The following is a letter of support for Alfredo Cospito, an imprisoned Italian anarchist on hunger strike for more than 100 days against the brutal "41 bis" prison regime.
The translation is contributed by two American students of Italian.
The original writer is Italian political philosopher Donatella di Cesare. She is not anarchist; indeed, her framework of reference — democracy, citizenship, the Republic, rights or freedoms as bestowals of the state — is opposed to anarchy. That said, Di Cesare's letter of support is a contextually interesting document demonstrating how the mainstream Italian left perceives Cospito's case, the issues surrounding it and anarchists in general.
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