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/

Secours Rouge International: Death of Petra Krause

It is with a heavy heart that we share the death of Petra Krause, in the early hours of the morning, this April 2 in Milan. Born in 1939, Petra became politically active in the 1960s and engaged during the 1970s as a revolutionary internationalist in the struggles of various countries. She sought to connect the different political and strategic points of view of the time, from Spain to Northern Europe, and distinguished herself as a revolutionary through her practice in the field. It also links her to the revolutionary forces in Switzerland, where she was arrested in 1975 and kept under the torturer regime of solitary confinement. In prison, she confronts the enemy with determination, manages to establish a connection between the inside and a vast campaign outside, this has created a close political bond with her.

Extradited to Italy, she was released in 1977, through her role in linking various revolutionary approaches, from France to Greece, including during her period of clandestinity, when she tried to confront the forces that sought to abandon the revolutionary struggle, both theoretical and practical. Today, we pay homage to the revolutionary path she traced and continue to follow her in our practice, in the struggle for an internationalist, revolutionary and communist perspective.

Revolutionärer Aufbau Schweiz

Secours Rouge International

Source: https://secoursrouge.org/secours-rouge-international-deces-de-petra-krause/

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Red Help International Holds Conference

To our imprisoned and clandestine comrades,

On the weekend of November 16 and 17, the sections of the Red Help International came together for their conference. Our discussions focused on the general crisis tendency of capitalism, which is manifesting itself, among other things, in a strengthening of reactionary forces in the West, an intensification of wars like those in Palestine and Kurdistan, and an increase in state repression against social and revolutionary movements.

The ongoing genocide in Palestine and the war in Lebanon were at the center of our discussions. We emphasized the importance of strengthening internationalism with the revolutionary left forces active in resisting Zionism. In this context, we discussed the solidarity campaign with the «Popular Democratic Party» (PDP) in Lebanon and ways to support its political and social work on the ground.

We honor the strength and determination of the resistance at the forefront of the struggle against Zionism and imperialism, particularly the forces of the PFLP, We also honor all those continuing the fight from the prisons of the Israeli state, especially Ahmad Sa’adat. The internationalist struggle for the liberation of Palestine is similarly being suppressed in European societies, where many comrades in Germany, Belgium, Italy, France, and England are imprisoned or face repression. We express our solidarity with them, as well as with Georges Ibrahim Abdullah, for whose release we have long campaigned—a commitment we will continue, even though the court ruling of November 15 represents a step toward his liberation.

In Kurdistan, the liberation movement is facing an intense escalation of attacks by the fascist Turkish state in Rojava and the mountains. Despite these assaults, revolutionary forces on the ground have succeeded in strengthening the revolutionary people’s war and even striking the Turkish regime in the capital, Ankara.

In Europe, bourgeois states continue their offensive against the organized antifascist movement with mass arrests related to the so-called «Budapest complex». These comrades must be supported by all means, as reactionary and fascist tendencies must be fought on antifascist ground. We also extend our solidarity to the political prisoners Nikos Romanos, Marianna, and Dimitra, who were imprisoned in connection with the death of comrade Kyriakos Xymiris due to an explosion in Greece, as well as to Daniela Klette, who was arrested at the beginning of the year in Germany for militant actions of the RAF after having lived in illegality for more than thirty years. We wish her comrades Volker Staub and Burkard Garweg continued success!

The intensification of the situation reveals the internal crisis of the capitalist system and exposes the fears of the ruling classes. These crises present opportunities that must be seized to strengthen international solidarity and the revolutionary movement.

Solidarity with the Palestinian and Kurdish peoples! Solidarity with all peoples fighting against imperialism and colonialism!

Strength to all revolutionary, antifascist, and anti-imperialist prisoners!

Long live international solidarity!

Red Help International, November 2024

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📢  Déclaration de notre camarade devant les juges  🚩

La déclaration faites par notre camarade lors de son procès pour son engagement internationaliste au Rojava est disponible sur ➡️

www.secoursrouge.org/declaration-14-avril-2023

#Toulouse : Communiqué commun de #solidarité avec #Pablo #Hasél

http://www.cnt-f.org/cnt31/spip.php?article1254

“Depuis l’ancienne capitale des antifascistes et républicains espagnols en exil, nous apportons notre solidarité pleine et entière avec la #mobilisation en cours et nous exigeons la libération de #PabloHasél et celle de tou·te·s les militant·e·es arrêté·e·s et emprisonné·e·s !”

Signataires : Groupe Libertad – FA, #SecoursRouge Toulouse, UD CNT 31, Union #Antifasciste Toulousaine, UCL Toulouse.