In between all catastrophies, people will free each other.

And like eagles, because of the height that they dominate.Their ideas will come again.

Against all watchful eyes and killers from any State : here therewill be revolution. We'll do it! And we'll triumph. Because freedom

always triumphs, even when it's defeated. Like that old legendabout the phoenix, and because for the town, strength is life.

Excerpt from “Here There Will Be Revolution” by Rodolfo Gonzalez Pacheco

RESIST / ORGANISE / REPLICATE

CONTENTS4. International Resistance News

7. Letter from Father of G.Skouloudis7. llegalist - From Il Machete

8. For Riotous Assemblies not Reasonable Dissent9. UK Anti-Fascists Under Repression10. Letter from Anarchist/Antifascist

Prisoner Thomas Blak10. Police are murderers and assassins

11. The Struggle Against the Existent Continues14. To address moral elitism in the anarchist mileu ...

15. Incitement to Burn18. Beyond the ‘Movement’ - Anarchy!

19. Against the British ‘anti-capitalist movement’ ...21. To act without outside authorisation, clearance

or a big pat on the back from the movement22. Civilisation collapses

22. From a Rioter23. ‘Rain & Fire’ by UK sector of FAI

26. A few notes on recent repressive attacksagainst anarchists in taly

27. To believe, to obey and to work27. Between indifference and war

28. Letter from Martino29. The Val Susa struggle

30. Spring attacks from the FAI30. ‘Direct Action’ by Rodolfo Gonzalez Pacheco

31. About the case of Silvia, Costas & Billy32. Letter from Billy34. About Solidarity

35. About the “Conspiracy of Cells of Fire” case36. Letter from imprisoned members of the CCF

37. Letter from Damiano Bolano38. Letter from Christos Tsakalos41. ‘THE SUN STILL RISES’ by CCF

46. ‘Rebellion’ by Rodolfo Gonzalez Pacheco47. P.Argyrou - Statement to the Court

52. Cells of Fire are Our Souls53. Political Statement of P.Masouras

57. ‘DO NOT SAY THAT WE ARE FEW’ by FAI60. Mass sabotage in Berlin

61. Sketches of the last few yearsanti-militarist praxis in Germany63. ‘There is nothing to reform’

by Gabriel Pombo da Silva64. Direct action news from Germany

64. Nests of Bombs by Rodolfo Gonzalez Pacheco65. Liebig 14 Evicted

67. Anti-Prison Demo in Canada68. Communique from Individualists Tending Toward

the Wild for an attack against professors ofnanotechnology - Mexico

73. Solidarity with Chilean Struggle74. Letter from Mónika Caballero

74. ‘With the Rebels...’ by Rodolfo Gonzalez Pacheco75. Tortuga Presente!

78. El Tortuga - A poem79. The rebellion continues.. by

Circulo Individualista Aves del Fuego82. News from the Social War in Sulawesi

and Java - Indonesia section83. To Rediscover our own History is toUnearth Hope - Indonesian anarchism

86. Fuck the State of the NationAddress Demo - Philippines

87. ‘Long live Anarchy!’ by Rodolfo Gonzalez Pacheco87. Indigenous people of Agta Dumagat

call for struggle against APECO88. A Statement by a Russian FAI/IRF group

89. Brief Global Reports90 & 91. Anti-info + Distro / LSD Chaos

ACN

Front cover images:UK insurrection of August 2011

Back cover images clockwise:CCF Soli-action at Italian Institute in Athens

Banners outside the trial of Billy, Costas & SilviaDemo for free education in Santiago

London riot cut-up & Royal couple attacked at student demoAthens fire attack against corporate vehicles

Claim from ICR/FAI Indonesia at scene of ATM blastFAI Letter bomb sent to Korydallos prison, Athens for CCF

Youth attacks military police in Santiago during student demoBurning barricade during 1st May in Barcelona

London, August

325 zine #9October 2011325.nostate.netEDITORIAL

Welcome to 325, a radical publicationof subversive news and articles. Thisissue was put together after the riots inAugust, in UK. Since 2003, thisirregular and provocative D.I.Y. periodi-cal, forged from the efforts of aninternational network of contributors,has provided access for prisoners andrevolutionary anti-capitalist & anarchistgroups to spread their ideas andactions. Things change fast so be sureto look out for news-info and prisontransfers to stay up to date with thesituations reported.Our website carriesselect news, analysis and regularupdates from anarchist and anti-system groups world-wide. You can findlinks to radical websites for regularlyupdated anti-info. Each time a newissue of 325 is released, a free PDFdownload version is always availablefrom our website, where you can finddozens of free pamphlets and othermaterial to copy and distribute.Contact us with your stories andreports, or throw us a benefit and passsome cash our way. That way we canexpand 325 further, putting out thesuppressed and vilified information todistribute the anarchist concepts andintentions of the militant groups andindividuals in revolution. This magazineis committed to the struggle forfreedom, and we ally ourselves with allthose who are in conflict with the manyregimes and who wish to act for abetter world.

Anarchy - No bosses, no police, nopoliticians, no churches, no prisons, nocapitalism, no government, no citizens.Mutual aid, voluntary co-operation,solidarity, individual liberation, self-organisation and direct action - theseare our aims, methods and principles,which embody the future we want toestablish, in freedom, and if this is notimmediately possible, then let’s each ofus, who have made the decision to freeourselves, live with the flame of insur-rection burning inside...

The murderous and usurping bosseswho try to control our lives are in fear

for their plans as the populations growrestless from the economic, social andenvironmental catastrophe.

From UK, Chile, Italy, Greece, Indone-sia, Egypt, Tunisia, to Spain, Libya,Mexico, Yemen, France, Belgium andbeyond – the people cry out forfreedom and express their valiantideals through action.

As the global anarchic insurrectionconstructs informal and self-organisingminimal structures of communicationand co-ordination, our authoritarianenemies obviously wish to monitor,disrupt, imprison and neutralise thosewho oppose them. This includesgenerating hostilities between would-be allies, infiltration of groups, creating‘honey-pots’, setting people up andsometimes proceeding to provoca-tions, threats and harassment,abducting and torturing people, vilifyingthem, attacking their family, etc.

When we declare “The State is theterrorist”, this is not only to refuse thedefinition of ‘terrorism’ set in stone bythe State. It is also to express that wereject the application of ‘innocent’ or‘guilty’ to our actions of liberation - todeclare our revolutionary nature anddenounce State and Capitalism.

We wish to destroy the conditions ofcivilisation and so this project willnecessarily strike a terror into thehearts and minds of not only those inpower but those who support it.And so it should. Witness the closeddoors, the deserted streets, thepanicked brigades of citizens followingthe uprisings in the UK, the frightenedand battered police running in fearfrom the angry crowd in London,Athens, Santiago, and elsewhere.Witness the panicked scientists andagents of control as their post blows upin their face in Mexico, Italy and beyond.See the flapping media-houses andjournalists raging as their grip oncreating fictions is broken, along withthe mirage of objectivity they conjure.See their hatred and lust for revengeagainst the scapegoats and non-conformers from all walks of life.

Terror for terror. Terror for the lifecontrolled, manipulated, broken intopieces and turned into a genericproduct for profit.

Whilst a new generation of resistanceis waking each day, and as more andmore people feel their consciouschoice take them to a constantrejection of sad slavery : the questionremains, is it too late?

The geo-political scramble to securethe dwindling exploitable reserves of oiland gas forces the industrial-capitalistsystem to address its capacity tosustain itself. It aims to do this throughmaintenance of social order through anew-fascism and through futuristictechnologies, making a crusade intothe manipulation of matter and even‘reality’ itself.

Nanobiotechnology and the ‘advances’of the new sciences harbour the nexttidal wave of exclusion and control, inthe guise of the progress of civilisation.

How much deeper can the penetrationof capitalism and technology get intoeverything? How much more life will thesystem of domination annihilate andwarp before its sickening institutionsare wiped from the face of the planet?

Don’t wait to find out. Live your life asyou want to, never agreeing to thesocial consensus and accepting thebosses talk, as you have always done.Organise yourself into affinity groupswith your close friends and take backyour life. Every refusal of the power ofauthority only makes our strugglestronger, and their system weaker andmore likely to crash.

Become sparks in gun-powder...

Against the modern totalitarianism

Fight hard for Revolution

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ILLEGALIST

The revolutionary is the ultimate illegalist.The person whose actions always conform to

the law will be, in the best of circumstances, awell-domesticated beast, never a revolutionary.

Law conserves; revolution regenerates.

If one wants change, it is thus necessary tostart by breaking the law.

To claim that revolution can be made whilerespecting the law is an aberration, a

contradiction. The law is a yoke and anyonewho wants to be free has to break it.

Anyone who deceives the workers with theemancipation of the proletariat through legalmeans is a swindler, since the law forbids

snatching wealth from the hands of themasters that robbed us. Their expropriation tothe benefit of all is the essential condition for

the emancipation of humanity.

The law is a brake and we don’t free ourselveswith brakes.

Every freedom that humanity has conqueredhas been the work of illegalists who have

mastered laws in order to smash them to bits.

Tyrants die, stabbed, and no article of the legalcode could have gotten rid of them.

Expropriation can only come about by breakingthe law, certainly not by submitting to it.

This is the real reason why if we want to berevolutionaries, we have to be illegalists. It isnecessary to get off the beaten paths and open

new paths to transgression.

Rebellion and legality are irreconcilable. Leavelaw and order to conservatives and hucksters.

From Machete #1

Letter from GiorgosSkouloudisTo begin with a few words from the father of anarchistGiannis Skouloudis...

“(‘Terrorism’ as an act of innocence…) Since when are 20 yearold kids called terrorists? To be baptized Christian at the ageof 2 and a terrorist at 22, to be praised when you read non-school books and then have them used against you as probativeevidence, to be made to wear white shirts in the parade andnow white bulletproof vests in the courts…”. Think aboutthat…

Its been 7 months since the day they arrested my son GiannisSkouloudis for the arson of vehicles of the D.E.I. (National Elec-tricity company) [in Thessaloniki}. His claim of responsibility forthis action resulted in his imprisonment in the youth correctionalprisons of Avlona as the state calls these modern hellholes of hu-man souls.

Watching the war intensify all this time I felt the need to greet,wanting to give strength and courage to all those who stood nextto him, those who resist, fight and continue fighting inside andoutside the walls against this rotten system that wants us all to beslaves. Against the bending, ass-kissing and grabbing what youcan. Against good manners, the myth of a set life and the modernway of life that, as a supreme ideal, sells quietness, order andsafety.

From my position as a parent I am proud of my son and his atti-tude but also of all the other kids that fight for the freedom ofthought and the individual.

And a few words for the parents. We brought our children into thisworld, we raised them and the time has come for us to let themlead us into the future. Let’s not try to keep them tied up in thepast any more. Let’s stand next to them at the barricades and let uslearn from them.

I send my solidarity to all political prisoners but also to allthose outside the walls who continue to fight choosing thedifficult path towards absolute freedom.

GiorgosSkouloudis

May 5th, 2011

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Here is an incomplete list of incidents ofsocial war. Any chronology of resistancewill always be partial. Check out our weblinks for 24/7 world-wide reports!

17/9 - Devon, UK : 2 young lads (15) cause£18,000 damage to their school bysmashing windows, but were unfortunatelycaught.

17/9 - Waterlooville, UK : Tesco corpora-tion supermarket burnt down.

17/9 - Mexico City, Mexico : Explosiveattack against empty police vehicle claimedby Autonomous Cells for immediateRevolution - Praxedis G: Guerriero

16/9 - London, UK : Molotovs thrown atoccupied police riot van in Edmondton.

12/9 - Athens : Anarchist arson barrageagainst Marks & Spencer and Benettonstores solidarity with UK rioters and Chileanfighters. The claim includes a sectioncondemning the ‘North London SolidarityFederation’ for collaborating with the media-police language of repression.

11/9 - Chile : Massive riots and resistanceacross the country to denounce the anniver-sary of the fascist coup of Pinochet and theneo-capitalist continuation.

11/9 - Athens : Attack with molotovs andstones against a van of riot-cops.

25/8 - London, UK : Molotovs against policeriot van that was patrolling in the nightthrough some riot areas.

24/8 - Bristol, UK : Lloyds TSB banksmashed in solidarity with those imprisonedand wanted for the riots.

23/8 - Hornu, Belgium : School set on fireafter bricks smashed the windows andmolotovs were thrown inside.

24/8 - Ragusa, Sicily : Revolt in detentioncentre for immigrants. 50 people escape and5 cops are injured. 13 migrants werearrested for public order charges.

23/8 - Hoveton, UK : Arson of a localauthority vehicle that was parked outside thepolice station.

22/8 - Seraing, Belgium : Right before hehad to appear in front of court, a prisonerescaped after his girlfriend appeared with agun in her belt. When she leaned over to kiss

him, he took the gun and pointed it at thetwo guards accompanying him. The guardsraised their hands, the couple ran andcarjacked a car.

22/8 - Bristol, UK : Arson of ‘Orbis/Sitex’security van.

20/8 - Lisbon, Portugal : Molotovsagainst police station in the Bela Vista area.

17/8 - Soignies, Belgium : 14 vehicles ofPost company damaged. This companymanages the bank accounts of prisons anddetention centers in Belgium.

14/8 - London, UK : Anarchists and angryrebels attacked the RBS in Batterseasmashing the windows with stones. Theattack was done in solidarity with the 6 anti-fascist prisoners in UK and the arrestedrioters.

11/8 – Bristol, UK : Right-wing newspa-per offices attacked with stones and paint-bombs causing £20,000 damage.

11/8 – Bristol, UK : ‘International ELF-FAI’ claim responsibility for a BBC Radiotransmission mast which went up in flamestaking a Vodafone antenna with it. Theaction is dedicated to those in the prisonsand those fighting the cops in the streets.

9/8 – Nottingham, UK : Co-ordinated hitsagainst five police stations in the city, themain one is targeted by a serious attackwith molotovs.

9/8 - Birmingham, UK : 30-40 maskedrioters attacked police with molotovs andgun shots. The police helicopter sent tooversee the police response came underfire and had to leave the area. No one wasarrested for the incident. Police withdrew.

8/8 – Bristol, UK : During rioting in theinner-city St Paul’s area, an Eon vehicle(multi-national electricity company of coaland nuclear) was torched as well as aBMW adjacent. ‘Informal AnarchistFederation / Eco-anarchistInsurrectionaries’ took responsibility.

8/8 – Across the UK : Cities and townsbegin to explode into anti-police, anti-stateriots that last considerable days and whichend up as the heaviest social uprising fordecades, infusing a new hatred of thepolice, the government and media into analready polarised atmosphere. Masslootings occur in many places and thou-

sands of businesses, corporations, govern-ment offices, luxury vehicles, police cars areattacked and destroyed. The insurrection ofthe masses of the people does not stop fora number of days, as many people join thehit-and-run.

7/8 - Morlanwelz, Belgium : Two luxurycars set on fire. Politicians and media saythat the arson was inspired by the riots inLondon.

6/8 - London, UK : The August riots beginwhen arrogant cops brutally beat a 16 yearold girl at a vigil for murdered local man,Mark Duggan, in Tottenham. An iconic redLondon bus is set on fire, police cars aretorched and the cops are overwhelmed.

2/8 - Essex, UK : Arson against a carshowroom causes more than £200,000 ofdamage.

31/7 - Jamioulx, Belgium : Three escapefrom prison after taking a guard hostage.

31/7 - Rome, Italy : Riot at immigrationdetention centre, 8 cops injured. The centreis damaged by fire and heavy fighting.

31/7 – Santaigo, Chile : Santander Banksmashed with hammers and rocks by theEarth Liberation Front (ELF). From theclaim : “Santander Bank has someparticular points that encouraged us to payit a visit. In addition to investing in thebusiness of arms and wars, it also financesthe businesses Endesa (Enel) and Colbún, co-owners of HidroAysén. The hydroelectricproject that intends to build 5 dams inPatagonia, in addition to the construction ofa large power line. Which will destroyhundreds of hectares of wilderness and withit the lives of thousands of wild species. Noris it a coincidence that two months ago, in alocation near to the one that was attacked,comrade Tortuga was injured in an attemptto place a bomb. Comrade, this act offreedom was for you–strength!” The actionis dedicated also to several eco-anarchistprisoners around the world, including theConspiracy of Cells of Fire (CCF) in Greece.

29/7 – Lyon, France : Detention centre forimmigrants set on fire. Hundreds ofthousands of euros damage estimated. 8people were caught allegedly red-handed.

28/7 - Trento, Italy : Vodafone antennadestroyed by fire in solidarity with Billy,Costa and Silvia and the struggle againstthe TAV [high-speed train] development inVal Susa.

22/7 - Zurich, Switzerland : AXPOelectricity-nuclear energy companyheadquarters attacked and slogans sprayedfor Billy, Costa and Silvia, broken windows.High Court also attacked, which was thesame court eco-anarchist prisoner MarcoCamenisch was condemned.

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17/7 - Berlin, Germany : Police were peltedwith stones, bottles and fireworks during ademo to remember the murder of Italiananarchist comrade Carlo Giuliani at the G8summit in Genoa. 34 police were injured.

13/7 - Berlin, Germany : Police station in anorthern district of Berlin is hit with fire-bombs. A slogan in remembrance of CarloGiuliani, an anarchist comrade shot dead byItalian police on 20 July 2001, at an anti-G8summit in Genoa, was spraypainted on a wallof the police station.

10/7 – Athens, Greece : 12 cars of OTE, aGreek phone company are set on fire by anew cell of the second generation CCF.‘International Revolutionary Front /Conspiracy of Cells of Fire / LucianoTortuga Core’ take responsibility. “How doesthe light begin from a star and pours intoblack eternity and walks immortal? The stardies, but its light never does, such is the cryfor freedom.”(N. Kazantzakis)

9/7 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia : Mass illegaldemo against the dictatorship. More than25,000 people took part, and whilst itprovided a platform for democratic reform-ists, most ordinary people who took part justwanted to prove to other Malaysians thatthere are possibilities to make a socialrevolution. And also to show the truth ofdictatorship rule. Anarchists took part in thedemo, which saw over 1600 arrests andbrutal military repression aimed at prevent-ing the “hibiscus revolution”.

9/7 - Gross Lüsewitz, Germany : GM cropsites raided and destroyed. Half a dozenmasked attackers overpowered the securityguard watching over test fields in GrossLüsewitz, near Rostock in the evening. Thenthey destroyed a field of GM wheat resistantto fungal diseases and a field of GM potatoesengineered to produce cyanophycin, anamino acid polymer that could potentially beused to make plastics. Two nights later, adozen attackers threatened guards withpepper spray and bats at a demonstrationgarden in Üplingen, in the state of Saxony-Anhalt. They destroyed a field of GM pota-toes and trampled GM wheat and maize.Police estimate the damages from theattacks at more than 250,000euro. Nosuspects have been arrested.

6/7 - Sydney, Australia : Attack on HellenicBank in solidarity with those fighting on thestreets of Greece during the general strike.Anarchist group Midnight Koalas tookresponsibility.

4/7 - Athens, Greece : Arson of the Mayorof Papagou’s personal car by the Interna-tional Revolutionary Front /Conspiracy Cells of Fire / RevolutionaryGroups for the spreading of Terror / Cellof Abnormal – Heretics

4/7 - Athens, Greece : A group of peopleattacked the riot cop unit that wasstationed at the corner of Navarinou andMavromihali street, near the offices ofPASOK (the ruling party). They threwmolotovs at the riot cops and afterwardsslipped away through the surroundingsmall streets towards Exarchia.

3/7 - Val Susa, Italy : Hours of battles asthe police protect the destructive develop-ment of a valley region 50km north of Turinfor the high-speed train (TAV). Nearly 200police were injured and a quite a few ‘NoTAV’ activists also.

28/6 - Moscow, Russia : Police station inKantemirovskaya street destroyed byarson. Solidarity with anti-fascists of NizhniyNovgorod.

27/6 - Athens, Greece : Italian Instituteoccupied in solidarity with imprisonedcomrades Giorgos Nikolopoulos andChristos Tsakalos of the CCF. The two arethreatened with extradition by the Italianauthorities for an inflammatory parcel thatwas addressed to PM. Berlusconi by theCCF (for which 2 CCF comrades havemade a political responsibility: GerasimosTskalos & Panayiotis Argyrou). Bannerswere hung, texts given out, flyers in thestreets, emails and fax sent to Greek andItalian media.

24/6 – Nottingham, UK : G4S vehiclewindows smashed and exhaust pipes filledwith expanding foam. G4S security guardbeaten and given communique. Actiondedicated to Jimmy Mubenga, Angolanfamily man killed by G4S during deportationand anti-fascists under repression inNizhniy Novgorod, Russia.

21/6 – Modena, Italy : Excavator andtruck set on fire at a construction site forthe TAV.

21/6 - Moscow, Russia : Four luxuryvehicles destroyed by arson at a Lexus/Toyota dealership. ‘ELF-Russia, Interna-

tional Network of Action and Solidarity /International Revolutionary Front’ tookresponsibility. The action was dedicated toLuciano ‘Tortuga’, wounded anarchistcomrade in Chile.

17/6 - Cambridge, UK : HSBC, Lloyds TSBand Barclays banks all had anarchist, anti-police, anti-work slogans sprayed on them,locks glued, ATM’s sealed. The ‘JobCentre’was also sprayed with anti-work slogans aswas a few other nearby businesses, whichalso had their locks glued. Action declaredin solidarity with eco-anarchist prisoners.

13/6 - Rekola, Finland : Rail securityelectronics installation sabotaged throughuse of fire shutting down the train networkacross the area.

11/6 - Peru : An unnamed church isarsoned by the ‘Circle of IconoclasticAction / FAI’ in solidarity with eco-anarchists around the world, the “CasoBombas” prisoners in Chile and in remem-brance of Mauricio Morales, anarchisturban guerrilla killed accidently during anoperation in Chile.

9/6 – Southwest, UK : Saboteurscaused mayhem on the rail network whenthey wrecked a signal cable, bringing 60rush-hour services to a standstill for 3hours.

6/6 - Moscow, Russia : ‘Anarchist UrbanGuerrilla Unit’ torches police stationlocated at 130 Profsoyuznaya Street,Building 4, Moscow.

5/6 – Highgate Farm, UK : Vivisectionbreeder has his delivery vehicle go up inflames. Animal liberationists take responsi-bility.

4/6 – Santiago, Chile : Santander bankattacked with stones, hammers and paintin solidarity with Luciano ‘Tortuga’ andMapuche indigenous fighters who are inChilean prisons on hungerstrike.

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4/6 – Athens, Greece : A network offighters declared their position in agreementof the principles of the ‘InternationalRevolutionary Front’, through a text whichwas released after a central downtown T-Bank was smashed with sledge-hammers ona Saturday night, near the main policeheadquarters. ‘International RevolutionaryFront / Conspiracy of Cells of Fire /Revolutionary Groups for the Spreading ofTerror / Core of Vandalisms’ took responsi-bility and declare their existence. From theclaim : “... Ready to give it all to the Revolution-ary Crime and Widespread RevolutionaryGuerrilla, we are also an internal enemy ofthe regime. A permanent internal threat. Allthis because we are tired of the void of lifethat is offered to us by this World throughthe civilization that is promoted by its society.We despise the relations of Authority and themisery of Economy. We are tired of thestandardized behaviors. We are disgustedwith the psychiatric clinics, prisons, schools,work, religion, but also with all the slaves thatare subjugated and maintain all the above. ...”

2/6 - Nottingham, UK : Offices of theJustice Secretary Ken Clarke attacked withpaint and anarchist slogans.

1/6 – Bristol, UK : Anarchists smashedtwo banks and their ATMs in solidarity withrecent rioters in Stokes Croft area of Bristol,numerous anarchist prisoners and also withLuciano ‘Tortuga’.

1/6 - Butovskiy Forest, Russia : As one ina series of actions, ‘ELF-Russia, InformalAnarchist Federation / InternationalNetwork of Action and Solidarity’ tookresponsibility for the arson of electricalmeasuring and control devices in 2 under-ground service booths of a water communi-cation system that brings hot water to amilitary intelligence site in Butovskiy forest.The group also spiked the road the militarypersonnel use for maintaining the system.Solidarity attack with eco-anarchists MarieMason and Eric McDavid in USA.

30/5 - London, UK : Swiss Embassy inLondon attacked with bricks against glassand locks glued. For eco-anarchists Silvia,Billy and Costa.

27/5 - Nottingham, UK : Surveillancesecurity company attacked by anarchistswho smash many windows

23/5 – Cambridge, UK : Lloyds TSB andBarclays banks locks glued, ATM’s sealed andwindows spraypainted.

18 & 20/5 - Moscow, Russia : Policevehicle and Ministry of the Interior vehicletorched by ‘Earth Liberation Front – Russia/ Informal Anarchist Federation’.

4/5 – Bristol, UK : Anarchists torched 3vehicles of the Probation Service at their LET’S DESTROY THE CONTROL ROOMS & REALITY STUDIOS

offices in solidarity with local arrestedrioters after police evicted a nearby squatcalled ‘Telepathic Heights’.

29 & 25/4 - Bristol, UK : Stokes Crofterupts into rioting “…for the second time inseven days, Stokes croft became thescene of intense rioting. Running battleswith police riot units all the way up Chelten-ham road, burning barricades in St. Pauls,trouble in Cotham, widespread disorderand violent resistance against the cops inthe affected areas. Reports circulating thatHorfield prison has also erupted in a prisonriot, news of which is being suppressed.Also, a few days earlier police had sup-pressed a film night about the riots held ina residential area with a massive policepresence, leading the film to be shown in aresidents back garden.”

27/4 – Lublin, Poland : The ‘1st of Maysolidarity group’ took responsibility for alarge paint-bombing against a bank placedclose to a police station in the city. Anar-chist slogans were left declaring solidaritywith anarchist prisoners in Greece andChile.

25/4 – London, UK : Anarchists attack aSantander bank with stones and leaveanarchist slogans of solidarity with “CasoBombas” in Chile.

20/4 - Rosewell, Scotland, UK : Ma-chines sabotaged at Rosewell/CastleBridge Coal Mine. Extensive damage doneto four dumper trucks, two large excava-tors, two heavy duty bulldozers, a genera-tor and a pump. Action done in solidaritywith the communities of the Douglas Valleywho are currently resisting plans to roll outthree new mines over the next couple ofyears.

20/4 - South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK :From the claim : “... Two huge graders atBroken Cross Open Cast Coal Site in SouthLanarkshire were trashed. One of themwas as big as a three story building and

used to load coal on to lorries, headed forrailheads and power stations. Hydraulics,electrics and steel cables were cut, andanything breakable was broken. ...”

19/4 – Nottingham, UK : G4S security vanset on fire by anarchists. Action done insolidarity with the Chilean comrades of the“Caso Bombas” investigation/frame-up.

19/4 - Helsinki, Finland : Police attacked bysetting burning barricade in the street thenattacking them with stones and paint-bombswhen they arrived. No arrests

18/4 - Barcelona, Catalonia : Italianconsulate attacked with molotovs in solidaritywith the comrades under repression in Italy’slatest clampdown.

18/4 – Bristol, UK : 15-20 windowsdestroyed at the offices of Mitie, a govern-ment contractor.

12/4 - Bristol, UK : Mitie van torched inBristol. From the claim: “... for LucaBernasconi, Silvia Guerini, Costa Ragusa,Giannis Dimitrakis, Alexei Gaskarov, MaximSolopov, for those targeted in the policecrackdown on the anti-authoritarians in Italy;for the Indonesian insurrectionists.”

26/3 - Bristol, UK : “... both the T-mobile andVodaphone repeater towers each burned outin Hambrook and Siston Common andLongwell Green. Solidarity to anyoneanywhere truly fighting for the death of theliving corpse machine, not its remaking,whatever your choice of tactics.”

26/3 - London, UK : Black Bloc of 500individuals trashes a path through the city ona breakaway from a Trade Union organised‘Anti-Cuts’ demo.

25/3 - Bristol, UK : RBS Bank attacked withstones and paint by anarchists in solidaritywith anti-mining struggles in Canada andIndonesia.

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The atmosphere of UK State repression and‘queen’s peace’ was definitively broken onthe 10th November 2010, when theMillbank Tower, Conservative Party HQ, wasstormed by a mob of malcontents, during ademonstration against student fees.The roof-top scenes of occupation andproperty destruction dispelled the long-heldbelief that the cops have the upper hand onthe streets of the United Kingdom, andespecially in the open-CCTV-prison of London.Something much more occurred that daythan the complete trashing of the rulingpolitical party’s headquarters in the capitalcity – an aching festive class violence wasopenly expressed and transmitted every-where via global media, to all others inresistance around the world.

Again this incredible force was experiencedon 9 December [another rowdy student/anti-cuts demo in central London], and it stillonly felt like the beginning. The opportunity ofthis moment is the opportunity for masssocial rebellion. And within this is thenecessity for those that consider them-selves already a ‘politically conscious’ and‘active’ class to know when to keep silent,when to step aside and to recognise thatthe opportunity being presented to them isto divest themselves of their own redundant,prescriptive and obstructive attachment totheir own models of theory and action.

Numerous ‘interactions’ (‘direct actionskillshares/trainings’, ‘meetings’, calls for acentralising ‘Network’/Platform) havepopped up over the past couple of weeksduring the student uprisings. There iscertainly value in telling people to mask upin demos, for example, or what to do whenarrested, but is there really a value in‘teaching’ rebellion, aside from the need ofthose teaching it to assert their own egoand present themselves as experts instruggle? In the recent riots, the crowddidn’t need to be trained or incited toattack police vehicles and occupy ordestroy buildings, it occurs anywhere thepeople feel confident enough to resistopenly en masse.

The anti-capitalist ‘struggle’ in the UK has,in the last ten years, largely producednothing worthwhile aside from myriadactivist quangoes and some nice careers.If we need to fill any holes in our politicalidentities, let’s fill them with curiosity.No sooner does authentic fury explode inthe streets, then activist initiatives springup seeking to manage it, to democratise it,to control it: the beauty of the unknown isat once crushed into the machinery of theleftist bureaucrats. Rolling out the decadesfailing interminable script, – action medics,people’s kitchens, workshops, email lists, adnauseam – and calling upon thecontrollables – climate camp, social activistgroups, federations, reformist single-issuecampaigns; all the tranquilising themes –so that the social managers can attemptto make it palatable and compliant to theircareerist manipulations, as frightened ofthe uncontrollable as the state.

In the last five years, very few of the‘conscious political’ class – the activists –have succeeded in getting out of a kettlenor finding their projects developing into

one of attack. Because – as the young peopleand the angry know – to get out of a kettlerequires a project of chaos and attack. Andthat is precisely what the activist cannot andwill not engage in, beyond the symbolic.

Why? Because the activist project is notabout rebellion nor about chaos. It is prima-rily a project of reigning in, of taming theunruly desire to break out of all constraints,to specialise it, professionalise it andrationalise it.

The activist project is the maintenance of aself-aggrandising, elitist and fictitious move-ment. It is a policed theatre of diversion anddeference organised by social managers andleftist incompetents. It is an easily infiltratedand repressed illusion full of substituteactivities for the well-meaning to waste theirtime with. How useful for the State to haveopen umbrella organisations of activismwhich can pressure people into certain typesof conforming and exploitable democraticbehaviour, all under the double-speak bannerof ‘inclusivity’, ‘consensus’ and ‘diversity oftactics’. Activism is ‘political’ thought and‘political’ engagement as an impediment toreal struggle.

It is the very experience of embeddingoneself in a ‘politically-conscious’ scene andthe rules that are built up within it that canlead to paralysis and counter-revolution. Inthe moment when you need to defendyourself, pick up and throw stones or set fireto a target or barricade, those alreadyentrenched in a morass of theories, debatesand dubious ideas of alliance and affinity,many of those who imagine themselvesholding some kind of blueprint for socialchange or revolution and feeling the need for‘intervention’, pause, and back off from theclash.

We will not attend any “anti-cuts” activistgatherings nor will we send ‘delegates’ as ifwe were some organisational department orcheap NGO. We are not for continuing any ofthe structures or concepts given to us bydemocracy. Those who would ‘intervene’must take some time to ask themselveswhether they simply wish to constrain withintheir own limits of thought, understandingand action, an emerging rebellion. Let theyoung people create new, unpredictedpathways. Let us break our own patterns,and then destroy that most insidious policeforce – that within us which wields batons ofideology, and which hides it’s own impotence,historical inefficacy and fear behind crashbarriers of ‘necessary infrastructure’ and‘organisation’. We want the time to see whatcomes out of real chaos. Out of rebellion intofreedom.

Formalising a struggle too early leads to thedeath of that conflictual tension; withoutformalisation there is only social force, whichcannot be repressed through its representa-tions, it spreads and detonates social

For Riotous Assembliesnot Reasonable DissentBackground: This text was released in Spring2011 after ‘Network X’, an activist platformbased around the theme of the risingstudents university fees and anti-cuts move-ment announced its creation and called foractivists/anarchists to ‘get involved’.. ‘NetworkX’ has since withered away, playing little partin the greatly hyped March 26 anti-cutsLondon mass demo.

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We would like to thank the groups andindividuals who have already contributed tothe solidarity fund, including Kate SharpleyLibrary, Bristol ABC, Rebel Soul (ShambalaFestival), as well as the Anarchist workersco-op Sabcat, who have produced twobenefit T-shirts (see a .www.sabcat.com).

on r sPrison addresses:o r sn Prison addresses:

Andy BakerA5768CEHMP HighpointStradishallNewmarketSuffolkCR8 9YG

h aThomas Blak h aThomas BlakA5728CEHMP Wormwood ScrubsPO Box 757Du Cane RdLondonW12 OAE

n g aSean CreganA5769CEHMP ColdingleyShaftesbury RoadBisleySurreyGU24 9EX

a D Phil De SouzaA5766CEHMP ElmleyEastchurchSheernessKentME12 4AY

l lRavi GillRavi GillA5770CEHMP WaylandGristonThetfordNorfolkIP25 6RL

e onn acAusten JacksonA5729CEHMP Wormwood ScrubsPO Box 757Du Cane RdLondonW12 OAE

o ed Cm s ABFrom Leeds ABC:

“Knowing there’s guys and girls like you onthe outside supporting us makes such adifference…It’s really nice not to be forgottenand I’ll be eternally grateful to everyone.”

i Ravi Gill

More than two years ago a strutting neo-Naziwas put on his arse. Without even theevidence to pursue a conviction for ‘commonassault’ the British State launched an all-outoffensive against militant antifascists,smashing doors in all over the country andmaking more than 20 arrests. In view of theirlack of evidence against those arrested theCrown Prosecution Service have chosen topursue ‘conspiracy’ charges, a calculatedgambit which has so far led to the imprison-ment of 6 antifascists. The imprisonedcomrades are guilty of nothing more thanbeing antifascists, they have been fitted-up bythe State and deserve our fullest possiblesupport.

Six of the seven UK antifascists recentlyconvicted of ‘Conspiracy to Cause ViolentDisorder’ have now been sentenced. AndyBaker, Sean Cregan, Phil De Souza andRavi Gill were sentenced to 21 months.Thomas Blak was sentenced to 18 monthstoday, and Austen Jackson was sentenced to15 months today. A seventh antifascist,Jonathan Wood, received a suspendedsentence. 11 more people are due forsentencing in September.

Please write letters of support. You can sendin stamps (Thomas is Danish so wouldappreciate European stamps) or PostalOrders made payable to ‘The Governor’ andwith the prisoner’s name and prison numberwritten on the back. For advice on writing toprisoners please see the Leeds ABCwebsite.

UK ANTI-FASCISTSUNDER REPRESSION

conditions through existing class conflictsand rage. It eventually finds fluid form ininformal groupings of affinity through whichwe can communicate as equals, ratherthan as stereo-types. Self-management ofour struggle, not our everyday drudgery,begins through organising attacks; it is inthe highly charged space of the attack –the experience of freedom – that theindividual and collective mind, realising in aninstant its volition, power, self-determinationand willful vitality, can escape datedconcepts and forms.

We are not suggesting that we’ll notengage in the student uprisings – or anyother uprising – but we’ll do so with the aimof meeting others with whom we mightshare a theoretical and tactical affinity forthe purpose of social revolution.

We know who we are, what we think andwhat we desire. We’ll continue acting as wealways have, alongside and within thecoming storm. Understanding theseparameters of our own consciousness andpractice of engagement, what we plan foris to ride this new social energy, to enable itto give more power to the attacks that weanyway make, and hope that by contribut-ing alongside the new rebel class – not byintervening in its development, we canbroaden the struggle without imprisoningits potentiality within the usual cage ofreasonable dissent, activism and identitypolitics. We wish to leave space for othersto do the same. It will not be the case that ifwe attended a meeting of students, wewould succeed in persuading them all toour vision of rebellion or of an alternativefuture world. Nor is there any possibilitythat at such a meeting, we would bepersuaded suddenly to a position of reformor non-violence. As far as we are con-cerned, the system can only be foughtthrough widespread violent means atstreet-level, blockading and sabotaging theflow of the economy, spreading thedistribution of resources to the socialmajority and halting wage slavery throughmass force.

As we are seeing, the anger is encompass-ing those people who are not part of thestudent movement, but have every reasonto hate the police and the system.

No more will we remain concealed, onceagain we can draw a clear line betweenourselves and the enemy, the exploiterclass.

We call on all those who have made adecision to attack to develop our effortsand interlinked struggles at the base. Let’sforge an aggressive push against the globalsystem and it’s representations.

For the spread of the riots.

Some uncontrollables

A solidarity fund has been set up to supportthe prisoners in jail and upon release. If youwould like to contribute to it please send acheque (made payable to b ‘The Cable b ‘The Cable

S yStreet Society’) to Bd Leeds ABC, 145-149Cardigan Road, Leeds, LS6 1LJ, UK.Details for bank transfers are:

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P i a el e r sPolice are murderers and assassins

/ / 023/08/2011/ 0/23/08/2011 - A 25-year-old man collapsedand died after being overpowered with CSspray as he was being arrested by up toeleven police officers. Mb Jacob Michael wasinside his home in the Widnes area ofCheshire, with his family and is believed tohave dialled 999 himself over a threat madeto him, when police arrived at his semi-detached home at 5pm. Police said theywere arresting him on suspicion of affray butthere was a struggle and Michael wasblasted in the face with the spray. Despitehim being temporarily blinded by the effects,Michael managed to run out of the houseand got to a grass verge before beingtackled and brought to the ground by otherpolice officers who were waiting nearby. Inthe words of one of the many witnesses tothe scene: 'What the police did was outra-geous. He was handcuffed, on the floor withhis legs restrained...

“'They seemed to be kneeing him in the backof the head. I counted 11 cops. They were allsat on him, giving him a kicking and givinghim side digs. There was one woman officer,the rest were men, and she was getting herkicks in as well. 'They started chasing himand hitting him in the back of the legs withbatons. 'They had banged his head on thefloor and they were giving him punches. Hewas already handcuffed and he wasrestrained when I saw him. I don't knowwhat happened in the house, I just saw whenthey were on the street. 'He was shouting,"Help me, help me". He wasn't coherent. Idon't know why they were bringing him in foraffray. It doesn't matter, he didn't deservethat.“

8 0 117/8/20110 1817/8/2011 - Dale nsDale Burnsle sDa nDale Burns, 27, sadlybecame the first person in Britain to die froma police Taser after officers shot him threetimes with a powerful 50,000-volt gun afterreports of a 'disturbance' at his home inBarrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.

/7/8/2011 – g Mark Duggan, 29, shot byarmed response unit cops after a surveil-lance operation in London, after beingdragged out of a taxi. His killing helped sparkthe biggest social uprising seen in UK fordecades, and which continues to simmer.

This system is divided between the havesand the have-nots, and the police are thereto enforce this system. The system can havethe lower-classes fighting each other andkilling each other, but when they challengethe system with all they’ve got, that’s whenthey become a problem - and the police arethere to kill and imprison them.

Let every police murder ignite the people intoa blaze of insurrection.

L t e Ana his n fa cise t r from rc t/A ti s tLetter from Anarchist/AntifascistLetter from Anarchist/AntifascistLetter from Anarchist/AntifascistPri on o as ks er Th m BlaPrisoner Thomas BlakPrisoner Thomas BlakPrisoner Thomas Blak

Despite serving a sentence, it is forever heldagainst you, which is quite handy, should onebe a tad short of the annoying thing calledevidence.

In a straight contradiction to what the justicesystem tries to preach, they have exposedthemselves as nothing more than a posh gang ofthugs, with huge prisons to keep us locked-up,out of sight, out of rights!

This is not unique to England and it is evidentin most countries. With the breakdown of theireconomic system, their thuggish behaviour isbecoming more and more exposed. FromAthens, our inspiration, to London, it’s time tostand up and stand united, with passion anddetermination.

Democratic capitalist society and dictatorshipsalike, their failure is shining brighter by theminute, as with any system which is unfair andonly serves to benefit a tiny minority of thepopulation.

I send my support and solidarity to thecomrades, in prisons and on the streets, whohave courageously decided to say enough isenough.

No more of the “Rule of the Rich”. No moreshall they be able to hide behind their legalarguments and pseudo-democratic excuses.

No more shall they be able to hide behind theirpolluted cloud of justice when it’s so apparentthat it’s nothing more than a tool of repression,by which a big, fat, wigged-up bastard can,without remorse or humanity, destroy the livesof people on a daily basis, without any conse-quences or questions being asked of him.

Only a few dictators have had such powers attheir disposal.

It’s time to judge our judges. I know about85,678 people in England alone, who’d like aword or two with these infallible keepers of therich man’s democracy.

To the rich man’s justice – Fuck you hard androt in pieces!

Anarchist Prisoner:

T s ho a kTho as kThomas BlakThomas BlakWormwood Scrubs

Open letter from Thomas:

The following communiqué is not theopinion of any group or organisation, butthat of the signed person only.

To comrades worldwide,

I send out this communiqué from inside theprison HMP Wormwood Scrubs in London,UK. I have been sentenced to imprisonmentfor 18 months.

This sentence has been intensely pursuedsince 2009 by the Metropolitan Police,British Transport Police, and the greedybarristers of the ancient and outdated Englishjudicial system, which in my case waspresided over by the dinosaur H.O. BlacksellQC and his posh puppy Mark Trafford.

During a profitable 17 days, in which variousworms in wigs paraded their knowledge ofthe rich man’s law, while filling their pocketsat public expense, as well as strutting theirvivid imaginations, to keep each otherawake.

Then they sent out their twelve handpickedblind sheep for deliberation. Thirteen hourslater and six comrades were en route toHMP Wormwood Scrubs, courtesy of theprivatised justice courier Serco.

The outcome was a given from the very startand the Victorian master-race puppeteerH.O. Blacksell made no secret of which waythese cowardly people, who so viciouslydecided to stand up against the bigotedracists from “Blood And Honour”, were toend up.

It was obviously paramount for“Blacksellaurus Rex” to ensure that thepublic of Welling wouldn’t have to beexposed to such an act of free-will in termsof an antifascist opposition to fascism. It ismuch preferred to simply allow fascists freereign to exercise their hatred and occasion-ally to murder, as long as it’s done out ofsight of his beloved public. After all, thefascists pay his wages and are ideologicallyalike.

Under the context of conspiracy, the courtinvented a guilty verdict, whereby noevidence was required. One for all and all forone, unless of course you hadn’t previouslyhad the nerve to challenge the way in whicha system, made by the rich and to protectthe rich, wants us to live.

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UK – The Struggle Againstthe Existent Continues

r e Pr s(Work in Progress)

Thursday, August 4, Mark Duggan, a ‘realstraight up and down respected man’ (wordsof London rapper, Chipmunk) fromTottenham in London, was blasted to deathwhile on his way home in a cab by a mob ofcops wielding Heckler & Koch MP5 carbines.29 year old Mark, father of four youngchildren, lived on the housing estate knownas Broadwater Farm, a depressed predomi-nantly Afro-Caribbean area. The area isinfamous since the riot of 1985 after 49 yearold Cynthia Jarrett collapsed and died of aheart attack as police raided her home.(During the riot a policeman, PC Blakelock,was hacked to death with a machete.)Today, in the words of a resident, ‘if you’refrom Broadwater Farm, police are on youevery day, you’re not allowed to come off theestate. If you come off the estate they followyou.’ They followed Mark Duggan and heended up dead.

August 6 - The arrogance of the killers inuniform in the face of the protest by thevictim’s family and supporters, plus the brutalattack on a 16 year old girl by police duringthe vigil was the last straw.

That night in Tottenham the police stationwas attacked, police cars set on fire, adouble-decker bus ends up a twisted wreckafter being engulfed in flames, pressphotographers are beaten and relieved oftheir equipment for the decades of lies theyhave propagated. Bank windows smashed.Countless shops looted, stuff thrown all overthe streets. Young guys storm McDonald’sand start frying up burgers and chips.Indignant anger clears the brain, flushes outthe cops in the head. Collective fury at this

latest police murder combines with the dailybullying and humiliation of being stopped andsearched, the moralising, the false promises,useless lives, no future, desire for status-affirming ‘needs’ unattainable due toincreased taxes, unemployment and cuttingof benefits, 4 million cameras, glaring securitycops at the entrance to every store, thecolonization of all remaining urban space bytrendy bars filled with the noisy chatter of thecarefree... that and much more that we don’tknow and will never experience welled upand fueled the will to smash through theinvisible and plate glass barriers that holdeverything in place.

The hostages of the open prison, the youngpeople of the ghettos of London, rise up andthe capitalists’ nightmare finally materialises,as the last link in the consumer chain ofsubmission snaps. It explodes into a free-for-all when, in a flash of illumination the solutionto the existential dilemma is found: MUSTHAVE/CAN’T HAVE = TAKE. It’s simple:learn and apply, possibly burning store toashes on retreating.

The rioting escalates, scores more peoplecome into the area responding to call outs onTwitter to come up and fight the cops andloot shops. Over the following days it spreadsto many other parts of London and onwardto other cities.

The rage also spreads beyond the mainclashes in Nottingham, Manchester, Bristol,Gloucester, Liverpool, Birmingham. In manyincidents the stories escape categorisation orquantification. One thing sure that is notreported and deliberately ignored is thechiefly anti-authoritarian flavour to theuprising, the government and corporationsrelentlessly branding the people ‘scum’,

‘thieves’ and other low simple catchphrasesof demonisation. The failure in this to stopyoung people identifying with the uprising isobvious when it is seen how quickly the riotsreplicate and need little trigger to beginbreaking the Queen’s peace. Mainstreammedia reporting becomes incredibly formu-laic, and the bosses make mileage from theirscenes of interest in reaching their politicalobjectives, looping the same images overand over, overlaid with the stereotypicaltalking heads’ condemnation and reassur-ance. The widespread disorder does notstop. The people who lost their fear gooutside, collect themselves to attack and takeas much as they can.

The police are overwhelmed and beaten bythe small fluid groups who don’t wait aroundto be crushed, but instead move quickly,spreading terror in those who can’t identifythemselves as belonging to the mob.

Some anarchists and ‘rebels with conscious-ness’ did rush towards the smoke signals onthe horizon. For some only to stop in theirtracks, in many cases riveted to the spot asspectators of a scenario never played out intheir wildest dreams: crowds of young peoplequeuing up outside high street stores likecustomers at the January sales, calmlyforcing their way inside under the implacablegaze of rows of riot cops, to reappear laterwith huge bags, even trolleys, overflowingwith consumer goods.

Elsewhere, behind the hastily improvisedbarricades erected and set alight by local kidsin back streets as they prepare to greet theirdaily enemy - the cops in their anti-riot vans -with a hail of bottles and stones, the outsider,immediately recognisable by age and colour,is viewed with suspicion. Who are you? What do you want?In various areas, the odd gang, spurred bythe momentary shift in the balance of powerin the streets, starts high-jacking people’scars and driving off in them or setting themalight, or trashing and looting corner shops,holding no attraction but for the benefit ofdiversionary chaos so that other small groupscan organise and initiate their own attacks.For some, black clothes and face masks area sign of organised illegality and commandrespect accordingly. Each area and particularenvironment creates differing possibilities andmodes of co-operation and confrontation. Stilldays after the clashes there is a changed airin the glances and atmosphere betweenthose in the different sectors of the clash, putunder the same rule. Open fighting againstthe police and the system they defend is aunifying feature for popular resistanceagainst all regimes.

Very soon it became clear that this seeminglystrange police tactic of standing by andwatching looters empty stores was noaccident, as it had already been reported by

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right-wing media that the police would let thesituation play itself out for 3 days beforegoing in with heavy repressive blows, a storywhich subsequently disappeared from thenews. This standard British counter-insurgency tactic, developed in the coloniesand in Northern Ireland, is used in thepreliminary stages of the social insurgence toattempt to create a situation of havoc whereall the contradictions of the mess of societycan exacerbate, to force the false question:Do you want an authoritarian regime tomaintain repressive order, or do you want‘lawless chaos’? The question is posed bypower to the servile masses, using therebellious as their spear of inquiry.

The police removed their personnel from themost seriously affected areas, giving spacefor the riot to literally burn out - letting the‘violence’ reach such a point as to deny theintensification which could have resulted hadthe clash been kept at a certain social level,possibly drawing in anarchists, leftists andangry students.

The front line of the clash - that against cops,police stations, media, politicians, started todisappear as the target of these attackswithdrew or were overcome. This channeledthe affray into the requisitioning of goods byuncontrolled masses. The design was tosecure the forces of the police following theirdefeat on the streets in order to prepare themassive repressive operation from CCTVsurveillance, snitching and investigation - andprovoke a media-boosted backlash fromthose who identify with the system of workand law demanding that the police enforce asevere crackdown. A backlash which was notonly seen in the posses of marauding shop-keepers and British nationalists, but also inthe citizenist outcry for an open prison societyby tidy controlled individuals not adverse tocontrolling others.

On Wednesday August 10th the moment thatpower had been waiting for in some form oranother occurs. Three young men defendinglocal Asian-owned shops in Birmingham arekilled when a car is rammed into them. Anirreparable loss for those who knew andloved them, a great gain for power. Thearticulate appeal of one of the fathers in hisheartfelt call for ‘peace’ (how many rivers oftears were spilled that day for sons killed bythe capitalist moloch all over the planet) isrelentlessly exploited by the class enemy, justas the resulting coming together of Sikhs andMuslims to defend their structures is depictedas a triumph of democracy. The fact that thedivide and rule policy that characterisesBritish power was instrumental in thepartition of India and creation of Pakistan, anoperation that resulted in over a million dead,has been erased from the annals of history.Rule Britannia! This Disney-like multiculturalparadise is a fragile mosaic of erstwhileplundered peoples seeking to survive, livingshoulder to shoulder each with their

miserable prospects of inclusion or exclusionaccording to their capacity for collaboration,subservience, and self-mutilation.

One part of the equation that has been totallyignored over these days are the producers ofthe much coveted goods themselves. Crimesspring from fixed ideas. The sacredness ofproperty is one of these ideas and is thecrime par excellence that is dangled beforethe disinherited masses. Just as war isdisconnected from murder in the psyche ofthe common man or woman, the plunder ofthe resources of the planet and subjection ofthe invisible producing slaves is totally absentfrom their diatribes about ‘stealing’ and‘looting’. What is a high street store in flamescompared to the existence of the store itself?Every supermarket is a ‘crime scene’,MacDonald’s and Coca Cola are veritablemotors of mass destruction. After babblingsensational accounts of the riots from theteleprompter, the newsreader’s disapprovingfrown erupts into a beaming smile as sheannounces the news that Apple hassurpassed Exxon Mobile to become ‘theworld’s most valuable company’. WonderfulApple, such style, smart gadgets. Perhapsthe searing profits should be put down togood management as we read in the dailypress: The man now running Apple, TimCook, had a delicate job last year. Afternearly a dozen workers committed suicide atFoxconn, a contract manufacturing plant inChina, he flew to visit the company - andpressured them to improve working condi-tions. One move was to hang large nets fromthe factory buildings.

To see the recent events as something thatdo not concern anarchists and consciousrebels would be just as absurd as to simplytake them at face value and join in the lootingspree for a moment of quick gratification orto be ‘in the reality of the struggle’. Thatdoesn’t mean staying at home safely out ofthe way of these amoral ‘greedy’ rioters.What can a movement of predominantlyvegan, bicycle-riding anti-commodityanarchists or their moralising anarcho-workerist counterparts have to do with thepluri-appropriation of plasma screens,trainers and fashion labels? The dividing line,which anarchists cannot stomach in spite of

their heritage, is that the rebellious protago-nists of the past days were not fighting forthe noble cause of ‘freedom’ but werefighting for themSELVES. Selves alienatedand stunted by the voracious reality theyhave been born into, spurred into action inan immediate assault on forbiddance. Nowthey are being demonised by those whoshould know better, for their lack of ‘politicalawareness’ and altruism. In such situationsanarchists can only take stock and seek toput into action elements of a projectuality thatis already being elaborated and experi-mented in small agile groups. What is evidentfrom this flash-point of insurrection is that theanarchist movement, for want of a betterterm, here in Britain, is largely inadequate asto be insignificant in terms of the attack andthe capability to prepare a line of flightbeyond the existent, let alone during a massriot.

