Irish Anarchists Show Solidarity with Ungdomshuset

Today from 2-3 pm comrades from Anarchist Prisoner Support, Polish Anarchist Federation, the Worker's Solidarity Movement and even some friends from Copenhagen gathered outside the Danish embassy to show their solidarity with the youth of Copenhagen in their struggle against the state.

The eviction of Ungdomshuset sparked a spontaneous show of anger against the Danish state, barricades and fires were built all over Copenhagen, as the youth took the battle to the police. The state has responded by throwing away its own rule book, adopting a tactic of pre-emptive arrests of radicals in order to quell the disturbances. At this stage, over 600 people have been arrested and of these 200 are being retained in custody.

People are being searched by the police if they look in any way unusual and It is possible to be arrested for as little as having text messages advertising demonstrations in your phone. People can be held in custody, even in solitary confinement purely on the basis of police testimony. Any foreigners who they suspect of being involved in protests are being deported. The police have attacked the right of the arrested to a fair trial by persecuting the prisoner support network Anarchist Black Cross, rading its offices, arresting its activists, and seizing its files.

Today we showed our solidarity with those arrested, and with the global the fight for free spaces. Join us next time.