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Sardinian anti-Isis fighters targeted by the Italian state
Arrests of Sardinian activists expose the imperialist war network and those fighting it, writes ROSA GILBERT
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The arrests of Sardinian independence activists involved in Kurdish solidarity activism in September signals a troubling new development in the Italian state’s participation in the criminalisation of the Kurdish struggle.
It also reveals a key nexus of the imperialist war machine that is perhaps not so well known in Britain.
The vast, barren landscapes of Sardinia which give it its wild sense of beauty provide the perfect environment for military infrastructure and practice sites and its location in the Mediterranean makes it conveniently positioned for conflicts, real and potential, in the Middle East.
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