If the uprising has caught us unprepared, ifwe have not already found our affinities,worked out our ideas and put into practiceminimal attacks on the reality of dominionand class oppression, it is not from the‘children of men’ that we will get the bestindications to enter and extend the struggle.Anarchists risk being passive spectators,‘provocateurs’, or simply clumsy gatecrashersof someone else’s party.

Some comrades have already begun thetrajectory of their own projectuality, their ownexperimentation and attack, which has alsomaterialised over these days alongside orwithin some of the attacks on the structuresof the consumer god and its servants.Without flags, banners or high-soundingpolitical claims. Others are asking themselveshow to move in that direction, how to carryon now that ‘society’, the great myth, thecenturies-old swindle adapted to theimperatives of the corporate cartels de-fended by their servants, government, copsand media, is being reasserted.

Now the party’s over, the CCTV footage isbeing analyzed, facial recognition software isbeing deployed, the snitches are queuing upfor payment. ‘Wanted’ photos are beingdisplayed on huge ‘digi-trucks’ driventhroughout the cities. People’s doors are

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being smashed in by screaming gangs of riotcops wielding battering rams. Families arebeing given eviction orders in the old fascistardor for collective punishment. Welfarepayments are to be discontinued. Kangaroocourts are working 24/7 and the cell doorsare slamming shut as the “community” ispolarised in open conflict. Almost 2,000arrests so far. Police and politicians arguethe toss as to who subdued the battle andTwitter and Facebook have been saved frombanishment by becoming the instrument ofthe good citizens. The broom has beenstolen from the reprobate witch to becomethe symbol of citizenship as hundreds sweepand sweep in this neo Civil Defence corps.

The media and soft cops are hard at work tofind the magic formula, the new superglue tohold together the untenable. On the margins,some good anarchists and leftists will give ahand, no doubt.

Nothing will ever be the same after what hashappened over the past few days. Our task isnot to join forces with the recuperators but,using every means, to start to identifysignificant objectives and contribute tocreating the conditions where the excluded,on whose backs they come into existence,can do something to destroy them.

We are moving into a phase of new, morebrutal, more fascistic levels of repression withfull consensus of reawakened, engagedcitizens. The way has been paved foracceptance of the next stage in British neo-fascism, the Olympics and the relatedmassive installations for surveillance andcontrol.

The struggle against the existent continues,opening up new encounters and fields ofexperimentation to combine with theunyielding ingredients of all our interventions:affinity, solidarity and self-organisation of theattack.

Brixton Prison Soli-DemoSunday, 21st August, a demo took place in Brixton, south London

It gathered outside Brixton police station,about 30-40 people, many very young, butnot only. It was headed by a group with amobile sound system playing very loudanti-police hip hop, rap etc. music andcarrying a couple of banners.

First, some vociferous slogans against thepolice outside the police station, then offthrough the market area before moving intoBrixton Road up to the notorious prison inJebb Avenue. In spite of its size, the demo,some people walking, some with wheels,took over the main road (A23), and wasimmediately surrounded by police. As wellas the cops that moved with the demo,many more could be seen all the way alongthe route to the prison, both standing in theside streets and parked in vans.

Passersby looked curiously on at this noisy,clearly anti-police march at a time when weare all supposed to be subdued and living infear of a knock on the door. This had alreadyoccurred concerning those for whom thedemo had been called in solidarity.

What the march lacked in numbers wascompensated for with the passionate angerof the participants who had come fromvarious parts of London and beyond, inanswer to this urgent call-out in solidaritywith those being held in Brixton prisonfollowing the recent uprising, against theheavy sentences being meted out on absurdcharges, and against the very existence ofprison itself.

This became really clear when everybodystormed through the barrier blocking thepedestrian road on the edge of that disgust-ing gloomy Victorian edifice. By this timepassions were running high, everybodyscreaming slogans in unison to the prisoners:

FREEDOM NOW! FREEDOM NOW!;THE PASSION FOR FREEDOM ISSTRONGER THAN THE PRISON (alsoin Greek); COPS, PIGS, MURDERERS;NO JUSTICE NO PEACE, FUCK THEPOLICE, music full volume,wild war cries,sustained very loud banging on the corru-gated prison fence with bike locks, etc. Oneof a group with a Free Mumia banner made astrong militant speech through a loudhailer.

The greatest emotion exploded when theclenched fists of some of the prisonersemerged from some of the ‘windows’, andcries of FREEDOM NOW! OUT NOW!broke out from the depths of that rottendungeon. The passion was so strong andeverything continued, shouting backwardsand forwards, for about 20 minutes, half anhour.

The cops, a few dozen of them, didn’t seemto know what to do. More vans arrived,including two dog vans which made some ofthe demonstrators decide to stay behind, notknowing whether something had kicked offinside, and not wanting to abandon theprisoners. Later, after the van-loads of copsdrove away, everybody left, explaining whythey had come to curious (some quitesympathetic) neighbours in the street behindthe prison as they went.

A few days later news arrived from insidethrough the grapevine that the prisoners werevery very happy about the demo, it gavethem strength and courage to carry on.

Solidarity with the uprising!Everybody to the streets!Fire to the prisons!

random london anarchists

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To address moral elitism within the anarchistmilieu in response to the rioters of August6th onwards…Since the riots and looting of early Augustthe acts committed in response to the deathof Mark Duggan, shot in cold blood byofficers of the state in London, have beenjudged as mindless acts of violence andgreed and disregarded as apolitical by thegovernment, media, the right, nationalists,the left, liberals, and also by ‘anarchists’within the radical movement who proposethat these riots were not political as theywere not ‘conscious’.

David Cameron has stated that the riotswere the result of ‘deep moral failure’. Thepeople responsible have done bad thingsand should be punished, he said. Not onlyhave the rioters been immoral, he said, but inmany cases so have their parents. At nopoint has Cameron addressed the immoral-ity of the cops that killed Mark Duggan,without reason or trial, or the three othervictims of state violence in the followingmonth...

Whilst people who posted on Facebookinciting others to riot are sentenced toyears, the morality of MP’s fiddling expensesand looting a nation is barely acknowledged.Who are the government to talk of morality?

To condemn the behaviour of the rioters isto protect and benefit the system andconfirm its governing ideologies. We areconditioned by the state and judicialsystems to believe in absolutist concepts -stealing is wrong, violence is criminal -regardless of context and despite thesurreptitious use of such methods by theeconomic and state authorities to gain ever

increasing control. Theft is not alwaysjustified, situation is always a considera-tion and the individual must determinetheir morality. However, to denouncelooting, an act of damage againstproperty and theft against capitalism, is toconform to the imposed suffocatingmorality of commerce, state and media. Tocondemn the expropriation committed isthe counter revolutionary cop in the headensuring we ‘self contain ourselvesthrough moralism’ and ensuring wereconfirm an imposed illusionary morality.Besides, why is it ‘just’ if a self-proclaimedanarchist shop-lifts as an act of rejectionagainst capitalism, yet mindless greed if ayouth loots a store during a riot?

The desire to have is a product ofcapitalism, not simply innate human greedor question of morality. It is capitalism thatteaches what one should desire, demandsthat we crave commodities, statusawarding, life affirming commoditiesimpossible to attain as unemploymentrises, benefits are cut, and taxes increase.

Humiliated everyday by the advertisementsand billboards flaunting all that will neverbe in their grasp, the youth of the ghettosin the UK galvanised their common rageand reached out to take what they couldhave by no other means.

A conscious decision isn’t necessary toact against a system that imprisons you. Itis a sane, emotive, visceral, response tothe frustrations of being born into aninsane, authoritarian, capitalist, societythat provides you nothing.

It is self-defeating for anarchists to ostra-cise by judgement those at the forefront ofthe struggle, who experience to thegreatest extremities the repression andcontrol delivered by Capital and the State.These are the people the most vulnerableto the system.

Their revolution, is revolution. Their organi-sation, fearlessness, strength in numbers,strength in bond, has eclipsed the anarchistrevolution within the UK. They haveachieved within the last year far more thanthe anarchists dream. Their means do notmirror those of the theorists, but their endsare being actualised. They are comrades.Anarchist action however has beenmeasured and found wanting. It has beenshown to be contrived, symbolic, redun-dant.

Whilst genuine insurgence occurred in theUK, few self-proclaimed anarchist were onthe street, or elsewhere in solidarity. Theanarchist collaboration appears, forexample, working against council authoritieswho propose to evict parents of thosecharged, not convicted, with rioting. - apurely reactionary form -

It is an arrogant conclusion that the‘anarchists’, the predominantly white middleclass ‘anarchists’, know what the revolutionrequires, and are most capable of deliveringit. Often they do not know the condition ofthe relinquished. Their participation inrevolutionary action is CHOICE. Educated,white people have the CHOICE to evadethe system or be accommodated.

Choice, opportunity, accommodation areluxuries not afforded to the non-privilegedyouth of the estates throughout the UK.Their rebellion (inclusive of the looting ofindependent stores who remain none theless complicit to the modus operandi ofcommerce and private ownership even ifthey do not have specific responsibility) is acompulsory rebellion. Looting is part of ournoxious methodology in a struggle againsta capitalist state. Injustice has become lawand so criminality has become necessary toact against it.

The future of revolution may well bedangerous and chaotic. It will be. It certainlywill not be prescribed by anarchists or theiridea of a noble revolution. As the globalnexus of commerce, state control, andresistance becomes more complex andintricate we should aim, no longer to beswept along, but instead to dispose of thecurrent for the unknown, that at the veryleast, is not this. As destruction is methodtoward creation we should join efforts toplunder and destroy that which plundersand destroys.

- Those who do not stand with theoppressed, stand alongside theoppressor -

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From a previously unvoiced insurgentfrom the innercity, an article that callsfor the insurrectionary flame ofrebellion to continue...

Incitement to burn encourages all peopleto fan the flames, to use fire here on PrisonIsland UK, to break the lockdown and armthe slaves, to take back and use guided,focused anger so we can breathe withoutstate threats.

We take our actions very seriously, thoughwe wouldn’t do them if they were absent ofenjoyment. We’ve come to accept that wehave entered a low-intensity war where weprefer an indirect confrontation at present.These acts of war are in-and-out strikes ofsabotage. They won’t be perfect. We critiquethem ourselves. Under the terms of socialwar, no attack will be perfect. However, theopposition will not clap it’s hands...

We don’t pretend to have all the answers.We don’t hold a blue-print on how todestroy this society, but do we need one tobe able to see it’s not working? Some of ushave a will to try, to take a chance, to seebeyond an instant result, able to see a biggerpicture and a trickle-down effect, even abelief that an experiment we do mayinfluence others to lift the tools, plant theseeds of change, and challenge authority butnot only from the mouth or the pen, butusing rage and frustration in a positive light,coming to this decision with close friends.Some people will find fault however mucheffort you made to make your attack perfect.They will judge you in this imperfect world.There is a threshold that some of us havepassed through that means we carry no guiltfor the destruction we have done to privateproperty. We never had respect in the firstplace for people who have refused to share acommon decency with other humans acrosssocial and racial backgrounds.

If you write people off because of where theyfind themselves, we will write off everythingthat you hold dear.

away from popular culture

Incitement to BurnAs a kid I lived through a bullying culture. Iguess I got tough and didn’t care abouthanging out on my own. Other kids mayhave wanted to do what their fathers did orbe train drivers, astronauts, pilots, soldiers orbuilders. I looked at my own folk heroes. Ididn’t hang out in cool clothes, in shoppingcentres. I was on waste lands on the edge oftown, trespassing, finding odd things,footpaths, railway buildings, trading estates,building sites and quarries I loved, stayingaway from adults.

finding space to perfect or practiceskills

From my teenage years, sabotage, going onthe attack and theft have been the naturalprogression and become my everyday life.To be able to swim and not drown, for mymental well-being away from relationshipsof false niceties, tranquilising consumerismand pharmaceutical drugs.

As an adult involved politically, many skillsfrom my past came to use - dodging bulliesand railway police, climbing and watching,map reading, running fast and so on. From apractical point of view, looking at infrastruc-ture, bottle necks and escape routes havebecome a part of my reality. Ambush hasbecome an option, like my childhood heroeson TV who took their power and did notwait in vain for it to be given.

The challenge that lies ahead of me now isthe selection, the hand-picking of people Ifeel comfortable enough with to make anaffinity. Those who have the time and areprepared to make the time, to destroyproperty and cause havoc together. But somany people have built in distractions sothey don’t have to face the shit that lifethrows at them. They get entrenched sodeeply they’ve dug their own grave for deathbefore they’ve lived, before they’ve bloomed.

d.i.y. and imagination - being allowedto grow

Working in the community is where I findmyself, but thinking practically, why should

Working classareas terrorizedby police raidsOne month after major disturbances wereprovoked by the August 4 police killing ofMark Duggan in north London, the Metro-politan Police in the capital are intensifyingraids on working class communities.Not confined simply to London alone, therepression has tried to be as hard-hittingas possible all over the nation. Entireneighbourhoods have been sealed off, withriot police smashing down doors anddragging people away. So far, this hasresulted in over 2,000 arrests in Londonalone, averaging approximately 100 a daysince the riots began. The media, tipped offin advance, has filmed the build-up, theactual raids and the spectacle of youthbeing thrown into police vans. The policedeclare they are hunting thousands peoplewho they say were involved in the distur-bances. Across the country 40,000 hoursof CCTV footage will be examined andsenior police officers are expecting theinvestigation to last for years. The Metro-politan Police, backed by the entire politicalestablishment, have been on the rampagesince the riots began. On August 11, fiftyofficers raided the Churchill GardensEstate in Pimlico, Westminster. Corporatemedia vultures, ‘The Daily Telegraph’,published film footage of the raid, bayingthat “England’s smash-and-grabbers got adose of their own medicine today.”

On the same day, a raid on a Lambethcouncil estate involved 120 riot policesmashing down doors and dragging awayyouth. Superintendent Nick Sedgemore ledthe raid. These raids were among 100mounted that same day. Large numbers ofarmed officers bursting into family homesthrough the front and back doors, whilstchildren slept. Guns pointed in their faces,ordering them all out of the house in theirunderwear still at gun-point, their housescompletely wrecked. One local man, a youthworker, said of his house being raided withhis family and young children inside - “It waslike something out of a horror movie... Thepolice were all in masks and all you couldsee was their eyes. I thought they werearmed robbers when they busted inbecause they were wearing plain clothes. Itwas only when they took me outside that Isaw police in uniform. The whole thing wasextremely terrifying… It’s like a tornado hitour home ... The police patronised me laterlike nothing happened by saying ‘have a niceday’”.

This naked class vengeance involves all theinstitutions of the State. The prisonpopulation is almost exceeding the capacity

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I be patching up wounds which a failingsociety has created? I hide within thiscommunity but my heart tells me it isridiculous to even contemplate co-existingwith this fascist apparatus. It all has to bedestroyed to start afresh. We will taste thefruits from the trees we’ve grown ourselvesin the ashes of their empire.

Because of my class background, should myintelligence be regularly insulted by the onlyprescription offered for fighting back beingthose “tried and tested” community-activistways that lead nowhere? I see it as verypossible that people can create situationswhere they take power for themselves,which can be inspiration to show others andthat state domination is not complete.Seeing your own strength and weakness isone thing, but society encourages this in apartial and nationalistic way, because to theState it’s own people are always the firstpotential and actual enemy.

Breaking away from the restrictions thatbind us – this red tape called “community”in which we find ourselves in some kind ofvoid. We try to re-align ourselves on theedge of the so-called counter-culturecommunity, so there’s some sort of belong-ing in sight, sharing, an affiliation with thoselike the Piqueteros of Argentina who showedby example that another way of sharing ispossible outside state-sanctioned charity. It’sin our individuality to stand with others instruggle and solidarity, but if because ofproblems this isn’t possible we will stillstand, stand alone and fight because that isthe nature of our individuality.

With experience seems to come stream-lining and clarity with no haze or caringwhether others think you’re cool or hip. Seewhat your abilities are and what resourcesare available to you. To develop theconfidence to see what’s up for grabs, to seethat it’s all out there, hopefully wise enoughto see that people are not that confident andcan’t run with an idea. I can see that I’mbetter without money, it is just there as atool (logistics, tools, equipment, clothes,shoes, fuel, buildings, etc.)

I have love and passion, this is strong, but Ialso have hate and disgust - I’d be happy ifsome people just didn’t exist. I enjoy arelationship of respect for a person’s politicaloutlook and radical activity. In the areaswhere each of us lack skills, we can learnfrom each other, help one another torecognise our power. If I have to do thisalone, well, that’s the way it will be. I haveto follow my path however destructive. Canyou see - don’t get in my way, you’ll seemy bad side - I’d rather be lonely than fake.

calculating risk and not letting para-noia eat you away

We are aware that the stakes are high and ifwe are caught we are fucked. It keeps us on

our toes, with a nervous twitch, with oneeye open whilst we sleep, pondering whetherit’s worth letting new people into our lives.If these small acts move towards too manyto mention, those who desire change willhave to ask themselves, what does sitting onmy ass achieve?

If you look, you can see the enemy, theyadvertise themselves on a daily basis, webelieve what we do affects them, andcompliments our comrades here and acrossthe national borders.

We always seem to hear and see negativepress from all directions about those thatdare to cross the line and do propertydamage. From our experience and associa-tion, I find that most of the people who havechosen to form a cell group for the solepurpose of property destruction have cometo this form of action from a point wherethey sometimes also refuse to contribute bypaying taxes through work to a war-machine, don’t do a jobthat fucks over otherhuman beings oranimals, don’t deal harddrugs or harm people,but they do feel at oddswith this hypocriticalsociety and so havesigned up in their ownminds to a declarationof war against thecorporations and rulingclass.

Society is a malfunction and is unable tocome up with the goods that would nurtureus as human beings. In short, we havenothing to lose, so we fight. The damagedone to property is a part of the healingprocess as we go through an attempt tomend our broken spirits. In this war wewage, this is where we find our answers, sowe are not lost.

and when they ask why we are “extrem-ists?”

Because “justice” is a joke, because we can,because every day somebody gets beatendown trying to break out of a life that’skilling them, because a cop can walk awayand hide behind a badge, because someone’sgot to do it, to show that it is still possible,to give hope and a light at the end of thetunnel, because we sleep better at nightknowing we tried to make limited compro-mises, because we want to channel our angerin a positive way, because working in theweek and knocking yourself out on the theweekend doesn’t answer enough questions,because when some folks hear of our actionsthey smile, because there’s been a break inthe advert, because authority has beenchallenged.

You hear the joy in their laughter, thatsneaky little snigger, yet another reason to

carry on fighting, because it doesn’t rest well inmy guts knowing that any comrade could beleft alone to wrestle with the anger and passionthat burns inside.

In this assault that “justice” thrusts on thecivilian population with weapons, mind gamesand manipulation, did they never think thatany of the so-called “royal subjects” would sayfuck this for a game of marbles.

Fuck the repression, fuck the prosecution ofshoplifters, looters and rioters. “Justice”hammers us for the way we survive in yourcat-and-mouse cut-throat society, so it’s awar where the enemy couldn’t be moreapparent.

Out the darkness

In the glimpse in time where order does notreign, real possibilities emerge, dreams cancome true, but with the spoils of war comesthe letting go of privileges, learning your

separation by the wayside,we do lose things in a war,but things are picked up.

Personally I feel I’ve comeout of a black hole, still onthe edge, but with a clearerperspective of things,emotions slotting into place,actions of anger feeling asthough they are commonplace and now complimentthe show of frustration and

distrust expressed through looting and rioting.

My mouth no longer feels it’s being stuffedwith moth balls, that fuzzy claustrophobia ofthe subcultural unwritten rules of the de-stressed black-clad fashion of defeat andvictim-hood. In the predominately privilegedanarcho-scene here, where image and cyni-cism-negativity take the place of the joy ofrebelling and lashing out at what we despiseand where no fixed uniform is required to feel abelonging.

With the burning and the melting of plasticthere is hope that a flux will forge friendshipsacross generations, so divisions are bridged andpeople’s personal histories do not block thepositivity and unity of struggle.

getting away with stuff

We know when we are effective and our painof this sick corruption is registered - it’s whenthese bleating liberals come out with that“you’ve gone too far this time - you’re notplaying ball and only playing into the hands ofan already over-stretched police force”- ohplease stop before we all vomit!

In the culture of Britain, it isn’t comfortable orsafe to talk about action which is direct, whenyou take the plunge, lose the fear, leave peoplewho only posture behind. The weight leavesyour shoulders - the State and Capital flaunts

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it’s power, to say “you could never win...”.If you dare yourself to challenge theirinstitute of chains, their red tape and threats,you’ll see they’re not unbreakable.

maturing the confidence

After you have burnt out your first car, it’sall down-hill from there. Free-wheeling intorevolt. “Welcome, you are now a con-tender...” You have now failed the yuppie

test, your world has opened up. You willnever dine out with the same enthusiasmagain. Christmas will seem even duller thanbefore. Waiting for the bus is something youwish was out of the equation. Relax? Butwhy? When there is so much more to torch!

finally cultivating the conspiracy to getback your life

If I went as far back as school, they’d say Ishould be in a secure unit : there’s no futurein fighting the cops without weapons so takethem out from the blind sides with no guilt,because fair play was never in place. In a waryou have to be practical, you just give ityour best shot. But it’s knowing when topull the trigger...

We feel the struggle, the pulse of ourunknown sisters and brothers in Notting-ham, we embrace the courage of our streetfighters in Bristol, people who dare to kickass not kiss it - we love you. Recognisingwhat is not guarded too well (accepting it isa war where you almost can’t destroyenough). And think big, wait then when all isdead for healthy new shoots of life.

Savour the petroleum, “chin chin”- a toastto the underachievers and the non-believers.We are marching with cocktails and highspirits and flames from our hearts. Beware allof you who set foot into our path withenslavement in mind, because our patiencehas run thin and our skins have grown thick.If you try to cross us we will sweep youaside: we have come into ourselves, we areno longer school-kids, we are assertingourselves. We will no longer take thebullshit, the bullying from the corporateempire and it’s defenders. We have signed nosocial contract. We are gunning for you...

“We got our own idea of Death Row, youmotherfuckers should be up against the wallas we shed some lead!”

c a t n t“ o i i“ o c a tin it“Stop chatting shit“Stop chatting shit F k c bon Facebook,

o l g y r y ’ t or you’ll get yourrsorrr y a y ass b s e ”usted”

Repression in the UK

So, the establishment in England is tryingto look like they can lock all the rioters

up, at least the ones they can get hold of.The cops, media and politicians are on afull-on mission to make themselves look

stupid and provoke more class tension.

18-year old young black lad, Amed Pelleof New Basford, has been sent down for

2 years and 9 months for supposedlyinciting rioting on Facebook. Pelle wrote

‘Nottz Riot whose onit?’ and ‘Kill oneblack youth; we’ll kill a million Fedz: riot

til we own cities’ on his facebook pageduring the riots earlier this month. There

is no evidence that he or any of hisfriends actually did anything during theriots. The case follows the cases of two

men who were jailed for 4 years for usingFacebook to ‘organise riots’ that never

happened in the North West.J.Blackshaw, 20, and P.Sutcliffe, 22.

The only people who turned up werethe cops.The posts were a joke, but the

pigs didn’t get it, miserable bastards.

There is no evidence that any of thesethree was involved in rioting or looting.Their only ‘crime’ had been to gob off

on a very public site that the policeregularly monitors for intelligence

purposes. Essentially they are being jailedfor having anti-state thoughts.

No cases for incitement to murder arebeing brought against the hundreds of

reactionaries who used social networkingsites to urge people to shoot, hang and

otherwise dispatch rioters during thedisturbances. It seems that it’s only if you

express anti-state opinions that the lawapplies. As we can see, the law is an ass.

A.Fernandes, 21, was sent down for 16months for having one lick of a looted

ice-cream which he then gave away.It was coffee flavour.

Lock up the cops and the politicians.

Stick together, let’s go again betternext time! Free up the rioters!!

... of the existing prison-complex, whilst theeconomic crisis has paralysed the right-wing government from building newprisons. The setting up of prison ships isone current proposal. Abuses of ‘humanrights’ are occurring throughout thecountry, yet, the manstream ‘civil liberties’and ‘human rights’ organisations have notmade any significant response to thedegradations and denial of due process tothose arrested and imprisoned by courtsoperating through the night. All thedisgusting institutions of the mainstreamhave swallowed the propaganda of thesystem. They are complicit with theirsilence, and as such, are the enemy of ourclass. The police and media, whoseextensive connections to criminal activitywere revealed in the Murdoch phonehacking scandal*, are given a free hand tocoordinate their response in reportingmass arrests. Typical was the ‘Daily Mail’on August 12, which wrote, “After days ofbeing pelted with bricks and petrol bombs,this was payback time.”

Police, Politicians, Journalists, MediaExecutives, Bosses – Protecting corrup-tion, class privilege and exploitation.

*Massive corruption scandal in UK whichexposed class collusion at senior levels ofthe establishment.

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“The world is one pestilent church covetousand slimy where all have an idol tofetishistically adore and an altar on which tosacrifice themselves.” - Ne re N rRenzo NovatoreRenzo Novatore

A movement of anarchists would, you’d think,be a collective project of individual realisationand freedom, mutual aid and solidarity,honest communication and individualresponsibility, of a violent attack against theinstitutions, managers and structures ofdomination and alienation, against mentalprogramming and unconscious behaviours,against the reproduction of authoritariansociety in our interrelationships and thoughtsand actions.

What does the muddle of casual hierarchies,ideological rackets, miserable cliques, identityghettos, would-be leaders, dishonesty andbackstabbing that we see before us if welook at much of the self-identifying ‘anarchistmovement’ have to do with that? Very littleexcept perhaps in words or in a stuntedform. Clearly the movement in general ismore interested in protecting ideologicalfortresses, recruiting followers, preservingthe suffocating comfort of their scenes, andabove all, following their harmless hobby,than in anarchy.

Navigating and trying to find a referencepoint in the ‘movement’ can be disorientating.Young, or new, comrades entering the‘movement’ (or rather, the scene) arefrequently snatched by one of the brands ofpackage-deal politics or forced to pickbetween the false choices of profferedproducts served up by the various ideologicalrackets. Whenever a system of ideas isstructured with a sovereign abstraction at thecentre - assigning a role or duties to you forits sake - this system is an ideology. Anideology is a system of repressive conscious-ness in which you are no longer a willfulsingular individual, but a component, a cog.

In this commodity-based world, the image ofrebellion can be just another product, just aswe can commodify, abstract, and systematiseour own expressions of our thoughts anddesires into its alienated form, its commodity,an interchangeable form - ideology. Even, infact most subtly and dangerously, when weare not conscious of what we are doing. Inthe various ideological organisations, in thescenes and in much of the media of anar-chists, a narrow consensus view of reality isenforced around specific parameters.

Free communication that goes beyond theboundaries of interior discourse is shut downby verbal attacks and mocking, physicalexclusion, warnings of state repression or

Beyond the ‘Movement’- Anarchy!

non-acceptance by society, and simple,dogmatic refusal of heretical thoughts. Likeany lifestyle or identity in the democraticmarketplace of society, anarchism has itspackage deals - complete with attitudes,opinions, styles, activities and products, allunder handy labels.

I should mention at this point that, as some-one who feels affinities with others of an anti-systemic and insurrectional tendency aroundthe world, I am aware that ‘InsurrectionaryAnarchism’ or whatever can be turned intoan ideology to be bought into, and eveneasier, a fad or style. Certainly recently thisseems to have truth in some quarters. Butperhaps this is due to the recuperativeinfluence of the Tiqqun intellectuals and their‘Coming Insurrection’, a book that like “TheCall”, seems to have influenced many youngradicals, but which appears to be written byMarxists and nowhere validates individualself-responsibility, free will, desire andconsciousness. Their insurrection may becoming, mine has come, it is an individualrevolt.

The collectivist message of ‘The ComingInsurrection’ has little in common withinsurrectional anarchy: the revolutionarytheory flowing from the individual’s passion-ate uprising to appropriate the fullness of lifefor themselves, attacking all that controls andexploits, finding commonalities and affinitieswith others from which spring the realcommune - the friends and accomplices ofthe guerrilla war against the totality ofauthoritarian society.

With no sovereign systems of morality,theory, principles or social abstractionsstanding above the singular individual, thenihilist-anarchist attacks all systems, includingidentity and ideology systems, as obstacles toour self-realisation. The struggle is againstnot only the domination of controlling socialorganisation and widespread tranquilisation,but also against inherited repressiveprogramming and the force of daily life, andso our struggle is a constant tension wherewhat we must destroy and transcend is muchmore obvious than where we might end up.

For some, faced by this oppressive reality, itis enough to come up with an alternative,‘just’ and ‘reasonable’ social system (or‘utopia’) in their head. Some again just holdthis as a pleasant fantasy land, while otherswish society to actually change and eithercome up with or (more commonly) buy intoan A to B recipe (or ‘programme’) for socialtransformation, for the reprogramming of thesocial system. This is simply a form ofrepressive (systemic) consciousness.

Frequently the envisioning and laying out ofthese alternative social systems (includingthose of many anarchists) is down to thosecut out as the managerial strata of this classsociety, the avant-guard of which is responsi-ble for the constant social restructuring of themodern world. Workplace democracy,decentralised production, ‘green’ technolo-gies, multi-culturalism, and so on – all areexperimented with by the dominant order,strengthening it.

Theorisation of abstract social systems - andall social systems are based on abstractions -only strengthens domination. But if you startfrom your own life and refuse to be acomponent of anything, refuse to representothers or have others represent you,embracing your inscrutable uniqueness,knowing that all you face in life are choices,then you are a danger to authority andorder, a walking microcosm of anarchy.

This then is a call out to avoid the casualhierarchies and cliques of the officialanarchist movement, to avoid ideologicalsystems and political identities, to savour thepleasure of thinking for yourself, of followingyour desires, the dignity of honestly followingthrough to whatever unknowns of truth,negation and passion, setting no abstractionabove yourself. In the war to the end, onlychoices matter, and only you are responsiblefor the choices you make.

Examine your feelings and thoughts,eliminate all moral and ideological systemsfrom yourself, be aware that “commonsense” (or rather social consensus rational-ism) is the strongest support of the existent,don’t be afraid of where your inner (andouter) struggle takes you.

a e l h i l n nd mSmash all the idols, even and mostt o c a ‘ na ’ dt c a ‘ ona ’ dparticularly the ‘revolutionary’ idols!!particularly the ‘revolutionary’ idols!!

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Against the British ‘anti-capitalistmovement’: Brief notes on theirongoing failure“Organisations, legislative bodies andunions: Churches for the powerless. Pawn-shops for the stingy and weak. Many join tolive parasitically off the backs of their card-carrying simpleton colleagues. Some join tobecome spies. Others, the most sincere, jointo end up in jail from where they can observethe mean-spiritedness of all the rest.”Renzo Novatore (1920)

2011 has become an important year whenthe August uprising and the ongoinganarchist attacks here in the UK have leftbehind the low ebb of struggle that hadremained for a decade. Since the centralLondon anti-capitalist riots of June 18th

1999, which stood as a potentially valuablestarting point for a new and combative socialstruggle, the ‘movement’ did not evolve intoa dangerous or dynamic tendency, ashappened in other places - rather there was aretreat from the reality of revolutionarypossibilities.

Between 2000 to 2003 the UK protestmovement reached a dead-end of symbolic

actions based around pre-arranged dates(Mayday etc.) and was largely defeated onthe streets and in the minds of the people bya twin-attack - on the one hand a war ofattrition by the State and its police agents tokettle, beat, profile, taunt, infiltrate, disruptand imprison; and on the other underminedby the self-policing non-violent stance of theanti-war movement and the counter-culture, which quickly reached a position ofaccommodation with and recuperation bythe State and corporate forces – thiscontinues in the tactics and themes of theclimate change, anti-war, and anti-cutsactivists to the present day. It can also beseen in the recuperation of the free-party andsquat scene into one more fashionable part ofthe alternative chic, replete with ketamineand faux-poverty.

This growth of liberalism was helped a greatdeal by the demise of the radical part of theEarth First! Network and the birth of it’sugly activist sister, the Dissent anti-G8 2005network.

As one example of compromise in a bunch ofothers, this happened as a result of a critical

annual EF! gathering in 2004 prior to theStirling 2005 summit debacle. The reason itwas critical was that despite the participationof lots of people in covert GM crop trashingsbetween 2000 and 2003, arguments overtactics revealed how excruciatingly liberalmany of those involved were. Very fewpeople were involved in the final anti-GM,anti-Bayer campaign and it confirmed thatonly a small handful of individuals wereactually serious about taking action anddeveloping a revolutionary project. Unlikethe eco-anarchist counterparts in the USA,who had become the Earth Liberation Front,carrying out numerous high-impactsabotage actions against environmentaldestruction, in the UK the G8 was comingup and clearly there was starting to be a shiftaway from the nascent militancy intosubstitute activity. It was clear that therewas not going to be even the chance of adiscussion about actual confrontation.

At the G8, under the watchful eyes of thesecret police, street-fighting and propertydestruction were largely left to outsider andinternational comrades to riskily organise forthemselves while the British Dissent/EF!activists mostly played only a support andinfrastructural role. The approaching G8gave a window of opportunity for thereformists and ‘movement builders’,whereby those who had been part of EarthFirst! had to make a choice: to radicalisefurther despite perceived isolation or.... tobreathe a sigh of relief as the pressure to be‘radical’ was removed and, through thesummit-mobilising process, some couldmore openly become the conformist liberals,academics, cooks, paramedics and drunksthat was at the secret heart of the ‘move-ment’ all along. It was also a prime opportu-nity, as these events always are, for variousundercover agents to sail in and embedthemselves in activist groups around thecountry.

An arguably pivotal point came during thebombs of 7/7. Occurring on the first day ofthe 2005 summit itself, the central activistassembly overseeing the counter-summitvoted to dissolve the blockades and hopinline with the “war-on-terror” discourse ofthe government, calling off any furtherdemonstrations (which could have lead toconflict with the already beleaguered State).Those autonomous few left on the streetswere overwhelmed by police numbers andthe complicity of the ‘movement’. At a timewhen there was a most important momentto make a clear position on the street againstrepression, militarism and statist terror, copsand activists could be found lighting candlestogether at a hastily arranged ‘memorial’ attheir protest camp, in an act of remembranceand tribute to the victims.

Over the Atlantic, in 2005/6 when therepression against North American militantsof Earth Liberation Front & Animal

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Liberation Front became furious, we werebroken-hearted to see almost no solidarity oreven comprehension of their struggle here onthe other side of the Atlantic. Similarly,when the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty(SHAC) campaign was being attacked by thegovernment on behalf of the vivisectionindustry, the activist/anarchist movement inUK was largely nowhere to been seen. Asthe tempest raged and prisoners receivedlong sentences resulting from political andcorporate policing, there was an emblematiclack of solidarity on the part of the ‘move-ment’ and a lack of commitment andidentification with the struggle for earth andanimal liberation.

So, we make the case that for years the‘movement’ in the UK has been a stagnanttrap of inaction and reactionary theory of theworst type. It can be said that the UK‘movement’ is largely a massive policing andself-policing operation for very spectacularthemed events revolving around rotten ideas.Willfully ignorant of the militant and violentstruggles being waged not just in Europe butaround the world - unless they happensomewhere exotically foreign and afflictedwith the hope of ‘democracy’ - the escalat-ing social war will draw a deep cut into thesepeople, as their opinions and methods areforced into irrelevancy.

Now that expectations about what isachievable in terms of the attack, has goneup in flames with the August riots, the failureof the British anarchist/activist movement isobvious. That the anarchist/activist move-ment failed to have any kind of meaningfulrole in the August riots is yet another sign ofthe almost total lack of connection to manyparts of society who are fighting the existentorder. Either in the frame of affinity groupaction, or the mythical ‘community/workplace meetings’, the activities are notwell spread enough or violent enough tohave any important impact, althoughoutbreaks of sabotage have spread wellbeyond the spectacular borders of the activistworld. While the anarchist/activist move-ment deliberate about ‘what the peoplewant’ and come up with inclusivity strate-gies that ‘don’t alienate people’, the peopletook what they wanted, burnt the rest andattacked the cops.

The August riots surpassed the Britishanarchist movement. The rioters showedtheir ability to act in small fast movinggroups demonstrating their ability to lootand burn what they want, disappearinghopefully before the armies of police swampthe area. The rioters showed an example ofhow to spread the disturbance to specifictargets hitting different points in co-ordination via objective. The anti-capitalist/anarchist movement here has not had thatopportunity to move like that for years, ifever. Conflict is largely not a feature of theBritish anarchist/activist movement.

The texts that have come from the Britishanarchist/activist movement covering theAugust riots and their aftermath, areoverwhelmingly moralistic and repetitive,and have only served to outline a movementwhich is distant from the struggle forfreedom on the streets, and is not interactingwith the stratas of society which are inconflict with the system in any real waybeyond the symbolic. The hostility to theactual rioters displayed by many in the‘movement’ is a symptom of a reactionary‘liberatarian’ municipalism, which has lost itsreference in a nihilistic present where hopesfor social ‘progress’ are ruined forever.

Whether bickering amongst themselves onthe webforum LibCom.org or scraping thebarrel of the citizens discontent like ordinaryoppositional groups, the UK activists andanarchist political scene - the ‘informal’activist networks and the formal anarchistorganisations of membership fees, propa-ganda organs and party structure, such as theSolidarity Federation, AFed etc. are floun-dering and irrelevant in the face of the socialwar. The ‘movement’ is barely able to escapeits own dogma and limited influence andthese ‘movement’-orientated groups cannotstand up to repression - they are political inthe sense that they deal with the rule of thesymbolic and don’t actually deal withsubversion other than its representation.Through the appearance of professionalism, acartel of older, managerial activists - whoseincreasingly cultural sense of importance andcareers/identities dependent upon symbolicnot actual struggle – have been able to gainand retain control, and have wrought thisscene into a place of little challenge tohierarchy and power.

Sabotage, property destruction, black bloc,and direct action has been put aside, if notdenounced, by not only activists but alsomembers of the traditional anarchistorganisations, as if they exist in somesuperior isolation. For years, theinsurrectional and unmanageable anarchictendency has weathered the revival ofanarcho-syndicalism and its poor counter-part, community activism. Some of thepredominant individuals from these groupshave actively tried to undermine the basis ofthe continuous growing attacks andsabotages, trying to prevent the insurgenttendency spreading, like the leftist citizen-cops that they are, mistakenly trying toprotect a day-dream that never reallyescaped from their books, pint-glasses and

day-dreams. Chasing the coat tails of the‘workers’ and ‘good citizens’ is a pastimeonly for the nostalgic and the unionist, everusing each new social development as fuel fortheir dabbling in oppositional politics.

This is perhaps why the leftists, alternatives,activists and anarchist groups run after the‘big demos’, ‘next campaign’ or losethemselves in “community” and “workplaceorganisation”, to give themselves substituteactivities to explain the loss of dignity intheir own compromise with the system.

Some of these so-called ‘radicals’ treat theuncontrollables in the same way as thereadership of the tabloid papers or the policewould treat them: as curiosities, as danger-ous, and, at the least, as problematic. Inanswer to that, we have decided that certaintraditional strategies are no longer of interestto us and we don’t care for opinions aboutwhat is or what is not desirable, possible orrealistic.

So rather than tenuously try to buildreactionary campaigns or ‘alternatives’ thatend up being effectively assimilated andaccommodated into the lie of democracy byour enemies anyway - except throughbuilding the non-oppressive relations ofrevolt between ourselves - we chooseprimarily to attack. We understand that onlywhen all that remains of the dominanttechno-industrial-capitalist system issmouldering ruins, is it feasible to ask whatnext?

A ‘movement’ of blind and shallow indi-viduals can never find a way out, the falseculture of the ‘movement’ is full of deceitand manipulation. How can there be anytrust, respect and co-operation? There islittle to none in the society. When thegeneral population scheme, compete andconnive against each other for the smallestgain as a way of life, can you expect betterfrom their faithful mirror-image in opposi-tion? Revolutionary action is not only anambitious experiment in attacking targets ofthe capitalist system and the State, but alsothe slavish attitudes, fears and cowardice thatare present everywhere. Here in UK,capitalism has eroded and broken the valuesof friendship and solidarity, replacing themwith obedience to the herd and distrust ofthe unknown.

The tedious fact is that many of those in themovement know the truth of the fictionalnature of their ‘movement’ but actively

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choose to conform to its dictates to prevent notonly repression falling down on their heads, butto prevent the kind of social isolation they feelthey would slip into, removed from people tofuck, meetings to attend and bins to scavenge.Some other worthy activists choose topersecute, ostracize and humiliate those whocame to the end of reasoning with the ‘move-ment’. Those who denounce servitude and actwith individual determination are the anath-ema of those who value the representation ofrevolt over those who forgot what it is like tobe ‘reasonable’ and embraced their passion.

It is the young people and the autonomousaffinity groups - insurrectional, anarchic,nihilist, anti-systemic and anti-social whichhave revitalised the antagonistic flame ofrevolution.

Dignity and strength are values unknown tothe included classes and their managerial-classchildren. For them, submission to the herd iswhat is found in the assembly and in theconsensus of direct democracy, and theincluded are rulers of this place too, thisplayground of insecurities.

We know that more of our comrades are to befound in the places where ‘the Left’ is possiblynot even an idea, and the idea of ‘the Move-ment’ would be laughable.

For us, to continue to live and act as if thesetwin concepts were a good idea in the firstplace is to maintain the lie which thrives on‘good will’, providing a non-threatening andpacifying avenue for altruistic drives and desiresfor a change in social conditions, entanglingpeople in ‘realistic’ and reformistprograms which are immediatelyrecuperated by policy makers ofsome managerial stripe.

The decrepit and fanciful ‘Move-ment’ seeks to control and limit theperception of not only struggle, butreality, and what can be achievedby the individuals who have nointerest in waiting for an assemblyor a political organisation toapprove their actions or ideas.

Of course, we had hoped that atsome moment a mass of people inthis consumer democratic regime,as around the world, wouldrecognise and rise up against theconditions of exploitation andprofound degradation that we fightagainst. But it has to be said that sofar at least we have seen limitedevidence of it in the ‘movement’here.

We had hoped that there weremany out there with strong heartsand a desire for free, whole lives,who would rebel and fight, and thatwe would reach a critical point

some day, but for us now in this miserableand sick consumer society, we have thrownaway the idea of waiting for them.

We have shared and developed our methodsof conceptualisation, reconnaisance andattack with an eye to pushing forward arevolutionary project which has more incommon with our international comradesrather than those ‘at home’; we have no timefor an inward looking petty-nationalismwhen the majority of the people in the UK‘movement’ are mostly worthless hobbyistsand tourists.

We act, as one of us has written, mostly forourselves, but not because we are selfish anddo not care, but because we have come tothe conclusion that we cannot predict whatothers want and because we cannot predictthe results of our actions. The beauty ofchoosing to live in struggle, in informal andfriendly situations with chosen friends, afavoured path to discovering our potentials,characteristics, qualities and abilities, whichwill be the foundation of our future world oftotal liberation.

Outside the gaze of the secret police andtheir activist allies with their boringhierarchies of minor-control and power canbe found the play of our own lives, where theself-organisation of the attack and thecirculation of ideas acquires more substantialand significant outcomes - here we’ll go intofreedom and exit the seated theatre ofradicalism.

Anarchist-nihilists

To act without outsideauthorisation, clearanceor a big pat on the back

from the movement

Confidence to work solitary with no easy startor boost from the crowd. To motivate the

passion and anger from within.

Emotionally political in an unstable world.Refuse to look for comfort in false promises,

out-reach to engage with what can becaught, accepting nothing of value will be

gained by taking a smooth ride.

There are plenty of more terrains to still fighton, possibilities of surprise. They are not

always going to be convenient; familiar frontslike ghettos, high-streets and inner-city

avenues have always been there but notproperly discovered on the isolated bleak

plains of suburbia and sink estates with theirrich labyrinth, back-lanes and open spaces,

covered with thick floral canopy.You just have to apply the right camouflage

and learn how to maneuver yourself.

We see no borders, no divisions betweenrural and urban - they’re just different war-

zones with similar battle rules that are thereto be broken, and rich pickings to be taken

either physically or psychologically from eachskirmish. Learning to monopolize more

effectively on our small victories to fight thestate propaganda.

A ‘good education’ can be a hindrance withbuilt in guilt to achieve something brilliant.

Information and things can just fall into yourlap, it is what position you place yourself in,time spent alone, leg-work to trawl through,

to get what you are looking for.

I see so many selfish lazy greedy narrow-minded people, I struggle to cherish with anygreat zest this mortal coil I tilt on. I feel I’m left

only to aspire to destruction.

When you see that you’re controlled onlywhen you want to be controlled, you kinda

hate yourself for this, because you let it creepup on you. When you take the anger and useit to claw back your life and align yourself with

the opposition, the bulls-eye on the targetbecomes much clearer.

We hate this society that suffocates us, thatties us up in moral, legal, red-tape.We are bound to please no more.

These collaborators to this putrid bondageshould be slapped up, like in NorthernIreland, head shaved and tied up with

barbed wire to a lamp-post, for all to see

( s(Not trust worthy to co-exist).

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From a RioterI am one of the kids who grew up on estates,who ran with gangs and sold drugs throughschool, getting an education on the streetwith our own values and respect. One ofthose who took what they could because

nothing is given to those with nothing. Alwaysseeking a chance to fuck the system, I don’tmake any apologies for who or what I am. I

don’t speak for anyone, I just speak formyself. No government ever meant shit to

me, neither the conspiring words of myparents, the teachers, or the police.

Their world is lies and hypocrisy. One “law”for the rich and another for everyone else.

The only way I get by is with my people, howwe run things. I never worked a job in my lifeI didn’t leave within 3 months, and as far as Iam concerned, I’d rather go to prison than

work in a job that exploits you. Those bosseswho take the life and time of the workingpeople are the criminals, them and the

banks, who keep it locked up and tight for thewealthy. All I see ourselves doing is gettingour share of what is due to us, and by any

means we’ll get by.

These cities are dumps, and always will be.We are not having it any more, there is loads

of us now. Any time they want something,the people have to get it by fighting.

There is absolutely no space for discussionwith the police or the politicians, because allwe are is shit to them. This article is just to

say “fuck them”. They want to wipe us all outand lock us up. Convince us we’re worthnothing. Well, each of us are people, whomake decisions about our lives, ‘good’ or

‘bad’, but it will not be up to the rich to decidehow our lives should be run, and not either

by the pigs and politicians. When they kill oneof us, all the cities should burn.

Those powerful and rich idiots who want tocontrol everyone’s lives and keep them in

wage slavery and sufferation have got to go.

“By any means necessary” as Malcolm Xsaid. They only serve themselves and the

only way we’ll get free and better lives is if weget rid of them.

civilisation collapses

shrinks to the waist of the figure of eight, we hold to the dance at the tight black point that marks our passing

from one moment to the next,

the time of tense blind chaosbefore humanity opens out again into opposing illusions

that both peak in the fullness of tyranny

the rebel yellsand civilisation collapses

there is nothing left to defend,everything to attack

the looters takebut the spoils are irrelevant

it is the split-second choice - the instinctive taking of sides - which isthe heart of it

wildness, spontaneity, freedom, space, rebellion

affinity

it just looks like plasma screens and trainers

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Statement from a UK FAI sector

This text was written during the course ofthe growing European social war, and ourattempts to situate ourselves in the contextof that, whilst in the midst of rising fascism,complicity from most of the society and afractured and divisive anti-capitalist‘movement’. These scant few pages cannotexpress the complexity of the varioussituations being described in any great depth,but we write so that other rebels at the edgescan know how it is for us here. As we wereputting the final touches to the text, cities inthe UK exploded and remain volatile.However this is not an analysis of the riots –this is a text from inside the social conditionswhich gave rise to the insurrection.

This text has been collaboratively written bymany individuals in our network over aperiod of discussion, planning and attack. Wehave been brief in our communiques so far,but we felt it was time to write somethinglonger.

“Why are we writing?” Because we knowhow important it has been for us to hear theknocks on the wall from other renegades inother cells, and because we would like toreach out beyond the people we alreadyknow, beyond the realities we have lived in,created, abandoned or remain tied to. Asrevolutionaries, we are highly critical of theserealities and of ourselves, and we writebecause just, as individuals, we strive to be‘better’ than we are, we also desire for thisworld to be better than it is. We are open tothe fallacy of our opinions and wish tosurpass our expectations, such as they are.We also try to communicate with thoseoutside our circles, and we attempt tostaunch the tendency towards self-

referentialism which is endemic to manyforms of communication. In the end, wehave to accept that this text is written topersons unknown and that wherever it isread and whoever it reaches, there will bethose who will have an understanding ofwhat is written here - and this is for them.

There is no longer any sure statementthat can be made about this changingworld, which catches fire more andmore, everyday.

The present day United Kingdom is acontrolled theme-park, covered in surveil-lance cameras, vehicle tracking, identicalhousing estates, post-industrial zones andsprawling road and train networks. There isvirtually no wilderness left, the powerful andrich control the ‘countryside’, as much as, oreven more than the cities, and there is littlefreedom beyond the mainstream, unless youtake it – the same as anywhere else. Theprison of everyday life is so total here thatthe only choice remaining is its completedestruction.

We welcomed the renewed call by theConspiracy of Cells of Fire / InformalAnarchist Federation for a world-wideinformal anarchist structure based onrevolutionary solidarity and direct action: theInternational Revolutionary Front. Aswe continue to develop our own project ofrevolutionary organisation, we affirm theglobal informal ‘network’ or ‘federation’ ofrevolutionary groups in existence who aredeveloping, encouraging and participating inuncontrollable confrontation against Stateand Capital, whilst organising and develop-ing their own initiatives of attack: this is oursignal of collaboration.

There has been a significant upsurge inattacks against prison, financial, policeand communications targets in the UK,but the obvious truth is that theseattacks are few in relation to the task tobe undertaken, and the level of engage-ment with the enemy is still in the earlystages of its development.

Over the last two years we have begun anewly co-ordinated revolutionary project. Itis our way of starting something new.Something that won’t just disappear likewords against the wind. We are some ofthose who think that the possibility of aconscious, cohesive social revolutioninvolving a critical mass from the generalpopulation of the UK is frankly remote.However, we think – and have seen - thatwidespread chaos and social insurgency areinevitable, and from this, new and betterforms of human values could emerge.

If we were to reflect on human life experi-ence - both individual and collective – wewould perhaps understand the wisdom thatsometimes it takes a total breakdown forthings to change. Of course, some people arescared of change, of the unknown. Peoplelimp along miserably in all sorts of dysfunc-tional conditions for years - relationships,jobs, towns etc. - rather than face thenecessary and radical alteration of thoseconditions into a future they cannot yetimagine. And because society is made up ofindividual human beings, then society is nodifferent. People lap up the distractions beingoffered – TV, consumables, mainstreamcultures, drugs, subcultures, actions,gatherings, spiritual panaceas, anything... solong as they can put off confronting theessential emptiness of everyday life. We areliving in the midst of a culture whereendemic use of anti-depressants, for example- as Aldous Huxley predicted in Brave NewWorld - keep people from changing what ismaking them unhappy and instead makethem accept what it is that is making themunhappy. When the individuals in a societyare struggling just to get up in the morningbecause the system exploits them everyminute, these people have no energy torevolt against the system. They are caught inits claws. They don’t even seem to recognisethis. The totality of this techno-industrialsociety enslaves them into patterns ofrepetition, damaging themselves and eachother, oppressed on the outside and repressedon the inside. The fundamental distinctionbetween inside and outside prison does notseem to exist in the same way any more:daily life attempts to subject us to a regimeof control and routine in every aspect.

In the foyers of the supermarkets and theshopping malls, in pubs and bars, places ofwork and transport hubs we find, more oftenthan not, those whom the consumerdemocracy has bought off with the lootedcapital of those less fortunate. Regularly, weare in the presence of willing captives, of

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society’s sickness, of reactionary grasping forthe means of survival – the exploited againstthe exploited. People have made a fool’sbargain and have handed over their health,intelligence, curiosity, sense of solidarity,personal authority, and the earth and all thatlives and grows on it in exchange for the latesttechnology, fast food, flash car or socialnetwork.

Although present reality shows us anintensification of social conflict withsome promising characteristics, we donot yet see ourselves standing amongst apotentially revolutionary mass. Weappear to be standing knee-deep in thebloated carcass of a dying civilisation.

Almost seven billion people across the worldare hooked into a genocidal and tyrannicalsystem that has insinuated itself as a life-support machine. Civilisation gives theimpression that its destruction would meanthe end of all life; however an extinction waveis already happening which, if it did continue,would have that exact result, accompanied bynear total-victory for the capitalist techno-industrial-military system and the financialpower which underpins it.

Environmental catastrophe roars acrossflooded continents; vast tsunami, extensivedesertification and decimated forests. Themodern totalitarian nation-states and theirimperialist groupings like the G8, G20,NATO and so on, are committed to themurderously terrorist capitalist system as theirvision of the future. To a future whereeverything and everyone is a commoditylogged and valued in a mechanical worlddevoid of any possibility of wildness andfreedom. A world of perfect control anddomestication. An impossible world. A worldwhich every sane human being and wildcreature already fights against - from eachand every area regardless of race, creed orspecies.

