Italy: Tribute to Sara Ardizzone and Sandro Mercogliano, Anarchists Who Fell in Action
On March 20, 2026, in Rome, anarchist activists Sara Ardizzone and Sandro Mercogliano fell while preparing an armed action. Gathered for its biennial conference, the International Red Aid issued a statement paying tribute to their revolutionary determination, their human generosity, and their unwavering commitment to the cause.
We pay tribute to Sara Ardizzone and Sandro Mercogliano, anarchist activists who fell in action, in Rome on March 20, 2026.
Sara and Sandro fell while preparing an armed action. Beyond the circumstances, the meaning of their sacrifice lies entirely in the revolutionary determination, the human generosity, and the unwavering commitment to the cause that they demonstrated throughout their lives.
It is also with these essential qualities that resistance can be transformed into a new revolutionary process. Sara and Sandro understood that only open confrontation allows for the development of class consciousness, determination, and the strength necessary for a revolutionary process. In a society like ours, where social compromise, disintegration, and subordination still prevail, it is through concrete acts of rupture, through the coherence between project and practice, and through the corresponding growth of activism, that we can act, create openings, and forge new perspectives.
The State and capital have unveiled their democratic mask. Wars, devastation and pillage, genocides, perpetrated with arrogance, point us back to their constitutive essence, their economic functioning, their origins. The fronts of resistance around the world are our reference point, our strongholds, around which to unite and from which to learn. Sara and Sandro fell precisely while seeking to realize this solidarity, this vision, with the same generosity with which so many fighters around the world offer their lives. And in this, as in the best revolutionary eras and as demanded by the tragedy of the current historical crisis, a concrete internationalism, a revolutionary future, can be founded.
Honor to Sara and Sandro and to all those who fall fighting for the revolution!
Overthrow capitalism – build solidarity!
International Red Aid
Zurich – Conference March 2026
Source: https://secoursrouge.org/italie-hommage-a-sara-ardizzone-et-sandro-mercogliano-anarchistes-tombes-en-combattant/
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