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It wasn´t meant to be a demonstration day, and it didn´t happen so. There are women and men not willing to accept borders, barbed wires, administrative detention, mass of migrants dying at frontiers and in the seas, concentration camps. Within a day of international struggle, with manifestations in several countries and in Italy, at the Brenner border hundreds of comrades fought.

It´s difficult to imagine a much more adverse situation like a little frontier village, with only one way of access. Who came there, did it so, with their hearts, with the consciousness that the struggle has it´s cost, expecially against the concentrationary Europe that the States are building. The Austro-Italian border is just a little piece of this wall, and it´s near us.

The most precious aspect is definitely this: bravery as a quality of the spirit, of the soul, not merely a "muscolar" fact.

We are proud to have had near us generous women and men, with an ideal to fight for. During the tour to expose our intentions for that 7th of May, and was a lot of them, we were always clear: if there will be borders, we will try to attack them, alternatively we will block the communication ways, to prove that for those gentlemen in charge, the point is not just building walls, but rule them to decide who and what pass or not: we said it could have been a difficult day.

Our goal was to block railroads and highway. It happened exactly like this, and it is clear that if between a combative mass and it´s objective, interpone the frontier made of Polizia and Carabinieri, the result is a riot.

We managed to reach the Brenner without asking permit to anyone, beacuse we did it collectively, with a train and a long car convoy. We jumped on a train, without paying, a Obb train, railroad company responsible for face controls and refoulements, the others with cars, their determination to react promptly avoided the cops controls at the highway exit. Autos that weren´t in the convoy were blocked and they couldn´t reach the Brenner.

Saturday also was a day angainst frontiers because of the partecipation of many austrian comrades.

We had limits of organization and comunication, sure, but this is a discussion between comrades.

We proudly assert the spirit of the 7th of may, with stubborn will, to continue the struggle against borders and their world.

The solidarity to the arrested comrades, it was warm, and they are now with us. In the prison of Bolzano, the non political convicted expressed joy to our solidarity, the four comrades were welcomed like brothers and sisters.

What make us shocked reveals always who we are.

For us the damaged clock at the Brenner station has this meaning: let the time of submission have its stop.

Abbattere le frontiere - Destroy the borders

A communiqué from abbatterelefrontiere.blogspot.com