We are in the midst of an unprec-edented ecological collapse. Varioustendencies in the scientific and politicalcommunities have spent many years arguingamongst themselves as to whether globalwarming is or is not a result of humanbehaviour, citing natural disasters and massdie-offs in pre-history. These arguments arenow irrelevant. It is undeniable that grotesquespecies extinction, habitat loss, light/noise andair/land/oceanic pollution on a worldwidescale, desertification, human encroachment onwilderness are a direct result of humanattitudes and economic greed. For decades,changing this was a possibility, now it is toolate.

We are witnessing our species suicidallycontaminate and destroy its own habitat andthat of every other species on the planet: anexpanding population which prioritises itselfand its own prescribed and enforced lifestyleabove all other considerations, living in

complete disharmony with the natural worldand destroying the fragile eco-system uponwhich we depend.

The built environments we inhabit areunsuitable even for humans. Land that usedto be covered in forest, supporting a widerange of species, becomes ever more coveredin concrete. Every available piece of‘wasteland’ is being sold off for development.Civilisation is genocidal, homicidal, ecocidaland suicidal. From poverty, abuse anddomestic unhappiness to the reckless driversrisking pile-ups to get home a couple ofminutes faster, to the regular ethniccleansings and the total pillage of theenvironment in the scramble for money andcontrol through the securing of naturalresources to exploit. This is a violent system,and millions are dying as we speak, here andeverywhere: of obesity and malnutrition, oftraffic accidents, industrial diseases, war,substance abuse, depression and loneliness.Meanwhile, the comfortable arrange theirknives and forks and settle down in front ofthe television; their empty, meaninglessconversations blurring into hollow silence.

These modern societies have come to meanthat dreams and desires are warped anddictated from birth (work ethics, conformityto roles, competition, separation, jealousy,class and social deference to authority, thenuclear family, domestication); so much sothat it is hard to even know what ourunconstrained lives might look like when theState and Capital’s projects and rule arefinally rejected en masse.

In Britain, there is a massive amount of classanger encountered every day, but until 7th

August 2011 when rioting erupted inLondon and swept through the country,there has been barely any widespreadmanifestation of this anger against thecapitalist system or government.

There is a sheepish terror amongst the peoplehere that gets into the bones, and althoughthere is a desire for destruction and forattack, there is also a deep fear that paralyses.A consensual censorship exists, betweenalmost every strata and structure of society,that prevents even the ability to express andmanifest dissent unless it is within permittedparameters.In such an advanced surveillance society,when the risk of getting caught even forwriting some rebellious words on a wall is soseemingly great, it is easy to give into thefear and to imagine that it is a fact that youare going to get caught. The surveillancetechnology is extensive and reaches inside -if you let it do so. That’s why we love the‘feral underclass’ who the politicians andtheir police despise, those who lost their fearfrom growing up in a police-state - becausethat is what Britain is, a police-state.

And like any police-state, it only existsbecause of a vast consensus of subservience

from the society. Who has let the social terrainbecome overrun with surveillance technology?Who has become the eyes and ears of theState? Who turns their own children in to theauthorities? Who has watched the Muslimsand immigrants become vilified withoutacting? Who has let the police becomeembedded in all aspects of the ‘community’?Who has accepted their own powerlessnessand swallowed the lies of the media, allowingthe politicians to manipulate them and thebankers to rob them? It is the “citizens”themselves.

The reactionary mass of people here are lost incomfortable illusions, bought off by thedelights of consumerism. They put out of theirminds any actual realities of oppression orexploitation. Of course, they feel deeply themisery of their daily grind, but here they makethe bosses’ choice: to be angry with theimmigrants, the impoverished and themarginalised, otherwise amusing themselveswith the sports section, the lottery, thetelevised media spectacle of rivalry andcompetition. Benefiting from and perpetuat-ing a system of global violence, we have littlemore than scorn for the waste these peoplemake of their lives.

At the same time, the food prices go up, thefuel price goes up, the wages go down,pensions and benefits are cut, mass redundan-cies are effected (some staff to be rehired ifthey apply for their old job again, but only at alower wage). There will be no more inherit-ance. There will be no more security, even forthe nuclear families who bought into thedream of the faded Empire, rotting in sub-standard housing surrounded by decay andbreakdown. We see how the technological-capitalist system ties people into ‘needing’ thecomputer, mobile telephone, car, TV, becauseputting those things aside means social andcultural isolation and no opiate to bury thealienation, misery and desperation. Nothingexists but a trace of a way of life promised toan elite. The majority are living in debt, and/or hand to mouth; the fortunate are living ontheir reserves; and the very few are living offeveryone else, enjoying the present andsecuring the future for themselves.

We act against the State and the symbols ofthe State for many reasons. And of course, oneof those reasons is a desire to move beyondourselves and our small circles. We hope thatthese attacks will resonate with others and willspread, and indeed they have.

We are not so stupid that we think our attacks– however worthy the targets - will alonebring down this system. We understand thatthere are other social factors which arenecessary. We know that the process ofplanning and carrying out attackschanges our immediate social relationsand our relation with our own sense ofself and personal power, so that gradu-ally our actions become bolder, wilder,harder to ignore. This process also changes

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the general atmosphere, creating an environ-ment where more is possible because less isimpossible. We have contributed to a wholeplethora of anti-system activities, of whichrepeated attacks by smaller and larger groupsover the past year on infrastructure, banks,and prison institutions have played a part.

With all the billions of people who live in theworld, there will never be a time when aparticular act against the State and Capital isfelt by all or even the majority of people tobe appropriate, ‘good’ or desirable. Oursmall affinity groups - of two, three or morepeople self-organised into a larger informalstructure - simply act according to their ownrage, their own analysis, their own choiceand at their own risk. To pretend to besomeone other than we are is useless,dishonest and lacking in integrity, a posturewhich could only slowly devastate us andultimately any collective project arising fromthis.

By publicising our attacks, we hope toinspire unknown combatants and todisseminate those methods so that they areeasy to reproduce by others. This is why wemake sure always to communicate themthrough the independent media, as otherwisethere is a media black-out on reporting theclaims of sabotage and covering subversiveactivity in this country, preferring, as it does,stories centred around personalities and theseemingly designed-to-be-unchangeablecurrent political structures. It is importantfor us who wish to confront and bring downCapital to know that others are attacking theenemy, in order to dismantle any sense ofisolation and powerlessness. It is vital toorganise, communicate and co-ordinateattacks.

We are very proud of the relationships wehave built as individuals together throughour project of destruction, as we are of eachof our actions, even those that did not meetour expectations. Each of us are individualswho believe that the fundamental base of astrong and healthy way of life is comprisedby the individuals themselves, in theirdecisions, choices and values that go towardsfreedom and responsibility.

Our project is to quicken the break-down of society. As revolutionaries, we area minority – but do not say that we are few.We don’t make predictions as to how societywill re-form after the breakdown, although,of course, as anarchists, there are some basicways we want things to change. And thosedreams coincide with those of revolutionariesthroughout human history, and indeed theyare being realised already across the world.

We are bored to death with reflection,statement and opinion – and even of thisanalysis - on the condition of this society.We must only attack and destroy - whichmeans using revolutionary violence, in ourhearts and in our hands, until our freedom to

act is permanent. This continuous project ofattack is in order also to break down ourfears and to heighten the tension that exists,to give it expression. To understand that in apolice-state and surveillance society wherefear and paralysis are a daily condition, it isstill possible to revolt and to attack, toovercome those that have inserted them-selves into positions of power based on theobedience of the crowd.

We are poised at an exciting time in history,although it seems at times like a mostrelentlessly depressing one. As the materialbase of people’s lives is tipped into everincreasing fragility and as the sensation ofdaily precarity and inequality grows, theresults are entirely unpredictable (as we haveseen here this August in the widespreadviolent uprising) and it is exactly at suchtimes that even small acts can have the mostunpredictable effect.

We want to contribute to the openingup of new possibilities. In a highlysymbolic, abstracted and post-modernculture and way of life, and in a situationwhere even work now is largely providingservice and information, there seems to be noend to the targets we can attack - ouractions are themselves an exploration. Ofwhat is worthwhile to strike and what is not.

Corporations and government targets areattacked across the world in coordinated andconstant acts of direct action. Land andproperty are occupied in defiance of specula-tors and landlords. Animals are liberated,bio-science laboratories burnt down.Transgenic crops trashed and business peopleintimidated. Banks and courthouses areblown up, judges shot and stabbed. Policeand their stations are attacked withMolotovs, sticks, dynamite, firearms. Energysupplies are disrupted, television infrastruc-ture attacked, internet cables and mobile-phone masts sabotaged. Supermarkets anddepartment stores are looted and theirproducts distributed. People go on strike,blockade the economy and occupy theirplaces of wage-slavery; ‘labour’ disappearsinto the generalised insurrection. Prisonersrebel and overtake their guards, some escapeor are freed by their compatriots on the‘outside’. Communiques of revolutionary

international solidarity are circulated by anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist and anarchist groupsof the new urban guerilla war; objectives arediscussed, concepts exchanged, methods revealed,tactics refined and words of armed joy and lovespoken. A sprawling economic and technologicalapparatus of social control stutters in seizure andfragmentation.

A message to all those who have not yet begunthe fight but see the looming clash on thehorizon: prepare yourselves, because there is afierce conflict ahead for the future of our changingworld. And this planet is ours. Ours, like thestreets of the cities in which we set our barricades.Ours, like the houses, corners and cafés where wemeet our friends and accomplices. Ours, like thestones we throw and the fires we set. Ours, likethe infinite anarchic dream which wrote itself intoexistence.

This is a new era of international urbanlow-intensity war, and our insurrectionalproject is forged from the multiple effortsof many autonomous and independentcombative groups, developing new lines ofattack and coordination whilst retainingthe individualist character of their ownprinciple concerns and objectives.

It’s not enough to rot our dreams with theincontinence of inaction. The future is yours withevery dream you make into reality, and everyrefusal you make concrete. Whether locked downin jail, on the street, or imprisoned in the familyor workplace, each moment of your life dependson your ability to scheme and rebel againstanybody and anything which tries to put theirauthoritative hand upon you; you are the futureand the world is yours.

We consider our network a section of theInformal Anarchist Federation / EarthLiberation Front / International Revolu-tionary Front

We send our solidarity and respect to allthose fighting against the system aroundthe world and here in the UK. Our love anddrive for freedom to all the comrades inprison and also the dignified prisoners whoare in rebellion.

International Informal Anarchist Federation / FAI

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What emerges from these notes is not thestory of our comrades, of their desires andstruggles. On the contrary, it is the story ofpower and of its absolute will to suppresswith force, arbitrariness and lies those whoset themselves against it.

In February 2010 five anarchists werearrested in Turin and accused of ‘organ-ized crime’. They were alleged to bemembers of a criminal association whoseaim was ‘to impede the regular activities ofimmigration detention centres and ofprivate and public structures operating inthe sector of immigration as well as toimpede the activities of certain politicalorganizations such as the NorthernLeague’. The ‘crimes’ in question referredmainly to initiatives in public spaces. Thiswas the prelude of a wider and amplifiedoperation which was to develop with thearrests in Bologna in April 2011 (so called‘Operation Outlaw’).

In this case too the charge against theBologna comrades was ‘organized crime’,i.e. belonging to a criminal association. Itis this particular charge that led to theimprisonment of the comrades. The‘crimes’ in themselves, in fact, did notjustify remand in custody awaiting trial:campaigns against detention immigrationcentres, unauthorized demos, grievousdamage of public buildings (graffiti on thewalls of Bologna), disruption of publicconferences, road blocks and occupa-tions.

The obvious aim of the prosecution wasto get rid, even if temporarily, of somecomrades considered particularly ‘annoy-ing’ and, consequently, of stopping thestruggles under-way.

In the week preceding the arrests inBologna, IBM and ENI sites wereattacked with explosives, and windows ofthe local Northern League office gotsmashed (the arrested anarchists inBologna were charged with none of thesefacts). Following these episodes, the localpress reported that a meeting took placebetween police senior officers and judges,during which it was decided that article270bis (conspiracy to subvert thedemocratic order of the State) wasinadequate to deal with anarchists, ‘fromboth a juridical and a substantial point ofview’. Having this article failed to produce

the desired effects in the past, it was nownecessary to make recourse to a moreeffective formula.

Indeed, charges against Italian anarchistsin the last few years, all centred on thealleged existence of some sort of ‘asso-ciation’, have progressively abandonedreferences to (more or less imaginary)armed actions or explosive and incendiaryattacks. Prosecutors no longer need toaccuse the comrades of violent crimes. Itis sufficient the simple intention of wantingto change society radically. That is whyroad blocks or graffiti on walls are enoughto establish the existence of some‘criminal organization’ and they cantherefore lead to immediate imprisonment.

Moreover, such judicial manoeuvres arenot exclusively confined to repressionagainst anarchists. A month after theBologna arrests, five comrades of thestudent movement were put under housearrest in Florence and another 78investigated for ‘organized crime’. The‘crimes’? Once again, marches and publicdemos. Although Fuoriluogo in Bologna(which was closed down by the cops inApril) was an overtly anarchist place, the‘400 colpi liberated space’ in Florence (aliberated space inside the university) wasnot, which demonstrates how repressionis targeting all sorts of oppositionmovements.

To complete the picture, mention has tobe made of the events in Cuneo (Pied-mont region), where comrades tried tostrenuously oppose the opening of afascist place (‘Casa Pound’) in their townin February 2011. Following the clashesthat occurred on that occasion, a fewmonths later five of the comrades wereput under house arrest, while one of themwent on hiding (all the best in freedom!).Again in February 2011 two anarchists

were arrested and held for more than twoweeks during a demo called to disrupt thepassing of a Castor train loaded withnuclear waste in a station of the SusaValley. And the Val Susa is still the scene ofmassive protests against the TAV (highspeed rail link), which saw violent clashesand arrests in the month of July.

Obviously the Italian State fear thepotentials of certain practices (those ofthe anarchists), especially in a periodwhen social conflict is emerging. If thisconflict finds it hard to grow in qualitativeterms, nevertheless our comrades showthe way.

Repression is strictly connected to thefact that we are at war in Italy (and notonly) and it does not concern revolutionar-ies only. Italian jails are full of foreignersand of people who live on a shoestring.If a comrade can be imprisoned for spray-painting a wall, others are locked up forstealing a couple of cans of beer in asupermarket. The two aspects go alongtogether.

If active solidarity with the comrades hit byrepression is just and necessary, to blowon the wind of revolt looks like the mostreasonable suggestion in front of widen-ing repression.

partly drawn from Invece #6, June 2011

Stop press:

- All the arrested in Bologna are nowunder house arrest (i.e. imprisonedin their own houses).

- The 4 arrested during the Val Susaclashes of last July have been released.

A FEW NOTES ON RECENT REPRESSIVEATTACKS AGAINST ANARCHISTS IN ITALYItaly, another perfect example of the modern junta so comfortably resident at the trough of the EuropeanUnion, is trying to finally rid itself of the problem of the anarchists, and the malcontent outsiders every-where which plague the dreams of the rich.

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?Leaflet distributed in Lecce, (southItaly) during a solidarity initiative withthe Bologna anarchists

Today like yesterday the homicidal poten-tialities of terrorism are little thing com-pared to those of State power […]. Noorganization defined ‘terrorist’ can com-pare to governments when it comes ofkidnapping, torturing and making peo-ple disappear.H.M. Enzensberger

A few weeks ago the news broke of the nthmassacre in the Mediterranean sea, off theMaltese coasts. More than 250 peopledrowned, sunk to the sea bed along withthe ship onto which they were crammed.This was not an accident but a massacredeliberately committed: the authority chosenot to allow those people in ‘its internationalwater’ and eventually not to succour themas they were dying.

When something like this happens, it isnecessary to find the responsible, that isto say the persons behind and theperpetrators of the massacre. This is notdifficult. That massacre is the result of aproper terrorist act perpetrated by theStates – not only the Maltese one, whichthe Italian government tried to give theentire responsibility to.

That massacre was not the first andunfortunately it will not be the last. It hasbeen estimated that 16,000 deaths haveoccurred around the borders of FortressEurope since 1988. People fleeingpoverty, famine, persecution and war. Allconditions created by governments andeconomies – here are the responsible, thepersons behind and the perpetrators – inthe name of the highest profit at all costs.

Between indifference and warTo believe,to obey and

to workText of a leaflet translated fromwww.finimondo.org

You must believe the words of propa-ganda, the TV and the press reporting theproclamations of ministers, the commu-nications of executive directors, thedeclarations of officers.

You must obey the orders of authority, bethem rumbled by a government or abusinessman, by a bishop or a policechief.

You must (try to) work, that is to say toconsume the days of your life in efforts tofind money in order to go on. You can’twaste time with original thoughts,freedom taken without asking permissionor old-fashioned parties.

There is nothing else you can do apartfrom ‘believing, obeying and working’; therest is forbidden by the law. The same lawthat establishes how much you can drink,where you can eat, what you can say,whom you can love, how you can die and –above all – how you can live. Those who donot resign to an existence of genuflectionsare considered ‘socially dangerous’, peopleto be persecuted and repressed, nomatter what they do.

By now simple intentions are sufficient. Tohave one’s own ideas, to dare expressthem and try to put them into practice, allthis is more than sufficient to become atarget for those who only appreciateapplause and consensus.

For these and other reasons investigationson ‘organized crime’, with or without‘subversive aims’, are multiplying in Italy,with the intent to give a preventive lessonto those who do not want to submit to anyparty (be it democratic or whatever).

At the beginning of April it was the Bolognaanarchists who ended up in prison,accused of protesting too loudly againstmilitarism that imposes discipline andbombards and against racism that buildsconcentration camps.

A month later (as the National PoliceCelebration was approaching, a yearlyoccasion for raids set up in order tocelebrate themselves), it was the turn of

It is sufficient to think of the Libyan war,which Italy also participates in, a centuryafter its first attempt at colonising thatcountry. Actually Italian colonialism in Libyahas never stopped in this century: it haspenetrated through Italian companies andbilateral agreements with the Libyanregime. Companies such as Impreglio,ENI, Finmeccanica and Unicredit areamong the main exploiters of Libyanpeople and resources, just as they dowith Italian proletarians.

Some people uncovered the responsible– the persons behind massacres, theterrorists – and decided not to stay silent.

They chose to publicly denounce theresponsible for massacres, to opposethem and attack them. This was the onlything to be done in order not to beaccomplices of those responsible, theonly effective way of practicing solidarity.Among these people, the anarchists ofFuoriluogo of Bologna, who putthemselves between indifference and war,between the persons behind massacresand the massacres. For this reason, five ofthem were arrested, seven subjected tojudicial restrictions and their place wasseized. All under the charge of organizedcrime.

If to oppose wars and the governmentswaging them, if to recognize the terroristresponsibilities for massacres falling onthe giants of world exploitation means tobe delinquents, then we are delinquentstoo. If it is laws that perpetrate andreproduce exploitation and the death ofmillions of desperate – from both sides ofthe Mediterranean coast – then it is onlyby being outlaw that we can avoid to beaccomplices of those laws. To attackthem is just an obvious consequence.

Anarchists.

dozens of university students in Florence –very much disrespectful of educationreforms and more generally of governmentpolitics – to be inflicted the attention of thejudiciary. Some ended up under housearrest, others have to report to the policestation. In total there are about eightypeople investigated by the Florenceprosecution because they refused to bowin front of authority.

Who will be next?

It could be anyone. Someone who is nolonger obfuscated by football tournamentsand reality TV shows, no longer obsessed

by social roles to achieve and familytraditions to respect, no longer inured byrepulsive government politicians andpathetic opposition politicians; someonewho will no longer bear the indifference infront of wars and nuclear plants, concen-tration camps and exploitations, incinera-tors and high speed railway yards. And forthis reason, in order to finally taste a lifeworthy of being lived, he or she will startshouting, blocking roads, daubing walls,sabotage the instruments that power usesto compel us all to believe, to obey and towork.

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Terrorists are those inpower who kill and bomb,not those who struggleagainst them!

This piece of writing is from Martino, one ofthe comrades arrested in Bologna on April6 2011

My name is Martino, I’m one of thosearrested last 6th April following the nthrepressive wave orchestrated by theState: this operation led to the arrest of 5comrades, 7 others being forced to stayaway from Bologna, a great number ofsearches (carried out, among other things,in several towns) and even the seizure ofthe documentation space Fuoriluogo (whichfrom a site distributing texts of radicalcritique and organizing open initiativesevery week turned out to be an impregna-ble fortress of terrorists). This is aninvestigation public prosecutors have beenworking on for a long time and which theydecided to conclude following someanonymous attacks against IBM, ENI,Emilbanca and Northern League carriedout in Bologna in the space of one week(but no reference to these facts can befound in the reports they gave us when wewere arrested, hangman journalists shouldknow).

In an atmosphere of media lynching aimingat keeping away the many people who jointhe struggles anarchists are engaged in by

Letter fromLetter fromLetter f oL romLetter fromMa t nor inoMartinoMartinoMartino

criminalizing the latter (with Maroni [Italianhome secretary] announcing his deadlyarrival in town), to arrest someone wasnecessary.

Because police are there, police act.Everything is under control.

It is the usual story: any manifestation ofnot recoverable dissent must be distorted,circumscribed to a ‘private war’ betweenpower and its sworn enemies in order todefuse its social meaning and nullify itspotentials.

As if, once anarchists were no longerthere, only docile subjects would remain inthis world of commodities, convinced theyare living in the best possible world. But youdon’t need to be subversive to realize whatthis world is like: from nuclear threat to thewar for the occupation of Libya on theexternal front; from ruling militarization tothe detention of migrants on the internalfront… the daily catastrophe of the societyof profit is inflicted on everybody.

In times when dark resignation, which fartoo often flutters on the northern coasts ofthe Mediterranean, is illuminated by theinsurrections inflaming its southern coasts;in times when Nato draw up a report(Urban Operation in the Year 2020), whereits analysts imagine scenarios of armiesengaged massively to suffocate the revoltsof the poor in the suburbs of big westerntowns; in times of crisis when it is notsurprising that the spreading of anarchistideas (especially if propagated by individualswho do not wait in vain for the future arrivalof a liberated and federated humanity, onthe contrary they struggle here and nowand risk everything) disturb those in power;in a society like this, all this considered, the‘role’ of internal enemy is the only one thatis ethically acceptable:

- I don’t want to be accomplice of asociety that devastates the planethosting it.

- I don’t want to be accom-plice of an economy that needs continuouswars and to reduce entire populations tofamine in order to survive.

- I don’t want to be accom-plice of guards who rape in police barracksand in migrants detention centres, and killin police stations and prisons.

- I don’t want to be accom-plice of a society that developsnanotechnologies and genetic modificationsin order to control life and adapt it to itsneeds for profit.

- I don’t want to be accom-plice of racism, migrant hunts, detention ofthose who do not submit to the laws of acountry whose governments change butwhose cameras, truncheons and barbedwire remain.

- I don’t want to be accom-plice of religious hypocrisy and of the sextourism that often constitutes its counteraltar.

- I don’t want to be accom-plice of the continuous massacre ofmillions of animals breed and nourished tofeed the profits of the zoo technicalindustry that intoxicates and starves inorder to introduce new products on themarket (even by inventing new diseases soas to patent new medicines).

Instead, I greet and embrace those whostruggle against all this: solidarity to thecomrades imprisoned in Italy, Switzerland,Germany, France, Greece, Spain, Chile,Argentina, Mexico and the United States; tothe Mapuche in struggle for their lands, tothe ‘Freedom Fighters’ of the Niger Delta,to the insurgents of North Africa and to allthose situations of struggles that I don’tknow or that I didn’t mention.

Thank you for the solidarity youshowed to me and to the otherarrested comrades.

Still alongside those who, crushed by aleaden sky, choose to cause a tempest!Even more lucid! Even angrier! Always withmy head on! Always presi bene ragga!*

For anarchy!

ar noMartinoar onMartino

*Italian expression that does not translateinto English, roughly meaning ‘we are into it’

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A brief summary of the latest events

In May 2011 the inhabitants of the ValSusa valley (Piedmont region, northernItaly) occupied the construction yard inChiomonte, where the works for theimplementation of the Turin-Lyon highspeed railway line were due to start. Theoccupation of the site, which was named‘Free Republic of Maddalena’, had been aliberated territory for more than a month.According to some of the occupiers, whosefirm intention was to prevent the devastat-ing works from being carried out in thevalley, the struggle against the high speedrailway project, known as TAV, was also ‘astruggle against the dominant class thatwants it, defends it and imposes it’.

On Sunday June 26 a massive policedeployment was sent to evict the site.There followed violent clashes, which saw anumber of injured among both the occupi-ers and the forces of order and whichconcluded with the eviction of theChiomonte construction yard occupation.

A day of protest was called for Sunday July3 in the area surrounding the site. Morethan 50,000 people gathered in order totake back the territory occupied by thegovernment troops. The response of thepolice was even more violent than theprevious week: teargas, rubber bullets andbrutal charges were continuously andmassively employed to stop the protest.Four people were arrested and severelybeaten.

The struggle against the TAV in the Susavalley dates back to the early 1990s and hasseen construction yards occupied on a greatnumber of occasions by the local population.

In 2005, for example, villages and towns ofthe region staged massive protests againstthe TAV in Val Susa and were brutally re-pressed by the government (at the timeBerlusconi was in charge). Actions of sabo-tage and attack against the structures re-sponsible for the project have also been nu-merous and constant throughout all theseyears.

Here is the text of a leaflet distributed in2008, when Berlusconi became primeminister again as Prodi’s centre-leftgovernment was defeated at the generalelection.

TO ALL THE INHABITANTS OF VALSUSA

(Yesterday the politics, today the law,tomorrow the revolt)

‘It is a protest of an organized minority,which made up false and non existentecological problems’. Through thesescornful words pronounced on TV at thestart of his electoral campaign in 2008,newly elected prime minister SilvioBerlusconi wrote off the opposition to thehigh speed railway project (TAV) of ValSusa. As the epoch of the carrot tactic hascome to an end earlier than expected –along with that Prodi’s government youmassively voted and which just made fun ofyou with its ‘round tables’ - the days of thestick are about to come back. In the fiveyears of government laying ahead of him,the new prime minister will inevitably tacklethe Val Susa question head-on. Needless tosay how he’ll do it. He who has alreadythrown his riot police against you andordered the beating of your dignity in thenight [in the 2005 protests], will only

continue on the same path. You dared defyhim, don’t forget, you can expect no mercy.If we don’t kneel to kiss the boss’ hand, ifyou persevere in contrasting his will, youwill face the army. You know this, don’t you?

So, inhabitants of Val Susa,what are you going to do?

Yesterday you addressed the Palace of poli-tics and presented your petitions to the gov-ernment in the vain hope you would be lis-tened to, today you are addressing the Pal-ace of justice. By making recourse to a sortof ‘snail’s strategy’ carried out by buying plotsof the land over which the railway project willbe built, you are trying to impede the Stateplans aimed at the devastation of your valley.Clever tactic, which demonstrates your te-nacity and which will probably serve to gaintime. But do you really believe that the Lawwill oppose the State that creates it in orderto protect its interests? Do you really believethat a legal technicality can stop Berlusconi’sshameless power (or that it would havestopped Veltroni’s [a ministry in the Prodigovernment] hypocritical power)? If two yearsago you were mistaken about a ministry’sacquiescence, now you can’t certainly be mis-taken about a judge’s benevolence.

Val Susa inhabitants, you know it. Bureau-cratic manoeuvres won’t save your valley,crossed out with a pen on Progress’ book.Only you can do it. If bureaucracy will makeyou save precious time, don’t waste it.

Use it to get ready to defend yourselves.

Start to get ready now, spiritually and practi-cally, for the inevitable battle looming up be-tween your anger and others’ arrogance. Getready to impede the invasion of your land byoccupation troops, which will be sent in againstyou. Get ready to mobilise the whole Val Susaso that it revolts against the invaders. Getready to oppose State violence and the slan-der of its hired media.

In these years you have demonstrated withyour actions that you are animated bypacific intentions, that you acted only out oflove for your land. But when your land willbe invaded by those who want to flatten itout, drill it and devastate it, when it will bewet with your blood spilled by Berlusconi’shangmen, what will you do then?

Will you push your pacifism and love to theultimate sacrifice? Will you meet youruniformed slaughterers with your hands onyour head or on the trigger of your gun?

Time is running out, and you will soondiscover that hatred is just the other faceof love.

ARM YOURSELVES VAL SUSA INHABIT-ANTS, ARM YOURSELVES! THE ENEMY ISAT YOUR DOOR.

The Val Susa struggle

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(Italy, Greece, Switzerland)

Attacks by the Informal Anarchist Federa-tion (FAI) across three countries in Europe.The targets are directed at military,nuclear-industrial and prison targets withinthe frame of international revolutionarysolidarity.

The European authorities are trying towithhold details of the claims accompany-ing the explosive devices for purpose ofdenying the ‘value of propaganda’.

30 March 2011 – Olten, Switzerland: Apackage bomb exploded in the offices ofSwissnuclear (the Federation of the Swissnuclear industry) giving two office workerssuperficial burns. The attack is claimed bythe FAI who outline a vision of their ideasand vindicate the action in solidarity withlong term eco-anarchist prisoner MarcoCamenisch, and also Silvia, Costas andLuca, who are imprisoned accused ofplanning to attack a center of IBMnanotechnology in Rüschlikon, Zürich.

31 March 2011 – Livorno, Italy: Apackage bomb has been delivered to theRuspoli barracks, a center of the Parachut-ist Brigade Commando which serves inAfghanistan. A soldier remains hurt andcrippled. Lieutenant colonel, chief of general

SPRING ATTACKS FROMINFORMAL ANARCHISTF E D E R A T I O N

staff of the Brigade, highest in degree atthe moment in the barracks. The explosionhas amputated eight fingers of the handsand caused injuries to the face and thelegs. The target was carried away in astate of shock to the first aid. The soldiersat the moment do not supply details. Policeinvestigation is underway. A claim ofresponsibility accompanied the explosion bythe Informal Anarchist Federation.

31 March 2011 – Korydallos, Greece:The Director of Korydallos Prison receivesa package bomb but it is detected anddefused by technicians of the Greek police.From the Greek corporate press it islearned that inside of the destined packagebomb to the director there was a claim ofresponsibility in the name of the InformalAnarchist Federation.

The text has not been published, but Greekjournalists report a draft of two pages inItalian in which is mentioned solidarity tothe captive companions of the Revolution-ary Organization - Conspiracy of Cells ofFire, and beyond to other prisoners lockedup in the prisons of Switzerland, Germanyand Chile.

Direct ActionThe anarchist carries out direct action.

The ideas are working class, and the ideasare the tools. Anarchists love Anarchy, andthey know that the only way to show their

love is by action.

They also know something else: That theyare a minority position, nearly always,

against the rest. Because of this they willnot receive any glory, nor respect from any‘extraordinary’ beings, be they geniuses or

saints. It brings to them death for beingrebels. Because they can not abhor to give

up the social conflict, but in the deepest partof all of it; they are there where the currentis stronger. There they are with their direct

action.

But they are not monsters, they are at waragainst the social system, though deeplythey live with the danger that a war has :

defeat, prison, death.

We have a doctrine, a plan of social living,and art as well... the anarchist one.

But we have more; all of those who aremilitant, live.

And those are the ones who lift up thestrikes, go to prison, struggle and die for

anarchy : Women and men generallyignored.

Long life for them on 1st May.

Long life always for all our comrades ofthe direct action.

From “Carteles I”, by RodolfoGonzalez Pacheco (1882-1949), who

was a writer, playwright and anarchistin Argentina.“Carteles I” is a series ofSpanish language anarchist texts which

are circulating in the Spanish prisonsystem and beyond. This collection of

texts was translated for 325 by anarchistprisoner Rafael “Jon-Bala” Martinez

Zea, who served time for expropriations.

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A year ago, the beginning of theenormous catastrophe BP-Deep Water-Horizon [in the gulf of Mexico] confirms theprinciple of techno-industrial society that itstechnological remedy to the technologicaldisaster will always be worse than thedisease that it claims to cure, addinginstead to one destruction another greaterdestruction. In this case, the chemicalagent of secret nanotech composition withunknown consequences experimentallysprayed in huge quantities in the marineenvironment. A secret chemical composi-tion released at high pressure along withsand and water deep underground, thanksto new technologies, gas drilling or oil shaleextraction, which is to say, not more of thenatural gas in large bubble on the way todepletion, but more of the gas content in amyriad of bubbles contained in the clay-likeshale layers. With easily-imagined disas-trous consequences such as earthquakesand further chemical pollution in surfacewater and groundwater*. Emblematic isthe proliferation of corporate advertising inthe media for gas as a green energy thatwith Fukushima have replaced those fornuclear energy as clean energy…

And images of northern Japan haveentered our homes and our cells with all ofthe impressive force of an unimaginableevent.

The indomitability of the natural elementlays bare in its entirety the anthropocentricpresumption of technological-scientificprogress and, along with the lives ofthousands of people, swept away in oneafternoon all of the certainties of urbansociety.

Everywhere around us, science, businessand governments have shaped theexistent, placing us all in suspension on anartificial self-regulating scaffold that isanything but solid: namely, industrial-technological society.

Over thousands of years of civilization, it isnow condensing into its most total andglobal expression which is multinationalcapitalism, to whose harmful effects andillusions we are all forced to entrust ourlives. With the stupid arrogance thatthroughout history has marked everydominant power, it cannot afford anyquestioning of itself and the present intowhich we are forced. Open to alterations,albeit always false solutions, only if they canreinforce its legitimacy, but that can notcontinue to reproduce in a continuousspiral whose circles are increasinglyasphyxiating shrinking around us. Wherethe internal bio- and nano-technologies ofthis spiral that is detrimental to the systemitself, are not simple and additionaltechnological developments among many,but are the key technologies with which thewhole edifice on which we are deported faraway from our natural world is restoringand, inside of the techno-industrial spiral,representing the ring of the chain thatgoes to close the steel circle of dominionover our life and everything that exists.

Where the profitability-concern of theowners and of the multinational corpora-tions is not so much that the masses mustbecome dominated by material progress,but about the “limits” of this world. Thencomes the need to obtain new materials,new materials and substances with newproperties, new forms of energy produc-tion, new and ‘improved’ plant and animalspecies, new food applications, industrialand medical applications obtained by themanipulation of life and of matter. Innova-tions that, as with all the key innovations ofcivilization, are born out of military needsfor imperialist war to the outside and insidethe trinity of conquest, control andexploitation.

War, now more than ever, transcends themilitary field and has expanded its front, infact, to every expression of the living andthe material from the macro to the nanoand even beyond the planet itself.

Thus every productive sector is invested inthese technologies, but no longer content

ABOUT THE CASE OFSILVIA, COSTAS & BILLY

Call for a for heightened campaignagainst genetic manipulation and the newtechnologies of control [version]: >>

On Friday, July 22, anarchistsCostas Ragusa, Luca ‘Billy’Bernasconi, and Silvia Gueriniwere sentenced at the FederalCriminal Court in Bellinzona,Switzerland, on charges of“conspiracy to commit arson”and “illegal trafficking of explo-sives” stemming from athwarted attack on an IBMnanotechnology lab inRüschlikon, near Zürich.

Ragusa, 34 and a founder of the Italiananarchist group ‘Il Silvestre’, whichproduces the anti-civilisation magazine‘Terra Selvaggia’, was sentenced to threeyears and eight months in prison. He wasaccused of masterminding the lab attack.

Bernasconi, 26 and a resident of Italy, wassentenced to three years and six monthsin prison, plus 22 days from a priorsentence.

Guerini, 29, was sentenced to three yearsand four months in prison.

Each of the three sentences will bereduced by one year and three months,which is the amount of time our comradeshave spent in pretrial detention.

After a trial which was characterised bypolice-militarisation and repression, thestruggle against power in all its forms isnot diminished, only strengthened.

31*This is known as “Fracking”

with the narrowness of the research labsis transforming–even after it transformedalong with space into one deadly andsickening landfill–the entire planet into alaboratory, a new living world–or rather adying, engineered one.

Not–as the great “greenwashing” cam-paigns of media terrorism and State wantus to believe–to solve social and environ-mental disasters arising from the system,but always and ever to reproduce thissystem of domination and exploitation withthe end of completing once and for all thetechno-industrial complex enclosure.

Through this initiative we want to convey aspecific revolutionary anarchist environ-mentalist sentiment, which leads us toconfront with interventionary prioritybiotechnology, nanotechnology and nuclearresearch as harmful pillars on which thesystem goes on recomposing itself.

Also and above all, that is why we take thisopportunity to call for a renewed fightagainst genetic engineering and inparticular to its continued diffusion, asarticulated by the European Food SafetyAuthority (EFSA) in Parma as a requiredstep in stopping the spread of GeneticallyModified Organisms (GMOs) in Europe,which are supported by multinationalchemical and agro-food corporations, forthe purpose of introducing GM crops.

This too is part–a critical part–of theattempt to extend total and absolutecontrol and domination in all biologicalprocesses (such as the social andeconomic through nanotechnology/information technology), reducing the livingbeing to a mere aggregate of genes toshape to the convenience of production.

Struggle that does not pass by delegatingto always-complicit experts or politicians,but by organizing initiatives and actingwidely to stop this necrology. ...

Silvia GueriniBezirksgefängnis ZürichPostfach 1266, CH-8026 ZürichSwitzerland

Luca BernasconiRegionalgefängnis ThunAllmendstr. 343600 Thun, Switzerland

Costantino RagusaPF 31438105 RegensdorfSwitzerland

More info - many languages:http://www.silviabillycostaliberi.tk

From Switzerland, a contribution to thehunger strike of May 1-28, 2011.

Scientists and researchers, the industry andgovernments are pushing us towards an erafull of promises: a digital era, which is sup-posed to bring about ‘great things’ such as‘intelligent’ environments, infinitesimal effi-ciency and technological-scientific conver-gence. This era is already materialising itselfat a time when we still perceive it as science-fiction, and it will soon produce dramaticchanges. The latter are being depicted withgreat superficiality as if they were the latestmodel of a TV set or of a smart phone, or ofany other commodity. They want us to per-ceive the future as desirable and talk about itas if it was a theatrical show under prepara-tion, of something we will become aware ofonly when the curtains is raised and we can-not do anything but watch it.

As usual, the industry has been capable ofpicking up and recycling the tensions thathave been growing in society for the lastdecades. First through affordable consum-erism, which extended to the poorest ofsociety, and then through a ‘new consum-erism’ impregnated with social andenvironmental responsibility, so that evendissent becomes profit and manages tomove the masses from the streets andthe struggles to a change inside thesupermarket while queuing to buy a lifestyleeveryone has the right to choose. It is asort of messianic operation, a conversionto a conscious consumerism and ascience full of hopes, which has foundconsiderable support among professionalenvironmentalists. The latter have em-braced it with the same fervour of some-one who has found a Jesus who can sortall injustices out and take the destiny of theplanet in his hands.

After the era of traditional industrialismmade of smoking chimneys and industrialwaste pumped directly into the sea, whynot to embrace a hi-tech green era?

Why not to trust those researchers whopromise what we have always believedimpossible, and seem to have found theholy grail of eternal life and wealth in their

etter f om uca l ’ Bernu c iL tter r m Luca B ly B nu niett r from Lu a B lly’ Ber scone e fro L c ‘B ly’ ernu coniLetter from Luca ‘Billy’ Bernusconilabs? This is the message launched by botheconomic and environmental lobbies: anembarrassing unison of brainwashing. But inour daily life, where we live in huge concretejungles, where our hands touch morekeyboards and screens than other handsand bodies, and where our minds are moreimmersed in virtual reality than in theimmediate one, we should ask: what kind oflife are they talking about?

What do the 50,000 species disappearingeach year in the name of ‘progress’ repre-sent in this concept of eternal life?And what does wealth mean? The mountainsof commodities destined to become rubbishwhich fill up supermarkets and shop windowsin streets and cities?The hope for a life we have doubled by halvingthat of ‘others’, of the proletarians we haveexploited, of the uncivilized we have colonised,of the animals we breed and torture? Is thisrubbish-society that we want to makesustainable and eternally reproducible?

Because the poisoning character of thistechnological-scientific society is not only inthe damage it inflicts on human health andthe environment, a damage they try to maketolerable by establishing limits of emissions.More than this, climate change, thin powders,radioactivity in the soil and the consequenceson our health are just the more obvioussymptoms and effects of the harmfulnessrepresented by metropolitan life, widespreadurban conglomerates, the infrastructures ofindustrial production and mass consumer-ism.

The harmfulness is the industrial systemitself, which wipes out autonomy and self-determination in order to subjugate every-body to the production of services andrubbish-commodities. To confound thesymptoms of a disease with the disease itselfcan’t solve the problem. That is why tocontinue to oppose the consequences of theindustrial system rather than the industrialsystem itself means to continue to allow thedestruction of territories and eco-systems, ofcommunities and species so that only a smallpercentage of all the inhabitants of this planetcan carry on and die of their same overabun-dance. To claim that an eco and sustainable

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Cops outside the Swiss trial

economy can be substituted to the currentone does not take us anywhere: life willcontinue to be reified, the existentcommodified and thrown to economy, andthe direction will stay the same, righttowards social and ecological collapse. If onthe one hand a social collapse is almostdesirable as an occasion to start from zeroand get rid of rotten institutions and theirsupporters, and bring about sincere andspontaneous solidarity among individuals, onthe other hand we cannot afford an ecologi-cal collapse. Whatever priests and trans-humanists say, our destiny remains linked tothat of the earth.

In the course of the history of humanity, menand women of all times have aspired to afree, autonomous and self-determined life.This aspiration has clashed with power(bosses and governments, political andeconomic powers), which on the contraryhas always aimed at taking control andpossession of others’ life. History as pre-sented in books can be considered as thechronological development of this thirst forpower, which from ancient civilizations to ourtime has more and more expanded andrefined itself. Paradoxically, in an era thatclaims to be freer than any other, dominionhas the possibility to turn the wheel full circle,to become totalitarian thanks to the contribu-tion of ‘illuminated’ scientists, who have madeit possible to control any infinitesimalcomponent of life: genes and material.

Unfortunately, the weird idea is widespread,which attributes a neutral and positive role tomodern sciences and technologies. On thecontrary, the latter are the expression of aculture that has placed itself at the centre ofthe universe, defined its universal values andput everything at its service. It is naïve to saythat sciences and technologies are neutral,especially if we consider the dramaticcontribution they have always given tospreading and imposing the current socialand economic model on both hemispheres ofthe planet. This supposed neutrality justserves to project the technological-industrialsociety in an aura of neutral evolution inorder for us to perceive it as ineluctable.

Bio and nano technologies, which the mediaand the institutions are selling as the finalsolution to all the troubles of this world,represent the possibility for the industrialand technological system to redefine itselfand impose its dominion, when we all areimpotent in front of its production, infra-structures and technologies.

A further example of this modern gamemade imperceptible by habit can be foundin recent history, in the increase of theprice of agricultural produces, whichthreatens to starve the populations ofAfrica, Asia and other countries. Thisincrease was one of the sparks that havestirred the revolutions in the Arab world.As usual, economists have a justification inline with their economic laws, which havebeen trying for centuries to attribute anatural origin to the slave blackmail ofcapital. They blame drought in China, toofrequent rain in India, floods in Australia orfires in Russia. Someone admits the role ofspeculations in the markets, as if it wassomething to be surprised of…

For economists, governments andscientists the responsibility for the latestfood crisis is to be attributed to nature, soimperfect and irrational, rather than blame

capitalism which has taken away the self-determination of communities and hasconsigned lands, forests, water and the life ofmillions of oppressed to the looting ofgovernments and industries. Their solutionwill be always the same: to fight off worldstarvation by increasing production, rational-ising and engineering it… and in so doing theyexpand the industrial system, this verminthat has brought about the eco and socialdestruction we are compelled to cope with.Similarly, governments and agriculturallobbies in Europe are pressing for a definitecommercialisation of GM products, boostedby scientific data which justify their imposi-tion. It is an institutional and also practicalpressure based on ‘accidental’ contamina-tions of modified seeds, which is a clearinvitation to stay quiet and wait for thecurtains to be raised, with the precious helpof the media and lobbies trying to make hi-tech future desirable.

Along with nuclear power, bio and nanotechnologies introduce harmfulness in ourlife, which has never be seen before in termsof its spreading and threat. If we consider thestate of the eco-systems above and under-neath the surface of the water, and the waythey are compromised, there is really noexcuse to wait for ‘someone’ to intervene orfor people’s conscience to awake. Thishunger strike allow us to be accomplices,from inside the prison, to the outsidestruggles, and to kick off the resignation theywant to impose on us, inside and outside. It isalso a way to send a smile to you outside anda big hug to the arrested comrades inBologna, to those who block Castor trains inVal Susa and to all those who continue thestruggle everywhere.

For earth and animal liberation!

lBil ly

From a prison of social peaceApril 29 2011

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“-In war there are moves that you getright and there are wrong moves, thereare careful combatants and those whoget carried away with enthusiasm andbecome an easy target for the enemy,possibly even jeopardizing the positionof their comrades. This means that eachone must advise, defend and put intopractice the tactics that he believes aremore likely to achieve victory in theshortest time and with least possiblesacrifice; but that cannot alter thefundamental obvious fact that thosewho fight, well or badly, against thecommon enemy and towards the samegoal, is our friend and has a right, notto our unconditional approval, but toour heartfelt sympathy.”E. Malatesta, L’ Agitazione 1901

Solidarity is a two-way relationship in thatit does not stem fromaltruism or simply self-reference. It is a process ofrecognition -continuouslyevolving and interacting /cross-fertilization- wherebywe find each other in ourcommon/shared ideas,choices and perspectives. Itis not about an abstractinsurrectional or potentiallyinsurrectional identity of theprisoner, the immigrant, theproletarian or any other“subject”, but the position ofbattle the individual choosesto take each time within thereality of the social war. Onthe other hand, as anarchistrevolutionaries we cannotbut take a hostile stanceagainst every structure andinstitution of power- such asprisons, borders, wageslavery- and act againstthem, on our own terms andbased on our own practices.

We don’t need to identify with all prison-ers in order to desire the destruction of allprisons nor should we concentrate onlyon the one (or 2 or 3 or 23) who we feelcloser to. The issue at stake here is notthe personification of the cases ofimprisoned comrades, even though werecognize that for those closest it is alsopersonal, but to be able to transgress thelogic of the isolated incident and drawattention instead to the common threadstraversing the existence of all those whodo not stand with the conservative-reactionary camp. At the same time, thebonds that exist and grow with ourcomrades “inside the walls”, their experi-ences, bring us face to face with the cruelreality, pushing us inevitably to take a

position. In the end, we are involved in thecases of comrades, because we areaccomplices in the same crime of thepassionate search for freedom.

The characteristics of our solidarity arethe same with the characteristics of ourstruggle, which do not refer as much toour choice of the means we use (althoughspecific practices may sometimes functionas another point of reference) as to acommon cause, the diffused attackagainst Domination in all its manifestationsfor the liberation of our lives from all formsof authority. Beyond geographicallongitudes and platitudes and ideologicalrigidity, solidarity is above all to recognizea part of yourself in someone else’sstruggle. And even beyond that, it is tointensify the struggle - according to thedifferent means that each one of uschooses without a hierarchy based onspectacle, tradition or particular individual/collective preferences.

We don’t have to understand everythingabout a struggle that is being carried outin some other time-space in order toperceive it as being just. However, thedeliberate confusion fostered by the multi-media projection of the dominant ideologyhas rendered us mainly conveyors ofopinions rather than of ideas and knowl-edge, with references and vague impres-sions that are usually derived from images,news, random pieces of scatteredinformation with elements of pop culture.Seen in this light even the most familiarthings can seem “exotic”, with distancemaking them safe for all kinds of consump-tion, accompanied by sometimes myth-making or on the other hand a quick skip-read. How easy is it to be “for” or

“against” something that -you would atleast maybe like to believe- does not reallyconcern your life… How can Molotovcocktails, bombs, guns be “legitimate”when concerning a remote place or time,justified by some supposed socio-historical conditions, while at the sametime being “unacceptable” here, wheretheir proximity necessitate to take aposition… How easy is it to simply identifyas an applauder of spectacular actions forthe context of which you know the bareminimum or to coldly distance yourselffrom struggles carried out with a variety ofmeans due to a nebulous criticismemanating from stereotypes and assump-tions.

In order to develop an affinity of revolu-tionary solidarity we must of course delvedeeper -always maintaining the weapon ofcritique well-sharpened- into the “why”and the “how”, the clarification of whichgives the impetus to transform sharednotions and choices into shared subver-

sive plans and living projects ofrage, whereby we learn fromeach other and aim to cut thetentacles of the existing orderwherever they appear, so thatthey can never put out all theflames. Social, political, culturalconditions may vary, but ourchoice to attack here and nowis possible and necessarywherever we may be.

The choice of continuousattack carried out by informalaffinity groups as containedwithin the anarchist insurrec-tional theory and praxis wasobviously not born in a vacuumand does not stem from somemetaphysical sewer concerningthe idea of insurrection. It hassprung from specific historicaland social contexts, throughpositive and tragic experiencesin a battlefield full of disputesand conflicts, failures, death,torture and imprisonment of

comrades. With respect towards thelegacy of various forms of struggle left tous by the past and in recognition ofcomrades -past and present- as suchbased on their stance and their struggledespite differing theoretical and practicalapproaches, we can still each continuedown our own path; and through thedestruction of dogma and politicalfractions, of leaders, heroes and messi-ahs, with reflection, critique, thought andpolymorphous action create those bondsof solidarity that cannot be severed.

Some Anarchists in Athens- December 2010

About Solidarity

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On the evening of September23rd , 2009 the anti-terrorist unit raidtwo houses in the Athens areas ofHalandri and Galatsi and arrest H.Hatzimichelakis, E. Yiospas, P. Masourasand M. Panteloglou. Felony charges arebrought against them according to theanti-terrorist law for attacks against theresidences of ex-minister of the Interior P.Hinofotis and the then candidate MP forthe PASOK party L. Katseli – later tobecome Minister for Employment (bothactions had been claimed by the “Con-spiracy of Cells of Fire” group). Thearrested refuse all charges and talk aboutprosecutions because of their politicalbeliefs based on setup and inexistentevidence. The first three are remandedwhile Mirto Panteloglou is set free.

At the same time the police and media setup their “terror”-scenarios, branding thehouses of the accused as “safe-houses”.Tens of finger prints belonging to friends,relatives and comrades of the accused aretaken from these houses and warrants forarrest in relation to the same case areissued against six people, who escape.The case, due to its severity, is handedover to a supreme-court examining judge,while the explosion outside the ministry ofMacedonia-Thrace in Thessaloniki, carriedout by the same group on 3/9/09, is alsoadded to the charges. Following this,another 4 people whose fingerprints werefound on movable or immovable itemsinside the “safe”-houses are arrested andinterrogated. The three are set free on bailwhile Nikos B. who refuses the charges isremanded on February 4, 2010 and isfinally released one month later. On the22nd of April 2010 the 19 year-oldKonstantina Karakatsani, one of the 6fugitives, is arrested. She is interrogated

and then remanded, although she refusesany involvement with the case. On 16/4, E.Yiospas is released.

On November 1st, 2010 P. Argyrou andG. Tsakalos are arrested, accused ofsending parcel-bombs to foreign embas-sies in Athens. The media and the police –unofficially- immediately connect the caseto the “Conspiracy of Cells of Fire”. Theyare both remanded on very heavy chargesafter refusing to make statements and torecognize the judicial procedure. For P.Argyrou there was already a warrant outfor his arrest in relation to the Conspiracyof Cells of Fire case.

At the same time, by order of the pros-ecutor, photographs of another 6 peoplewanted for the same case were releasedto the press. On 22/11/2010 H.Hatzimichelakis, Argyrou and G. Tsakalosclaim the political responsibility of beingmembers of the “Conspiracy of Cells ofFire” group through letters from prison.

On December 4th, 2010 during coordi-nated raids on houses in Athens andprovincial areas by the anti-terrorist unit,A. Mitrousias, K. Sakkas, G.Karagiannidis, S. Antoniou, D. Michail andC. Politis are arrested and remanded incustody facing heavy charges for an“unknown terrorist organization”, with thethree first having had already warrants fortheir arrest in relation to the Conspiracy ofCells of Fire case. D. Michail and C. Politisare finally released at later dates, althoughstill face charges.

On January 17th 2011 the first trial for the“Conspiracy of Cells of Fire” (Halandricase) begins before a special three-member high court judiciary, with a total of

18 persons facing accusations. From thevery first day the intentions of the Stateand the judicial authorities to turn theprocedure into a political court-martial aremade crystal clear: the personal details ofthose wanting to attend the court-room insolidarity are recorded, the accused arekept handcuffed and tightly guardedduring the whole procedure and the courtroom is overwhelmed by police presenceof every type. The accused comradesrefuse to accept this situation and placetwo demands: that identity cards are notkept upon entry and that the courtminutes are recorded and transcribed.After the judges’ refusal to accept thesedemands, the accused withdraw from thecourt-room and shortly after P. Argyrou,H. Hatzimichelakis, P. Masouras and G.Karagiannidis go on a hunger strike. Someof the accused decide to return to theprocedure and the 4 comrades stop thehunger strike, while still refusing to appearin court.

With the court still in session, on the 26/1/2011 Mihalis Nikolopoulos is arrested inthe greater Athens area of Kifissia, whowas one of the 6 fugitives from theHalandri case and had an arrest warrantagainst him. The comrade was remandedin custody and claimed responsibility forparticipation in the CCF.

