The delegations from Switzerland, Italy, Germany, France, and Belgium, gathered for the March 2026 International Red Help Conference, send you their greetings.
During our conference, we learned of the deaths of two respected and valued anarchist activists from Rome, Sara Ardizzone and Sandro Melcogliano, while preparing for armed action. We honor their memory and extend our condolences to their families and comrades in arms, just as we honor the memory of the revolutionary fighters in India who have fallen in recent months under counter-guerrilla fire, those who have fallen in the resistance in Palestine and Lebanon, and those who have fallen in Aleppo and elsewhere, defending the revolution in Rojava.
We also salute all revolutionary prisoners, and particularly those who have resisted for decades in the terrible conditions of solitary confinement in Turkish and Italian prisons. The prisoners’ resistance is mirrored by mobilizations outside, in trials and in the streets, not only in support of the imprisoned revolutionaries, but also against the widespread repressive offensive. Our support also goes to those who, like Daniela Klette and the prisoners of the Red Brigades, are exposed to the endless vengeance of imperialist states because they symbolize a part of their country’s revolutionary history. We salute the political prisoners held in Iran, who, while at the forefront of the struggle against the reactionary and anti-popular Iranian state, refuse to be manipulated by the imperialist powers at war with that state.
This is a time of war, and therefore of resistance. Fighting against war means fighting against the militarization of society, minds, and the economy; it means understanding that the main enemy is within our own country. The prisons and courts of Europe are filling up with those who are fighting against this powerful trend, inherent to capitalism in crisis. The IRH salutes all these demonstrators, strikers, activists, and saboteurs facing repression and will work to support them.
We also salute all those who resist, by all means, the rise of fascism, both by resisting the ever more reactionary drift of governments and by wresting the streets from neo-Nazis. We thus salute those of Antifa-Ost, those involved in the Budapest affair, and those recently imprisoned in Lyon. We are living through difficult times, but precisely because they are difficult, they offer opportunities for the revolutionary movement to regroup, with new units and new perspectives.
It is in the face of repression that also targets Andi, one of the IRH secretaries, in a trial taking place this week in Zurich, and in the resolve to press forward on the path of social revolution, that the IRH’s biannual conference concludes; and we offer you not so much a greeting as a call to join us on the front lines against repression, fascism, capitalism, and war.