Statement the Serbian Anarcho-syndicalist group ASI presented to the International Workers Association Congress in 2009 on the states attempts to fit up six anarchists.
Report on circumstances which led to arrest of Belgrade anarchists and International terrorism charges
In the night between 24th and 25th of August 2009, some time after 3am, two Molotov cocktails were thrown [...]
Recently, the charges were pressed against Ratibor Trivunac, Tadej Kurepa, Ivan Vulovic, Ivan Savic, Nikola Mitrovic and Sanja Dojkic, which assert that they committed an act of international terrorism,
defined in the clause 391 in the Serbian Criminal Law (CL). According to the charges, the defendants are members of the Anarcho-syndicalist Initiative. In addition, the defendants [...]
On Sunday, November 23 some comrades from the Metal Union and the Union for Various Services of the CNT-Madrid interviewed a member of the Federacija za Anarhistic(no Organiziranje (FAO), an anarchist federation of Slovenia. We were expectant to do this interview, as the comrade of the FAO maintains in regular contact with members of the [...]
Indictment for Terrorism against Anarchists – a Political Trial
On November 3, 2009 , the supposed throwing of two burning beer bottles at the Greek embassy was qualified by the Public Prosecutor’s office as a crime from the list of the most serious offenses. Six proved antifascists are thus being accused of no more and no [...]
Update: The court decided on December 7 to hold the Belgrade six in custody until their trial. This is expected to happen in the spring at earliest.
The IWA/AIT Secretariat and Serbian comrades have just informed us of some terrible news – the 6 anarcho-syndicalists from Belgrade, arrested and held in confinement since 5th September last, are to be tried for international terrorism. They face 15 years in prison. They are accused of being the authors of graffiti painted on the [...]
On Nov. 3 there was a protest at the Serbian Consulate in New York. A protest letter was delivered demanding the release of the comrades and leaflets were given out explaining the facts of the case and showing it in the larger context of repression of social movements in that country.
We hereby declare our unconditional solidarity with the five Serbian anarcho-syndicalists who have been imprisoned since September the 4th, facing the charge of “international terrorism.” Tadej Kurep, Ivan Vulović, Sanja Dojkić, Ratibor Trivunac and Nikola Mitrović, all members of Sindikalna konfederacija Anarho-sindikalistička inicijativa (ASI), were arrested some days after an action of solidarity with the [...]
On Oct. 27 there was a protest in Granada in defense of the Serbian anarchosyndicalists, arrested at the beginning of September. The CNT-AIT group protested for about an hour and a half on the Gran Via to call attention to the case. The comrades said that they would not allow the state to criminalize social [...]
At the beginning of the month was the premiere of the new film by director Zelimir Zilnik in Belgrade. The film entitled “the Old School of Capitalism” is a feature film set in Serbia, with the plot revolving around the recent wave of worker protests. There are also anarchosyndicalists in the film, played by Rata [...]