On the 14/3/2011, after an operationcarried out by the anti-terrorist unit, OlgaOikonomidou, Giorgos Polydoras,Christos Tsakalos, Damianos Bolano andGiorgos Nikolopoulos are arrested in thecity of Volos as members of CCF. Thecomrades are remanded in custody andclaim responsibility for participation in theCCF group.

On the 23/3/2011, Panayiotis Masourasis released due to the expiry of the 18-month period of remand.

On the 19/7/2011 the trial –involvingthree actions claimed by the Conspiracyof Cells of Fire- is concluded. Thesentences handed out by the judgeswere: for Haris Hatzimichelakis a totalsentence of 37 years and 4 months, ofwhich to serve 25, as this is the upper limitprovided for by the Criminal Code; forPanayiotis Argyrou 37 years, of which toserve 25; for Giorgos Karagiannidis 20years; for Panayiotis Masouras 11 yearsand 6 months; for Alexandros Mitrousias11 years; for Konstantina Karakatsani 11years; and for Emmanouil Yiospas 2 yearsand 9 months with probation.

Panayiotis Masouras who had beenreleased on conditions has been re-incarcerated in Grevena Prison.

From the Solidarity Fund for Prisonersin Struggle blog (Athens, Greece)

Concerning the “Conspiracyof Cells of Fire” case

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Do not search therefore through policescripts and theories of communicatingcontainers to find the causes that moreyoung people abandon the certainty of a legallife, and choose revolutionary illegality and thenew urban guerrilla warfare as a choice oflife. Do not wonder when new comrades withsurplus courage raise their weapons againstthis system of death. Because its yoursystem itself, the hypocrisy, poverty contex-tual and material, fake culture, emptyrelations, oppression, exploitation of nature,that “supplies” new urban guerrilla warfarewith dozens of undisciplined revolutionaries.This is why, the new urban guerrillawarfare will never be defeated. But like thephoenix will be reborn from the ashes of aprecarious defeat, even more stronger,even more threatening, even more liberat-ing. And we were, are and will be there…

LONG LIVE THE R.O. CONSPIRACY OFCELLS OF FIRE

Informal Anarchist Federation - InternationalRevolutionary Front

LONG LIVE ANARCHY

ug oOlga Economidous lydr o o r sr os olyd r sGiorgos PolydorasGiorgos Polydoras

r o ol o sGiorgos Nikolopoulos l or o o sGiorgos Nikolopoulos oa s noDamianos Bolano

is s a sChristos TsakalosConspiracy of Cells of Fire : ImprisonedMembers Cell

P.S.1We greet the direct reflective action ofcomrades from Volos, who on the afternoonof the same day of our arrest, assembled inthe area and made a demo to the housewhere we stayed, cutting the ribbons ofexclusion by the police and shouting chants.Such actions accentuate the hostilities andrelease “occupied” turfs from the police,showing that the capitulation will nevercome… Also the attacks with incendiarydevices from Comrades warms our hearts,breaking the ice of isolation and captivity theywant to impose on us. We send our warmestgreeting to all the anarchist-incendiarygroups and to the International RevolutionaryFront - Informal Anarchist Federation whichwe will continue to promote with all ourstrength, because we are unrepentantaccomplices in the same crime of the ragingsearch for freedom.

P.S.2From the hell-holes of the Greek prisons weexpress our wholehearted solidarity to thecomrades that are imprisoned in thedemocratic cells of Chile, carrying out ahunger strike for their release, pawning theirown life. Brothers hold strong… no matterhow far we are buried alive in the cementgraves of prisons, we know that through thebars of our cells we gaze a common flamingsky… of revolution and anarchy…

L te fr e ly pr ne se r om n w i iso d mbeLe ter from newly i prisoned mbe sLetter from newly imprisoned membersLetter from newly imprisoned membersof the ons ir cy of Cells of F eof the Conspiracy of Cells of Fireo o s cy o l o ef the n ir f Ce ls f Fof the Conspiracy of Cells of FireOn March 14th 2011, 5 comrades of theanarchist group, Revolutionary Organisa-tion - Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, O.Ekonomidou, G. Polydoras, G. Nikolopoulos,D. Bolano and Ch. Tsakalos were arrestedin Greece, after ‘anti-terror’ cops capturedthem. Here is their letter:

1/4/11

They thought it was over…But now everything begins again…

We write now locked in our cells, dozens ofkilometres away from one another,hostages where we were exiled by thevengefulness of the juridical authoritiesscattered in the prisons of Greece, Corfu,Komotini, Grevena, Domokos, Thebes…

We write and we are certain that ourvoice, no matter how they try to bury it inthe drowning cells of democracy, has thestrength to still shout. To shout forfreedom, for inversion, for revolution. Shoutfor another way of life where we will all be“kings” without slaves. For a world withoutauthority, police and prisons.

We still have the thirst to speak of ourstruggle, about our rights and wrongs,about this unique journey to the oceans ofmutiny where we wandered through theConspiracy of Cells of Fire. Because we,Olga Ekonomidou, Giorgos Polydoras,Damianos Bolano, Giorgos Nikolopoulos,Christos Tsakalos, are a piece of theConspiracy of Cells of Fire and theConspiracy is our way for the revolution.

Today more than ever, we are sure thatour voice, together with the voices of ourbrothers, Gerasimos, Mihalis, Haris andPanagiotis, are linked with thousands ofvoices that preceded us and with thou-sands that will follow. Our decision to beorganised in the Conspiracy Cells of Fire isthe decision to stop seeing the life that was

imposed on us with the eyes of a passivespectator and become perpetrators of ourhistory. Transfer the revolution to firstperson, fight for ourselves, withoutinhibitions and postponements and to existin the here and now of the new urbanguerrilla warfare.

This is why we decided to arm ourselvesand to walk with our head held high againstour faint-hearted era.

We never did fit in the narrow limits of anorthodox social struggle that speaksalmost exclusively the language of eco-nomic analyses and the front of classstruggle, flamboyantly ignoring the individualresponsibility of the subjects of authority.We are hostile so much to the hand thatholds the whip, as well as to the backsthat accept it passively on them.

This is why we speak of the revolution ofdaily life, for the inversion of compromises,for untamed freedom, for the greed ofdesires, for the uniqueness of the individual.

We are not fooled by the crippled freedomthey promise us on flat screens, in fastcars and in comfortable apartments. Weseek the authentic side of life outside thelimits of a society that reciprocatesbetween angry outbreaks of economicclaims and big intervals of hibernation. Notus, our comrades set fire to the quietnights in the metropolis, despise the lawsand have their vision clear of the hypocrisyof urban culture. We are the reversedimage of society in the mirror. We areanarcho-individualists and nihilists and weknow that we are conducting a minoritystruggle with a powerful price. However wedo not regret even a moment. Evenimprisoned our conscience remains freerthan ever.

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Letter from Damiano Bo anoLe ter from D mia o Bola oett r fro Damiano olanoL tter from Da no Bol nLetter from Damiano Bolano

Imprisoned anarchist comrade of the Revolutionary Organisation- Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, from Domokos prison (Greece)

Until the end…

“We will shout: grab the axes! We willstrike mercilessly the authorities withoutsparring our blows since they do not either.We will vanish them from the squareswhen their gang of dogs dares to show upthere. We will vanish them from thecobbled streets of the countryside and theavenues of the capital. We will vanish themfrom the villages. Remember that whenthis happens, whoever is not with us, will beagainst us, an enemy. And we will use everymethod in order to exterminate an enemy.”

I recognize myself as a member of theRevolutionary Organisation – Conspiracyof Cells of Fire and from now on as acaptive of war. A war which indirectly hasbeen declared dozens of centuries now,from the dominators against the domi-nated, not making its presence perceivablein order that those subjugated live inillusions of freedom, and directly towardsthe anarchist revolutionaries and eachdecent person that is not subjugated andresists the smooth operation of thegovernmental mechanism.

A war which is carried out daily in theworking spaces, the schools, the centres ofdetainment of immigrants, in the prisons, inthe street, in the army…

“The system has not only simply imposedthe directions of daily life, but has achievedto convince its tributary of its necessity, forits moral legalization, and many are willingto defend it against its enemies.”

We, as warriors against every form ofauthority but also against every logic ofsubmission, have a duty to adopt the totalrupture and refusal of every system butalso society in its present form. Besides, ashistory has shown, most of those who waitfor society to wake up, fall “asleep”. And it isunacceptable to excuse and supportpeople who are immobilized in theirincompetence to define their own lives.

On the contrary, we should criticize themconstantly until they take a stand. Until theycome out of the sphere of neutrality, losingthe dumb smile of the junky TV-viewer andthe cow-like look of the never-satisfiedconsumer and stand next to our revolution-ary daily life or against us.

“Society is as weak and soulless as theauthority it always serves. As a body it iswatered to the smallest pore of itsorganism by petty dogmatism, servility,corrupted and selfish instincts”

Class segregation in society must bereplaced by the individual and later thecollective segregation according to thechoices, the conscience and the way of lifeof each one of us. Because we are nothingmore than our choices themselves, whichmirror our conscience on our way of life.We have drawn the path of refusal, ourrefusal and we go along against the societyof executioners, and the warmth andcarefree nature that is promised with alaw-abiding life, because we have learned tolook forward and never lick where wespit.

We should vanish politicians, judges,journalists

We should annihilate cops, fascists, people-guards, bosses

We should attack well-respected citizens,snitches, sexists, animal torturers

Concerning the anarchist (new) urbanguerrilla

The anarchist urban guerrilla is andcontinues to be for me an attitude and away of life, against anything and anyone whowants us to be slaves of the system. It isthe sand in the cogs of the authoritarianmachine.

A way to take our lives into our own handsand become masters of ourselves.

A way to combine theory and practice.

A way to transubstantiate the utopia into areality here and now.

A way to honour our choices and refusals.

A path towards absolute freedom, whichaims at blowing up and sabotaging thesymbols of authority and the socialrelations that make them acceptable.

A path of refusal and destruction of theroles they impose on us.

However, knowing that the purpose definesthe means, we conclude that the newurban guerrilla is one more method that

uses as its main characteristic, directaction. And it must be absolutely identifiedwith the aim, which in our case, is theaccomplishment of an unconditionalfreedom based on Anarchy. It is one of thetools that every anarchist revolutionaryshould have in their arsenal, and combinedwith the general multiform action of theanarchist movement, a more true andsubstantial feeling of reality, of our reality,where we live based on equality, dignity,solidarity, pride, self-organization andfreedom….

It is the noose on the neck of everyauthoritarian

A path of constant and continuous attack

I publicize the following text not to definemyself as a victim of the “democratic”police but to manage to transfer myexperiences to comrades that might in thefuture be in my position, so they aresomehow prepared.

In the early hours of Monday 14/3/2011a raid is carried out by the EKAM (specialforces) on the house of Ellispontou street53 in Volos and my arrest as well as myfour comrades’ follows. Our transfer by thetorturers of democracy to the 12th floor ofGADA (police headquarters of Athens) iscarried out immediately with ordinary cars,tied up hands and hoods over the head.During the transfer there were manyracist remarks and swearing towards me,while every now and then they tooksouvenir photos.

My welcoming in GADA was a kicking-festby many cops, for a long time, since Iwouldn’t reveal my identity. Eventually afterthey took off my hood and discovered who Iam, they made me look at a wall and everynow and then continued the beating, just toremind me where I am. Sometimes I wouldhear the torturing of my comrades fromthe other rooms, and the cops tried toremind me that the others have “given” meaway and it would be good for me if I spokeas well.

Finally my time came to enter the room oftorture of my comrades which is nothingother than the room where they take yourfingerprints. As soon as they put me inside,

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they took off my handcuffs and five of themgrab and tried to put my hands in the ink.After seeing they couldn’t manage morecame, and all together they immobilized meon the ground leaving their equipment onthe floor. One cop had his knee on my neck,two more on my back and, two moreholding my hands and two holding my legsdown. The one that was trying to take myprints after realizing he could’t open myhand stuck a piece of metal in my fist andputting all his weight on it, started to twistit. At the same time another cop pulledback a finger of my other hand so far, untilit was completely numb. This way theyaccomplished taking my prints, with onlydifficulty by some spasms of my hand, thatwas aimed at making it as hard as possiblefor them. They immediately cuffed me againand stood me up to look at the wall.Afterwards they took me in for prints againwith the exact same procedure, since I didnot give them to them, and although theyalready had them, because as an anarchistI refuse to obey any order from the pigs ofauthority.

In the midst of the fingerprint procedure, acop stuck something like a large ear bud inmy mouth for DNA. They also confiscatedmy shirt for the same reason.

After they were done, they put me up againto look at the wall where again the racistremarks continued. They made me listen tomarching sounds and the Greek nationalanthem, emphasizing the point that if I justsaid “Fuck Albania” everything would end.

I laughed at the thought that it would costme nothing to say it, but I considered thatmy refusal should be total and there’s noroom for humoristic intervals. Shortlyafterwards two of them took me to a room,where exhausted now I tried to fight offhaving my photo taken. Right after that,they took me to another room and for afew hours left me there looking at a wallcuffed behind my back, even when theyeventually moved me to a small dungeonwith the light on day and night and with nocommunication with my comrades.

The next morning, the “consistent”employees came with legal procedures toask if we want to give photos and finger-prints. When I heard that, I smiled ironicallywithout even answering them.

I am obliged to never accept the role ofthe hunted but only that of the attacker

An attacker in society

An attacker on the run

And I remain an attacker in prison as well

The day I was transferred to Domokosprisons, the guard who was in charge ofdividing up the people in prison made themistake (maybe on purpose, aiming at my

ethical extermination) to put me with themurderer of comrade AlexandrosGrigoropoulos and the obvious happened:As soon as I saw him I gave him somequick blows, until the law-abiding prisonersjumped on me to stop me.

Naturally my first day in the hellhole wasinaugurated with a disciplinary penalty. Andin the procedure where they gave me thedisciplinary the atmosphere was intensewith swearing and insults when theybrought him in guarded by three screws.As well, it is obvious that I refused toapologize to the prosecutor considering itmy honour to cause some damage to thekiller-cop Korkoneas.

After this I adopted a more demandingbehaviour towards the people-guards,showing them that there are no margins ofretreating, neither in my thought or myactions, for any reason.

Accidentally again, one month and a halflater the people guard who was controllingthe doors of the prison, created another“unexpected” meeting with the murdererKorkoneas, which I exploited immediately,honouring my words and reminding himthat even in frames of protection he cannothide anywhere. Thus, I jumped him, while atthe same time a prisoner – a bodyguard ofhis, pretending that he is breaking us up,held me giving Korkoneas the chance toreact slightly and after that to run away tothe security of his cell. Of course this timeagain I appeared before the disciplinarycouncil.

…. the war continues

Solidarity to the 14 Chilean comrades(who are persecuted in the “casobombas”), to Gabriel Pombo da Silva (whohas been in prison for over 20 years, 14 ofthem in the Spanish F.I.E.S. regime fromwhere he escaped in 2004. He wasarrested after a clash with the cops at theGerman borders in June of the same yearand since then he is in the Germanprisons), to the 5 anarchists of“Fuoriluogo” in Bologna (who are accusedfor organized crime with subversive aims),to Silvia, Billy, Costa, Marco in Switzer-land (they were arrested in April 2010near Zurich when during a police check intheir car were found explosives and acommuniqué from ELF Switzerland), toBraulio Arturo Duran Gonzalez (he wasarrested in September 2010. He isaccused of attacks on banks and othertargets), and to Adrian MagdalenoGonzalez in Mexico (was arrested inFebruary 2010 for a bomb attack on theunder construction metro station ofTaxquena. Also accused also of arsonattacks and for participation in actions ofAnimal Liberation Front)

Freedom to all the imprisoned fighters allover the world.

Long Live the Informal Anarchist Federa-tion – International Revolutionary Front

Honour to comrade AlexandrosGrigoropoulos

Honour to anarchist revolutionaryLambros Foundas(Member of R O. Revolutionary Struggle)

Honour to comrade Mauricio Morales(who died in May 2009 when the bomb hewas carrying exploded on him)

a am om a a oDamiano BolanoDamiano BolanoProud member of the R.O. Conspiracy Cellsof Fire

General Penitentiary of Domokos

TK 35010GREECE

19/5/11

P.S. A warm greeting of fire and comrade-ship to the comrades of the Italian F.A.I.who sent a letter-bomb to the Managerof Koridallos prisons and filled us withstrength and courage, and to all the othergroups who continue the struggle non-stopsupporting in practice the InformalAnarchist Federation – InternationalRevolutionary Front from Russia toEngland, from the USA to Poland, fromSpain to Mexico and Greece…

P.S. 2 Solidarity to anarchist revolution-ary Theofilos Mavropoulos, who wasarrested – injured after a clash with copsat an accidental police control in Pefki area.Solidarity and strength to the anarchistrevolutionary who got away with their cop-car.

And remember that nothing more than awall divides us.

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unforeseen situations that will be caused inview of the social-economic crisis.

In order to achieve its plans, the State triesto prove that there exists an armednetwork of anarchists that, either isconnected with the R.O. Conspiracy of Cellsof Fire, or constitutes autonomous“anonymous” terrorist organizations,without however having committed anyactions (case of the Thessaloniki ComradesD.Dimtsiadis, M.Tsilianidis, F.Fessa,S.Tzifkas, arrested in December).

Of course the judicial authorities, reachingthe zenith of offering services to the State,do not hesitate to imprison anarchistDimitris Hadjivasiliadis for simple gunpossession (he was arrested in anaccidental police check with 2 pistols withhim) “guessing” his intention to use them“in the performance of terrorist actions”.

The obvious truth is that his detention wasdecided because of his anarchist idealsthat were already filed, from a previousarrest, in the drawers of the policeauthorities.

However, the judicial slaughter does notstop there. The public prosecutor syn-drome of this era that inspires the judicialoperators, scans the whole social spec-trum of contacts of the ordered “sus-pected terrorists”. Friends and personalrelations of the accused are arrested,photographed and finally imprisonedthemselves (D.Michail, S.Antoniou, case ofthe 6 arrested in December ‘10).

Naturally, similar luck is held for theacquaintances and friends of members oforganizations and anarchists that takepolitical responsibility.

The last ones see more and more oftenclose or known people to them (irrelevantto the charges that are attributed to them)getting arrested, decorating covers ofnewspapers and in other cases beingimprisoned such as anarchist PanagiotisMasouras and other individuals for the firstcase of the C.C.F. anti-authoritarian K.P.For the recent arrests again of the C.C.F.Anarchists Christoforos Kortesis,Sarantos Nikitopoulos and VaggelisStathopoulos for the case of RevolutionaryStruggle, and K.S. for the case of anarchistRami Syrianos.

As if that was not enough, judicial totalitari-anism carries out another leap even moreshameless than police arbitrariness.

In certain cases, even if friendly relations donot exist they are devised (in the case ofanarchist Ch.Politis) while in others thecoincidence of a surname (case ofanarchist F.Mayer) will lead the moderndetective Clouseau to tragicomic situationsof confusion involving them in amazingscripts of genealogical interconnection withthe revolutionary organization RAF.

t r rom C st s T oLe te f o hri o sakal sLetter from Christos TsakalosLetter from Christos TsakalosLetter from Christos TsakalosText from a member of the Revolutionary Organisation - Conspiracy of Cells of Fire fromthe prisons of Koridallos, regarding his attitude and the persecutory procedures

On the 27th of April, Christos Tsakalos, forthe case of C.C.F. with the upgraded chargeof the managerial executive, was trans-ported to the prisons of Koridallos, after acall for appearance at the judicial council,where he denies to appear.

Today therefore, Wednesday the 27th ofApril, I announce officially to the judicialauthorities, to not “bother me again” withtheir repeated calls for my presence in theinterrogative process, because they willreceive my total refusal and my factualcontempt.

There is not even a millimeter of dialogue tobe shared with my judges.

As I have declared repeatedly in front ofthem, I do not recognize their process and Ideny to legalize it morally and politically withmy presence. I have a clean conscienceand I do not apologize to officers of thestate.

The only ones who will judge my actions aremyself, the rebellious people that choose tobe involved in the “crime” of freedom andhistory itself.

I deny to appear in front of them, chainedup with the escort of masked-up machocowards of the EKAM (special forces) andthe anti-terrorist force, in order to partici-pate in the joke that they have set up.

Therefore, I will not be present at these setup appointments.

On the contrary, the judicial mafia should beprepared for its appointment with its

historical destination. Because these arethe times, that apart from the money andthe promotions to superior ranks theyreceive, the reward for the judicial opera-tors could be a rain of bullets or a powerfulbomb in their car. And this is not a threat,simply a reminder of facts and possibilities.

Despite all this, on the occasion of mypublic refusal to discuss with the judicialofficers, I want to say a couple of wordsabout the judicial gangrene that seeks toinfect the anti-authoritarian circles as anepidemic.

If someone follows the course of theinterrogations they reach the obviousconclusion, judicial power functions for theState, as did the Inquisition for the Christianchurch in the middle ages.

There is no doubt henceforth that the trialsthat are to come are not simply trialsagainst a revolutionary organization, suchas the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, but arethe juridical prosecution of an entire pieceof the conflicting tendency of the anti-authoritarian movement.

These prosecutions are dictated by theuniformed will of the State, manufacturingoften outrageous fabrications againstanarchist fighters and having as an aim tocriminalize the most active element of thesubversive circles.

It is a process of deterrence of the mostfighting and dangerous elements, so toprevent their constant mobility and theirpossible composition-connection with the

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ment of political co-shelter and the creationof political collectives inside the prison.

We realize that the democratic totalitarian-ism unleashes some of its attacks coveredup as an iron fist inside a velvet glove.

Already, we the members of C.C.F, butalso other comrades experience theimproved regime of modern “politicalisolation”, since we are scattered toevery corner of Greece; Corfu, KomotiniGrevena, Malandrino, Domokos, Theva,Trikalas, Koridallos.

Most of us have been placed in protectionwings, (there are locked up the most filthysubjects of prison, the snitches andrapists) in order we lose any social contact,or to get us charged with Disciplinary forbeating up some of these human wasteswe have for prison-mates.

Of course, I do not forget the regime ofisolation that the members of Revolution-ary Struggle suffer in the 6th wing ofKoridallos and my support is obviouslybeyond and outside the political disagree-ments that exist.

This fight for the fracture of each isolationand for the constitution of political collec-tives of accommodation is the first step fora long course to the unspecified aspects ofmutiny.

Closing I will “steal” some borrowed words:

“And the judges, as soon as he entered,leaned over and said something amongsteach other. And then they asked him: Areyou many? And he, no one knows if it was acoincidence or perhaps in order to answer,he pointed outside the window to thecrowd. And the judges shouted: whats theneed of other witnesses? And then theyremembered, that this speech had beensaid before many years ago.

And they were taken by a great fear.”

Dedicated to my brothers, the comradesof the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire,G.Tsakalos, O.Oikonomidoy, P.Argirou,G.Polidoros, M.Nikolopoulos,Ch Chadjimihelakis, M.Nikolopoulos,D.Bolano.

I send also my comrade greetings to theItalian comrades of F.A.I and to theMexican anarchists of E.L.F

I remain with my thought next to thecomrades in Chile that are on hungerstrike for the “caso bombas”.

LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTIONARY ORGANI-SATION - CONSPIRACY OF CELLS OF FIRE

LONG LIVE THE INFORMAL ANARCHISTFEDERATION – INTERNATIONAL REVOLU-TIONARY FRONT

i s at s k sChristos Tsakalos

Member of the RO-C.C.F.

I therefore personally, as “consciouslyguilty”, having taken the responsibility formy participation in the R.O. Conspiracy ofCells of Fire, did not expect anything lessfrom our persecutors. They were worthy oftheir wage and their dignity.

When through the C C.F. we unleashed awar without limits against authority and itsofficers, as was expected we wereawarded by our enemy, a sentence withoutpretexts.

However, this does not mean that I will notspeak. Besides, I am addressing neither thesmall dictators of the prosecuting authori-ties, nor the suited bellies of the directors,neither the intellectually crippled of thepolice services, nor a society that in theplace of its heart has placed a bunch ofkeys; car keys, house keys, keys to thefence, keys to intellect, keys to compassion,and it locks, locks, locks its fears, hushing infront of the screens and smiles in front ofthe shop windows.

I am addressing the undisciplined anduntamed spirits of our era, the smallminorities that do not bow, the free thinkingindividuals, the rebellious people, the wolvesthat escaped the hunting.

We should not allow the wind to ease,because within us thousands of small firescontinue to ignite our mutiny.

Our actions should speak even louder,shout more because on its own “no versemobilizes the masses, no verse reversesregimes.”

It takes struggle, struggle, struggle.

Struggle with voices and chants on thedemonstrations, struggle with a flamingmolotov, struggle with stones, withpaint, armed struggle, grenades andbombs, struggle with the pencil, pen andbooks, struggle with arsons and conspira-cies, struggle and always struggle.

Finishing I remind my persecutors, that Ihave their justice written on the oldest ofmy shoes [Greek proverb that basicallymeans he does not care of it at all]. I knowthe decisions of the courts that have nothappened yet and the dozens of years thatthey are charging us with. I know, but I donot accept to bow the head to them. Theyshould be sure that there will be harderbattles.

As for my characterization so much by theMedia, as well as the judicial officers, as a“managerial executive” of the organization, Ithrow it in their faces. Because they havelearned to function with superiors andsubordinates, they should know that theConspiracy of Cells of Fire has neitherdirectors nor followers. Our only ideal is ourconscience.

The present text should be considered alsoa spark for the hard and non-negotiableconflict that we will give for the achieve-

At the same time, when the lie thatcompetes the arbitrariness is not enough,comes the “window front” of science toconfirm the State’s alibi (case of anarchistA.Sirinidis who is imprisoned for shooting ata Riot Cop van, with sole evidence beingDNA that was found in a mask that wascollected in the wider area of Exarchia).

Finally, they never abandoned the “oldfamiliar art” of manufactured and enlargedcharges, as in the case of comrades TheAnastasiadis Brothers (Nadir case,Thessaloniki) and the imaginative robberyscenarios (case of Psahna, Evia, with theoriginal arrest of individuals that areaccused for robbery, without neither guns,or money).

Of course, the attack of the prosecutioncoup d’etat is preceded by the vanguard ofthe journalistic TV-court. If the Media didnot exist to prepare the ground, the judicialsystem would not have accomplished toapply so shamelessly its barbarity, withoutmeeting at least as a mound, the “demo-cratic protests” of the “progressiveinstitutions”.

The case of the 6 arrested in December ischaracteristic. The employees of the unrealhave a field trip in front of the cameras andreport through the television studios thatthe suspects (for them guilty) are mem-bers of the R O. Sect of Revolutionaries.

As well, the first day they did not hesitate torecognize one of them as the wanted andwith a bounty on his head comradeG.Tsironis (case of the “robbers in black”,where they accused also Marios Seisidisand his brother Simos, who was shot in theback by the pigs of the police and after-wards because of his injury the doctorsamputated his leg. Hold Strong Comrade!)

When all these were proven sci-fi sce-narios, the journalists said “No problem…”and re-served a new “truth” of interconnec-tions with the R.O. C.C.F. A directed truththat the society of TV-viewers digested (aseasily as the previous ones), said “thanks”and went to sleep quieter than the previousday and more disciplined for the next.

Henceforth, what cannot be condemnedwith real terms is condemned withspectacular ones on the “channel sacrifice”ritual of the Media. Today, only within thegeneralized climate of emergency that thejournalists direct, the “Theater of Justice”can easily be set up.

Because today, more than ever, the judicialpersecution does not seek “guilty” individu-als, but it chases the general imagery ofthe “guilty” collective, targeting anti-authoritarian and subversive circles.

The confusion of the charges, the blurredlegal mesh of trying intentions, the deten-tions based on the “certificate of socialbeliefs”, the vague orders form a formulathat includes everything.

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From the anti-info websites - culmine viathis is our job:

May 30 saw the publication of ‘The Sun StillRises’, a pamphlet containing a chronologyof Conspiracy of Cells of Fire attacks and thefollowing new text by the group.

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Knowledge chooses its project, each projectis new and chooses its moments, eachmoment is new, but simultaneouslyemerges from the memory of all themoments that existed before

—The Interior of the Absolute

1. The Beginning

The Conspiracy of Cells of Fire Revolution-ary Organization didn’t begin its activityfrom out of nowhere. It wasn’t as if astraight line had cut through space andtime. It was a future crying out from thepast. The Conspiracy comprised a collec-tive synthesis, connecting the back-grounds and viewpoints of all who partici-pated in it and drawing valuable conclu-sions from past experiences of subversiveprojects and attacks we took part in.

It represented our desire to take a stepfurther, not to climb some ladder of informalhierarchy that fetishizes violence and itsmethods, but to simply advance, moveforward, and explore new perspectives,making the shift from a “bunch of friends” toan organization, from the sporadic to theconsistent, from the spontaneous to thestrategic.

Along the way, we assumed a critical stancetoward the past, but we never went out ofour way to be hostile. We are anarchy’smisfits, born from its potent moments andgaping voids. Additionally, the goal of critiqueand self-critique is not to put an end tosomething, but just the opposite: it’s anaspiration to evolve something. The fact thatwe’re not going to elaborate a correspond-ing critical review right now doesn’t meanwe’re afraid to recognize our mistakes.Rather, it’s because that kind of examinationis better served by distance and cool nervesthan by impulse.

During no phase of our brief, intense historydid we lose our collective memory of theanarchist milieu we come from. We also feelwe discovered something we have incommon with comrades who began the

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struggle before us, engaged in theirown battles, were arrested andimprisoned, but never lowered theirheads. We discovered the unrepent-ant passion for revolution thatconnects histories and realities ofstruggle from different decades in ashared context of individual andcollective liberation.

In that context, we forged our ownalphabet. Speaking the language of directaction, we openly raised the issue ofcreating organized infrastructure. Asanarchists, we often distance ourselvesfrom the concept of organization becausewe equate it with hierarchy, roles, speciali-zation, “you must,” and obligations. How-ever, words acquire the meanings given bythe people who use them. As the Con-spiracy of Cells of Fire, we stormed intobattle over the meaning of revolutionaryanarchist organization.

2. The Path from Spark to Flame

From the very beginning, we rejected theidea of a centralist model and chose tostart from the basis of individual initiativesthat wanted to collectivize. What emergedduring organizational meetings wereissues of coherence, consistency,individual and collective responsibility,and direct action as a means of trans-forming our words into deeds. At groupmeetings, each comrade had the opportu-nity to propose a plan of attack, therebyopening up a debate on planning, timing,political analysis, and operational problemsposed by a given target’s location. Duringthese discussions, there was no guaranteethat we would reach agreement. Opposingarguments sometimes developed into apowerful dialectic, especially regarding thestrategy and prioritization of timing, andquite often there was more than oneproposal, so we then had to choose whichwe were going to select and which we weregoing to keep in “storage” to be refined inthe future. It was a process that allowed usto open our minds; broaden our horizons;learn from one another persons differentexperiences; vigorously defend ouropinions; figure out how to recognize ourmistakes; understand the concept ofshaping something together; becomeconscious of the need for strategy; and—most important of all—create relation-ships not in the name of some “profes-sional” revolutionary goal, but based on

friendship, true comradeship, and realsolidarity.

We love what we do because it containsour entire essence. Therefore, the“Conspiracy” isn’t just all of us together,it’s also each one of us apart. Even incases when there wasn’t collectiveagreement on a particular action, we didn’tresort to “begging” from the prevailingdemocratic majority. Instead, the minorityof comrades who insisted on carrying outthe attack took the autonomous initiative tomove forward with their choice. Thathappened in parallel with the rest of thecollective, which supported them at specifictimes if necessary, naturally playing a partin our overall organization.

That’s why a number of communiquéswere signed by groups (Nihilist Faction,Breath of Terror Commando, TerroristGuerrilla Unit) that arose out of eachseparate initiative. During the secondphase, after reaching agreement, whetheras the entire collective or as a separateinitiative, we planned the attack. Each one ofus contributed our knowledge; informationwas culled from newspapers, magazines,and the Internet; the area where the actionwas to take place was reconnoitered andmapped; the approach to and withdrawalfrom the target was laid out (avoidingcameras and police checkpoints), includingalternate routes in case somethingunexpected happened, and of coursekeeping in mind the eventuality of aconfrontation with the pigs. There werealso support groups, “hideouts,” ways ofasking for help, etc. (In a future manual, wewill analyze and explain our experiences,which are related to how we perceive whatis going on while an attack is being carriedout.)

During the third phase (which was neverfar removed from the initial proposal abouttarget selection), we worked on the text ofthe communiqué. When a topic wassuggested (for example, attacking thepolice), the comrade who made theproposal argued for its content. Then a

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discussion began, during which eachperson fleshed out the concept, expresseddisagreements, pointed out problems, andoffered other ways to approach the topic.As soon as the debate finished, no matterhow many meetings were needed to finishit, the collective brought together thecentral themes of all the meetings andshaped the main axes around which thecommuniqué would be written. The writingof a communiqué on a specific topic wasusually shared out among those whowanted the responsibility, and after it waswritten, we got together to read it andmake corrections, additions, and finaltouches. If the communiqué was connectedto a separate initiative, then the comradesinvolved in that separate initiative wereresponsible for writing it.

The same process held for ourThessaloniki comrades, and when wecollaborated as the Conspiracy of Cells ofFire : Athens-Thessaloniki, comradesfrom both cities coordinated those actionsbased on principles of mutual aid andcomradeship.

3. “Everyone Does Everything”

Of course, we’re well aware of the dangerslurking within each collective project thataspires to call itself anti-authoritarian—theappearance of informal hegemony and thereproduction of corrupt behavior, of whichwe are enemies. We feel that the purposeof power is to divide. To eliminate thepossibility of the emergence of anyinformal hierarchy within our group, westruck directly at the heart of specializa-tion and roles as soon as they surfaced.We said: “Everyone does everything.”Everyone can learn and devise ways to

steal cars and motorcycles, fabricatelicense plates, forge ID cards and officialdocuments, expropriate goods andmoney, target-shoot, and use firearmsand explosives.

Therefore, it was and continues to beimportant to us that the means andmethods we use for our actions bestraightforward and relatively simple toobtain and prepare, allowing them tospread and be used by anyone who decidesto move toward the new urban guerrillawarfare.

These include gasoline, jerry cans,camping gas canisters, and candles thatcan easily be obtained at a supermarket,but also improvised timing mechanismsthat—after the appropriate “research” intechnical manuals and guides available onthe Internet, plus a little innovativeimagination—anyone is capable offabricating.

We certainly aren’t forgetting that, while“everyone does everything,” each personalso has their own separate abilities andpersonal inclinations, and it would be amistake to gloss over those differences.With desire and mutual understanding asour guide, each of us undertook to do whatwe felt most capable of. For example, ifsomeone was a good driver or a skillfulthief, or perhaps had a knack for writing,that didn’t mean their creative abilitieswould be suppressed in the name of somefalse collective homogeneity. It was up toeach comrade to offer their abilities andmethodologies to the other comradeswithout making a “sacrifice” of their ownparticipation, and it was even better if thathappened in the broadest possible way,

going beyond the narrow context of thecollective and facilitating access by theentirety of the anti-authoritarian current—for example, through the publication ofpractical guides like those released bysome German comrades, which contain anumber of different ways to make explosivedevices.

Additionally, our actions never involvedfixed, immutable roles. Without resortingto the cyclical rotation of tasks, whichrecall compulsory work hours, all thecomrades took advantage of a commonfoundation that allowed them to be ableto execute any task at any time during anattack. The process of improving yourability to use materials and techniques isnaturally a continual process of self-education. Along those lines, we want toemphasize how crucial it is to simultane-ously develop a group’s operationalcapacity as well as its revolutionaryviewpoint. At no point should the level ofsterile operational capacity intensifywithout a corresponding intensification ofthought and discourse, and the sameobviously holds true for the converse. Wehad no central committee to designateroles. There were only particular taskswithin a specific plan—positions thatchanged according to the desires of thecomrades who took part.

4. Guerrillas for Life

We’ve always felt that an organizationdoesn’t necessarily have to be exclusive tothe comrades who are part of it. Our actionneither begins nor ends within the contextof the group. The group is the means torevolution, not an end in itself. Becausewhen the means become their own raisond’être, “diseases” begin to appear, likevanguardism, the armed party, andexclusive orthodox truth.

Through the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire,we say what we believe in, who we are, andwhat tendency we represent, but in no waydo we say that someone has to preciselyfollow some so-called correct line orparticipate in our group in order to berecognized as a comrade.

Thus, we ourselves have also taken part inprocesses apart from the Conspiracy, likejoining coordinated action networks,attending assemblies, participating inmarches and demonstrations, supportingattacks and acts of sabotage, putting upposters, and painting slogans. But we neverthought one thing was superior to another.That’s because the polymorphism ofrevolutionary war consists of an open andpermanent commitment that has nothingto do with fetishized spectacle (embrac-ing armed struggle as the only thing thatmatters) or accusatory fixations (insist-ing on the quantitative characteristic of“massiveness” as the criterion forrevolutionary authenticity). On thecontrary, we position ourselves as enemies

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directly against the “polymorphism” of cafégossip, speeches in university auditoriums,leadership roles, followers, and all thoseconservative fossils of dogmatism andhabit that act as parasites within theanarchist milieu, wanting only to controlyoung comrades, sabotage them, andprevent them from creating their ownautonomous evolutionary path through therevolutionary process.

We believe that the concept of theanarchist urban guerrilla isn’t a separateidentity one assumes only while engaging inarmed attack.

Rather, we feel it’s a matter of mergingeach person’s private and public life in thecontext of total liberation. We aren’tanarchists only when we throw a Molotovat a riot police van, carry outexpropriations, or plant an explosivedevice. We’re also anarchists when wetalk to our friends, take care of ourcomrades, have fun, and fall in love.

We aren’t enlisted soldiers whose duty isrevolution. We are guerrillas of pleasurewho view the connection betweenrebellion and life as a prerequisite fortaking action. We don’t believe in any“correct line” to follow. During the past twoyears, for example, new urban guerrillagroups frequently posed the issue ofrobberies and expropriations from thebanking machinery as yet another attackon the system. Their communiqués andclaims of responsibility are powerfulpropaganda for the rejection of work viaholdups and robberies directed at thebelly of the capitalist beast—the banks—with the goal being individual liberationfrom the eight-hour blackmail of wage-slavery on the one hand, and collectiveappropriation of and direct access tomoney for infrastructural needs andrevolutionary projects on the other.

We are exiting the scene of urban guerrillawarfare’s past ethical fixations, whichrarely took a public position on the issue ofrevolutionary bank robbery. We feel thatthere is now plenty of new urban guerrilladiscourse and practice that opposes—in aclearly attacking way—the bosses’ workethic as well as the predatory bankingmachinery, proposing armed expropriationas a liberatory act, and obviously not as away to get rich.

Nevertheless, we don’t consider theexpropriation of banks to be a prerequisitefor someone’s participation in the newguerrilla war. There is one revolution, butthere are thousands of ways in which onecan take revolutionary action. Othercomrades might choose to carry outcollective expropriations from the templesof consumerism (supermarkets, shoppingmalls) in order to individually recover what’sbeen “stolen” and use those things to meeteach person’s material needs, therebyavoiding having to say “good morning” to aboss or take orders from some superior.Still others might participate in grassrootsunions, keeping their conscience honed—like a sharp knife—for the war that finallyabolishes every form of work that enrichesthe bosses while impoverishing our dignity.

We feel the same way about voluntarily“disappearing” to go underground. Thefetishization of illegalism doesn’t inspire us.We want everyone to act in accordancewith their needs and desires. Each choicenaturally has its own qualities and virtuesas well as its disadvantages. It’s true thatwhen a group voluntarily chooses to gounderground (“disappearance” from theenvironment of family and friends, falsepapers, etc.), that certainly shields themfrom the eyes of the enemy. But at thesame time, their social connection to thewider radical milieu is cut, and to a certainpoint they lose a sense of interaction. Ofcourse, the same doesn’t apply when there

are objective reasons for going under-ground (arrest warrants, a price on one’shead), in which case clandestinity is theattacking refuge of those caught in thecrosshairs of the law. This creates aparallel need for the existence of supportinfrastructure, both among guerrillagroups themselves as well as within thewider anti-authoritarian milieu, that will“cover” the tracks of wanted comrades.Prerequisites would be a certain complic-ity and discretion, concepts of which arefrequently seen as “outdated” but in ouropinion should once again be launchedpiercingly into battle. If comrades from aguerrilla group engage in regular above-ground interaction—participating inmovement meetings and processes, takingpart in debates, and creating projects withothers that address shared concerns—then the hermetic nature of the guerrillagroup should clearly be protected fromopen ears and big mouths. Therefore, it’sgeneral attitude also must be one ofdiscretion in order to circumvent thedeafening exaggerations that can turn itinto a “magnet” for bastards from anti-terrorist squads and the police. Taking apage from our own self-critique, we mustmention the fact that many of us behavedcompletely opposite to the above, which—along with the viciousness of certainconduct originating within the anarchistmilieu—“guided” a number of policeoperations right to us. In any case, self-critique lays down solid ground from whichto develop oneself and offer explanations,but the current text isn’t appropriate forthat. We’ll return to it in the future.

5. The First Phase of the Conspiracy andthe Proposal for the “New Conspiracy”

The guerrilla has finally escaped thepages of books dealing with decades pastand taken to the streets with ferocity.Because the urban guerrilla doesn’t offerutopian freedom. She allows access toimmediate freedom. Accordingly, eachperson begins to define herself and liberateherself from society’s passivity.

There is now noise everywhere—themarvelous noise of widespread destruc-tion—as well as the requisite revolutionarydiscourse to follow bombings againsttargets that serve domination. A deter-mined armada of anarchist groups issetting fire to tranquility in the middle of thenight, groups with names that reflect the“menu” they offer the system (in Athens:Deviant Behavior for the Spread ofRevolutionary Terrorism, Warriors fromthe Abyss/Terrorist Complicity, Revolution-ary Conscience Combatants, LambrosFountas Guerrilla Formation; inThessaloniki: Chaos Warriors, AttackingSolidarity Cell, Arson Attack Cell, Schemersfor Nighttime Disorder, Fire to the BordersCell, Combative Conscience Cell, Revolution-ary Solidarity Cell, etc.). Many of these

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groups are also experimenting with a newinternational liberatory project asaccomplices in the alliance known as theInternational Revolutionary Front/Informal Anarchist Federation.

Those of us who have taken responsibilityas members of the Conspiracy of Cells ofFire are not intimidated by the dozens ofyears in prison the courts have in store forus. To begin with, we are creating an activecollective inside prison.

We know that, for us, the opening phaseof the struggle has been completed.However, we also know that nothing isover. The Conspiracy will not remaindisarmed. It will continue to be a validcommitment in prison, as well as an openproposal to the antagonistic sector ofthe metropolis.

The Conspiracy of Cells of Fire proveditself as a network of cells, just like itsname suggests. Right now, we’re notattempting to go over its operationalrecord. We simply want to clarify itspolitical perspective.

We feel that committing to a newConspiracy most closely approaches theessence of the word, so we are opening upthat possibility by making a proposal for anew Conspiracy comprising a diffuse,invisible network of cells that have noreason to meet in person, yet through theiractions and discourse recognize oneanother as comrades in the same politicalcrime: the subversion of Law and Order.This Conspiracy would consist of individu-als and cells that take action, whetherautonomous or coordinated (through call-outs and communiqués), without needingto agree on every single position andspecific reference point (e.g., nihilism,individualism). Instead, they wouldconnect on the basis of mutual aidfocused on three key points.

The first point we are proposing in thisinformal debate is agreement on thechoice of direct action using any meanscapable of damaging enemy infrastruc-ture. Without any hierarchization ofmethods of violence, comrades can choosefrom rocks to Kalashnikovs. However,direct action on its own is just anotherentry on the police blotter, so it should beaccompanied by a correspondingcommuniqué from the given cell orindividual claiming responsibility andexplaining the reasons behind the attack,thus spreading revolutionary discourse.The pen and the pistol are made from thesame metal. Here, let’s note that theConspiracy of the period that is now overnever dismissed any incendiary method inits arsenal. It would be disingenuous of usif some young comrade thought that usingthe name of a new “Conspiracy” wasconditioned by the use of supposedlysuperior methods (e.g., explosives). The

new urban guerrilla warfare dependsmuch less on operational methods than itdoes on our decision to attack power.

The second key point of agreement is towage war against the State whilesimultaneously engaging in a pointedcritique of society. Since we are revolu-tionary anarchists, we don’t just talk aboutthe misfortune caused by power and theruling oligarchy. We also exercise a morecomprehensive critique of the way in whichthe oppressed accept and propagate thepromises of happiness and consumerismoffered by their bosses.

The fact that we engage in struggleagainst the State doesn’t mean we blindourselves to the diffuse complex of powerthat administers contemporary interper-sonal relationships. Anti-authoritariandiscourse frequently alters and generalizesa concept like the state, relieving the restof the people who constitute society oftheir responsibility. In doing so, it creates asterilized viewpoint that treats entire socialsectors as revolutionary subjects, whethercalled proletariat or oppressed, withoutrevealing the individual responsibility eachone of us assumes in the enslavement ofour lives.

The State is not a fortress. You won’t findany door that leads you to some kind ofmachine or engine that can be turned offby throwing a switch. The State is not amonster you can kill with a stake throughthe heart. It’s something quite different. Wecould compare it to a system: a networkcomprising thousands of machines andswitches. This network doesn’t imposeitself on society from above. It spreadsthroughout society from within. It evenextends to the sphere of private life,reaching into and touching our emotions ata cellular level. It molds conscience and ismolded by it. It connects and unites society,which in turn nourishes and sanctifies it ina continuous exchange of values and

standards. In this game, there are nospectators. Each one of us plays an activerole.

—Costas Pappas, No Going Back

The enemy can be found in every mouththat speaks the language of domination. Itis not exclusive to one or another race orsocial class. It doesn’t just consist ofrulers and the whole potbellied suit-and-tie dictatorship. It is also the proletarianwho aspires to be a boss, the oppressedwhose mouth spits nationalist poison,the immigrant who glorifies life inwestern civilization but behaves like alittle dictator among his own people, theprisoner who rats out others to theguards, every mentality that welcomespower, and every conscience thattolerates it.

We don’t believe in an ideology of victimiza-tion in which the State takes all the blame.The great empires weren’t just built onoppression. They were also built on theconsent of the applauding masses in thetimeless Roman arenas of every dictator.To us, the revolutionary subject is each onewho liberates herself from the obligationsof the present, questions the dominantorder of things, and takes part in thecriminal quest for freedom.

As the first phase of the Conspiracy, wehave no interest in representing anyone,and we don’t take action in the name of anyclass or as defenders of “oppressedsociety.” The subject is us, because eachrebel is a revolutionary subject in arevolution that always speaks in the firstperson to ultimately build a genuinecollective “we.”

The third key point of agreement in ourproposal regarding the formation of anew Conspiracy is international revolu-tionary solidarity. In truth, our desire toapply all of ourselves to creating momentsof attack on the world order may cost

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im s aa s k sGerasimos Tsakalos, ,g og o ,Olga Economidou,Olga Economidou, H z ich la ,Haris Hatzimichelakis, H ic , tz helaHaris Hatzimichelakis,

is as aChristos Tsakalos, s l or o oGiorgos Nikolopoulos, icha o l , l oMichalis Nikolopoulos, la o ,a ol ,Damiano Bolano,Damiano Bolano,

a yio g oPanayiotis Argyrou,a yio g oPanayiotis Argyrou, s lydr o r sGiorgos Polydoras

some of us our lives, with many of uswinding up in prison. “We” doesn’t refer tothe Conspiracy or any other organization. Itrefers to every insurgent, whether they arepart of a guerrilla group or taking actionindividually on their path to freedom. As thefirst phase of the Conspiracy, our desireand our proposal to every new cell is thatthe full force of revolutionary solidarity beexpressed—a solidarity that cries outthrough texts, armed actions, attacks, andsabotage to reach the ears of persecutedand imprisoned comrades, no matter howfar away they may be.

The solidarity we’re talking about doesn’trequire those showing solidarity toexpress absolute political identificationwith the accused. It is simply a sharedacknowledgment that we are on thesame side of the barricades and that werecognize one another in the struggle, likeanother knife stuck in power’s gut. Wetherefore also propose support for theInformal Anarchist Federation/Interna-tional Revolutionary Front, so that it canfunction—as demonstrated by the ItalianFAI comrades—as an engine of propulsion.

From this point on, any comrade whoagrees (obviously without having to identifyherself) with these three key points of theinformal agreement we are proposingcan—if she wants—use the name Con-spiracy of Cells of Fire in connection withthe autonomous cell she is part of. Justlike the Dutch comrades who, without usknowing one another personally but withinthe framework of consistency betweendiscourse and practice, attacked theinfrastructure of domination (arson andcyber attacks against Rabobank [financialcorporation]) and claimed responsibility asthe Conspiracy of Cells of Fire (DutchCell).

We feel that a network of such cells,devoid of centralized structure, will becapable of far exceeding the limits ofindividual plans while exploring the realpossibilities of revolutionary coordinationamong autonomous minority structures.These structures—without knowing oneanother personally—will in turn be able toorganize arson and bombing campaignsthroughout Greece, but also on aninternational level, communicatingthrough their claims of responsibility.

Since we live in suspicious times, we shouldclarify something. Actions claimed usingthe Conspiracy of Cells of Fire name thataren’t consistent with any of the pointswe’ve laid out and don’t take the necessaryprecautions to prevent “damage” toanything other than the target of thesabotage will definitely arouse our suspi-cion, given the likelihood that they will havebeen hatched by the State.

Returning to our proposal, “anonymity” withregard to personal contact will reinforce

the closed nature of the autonomous cells,making it more difficult for the police to“compromise” them. Even the arrest ofone entire cell that forms part of the newConspiracy wouldn’t lead the persecutingauthorities to the other cells, therebyavoiding the well-known domino effects thattook place in our time.

In the past, the fact that that we first-phase comrades may not have beeninvolved in certain incidents never stoppedus from publicly expressing our support orour critique, and the same applies to thepresent if new comrades choose to usethe organization’s name. Without needingto know one another, through thecommuniqués that accompany attacks wecan begin an open debate on reflectionsand problems that, even if viewed throughdifferent lenses, are certainly focused onthe same direction: revolution.

Consequently, we first-phase comradesare now assuming responsibility for thediscourse we generate inside prison bysigning as the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire,followed by our names.

The new “Conspiracy” will maintain andsafeguard its customary independence,writing its own history of struggle. Thissignificant continuation will surely connectthe dots on the map of rebellion, sweepingthem toward the final destination ofrevolution.

6. The Epilogue Has Yet to Be Written

Through our actions, we are propagating arevolution that touches us directly, whilealso contributing to the destruction of thisbourgeois society. The goal is not just totear down the idols of power, but tocompletely overturn current ideas aboutmaterial pleasure and the hopes behind it.

We know our quest connects us to manyother people around the world, and via thispamphlet we want to send them ourwarmest regards: the Conspiracy of Cells

of Fire in the Netherlands; the FAI in Italy;the Práxedis G. Guerrero AutonomousCells for Immediate Revolution and theELF/ALF in Mexico; the ELF in Russia; theanarchists in Bristol, Argentina, and Turkey;the Autonome Gruppen in Germany; theSeptember 8 Vengeance Commando inChile; the comrades in Switzerland, Poland,Spain, and London; and everyone we’ve leftout, wherever the rejection of this worldis in bloom.

This text has no epilogue, because praxiswill always continue to nourish andtransform itself. We’re just making a quickstop, concluding with a few words someoneonce said:

It’s an astonishing moment when theattack on the world order is set in motion.Even at the very beginning—which wasalmost imperceptible—we already knewthat very soon, no matter what happened,nothing would be the same as before. It’s acharge that starts slowly, quickens itspace, passes the point of no return, andirrevocably detonates what once seemedimpregnable—so solid and protected, yetnevertheless destined to fall, demolished bystrife and disorder. . . . On this path of ours,many were killed or arrested, and someare still in enemy hands. Others strayedfrom the battle or were wounded, never toappear again. Still others lacked courageand retreated. But I must say that ourgroup never wavered, even when it had toface the very heart of destruction.

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For correspondence/communication withthe prisoners–members of the R.O. CCF,we publish their postal addresses (as ofOct 2011):

- Christos Tsakalos, Grevena generaldetention facility [Geniko katastima kratisisGrevenon], 51 100 Grevena, Greece

- Gerasimos Tsakalos, Domokos prisons[Filakes Domokou], 35 010 Domokos,Fthiotida, Greece

- Damiano Bolano, Dikastiki Filaki NafpliouTK 21100 Argolis, Greece

- Panagiotis Argyrou, Geniko KatastimaKratisis Domokou, D1 Pteryga, TK 35010Domokos, Fthiotida, Greece

- Haris Hadjimihelakis, Kleisti FilakonTrikalon, TK 42100 Trikala, Greece

- Giorgos Nikolopoulos, Komotini judicialprison [Dikastiki filaki Komotinis], 69 100Komotini, Greece

- Giorgos Polydoros, Corfu closed prison[Klisti filaki Kerkiras], 49 100 Corfu Island,Greece

- Olga Ekonomidou, Eleonas, Thebesgeneral detention facility [Geniko katastimakratisis Eleona Thivon], 32 200 Thebes,Viotia, Greece

- Mihalis Nikolopoulos, Trikala closedprison [Klisti filaki Trikalon], 42 100 Trikala,Greece

For better and more direct communica-tion, you can write to the comrades insolidarity who have set up a post box. Use

RebellionThe rebel is a rock in the mud.

