them. And we are in no doubt that revolutionary violence is part of anarchism and an antiauthoritarian idea that would uproot every kind of oppression and hierarchy. An idea that expresses itself with many varied methods and which, when it decides to use violence, never strikes in the heap but aims its attack against oppression and who and what constitutes one of its gears.It is pointless for the hacks of power, the investigators or whoever else to spout off with hypotheses aimed only at denigrating and speculating on the comrades who have lost their lives. What we want to reaffirm is the defence of an idea of freedom, necessary part of who goes right into the theory and practice of their ideals, who strongly feels this daily tension that pushes them to act, that torments them constantly where injustice and oppression reign.

March 21st Text in memory of anarchist comrades Ardizzone and Mercogliano (Italy)

From Act for Freedom Now!

Our ability to speak and communicate does not allow us to venture down the unbeaten paths of personal accountability for the risks we take. Any discussion along these lines remains inevitably tentative and inadequate. To truly seek freedom — in its authentic and complete form, not in the counterfeit versions bestowed and imposed by the state — means entering into the realm of risk inherent in the quest itself. In this realm, our choices — often wild and solitary — carve out a path of no return. Freedom is a quality that is experienced by putting oneself at risk.

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