The rebel, for her it's so easy to stand upin the mud, like it is for a bird to fly or

for a weed to grow.

Clean is the flight of a bird, clean is theway a flower grows, and clean for a realanarchy is her rebellion. And against thiscleaness, there is no kind of impurity that

can go against it.

Anarchists, this is our moment. With firein the night, like a firm rock in the mud,with a clean birds flight, may the rebel

cross into action.

Rebellion, Rebellion, Rebellion!

From “Carteles I”, by Rodolfo GonzalezPacheco (1882-1949), a series of Spanishlanguage anarchist texts circulating in the

Spanish prison system and beyond.

Translated by anarchist prisoner Rafael“Jon-Bala” Martinez Zea.

Conspiracy of Cells of Fire trialends with severe sentences

The verdicts and sentences were called inthe first Conspiracy of Cells of Fire trial, (theso-called “Halandri case”), and the endresults are not good. The three-membertribunal imposed even longer sentences thanthose requested by the prosecutor:

Haris Hatzimichelakis: Guilty of forming aterrorist organization, manufacturingexplosives, possessing explosives, andcausing explosions at the Ministry ofMacedonia-Thrace, the home of formerInterior Vice-Minister Panayiotis Hinofotis,and the home of PASOK ministers LoukaKatseli and Gerasimos Arsenis. Sentenced to25 years in prison out of a total combinedsentence of 77 years.

Panayiotis Argyrou: Guilty of forming aterrorist organization, manufacturingexplosives, possessing explosives, andcausing explosions at the Ministry ofMacedonia-Thrace, the home of formerInterior Vice-Minister Panayiotis Hinofotis,and the home of PASOK ministers LoukaKatseli and Gerasimos Arsenis. Sentenced to25 years in prison out of a total combinedsentence of 77 years.

Giorgos Karagiannidis: Guilty of manufactur-ing explosives, possessing explosives, andbeing an accomplice to the explosion at thehome of PASOK ministers Louka Katseli andGerasimos Arsenis. Sentenced to 20 yearsin prison out of a total combined sentence of32 years.

Panayiotis Masouras: Guilty of manufactur-ing explosives, possessing explosives, andbeing an accomplice to the explosion at thehome of PASOK ministers Louka Katseli andGerasimos Arsenis. Sentenced to 11 yearsand 6 months in prison out of a totalcombined sentence of 19 years. Submittedan application for a suspended sentence.

Alexandros Mitrousias: Guilty of manufactur-ing explosives, possessing explosives, andbeing an accomplice to the explosion at thehome of PASOK ministers Louka Katseli andGerasimos Arsenis. Sentenced to 11 yearsin prison out of a total combined sentence of19 years. Chose not to submit an applicationfor a suspended sentence.

Konstantina Karakatsani: Guilty of manufac-turing explosives, possessing explosives, andbeing an accomplice to the explosion at thehome of PASOK ministers Louka Katseli andGerasimos Arsenis. Sentenced to 11 yearsin prison out of a total combined sentence of19 years. Submitted an application for asuspended sentence.

Manolis Yiospas: Guilty of threemisdemeanors including robbery and fraud.Sentenced to 2 years and 9 months in

prison. The prosecutor initially requestedthat Yiospas be acquitted, and after theprison sentence was announced theprosecutor then proposed a three-yearsuspended sentence, which the courtaccepted.

Nikos Vogiatzakis: Acquitted of all chargesdue to lack of evidence.

Errikos Rallis: Acquitted of all charges dueto lack of evidence.

Friends and relatives of the accused, butalso the defence, commented on theseverity in the imposition of sentencesconsidering that for the majority of thosesentenced, the court judged that theirparticipation in the organization was of onlya few months. The State, its court and itsother dogs have shown once more whathappens to decent people who live forfreedom.

NOTHING IS OVER,EVERYTHING CONTINUES

only this address to contact the soli-group.(no other name on envelopes):

Post Box 51076TK. 14510, Nea Kifissia,Athens, Greece

Addresses of the accused, who deniedmembership of CCF.

Panayiotis MasourasGeniko Katastima Kratisis GrevenonTK 51100 Grevena, Greece

Alexandros MitrousiasDikastiki Filaki Koridallou, A PterygaTK 18110 KorydallosAthens, Greece

Konstantina KarakatsaniGinaikies Filakes KoridallouTK 18110 KorydallosAthens, Greece

Giorgos KaragiannidisDikastiki Filaki Koridallou, A PterygaTK 18110 KorydallosAthens, Greece

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Panayiotis Argyrou

Political Statement to the CourtOn November 1, 2010,Panayiotis Argyrou wasarrested in Athensalongside GerasimosTsakalos during thewave of incendiarypackage mailings initiated by theConspiracy of Cells of Fire. Bothcomrades willingly admitted to theirparticipation in the organization.Argyrou had been named in anOctober 2009 arrest warrant charginghim with participation in the Con-spiracy of Cells of Fire, and he wasalso awaiting trial for setting fire to acity bus.

On January 17, the first Conspiracy ofCells of Fire trial began-the so-called“Halandri case” - and Argyrou wasone of the nine defendants. In protestagainst the trial conditions, he andthree other defendants walked out ofthe courtroom at the end of Januaryand never returned.

On July 19, the trial ended with theannouncement of the verdicts andsentences. Argyrou was found guiltyof forming a terrorist organization,manufacturing explosives, possessingexplosives, and causing explosions atthe Ministry of Macedonia-Thrace, thehome of former Interior Vice-MinisterPanayiotis Hinofotis, and the home ofPASOK ministers Louka Katseli andGerasimos Arsenis. He was sen-tenced to 25 years in prison out of atotal combined sentence of 77 years.

About two weeks before the trialended, he released the followingpublic statement:

The following is the political statement Iintended to make at the RevolutionaryOrganization - Conspiracy of Cells ofFire trial that began on January 17,2011. Due to the way things unfolded, Idecided not to participate in theproceedings and was thus tried inabsentia. Nevertheless, I am still releas-ing this statement because I believe thatrevolutionary discourse shouldn’t just belimited to courthouse interference. Inaddition, my abstention from the trialwasn’t a passive act of silence, but aform of political intervention against themeasures imposed by the law onpolitical prisoners and those who showsolidarity with them.

I have been locked up for the pastseveral months as a prisoner of revolu-tionary war - a war that seethes relent-

lessly; a war between revolution-ary forces and the decrepit, criminal,authoritarian society we live in; a warthat will continue to seethe as long asthere are active revolutionaries full ofhatred for this world, full of the ragingdesire for its destruction, full of thepassion for freedom; a war that I myselfchose to take part in on the side ofrebellion against everything that enslavesour conscience and devastates the veryfoundation of our existence as individu-als.

The modern, now global, authoritarian-capitalist structure has reached theheights of an absolutist reality wesupposedly must accept. The almightyWestern capitalist democracies aremoving east and legitimizing theircontemporary crusades as the “war onterror.”

They are strengthening their empires,condemning millions of people in the so-called third world to a life of barbaricmisery. Those who manage to flee suchconditions by immigrating are packedtogether in the ghettos andshantytowns of the Western metropo-lises, where they seek their fortunes inenvironments and situations that areoften hostile and dangerous to them.Police repression and fascist violence,as well as the racism they suffer and thepoverty they live in, usually lead them toviolence-a violence directed mainlyagainst other oppressed people,whether or not they happen to beimmigrants. Protecting the capitalistprosperity and well-being of nativepopulations requires the creation of themodern metropolis-fortress. Themilitary-police complex is modernizingand evolving to provide order andsecurity, confronting the violence thathappens within the same social class-violence among the poor-as well as thealways considerable threat of theinternal enemy.

At the same time, capitalism is spawningdifferent industries everywhere, therebycarrying out the most brutal attack ever

on nature. Field by field, it is destroyingthe entire surface of the planet in orderto benefit various corporations andsatisfy the consumerist instincts thatcontemporary lifestyle has instilled in thecivilized people of economically devel-oped countries.

In such a climate, life assumes itsemptiest dimension. The feast ofcapitalist promises, materialist euphoria,and consumerist happiness; thebehaviors and roles imposed on us astruths; the lifestyle; the wage-slaveryexalted by technocratic think-tanks inorder to keep our hearts content - theseare the defining features of that life.

Even as a student I was against that life.I became politically active within theanarchist movement and then graduallyentered the wider revolutionary milieu. Atfirst I took part in the student protestsof 2005-2006 and the accompanyingconfrontations and disturbances. Lateron, as part of my personal trajectory ofpolitical evolution, I participated in mostof the anarchist movement’s openinitiatives, among which were assembliesand committees that coordinatedsolidarity actions for imprisonedcomrades. The student marches of2006-2007 and the fierce clashes thattook place then were the catalysts thatpersonally influenced me as well asnumerous other comrades with whom Iwas fortunate to later share manymoments of genuine comradeship.

Over the course of several months, riotsand the subsequent attacks on stateand capitalist targets created a perma-nent state of tension, fervor, and unrest.The occupied schools, the peoplestanding guard to defend against fascistattacks, the expectations for the nextmarch, the plans for confronting thepigs-all these things comprised, orbetter yet tended toward, an intenselyinsurrectional situation. However, it all

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ultimately came to an end, almost quietly.The thousands of students abandonedthe streets, pacified that their diplomasand careers weren’t in jeopardy, while thepolitical party dogs and the hard-linebureaucratic Left took stock of thestruggle at the voting booths, as usual.

As a result of my participation in thatmovement, I realized that without individualconscience, without a clear orientationtoward freedom and revolution, themasses could only offer seasonal fire-works instead of social explosions-simplycreating a cloud of dust that, once itsettled, was more likely to cause confu-sion and defeatism than radicalization.Naturally, there were also those minoritiesthat orchestrated wild instances ofinsurrection, turning them into flames thatwarmed our hatred for theexistent. We had to keep thoseflames burning, reigniting them atevery moment and every opportu-nity. And it was better to seek outthose opportunities, to hunt themdown, than to await them solely inthe mass mobilizations of differentsocial sectors or branches ofemployment, which were exclu-sively concerned with settling andsolving their own problems withoutcaring the least bit about whatwas happening around them.

Gradually, together with othercomrades who shared the sameconcerns, we prioritized the issueof our imprisoned anarchistcomrades. Those abductions hadto permanently cost the socialpeace. Revolutionary action wouldmake it clear, using every means,that the state’s isolation ofrevolutionaries in the galleys ofdemocracy would not be permit-ted. That was our goal, and theintent of our struggle was to showthat everything hostile to revolutiondeserved to be targeted andstruck as an immediate responseto each day of our comrades’ imprison-ment, regardless of the reason for theirarrest. Also among our objectives werethe proposal of more widespread andpluralist thought and action, a moregeneral approach to the issue of prisons,and the highlighting of enemy socialbehavior (apathy, indifference, broadfragmentation).

But more than anything, our goal was toview action as a nonstop revolutionaryjourney in opposition to the existent, andas an inseparable part of revolutionarywar. Solidarity would thus assume vitalimportance, escape the shelter ofcomplaint and protest, and acquireattacking characteristics that we wouldspread continually within an irreducibletension.

“Because if we forget theprisoners of revolutionarywar, we forget the waritself. To the contrary: wemust avenge our impris-oned brothers andsisters, with the final goalalways being theirliberation from the handsof torturers and jailers.”

However, I was possessed by the urgefor direct action within a solidly organizedpolitical framework, as well as the desirefor a consistent presence and potentintervention in social reality. These thingsultimately led me to get organized via theRevolutionary Organization - Conspiracyof Cells of Fire, which seemed to have a

well-honed political conception and wasdynamically making its presence knownthrough an extended series of arsons. Thegroup had specifically chosen to continuetaking action using the same name, which Icould tell was unusual for arson groups atthe time. Yet that was consistent with theviews I had developed on how directaction commandos should be structuredand organized. In my opinion, a permanentname makes an organization and itspolitical framework known to “the public,”which can then become interested in andeventually inspired by its actions anddiscourse. It also creates a historicalcontinuity that yields coherence at the levelof the organization itself as well as thelevel of the individuals it comprises overtime, generating a wealth of experiencefrom which to evolve the revolutionary

discourse the organization wants toprojectualize while widening the percep-tion of a staunch minority that maintains apresence in the fortresses and trenches ofrevolutionary war.

Through our activity as the Conspiracy ofCells of Fire, we chose to create apermanent state of war, trouble thewaters of normality, and foster a newurban guerrilla mentality. We felt that thisguerrilla warfare needed to spread andbecome the method of struggle for thoseminorities that rejected the existent andchose the path of revolution and violentsocietal destruction, turning revolutionaryaction into a key position.

The new urban guerrilla warfare advancesa generalized version of conspiratorial

action, far removed from thefetishism of means and anyunproductive regurgitation ofarmed struggle’s spectacularfixations. It espouses the organiza-tion of conspiratorial structuresthat continually attack the System’sbases, mechanisms, and adminis-trative human resources in apolymorphy of attacking actionsthat include vandalism and arson,expropriation and robbery,sabotage and bombings, as wellas political assassinations.

Urban guerrilla warfare has notbeen vanquished, because neitherthe years of captivity nor themurders of our comrades aroundthe world can be pulverized by thegrindstone of oblivion and thedefective, purely mathematical logicthat wishes to see the defeat ofcertain forms of rupture from theexistent. No form of struggle orrupture can be historically ormaterially vanquished as long asfree-thinking rebels of conscienceare prepared to rot away in sinisterdungeons or even sacrifice theirown lives.

Revolution is war, and like each war itmeans the destruction of people andthings. We will also surely lose comrades,and that will increase our hatred and rage,channeling them toward the destruction ofPower and its system. We draw strengthfrom each lost comrade’s hidden story,we are inspired by their lives and theirwork, and we methodically carry on withundiminished intensity. Therefore, nothingis over and no struggle has been lost. Ifachieving one’s final goals or not weremeasured only by victories and defeats,what struggle could be said to have beenwon up to this point? Perhaps not asingle one. Guerrilla warfare is anotheroption within the struggle, anotherexpression of revolutionary war. As theConspiracy of Cells of Fire, we so definethe new urban guerrilla warfare not

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because we want to contextualize ithistorically, but because we feel that whatwe are proposing is a new philosophy, anew framework, and a new redefinition ofmethodology. Because only from apermanent position of attack are we ableto breathe through the organized suffoca-tion we experience in this society, whichreeks of silent death and the stench ofresignation, submission, and betrayal. Werefuse to live in the manner it has predeter-mined for us, we take our own lives intoour own hands, and we sharpen revolu-tionary theory and praxis. Our proposal isto create a revolutionary anarchist frontwith self-organized anti-hierarchical directaction infrastructure that strikes andattacks by surprise-in short, an anarchisturban guerrilla warfare that has no desireto be a vanguard or steer the masses, thepeople, or society in some correctrevolutionary direction.

Additionally, in my opinion, society is thecreation of a broad complex of relation-ships that conform to prevailing politicaland cultural norms. In capitalist democra-cies, those relationships are authoritarian-they are relationships of exploitation. Thecapitalist fantasy trains society and isreproduced within it, constituting theinstitutional framework and basic pillar ofdomination. Consequently, society isn’t asum total of a given people. Rather, it’s areflection of political systems throughinstitutions, values, standards, andbehaviors. As such, viewed from arevolutionary perspective, it must becompletely destroyed to the point wherenothing is left to remind us of what camebefore.

It’s ludicrous to still think that most peoplewho live under Power and exploitation aredeceived and incapable of realizing thecrimes of capitalism and Power. Eachperson’s individual choices determinewhat we are and what position we take inthis world. As revolutionaries, we can’tgenerally ignore the individual responsibili-ties of all those who - whether throughtheir silence and acceptance, their apathyand total indifference, or finally their activeparticipation as law-abiding citizens in theservice of Power - constitute an enor-mous barricade that impedes the storm-ing of the heavens. And while those activeparticipants certainly deserve to betargeted by revolutionary forces whereverthey appear, the others also merit ourdirect, harsh critique regarding theirattitude and the choices they make.

But that critique is not the same thing asthe rupture we make from Domination. Thetwo approaches are not equivalent. Theact of condemning enemy behavior can’tbe considered identical to that of attack-ing the system’s mechanisms andpersonnel. The distance between the twopractices should be distinct.

I am deeply convinced that we are allmirror images of our choices, decisions,and actions. In my opinion, the theory thatour social environment is the basic,fundamental, exclusive axis around whicheach of us forms our personality andcharacteristics constitutes a fatalisticinterpretation of the human condition-asurplus of logic. Such transgressions leadto the arbitrary formulation of “historicaltruths” that appear to be indisputableprophecies (e.g., “society will advancetoward revolution and the destruction ofPower”).

If every issue is personal, and if resolvingthose issues satisfies us as individuals-whether because we determine that it’s inour interest or in accordance with ourcode of values (which pushes us tostruggle, make sacrifices, or even offer upour own lives)-then anarchist revolutionmust certainly be the personal concern ofeach person who aspires to it (keeping inmind that each one who defines them-selves as a revolutionary can’t haveinterests that diverge from, or a code ofvalues contrary to, their revolutionary pointof view).

Therefore, revolution is an existentialstruggle. Existential because we struggleto assert our existence in the face of everypotential enemy of our goals, our aspira-tions, and our selves. In the face ofeverything that oppresses, dominates,and suffocates us. Existential because it’snot a matter of duty or obligation. It’s amatter of the very meaning of our lives: theabsolute negation of the existent.

Each of our individual insurrectionswouldn’t be enough to completelydismantle and destroy prevailing socialrelations and Power’s civilization. Aprerequisite for that taking place would bethe collaboration of individuals on acollective level. In other words, groups ofpeople of conscience who want tocollectivize their negations and conspire totake action against the system.

Revolutionaries don’t just aspire to anexplosion of rage. They want to methodi-cally use their rage against the complex ofdomination-without being a vanguard, butalso without having followers-whileopposing the fetishization of “we aremany” and the persistent attachment tothe opinion that “the multitude is the heartof the revolution and the quantity ofpeople (not their quality) is its soul.”

Often, in order to focus that mass ondiving into the flow of revolutionary history,the social position of the oppressed andexploited is arbitrarily hijacked simplybecause the oppressed and exploited aremany. Their condition is moralized andrevolution is presented as a need that isrighteous and just. Society is thus definedas a victimized social body while the Statebecomes an absolutist abuser.

As a revolutionary individualist, I don’taccept that bipolar orientation. To me,revolution isn’t a battle between good andevil. It’s a struggle between those whoreject the plague of authoritarianism andthose who defend and revere it. I vieweach person of conscience as a revolu-tionary subject as long as they opposetheir chains, love freedom, and hate allauthoritarian pigs. It’s to those revolution-ary subjects that I direct my call tobecome our accomplices in the cause of“revolutionary crime.” Only when morepeople join together, each one as a totallywilling individual on the side of revolutionand anarchy, will a subversive forceappear that is capable of making socialrevolution-in other words, a daringtransformation of political and socialrelationships. Otherwise, the insurrectionsthat break out will continue to be revolu-tionary vanguards, which will never be ableto even nudge the possibility of socialtransformation in an anarchist direction.

I set revolutionary action apart from itscommon interpretation, and I don’t carethe least bit about the opinions ofPower’s subjects. Rebellion will do themsome good, if they ever get around to it. Ifthey don’t realize that, then they will spendtheir entire lives crawling behind educatedspeakers and demagogues who massagetheir egos to make them feel in control. Allthe while, those very lives will be passingthem by without them doing anythingabout it, without them taking any initiativeto act. Our role as revolutionaries isn’t toflatter them, but to rub the naked truth intheir faces. Let them make their owndecisions about their lives. It’s better forus to tread our path without waiting forthem, refusing to accept the blackmail andcompulsions of this society.

The fact that most of my political positionsand views corresponded to the politicalposition and strategy of the RevolutionaryOrganization - Conspiracy of Cells of Firewas the most important factor that droveme to join them, to join a collective thatwas structured anti-hierarchically, withoutdivisions and roles-an anarchist collective.Within the organization, we fostered ourown initiative and self-education in orderto devise actions and forms of strugglewhose framework was the continualevolution of revolutionary thought andpraxis. We had many heated argumentsabout that framework, about how wecould heat things up and become evermore dangerous to our enemies.

The result of these internal processes wasthe continual evolution of Conspiracy ofCells of Fire actions-an evolution thatimmediately posed new challenges, like thequalitative change in the targets of ourattacks, the development of our technicalmethods, and our cooperation with otherconspiratorial groups.

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As has already been said, the Conspiracyof Cells of Fire organization truly at-tempted to determine the necessaryattainable level of development forconspiratorial revolutionary groups. TheConspiracy of Cells of Fire didn’t make theshift to armed struggle in a single day. Itproposed and undertook-openly andpublicly-to heat things up and evolvedifferent levels of revolutionary violence,without having a snobbish or disdainfulattitude toward other forms of directaction. It restricted itself to a guerrillanetwork that could be construed asbroad because the Conspiracy of Cells ofFire considered and still considers allexpressions of revolutionary violence to beurban guerrilla warfare - everything fromwindow-smashing to executions. In thecommuniqué released after the arsons wecarried out on February 11 and 12, 2009,which were dedicated to the unrepentantrevolutionary urban guerrilla DimitrisKoufodinas, we said:

“Urban guerrilla warfare isa perception, a mentality,a means of organizeddirect action. Armedstruggle is one part, butonly when it is free fromdogmatism andfetishization. In addition,the revolutionary potentialof each attack isn’tdetermined by the degreeof violence or the meth-ods used. Rather, themethods are determinedby their effectiveness andthe conscience of thepeople using them. If youwant to destroy a luxurycar dealership, youobviously won’t beshooting at the cars, andif you want to rob a bank,you won’t be going inarmed with a Molotovcocktail.”

During its evolution, the Conspiracy ofCells of Fire went from using incendiarydevices to planting explosives. After onesuch bombing at the Kolonaki home ofLouka Katseli (who is now a governmentminister) on September 23, 2009, thepigs raided an apartment in Halandri.However, it’s important to examine theevents prior to the time period we’retalking about.

After December 2008, an extensivedynamic of direct action developed withinthe revolutionary milieu.

Many people who disrupted the peacefuldays and nights of 2009 - seeing that theuprising was losing its impetus, spiritswere calming, and people were graduallyreturning to their homes- wanted to keepalive and spread the flame of revolt. A

polymorphic subversive discourseaccompanied attacks by guerrilla groups,each of which-for their own reasons andfrom their own viewpoint and perspective-ushered in a fierce new phase of urbanguerrilla warfare. Arson and vandalismwere on the menu, while bombings, armedattacks, and even executions enriched theintensification of violence. It was a mosaicrepresenting the broadly combative andattacking wing of the revolutionary milieu.Naturally, it was only a matter of timebefore the repressive machinery answeredback, and its response signaled thebeginning of the State’s and the police’srevenge. The prestige of those entitieshad been greatly diminished, accentuatingthe esteem and fear they once inspired,but their response was carried by thesame wave as the heightened violencethat preceded it.

The raid on the Halandri apartment wasno ordinary operation. Many werecaptured and some are still in custody,while others took the murky path ofclandestinity. The apartment was pre-sented by the mass media, the snitcheswho serve it, and the pigs from the Anti-Terrorist Unit as a Conspiracy of Cells ofFire safe house. In actuality, it’s the familyhome of my comrade and brother HarisHatzimichelakis, who lived there with hiscousin. His aunt lived on the upper floor.In no way was it a safe house (which thepersecuting authorities know only too wellgiven the dozens of different fingerprintsfound during the search). The apartmentwas intentionally presented that way inorder to blame an entire collection ofpeople from a broad milieu of friends andcomrades that has nothing to do with theRevolutionary Organization - Conspiracyof Cells of Fire. Friends, well-knownindividuals, relatives, as well as peoplewho doubtless participated (and publiclysaid so) in the broad revolutionaryanarchist milieu were targeted andcharged in the context of a generalizedcampaign whose objective was toterrorize anyone possibly connected to mycomrade Hatzimichelakis. The wide rangeof people who found themselves in thecross-hairs of the persecuting authoritiesreflects the State’s zero tolerance ofanyone suspected of negation directedagainst it, which became all too clear afterit put prices on the heads of the threefugitive anarchists known as the “Robbersin Black.” The State’s appeal to itssubjects’ basest, filthiest instincts -snitching and informing - in order to arrestrevolutionaries whose photos it inces-santly shows off reveals the panic that hasseized the repressive organs confrontingthe internal enemy.

But there will come a time when thatgarbage - which views itself as anhonorable, respectable citizenry thatsnitches, collaborates with the authorities,

and contributes to their work withouthesitation (for a cash prize to invest intheir miserable, insignificant existences orfor five minutes of fame to satisfy theirarrogant vanity) - will feel the payback ontheir own skin for the choices they made.They will feel it in the worst possible way.

So the police operation in Halandri hasbunched together, specifically as hos-tages, quite a few people who werearrested after almost every attack by theConspiracy of Cells of Fire organization.This is an attempt by the police to linkmore and more people to the group in aMachiavellian blackmail designed to stopthe group from operating. As a revolution-ary and a member of the Conspiracy ofCells of Fire, I owe it to those beingcharged without having any knowledge of,relationship, involvement, or contact withthe organization, its structure, or itsactivities, to restore the truth in an open,public context. Members of the organiza-tion are the only ones who can openly,publicly, and proudly assume responsibilityfor belonging to it, without calculating thecost they will pay: all those long yearsahead in democracy’s dungeons.

I myself, having a friendly but above all acomradely relationship with HarisHatzimichelakis, was often in contact withhim and spent time at his apartment.Knowing that my fingerprints were all overthat apartment, and realizing that a rangeof criminal charges had been filed as aresult of the pigs’ raid, in no way was Igoing to wait for my turn to come. Goingunderground was an obvious choice forme. I was thereby able to ensure not justthat I would avoid having to negotiate myfreedom in court, but also that I would beable to continue my armed struggle andurban guerrilla activities. Despite mydisappearing on September 23, 2009 -the day of the raid - the warrant for myarrest on charges pertaining to the casewas only issued a short while later. Thatshows the manner and method in whichthe authorities are handling this case. Theygo around drawing names out of a hat asif this were a lottery and then signingarrest warrants after a few minor formali-ties. I’m clearly not going to suggest howthey should correctly fulfill their duties, asthat would entail my asking for the moreefficient criminal prosecution of revolution-aries and those in struggle.

Besides, there’s no question of whetherthe authorities did their jobs well. They didtheir jobs very well, just like they did inother cases in which friends, acquaint-ances, comrades, and relatives ofarrestees were charged by the authoritieson the basis of relationships they mighthave had. The goal of this strategy is toisolate revolutionaries and distance themfrom any relationships they maintain. Thus,anyone who dares come into contact withthem also risks being charged with

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terrorism. While I was a fugitive, I realizedthat as difficult as it may be for a revolu-tionary to be apart from family, friends,and comrades, the project of actually livingwithout a fixed name, address, or job, isnevertheless quite helpful. You becomemore flexible, unpredictable, and danger-ous because you alone are dedicatingyourself solely to your goal and therevolutionary cause, without worryinganymore about the legal ramifications ofyour decisions.

My experience of clandestinity was a sterntest of my psychological endurance. Youmust continually confront your own limits,and you often need to exceed them. Nowthat I know the sensation of being hunted,I feel the need to send my greet-ings to all fugitive comrades,regardless of the reason why eachhas chosen to experience thetrenches of clandestinity. I wishthem better luck than my own.

I also want to say a few thingsabout taking responsibility fordeclaring myself to be a proudmember of the RevolutionaryOrganization - Conspiracy of Cellsof Fire. My attitude isn’t that of aholy martyr. I don’t want to spendmany long years in prison, nor am Ieven flirting with the idea. Myattitude is the result of a coherentpolitical position, stance, andviewpoint on life and struggle.

I feel that the act of taking respon-sibility honors and strengthens theposition, activity, and history of theorganization I am a member of aswell as every other revolutionaryorganization, if their membersadopt the same attitude in similarcircumstances. This politicalstrategy demonstrates that urbanguerrilla groups are not ghoststhat appear out of the void to laterdisappear just as imperceptibly.Rather, they comprise people likeme and many others - flesh-and-bloodpeople with names, who don’t hesitate totake their responsibility when the timecomes, without worrying about theconsequences.

This is how we demolish the legends andfantasies that have surrounded armedgroups for so long, legends based onnonsense about “agents provocateurs.”We demolish the similarly foolish andbaseless arguments used by the Left, loyalto the regime, that all guerrillas are agentsprovocateurs. At the same time, the act ofrevolutionary urban guerrillas claiming theirmembership shows that such options ofstruggle are chosen by people who, asrevolutionaries, simply do not waver whenit comes to risking everything for freedom.Because what’s at stake is even greater.When the masks of anonymity fall, it

becomes clear that these options can beappropriated by everyone expressingthemselves as revolutionaries andnegators of the existent. Everything else isnothing more than feeble excuses (madein hindsight) that promote revolutionary“inertia.”

Finally, the act of claiming membershipleaves behind a wealth of experience andcreates points of engagement with pastand future elements that make up therevolutionary movement. There arecomrades just like me who are inspired bythe unyielding, proud attitude of prisonersof the revolutionary guerrilla war, and theyaspire to eventually play a larger role in theintensification of that war.

In this era, the capitalist system is againfacing another of its functional crises,which has to do with-what else? - theeconomy. But instead of reinforcingcollective solidarity, resistance, andrebellion in opposition to the system,phenomena like discord, deregulation, andconservatism are being further cemented.Despite it becoming more and moreobvious that access to everything thesystem so generously promised is nolonger expedient, free-market mythologyhas nevertheless been rooted in sociallife’s prevailing consciences, relationships,and behaviors for years. Capitalism is stillbreathing through society’s lungs, whilethe culture of social Darwinism is now sowell-consolidated that it has become themain ideology bubbling just below thesurface. However, the system is alwayschanging. The flexibility with which it

assimilates and incorporates the changesit causes is the commitment to itsperpetuity. The economic crisis, as aconsequence of the system itself, arrivedlike a Christmas bonus-not for the scumthat run our lives, but for those who werenourished for so long on the hopes theywere being fed and for those who werekeeping up a fantasy lifestyle, deliberatelyignoring and avoiding any kind of rupturefrom domination. Now that the veil of theso-called free market is falling, their onlyreward for years of subjugation andvoluntary slavery is to be tossed into thedustbin of history. Isn’t anyone gettingangry? Capitalism again dons its ironmask. The mythology is bleached out andthe hopes become images of a nightmare

future. Yet even now, when theeconomic dictatorship is baring itssharpest teeth, there are still callsfor “voting with your wallet.” Anentire generation on the streetsinsists on protesting for theirsalaries, pensions, and benefitswhen the most precious thing theyhave stolen from us is our freedomand dignity. And even though theconcessions that are now beingtaken away were conquered afterwild social conflict (in which themost radical elements also tookpart), they ultimately wound up justbeing agreements that choked us,ensuring social peace and balance.

Therefore, if history teaches usanything, it’s to leave behind thebegging for handouts that thebosses perhaps push us toward,and instead take a combativeposition to break our chains andtake revenge against every authori-tarian pig. May we once and for allleave behind the negotiations overthe terms of our own slavery andinstead assemble a firing squadthat will take aim at all those whomade the decision to dominate us.

May we take advantage of the crisis as anunsettling, destabilizing factor thatcontributes to the system’s mutation.Such variables can be fertile ground forthe actions of revolutionary forces whosegoal is to spread dissidence and hatred ofthe existent, sowing terror among thepowerful and their subjects. Revolution isviolent, harsh, and blood-soaked. It is fireand battle-axes. It is pain-pain for ourfriends, brothers, and sisters, but alsopain for our enemies. It is vengeance forthe life they have forced on us. It is a warin which many will be lost and many otherswill take their place.

I think it is our obligation, our duty asrevolutionaries, to once again bring aboutrevolutionary terrorism. To scatter andspread fear and terror in the enemy’sranks, lashing out at its infrastructure andexterminating all the scum who have

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crucial positions or ranks within thesystem. To give back a bit of the terrorthey invoke for us day after day with theirprisons and courts, their mass media andthe spectacle it offers, their security forcesand their society of control and surveil-lance-a bleak, persistent terror, asimminent as the sword of Damocleshanging over the heads of those profes-sional terrorists of Power and capitalism.

We have a duty to become agents of thatterror, agents who operate conspiratori-ally, and our tools will be all manner ofweapons, from dynamite to the bulletsthat will rip into the heads of our enemies.

We will play the role of demolition workersand prepare the final ruin of this rottenworld we live in. And if it so happens thatwe aren’t able to experience that destruc-tion and see it with our own eyes, we willpass away knowing we did what we couldand we never lowered our heads.

You as judges and prosecutors are fromthe privileged class, which is a referenceto the share of terror you will receivebecause you have had a dominantposition within the system for so manyyears, inflicting your terror contained in thepages of the prosecuting indictments thatsentence who knows how many people tothose garbage dumps for the human spirityou call prisons. You, who so comfortablytalk about sentences and punishmentsthat devastate people, calm and com-posed as if it were a natural everydayactivity. We have your names written andbullet-pointed on the lists of our enemies.Sooner or later we will also write judicialindictments, and they will be written withyour own blood.

We will at least have mercy and not makeyou feel the same horror you havesentenced so many people to.

One at a time, that’s how we’ll put an endto each one of you. You filthy maggots,you servants of the most abominableclass ever engendered by Power tolegitimize its crimes and wash its hands ofunpleasantness: prepare yourselves to liveyour entire lives on the alert. Prepareyourselves to meet the long arm ofrevolutionary justice.

As for myself, I fear nothing from you.

I knew and know the consequences of mydecisions and the path I chose to follow.

I am not alone on that path.

Many people are now rejecting yourcivilization and your system, devising theirconspiratorial plans for future attacks, justlike others did a long time before me. I’mnot the least bit concerned about thebasis for your charges, nor am I con-cerned about the sentence you’re goingto inflict on me. Revolutionaries don’tworry or care about such things. As for

the matter of which Conspiracy of Cells ofFire actions I took part in and which Ididn’t, you’ll never learn that from me.

Comrades, facing us is the obligation tocultivate the terrain and create thepreconditions that will bring us to asituation in which we won’t retreat orstray from the path, because we won’t beable to.

And may the word“vengeance” be writteneverywhere, because it isvengeance that we willtake for our brothers andsisters-for the captivityand torture they havesuffered, for all themurders committed byPower.

And may the flame thatburns inside us burneverything around us.

We will not be at peaceuntil our blades aredulled and drenched inthe blood of our enemies,and the squares are filledwith piles of their heads.

NOT A SINGLE STEP BACK.

WAR UNTIL THE END.

REVOLUTION FIRST AND FOREVER.

LONG LIVE THE INFORMAL ANAR-CHIST FEDERATION.

LONG LIVE THE INTERNATIONALREVOLUTIONARY FRONT.

LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTIONARYORGANIZATION - CONSPIRACY OFCELLS OF FIRE.

The warmest of greetings to all who-wherever you are, in whatever cornerof the world-make the revolutionarycause your most important priority,whether inside or outside prison.

From behind bars, I raise my fist as apledge of struggle.

a yi ti Ar yr ua o s g oa ayiotis ArgyrouPanayiotis ArgyrouPanayiotis Argyrou

Proud member of the RevolutionaryOrganization - Conspiracy of Cells of Fire

CELLS OF FIRE AREOUR SOULS

Every revolutionary human is a cell offire. A special individuality that fights

for its freedom.In a world where alienated social

relations dominate, every idea andaction that aims at the overthrowing ofthe economic-political system and the

social restructure, shows the path ofresistance and counter-attack.

Lets collectivize our desires for a worldwithout social and economic

inequality.

For a world that will be based onsolidarity and cooperation and not on

competition and authority relationsand structures.

Lets take our lives in our own hands.

The social revolution is possible.

THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLECONTINUES…

Freedom to all political prisoners

Anarchist Steki UTOPIA A.D.Utopia-ad.org mail: utopia_ad@riseup.net

Translated by bourboras/actforfreedomnow!

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From the special court martial ofKorydallos prisons

21/6 (Athens-Greece)

Political statement ofPanayiotis Masouras

To start, I want to make it clear toeveryone that today I stand in the dockas a political enemy of the regime incaptivity and not as a criminal. Crime isa privilege of those who break the lawlegally. Given this situation therefore, Ideclare that I do not intend to plea.

I do not plea because a fighter, whenconfronted with the judicial mechanism,in no way could present an apologeticcharacter. The term ‘plea’ carries themeaning of repentance. I do not regretthe fact that I am a revolutionary.Making therefore a well-aimed, but alsopolitically correct replacement of theterm ‘plea’ I will use that of a politicalstatement.

To begin, I will say a few words aboutthe stance I kept during the trial [the so-called ‘Halandri’ trial]. Makingtherefore a small retrospection of therecent past in the context of thispolitical trial, we will realize that themeasures that had been taken in orderto carry out this procedure werenothing more than an effort to isolatethe political prisoners, and also a clearmessage of polemics to the value ofbidirectional solidarity.

The powers attempted to overwhelmtheir anti-regime enemies. They tried tocrush us morally, politically, substan-tially. This plan had to be blocked.Whether they accomplished it, under

what conditions and with which terms issomething that remains to be judged,using political education and con-sciousness as a tool. The result of themove is known, and the conclusionsbelong also to those who watched it.For someone to claim that your strategyis based on repression and fear iscertainly a point of view which howeverstill floats as a cork on the surface ofrevolutionary conscience. What Irealized is that beyond fear and repres-sion there is also choice.

If we take a closer look and attempt ashort retrospection of the history of thesubversive movement in the Westerncountries during the period of the ’60s -’80s, we will realize that the strategythat you have applied in your courtmartial does not really comprise sometype of innovation in the sector ofrepressive policy.

Therefore today we experience condi-tions familiar to those in post-war Italy,federal Germany, post-Franco Spain,France, Greece - where anything takingplace before 1974* was called resistancewhile later renamed terrorism. Then, theanti-regime enemies that were perse-cuted for participation in armed revolu-tionary organizations, but also for awider range of subversive practices,experienced and suffered identicalregimes of isolation and repression.Thus, these were the times where wewould find the registering and retainingof the ID cards of those who wished toattend political trials. It was then thatoccasionally the presence of someonein a court room was used as evidence ofguilt, activating laws of emergency and

leading to prosecutions taking the formof a pogrom. It was then that judgesindiscriminately removed the public andoccasionally the accused from thecourt-rooms. It was then that theCarabinieri (Italian miltary police),the units of B.K.A.(German FederalPolice) and the Guardia Civil (SpanishCivil Guard), flooded the perimeter ofthe court rooms armed to the teeth andwere present in the detention roomswhere the accused (whenever and ifthey had a possibility) communicatedwith their advocates and those close tothem. It was these times where, asevident from the presentation of theproceedings, trials were carried outwithout spectators, lawyers or even theaccused. It is then we will also comeacross trials and sentences in absence.Then, as well as now, the conclusionsremain the same. Such trials have apredicted result, since the judicial power- acting for superior political figures,serving the interests of internationaland national capital but also the internalcondition of legal order and safety -factually shows that the judicial bodyas an extension of the protection of theeconomic and political elite simplyholds the role of a decorative puppet.Such court sessions therefore, simplyconstitute a public ratification of apolitical decision which has been takenbeforehand. A sentence already cut tomeasure.

Within this condition therefore some ofus attempted to build a barricade ofrefusal and negation in practice againstthe policy of isolation andmarginalisation. We placed our wordand our practice, against the positionsof the judicial mechanism and not only.To the well-sharpened razor of blackmailwe chose not to turn the other cheekbut to also answer with a razor. It is apractice that leaves, I think, an impor-tant but also essential legacy in thehistory of the revolutionary community,a legacy which, as it is a common one, isplaced for evaluation, is exposed tocriticism, is susceptible to self-criticismand why not, enrichment and develop-ment. I hope this action of strugglecontributed in its way in an attemptedrecording of history with anotherlanguage, that of refusal, with anotherstance, that of dispute in practice.Maybe there was no way we could win,maybe defeat was a given from the startas has been mentioned in a publicizedopinion. I will answer with the words ofa Red Brigade member who said thatsuch perceptions belong to those whobelieve in the weeping Virgin Mary. Tolook again therefore at history with

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these terms as irreversible and acceptable,meaning that we accept them in theirtotality preventing at the same time thetransmission of new political positions,perceptions and practices.

Continuing therefore, I must admit that theexpiry of the 18month pre-trial detentionperiod and consequently my release hit mequick. So, with the new facts that dictatemy presence in this room I must clarifycertain things. Attending therefore free,under conditions, this court-room, I do notwant to give you the impression that I amhere to caress your ears with words ofrepent and tearful evasions and explana-tions. It would be a wrong estimation onyour side to think that today I came up tothe dock in order to rectify or to claimlenience or humanitarian sympathy. WhatI want to claim from my political stance isthe creation of a new proposal, a newperception, an answer which will createspaces of anti-authority independently ofwhether they are inside or outside theprison walls, contributing thus to high-lighting the necessity for the uncompro-mising waging of the subversive struggle.I also honor therefore, the daring andunselfishness that characterizes thecomrades who are right now in prison andwho deny to present themselves in frontof you, thus spitting with political sobrietyand courage your blackmail back in yourfaces. Because the propagation of theword and practice of a revolutionaryconscience could never be exhaustedsolely in a court-room.

You deny therefore, admitting that we,although surely not all, are politicalenemies of the regime in captivity or areinside a special hostage regime. You denyjudging us as political opponents eventhough you judge with anti-terrorist lawsthat persecute political “crimes”. Youjudge us in a court martial that resemblesmore of a pigsty then a court room, fromthe asphyxiating presence of those actingfor the legislative and judicial power. I amtherefore guilty before your verdict isheard. Guilty because I am not peaceful,because I am not a slave, because I didnot bow my head, because I do not acceptsocial segregation, because I am a personand as a person I also have dignity. Guiltybecause I carry another proposal for life,another thirst for a different discovery.

You deny the political motives and criteria,attempting to entrench an alternativeproposal, a political proposal, which ifbecame acceptable as such, then yourown political system would come to thefinal form of self-refutation, accepting thatyour democracy is not perfect in regardsto culture, relationships, political educa-tion. Therefore, if you recognized our

position, the absolute knowledge andtruth of your neo-liberal policy wouldcollapse. Here are defendants that donot accept their role as such, but as theaccuser. People that do not accept thedialogue between revolution andcounter-revolution. Your values, yourideals as guardians of social peace andlegal order are not respected by theanarchists. I refuse to give any explana-tion to you, I take a position of rupture,so that between us the rudimentarychannel of communication can beclosed. You, therefore from the positionyou have, are in the advantage topractice permanent criticism and toproduce dispute. In 1929 communistRakoczy asked his judges: Who areyou? What do you represent? What isthe historical reason of your existence?If I attempted today a posthumousdialogue, I would say that you are agang of self-appointed executionerswho function as a wall of protection forthe political and economical elite, thatyou represent and guarantee, alwaysguarding the sick norms of capitalism inthe lives of people, as you representalso the sold-out consciences ofsubjugated and weak-minded socialbeings. That the historical reason ofyour existence is no other than forburying revolutionaries in cement andsteel, to drown in the spirit of terror andrepression any anti-conventional,subversive social outburst, massacringevery breath that is not synchronizedwith the majorities social death rattle.

If we turn back the clock we will see thestandard tactic of extermination andisolation of political prisoners on aninternational level. Imprisonments,executions, attacks on revolutionaries,on the structures of subversion and thehotbeds of resistance around the worldare basic conditions for the existence ofcapitalist countries. The aim is to crushthe global front of the revolution thatworks continuously for subversion. Thepolicy of isolation and the internation-alization of capitalist repression areprompted with all means. With theinflexible line of imperialistic sover-eignty, with the international co-ordination of military units, the upgradeof power in the secret services of thepolice, from the technocratic education,from the brainwash via the media,religion, family, from the amputation ofthe conscience in school cells, theblackmail of wage slavery, the massimprisonments and prosecutions ofpeople in struggle. When someonespeaks of exterminating conditions ofimprisonment and murders of revolu-tionaries, the night of death in Stuttgartin the high security prisons of

Stammheim comes to mind, when fightersof the Red Army Faction (R.A.F) werefound shot, stabbed and hanging in theircells. Stammheim therefore is not only inGermany. Stammheims unfold everywherein the world. From Turkey with their F-type cells where the political prisonersdropped dead one after the other duringtheir transfers and where in the revoltsand in the struggles that they carried outin order to abolish this prison regime, 122of them were murdered. From the FIESregime in Spain where it is indicative thatcertain cement graves such as El Dueso,Okania 1, Puerto de Santa Maria and Ererade La Mancha were called by the prison-ers - nests of torture, madness andextermination. From the prisons of isola-tion in Voghera, Rebibbia and the exileisland for the Red Brigades in Asinara,Italy, was indicative of the conditions ofhospitality that were saved for politicalprisoners. And from there to Germanywhere some hellholes such as Ossendorfin Cologne and the prisoners of Hamburgwere left at the mercy of psychiatricresearchers under the name SFB 115(Special Field of Research) under themonitoring of the main torturer psychia-trist Gian Kros and with the financing ofthe USA. From there to the special prisonsin France to the H blocks for the IRA andfor the INLA in England, to the under-ground dungeons of Latin America. Andtravelling again back to Greece we willmeet the white cells where they hold theRevolutionary Organisation - 17 Novem-ber and the special regime of imprison-ment and isolation of the political prison-ers.

In order for revolutionaries to not forgettheir position, they should never forgetthe continuous, relentless and first of all,just war. They answer blackmail withdetermination, action, integrity. Theyanswer persecution and imprisonmentwith a grin and with a heart made of icethat holds thousands of promises, propos-als for life and struggle. They answerrepression, assimilation, alienated life, thecharging of capitalism with struggle;Tough, continuous, subversive struggle.

It would be cheap of me to follow the falsedilemma of innocence or guilt. Eventhough you know that you do not haveany evidence against me. I am therefore asguilty as the practice of revolutionarydispute is in the eyes of the subversivemovement and those in struggle. Whatyou are missing is that by imprisoning andexecuting the revolutionaries, you cannotimprison and execute the revolution itself.This constitutes one of the convenientdelusions of your mechanisms of powerand your perceptions. You do not compre-hend that even though you have buried

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us alive, you forgot to steal the sky, whichawaits our own storming. You believedthat by sending armed EKAM (SpecialForces) to smash our heads with theirgun-stocks and scatter us to prisons, thatyou would manage to take from us themost precious things we have, the faith inideas, values, the struggle. With surplusnaivety you believed that our kneeswould love the floors of cells, corridors,isolation cells and the courtyards of everyprison. Now, two years later I present toyou the results. You are not holding as aflag my political and moral defeat, only apile of papers that is unable to imprisonmy soul.

I am not here to appear likeable in theeyes of any judge or public prosecutor. Iam here as a political subject whoseconscience compels him to give his pointof view for the order of things. This iswhy I stand uncompromising.

What is of greater importance today is ourintegrity as people in struggle, rather thanthe result. It is the boldness and pride thatare tested daily in the various types ofgalleys of this totalitarian regime; whetherthese are called prisons, work spaces,conventions; dead ideologies, falsedilemmas.

The possibility therefore of being sen-tenced because I am not watching mylanguage is not enough to deter me fromstanding proudly for my quality as aperson. I don’t make discounts in mythought and my speech even though Iknow that I could be tried informally withlaw 509 from 1947. The only difference isthat I am not propagating communism butanarchy.

For some people, the struggle is like aprecious flower but in order for someoneto acquire it they must walk and standstraight on the edge of the cliff; for thosewho have walked on the edge or for thosewho approached it, the establishmentreserves a unique scale of confrontation.All those who fight or those who areready to fight, already know or will realizealong the way that the State chases itsenemies like a rabid dog. There can be nodelusions on this.

It wouldn’t be a mistake for someone toadmit that in periods of elation of theradical-subversive struggle, authorityanswers with a combination of slanderingand repression of those who resist. In thisdeterministic frame, prison is and shouldbe considered as an extremely likelyoutcome.

The current Greek experience has con-firmed it in the most defining way. The

regime today, more than ever, is deter-mined on annihilating the internalenemy. Dozens of imprisonments offighters with non-existent evidence,[fabricated] D.N.A. samples, finger-prints in houses or portable objects,penalization of friendly and comraderelations, many comrades in illegality (apeculiar hostage regime). The terror-laws are always being upgraded in orderto target anyone, they create a climateso that they can exterminate those instruggle and intimidate anyone who canpotentially stand against the aims of theregime disturbing thus the order andsocial peace. Thus everyone whoattacks the existent is called upon tocontemplate on all they have to face,and also their likely captivity in themodern dungeons of democracy.

Maybe some indeed believed or evencontinue to believe, that throwing us inthe dungeons will make us regret thatwe want a different society. A worldwithout states, exploitation and vio-lence. Maybe they think that theircorrectional policy, that is staffed by thedisciplinary extension that is called ascrew, is capable of making the valor ofa person in struggle to recede bylocking us up in the disciplinary cells.

According to the regime, the prisons arepresented as the institution that iscalled to re-establish and reform thesocial, the cancer that constitutes theirinterior.

The disciplinary and repressive struc-tures of the modern crematoriums, seekto isolate the individual from any socialcontinuation; mental, intellectual,physical, psychological isolation. It isthis space that maintains and external-izes the misprint of human kind. And werevolutionaries by being there live in amausoleum, in a world of the dead andthe existentially alienated. This is themorbid micrograph of your moderntotalitarian regimes. It is this micrographthat reflects with clarity the cannibalismof capitalism in its supreme, condensedform. It is in this microcosm that thehuman existence understands easier thequality of the mass viewpoints of thesociety in which it is integrated.Snitching, selfishness, the plague ofdrugs, the conventions of pettybourgeois logic, enslavement, and alsothe economic, intellectual and politicalwretchedness, are nothing more thanthe face of society itself, where aliena-tion and exploitation carve its cheekswith a razor, reminding us that theethical cancer that it carries, should bedestroyed. This is the picture that ispromoted by your systemic norms and

is realized by your so-called correctionalpolicy, which basically aims to capture thestruggle of people against authority.

Prisons however do not only exist behindtall walls and dead areas. They are in-stalled in the institution of family, ineducation, in interpersonal relationships,in the army, in the flashy but always fakesmiles that the people around you giveyou. Prisons are installed in religion, inresignation, in passive acceptance. Allthese social clusters of the disciplinarymechanism represents our stolen lives, thelack of freedom, oppression and theexploitation that each person suffers.

Prisons are not only at distant locationsbut live and exist inside us.

Therefore I, an outlaw of the regime, amjudged today by those par excellencelegally illegal and the modern collabora-tors

The reason I am here today is a result ofthe logic of the regime. Therefore thepolitical spectrum takes an autisticapproach, holding to the idea that thedemocratic regime is the ideal highestpoint of a civilization and that this couldnever be disputed. The regime is underillusions that it can possess the monopolyof violence in the society of people. Whentherefore some come to bring them downto earth in the field of reality with thetheory and action of refusal, the stateattempts to repress and assimilate them.That I did not hide my ideas under the rugof incarceration is surely something thatyou do not like.

Even if in the beginning they threw me inprison because of political pressures andintentions, it was a given after that that if Itook the role of the good prisoner andcollaborative arrestee, the probabilities ofme being out in society earlier once againwould obviously be better. You did notachieve my political defeat. Your repres-sive structures turn to rubble when theyattempt to assimilate revolutionaries.

The position of a revolutionary fromwithin prison should be considered anadditional launch pad for attack. Accord-ing to the above therefore, I published anumber of political letters, overlooking thefact that I would worsen my position,since the non-existence of evidenceincriminating me is clear to me, and I wasindifferent to the consequences, because Iowed it to the comrades and to thestruggle to hold high the flag of thetenacious political position, even in theseconditions. I considered and I considertherefore that my means of escape from acaptivity that is characterized by venge-

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ance and non-existence of proof is notthe logic of hiding my political positionsin order to get a more lenient treatment.On the contrary, my position is next tothose with whom we share the sameintense concerns and reflections, nextto every insurrectional individuality thatknows to dare.

I will not allow them to present me as avictim of the DAEEB (Directorate ofSpecial Crimes of Violence). And I donot allow it because a revolutionarycould never be a victim. Because afighter is always a prospective winner.

If someone today is looking for victims,they should look at the alienated socialcluster that is a prisoner in its majorityof the petty bourgeois conventions thatthe establishment produces, but also ofthose who have raised submission andfear to be their moral code. I couldinvoke my innocence and thus give afake essence to the direction of mypolitical statement. I will not tiptoe onsuch false dilemmas.

Innocence and guilt, given the fluiditythat characterizes them as meanings,when they are divided between twoworlds, are primarily variables.

Surely therefore there is no room fordelusions that this special court roomconstitutes the judicial firing squadagainst free people.

The regime and petty bourgeois calls inthe form of a Gospel reach our ears intheir thousands. Look after yourself,defend your money, love your god, fallfor your homeland, work, consume, livejust like another number and die.

I do not fight for and I do not love anyof the above. I do not behave as anumber but as a sum of my choices.Here lays the crucial difference betweenus.

I am not hear today in order to I provemy “innocence”, but for the judicial andanti-terrorist mechanism to prove my“guilt”.

It is not difficult for one to see that your“democratic” regime does not pale infront of the past and present of thetotalitarian regimes around the world.Whoever does not compromise and isnot assimilated, is repressed andexterminated.

For you therefore I should become anactive citizen, who via his vote willselect his next oppressor. A good

christian who will pay his faith, with hiscoins in the box of your god. A proudGreek that will be enlisted and if neededwill fall heroically for the homelandvindicating thus your economic andnational interests.

Because therefore I do not have anoppressor on my back, neither a godand a homeland, because I did not walkwith the dominant social morals, I wasnot subjugated and I did not bend, I amthe perfect model that you call aterrorist. If my values and principles dorequire a cracking down on, with pride Ideclare myself a “terrorist” overlookingwhatever cost.

If you are waiting therefore for me tomake a statement of sincere repentancebecause I live with dignity, you musthave the patience of Sisyphus, becauseI do not regret my ideas. I will not allowthe propaganda of the regime and thecannibalism of the media to continueclassifying us as full-time criminals. Iwon’t allow those who legally commitcrimes against the population to thinkthat they have the right to try us, judgeus and ask us to apologize.

If someone can judge us this is only thememory of comrades in the event thatwe do not stand to the height of theoccasion and worthy of the expecta-tions and requirements of the struggle.If someone can judge us, this is our-selves. We on our side, if we continuewith courage to live against our era, themoment of total subversion will appearin front of us.

If some-one should be held account-able, these are the same people thatstaff the authoritarian mechanism of thistotalitarian regime. The revolutionariesare the only ones that will not apologizetoday.

In conclusion, I face my enemy withcourage and sobriety. Looking at you Irecognize the executioners of freedom,the persecutors of the negators ofcapitalism and authority, the torturers ofdignity and the inquisitors of revolu-tionary conscience and the prospect ofa post-revolutionary free society.Looking at you I become an accuserand I judge you guilty of the utmosttreason against all people who are freeand in struggle.

Long live the Revolution. Long live theRadical - Subversive struggle.

n i i a M sPanayiotis Masouras

Athens: Prisoners’mutiny in Korydallosmen’s prisons in soli-darity with two mem-bers of the R.O. CCF

On Tuesday, September 13th, 275inmates in the 1st wing of Korydallosmen’s prisons refused to enter the prisoncells in solidarity with two imprisonedmembers of the anarchist revolutionaryorganization Conspiracy of Cells of Fire,namely Gerasimos Tsakalos andPanagiotis Argyrou who were transferredto Domokos prisons yesterday, September12th.

Both refused to comply with the psychologi-cal torture of forcible full body search, andwere attacked by warden Christos Kliarisand a group of the prison guards’ staff. Thetwo political prisoners resisted the jailers’blatant attack and threats, demonstratingthat not all inmates remain apathetic toprison humiliating procedures and authori-ties.

The communiqué is co-signed by a total of275 inmates who decided to remainoutside the prison cells for three hoursduring midday. They dedicate their action toGerasimos Tsakalos, Panagiotis Argirouand all prisoners that struggle for theirdignity and have suffered tortures.

NEITHER CRIMINAL NORPOLITICAL PRISONERS

SET FIRE TO ALL PRISONS

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After the end of his political statement,the chairman of the court addressed P.Masouras asking him if he intends toanswer the questions of the court,receiving the answer: “I clarified fromthe beginning that I am making apolitical statement and I am notapologizing, therefore obviously thereis no room for conversation betweenus.”

(* Date of the so-called end of theGreek military dictatorship.)

To our sisters and brothers of FAI /International Revolutionary Front, acontribution to discussing communication,organization and armed struggle at thedawn of a new era.

Do not say that we are fewAnd that the challenge is too big for usWould you say that two or three patches of cloudsAre little thing in a corner of a summer sky?In a moment they spread everywhere…Lightening then flashes, thunders crashesAnd rain falls all over.Do not say that we are fewJust say that we are.Lee Kwang Su

By this piece of writing we, the comrades of ‘FAI/ Artisans Cooperative of Fire And Similar(occasionally spectacular) / InternationalRevolutionary Front’ and of ‘FAI / 20th JulyBrigade / International RevolutionaryFront’ claim the parcel bombs of March 2011,which caused lieutenant Alessandro Albamonte ofFolgore [division of the Italian army] to be seriouslyinjured; the parcel bomb that slightly injured twoemployees of Swissnuclear; and the parcel bombsent to the Koridallos prison [in Athens, Greece], insolidarity with our sisters and brothers of theConspiracy of Cells of Fire / FAI / Interna-tional Revolutionary Front. This piece ofwriting comes after a meeting called by the

comrades of ‘FAI / Sisters in Arms of theMauricio Morales Nucleus / InternationalRevolutionary Front’.

Recently, in the major cities overlooking the coastsof the Mediterranean sea, the streets are animatedby more and more passionate protests and demosby the oppressed who are no longer keen to sufferthe oppression of dominion: from Greece to Tunisia,from Spain to Libya, the fuse continues to burn. Wemet in one of these streets and decided to deepenthe debate on what is going on in the environmentof insurrectionist anarchism. A dissenting voice washeard in the general optimism of the comradeswho see diverse and new hotbeds of struggleemerging in a vital international and informalcontext. The voice was that of a comrade of the‘Sisters in Arms of the Mauricio MoralesNucleus’ who pointed out in anger how thecommuniqués claiming the above mentionedactions had been censured. They were 12 claimsaddressed by ordinary post to various realities ofthe anarchist movement in Italian language.None of them was published, so a vital communica-tion for the international growth of the informaldebate was impeded. Today we know that thiscensorship is just the desperate reaction of an oldanarchism infected with the bureaucracy ofmeetings and with the obsession of the struggle insociety, which partial struggles have transformedinto stupidity.

A new insurrectionalism is being born from theashes of the old and glorious individualist anar-chism. As our sisters had written in their claim thatnever arrived: ‘for the first time in history aninformal organization, a federation of informalgroups on a worldly level, becomes flesh bybleeding and drawing blood’. The informalorganization is no longer abstract fantasy, asoliloquy in the mouth of a bunch of comradesmore or less cultivated, more or less sincere. Inthese last years, in different parts of the world thenew nihilists stirred worries to the States and fearand hostility to the official part of the anarchistmovement. The new anarchism will make itsstrength out of destructive imagination, and it willreinforce its coherence in action.

Many things have happened since we launched theproposal for an ‘Informal Anarchist Federa-tion’. Today, thanks to the sisters and brothers ofthe ‘Conspiracy of Cells of Fire’, who have re-launched it, the ‘FAI / International Revolu-tionary Front’, the ‘FAI / Global Network’,the ‘International Network of Action andSolidarity’, the ‘Informal Anarchist Federa-tion - Global Network’ has become reality withtheir one thousand names. A reality that needs togrow up especially now through the instrument ofinformal organization on a worldly level and thanksto a federation of action groups. Dozens and dozensof cells, nuclei, movements, individual comrades,united by a clear and strong horizontal andwidespread pact of mutual aid, wage war on theexistent in a chaotic and destructive way.

In Greece: - Conspiracy of Cells of Fire / FAI / InternationalRevolutionary Front - International Revolutionary Front / Conspiracy ofCells of Fire / Revolutionary Groups for theSpreading of Terror - Nucleus of vandals. - International Revolutionary Front / TerroristComplicity Warriors of the Abyss Severino DiGiovanni Commando - International Revolutionary Front / DeviantBehaviours for the Spreading of RevolutionaryTerrorism / Cell of Anarchist Action - Cell of Revolutionary Solidarity - FAI - Anarchist Revolutionary Front / DeviantBehaviours for the Spreading of RevolutionaryTerrorism / Cell of Reflective Attack - FAI / Cell of Aggressive Conscience - International Revolutionary Front / Conspiracy ofCells of Fire / Revolutionary Groups for theSpreading of Terror / Cell Abnormal - Heretics

In Indonesia: - FAI Informal Anarchist Federation, IndonesiaSection

In Mexico:The two souls of Mexican insurrectionism (ALF -

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ELF) and the Autonomous Cells for immediateRevolution - Praxedis G: Guerriero - Informal Anarchist Federation / Acrata - Earth Liberation Front (ELF) / InternationalNetwork of Action and Solidarity - Anti-CivilizationInformal Group - Earth Liberation Front (ELF) / InformalAnarchist Federation - International Network - Insurrectional Cell Sole-Baleno of theAutonomous Cells for immediate Revolution –Praxedis G.Guerrero / FAI - Commando of Free, Dangerous, Wild andIncendiary Individuals for the Black Plague / FAI /International Network - Luddites Against the Domestication of WildNature / FAI / International Network - Eco-Anarchist Cell for the Direct Attack / FAI /International Network - Revolutionary Action Brigade for Propaganda bythe Deed and Armed Action – Simon Radowisky /FAI / International Network

In Chile: - Internationary Revolutionary Front /International Revolutionary Front / InsurrectionalCommando Aracely Romo - Commando 8th of December InternationalCordination FAI

In Russia: - ELF Russia Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI) /International Network of Action and Solidarity /International Revolutionary Front

In Peru: - Circle of Iconoclastic Action / FAI

In the Netherlands: - Conspiracy of Cells of Fire - Dutch Cell

In England: - International Informal Anarchist Federation / FAI

In Italy: - FAI / Artisans Cooperative of Fire and Similar(occasionally spectacular) / InternationalRevolutionary Front - FAI / 20th July Brigade / InternationalRevolutionary Front - FAI / Sisters in Arms of the Mauricio MoralesNucleus / International Revolutionary Front - FAI / Revolutionary Cell Lambros Foundas - FAI / International Solidarity - FAI / Animal Revolt - FAI / Revolutionary Nucleus Horst Fantazzini - FAI / Cells Against Capita Prison and its Jailersand its Cells - FAI / Armed Cells for International Solidarity - FAI / Anonymous Terrible Revolt (RAT) - FAI / Metropolitan Cells - FAI / Narodnaja Vojla

It’s 10 years now that we have been trying with

perseverance to make this organisational projectconcrete, although within our limits. Of course ourgrowth will not be linear and progressive, there willbe ups and downs, long and short periods wheneverything will be silent and then it will start againstronger than ever in some country we wouldn’timagine. Through their will and strength, eachgroup and individual will give their contribution toaction and communication by helping all the othersto fix more precise targets.

Repression has already struck hard in Greece. Oursisters and brothers of the ‘Cells of Fire’continue to struggle from within the walls of prisonand to contribute to this organisational assessmentthrough their writing, in an excellent way. We areone single thing without knowing one another, inour diversities we are the hand that will break thechains. At first revolutionary solidarity will bond usthrough what some anarchists stupidly define‘fictitious movement’, as they can’t understand it isexactly in solidarity that any revolutionary projectdefines itself.

In the course of our history, we of the Italian FAIhave always acted without the mediation of ‘social’struggles, such as those against FIES [extremeisolation units in Spanish prisons, used to cageanarchist prisoners and other ‘uncontrollables’ oragainst CIE [immigration detention centres], andwe have never put ourselves in an above-to belowdemagogic position. We have always acted asindividuals without wanting to indoctrinate anybody.We destroy what destroys us, and what doesn’t killus strengthens us.

The only limits we put to our action are of ethicalnature. We have made a choice with our action inthis world of included and excluded. We are notinterested in a society divided in classes, we don’twant any dictatorship of a class over another, wewant anarchy! Millions of microcosms where eachindividual can experiment themselves freely.Something very similar to what we experimentthrough action every day by elaborating the bestway of organizing ourselves without renouncing ourindividual freedom. It is exciting to grow in thisorganisational experience along with sisters andbrothers we’ve never seen and probably will neversee. It is exciting that individuals who don’t knowone another come to the same conclusions in agiven moment in history.

We don’t know how the FAI / InternationalRevolutionary Front will evolve, possibilities areenormous and cannot be foreseen. It couldextinguish all of a sudden or grow exponentially.Our growth will be mainly qualitative, a growthderiving exactly from the unimaginablepotentialities of the informal organization. It willtake long before the FAI / InternationalRevolutionary Front gives the best of itself, before

the informal organization creates real problems tothe status quo. The anarchist war of resistancestarted more than a century ago. With its gloriousmoments: the Paris Commune, the epoch of thepropaganda by the deeds, the epoch of the bigrevolutions; and with its less glorious moments:unionism, non-violence, libertarian municipalism,everything we call compromise.

Our trajectory will be long and characterized by acontinuous communication through action.Communication is the cornerstone of all ourinformal structure but it is also its weak point.Until a year ago our communiqués & actions couldbe read in the front pages of all major Italiannewspapers, this helped us to communicate.Today power realizes the danger of thiscommunication (it was inevitable) and it censorsnot the action but the communiqué, the message.We decided to make recourse to electronic mail inorder to quicken the spreading of this piece ofwriting and to reach as many realities of theanarchist movement as possible. Our choice is alsodue to the scarcity of publications in the Italianlanguage that are willing to give space to what isnew happening in the anarchist movement on aninternational level. We think an action must beclaimed and explained in order for it to bereplicated. Otherwise power would pollute it anddistort its meaning by making it sterile: we knowthis very well as we have experienced it manytimes. A destructive action remains a very beautifulthing anyway, even if it is not claimed. And one cando it even only for the simple pleasure to do it. It’salways good to do something right. But for us this isnot enough, we want this system to collapse. Themore an action is reproducible, the bigger its realdestructive potentiality; the more the rebelsunderstand that concrete resistance exists themore they will be pushed into action. In the pastand still today someone of us happened toindividually take part to unclaimed actions alongwith comrades who obviously didn’t belong to FAI /International Revolutionary Front. In so doing weprovided technical data that could save the veryprecious life of the comrades and sometimes wealso learned new techniques.

We of the Italian FAI continue to run all the roadsthat can lead to the revolutionary path. Clashes inpiazzas, popular struggles, more circumscribedprojects of radical struggle… all contribute toenhancing our practices of attack. It is ten yearswe have been acting undisturbed. Power strikeseverywhere with more and more unbelievablerepressive operations, but none of us has been hitso far. We are really sorry for the comrades whoare being arrested and investigated, but it is betterthat the real culprits stay free so that they canstrike over and over again. Perhaps some of us willfall but new groups will come out. In that case wehope we will be able to act like the sisters and

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brothers of the ‘Cells of Fire’, who continue withcourage and coherence their struggle inside thewalls of a prison, which will blow up one day, weare sure.

Critique must be active and alive. Critique and self-critique must save us from being self-referential asthis would surely lead us to the fictitious, goingnowhere.

As we said in the past, it is better that affinitygroups don’t know one another so as to fightrepression more effectively. But sometimes wehappen to recognize comrades of us in themovement, which bring about risks but alsoimmediate perspectives, such as gaining moretechnical abilities, more chances to get hold ofweapons and explosives, more chances to supportcomrades compelled to live as clandestine. Weread ‘The Sun Will Rise Again’ by the‘Conspiracy of Cells of Fire’ very carefully,and we came to the conclusion that the three keypoints of the informal agreement of the secondgeneration of the ‘cells of fire’ can become the keypoints of the ‘FAI / InternationalRevolutionary Front’. These three points mirrorour main characteristics.

The first: destructive direct action as anindispensable and essential element. Such actioncan take the form of throwing a molotov as well ascommitting murder, without any hierarchy ofimportance, each group or individual will decide asthey best like, in the respect for their ownrevolutionary ethics, which will certainly alwaysexclude hitting at random. In our view, this pointwill have to give rise to a new nihilist and anarchistguerilla, thousands and thousands of fires againstcapital everywhere.

The second very important point is that never arewe to become spokespersons or representatives ofanybody. We represent ourselves only, women andmen in a perennial struggle against the existent,political power, technological power, the power ofcapital risking to erase life on this planet. Weobviously have no hope in any social class imposingits ‘dictatorship’ over another class, which alwaysends up with the dictatorship of the‘representatives’ of that given class. We express nosolidarity towards those who are subdued, who areexploited but who don’t move a finger so that theyalso contribute to our oppression. Whatcharacterizes us most is the refusal of proxies andof ‘representation’. Our revolt is individual and it isthis that makes our anarchism revolutionary andnihilist through the organisational instrument of theinformal organization.

The third point: international revolutionarysolidarity. The comrades who join this informalagreement will have to launch campaigns of

struggle, which will be taken over by other groupsof the ‘FAI / International Revolutionary Front’,according to their methods and timing. Threesimple and direct points, which in our view mark astep forward in our informal organization, bywidening the founding FAI document ‘Who weare: open letter to the anti-authoritarianand anarchist movement’ in its ‘anti-social’and ‘nihilist’ vision.

Everything concerning the ‘FAI / InternationalRevolutionary Front’ is in chaotic and constantevolution, starting from its many names anddefinitions. This is just the beginning, the‘Conspiracy of Cells of Fire’ is the motor of thisexplosion of revolutionary vitality. It is thepropulsive motor of an informal federation, which isgrowing and which has already surpassed theborders of nations, which we anarchists wish toabolish. Any organisational piece of writing, analysisand critique that come out of the FAI /International Revolutionary Front will never be thedefinite one. Our informal federation is in constantevolution. The comrades of the InternationalRevolutionary Front scattered in the world alreadycontribute to the analysis and growth of this projectby setting fire here and there. Our imprisonedsisters and brothers are our biggest strength, theiranalysis opens our eyes, our anger and hatred fortheir arrest give us strength. After all, our InformalFederation is a constant and never-endingorganisational assessment not in preparation of afar away world revolution, which we don’t knowwhen and if will happen, but with a view to thequality of our existence itself, which today, hereand now, fully realizes itself in the armed struggleagainst power.

We of the ItalianFAI propose thesign of the‘Conspiracy of Cellsof Fire’ as a flag of thisstruggle, the 5 arrows ofdifferent length and aimingat different directions hitting atpower united. This indicates the myriad of groupsand individuals of the FAI / InternationalRevolutionary Front who hit without respite withvarious grades of intensity but united by a pact ofmutual aid. The arrows are topped with a blackstar with an A inside, the symbol of our anarchism;and above the star the name of the group of theInternational Revolutionary Front claiming theaction. We opted for this symbology because thehistory of the ‘Conspiracy of Cells of Fire’ has foundits way into our rebellious hearts. All this, of course,if the Greek comrades agree.

In a period of world crisis on all levels, to create aninformal anarchist structure means to stop waitingfor events to happen and to go towards revolution.

In Arab countries regimes are collapsing to givespace to other regimes, democratic ones this time.The world super-powers can easily influence theevents, Europe is on the verge of collapse, we mustnot stay still or linked to old organisational schemeswhich have already given the worst of themselvesin the past. To create an Informal AnarchistFederation means to bear actively on the strugglesof the excluded all over the world, it means to bearactively on the struggle that nature undertakesevery day against criminal human ‘technology’. Tobear directly on all this through concrete attackswidespread all over the territory. These attackshave never been missing but if they are united byan international informal network based on mutualsupport they become more visible and virulent, andtheir spreading and subversive potentiality aremultiplied. As we have already said we don’t believewe have the truth in our pocket, but we areconvinced that in certain moments in history ideasimpose themselves by themselves. Today themoment has come to give a concrete contribution,which perhaps will make the difference. Ours is abeautiful challenge, the most beautiful challenge arevolutionary anarchist can ever launch: to throwone’s heart beyond the obstacles and see whathappens.

We of the FAI / Artisans Cooperative of Fireand Similar (occasionally spectacular) /International Revolutionary Front and of theFAI / 20th July Brigade / InternationalRevolutionary Front join the campaign ofsolidarity that the comrades of the FAI / Sistersin Arms of the Mauricio Morales Nucleushave started with the parcel bomb sent to the

Korydallos prison. Once a year we will hit insolidarity with our sisters and brothers of theConspiracy of the Cells of Fire until they are freeagain. The dozens and dozens of years in prisonthey were sentenced to will turn into a tragicboomerang for the Greek State. Year after yearthe interests of this State will be hit in Italy, eachtime stronger than the previous time. We invitethe other groups and individuals of the FAI /International Revolutionary Front scattered in the

world to do the same.

LONG LIVE THE CONSPIRACY OF THECELLS OF FIRELONG LIVE THE FAI / INTERNATIONALREVOLUTIONARY FRONT

FAI / Artisans Cooperative of Fire and Similar(occasionally spectacular) / InternationalRevolutionary Front

FAI / 20th July Brigade / InternationalRevolutionary Front

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f low t t The following text f o l w t t The following text appeared onthe walls of Berlin following amassive attack against the cityinfrastructure system. Part of thecity railway system, electric cir-cuits and telecommunicationnetwork have been heavily sabo-taged through a fire which burneddown over hundred cables,causing problems for a few daysand bringing part of the city to ahalt.

A group took responsibility forsuch attack, undertaken againstthe participation of the Germanrailway within the transport ofnuclear waste and war, capitalistnormality and immigrant's depor-tation.

On the reverberant soundof the rumble – About fast

trains and stop signals

Monday morning of the 23rd of May inBerlin –

Ostkreuz: "Dear passengers, due to a cablefire some... ehm... inconveniences willhappen!".

That is what it has just been announcedthrough the loud speaker of the railway.

Actually something which is not reallyuncommon, since the S-Bahn does not shineout for its reliability during the last years. Atleast the customers already got used to thechaos. But the "incoveniences" on thismorning mean that NOTHING goes backor ahead. A rail replacement transport canalso not be offered since the cancellations aretoo many. The media outrage appearsimmense as during the day it becomes clearthat this has been an act of sabotage.

As a matter of fact the dimension of theattack has been impressive. Indeed beside thefact that the train station of Ostkreuz hasbeen targeted existentially in its function, italso met the Vodafone mobile communica-tion network, some internet connections andelectric circuits. So to say all things whichmany people see as milestones our moderntimes: mobility, communication andpermanently-running energy.

These are guaranteed by different copper-electric lines which on this very day meantthe world.

The workers, scholars and all the ones whosegoal was to move from A to B waited hoursfor their trains. A small fire has been enoughto bring down the daily grind's routine.

An attack not only against the GermanRailway (Deutsche Bahn) as a profiteer ofwar and nuclear energy, but also against theState, even a "terror attack on our society!",fulminates the tabloid press.

But which society feels attacked here?

Which kind of society is the one that iscomposed of individuals who finds them-selves everyday in a competition with eachother? In rivalry inside the working placesand in the private sphere. A society buildedon relationships of authority and unequalnessand which prevents any possible comingtogether of such individuals through anadvancing alienation? It is a society whichproduces included and excluded.

Decisive is here the usability of the singleones for the aims of Capital. Work andconsume, keeping the mouth shut. Thespectacle has a lot to offer, raging from theorganisation of socalled "free-time" toalleged luxury, to finish with the illusion toparticipate actively in Politics of "Democ-racy".

Or the social misery of the shopping mallsand reality shows in order to forget how thisworld drives us just like an I.C.E. [highvelocity train] unstoppably against a wall.

We are continously confronted with thingswhich should render our environment moremobile, flexible and effective; but when onetakes a closer look at it, it becomes clear howsuch flexibility carries the only aim to makeus even more usable.

We are not supposed to become morevaluable in relation to our own personalitybut valuable and usable for the big wheel ofthe transmission gear.

"Work or die!" is the motto which one has tolisten to within all arrays of our lives.

No matter if you will not be able to go towork or school because of the cancellation ofa train, this is practically the same as youwould be sick, your bones would not be thatfit anymore or if you would get a headachefrom the daily grind hectic pace. And webelieve to know that among all these peoplewho waited for their trains or had to thinkabout another way of transport there havebeen some who began to smile inside.

No matter if because the boss is an idiotanyway and one does not have to stand himfor just a morning or all day long, followingsuch unforeseeable chaos or if one was able tofly temporarily away from the pressure toperform in school.

If one had been always just one among manywho were waiting for the train, in order topursue his/her day in different corners ofBerlin, this morning the usual order has beenbroken.

The metropole as a center of rotation andpivotal point of the existent has been shakenin its foundation.

For sure, we felt happy as we werestanding at the railway track and wegained full control of what we were ableto do with this free day.

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This article has been written for the Italiananarchist monthly “Invece” (“Instead of”) inApril 2011, aiming to offer a view aboutsome episodes - despite the vast nature ofthe theme - which happened during the lastyears which have contributed to the revivalof the debate concerning the funeralmarch of the German military machine andnot only. Episodes which are linked togetherthrough a red (and black) thread: that showthat today like yesterday it remainspossible to be sand in the cogs of milita-rism.

On how a repressive coup can be trans-formed into counter-attack...

In July 2007 three comrades have beenarrested. Oliver, Axel and Florian arebrutally stopped by police special forcesunits in Brandenburg/Havel, near Berlin,just after they left some incendiary devicesunder some trucks which belonged to theGerman army. Since a long time there hadbeen an investigation mounting againstthem - and four other comrades, fromwhich one is going to get arrested on thesame day - conducted by the federalcriminal police (BKA) : all of them have beenaccused of membership within the“Militant Group” (MG), a clandestineformation which had been active since2001 mostly in Berlin and which hascarried out a couple of dozen incendiaryattacks against symbols of repression(courts and police) and capitalist exploita-tion (different kind of enterprises).

Comrades organised immediately someactivities in solidarity with the arrestedones - ranging from the rally in front of theprison to direct actions - but many found

themselves within the classic dilemma ofhow to express solidarity towards somecomrades who have been accused ofmembership of a group in which one doesnot identify with, but rather one feels anabyssal distance : indeed the MG hasalways distinguished itself by its clearcommunist/anti-imperialist character.

In order to face such a situation, somepeople had the idea to relaunch the themeof revolutionary solidarity and by makingours the action for which the comradeshad been arrested for, rather then theiralleged participation within this group.Therefore during the months to come thesolidarity will be expressed by continuallydeclaring a clear refusal of militarism in allits forms but above all accentuating it in apractical way.

That has been a feeling which had beenalready expressed through somespeeches read during the first rally at thejudiciary prison of Moabit (Berlin). A fewdays later a poster will appear underlininghow “There are too many army vehicles -Freedom for Oliver, Florian and Axel -Towards the abolition of the anti-terrorlaw”. The poster offers a collage of differentimages of army vehicles of which somecarry the writing “sabotaged” – a result ofdirect actions undertaken in Germanyduring the last few years.

In fact, as the poster reminds us, even indark times of war and the extension of itslogic into all the spheres of our lives,sabotage remains a music which neverstops playing.

Just a few of its most cheering notes -February 2002, an army vehicle is burnedin Glinde, in the province of Hamburg;February 2003, some army jeeps aretorched by the MG close to Berlin; March2004, at Bad Oldesloe, province ofHamburg, the offices of the company Hakogo up in flames - this company participatesin the production of the army vehiclescalled “Mungo” (employed in Afghanistan) -while at the same time several armyvehicles meet the same destiny in Berlin;January 2007, the private cars of twomanagers of the company Thyssen-KruppMarine System are given to the flames by“Revolutionary anti-militarist activists” inHamburg. And so on...

...and the reflourishing of an anti-militarist praxis.

The imprisonment of the comrades givesthen a new life blood to a struggle whichkeeps on going since years and takes placeon all levels, not leaving behind any possibil-ity of expression. By the way, the “official”birth of the German autonomous move-ment (under such a wide definition oneregroups without distinction, libertarian,anarchist, autonomous, non-dogmaticcommunist comrades and so on) takesplace in May 1980 in Bremen where heavyriots accompanied the ceremony for thearmy cadets vote. A day of action againstmilitarism was called during the protestsagainst the G8 in Germany in 2007,witnessing a rally of several thousandsagainst an army factory of the companyEADS which then became a demonstrationthrough the streets of Warnemünde, closeto Rostock. Another demo which took placein Rostock (G8 2007) against Caterpillar, awell-known company for supplying vehiclesfor the destruction of the Palestinianpeople. Caterpillar also received someattacks with Molotov cocktails during thosedays. The so-called “Bombodrom” - aproject which should have taken place inthe north of the Brandenburg region, 80kmaway from Berlin, exactly where the formerSoviet Union had tested its bombs for fortyyears and now the Germany army tries toget the same permits since 1992 - willbecome the target of a specific campaignwithin the anti-militarist struggle : duringthe G8 it will be symbolically occupied byseveral hundred people, an air-controltower will be painted entirely in pink paint,different demos and anti-miliarist campswill be organised. This is a struggle which isgoing on since more than 15 years andwhich will contribute finally to the cancella-tion of the “Bombodrom” project itself.

It would be a mistake to “reduce” the anti-militarist struggle only to direct actions ofsabotage. The latter are undertaken withina wider context where different initiatives ofpublic character put in discussion the roleof the army and of the growing military/

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civil cooperation - and at the same timeclaim the necessity of direct action to stopthe war-machine.

One of those is the enduring disturbancewherever the army tries to recruit newforces in public buildings. There where thearmy tries to make propaganda for its logicof death, there will always be people readyto protest and spread refusal. The boldarmy officials are going every month intodole offices in order to spur the unem-ployed to sign in, so there will be somecomrades who will organise some mo-ments of protest and counter-information.

A concrete example: from Berlin to Colognepassing through Hannover and Frankfurt,dozens of anti-militarists disturb regularlythe vile presence of such military figureswith their noisy presence, the banners, thechants, the leaflets, the paintbombs, thetheatrical performances, the fire alarmswhich go off inside the buildings hosting theevents and so on. Like in Wuppertal, wherea high ranking military official won’t be ableto speak since he will get a cake in his face.Or in Brühl, where the dole office will beattacked with paint, its windows smashedand the graffiti “army out!” will clarify thereasons of the nocturnal visit.

Small and bigger stories which interweavewith each other and underline the vastchoices and possible paths which are givento us daily for what concerns a lived anti-militarism - as also for all the other fields ofour daily way of action.

If in September 2007, 8000 people willdemonstrate in Berlin under the motto“German army out of Afghanistan”, in thefall of the same year Moritz, an anarchistcomrade, will be imprisoned in the cells ofthe army barracks of Strausberg, nearBerlin, because he is a total objector : likehim, other comrades will choose the samepath within the years to come.

Moritz will pay his choice with three weeksof military prison, weeks which will seesome rallies in front of the barracks andinitiatives of counter-information in solidar-ity.

Meanwhile, one should not forget about thepractice of “recolouring” the differentmemorial monuments dedicated to“heroes” and military fallen ones : duringthe last years dozens of actions occurwhere anonymous teams will give acolourful gift to such symbols of death,sometimes even decapitating the statues.

In November 2010, a specific campaignwas launched by the local autonomousgroups in the Ruhr region - where acommemoration of the soldiers fallenduring the two world wars takes placeduring that month - a dozen of warmemorials will be “recoloured” within a

night in different cities of the region.

As we were saying before, the importantaspect which denotes the differentprotests is the clear and uncompromisingrevindication of any initiative which carriesthe aim of being sand within the cogs of thewar machine - leaving behind the superflu-ous concept of legality.

An initiative which took place in February2008 in Berlin, as an act of solidaritytowards the accused MG comrades (whoat that point had been freed on bail) had asa motto “The war machines interest us in aburning way”, based on the untranslatablegame of words where the German words“brennend” means “on fire” and also“burning way”.

Different persons active within the lastyears in actions of anti-militarist sabotagewill be invited to speak (pacifist militantsand also anonymous saboteurs, the latterin the form of a pre-recorded audiointervention), a themed publication willaccompany the event (attended by severalhundred people) offering food for the mind.

In order to publicize the event someposters will appear on the streets of theGerman capital carrying the illustration of aburning army jeep and two differentslogans - one under the tile “Why?”, theother “Why not?”, without any other text.This was a successfully received posterbecause of its disarming simplicity, itclarifies to the unknown reader theobviousness of taking a stand.

In May 2008 a publication will be bornunder the name “Panzerknackerin” (“thetank breaker”) which aims to be an agilenewsletter reporting about actions againstthe war machine which took place onGerman soil but not only. Giving a look into“Panzerknackerin” the brochure states theneed to attack militarism on differentfronts, not leaving aside arms producers,such as the company Northop Grummanand Marine Logistics attacked in Hamburgand Kiel, or dole offices and other ‘public’spaces which offer space to the propa-ganda of the army and private armscompanies.

One such private arms company, SAP (anenterprise which supplies military soft-

ware) will see its windows demolishedseveral times during the last few years,and also there was the case of 23 travelbuses in Berlin which were smashed (andfire extinguishers emptied inside them),which were the property of a companywhich makes business transporting thearmy cadets to their swear vote (againstwhich a protest takes place).

Surely also politicians get their bill at thecounter, above all to mention, three of theones targetted are members of theNational Defence Commission, their officesbeing attacked with stones and paint in Kieland Hamburg in the past August.

However, it remains unbeaten until now thearson of 42 army vehicles in Dresden inEaster 2009, an action on which a special

commission investigates - until nowwithout any results - and which anotherposter will claim in a striking way underthe slogan “Dresden. Do it again”, gentlyoffering us the images of so mucharsonist revelry which has seen dozensof army vehicles sacrificed to the flamesduring the last few years). Faithful to theslogan which accompanies the differentinitiatives of the movement - “What getssabotaged here can’t cause damagesneither in Afghanistan nor anywhereelse”.

The campaign against the mail companyDHL turns into an important step in orderto not let pass unobserved the growingcooperation between the civil and militaryinstitutions - this company is a sister-enterprise of the German post, responsiblefor logistic cooperation with the Germanarmy in order to transport its vehicles andpriority documents since the year 2003.This campaign, born in the fall of 2008 willbring this German company to its knees,forcing it in the following year to choose torefuse to prolong the contract, as one wasable to read in different newspapers.

The campaign, called “ComprehensiveResistance”, baptised the DHL as“Deutsche Heeres Logistik” (“Logistic ofthe German army”) and, being like alwaysoriented on all levels, will produce severaldetourned posters, leaflets, public initia-tives, it will publish some journals and givebirth to dozens of sabotages of differentkinds : going from an imprecise number ofarsoned DHL vehicles (sometimes up to12 at once in flames), to DHL officesattacked with stones and paint, postboxespainted in army green.

One of the most interesting aspects of thiscampaign will be its resonance : originallyborn as a contribution to the mobilisationagainst the NATO summit in Strasbourg2009 (which will see a large participation ofGerman comrades in the significant riots),it will produce actions all over the Germanterritory.

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Gabriel Pombo da Silva is a Spanish-born anarchist who escaped from prison in Spainand was caught near the Belgian-German border after a shoot-out with cops. Gabriel isnow in prison in Germany, where he regular writes letters and articles of interest.

... I am not so naive as to believe that what I am living here is something exceptional… andsince “the prisoners” are not born here but come from a very concrete social context I do notlook for those directly responsible “only” among the salaried jailers and the jailing adminis-tration which, in the end, reproduce on a microcosmic scale the politics and the ignobilities of

the System and its “Society”… There is nothing to reform; everything must be demolisheddown to the foundations…

They are mistaken who believe (or imagine) that my radicality comes from the indigestion of“utopias” and various “theories”… actually, in the end and from the beginning I owe “my

radicality” to the System and its miserable Society… or, if someone wants to look for the“theorists” responsible for my radicality, they can start in the offices of Department of

Corrections and leave in peace the poets of the dynamite… :)

(…)

For me, I have never been left indifferent to the beggars who fill the metropolis, those who,brutalized by a whole life of wage slavery end their days taking refuge in programmed leisureactivities, alcohol and/or drugs… or those who, in order to survive, sell their bodies to satisfythe pleasure of those who can buy bodies as if they were commodities… but it has not been all

this legion of miserable and exploited who have filled me with the strength, inspiration anddignity necessary to combat the system that generates all this… for that my brothers in

struggle are responsible: some were “bandits” and others were revolutionaries… that is thefundamental difference between the majority of “anarchists” and me… I do not need

“excuses” and revolutionary “subjects” in order to confront the System… I hate the Systembecause it taught me to hate it… and in this path of frontal war against the System I am

learning who are my accomplices and who are my enemies, beyond “isms” and“conceptualizations”…

Aachen, July 2011

Ga riel Pombo da a:Gabriel Pombo da Silva:a r o b da aG iel P m o :Gabriel Pombo da Silva:e s n th g o ef r ’‘ h r i o in r o m‘ h re is nothing o reform’‘There is nothing to reform’‘There is nothing to reform’

The solidity and clearness of the targetswill allow this campaign to survive theending of the NATO summit, offering againsome points of reflection on how it ispossible to go beyond the event (an ideaalready put in praxis before the G8 2007which has been accompanied by a large“campaign of direct action on any level”during the course of the three yearspreceding the summit).

Within the last months, some posters andpostcards - prepared by the campaign“break the lines of the army”, for theanniversary of the Hindukusch massacre,where 142 Afghani civilians met their deathat the hand of the German army - , arepublished with three different motives,renewing the invitation to attack, remindingus how “Germany is at war” and therefore“blockades save human lives”, “sabotagesaves human lives”, and “deserting saveshuman lives”.

And I am going to stop here before it getstoo long. Even though one can’t really leaveout the recent attempt of endangering therecord of Dresden’s Easter in this vastsketch : in February of this year, unknownhands set fire to a barracks of theGermany army in the city of Oldenburg,where the food supplies for the Germansoldiers stationed in Afghanistan werestored. 2000 tons of food destined for themouths of killers went up in flames,provoking a damage of over a million andhalf euros.

What to say indeed? Perhaps that thecapacity of integrating different methods, ofnot remaining confined within the ‘move-ment’ ghetto, of putting oneself at play,being able to face up to old challenges andlaunching some new ones, means learningagain to become creative but above allavoiding to make threats without carryingthem out, regarding the necessity of adirect attack towards everything wedespise.

These might be some of the points that,once again, might make a small reflectionon how it is never too late for taking awaysome of that rust which gathered on someof our daggers - which once upon a timehave been perhaps slightly sharper thannowadays but there is still time for goingback to the old splendors...

A grain of sand

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Nests of Bombs

There’s no new news in the world. God is stillin heaven and the Devil in hell. Any of these

whom show there faces to earth, could only goback yawning:

la, la, la, always the same song!...

And it’s like that, on the surface. We’re onlynew editions in old books: Humans always...

Our dreams and our anguish: So what? Werethey not dreamt before about a million times?

Going up to the Empire, going down to hell,the rebellion of Spartacus, and the reluctance

of Christ : So what? Are they not all in thesame arc of the dreamt destiny and in the

same box of life?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. There’s no new news in theworld. But there are extensions, overflowsfrom the torrents to the plains. We can see

this, if you don’t look at humans like old books,but like souls to their ideas.

There is no new news in the world. The ideasare linked with strength, will-power hugs

itself with dreams.

Lamenting, Job, sings; Spartacus, man ofaction, meditates. You walk inside of the roomof the poor and you find his book, and underhis book: What? A collar, a stamp of Christ,

and a bottle of gin?

No! You find a nest of bombs.

Hey tyrants! What kind of new men arrivesfrom the old slave? Claws and wings, songs

and blasphemy, altogether, confused, allsworn only for this destiny: To live free or to

die fighting!

Hey God! Hey Devil! Is there or isn’t thereany new news in the world? Take a look!

From “Carteles I”, by RodolfoGonzalez Pacheco (1882-1949), a series

of Spanish language anarchist textscirculating in the Spanish prison system

and beyond.

Translated by anarchist prisoner Rafael“Jon-Bala” Martinez Zea.

Leipzig - Arson-attack on CCTV-camera - 2nd August 2011 - Maskedpersons did huge damage by committing anarson attack (over 5000 euro) on a CCTVused by cops and by attacking the building ofthe AOK (big insurance-company) with theuse of stones. Around 2am eight black-dressed persons set up fire at ConnewitzerKreuz. A tram signal, traffic-sign and high-voltage-cable are burned. The fire took overand damaged the main cable of the CCTV-camera used by police. The unknownpersons try to block this camera by attackingit with fire. In the internet appeared a video.Underneath a comment saying: “Again firewas set and AOK smashed. Yes, theresistance doesn’t go on summer-holidays.”

Berlin - Car of security-companytorched - 4th August 2011 - In the night ofthe 4th of August a car of the Piepenbrockcompany got arsoned in Berlin Schöneberg.The company does facility-management andcleaning-jobs, executed by precariousworkers, mostly in big flats-buildings. Therethey get knowledge about the habits of therenters. This information is getting used bythe security of the Piepenbrock-company.They work together with the cops and as aresult play an active role towards a modernmodel of State and social control.

Templin - Arson attack on policestation - 5th August 2011 - Fridaymorning an arson attack was committed onthe police station of Templin. Around5:30am the officers heard a muffled noisecoming from the facade and saw an un-known person escaping. The petrol-bomb,that got thrown on the facade just shortlysparkled and extinguished on its own. Just alittle damage was done and nobody gotinjured. The police are investigating indifferent directions.

Freiburg - Car of the federal-policearsoned - 7th August 2011 - We receivedfollowing claim:“In the night to the 7th of August a car ofthe federal-police got attacked with severalmolotov-cocktails. That happened as adirect reaction on the repressive politics ofthe rioting executive-institution of the lastdays. Controls, raids and evictions arecommitted against central autonomousspaces of this city. That can’t happen with-out a reaction! For a militant perspective!”

Berlin - 9 cars in flames - 11thAugust 2011 - In Zehlendorf andSteglitz 9 cars were set on fire inthe night to Thursday. OnWednesday a arsonist got sen-tenced to probation and one dayafter 9 cars are burning in Berlin.On Bolchenerstraße in Zehlendorf5 cars were burning. Shortly beforemidnight unknowns torched them.

DI C N F M R AC T S EDI C CT N S F M ER ADIRECT ACTION NEWS FROM GERMANYDIRECT ACTION NEWS FROM GERMANY3 cars burnt out completely and 2 gotdamaged. Half an hour later the police wascalled again. 2 cars were torched in Steglitzon Gutsmuthstraße and 2 cars around thecorner on Hackerstraße.

Berlin - Car of regulatory agencytorched - 12th August 2011 - The series ofcar-arsons in Berlin is not ending. In thenight of Friday 4 cars got set on fire inSchöneberg and Charlottenburg – duringThursday night already 9 cars were burningin Steglitz and Zehlendorf. OnCourbierestraße in Schöneberg an “Audi”got badly damaged. On Franklinstaße inCharlottenburg a car of the regulatoryagency of Pankow got arsoned while it wasparked on the ground of a car-dealership. 2cars got damaged by the flames. InCharlottenburg a Mercedes-Combi wasburning later on.

Berlin - Paint and stones thrownagainst a bank - 14th August – Banksmashed in solidarity with UK uprising.From the claim: “In the night of 14thAugust we smashed the windows of the bank‘Sparkasse’, Heinrich-Heine Straße, Berlin.We painted on the window - ‘UK brennt’.This was in solidarity with the uprisingrecently in England and the people who arenow getting repression. Spread the insurrec-tion! Solidarity from Berlin.”

Berlin - Cars arsoned - 16th August 2011- In the night to Thursday 11 cars gottorched in between one hour inCharlottenburg. Police reported that thearsons started shortly after midnight. Almostevery minute mostly luxury-cars got set onfire in the district Westend. Further on sevencars, a scooter and a bicycle got damaged bythe flames. Fire fighters extinguished theflames. Nobody got injured.

Berlin - 15 cars torched - 17th August2011 - The massive series of car-arsons willnot end in Berlin. In the night to Wednesdayunknown offenders set fire to 15 cars. Theinvestigators assume that the arsons of thelast weeks were committed by left-extremists. Most of the cars of last nightwere expensive – but as well a truck, a trailerand a scooter got arsoned. Most of the arsonshappened in Charlottenburg.

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This article comes from the Italiananarchist monthly “Invece” (“Instead of”)of March 2011. Some months after theeviction of the Liebig 14, the house isstill empty and the attempts done by thelandlord to restructure it have beencombated by several acts of sabotage,keeping the house still a wreck.For a full list of actions around theeviction and more check the websitedirectactionde.ucrony.net

“When everyday monotony getsshaken...” - that was the title of one ofthe leaflets which was distributed inBerlin right after the eviction of a formersquatted house in the German capital,the Liebig 14, sited in the eastern districtof Friedrichshain.

And honestly speaking, one cannot reallycontradict the anonymous authors, sincethe first week of February offered someimages and situations to Berlin’s inhabit-ants to reflect about. Thanks to theirradicalism, they succeeded in breaking forsome moments in time, the daily grind of alife based on the pursuit of profit and therespect for the rules dictated by a Capital-ism system which renders us more andmore indifferent to what happens aroundus. After all, we are constantly told thatwhat remains important is to not getinvolved and to defend the pettiness of ourmiserable daily life. But let’s proceed withorder. Since a few years ago Berlin’shousing situation changed quite a lot. Thecity began to attract speculators of adifferent nature because of the low building

LIEBIG 14 EVICTED

costs - causing the creation of differenttemples of Capital : posh houses forthose who can afford them, which is notthe majority of the population of a citywhich sees an unemployment rate of 14%.

At the same time, the rents - which havebeen historically low - began to risetogether with the growing internationalprestige of the city, making it almostimpossible to find a flat in the inner city,since it became trendy nowadays, invitinga younger, flexible ‘yuppie’ demographicwhich has fanciful artistic ambitions and isdedicated to the futile inhabitance of someneighborhoods which in the past havebeen characterised by a mix of secondand third generation immigrants, com-rades and proletarians. Such a mix gaverise also to some interesting conflictsduring the past years. After all, thehousing struggle has here a long tradition

which knew its last big flame after the fallof the Berlin wall, when hundreds ofhouses have been squatted in the easternpart of the town.

Due to a zero-tolerance policy called the“Berlin line” (eviction within 24 hours), thesquatting movement has been dividedbetween those who chose legalizationand those who refused it - the lastsquatted house has been evicted back in1997 (I am not talking here aboutapartments squatted “silently”, a phenom-ena which still persists). Any attempt tooccupy gets brought down after a fewhours from hundreds of robocops,generating frustration in the ones who,during the years, tried to open up newspaces taking them away from the logic oflegality and speculation. A militant defenceof the spaces became impracticable -especially after the historical eviction of thehouses in the Mainzerstrasse back in1990, where hundreds fought 3000 copswith the sound of molotov cocktails forseveral days.

Therefore, if one excludes a successfuloccupation in 2005 - which took placefollowing another eviction and which waslegalised a few years later – it becomesclear how, because of the difficulty ofexpropriating new space, the defence ofthe old ones gained a central and symboli-cal role within the framework of the city’sstruggles.

Their defence inscribed themselves withina larger contest of struggle againstspeculation and urban development - theso-called “gentrification” - creatinginterconnections among different subjectsin struggle and enlarging the view of many,who, as it often happens, did not want tonarrow their view, or limit their prospectiveto the mere conservation of a miserablestatus-quo - in this case, the defence of afew self-organised structures, with all thelimits of which we all know very well.Within recent times there has been ablossoming of self-organised initiatives, bycomrades and also by tenants, which triedto become sand inside urban develop-

Some notes on the eviction of a formersquatted house from Berlin.

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ment’s cogs through different forms andmoments of protest, which made itunavoidable for all the others to not take astand on such developments: indeed, allthe city is forced to talk about it.

And this happened mostly due to thecontinuous work of anonymous lovers ofdirect action, who attacked constructionsites of luxury apartments, offices ofarchitects and speculators, symbols ofCapital, government structures andinflamed the nights with hundreds ofburning cars, either expensive ones orthose belonging to different companieswhich exploit the situation. This has beena phenomenon which put the police andthe city on their knees during the lastcouple of years.

That is why the eviction of a simple self-organised house became the fuse whichmassively exploded the dissatisfaction feltby many.

It was simply a catalyst, since the disap-pearing of a house surely did not troublethe dreams of all those who took thestreets during those days.

As one can read in the different claimswhich appeared on the internet, one neverforgets to underline how the actions havebeen undertaken within the larger contextof the struggle against State and Capital,“against the theft of our lives, the attackagainst everything which does not allowus to fully enjoy them”, that is what“some friends of the uncontrolledextension of the fire” will write afterward.

On the 10th of January 2011, the Liebig14 receives an eviction note for the 2nd ofFebruary 2011. After years of trials andseveral procrastinations, it seems as if thelandlord (who owns different houses inthe neighborhood, like another house-project, the Rigaer 94, which underwentseveral evictions during the previousyears) managed to get what he wanted.

Now the interesting novelty of this evictionhas been the choice of not wanting to playon the terrain where the cops arestronger and have no problems - i.e. theone of the classic gathering in front ofthe house on the eviction’s morning.

“To say what the enemy does not expectand to be where he does not wait forus. That is the new poetry” - this hasbeen written a few years ago, and theactuality of such a consideration has beenexperimented again in Berlin. After all, onecannot really joke with 2500 cops andspecial forces units called especially forthe occasion, as one learned in the past,and the confrontation on such a level canonly be lost by us (or at least within thelocal context here). Therefore one optedfor decentralised actions on the full city

terrain, following the motto “every evictionwill have its price”.

And the price of this eviction has beenover a million of euros, only for whatconcerns the property damages createdby the enrages, as reported by aninformal note of the police chief.

A twitter-ticker was set up in order tocoordinate the different actions, whereone was able to send action reports inreal time and to see where it “burns” andhelp is needed. Also this instrumentproved to be quite important for coordi-nating movements of different nature.

On the 29th of January one gets a firsttaste. A demonstration of over 4000comrades moves from Kreuzbergtowards Friedrichshain. Some scufflesaccompany the march, which ends upspontaneously in front of the Liebig 14,where for half an hour the cops are takenby surprise and attacked on two frontswith cobblestones while barricades areerected. An interesting episode is the useof laser devices in order to confuse thepolice. The police appeared extremelyunhappy by this move. On the day of theeviction, the classic prowling helicopterwon’t fly over before night comes, exactlybecause of a possible use of laser againstthe pilot, say the police on some newspa-pers.

During the days preceding the evictionthere are several attacks undertakenagainst symbols of Capital. Amongothers, the bailiff’s office was attackedwith stones and paint. But the realshowdown will come on the 2nd ofFebruary. The tactic of decentralizingworks well. From the morning there aredozens of claimed actions. One of thepositive things which strikes out is thevariety of the targets chosen.

One begins from those who make theirsthe logic of the blockade and chose to hitthe transport infrastructure - through thesabotage of several traffic lights in knot-points of the city, the classical barricadesin flames on high-traffic streets to thenowadays “normal” sabotage of railwaylines (a tactical method which is wellspread, for example, in order to block thetransport of the Neo-Nazis whenever theyhave their demonstrations or against thenuclear-waste trains) by the arson ofcables and signals. Also savage mobswhich attack in large numbers banks orluxury apartments during the day, and alsoattack government building or those ofpolitical parties, or to even to destroy thetickets machines of the underground,supermarket outlets and much more, all indifferent parts of town. This is finished bythose who will concentrate inFriedrichshain blocking the traffic andattacking the police and posh cars, giving

life to spontaneous demonstrations ofseveral hundred people. Different squat-ting actions will also contribute to keepthe police busy on different fronts.

Meanwhile the police will spend severalhours before managing to evict Liebig 14,since the barricades are quite strong andsome surprises will make the operationquite difficult for them. In the end, they willbe forced to destroy some walls to gainaccess to the different floors. The actionswill keep up during all afternoon with ademonstration in the district of Neukölln,attended by 800 people taking the streetsof a district which struggles between theconservation of its popular character andthe growing urban development.

At night, several thousands people meetup in Friedrichshain to smash the plan ofthe police: the latter, present in hugenumbers, also with water cannons, will tryto stop the demonstrators shortly afterthe march began. But the people areenraged and they take a different pathfrom the official one, creating a short-circuit among the cops.

The police are attacked with stones andbottles, and also with fire extinguishers,some banks are demolished and thepolice attempt to bring the demonstrationto a halt before it takes the streets ofKreuzberg will reveal itself as an own goal:hundreds of people will keep on moving,taking again an unexpected route andattacking some targets which until thatvery moment were known as “untouch-able”, such as the O2-arena, a giganticcommercial concert room built two yearsago and a symbol of urban development inthe neighborhood, and also a policestation is attacked, an important shoppingmall and a couple of others.

In a different part of the district, groupsundertake their direct actions and are notintimidated by columns of dozens of riotvans who do not know where to head to,since chaos reigns all around.

So much that meanwhile another groupwill decide to attack another police stationin the district of Treptow and another oneattacks a consumer street which is a

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temple of shopping in the neighborhoodof Steglitz, in the south part of Berlin, justto contribute a bit more to the ongoingdecentralization. The actions endurethrough the following days and nights :even two days after, while a few hundredpeople gather again in Friedrichshain for anon-authorised rally - some fifty unpredict-able individuals will go to one of Berlin’smain shopping streets to destroy somethirty luxury shops within a few minutes,leaving the police with open mouth andwithout any arrests in their pockets.

People remain in movement.

At the same time, dozens of Germantowns respond to the call (but also on aninternational level): from big cities likeHamburg to small unknown villages,everywhere there will be some people insolidarity who will take to the streetsreleasing their discontent and attackingpolice and symbols of Capital, no matter ifwith 20 or 500 people.

In Hamburg, where the historical occupiedself-organised building “Rote Flora” is atrisk of an eviction again, during three daystwo spontaneous demonstrationsconsisting of several hundred take backthe streets, succeeding in ravaging the

posh city center, which remained “un-touched” since almost twenty years andshowing how if you want you can.

And this seems to be one of the legaciesof these days.

Showing how, if one trusts his/herown creativity, refuses to be fixed ondusty traditional plans, and remains inmovement, decided and determined,even a well organised army such thethousands of German robocops can betaken by surprise, so that we - and onlywe - can decide how and where to givelife to moments of subversive force.

Now all this it is not a novelty, neither on atheoretical nor on a practical level, since ithas been shown more than once duringthe history of uprisings, revolts, insurrec-tions and scuffles undertaken by discon-tent people everywhere.

But sometimes one needs to learnagain to remember which ones mightbe our possibilities. In Germany aselsewhere.

One of the many

ANTI-PRISONDEMO IN CANADA

Kitchener, Ontario: In Solidarity WithPelican Bay and Nyki Kish

Received from comrades in Canada:

On the evening of July 9th, to expresssolidarity with the hunger strike at PelicanBay and across California, 30 folks from

Southern Ontario gathered in Kitchener fora noise demo at Grand Valley Institution for

Women (GVI), a federal women’s prison.We marched with banners, chants, andballoons flapping in the winds to an area

near GVI where we could see and communi-cate directly with folks imprisoned, many of

whom were in the yard when we arrived.

Balloons with flyers about the situation inPelican Bay were released over the

grounds. Fireworks were set off, silencingthe screws that approached. The screws

attempted to try and calm down theexcited prisoners in plain view on the

grounds. As chants and speeches wereyelled, the chain link barbed wire fence

separating the two groups became muchless significant, as the isolation was broken

for a few minutes. Prisoners yelled andwhooped along with the chants that

included: NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE, FUCKTHE POLICE… SCREWS, PIGS,

MURDERERS…FUCK ALL PRISONS, SMASHTHE STATE, ALL THESE WALLS ARE

GONNA BREAK and…NO PRISONS, NOBORDERS, FUCK LAW AND ORDER. Aftermany fireworks, speeches, and chants thegroup decided to depart, but only after thefolks inside proclaimed that they were on

lock down and 5 cruisers arrived.

The demands of the prisoners at thePelican Bay SHU were read, after which

the prisoners at GVI responded withcheers. A part of the solidarity statement

by Corcoran prisoners was read. Astatement was read in support of Nyki Kish,

a woman locked up at GVI. “FREE NYKIKISH” was chanted. Nyki is an artist,

musician and community activist fromHamilton who was recently convicted of

2nd degree murder and sentenced to 12years in prison. In 2007 a street alterca-tion in Toronto left one person stabbed todeath. The State politicized the case, using

the violence as a justification for furthercrackdowns on poor people. Nyki maintains

her innocence, and was convicted onMarch 1, 2011, with no evidence otherthan that she was there and she was

stabbed.

Solidarity and love to Nyki Kish, prisonerson strike at Pelican Bay, and prisoners in

struggle for dignity everywhere!

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Communique:

The continual advancement of technol-ogy will worsen the situation.

The more the system grows, the moredisastrous will be the consequences of

its failure.

Revenue directly attributable tonanotechnology has been growing at levelsof 42% between 2006 and 2011, and by theend of 2011 is estimated to generaterevenues of more than US$19 billion (a).

This is only one fact that demonstrates thatthey are prostrating themselves to the gazeof the devastating nanotechnologicalprogress with more emphasis on Mexico.

As has been mentioned before (b) (c), thiscountry positions itself together with Brazilas one of the two most viable options forinvesting in nanoscience within LatinAmerica. For this, they have put in theuniversity engineering classes and courseswhose end is the professional preparation ofmoldable minds that not only want toacquire a paper to accredit their studies, butalso truly desire to contribute with theirscientific studies to the development and riseof nanobiotechnology, to acquire what the

system wants: The total Domination of allthat is potentially free.

But let’s stop a little and think, What are thetrue motives that lead scientists to getinvolved in this new technologicalnanorevolution (d)?

Many of the scientists will say it has been to“help humanity.” But deeper within thesesimplistic excuses are hidden psychologicalneeds that are called surrogate activities.Surrogate activities (e) refer to all those actsor tasks that aim to reach an artificial endand not a real one.

The scientists say that they create carbonnanotubes, for example, to make life morecomfortable for humanity, but the truereason that most of them (f) do this isbecause they feel a strong emotionalcommitment to the branch in which theydevelop; that is, they do not do it sohumanity lives “better” as they have alwaysclaimed, but rather for a vague personal andpsychological realization, so that, with this,we arrive at a swift and irrefutable conclu-sion, most scientists base their research ontheir twisted psychological needs, on theirsurrogate activities.

Continuing with the theme, in Mexico thereare 650 nanotechnologists and the figure rises(g), in addition to the the growing interest ofyoung people to go into that area. Severalfactors {which we have explained in theabove paragraph and in footnote (f)} drivemore “new” minds to have the commitmentto sustain this type of technology whiletoday the fatal and desolate outcome that itwill have in the future has not been publiclydiscerned.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry Harold Krotosaid that “The Governments of Europe andthe United States devote large sums ofmoney to nanotechnology to investigate, forexample, how to make their planes invis-ible,” and, “If we could go back to 1910, wecould avoid having researched chemistry inthe twentieth century and could haveavoided napalm or the atomic bomb” (h).

Here, Harold knows and clearly states thatan environmental or human catastrophe willbe presenting itself, as happened in the1900’s after having researched chemistry.

And who knows what failures nanometrictechnology will have when it covers everycorner of this artificialized life?

Some scientists have already realized thecatastrophic consequences that could resultfrom the aberrant fusion of nanotechnology,artificial intelligence, molecular electronicsand robotics.

The ever-increasingly acceleration ofTechnology will lead to the creation ofnanocyborgs that can self-replicate auto-matically without human intervention; thisis obviously a worrying fact for thesescientists who for years have given theirentire life to the creation of human self-destruction.

One such scientist is the American EricDrexler, one of the best molecular engineersin his country and promoter ofnanotechnology in the international world.

He has mentioned, highly shaken, thepossible spread of a gray plague [‘gray goo’in English - ed.] (i) caused by billions ofnanoparticles self-replicating themselvesvoluntarily and uncontrollably throughoutthe world, destroying the biosphere andcompletely eliminating all animal, plant, andhuman life on this planet. The conclusion oftechnological advancement will be pathetic,Earth and all those on it will have become alarge gray mass, where intelligentnanomachines reign.

This realistic scenario was not invented bywe who are opposed to technologicalprogress, surprisingly, it has been raised byone of the best scientists in the history of theUnited States.

Let’s read from his own words:

Communique from IndividualistsTending Toward the Wild for an

attack against professors ofnanotechnology

Claim of responsibility and analysis against technology and techno-industrial society in the wake of the bombing that wounded two profes-sors of a prestigious and private educational institution in Mexico.

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“… [Nano] self-assembly based on earlyreplicators (…) may out-compete plants,filling the biosphere with inedible foliage.Omnivorous resistant [nano] “bacteria”could compete with the real bacteria: Theycould spread like blowing pollen, replicateswiftly, and reduce the biosphere to dust in amatter of days … ”

“… [Thus] the first [nano] replicatorassembles a copy of itself in a thousandseconds, then both [nano] replicatorsassemble two more in the next thousandseconds (…) After ten hours, there are not 36new [nano] replicators but more than 68,000million. In less than a day, they would weigha ton; in less than two days, they wouldexceed the weight of the Earth; in anotherfour hours, would exceed the combined massof the Sun and all the planets…” (j).

Another one of the scientists who hasrealized that he is an engineer of thedestruction of Wild Nature (includinghumans) promoting the Technology boom,is the computer scientist Bill Joy. He hassaid: “…robotics, genetic engineering andnanotechnologies pose a different threat thanprevious technologies.

“Specifically, robots, genetically modifiedorganisms and ‘nanorobots’ have in commona multiplicative factor: they can reproducethemselves. A bomb explodes only once; arobot, on the other hand, can proliferate andquickly escape all control…

“To end swallowed in a gray and viscousmass would be without a doubt a depressingend for our adventure on earth, much worsethan simple fire or ice. Also, it could happenafter a simple ‘oops!’ laboratory incident…”(k).

Intelligent readers will ask themselves, Howis it that a scientist has realized what he isproducing with his knowledge within theTechnological-Industrial System to such a degree? What was it that drove him tothoroughly analyze these types of questions,the co-founder of Sun Microsystems and co-creator of Java and the JINI protocol?

The answer he himself has written:

“Theodore Kaczynski, aliasUnabomber: In seventeen years of histerrorist campaign, his bombs killed threepeople and injured many others. One of theseriously injured was my friend DavidGelenter, one of the brightest computerresearchers of our time, a true visionary.Moreover, like many of my colleagues, I feltI could be the next victim.Kaczynski’s actions are criminal and, in myeyes, the mark of a murderous madness. Weare clearly in the presence of a “Luddite” (l).However, this simple observation does notinvalidate his argument. I find it hard, but Imust admit, his reasoning is worthy ofattention. ”

Whatever else may be said, Kaczynski,Unabomber, Freedom Club (or whateveryou want to call it) is Right [not meaningmorally right, but literally “has Reason” -transl].

To continue, what Bill proposed to avoid(according to him) the planetary destructionand the extinction of human and animalspecies by techno-advance is “…to renouncethem, restricting research in the technologi-cal domains that are too dangerous, puttinglimits on our research of certain knowledge.”But what is not analyzed is that Technologynever stops, always tending toward theDomination on greater and smaller scales.

Perhaps there are some scientists who believethat continuation in the study ofnanotechnology would be an immoral error,and therefore leave their work and academicpositions, but there will be others continuingas couriers of civilized progress who do notstop for, nor at, anything.

Nanotechnology focuses on and situates itselfin strategic areas for the continuation ofDomination, which is why universities createand design nanomaterials and investigatenanosystems (nanobiotechnology). But allthis not only has a medicinal goal or one ofgenomic modification, but one of its strongmotives is to use this type ofnanoknowledge, initially in the field of war.Hence, millions of sums of money areinvested for those to take one step furtherinto the nanomilitary field.

The creation of nanorobots or nanocyborgs isthe order of the day. Not only to destroytheir enemies–programmed so that whenthey are within the body of a human (ornonhuman) opponent they program and self-destruct within the brain (or any otherorgan)–but to prevent attacks with biologi-cal, explosive, chemical, nuclear andradioactive weapons, and also so thatmilitary equipment would be much lighter,and of course other reasons as well.

Many scientists are still working by trial anderror, just morbidly awaiting the effects thatmillions of nanoparticles ingested aerobicallycould have for humanity, and also on theenvironment in which we intend to develop.

Genes and particles do not work in isolationbut depend on and interact within anextremely complex system that is the resultof millions of years of evolution.

To alter it and change it at the whim ofTechnology alone would bring newproblems and the self-perpetuation of thesystem.

Companies such as those that have Mexicanstate in the hand of foreign investment arethe ones who drive the domestication ofWild Human Nature and who push forwardthe destruction of Wild Nature as such,

submissively obeying the sick idea of theprogress of Civilization.

Government institutions like CONACYT(National Council of Science and Technol-ogy) and SNI (National System of Re-searchers) are for now the two mostimportant federal institutions with regard tothe evolution of Technology in Mexico, theiraccreditors have been for a long timeconducting lines of research agenda withinuniversity classrooms and pushing them onall, the techno-industrial non-life that theyare pushing on us.

One of the major universities that has stakedeverything on the development ofnanotechnology (and others) in this countryis the Technological Institute of HigherStudies of Monterrey, colloquially known asMonterrey Tec.

Within its teaching staff is an incrediblegamut of sick scientists who contributed tothis breakthrough that Technology wants toachieve; as an example we have one LauraPalomares, an engineer in Biochemistry forthis private university campus, she washonored in 2009 with an award from theMexican Academy of Sciences for thedevelopment of nanomaterials based on virusproteins and metallic particles (m), that is, bymeans of Bionanotechnology, Palomarescreated artificial viruses that can fightdiseases such as bovine rotavirus.

It has been said that this nanovaccine is onehundred percent safe, but of how many drugshave they not said the same thing and later itis proven that more sicknesses are created byreactions of these substances?

A vaccine injected into the human body thatcan instantly heal a broken bone for example(of course, this by means of modifiedparticles), sounds very well, but what is itthat will linger after they generate certainreactions in the organism (or perhaps theenvironment) for these new artificial viruseswhose whole complex nanoscale structurecan hardly be comprehended?

We make a parentheses here: many mightsay that Technology has helped medicine bemore effective, and they dub us as inhumansfor saying that we firmly oppose a vaccinethat cures diabetes (for example), but there isfalling in one of the many pitfalls of thesystem.

The Techno-industrial System has alwaysled one to believe that they invent this kindof cure for mankind to live better by beingeffective and fast in the health field, but whatmany do not realize is that the system doesthis so that people are much more dependenton it, for everyone to be healthy (n) andcontinue greasing the screws of theMegamachine, to continue working,producing and consuming, in short, for theSystem of Domination to continue to stand.

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And so, as the most ingenious trick of thesystem (o) is solidified, reaping (even more)the vision of those who cower against thosewho radically reject Technology (p).

The use of modified viruses is not new innanotechnology, scientists at the Massachu-setts Institute of Technology (MIT) togetherwith others at Harvard have created cells thatprovide solar energy based on of the photo-synthesis process of plants. Remember that forthis process to be accomplished, several factorsare needed such as the use of water, carbondioxide and sunlight. With this, scientists haveachieved through nanotechnology theseparation of oxygen from water to producehydrogen, and this in turn to be stored forlater use to produce energy, modifying theirgenes by means of a virus so that they absorbit and generate the production of solar cells.

This is the dream of total-technology, but, inthe end, the Reality.

But what’s wrong with creating solar energythrough modified nanoparticles? some willsay. ITS answer: When these modified virusesaffect the way we develop as the result of anano-bacteriological war, by some laboratoryerror, or by the explosion of nano-contamina-tion that compromises the air, food, transpor-tation, water, in short, the entire world, thenthey will realize, all those who defendnanotechnology and cannot find an apparentthreat, that it was a grave mistake to leave itto grow at their leisure.

Like this conscienceless researcher (LauraPalomares) are also others within MonterreyTec.

We will mention some more:-Dr. Serguei Kanaoun of SNI with hisproject of composite material mechanics(nanotubes).-Dr. Alex Elías Zúñiga with his project ofnanomaterials for medical devices.-Dr. Marcelo Fernando Videa Vargaswith his chair in Synthesis of nanostructuredmaterials.-Dr. Joaquín Esteban Oseguera Peñawith his thermochemical Treatments assistedby plasma, etcétera, etcétera.

The degrees that this private and nationallyprestigious university imparts and thatundoubtedly are directly complicit in thedestruction, manipulation and domesticationof the Earth, are the following:

Bio-nanotechnology engineering.Mechatronics engineering.Industrial physics engineering.Electrical mechanical engineering.Digital systems and robotics engineering.Electronic technology engineering.Master in Computer Science.Engineering in information and communica-tions technologies.

Among the projects at the mentioneduniversity campus are the Center for Business

Development and Transference of Technol-ogy, CEDETEC, which is part of a futuristicphilosophy called Mission 2015, which iscommitted to developing research andtechnology relevant to nanobioindustrialprogress for the country in different areas.

In order to accomplish this, the universityauthorities have created the Congress ofResearch and Development, which offerswork for the alumni and professors of Tec in areas prioritized for this technologicalinvasion, such as Biotechnology and Food,Mechatronics, Nanotechnology, Informationand Communications Technology, Sustain-able Development, Entrepreneurship, SocialDevelopment and Education, among others.

CEDETEC is a place where the efforts ofcompanies, the State, and the universitymerge, and which aims to promote jobcreation, attraction of capital, and growth oftechnology companies and to increase valuefor the academy.

Tec belongs to another project, promoter ofthe nightmare technology, called Cluster (q).Cluster, which is located in Nuevo León,aims to develop human capital, financing andimplementation of new business projectsinvolving applications of nanotechnology (r).

Among its partners are Cemex (CementosMexicanos), the Autonomous University ofNuevo León, Sigma (a leading company inthe production and distribution of animalproducts), CIQA (a major companyspecializing in the development of newmaterials), Viakable (strategic companyserving major markets at the internationallevel), VAGO Industries (company usingcarbon nanotubes made by Tec), ArizonaState University (with its Arizona Institutefor Nano Electrics), Nemak (global companyin production of aluminum-technologicalcomponents for the automotive industry),I2T2 (Institute for Innovation and Techno-logical Transference), Whirlpool, Cimav(Conacyt Center for Research of AdvancedMaterials) and many others.

All of these institutions, universities andanexes, are still within a much more massiveproject. We are speaking of PIIT (Techno-logical Research and Innovation Park)located in Apodaca, where a major part ofthe industrial zone of Monterrey is concen-trated.

According to their data: PIIT facilities cover70 hectares, where the projects of 11 researchcenters in seven universities converge: theAutonomous University of Nuevo León,Technological Institute of Higher Studies inMonterrey, the Autonomous NationalUniversity of Mexico, University of Arizona,University of Monterrey, Texas A&M andthe University of Texas. At the Park thereconverge centers of research, developmentand technology of private companies such asMotorola, Pepsico, Sigma Foods, Viakable,

Qualita, Prolec-GE, Cydsa, Metalsa,Furniture Manufacturers Association,Association of Plastic and MTY ITClusterLania (s).

As could be read above, Monterrey Tec isnot only focused on the area of nanotechnology, but also has its sights oninformatics.

That entire world behind the computer thatare creating monstrous global corporations,is obviously another of the gears of theSystem of Domination.

Every day we realize that human beings aremoving away more dangerously from theirnatural instincts, that they are immersed in afalse reality constructed by social networksand the obsessive idea of online updating invirtual spaces.

We live in the digital age, the system isalways in constant dynamism and not onlyhave that everyone alienated themselvesthrough television or the vices that civilizedlife contracts, but also, a giant computernetwork has been made for the dailysuperproduction of more automatons whoserve it blindly to maintain the prevailingorder.

The American neuroscientist Gary Small (t)has said that excessive Internet use causesdamage to brain functioning, in addition toaltering neuronal stimuli that causes peopleto reduce their ability to strike up a conver-sation face to face.

This means that information technology inlarge quantities is isolating the individual andhe or she is becoming a humanoid whoprefers to entire spend hours or days at acomputer rather than live with his smallcircle of lovers and/or friends.

In addition this, the daily and/or excessiveuse of computers and internet causes todiminish the natural capacity we have tocapture details in a direct exchange of wordswith others, for small or developing children,the consequences could be highly dangerousif this way of life of addiction to thecomputer continues, they could developattention deficit hyperactivity disorder in anextreme form.

The lifestyle in which certain individualsdevelop within techno-industrial societydoes not help at all, but rather pushing themto live in a state of crisis, change andnecessary integration into the technologicalmedium, this medium being the socialnetworks.

While more “friends” or visits taken into thisBig Brother trap make them feel totallyrealized, they want to acquire more newcontacts and continue contributing toconsumerism, and thus, the destruction ofWild Nature (including that of humans).

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But Gary Small has not mentioned theconsequences of the use of computers to alertpeople, he has not said this to disapprove ofTechnology, he has said it so that suchproblems are resolved in order to achievescience fiction.

Gary and other scientists are already, bymeans of lasers, stimulating and monitoringneural circuits so that, in the future, manybrain functions can be manipulated by meansof a remote control. As if this were notenough, they are designing, even now, smallimplants in the head of a human being thatthey will be connecting to computers so thatthe machines understand better than medicinethe complexity of the brain (u).

Continuing the theme of informationtechnology, the famous social networks–especially Facebook–have become the centerof attention of techno-industrial society, for inthis the system sees an important ally for thetotal control of human behavior, which isitself, an extremely threatening factor to theestablished order within Civilization.

One of the three leaders of Facebook is PeterThiel, an American businessman who hasproposed the total elimination of the real ornatural world and the imposition of the digitalworld, he has said this.

Analyzing this, we can see that Facebook isnot just a harmless communication network,but a social experiment in mind control whichthe Technological Industrial System is usingwith great effectiveness to exclude theNaturalness of human contact, that is, todevelop in grand form the total alienation ofindividuals to Technology.

But this perverted businessman has not stoodstill, in addition to being one of the maincontributors to that mind-control tool, he hasinvested millions in profits into artificialintelligence research and new technologies toextend the life of man through science. In thishe has as an ally the Singularity Institute forArtificial Intelligence and to the Englishbiomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey,who is specifically in charge of developing, bymeans of a highly advanced technology, theindefinite lengthening of the lifetime of ahuman being, and like this, the man mademachine has been created!

The huge popularity of Thiel’s virtual world ismade possible because people get carried

away by their peers, like sheep following theherd without thinking about why they do.They are being led blindly by the attractiveworld of technological progress and its smallbut important ramifications for exacerbated,useless, and unreal entertainment.

The characteristics that distinguish thesepeople addicted to using the Internet tointeract “socially” are their highly markedfeelings of inferiority, plus, the insecuritythey show living with others is visible, buthaving a person “connected” behind acomputer makes them feel able to tell themthings they did not dare to during a conver-sation.

This is how Technology is, little by little,finishing with social interaction that is apurely natural impulse; we are not talkinghere about building relationships of friend-ship indiscriminately with all people (ITSrejects hypocritical buddy-ism and over-socialization) but within small groups ofloved ones or affinities; Technology isseparating that natural interconnection,reducing it to emails and digital comments.

Seeing this, we would believe that we arereading a science fiction novel, but it is notso. This is what is happening in reality and tonot confront it makes us cowards, softies andaccomplices of the system.

There are more and more inventions that arecreated for the human being to be convertedin the literal sense into a machine, anexample of this are the microchips embeddedunder the skin that have been used in firstworld countries, the consequences of whichalready begin to show.

The scientist Mark Gasson, member of theSchool of Systems Engineering, Universityof Reading in England, has been the firstcase, which was only in 2010, of the failureof these microchips that had embedded in hisbody (v).

So we can read that Gasson is the firsthuman infected with a computer virus,surprisingly we are not speaking of amachine is infected by a virus, but of ahuman being sick with a computer virus! andnevertheless, this idiot scientist feels flattered.Another one of his own already said it:human stupidity has no limits (w).

The push that this type of subject is giving toTechnology is alarming, they are testing onthemselves their techniques of control andmanipulation and then, seeing their faults,

improving and adapting them to themajority of the population, who will

surely, however, look favorablyupon such abjections.

As you can read inthis criticism ofnanotechnology,information

technology, their effects and consequences,there are many truly strong reasons that wehave to have carried out the attack on theMonterrey Tec – Mexico State Campus onMonday morning, August 8th of this year.

Individualists Tending toward the Wild(ITS) has left a package of simulated mailwithin the campus, which contained anexplosive device filled with dynamite,ammonium sulfate (which acted as a poison),a galvanized nipple eight and three quartersinches long, red wires, a small bulb and abattery.

The device was intended for the coordinatorof the aforementioned CEDETEC, Dr.Armando Herrera Corral, but it seems thatthis attack has affected two tecnonerds of onestone, namely the Director of the Doctorateof Engineering Sciences, and a specialist inthe construction of robots, Alejandro AcevesLópez, was also injured by the explosion ofour parcel bomb which also caused materialdamages in one of the buildings inside theTec.

Indeed as mentioned by the press (x), withinthe small cardboard box (containing theexplosive) we have left a message that theexplosion will have fragmented, this messagecontaining a threat signed by ITS. It isuseless for experts to reconstruct since theyalready know what it contains and we aresaying it by means of this text.

Certainly, an attack of this nature has nothappened in previous years within thepremises of this university, but this does notmean that the act is isolated. We havealready struck at another university in thepast, now at this one, which had a grandpublic commotion since the wounded are“respectable teachers” (for society), expertsin their fields (in addition to that we carriedout the attack on just the day the students goon vacation and the authorities inaugratedthe Innovation and Technological Transfer-ence Park of Monterrey Tec, León Campus,Guanajuato), and so the first attack left one(for society) “insignificant” UPVM guardwounded (y) so there was no such reaction.

As we have already said before, ITS actswithout compassion and without mercy,accepting our responsibilities in each act thattransfers explosions against those immedi-ately and intellectually responsible for thedevastation of the Earth.

It is worth noting that ITS is not a group ofsaboteurs (we do not share the strategy ofsabotage or damage or destruction ofproperty).

Until we are satisfied, we have taken thefirm decision to strike at those directlyresponsible for pressing the natural environ-ment into artificial life, not at the institutionsbut at the actual individuals.

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The condemnations have not done theexpected (z), they call us terrorists, thoseuseless members of industrial society, whoknow that we take this term as a compliment;we repeat, we are not some simple saboteursplacing bombs, we are more than that and ifthey categorize us as terrorists, they are right,because our goal is to mutilate and even killthese scientists, researchers, professors andother scum who are reducing the Earth tomere urbanized waste.

Within the investigation work is mentionedthe participation of the Department ofDefense, the PGR, the Interior Ministry(federal), PGJEM, ASE and other corporationsengaged in security, from this communicationwe say: Search what they will, they’ll onceagain be a joke!

The leader of the design project of a humanoidrobot (Alejandro Aceves López) and one of thetwo leaders of the Technology Park (ArmandoHerrera Corral) have tattoos on their bodies(with their wounds) starting from now, thesymbols of the anti-industrial group ITS[Individualists Tending toward the Wild].

It is logical, we will continue with these acts,and other scientists and the rest of techno-swill-ology [the original tecnobazofia moreseamlessly combines two words meaning‘technology’ and ‘pigswill’ or ‘hogwash’ -transl.] must pay the consequences of theiractions, and better for it to be by some wildterrorists like ourselves.

Nature is good, Civilization is evil…

Individualists tending toward the wild.*

Notes:(a) Data from El Economista, February 28th,2011.

(b) First communique of IndividualistsTending toward the Wild (ITS) for thepackage bomb action against the director ofNanotechnology Engineering of the Polytech-nic University of Valle de México (UPVM) onApril 14 of this year. Which left a securityguard seriously wounded.

(c) Second communique of ITS on the actionand a threat of a explosive device against theNanotechnology campus of the same univer-sity May 9th of this year. The result was notpublished by the press, which seeing that ITShad claimed the first attack, decided not todisclose it.

(d) Although we have dissected the termrevolution and revolution in our previouscommuniques, we only have done it within aline, that is, we have critiqued and eliminatedthese terms when we mean that there areindividuals or groups who feel enlightened toproclaim themselves as such. The system hasbeen the example, the system that has made a

joke of “revolutionaries” since the system isthe only thing that is revolutionary, thesystem that has changed everything radicallytending to the artificial and disregarding thenatural, the principal example being theIndustrial Revolution and now the Techno-logical Nanorevolution.

(e) To know more about this term, read theUnabomber Manifesto: Industrial Societyand its Future.

(f) The rest of the scientists also develop thiskind of dominating technology to achieve ahigh social status by means of national andinternational, private or public, prestige;however, the altrustic idea that the scientistsdevelop nanotechnology and whatever kindof this to help others, remains completelyruled out.

(g) Data from El Economista, February 28th,2011.

(h) Conference in the Public University ofNavarra, Spain. March 9th, 2011.

(i) Term used in the book by Eric DrexlerEngines of Creation: The Coming Era ofNanotechnology, 1986).

(j) Passages from the book by Eric DrexlerEngines of Creation: The Coming Era ofNanotechnology, 1986).

(k) Excerpts from the text by Bill Joy “Whythe future doesn’t need us.”

(l) Here, Bill has not understood very deeplywho Ted is in reality. The term Luddite wasgiven to those British artisans who when theIndustrial Revolution happened had to leavetheir jobs because of the rise of modernmachines; they, as a response to thissituation, began to sabotage the machines,but they did not do so because they wantedto destroy the nascent technological progressor because they had a radical critique ofwhere the system would be carrying us withthe machines, but as a simple psychologicalrepercussion of seeing their jobs lost. So,analyzing this, we cannot categorizeKaczynski as a simple Luddite or neo-Luddite because he was and remains morethan that.

(m) She contributed also to the creation of asupposed cure for influenza, according to TheJournal of Science.

(n) ITS considers that health withinCivilization is a far-out concept; therecannot be supposed health when the whole

[entorno meaning ‘environment’ as well as‘whole’ - transl.] is sick.

(o) To delve into this topic, read The MostIngenious Trick of the System by TedKaczynski.

(p) Perhaps it sounds counterproductive tospeak out against the technology while using amachine to write these kind of criticisms andclaims, but ITS has seen it necessary toencourage all those individuals and/or groupsto continue to go to war against the systemand not stay in critical-literary ambit. Thatsaid, we do not in any way justify Technology.

(q) ITS footnote explained the meaning of‘cluster’ in English – transl.

(r) Information taken from the Cluster visionand mission.

(s) Information from clients and contributorsto PIIT

(t) Gary Small, author of the book iBrain, isone of the most important neurobiologists inthe United States. He is also the director ofthe Center for Research of Memory andAging at the Semel Institute of Neuroscienceand Human Behavior at the University ofCalifornia – Los Angeles (UCLA).

(u) Interview with Gary Small: Does theInternet speed up the brain?

(v) Jordan Hall, May 26th, 2010.

(w) Einstein said: Only two things are infinite:the universe and human stupidity. And I amnot sure so sure about the first…

(x) “10 facts on the explosion at MonterreyTec.” El Universal EdoMex, August 8th ofthis year.

(y) “Device explodes in university of Tultitlán;one seriously wounded.” Milenio, April 20thof this year.

(z) “CNDH opens complaint for explosion inthe Tec.”, El Universal, August 8th of thisyear.

* translators note: the group’s name,Individualidades tendiendo a lo Salvaje, isdifficult to translate. Individualidades moreliterally means ‘individualities,’ and salvajemore literally means ‘savage’… having moreof the connotations of barbarousundomesticated wildness than pure pristinewilderness, and without as much racistconnotation as the English ‘savage’ has.

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Chile is home to a strong anarchist/anti-authoritarian movement whichmanifests itself militantly around suchtopics as free education, indigenousstruggle (with the Mapuche), prisonersolidarity, anti-neo-liberalism andremembrance of the victims of thedictatorship, amongst others.

The following is a list from ‘LiberacionTotal’ of revolutionary prisoners currentlylocked up in the prisons there. This list isbeing constantly updated due to transfersand the different circumstances experi-enced by the prisoners. Let’s alsoremember the situation of various fugitivecomrades, among whom are CarlosGutiérrez (charged in the Security Case),Diego Ríos, and Gabriela Curilem. Wehope they never have to be added to thislist and never have to set foot in prison.Send all contributions and updates toliberaciontotal@riseup.net

Francisco MorenoSantiago 1 Private Prison, Block 35

On July 14, 2011, Moreno was arrestedduring a mass student march andaccused of throwing a Molotov cocktail atthe Brazilian embassy, injuring one riot copand leaving another with serious burns.He is currently awaiting trial.

Patricio GallardoAlejandro RodríguezSantiago 1 Private Prison, Security Wing

Gallardo and Rodríguez were arrested onAugust 30, 2010 and charged withattacking a Prosegur armored car inSeptember 2009. Both were MAPULautaro militants and political prisoners inthe 1990s. Their arrests and the proceed-ings against them were an attempt to linkthem to the Bombings Case (“CasoBombas”) as financiers, but the maneuver

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came to nothing. Theyare currently awaitingtrial.

Marcelo VillarroelHigh Security Prison,Special High SecurityWing, H Block North

Villarroel was a MAPULautaro member andpolitical prisoner in the1990s. He is chargedwith taking part in theSeptember 2007Banco Santanderrobbery in Valparaísoand the October 2007

Banco Security robbery in Santiagoduring which repressive agent LuisMoyano died in a shootout while theperpetrators were making their escape.After a period as a fugitive, Villarroel wasarrested on March 15, 2008 togetherwith Freddy Fuentevilla in Neuquen,Argentina. They were then deported toChile on December 15, 2009. He iscurrently awaiting trial.

Juan Aliste VegaHigh Security Prison, Special HighSecurity Wing, J Block

Aliste Vega was a MAPU Lautaro memberand political prisoner in the 1990s. He ischarged with taking part in the September2007 Banco Santander robbery inValparaíso and the October 2007 BancoSecurity robbery. Aliste Vega wasarrested on July 9, 2010 in Argentina andlater deported to Chile on July 22, 2010.He is awaiting trial.

Freddy FuentevillaHigh Security Prison, Special HighSecurity Wing, H Block North

Fuentevilla is a former member of the MIR(Leftist Revolutionary Movement). He ischarged with taking part in the September2007 Banco Santander robbery inValparaíso and the October 2007 BancoSecurity robbery. After a period as afugitive, Fuentevilla was arrested on March15, 2008 together with Marcelo Villarroelin Neuquen, Argentina. They were thendeported to Chile on December 15,2009. He is awaiting trial.

Esteban HuiniguirHigh Security Prison, Special HighSecurity Wing, J Block

Huiniguir is a former MAPU Lautaromember. After his home was raided onMarch 29, 2008 (Young Combatant’sDay), he and other residents werearrested on charges of possession ofMolotov cocktails. Out of a blatantlyabsurd desire to lock him up, he wassentenced to three years and one day in

prison for growing marijuana, plus another541 days for misdemeanor drug traffick-ing, even though only a few plants werefound at his home. He is currently servingout his sentence.

Alberto Olivares FuenzalidaSouth Santiago Prison (Former Peniten-tiary), A Block

Olivares Fuenzalida was an FPMR(Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front)member and political prisoner during the1990s. At the moment, he is locked up oncharges stemming from a number ofexpropriations. In prison, he has partici-pated in hunger strikes and protests whilewriting and fomenting rebellion as amember of the January 22 Collective.He is currently serving out his sentence.

SUBJECT TO PREVENTIVEMEASURES:

Rodolfo RetamalesCristián CancinoCandelaria Cortez MonroyFelipe GuerraMónica CaballeroFrancisco SolarCarlos RiverosCamilo PérezAndrea UrzúaDiego MoralesVinicio AguileraPablo Morales

The defendants are charged with belong-ing to a fantasy criminal organization.Among them are anarchists, anti-authori-tarians, people who have been active inoccupied social centers, and formermembers of armed groups. They were allarrested on August 14, 2010, mixed up inthe “Caso Bombas”, and charged asmembers of a terrorist cell responsible forcarrying out 29 bombings.

None of them are currently in prison, butall are awaiting trial, either on probation(having to regularly sign in at their localpolice station) or under house arrest.The most frequently updated sites withinformation about their case aresolidaridadporlxspresxs.blogspot.comand libertadalos14a.blogspot.com.

liberaciontotal.lahaine.org

Another comrade in Santiago, a veganand anti-authoritarian fighter, CristobalBravo Franke, became a State hostageafter the annual Sept 11 riots to de-nounce the capitalist regime. He has beenbailed before trial. Cristobal was beingwatched by police agents investigatingthe “Caso Bombas”. The prosecutordealing with his case is the same thatarranged the frame-up of the August 14hostages.

With the Rebels... Always!

Us, anarchists, we shouldn’t forget, not evenin those moments when a black defeat calledus towards prudence, the valiant person who

fell for Anarchy.

We can’t see from their fall nothing elsebut will-power for solidarity.

To say they fell because they were a dreamer,or because they were absorbed by theatrics, or

dismiss them because they put their fist orchest further out than some accepted line or

because it is not of this other experience - thisdoesn’t only sing towards disorientation, but

something worse: It declares us superior.That would be like beating them often

after their fall.

We shouldn’t do this. Not only for this man orwoman, but for all the multitude. These cases,many times, creep up over us, it is unfortu-

nate. Games of freedom and life for causes thatseem mean or inopportune.

For the triumph of a strike that left thingsas it was.

Go to the cemeteries and say they were crazyor to prisons and dictate to the cons somesanity, that is even worse, it’s repugnance.

The individual rebellion, or the townsrebellion, will not be, and we all agree, theentire revolution, but it is it’s nerve and it’s

essence. It’s the feeling of this, that without itthere wouldn’t be any anarchists now

nor any anarchy.

Fuck! We have to learn from our defeats, butnot from it’s possibilities and signs but fromwill-power and consciousness. For more firmsolidarity for the fallen and for more action for

those who are still on their feet.

Not so we can be their leaders, but to be, morethan ever, their comrades.

Always with the rebels!

From “Carteles I”, by Rodolfo GonzalezPacheco (1882-1949)

From house arrest in Santiago, Chile –Mónika Caballero, accused in the“Caso Bombas”, writes in solidaritywith the comrades of the Conspiracyof Cells of Fire and with Billy, Silvia andCosta.

In anticipation of the start of the political-judicial-thriller media spectacle known as“Caso Bombas”, I am breaking thesilence of house arrest to send a fraternalgreeting to the comrades in the Revolu-tionary Organisation - Conspiracy ofCells of Fire who yesterday saw theconclusion of their first trial. The exemplaryvindictive measures of the powerful haveshown themselves in the territory denomi-nated the Greek State.

It may seem a poor strategy on the part ofone risking a sentence of 20 years’ prison(accused of participation in a non-existentillicit terrorist association and the placingof explosives) to show solidarity withpeople who declare themselves guilty, butI am not interested in entering therationale of the oppressors and observingimplacably as they imprison the warriorsthat collide with this society and who,attacking, passed to action with convic-tion.

Solidarity to those who have passed tothe offensive has always been criticized bythe pseudo-revolutionaries who see anti-authoritarian practices as youth fashion,and when the war carries high costs theytake a distance and become merespectators of a battle which they haveneither the ovaries or the balls to continue,nor is it to make a group sacrifice ordeliver oneself easily to the enemy.

But what would happen if you did notmake acts of solidarity toward those whohave been struck by capital? Is it lessdangerous to support those that arelegally innocent? I am an anarchist and Iam not interested in the laws of society.

Solidarity is not just a high-sounding wordof communiques, it is a material andconcrete practice.

Wherever they are, an imprisoned anti-authoritarian cannot feel alone. Tomorrowcould already be late…

For you prisoners of the “Halandri case”:I read your communiques and declara-tions, I have made many of your words myown and cherish them like a beautifultreasure. Without ever having had theopportunity to exchange a word with you Icall you comrades and I feel your heavysentences in my bones.

The hegemony of power uses (will use)the same strategies. The trial that is beingcarried out in this part of the world is abad copy of other trials, and your trial willbe a model to be followed for manygovernments : it will be “the great anti-terrorist victory”.

But all this happens where there is themost beautiful disobedience. Ideas cannotbe defeated, indeed they reinforcethemselves in others that hold themcarved in their chest.

I imagine the pleasure on the faces of theguards at seeing the bodies of suchworthy people behind bars. Anger anddisgust fill me thinking about it. Prison,death and escape are in the DNA of theunyielding, they are the cost for havingbitten the chains.

Walls and borders separate us, ideasunite us.

A tiny gesture… I hope it will give youa smile in these hard times.

I would like to take this opportunity tosend a hug of solidarity to Silvia, Costaand Billy

I give you a poem by Sandra Trafilaf,political prisoner of Pinochet’s militarydictatorship, written around 1984.

“Fences and metal doors surround thisunderworld trying to imprison our joy ofliving and loving, the letters of mycomrades are fluttering in this impro-vised writing desk cries and voicesfrom afar mingle with their wordsconfused, dark memoriesof murderous volleysand all the sameI fill up again with strugglesand victories.I am not alone.”

n ka b l eró i CMónika CaballeroAn anarchist awaiting trial

Ps: I would like to thank each individualand/or collective that spreads eachrelease and makes possible interactionbetween comrades.

Let er from Mónika Caballerter ro Mó ika C ba eroLett r fr m n ka a alle oLette f om Móni a Cab ll roLetter from Mónika Caballero

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TORTUGAPRESENTE!

HARD NEWS FROM CHILE :

Luciano 'Tortuga' PitronelloSchuffeneger, a young Chileancomrade in struggle (22), risked hislife to carry out an explosive attackagainst a branch of Santander Bankin Santiago on the 1st of June 2011.

During the operation he suffered atragic accident, which left him withserious injuries, now he has awokenfrom his coma into the jurisdiction ofthe police and family environmentwith a judicial process which beginson 22nd September. After a period ofrecovery, Tortuga has been releasedfrom the hospital and now a judicialprocess is starting against him.Emotionally, Tortuga is managing hisemotions so that he lives every daytrying not to raise his expectations, tobe clear about the incident thataffected him and the uncertainsituation in which he’s located. Hefeels very strong, positive towardslife, wants to recover and he will.Ideally, he wants to live in one placeto share his life with his partner anddaughter (of 3 years old), seeing theirfriends and comrades.

A fighter knows that they will over-come any obstacle and that isLuciano’s purpose.

International solidarity with LucianoTortuga and his partner, daughter,friends and affinities.

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For the spreading of action

Anarchist and anti-authoritarian dissi-dence has grown explosively in Chilesince 2004. In the streets, neighbour-hoods and universities a presence hasincreased without a doubt, showing therejection of authority, State and Capital-ism.

In this context many diverse groups havedecided to pass to the offensive illegalstruggle against the State.

In this optic they have attacked variousbank agencies, police stations, churchesand amusement centres of the bourgeoi-sie and the rich with explosive devices.

Each one of the attacks is claimed inpolitical communiques with names ofdead fighters we want to remember.They are carefully planned not to hurt ordamage anybody, only the structureschosen to be attacked.

This fact is not insignificant, becausethere is evidence of a precise recognitionof what is the enemy, and where it hidesitself, not confusing it with anyone. Thisdemonstrates in the long term, aprojectuality of struggle and not thesimple desire to appear, as happens withmilitarists drifts, the adrenalin fetish, orego-driven action. So, the attacks followone another, increasing in boldness andcomplexity over the years. Power istricked from the very interior of thepanoptical city, which is why it is madeto feel the hysterical rage sweating outfrom the ministerial palaces. So the huntbegins, the judicial but also mediapersecution unfolds. Known anarchists,ex- political prisoners and those whohave transformed practical vindicatedsolidarity into a continuous way of life,are threatened and persecuted by pro-government and official means.

After years of investigations, interceptionof telephone calls, pursuits, shootingsand search points, the diverse policeorganisms are incapable of finding thepeople responsible for the attacks.

But one freezing dawn of the month ofMay was to make the police lighten their

step. The 22 of May of 2009, anarchistcomrade Mauricio Morales (27 years) iskilled. The explosive charge that he wascarrying blows up in his hands, killinghim in the act.

He was on his way to the gendarmerieschool, an institution that has links withthe jails of the whole country, directlyresponsible for the confinement ofhundreds of thousands of prisoners.

Following the death of the comradeMauri the police immediately darttowards his surroundings and circle ofcomrades. So, the anti-cultural spacesthat Mauri visited are pointed at andattacked, the same day and over thefollowing months. Houses searched,comrades kidnapped, okupas (squats) areevicted and the circles are narrowed.Beyond the accuracy or falsity of theconjectures of power, what is certain isthat those with relations of affection andcomradeship will be struck and harassed.

Anybody that has shared something withthe comrade Mauri and who does notaccept remaining in silence as a form ofmemory, will be immediately swell thelist of suspects.

In spite of the adverse context, there arestill clenched fists, comrades that do notshut up, that are still not resigned… thereare those who smile with each overflow-ing act of rebelliousness. The pain isterrible, but many attacks change thepain into rage. The permanent scar willremind them every day of the loss of thecomrade.

The attacks follow and the look ofshame on the powerful takes a walkexasperated, because direct action evenarrives two blocks away from thepresident’s home. The anarchists arelaughing and they are laughing loudly.

Power will take revenge for its incapacityto discover those responsible for theactions, attacking 14 comrades, prisoners,under the gross and fictitious accusationof forming an illicit terrorist association.This group would be responsible for atleast 30 of the attacks produced in thecapital city.

Active Solidarity with LucianoPitronello, Tortuga

The investigations, denominated by thepress the “Caso Bombas”, forcibly andcapriciously regroups 14 people who didnot know each other, that have no linksin some cases, even politically.

The charges that weigh on the comradesare a gross and ignorant blow, becausehistorically anarchists have never haveregrouped around a leader or cupola.The illicit association, as a concept ,attacks the basis of anarchist horizontalorganization, the only real thing aboutthe application of this charge andconcept is the increasing of possiblesentences.

Power is smiling through the press,because revenge has been unleashed on adiffuse area that questions the veryexistence of authority. It’s raining insultsand the fear is spreading, making manyretreat and stay in silence and remainingsilent as their only answer.

In spite of that, not everything is si-lenced, there still exist those who use allthe instruments possible to fight againstpower.

Sadly, on June 1, of 2011, a terribleaccident stains a new date in the calendarwith blood. That cold dawn comradeLuciano Pitronello, Turtle, (22 years)takes the terrible blast of the shockwaveof a homemade bomb placed in a bank.The comrade Turtle advances woundedand in shock, while the security camerasrecord those crucial minutes. The firedevours his clothes while his steps aredisoriented by the pain.

The press arrives at the spot almostimmediately. Like the good mercenariesthat they are, they point their cameraswith morbid intention to hurt thefeelings of Turtle and his dear ones.

This is the way that the comrade is filmed: wounded and naked, covered ingunpowder and screaming in pain. Theseimages will be repeated continuously asthe best advertisement of the misery thatrepresents capital and its culture ofarrogance.

“A comrade is wounded and in thehands of the police, that is reasonenough to support and show solidar-ity”….

Turtle is transferred to a hospital, wherehis right hand and three fingers of the left

one are amputated from him. His eyes areseriously damaged and he is only able todistinguish indistinct forms. His hearinghas also been damaged, and he has haddozens of skingrafts of his own skin.

He is badly wounded and his condition isserious. Even so, he manages to goforward, to push his body in spite offacing a very complex situation, as muchin terms of health as in the moral andjudicial consequences.

Almost 4 months after Turtle’s accident,the comrade left the clinic where he wasbeing held, and transferred to the homeof his mother, where he remains underpolice and family monitoring.

Sadly, in all these months, not only hashis nuclear family collaborated with thepolice organisms giving the names ofTurtle’s circle of friends, but they havealso publicly discredited the ideas andway of life of our comrade Turtle.This lamentable fact reminds us of otherexperiences, where even brothers orcouples decided to collaborate with thepolice, due to fear or for economicreward.

Very different from the combative andsupportive attitude that other parents andfamilies who have come out into thestreets for many years, demanding thefreedom of their dear ones or rescuingtheir names from oblivion.Respect for the ideas and decisions oftheir sons and daughters is essential forthose who do not become collaboratorsof their relatives’s enemies.

Turtle’s partner, with whom he has a 3year old daughter, has been supportive ofthe comrade, but also has been the targetof the revenge of the press and of justice.Her home has being raided and herpersonal life has been put on display as away to break her morale.

Face to face with the enemy

This September 22, the comrade Turtlewill have to face the formalization ofcharges in front of the Chilean judges.That day Capital, the Chilean State andits powers, will wreak revenge on thecomrade. Revenge that has beenmeticulously orchestrated and prepared,for every detail strikes him accurately.

Comrade Luciano, still convalescing fromhis wounds and wearing a special suit for

burns, will have to appear before acrowded room not only of judges,lawyers and gendarmes, but also ofmercenary journalists. Who will nodoubt photograph each of his woundsand film any difficulty the comrade has inmoving.

Therefore the revenge that he willreceive is composed of two factors, oneentirely judicial, because the comradewill face a court who represents thebourgeois and democratic social order.A court that will not hesitate a second insentencing him to one long sentence insome modern extermination centre.With this, looking to give a clear signal toall those who decide to go beyond thesubmissive citizen routine and the peaceof cemeteries imposed by normality.But a second aspect, no less important,of the revenge orchestrated by Poweragainst Luciano, has to do with the levelof media exhibition.

The morbid spectacle that they will erectin that room of the court, has the aim ofdestroying the comrade, to make himcollapse politically and psychically, toattack his moral and annihilate it. As alsoto strike those close to him and who arelike him and support with him.

Power yearns to turn the life of ourcomrade Turtle into the example ofpunishment, to instill fear and stagnationinto all the dissident sectors of thedemocratic theatre.

By punishing Turtle, they will try topunish all those who refuse to swallowthe story of the social pact; there arealready groups, anarchists, who are takingupon themselves an open offensiveagainst capital state/, with its symbols andorganizational forms, like also all thegroups and individual students that ininsurrectional ways are taking to thestreets and leaving in them the sweat andthe blood, after long days of confronta-tions with the police.

All of the context lived recently on thatpiece of land named Chile, constitutesone more of the scenarios of the socialwar like in various parts of the “globe”.

The overflowing of the “citizen protests”of the uncontrollables, once againsurpasses with deeds and words thedesired social control and sense ofnormality that is installed through massmeans.

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It is in this same path of struggle andaction, of persistence and courage, thatTurtle took words and dreams, turningthem into arms, attacking in spite of thepossible consequences that we all know.

The State/Capital through its legal/mediatic/policial institutions is trying toestablish its authority unquestioned.Public defamation, repression, jail andbullets will be some of the variedweapons that they will use with in theobject of breaking the will and theactions of the irreducible ones that donot look for dialogue, because they areconsumed in war against all authority.

In that sense fear, paralysis, passivity orsilence concerning the situation thatfaces Luciano means to hand oneself overto the enemy. Our resignation againstwhat happens with the comrade will givea victory to power and its controlmechanisms.

The role of the journalists/police in theconflict.

The State, shamed by the lack ofconcrete results to give the peoplecharged with the explosive attacks, iselaborating ridiculous theories, that theyare trying to sustain with police stupidity,mass media and massive indifference.Lamentably, Turtle’s accident grantsthem the perfect occasion to create animmense apparatus in the style of the oldRoman circus to apply its laws.

In this process of public lynching notonly police and judges have becomejumbled, but the great mass media, whoplay a fundamental roll. Contributors,

accomplices, collaborators and centralplace in the power relationships.

Not only do they work openly with thepolice, in addition they do not scrimp inefforts to publicly and morbidly exhibitthe bodies of the comrades in theprisoners’ dock, exhibit their wounds ortheir dead bodies.

They exhibited our brother Mauri,showing his dead body, causing deeppain to his dear ones and comrades. Theyinvented a supposed interview to falsecomrades of Mauri, eager only todiscredit him and systematically attackedhis surroundings of affection andcommitment. They validated withinfamous news articles, all the repressivegame of the bomb case.

The insult that we have received fromthe journalists cannot be forgotten, itcannot be standardized and ingenuouslybelieved that they are just the excesses ofprecise people. They have attacked, theyhave harmed our dignity and the privacyof our brothers and that humiliation mustbe returned, blow by blow, until theyback down.

It is the work of the press, more andmore committed in the direct fightagainst those who take up the offensive,that has generated gross stereotypes ofthose who fight. Their news articlesinstill paranoia and demonisation,generating concepts like “vandals”,“soulless” and “violent”, to mention afew.

In these days they give a prize to thegood citizen, decree the minute of fame,

for the stupid idiot ones that collaboratewith the control organisms, or assumereactionary positions as informers in thestudent mobilizations.

But the footmen journalists have notstopped there, they took a further step inpersecuting, coarsely denouncing anddefamating the comrades in incredibleways. They have arrived at the pointfrom which journalists like Max Frickand F.A.V.P. appear as protectedwitnesses in the “Caso Bombas”.

Their testimonies, plagued with lies andpersonal revenge, are trying to condemnthe comrades in one of the most mediaorchestrated cases of recent times. Fortheir declarations these two idiots receiveprotection and money from the State…their lives get fat and comfortable, whileour brothers undergo confinement.

It is against these facts and against thepolice attack, that we must make clearthat revolutionary solidarity, internation-

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Note for Luciano

We'll never forget the morning, where newsflooded through of the accident that had

happened, the moments that changed it forall of us here, in that hard time, where we

were stunned.

Although we've never met or known eachother, we know very well the desire to

attack the banks, and it felt like my brotherand comrade had been harmed.

Nothing will ever remain the same it was.

Not knowing your situation, we made adeep thought, that you would choose thelife or death that only you would choose,that nobody would dictate that to you -what your life or death will be - as wecontemplated news of your coma andinjuries, and how we would commit

ourselves to direct action.

Sabotage is the gift of life to itself. Icouldn't write meaningless sentences in thisregard. It is not a matter of you or us, onlyour common struggle and never ever givingup, and we remain with our deep thought

that you chose life because you arestronger than that death, and stronger thanthe death-system itself, and have more lifeto live, and gifts to give, from the place of

shadows which you have crossed.

Some anarchists

El TortugaPoem for Luciano

we stand, el tortuga,steady and strong,held like all the peoplebefore us and beside us,on the turtles back

your shell catches our tearsof joy, of sorrow,fresh hollow-ways down which we slideinto new worlds,delighted as children,carving deeper into freedomwith every thought of you

we do not know you,yet we feel you, brother,and we felt each moment

we send you the deep valleys,the falcons calling across blue skythe sunsets which pour light into the hillslike evening wine into vermilion cups

we send you the strike of a match,the midnight routes,the anarchist plots hatched amongstthe looking-glass swampsand embroidered treesthe joy of a bulls-eye on a paper wall

we send you our vision with which we alsowalk into a future we cannot clearly see

you walked strong and blind,injured but unbowedby the flames you set against the enemy

alism and active memory are substantialand indissoluble elements in all theprocess of struggle.

To the comrades who are in the frontfiring line receiving the blows of thepower, we, from this small writtengesture, shout with all our lungs:solidarity, memory and action!!!

All those directly facing Capitalism areour brothers, and we shout tears forthose no longer physically with us. Wehave not forgotten them, we are all withyou and in all the possible ways, alwayspresent, eternally present.

This is the moment in which the slogan“nobody is alone in the social war”, mustacquire a special practical meaning. Itdepends on us, certainly, and on our realwill to realise the common effort ofsolidarity.

All actions are extremely valuable andurgent: letters, pamphlets, discussion,agitation, bombs and fire, are feeding theindomitable spirit of our comrades.

For that reason the call is to organizesolidarity this September 22. We mustmake our brother and comrade feel bymeans of all type of gestures, that thefighters of all parts of the globe aresharing this hard trial with him. Becausethe fight for freedom is one, inside andoutside. Forgetfulness and silence… arecharacteristic only of traitors.

Debate, spread, attack, not one stepback in front of the enemy.

Fire and more fire for Capitalism,their defenders and their false critics.

A fraternal greeting and total support tocomrade Luciano at this difficult momentand those that may come.Rebel spirits: they are not satisfied withbeing affected by what happens toLuciano… from words to acts, theactions will make us brothers, no mattershow dark the night appears.

Active solidarity, with the comrades inChile, Greece, Switzerland, Mexico, theUSA and all the accomplices of the revoltin each corner of the world.

Freedom to all political prisoners! Fire tothe jail, flight to the rebels!

To the streets for the young people

assassinated during the student protests:Manuel Gutierrez and MarioParraguéz, we do not want bourgeoisjustice, we look for revolutionaryexecution …..

In memory of our dear comrade ClaudiaLopez, young anarchist assassinated bythe police on September 11, 1998 in areaof La Pincoya.

Black September of 2011.

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and we lend you our own handssetting their own flamesagainst the same enemy

we share with youthe stealth of the night airwhich only the saboteur knows,guided by owls through the underworld,the scent of dark grass, the cooling concrete,the quiet dust,the moonlit stenchof abandoned alleyways,the startled thwack of wings in the trees,that spectacular, lonely windexhilarating determined skin

the sudden flame in the dark

el tortuga, we too know the feelof those guerilla nightswhen only the present moment exists,when only war walks maskedthrough the sullen, daring streets,provoking sunriseand the awakening of life intothe promise of a better day than today

those nights are ours tooand in our sleeplessness,we send you our dreams

remember, el tortuga,if you are held now in the hands of ourjailers, you are held more tightlyin the hearts of your comrades,known and unknown,

and for those of us who acceptthat we will all, in the end,be burnt by our own fire,we take strength from the fact thateven in flames you did not kneel.

L.L.

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The rebellion continues…until total liberation!Circulo Individualista Aves del Fuego(Individualist Cell of Birds of Fire)“We fight for the liberation of the individual.For the conquest of life. For the triumph ofour ideas. For the realization of our dreams.And if our ideas are dangerous, it is becausewe are those who love to live dangerously.And if our dreams are crazy, it is because weare crazy. But our madness is our greatwisdom…” [1]

There they were, the voracious youth again,destroying everything, erecting barricades,clashing with police, nothing could stopthem… There is fire and passion in theirhearts, love and hatred on their insides,courage and decision. The beauty of chaoshas returned to grace the streets, it is notonly fire that adorns the asphalt, it is also theenergy of the youth, the abolition of thesexes, everyone in the struggle… Will thisstruggle bear fruit? To want to study just tobe someone in life? The individual who goessearching for real happiness, does not stop atso little, she knows that she can educateherself, and although that path is longer, thatdoesn’t make it less interesting, becauseeverything else is interminable…

To raze the school is possible today, like itwas done in the colegio Guillermo Cruz deEstaciòn Central, in the colegio GabrielGonzales Videla, that sheltered the studentsof liceo Insuco 2 from the earthquake andalso the Polytechnic of Arica; those placesintentionally lit ablaze by those beautifulpajarillas who understand that this destruc-tion is a great step towards the conquest oflife…

The journey is intense and difficult, it alwayshas been, when individuals fed up with theirmiserable conditions organize and attack.One cannot be afraid of those who organizeonly for one specific goal although it is onlyto destroy, because at this point we knowthat to build, we must destroy… And all thereasoning these petty politicians supposedlyhave when they talk about the problem ofeducation, does nothing for anyone, becausethe discontent grows and advances, althoughthe bureaucrats and businessmen almostalways end up winning. And they believethat to repress passion is a simple thing, thatwith a little tear gas and a little water theywill snuff it out, like any other flame, so theywill have to be reminded that they arewrong, again and again, those idiots. Thenight always illuminates our steps, just likefree love allows us unlimited bliss, to find uswith the beautiful silence of obscurity, or atthe feet of the fresh rays of the rising sun;

(rays which don’t caress those awkwardworkers drooling over the bus windows andsubway glass), running into the heat of abarricade, it’s magic, like somethingsupreme, or can only god be supreme?We burn the churches with their pedophilepriests inside, we watch those cowardlyabusers from the front to spit in their faces…another day comes, but this is one of thebeautiful ones, because we will combine thesun that caresses us with its heat with anemancipatory fire full of joy and hope…

Here are the barricades again, with thosesensual forms we are drawn by the fire,which one day happened to arrive at a LaPolar warehouse stocked with dirty mer-chandise. But the good guys are coming, thefirefighters, those most contemptible beings,those infamous voyeurs, who complainabout being hit with rocks when they weregoing to put out the fire, but we stillremember when they gave their ladders tothe police to evict the people of Andha Chilewho were squatting the Mapocho for adecent living; cowards always in the serviceof authority. The individual who movestoward the greatest happiness possible, willnever stumble, her journey is unique andwithout equal, there is nothing that can stopher, not the cops in red who beat her withsticks, not morality imposing its limits, notthe police infiltrators who dirty her path, notthe din of their sirens to silence her…

“We banish those terrible mores fromourselves completely, like evil men who forso long have caused us harm” [2], imposingnorms, morals, discipline, gods and theiridiotic doctrines, we always forget societyand its dominions, and cast ourselves nakedinto an encounter with our inner beings.

Today it is time to kill the cops in our heads,and this, to be sure, is a great battle. It’smuch easier to throw a rock at an armoredtruck and believe that, from this act, libertyclosely follows. It’s much easier to spendhours and hours talking about revolution andorganization. It’s much easier to believe thatgoing to a free university will change theworld. Students, don’t be fooled, rememberthat those who control the world alsoattended the university, and to their disgrace,some studied for free. And what did theybecome? Heartless beings capable of torturein their jails and murder for a few cents, andwhat do you say now? That you’ll beanother? This remains to be seen…

Liberty is a vital and absolute force, thismust be what unites us, whatever otherdemand will fade away with time, but if wereach any understanding of the vitality of theconquest of the individual’s own life, therewill be no law that can stop her, no fear thatparalyzes her, no chains that bind her, nogods that punish her as she advances firmlytoward total emancipation! There are thosewho still believe in revolution, and to themwe say that ours began long ago, at themoment we decided to stop being sheep andbecame individualist and nihilist anarchists.

So, we’re not scared to tell them that today,social revolution is impossible, because thissociety is rotten at its core, as a product ofwhich the individual was slowly fitted withvalues and a moralism that destroys hercompletely, and how? A taste of the whipand its punishment, of a militarized educa-tion, of the opus dei of supernumerarycatholicism, and of a bourgeois Christiandemocratic tradition; etc… basically, of thesystem. And what’s worse, those people feelproud to be humans and not animals, and asthough this was not enough, they enslaveand indiscriminately use the animals tolengthen their miserable lives. Thus, wedespise humanity, simply because theirsubmissive and alienated behaviors thatmake them modern slaves, are not within us.

In this world of sickness, “we feel alive whenwe shudder with the perfume of the flowers,with the songs of the birds, with the crashingof the waves, the sound of the wind, thesilence of solitude” [3], we feel alive whenwe tremble with the heat of the fire, with thecaress of chaos, with the nights of revolt…

“We rushed into the chasm, to respond tothe voices of our dead” [4], they who diedfighting with weapons in their hands andimmense golden stars in their eyes, thosewho are immortal like el punky Mauri, likeClaudia Lopez, who on any given nightfound themselves facing death so gracefully.Yes, because those of us who choose to livean intense and dangerous life, death receivesus with open arms, caresses us and kissesus… Why don’t we fear death? Because “weare used to thinking that death is nothing tous, because everything, good and bad, resideswithin sensation and death is the deprivationof the senses. Death is nothing to us becausewhen we exist, death is absent and, whendeath is present, then we no longer exist.”[5]

“The wise (the fierce individual) neitherrefuses life nor fears death, because to her, itis not a burden to be alive, nor is it an evilnot to be.” [6] It’s true, we want everything,we dream of huge banquets and shun breadand tea, we want grand orgies and rejectmonogamy. We believe in free love becausewe know “that jealousy, and exclusiveromance, conjugal fidelity, kills off part ofthe self, impoverishes sentimental personal-

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ity, narrows analytical horizons, amongother things. And furthermore, in love as inalmost everything else, it is only abundancewhich annihilates jealousy and envy…” [7]we want to run together with the animals inthe fields and the forests, we want to bathenaked on the beaches, rivers and lakes andnot end up at a precinct for indecency.“We reassert the right to live naked, to takeoff our clothes, to wander naked, to jointogether among nudists without any concernof discovering the body’s resistance totemperature, this is to affirm the right to thedisposition of individual corporeality…” [8]

If there are those who belittle our beautifulsolitude, then we propose to them freeassociation, instead of a society (society =membership by force). We are egoists, butour egoism is generous. What does thismean? That we can give to and concernourselves with someone who we considerour friend, simply because it is a chosenemotion, unlike with comrades, because inmost situations you don’t choose them, yousimply encounter them in some global orparticular conflict and because of this youcannot expect anything from them.

Chilean society is convulsing, it knowsthere’s a conflict and doesn’t know how itwill end, there are students wounded, twodead and a few in jail, there are others onhunger strike, the tension increases, it’svisible in the streets every time there’s a dayof action and protest, the confrontationsbetween pacifist and violent protestors keepon increasing, so much that they have struckand snatched the masks off of someencapuchadxs. Careful, citizens, civil wardoesn’t frighten us… Liberatory violence isthe only way to put an end to the dailysuffering of the individual and the crueltragedies that scourge the humans andanimals of this earth.

Violence is only justifiable when it’snecessary to defend oneself, or if you wish,others from violence. The oppressed andpoor are constantly in a state of legitimatedefense, so their violence against theirexploiters and oppressors are always justified.Besides, for two to live in peace, they haveto both want the peace; if one of the twoinsists on wanting to force the other (byhunger) to work, study, or follow their laws,the oppressed, if they want to maintain theirdignity as individuals and not be reduced tothe most abject slavery, in spite of all theirlove for peace and harmony, they will haveno choice but to resist by force with meansappropriate to the circumstances…

Any real change will necessarily be violent,though violence on its own may be harmful.It has to be violent because it would bemadness to hope that the privileged wouldrecognize the pain and injustice theirprivileges cause and decide to voluntarilyrenounce them. It has to be violent because

temporary revolutionary violence is the onlyway to put and end to the much greater andperpetual violence that has enslaved the largemajority of humans and animals…

Today we want to present the individualist-nihilist anarchist viewpoint of this conflict, aswell as to revive the ideas captured on paperthat some people have made tangential. Ourintention will never be to speak as authoritiesor lead a flock.

We are the negation of negation, we are anightmare for those who seek hegemonyover anarchism or continue with the old androtten concept of class war, we are clearabout what we desire and believe, we’re notinterested in making a good impression onpeople, for us the class war is dead, the poorsteal from the poor, in the streets the it’s theproletariat who represses the in the insurgentproletarian, the modern slaves who add alink to their chains each day, who bow downto consumerism.

What would the people do if we shut downall their fast food joints?

What would the people do if we burned alltheir stores?

What would the students do if we tore downtheir schools and universities?

What would society do if they destroyedtheir beloved phone and internet towers?

To summarize, what would proletarians do ifwe gave them back their life? We believethey would search for us until they found andkilled us, but what they don’t know is thatwe are already dead, and sadly, the deadcannot be killed…

The revolt is here, we must increase ourparticipation, our generous egoism needs tocontribute, for now, to the struggle, togather and organize ourselves for specificends such as destruction, enjoyment, lovingcamaraderie, encounters with chaos,advancing towards the dawn [or awakening]of the creative nothing, then returning to ourhiding places, to rejoice and dance with thebirds, to nourish ourselves with the energy ofthe trees, to feel the ocean breeze, to hear thelovely melody of the wind…

We have already said it and we’ll say itagain: our revolution has already begun, wemake it from day to day, making free love,declaring ourselves against every god andreligion, deconstructing the dominatinglanguage that they imposed on us, openlyopposing any society, we make it when westop being men and women and becomeunique human beings.

They complain, with reason, that individual-ist and nihilist anarchists don’t have aprogram or offer a pseudo-revolutionary

project, nor are we interested in insertingourselves in any type of society. To put itquantitatively: among boundless occupa-tions, ours is the search for total satisfaction,endless joy, pleasure, eternal happiness, theindividual revolution here and now. After all,we’ll tell them: only time will tell whoachieves their goals…

“It is the hour of the social tragedy!

We will destroy, laughing.

We will burn, laughing.

We will kill, laughing.

We will expropriate, laughing. And societywill fall. The fatherland will fall. The familywill fall. Everything will fall, since the freeman has been born. The time to drown theenemy in blood has arrived… [9]

For an International Union of Egoists.At dawn, night will fall!

Bibliography:

1, 4 and 9. Renzo Novatore. Towards theCreative Nothing.

2, 5, and 6. Epicuro. Various texts.

3. Emile Armand. To Feel Alive.

7. Emile Armand. Love Between Anarcho-Individualists.

8. Emile Armand. Nudism.

Note: If we have decided to use somequotations literally and others only inpartially, it is only to bring up individualswho gave their lives in thought and action toan ideal: INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY!

Note 2: A giant embrace to theConspiracy of Cells of Fire, especiallytheir prisoners, for their enormouscontribution to the individualist-nihiliststruggle.

Note 3: Greetings to all those in the FAI/Federacion Anarquista Informal.

Note 4: Love to all prisoners.

Note 5: To our dear brother Luciano: onlywith violent direct action will we pay youhomage, our hand are now also yours, andvery strong.

Burning Barricades onHighway 5 South in Curicó

Communique:

Attack for Vengeance

We decided, on the basis of informalorganization, to take vengeance, first of allbecause of the hurry of our lives, contami-nated by the poison of reality, that we injectthis disgusting society of subjugation andservitude, and furthermore to solidarize withthose who feel in their own flesh, thebrutality of positioning themselves at waragainst authority from within the dun-geons…

We claim responsibility for the fire in thenight of Tuesday the 2nd of this month[August 2011], that broke with the deathlikesocial peace, and the boring tranquility towhich this sick society subjects us, interrupt-ing Highway 5 South, in suburban area ofthe city of Curicó, we also hung a bannerthat said:

“VENGEANCE FOR OUR FALLENAND CAPTIVE COMRADES -NOTHING AND NO ONE IS FOR-GOTTEN”

We dedicate this brief flying arson to thosewho fly far from the cages in their insurgentflight, to our brother Tortuga, who, inaddition to his injuries finds himself hostageof the clutches of power, to MarcelVillarroel for his indomitable couragewithin the cages of the terrorist State, to ourbrothers and sisters of the CCF, to theanonymous fighter who was killed by theson of a bitch Paz Ciudadana.

Let’s be clear: yesterday and always,whoever decides to entrench himself on thepath of power, will be in our sights.

No aggression will remain unanswered.Far from the fetish.Against every form of authority.

We join in this new revitalizing destructiveforce that will have recourse to the new eraof antisocial anarchism and revolutionarynihilism.

FAI / Individuals Conspiring for theDestruction of the Existent.

More info about struggles in the ChileanState and surroundings can be found inthese places:

http://22demayo.wordpress.com/http://www.hommodolars.org/http://liberaciontotal.lahaine.org/http://vivalaanarquia.wordpress.com/http://santiaskoanarquista.noblogs.org/

Solidarity with the

comrades in $hile

All around the world the social war is raging, ahard fight is happening as the new dawn ofglobal insurrection against every system ofdomination comes to the fore. In Chile, aseverywhere, the people are making battleagainst the neo-liberal capitalist forces whichpersist in their dictatorship through thefreemarket. At the expense of the population’sneeds to survive and take pleasure in theirlives, the bankers, military and politicians takeevery advantage to exploit the time and labourof the people, and sell-off the “naturalresources” which are the body of the Earthitself.

In Chile, State institutions, banks, multi-nationals and large businesses have beentargeted continuously by explosive devices,arson, paint, stones and the rage of the people.In the recent general strike on 4 August, whichreached combative proportions in several citiesacross the entire Chilean territory, the peoplecame onto the streets to confront the Statethrough demonstrations, barricades, molotovsand their shared will to overthrow the existentorder and go beyond the conditions of miserywhich have come to mean the routine.

Our common struggle against capitalism andthe State can always be made real in apractical framework of international solidaritythat expresses our revolutionary intent.

Let’s each of us do what we can to make realour solidarity with all the young people,students, anarchists, anti-authoritarians,indigenous people like the Mapuche, and allthe different people which are in opposition tothe Chilean State.

From writing to the prisoners, translatingarticles from Spanish, penning articles,making leaflets, stickers & posters, organisingsolidarity events like benefits, gigs and shows,to stencils, graffiti slogans, demos and attacksagainst State interests or multi-nationalcorporations that are operating in Chile, likeSantander Bank or Benetton.

For an informal proposal to answer the attacksof the comrades in Chile with our own directactions against the Civilisation of Death.

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Santander bankattacked in

Mexico

This is the claim of responsibility:

[June 2011] : The first day of this month, apiece of news shocked our consciences. Acomrade thousands of miles away from

where we are had been wounded in action;his name: Luciano Pitronello. ...

The press, the authorities and, even more,the Chilean society make fun of your

condition, but there is a saying: He wholaughs last laughs best. And we laughed tosee the shattered bank in which we deto-

nated an explosive charge of a little less thanhalf a kilo of black powder consisting of twocanisters of butane gas, a bottle of gasoline

and tied tightly together with annealed wire,within the ATM area of the Santander bankin the bleak town of Tultitlan in the State of

Mexico, yesterday June 29th. ...

The deafening sound of the explosion lastnight carried your voice, those of your

friends, our voices and those of our unknowncomrades in whatever parts of the world.

The inept police observed our action, thedamages caused by our improvised explosive

device, impotent as always to have notforeseen a similar blow to a bank that now

has become a global objective since Tortugawas gravely wounded in the streets of

Santiago, so in Chile, Argentina, and now inMexico we have attacked it.

Santander has no escape, because while aslong as there are individuals who act in

solidarity and arm themselves to take to thestreets to illuminate them with fire or withthe brilliance of broken glass in Santander’s

branches, propaganda by the deed willcontinue to prevail, the authorities willcontinue to look at each other without

knowing what to do in such situations, soeven though we fall prisoner or dead, theycannot stop the war that they have startedmany centuries ago–to be precise, since the

beginning of civilization and agriculture.

Tortuga, this was for you, you fucker!*Direct solidarity with the anti-social

prisoners of Greece, with the eco-anarchists of Switzerland, Mexico and

the United States.

Chaos has returned for all those whothought that she was dead.

Against all domination,

Earth Liberation Front / InternationalNetwork of Action and Solidarity –Informal Anti-Civilization Group

* “fucker” as a term of endearment – transl.

POLICE ATTEND ATM BLAST

News from the Social Warin Sulawesi and JavaIn recent months, several acts of uncom-promising solidarity with people’s strugglesaround the Indonesian State have takenplace on the island of Sulawesi, from oneend to another, in the cities of Makassarand Manado, and with the latest one now inBandung, West Java, the RevolutionaryOrganisation - Informal AnarchistFederation, (RO-FAI) Indonesia sectionannounced formation. Here is a shortchronology of some ignited passions:

March 22, Makassar : McDonalds fast-food restaurant attacked. Severalindividuals armed with rocks destroyed theglass shopfront and door of the multina-tional fast-food restaurant on JalanPerinitis Kemerdekaan, leaving behind acommunique:•“For the exploitation in Bima(West Nusa Tenggara), for Kulon Progo,West Papua and other places. State andCapital will have to face our fury”

March 25, Makassar : Burning of BCABank ATM. A BCA ATM located outside theUniversity of East Indonesia (UIT), JalanRappocini, Makassar was set alight byunknown individuals. The arsonists, whoidentified themselves as the Got is TotInsurrectionary Front left behind them acommunique, filled with threats. This paper,which was illustrated with a picture of ahand-grenade, bore the title: “The State,Military Institutions and Police as well asCapitalists are the Real Terrorists”.

April 4, Manado : Burning of BCA bankATM. The burning of one of BCAs ATMmachines in Tanjung Batu caught theattention of all passers-by and neighbours.The arson attack resulted in the burning ofthe BCA ATM machine in Jalan Sam

Ratulangi Wanea , on Thursday 4/4around 01.30 Central Indonesian Time.Observations at the scene of the incidentshowed the machine and the room thathoused it to be burnt, the glass wassmashed, the air conditioning machine thatwas inside the room was also burnt. ACCTV camera was also burnt and itsremains scattered over the floor.

Near to the location a communique wasfound containing threats written by theInternational Conspiracy for Revenge, withreferences to events that had happened indifferent places around the country.Translated communique of the action onApril 4 in Manado:

“This attack is revenge for what the STATEand CAPITAL have done in: BIMA, TAKALAR& PANDANG RAYA (Makassar), KULONPROGO (Jogja), PERSIL IV (Medan), BUYAT,PAPUA and many other places. We havebecome sick and tired of all the standardmethods that are never listened to.

Now, by a counter-attack we make sureour voice is listened to - much louder! Andit’s not over yet!! We will burn and destroymore of their property that destroys lifeand all its beauty.

We will go further and with more force toavenge all their acts of stealing or imprison-ing life’s pleasures and desires. It is alreadywell understood that it is insufficient to justkeep quiet and just let everything bemediated by specialists. That would be thesame as the student activists and politicalparties that continue to dupe us with theirempty promises.

There are no more reasons to remainpassive and not to counter-attack. This isWAR! War that we direct at all the forcesof repression: bureaucrats, corporations,police and military institutions, law courts,

prosecutors and lawyers and the massmedia.

War on those who refuse to take up armsand take back their lives. Because tomor-row it will be much too late. It’s now ornever!!“

• International Conspiracy for Revenge.

June 30, Bandung : Large incendiaryattack against BNI bank ATM. A signifi-cant molotov attack explodes the ATM BNIin Dipatiukur Street - Bandung. Perpetra-tors leaves the message: •“The State andCapital is the real terrorist. Solidarity withKulon Progo Peasant Struggle!”.

The attack results in an explosion andbecomes mainstream news in Indonesia,with the influence of the internationalanarchist movement being blamed.

The corporate headlines expose newgenerations to the growing anarchistcurrent, and mention is given to theanarchist movement in Greece, Belgium,Chile and Italy.

Cells of International Conspiracy forRevenge have claimed responsibility byspreading leaflets surrounding the ATMBNI firebombing. The leaflet is almost thesame tone as in Makassar and Manado.

Later a new declaration is released by theRO-FAI Indonesia section / Cells ofInternational Conspiracy for Revenge.

Statement from Revolutionary Organisa-tion - Informal Anarchist Federation,Indonesia Section

“PT Indomining (Bima) has been brutallyrepressing the local population, JogjaMagasa International wants to evict30,000 farmers in Kulon Progo. Farmersin Takalar are facing the threat of land-grabbing. These actions are carried out ina brutal way, including shootings, terror,sexual harassment as well as the variousforms of repression that we never hearabout in the mainstream media. That’s notsurprising because these capitalist-bureaucratic companies do not care aboutanything except making their wallet thicker!

Our attacking of an ATM (bank) is an

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important target, because banks arealways involved in financing naturalresources and the repression of thepeople in the name of capital! We have nointention of injuring anyone, the destructionof property is not violence! No mercy forthe forces of repression! No mercy for theState and Capitalism.

May the Social War escalate and weforgot to mentione comrades in Greece,Italy, or anywhere else but you all knowour hearts are with you.

Got Ist Tot - Free Association of Individu-alist-Communists.

Salute to :

Revolutionary Organisation - Conspiracy ofCells of Fire. Revolutionary Struggle. Chileaninsurrectionists. Giannis Dimitrakis andPolykarpos Georgiades, our hearts are withyou!

Long Live the Rebellion and stay free. Andwith this statement we claim to join theRO-FAI, Indonesian Section.

Revolutionary Organisation - InformalAnarchist Federation, Indonesia Section

LINKS

Below are the links with English translationsof our grassroots friends fighting in thefront-lines.

barawera.wordpress.com

petanimerdeka.tk.

perangpandang.wordpress.com

For more information on the Kulon Progoanti-capitalist peasant struggle, see325#7 ‘A Tale of Sand, & Those WhoFeed From It.’

To send direct financial solidarity for theKulon Progo peasants in struggle or theinhabitants of Padang Raya, please contact325 through our website.

MELTED BNI ATM

People on the left consider the anti-authoritarian movement, and especially theanarchists, as something that is childish orjust imitating the west, the creation ofpeople that do not yet understand theirown identity. Their reasoning is straight-forward, because there is no anti-authoritarian history in Indonesia. Indone-sian society, we are told, is a feudalsociety that is not capable of actingwithout a command structure and an eliteleadership; the actions that are glorified byadherents of anti-authoritarianism alwaysrefer to Western states. That’s because,they say, anti-authoritarianism andanarchism are absolutely irrelevant in theIndonesian context.

But let’s take a look just how these peopleon the left have only one talent: to lie.

Just as this world is the logical conse-quence of the accumulation of power inthe hands of a select elite, so will it reap aripe harvest of resistance everywhere andin many different forms. Of all this resist-ance, only a small amount is known about,mainly because dominant power isorganised so that all resistance will beforgotten by history and wiped from thememories of the people. If there issomething that is permitted to stayremembered, the design is such that it isonly to be remembered for its failings, notfor its victories.

Various media discuss popular uprisingsand resistance in different areas, butwithout really giving much true under-standing. ‘Militant’ media such as RumahKiri which is nowadays dominated bytrotskyists actually occasionally publisheswell-documented articles about theworker’s resistance that takes placedirectly despite all attempts to organiselabour, such as that written by thePerhimpunan Rakyat Pekerja (PRP). Butalso unwittingly, by placing these next toother articles that are orientated towardspower and the stability of the system, thisbecomes one more way to reintegratethose workers into the social order oncemore. In the same way that the binaryopposites of the old world prove oncemore their ineffectiveness – or evenintentionally fail to get to grips with thepoverty of life at the most fundamentallevel – and what happens instead is thataspirations for a free life are buried.

In the informal organisations of classicresistance, in the early days of Indonesianindependence, many ‘criminal’ actionstook place, which also formed a critique ofcentralised power. Similarly, nowadays,we see many actions which not infre-quently bear the scent of violence, that arealso often labelled as ‘criminal acts’. Inboth the above cases the significant thingis not their criminality nor their violence, itis the rebellion that has the potential tobuild up the positive hopes of those thatcrave a life that can be lived more fully.Purging the influence of the historicalexperts and professionals of socialscience, we can highlight a few examplesof actions that simply cannot fit within thepigeonhole of standard protest actions:such actions as those marches withpeople clinging on to their banners andplacards, walking to a governmentbuilding, shouting with a megaphone,negotiating with representatives of power.And then going back home again,accompanied by the chant “we’ll be backagain with even greater numbers!”.

Around 1945 in the area of Brebes-Tegal-Pemalang (Central Java) poor farmers,feeling let down and angry, urged on bylocal criminal personalities, started toattack the rural elite, shaming the nobilityand in several cases killing them. Whensome of their prominent members werearrested by TKR (Indonesian military thatthe newly independent central governmentapproved of), they formed their owncommandos with the aim of freeing theirfriends. In the end they were destroyed bythe military allied with moderate Islamicgroups that were dominated by themiddle class. Of those imprisoned, somewere sentenced to death. The almostspontaneous explosion of action, al-though not well-organised, was neverthe-less a rebellion that not only foughtphysical poverty, but also the poverty ofliving, and also showed how the centralgovernment power was irrelevant to theactual needs of the local people.

Several decades later in North Sumatra, ina place known as Porsea, a paper factorywas forced to its knees thanks to theunabating wave of action set in motion bythe local people. This popular action wasnot commanded by intellectuals, move-ment leaders or political activists, and trulyinvolved all layers of society includingmothers and their children, making

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blockades, that sometimes were some-times merely their own bodies, facingdown the company’s trucks. There wereno moderate demands such as fornationalisation of the factory, they onlydesired one thing: that there would be nofactory near to their homes. After the fallof Suharto and the talk of a ‘democraticera’, the factory started to operate again,but the people were not as militant asbefore. What had happened was thatcertain figures of the NGO and activistmovement that had sprung up hadmanaged to make the community ofPorsea understand how to carry out ‘civilprotests suitable for a democraticenvironment’. The result was that thefactory could operate smoothly while thepeople’s representatives wasted time atthe diplomatic table with no conclusion.The actions of the people of Porsea onlyshow one thing, that only direct actionbrings results, not the democraticdiplomacy supported by intellectuals.

In 2001 the government gave notice of anew labour law that would force theworkers into a corner, as part of its effortsto ensure the ‘health’ of the nationaleconomy. Ignored by the intellectuals whowere busy debating on television withoutproducing any result, workers in Bandungwent on strike. Regardless of whether ornot they had the approval of the tradeunion in each factory, the workers took tothe streets. Without many banners, flagsor megaphones, when they came to thegovernment buildings they didn’t negoti-ate but instead started hurling stones atthe building, and overturning and burningcars that were parked in the building’scompound. When the police arrived firingtear gas, the angry workers woulddisperse. But they wouldn’t return homequietly however, they regrouped in smallgroups with no central command, leavingthe government building to break shopwindows and damage expensive carsalong the routes they followed. On thesecond day, transport workers re-sponded to the workers’ action bycarrying out a mass strike. Any publictransport vehicle that did not join thestrike was held up and bombarded withstones by the strikers. Beset by the violentaction of workers and the lack of publictransport, the production and transporta-tion of capital was forced to a halt. On thethird day, the army was sent to transportterminals and forced the drivers to resumethe service. Factories that had beenmeeting places for the workers werevisited and the workers forced back towork. The movement leaders werearrested . A shocked media, before theyreally had a chance to think about it,spontaneously aired the news across thenation, which only helped to provokesimilar actions in various other places. Asworkers’ revolts erupted in various cities

without being able to be extinguished, thegovernment let it be known that the newlaw would be cancelled.

In 2002 the government announced a risein fuel prices and a fuel truck was seques-tered by a group of students who made itknown that they were going to hold the ontheir campus as a symbolic protest. But inthe small city of Cimahi, a criminal motor-bike gang arrived at a petrol station, andforced the workers to fill their tanks forfree, threatening violence if they didn’t. Asother people around were shocked by thissudden action, the gang membersencouraged them all to fill their tanks forfree under the gang’s protection. In amoment, the local people flooded thepetrol station and took the fuel withnothing to stop them. Not long after-wards the gang left the pumps anddispersed, as did the local people. Thepolice that arrived were not able to arrestanyone since everyone around hadparticipated in the plunder. What can beindirectly taken from this event is how theaction of one group finds its own way tolink in with a wider social environment. Inthe eyes of the local people, there wasnothing to condemn about a motorbikegang hijacking a petrol station.

At the beginning of 2009, a medium-sizedcargo ship was sailing the Java Sea whenit suddenly changed it’s course andstarted sailing towards the borders ofIndonesia. An upheaval had occurredinside the ship. Originating from a loathingof the captain who always forced the crewto work harder than their physical limitscould support, it reached it’s peak whenthe ship’s cook attacked the captain witha kitchen knife. The captain’s cries for helpwere responded to by the crew whoinstead of helping captured the captainand then threw him overboard with no life-jacket. Shocked at their own spontaneousaction, they did not choose anyone toreplace the captain. Together theydecided to make decisions by consensus,as a replacement for the system whereone decisions would be taken based onthe wishes of only one leader. So the shipstarted to move away from Indonesianterritory, when an Indonesian navy vesselintercepted them at the border of theMalacca Straits. The interesting pointabout this case is how consensusdecision making comes about spontane-ously without being aware that that isexactly the most revolutionary thing thatthe crew could do at that point, after theyhad effectively got rid of the dominantpower.

Each of these cases, whether the assassi-nation of nobility, blockading actionswithout compromise or the wish to bepacified, the violent action of factoryworkers , the holding-up of a petrol

station and the takeover of a ship, can ofcourse be regarded as a criminal actionthat disobeys the law, if it is removed fromits actual context. But in each case, if welook a little deeper, we can also see theprocess of deconstruction of values.What was previously considered the rightthing to do, actually does not take theside of the people and their everyday lives.When looked at in terms of morality and ofright and wrong, are not all the abovecases not simply responses to otheractions which are far more clearly wrong,and because of that more immoral?

Providing a clear context for how toescape from the shackles of moral valuesand popular opinion about right andwrong is obviously something veryimportant. Because of this it is somethingthat will be resisted by the power elite orthe established intellectual class, ie. thestatus quo. The means they will use are bymanipulating symbols and portraying allthese actions as criminal acts, violations ofthe law that can only lead to morewidespread chaos. Successful attemptsat criminalisation are usually supported bythose who take the role of intellectualfigures such as experts in social studies,movement leaders, NGO campaigners,and the media, who all try to sever eachaction from its social context and insteadshoehorn it into a choice of right orwrong, legal or illegal, violent or non-violent. The first step is always so, anattempt to make the public respond withantipathy. The next step is also significant,erasing it from history, or written history atleast.

The powerful always try to remove fromofficial history every action that does nothave their blessing. Official history ishistory that only the winner writes. Thereis no place for those that lose, and if thereis then it is only the story of how theirfailures; their successes, although theymay be as minute as a drop of morningdew, are not highlighted. The lack ofadequate history from the past shapesways of thinking and methods of control inthe present. An example, indeed the moststriking example, is the absence of officialhistory as taught in schools regardinghuman life before the birth of power intothe hands of a small elite, about life in theold times when humans were fairlyegalitarian with no government, special-ists, army or police. This understandingeventually brings a sense of pessimismthat reaches across modern society,especially in our surroundings, a pessi-mism about the possibility for a life that isegalitarian without the need for govern-ment, police or specialists to exist. It isunsurprising if the usual response whenpeople hear anarchists’ proposals for asociety without government is: “Is there isno government, how will we be able to

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live properly?”, or the more sarcasticcomment “If there are no police, surelypeople will kill each other in thestreets?”. These questions really are anexpression of the result of the systematicerasing of history.

We could venture another question, aboutwhy protests nowadays are never morethan a demonstration of people walkingtowards some government building, andculminating in some diplomatic negotiationsthat have never ever brought any resultswherever they have arisen, other thanmaintaining the status quo. From thevarious responses we hear to this question,there is always some connection with thepoverty of history: because there is noreference point for any other forms ofprotest that have ever taken place in thiscountry. The post-independence historybooks only make note of the studentprotests in the 1960s – where not longafterwards the student leaders underwenta transformation and became part of thepolitical elite. Therefore, in the mind of thepublic, this is one form of protest that canbe carried out, because from what they seethere have never actually been other formsof protest.

There is no path that can be betterbelieved, or better understood, other thanasserting our identity and the stepsforward we take today by taking ourreferences from those who have been insimilar positions in the past. An under-standing of the past tells us about who weare, and the choices of our predecessors,and also has relevance in drawing the mapof the terrain on which we will play in thefuture. Exploring the past, without becom-ing trapped in it or idealising events thathave happened in previous times, actuallycan make our present situation moreconcrete. We feel the connection morestrongly and we become aware of thealienation that lurks in the places we dwell.To do this, we need to be able to find ourlost history (or purposefully lost history),and evaluate it once again from our ownpoints of view. In this way we can get a

complete picture of our lives, an individualresurgence that resounds with the rhythmof the social need to discover the totality.

The history that is not included in theofficial historical dictionary is a tool we canuse to build the structures for social war.Its documents can be found in unusualplaces, in the songs and stories of thepeople, or in oral history that has neverbeen written down. Oral history especiallyis a different method of history, as it ismore egalitarian. As Kuntowijoyo oncesaid, oral history actually contributes agreat deal to the development of thesubstance of history. Firstly, because ofits contemporary character, oral historypresents almost unlimited possibilities forunearthing history directly from those whomade it. Secondly, oral history can includehistorical actors that official history leavesdisregarded. This is because it is not anelitist image of reality: each and everyperson can become one of history’sfigureheads. Thirdly, oral history makespossible an expansion of the scope ofhistory, because history is not limited tothat for which written documents exist.Now all that remains is for us to redis-cover it within our own surroundings.

To define the poverty of our own lives,there must really also be a redefinition ofwhat prosperity means. To redefine theshape of protest is also to redefine themeaning of right and wrong in our ownlives, and of ideas about what is suitablefor us to struggle against. No more isthere a standard format that we shouldfollow, no longer are there limits to ablueprint that has been given to us bymovement figureheads that only see onepossibility, no longer are possibilitiesclosed off due to pessimism. Poorfarmers of Mexico re-found their rootsthrough a rediscovery of the meaning ofthe struggle of Emiliano Zapata at thestart of the 20th century and transformedit into the Zapatista movement – maybethis is a wake-up call to remind us, not tobecome followers or idolizers of theZapatistas, but to start rediscovering our

own routes, on our ownland, in order to find thesuccessful methods forour own struggles.

Forget Spain 1936.Forget Budapest 1956.Paris 1968. Greece2008. Let’s fight on ourown land. Right now.

-translated from AmorFati #4. Original title“Menakar Tanah diNegeri Sendiri danMenggali Harapan”

Warning of Paramilitaryforces targeting

Pandang Raya village,Indonesia

It is almost a month. Rumours about (paid)paramilitary who will attack the squattingvillage of Pandang Raya. They are people

hired by Goman Waisa, a conglomerate thathas a land conflict with the squatting

inhabitants. On a daily basis the people havebeen terrorised by paid paramilitaries who

are mandated to evict the people. Thisstrategy is used to avoid police participationafter a defeat (of the police force) a year agoduring the eviction. At that time, the small

quantities of Pandang Raya inhabitants weresuccessful in defending their land and

attacking the police.

The Ruling class also wanted to createhorizontal conflict between people. This is

one of their rotten plans. Now there’salready a legal security business and they are

planning to recruit every possible “gangster”to attack Padang Raya. The amount of this

paramilitary forces is about 200, similar tothose found on Makassar city scale. While a

year ago the amount of police forces thatwere sent to attack Pandang Raya is about

400-500 personnel. And the people havesuccessfully fought back.

Now the paramilitary organisation want touse at least 500 paramilitary force, and some

of them have been identified in enteringsome “gangs” organisation in Makassar. Weused to call them “Boys on the Alley”. Butit is quite ineffective for them because some

the people and friends there have said tothese “boys of the alley” not to involved. For

information, during the last year battlethere’s about 100 “boys of the alley” in the

back of the police barricades. Pandang Rayapeople have identified some of them and ask

them why they were there, they answeredthat they were being paid 50-100 thousandrupiah to clean up the water sewage system

in Pandang Raya surrounding.

Their methods at this time, are to mobilisepeople from outside of the town to attack

Pandang Raya. Telling lies about the issuesin order for the people to join without

knowing the real conflict was about. In theconflict area, the internal condition, is that

the people are aware all the time and readyto fight. At this time, traditional weapons

have been prepared such as: machete, spears,arrows, and other traditional weapons, andnot to forget Molotov cocktails. All of this

are prepared if the police come to attack.

But the use of Molotovs during paramilitaryattack is not quite effective, because it is notthe same formation such as with the police.

From the streets...

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Monday. July 25 2011.

About 40 anarchists wearing masks andmostly dressed in black vandalized anddisrupted the area of CommonwealthAvenue where the State of the NationAddress (SONA) was held. Anarchistindividuals - without leaders and with aconscious clear mind and visions but smallin number in comparison to around 8000authoritarian left. The latter recruitedsome people to march for pay or inexchange for food while being granted by apermit by the state to revolt, wishing fortheir demands and claiming for therevolution in conjunction with corporatemedia and state institutions whofuck up the lives of millions of people in thearchipelago. This is everyday reflected inthe unprecedented growth of poverty,ecological destruction, homelessness,unemployment, hunger and other miser-able conditions most of the inhabitants ofthe country endure.

The deployment of massive numbers ofpolice forces and riot cops with batons andshields allowed the authoritarian left tomake their usual compliants. Every time isanother rallying cry of pacifism, persuadingand influencing the masses to anotherform of government to live by, and wishingit will happen one day. Of course, they couldnot march closely to the Hall of Congressat the back of Sandiganbayan (office of theOmbudsman), where the ruling president(Benigno Aquino III) proudly proclaims his 1year of accomplishment of lies and deceit.The so-called revolutionary tactics of theauthoritarian left is widely known for justbeing for the cameras and the TV screen.

The State and the left know each other well.Each of them is a ruling and authoritarianform. They are a bunch of leftist politiciansbuilding their nests in congressional bodies,making laws and profit at the expense ofthe obedient citizen.

12 am. Anarchist demo began. Reclaim-ing the streets. The normal flow of trafficwas severely disturbed. It was an unex-pected moment for most of the authoritieswho were there on that day. As they putmore attention on the other side of theroad - the permitted zone, to control themotion of thousands of anti-SONA leftistsprotestors via radios and walking surveil-lance - the authorities were completelyshocked and frozen to the ground seeinganarchists mobilizing coming from adifferent way, counter to the march of thepermitted zone, walking through the otherside of the road. For legal matters it isdefinitely illegal to mobilize there. A fewcomrades with bicycles were also on thedemo controlling the traffic so demonstra-tors would not get hit by aggressive cars.

Police authorities don’t know what to doThey were just standing up, confused andtraumatized, although they were many.They saw anarchists mobilizing on that daylike they were watching TV, traumatic anddesensitized, like most people who watchthe screen and not reality.

The bad thing is that it was expected,normal, and accepted that the authoritiesmight kill people in front of our very eyes.For those who see such atrocities, it leavesthem in a traumatized state of fear. In asudden moment on such a day the police

appear to be united and invincible, but theyare nothing so special. They are just mererepressors, a tool of the state.

Screams and chants of anger were raisedby anarchist dissidents “Aparato ng EstadoWasakin, Durugin, Gawing Pagkain” (“Stateapparatus, Smash, Destroy, Turn it intoFood”). “Fuck police brutality, Fuck policeoppression” where every police line in theservice of command could actually hear it.Main banner said “Walang pagbabago sapatuloy na reporma. Anarkistangrebolusyon ang solusyon. Wasakin anghirarkiya. Depensahan ang kalikasan.Tapusin ang kahirapan.” (“There is nochange in continous reform. Anarchistrevolution is the solution. Destroyhierarchy. Defend ecology. End poverty.”).It was loud. No megaphone, only screamsand drums and brave passion. A few youngstreet kids eventually attended the demo,having fun as they are kind of like amazedwhen they see the action amidst traffic.They were following at the back of theprotestors walking. Communities,passersby, and neighborhoods around theCommonwealth area began to seriouslyread the banner having a very close lookand curiosity.

Leaflets of a detailed statement (in Tagaloglanguage) made by anarchists (againstSONA) were handed-out to folks around. Itwas always new imaginative tactics foranarchists to fight against the politicaldeath machine at the local level, to everySONA,WTO, JPEPA, ASEAN, APEC andother capitalist trade agreements ruiningthe world and putting its inhabitants toannihilation and destruction. At SONA, a fewyears ago the national flags were burned.

Now, paint bombs were thrown at busesvisibly labeled with corporate advertising.Roads of the permit zone were alsosmashed with paints. The ‘Circle A’ symbolpenetrated some parts of the roads.Street walls and traffic signboard werecovered with graffiti and stickers directedagainst the state and capitalist oppression.

A few vendors selling mami noodles alongthe area reacted by saying that the saidaction was beautiful and fun and momen-tarily gave a share of noodles for free toone of the anarchists.

Firecrackers were set off when the groupstopped along the UCPB bank and pro-tested there. At this time, anarchists werealready in the permitted zone aftercrossing the road protesting amongthousands of leftists marching. Still thevandalism continues. Various media thatcame from the marching leftist politicalbloc, AKBAYAN party list (rejectionist)stopped for while and covered the anar-chist banner message. A middle fingerfrom one of the masked protestors waspointed to one of the media who wanted to

Fuck the State of the NationAddress Demo, Philippines

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The Agta-Dumagat people in the northernvillage Cozo, Casiguran, Aurora, Philippinesare facing a complex situation that isextremely difficult and threatening that willremove their rights to the lands of their tribe– a land that has been loved, respected andhighly valued by their ancestors since timeimmemorial. This land shaped their identityand fed them for generations so this is whatthey are struggling to defend in the presentin the Peninsula of Casiguran.

The Northern Pacific APECO (AuroraPacific Economic zone and Freeport) is agovernment project that is shadowed by theelites and the most powerful influentialfamilies in Aurora. One of them is theprominent Angara clan, a family that holdsimportant positions in the senate, congressand provincial offices of Aurora.

This project will encroach two municipali-ties, the Casiguran and Bianoan, in Auroraprovince. The estimated 13,000 hectares ofland will be overtaken including the ancestralterra firma (land) of the indigenous people inSan Ildefonso peninsula.

Meanwhile, the Dumagats who had livedlong in most part of the peninsula andendowed with the responsibility of preserv-ing their ethnicity is now facing a seriousthreat from this project. This land has beenthe witness of their tribe’s history that’s whythey are keen to defend it against thedestructive development infrastructure of thegovernment.

Solely relying on hunting and fishing, thetribe is afraid to lose their right to land andlivelihood. Like other local fisher folks, theyare also troubled with the entry of largefishing vessels in their area that will seem todominate once large ports operate.

In addition, it will also bring industrialpollutions and will decrease the amount oftheir catch. Another possibility here is therestriction to be imposed upon them by thecommercial beach resorts and large hotels tobe built on the shorelines. With this fearedinequality, the natives will apparently

Indigenous people of Agta Dumagatcall for struggle against APECO

become craftsmen andtourist guides in their ownancestral land.

Because of this the tribe isnow divided into twoopposing groups, the proand the anti. Sad to think,others accept bribery fromthe APECO proponents,taking advantage of thetribe’s economic vulner-ability. This incident caused

conflicts amongst the indigents and due tothe situation, unity seems impossible. Thesewill lead to bitter failure in recovering theirancestral domains. Despite everything, thosewho remain resistant and who firmly believein their rights never lose their hope andexpect for their next generation to restoretheir identity.

The natives remain strong against APECO’sencroachment on their land; they participatein several actions together with the localcommunity and other groups helping withthe campaign and continue to organizedemonstrations against these dirty Angaradevelopment projects.

The questions here are: what are theseprojects for? Who will benefit from it?

What would be the life of the Agta-Dumagat after this project? Do they reallywant to work in any prestigious resorts andhotels that will soon rise in the Casiguranboulevards? While relying only in foraging,can they survive without hunting grounds?While they do not speak foreign language,can they get along well with the tourists?

These questions are very important and needto be addressed immediately since theproject is obviously self-interest driven andelite serving motives of the few such as theAngara clan and other wealthy ‘cream of thecrop’ people who have positions in thegovernment.

In my own opinion, hunting, fishing,farming and living in the hut does not reflectthe difficulty of life. Buildings and infrastruc-tures are not a sign of development butrather a true picture of adversity. Food is themost basic life support system and if we’regoing to commodify our forests in exchangefor buildings, malls, subdivisions, golfcourses, resorts, hotels, mutant plantations,etc., “Our future will be doomed!”

Undangon ang Mina

Long live Anarchy!

The flowers are the flags of the earth. The yells ofthe people of our town are their flags.

Comrades, we are the town:Let's yell out our anarchy.

Ideals, conscience and destiny, we're all in ittogether - like the perfume in a flower. Let's hangfrom the rope, let's hammer on the anvils and if weend up in prison, write it on the walls of your cell.

Where ever an anarchy may step upon, pass or die,there will always be a shout : "Long live Anarchy!"

Artists, workers or tramps... In between the shadowsand the fire, over all the seas and mountains...

Long live Anarchy.

Old women, comrades, brides; ladies! As long asinjustice rules with hunger and savagery: - Long lifeand live long! Live long three times - once for yourgrooms, another for your sons, and another for your

grandson.

Long live Anarchy!

The flags of earth are the flowers.The flags of our town are the peoples yells.

May your yells flower, artists, workers and tramps.And you as well, ladies, mothers and grand mothers.

Men and women.

Long live Anarchy!

From “Carteles I”, by Rodolfo GonzalezPacheco (1882-1949).

cover them from a close angle. Leafletswere handed-out to young students whowere with the leftist march. They aremostly recruited. When young studentssee masked protestors in front of the bank,they were also kind of curious and inter-ested leaving the rank and file march a bitdelayed.

It was war from our hearts. It was spontaneity.

No arrests.

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325 received this document from a cellof the Russian Informal AnarchistFederation / International RevolutionaryFront, who present some of their ideas,theories and actions for a wider reader-ship. Anarchist actions in Russia haveincreased in intensity and regularity,characterized by an aggressive directionand new internationalism.

Good day. We would like to shed some lighton several issues regarding the revolution-ary anarchist activity of “Black Bloc”collectives in Russia. We feel it must bedone because of the recent rise in interestfrom right-wing radicals.

We decided to publish this statement afterone of the right-wing murderer scum(N. Tikhonov, at the moment he serves lifesentence for murder of our two anarchistscomrades – Stanislav Markelov andAnastasia Baburova – trans.) talked inelated tones, expressed support and goodwill towards our groups and actions(you can enjoy his delirious ideas herehttp://tihonov-hasis.livejournal.com/5256.html) Since we are anonymous andthere’s little information about us and ourideals, we would like to, once again, talkabout who we are and where do we stand.

First things first: what we do. We try tomaintain clandestine character of ouractivity, so we’ve been acting successfullyfor several years in this country already.We lost count to the total number of oursubversive actions. Our primary targetsare enforcement agencies, large businessstructures and corporations, as well asmembers of bourgeoisie. We don’t reallycare, whose luxury car is burning: Chinese,Tadzhik or Russian. We base our actionson class hatred. However, we do try hardto avoid injuring innocent people in any way.

We still maintain zero-level of “collateraldamage” and injury to life during ourbombings or arsons. However, during ouractions we do wear arms to avoid a quickand easy detention in case we’ll be facingoff with cops in the streets during one ofthe attacks.

We would like to once again stress that wedon’t care about sexual orientation of ourcomrades. We respect everyone, it doesn’tmatter for us, who our comrade is in lovewith and with whom (s)he will be build thenew world we know is possible. And while“brave warriors of white race” are hitting

their keyboards hard, queers and feministsare joining heterosexuals in molotovattacks on the System. Our queer sistersand brothers are fully capable to protectthemselves.

Lots of ordinary people have alreadyexpressed their support to our project.Unfortunately, so did nationalists. Some ofthe nazi scum are publicly expressing theirexcitement and good will, some mumblethat “right radicals can’t boast such kind ofactivity”, others try to remind that we are,first and foremost, anarchists. And that weare their enemies.

Exactly. It’s worth to repeat this once again.We are anarchists. We are not supportiveof any kind of oppression. And our handssmell of gasoline, yes. But of blood as well.We do not shrink back from attacking nazisin subway and the streets. Using knives,handguns and barehanded. In this regardwe are always supportive of antifascistgroups, either anarchists or S.H A.R.P. [SkinHeads Against Racial Prejudice].

We’ve never cooperated with the Stateand this won’t change in the future. We arenot getting orders from anyone. So stop allthis banter about us being Z.O.G. [ZionistOccupation Government] conspiracy orundercover cops or anything. Everythingthat the new generation of right-wingdegenerates have achieved is mimicking ofAntifa counter-culture. From dress-code totactics. We do hope that you’ll grow up,start using your own brain and won’tbecome 30-year old sieg-heil clowns.

Until then, see you in the streets…

Autonomous groupFIRST SQUAD, FAI/IRF

P.S. Please spread this text as wide aspossible, including nazi forums and sites

A Statement by one of theRussian FAI/IRF groups

Fragments from thesocial war in Russia

August 31 - Police car burned inSt.Petersburg. Red and Anarchist TerrorSection took responsibility. " ... The wholecountry is divided now into two unequalcamps: those who govern and those whomust obey on pain of reprisals. With eachpassing day it becomes clearer that

watershed. We are ready to go to thebarricades and to give battle. Our goalsare: corporations, government officials, thefascists and cops. We will always fightagainst them."

August 28 - 3 bulldozers was burned downin the Ukrainian town Kharkiv in the area ofindustrial deforestation for building ahighway. No group has claimed a responsi-bility, but it is clear that action was taken bysome radical environmentalists.

August 26 - DIY-bomb exploded outsidethe Police Direction of North-West area ofMoscow. About a 12 windows was brokenby the blast wave. No group has been takena responsibility for this action. Policebelieve, that it was done by anarchists orright-wing radicals, but can not be excludedthe possibility of vengeance from the“apolitical ordinary people”.

August 23 - In the night. In the town ofKhimki nearby Moscow, a group ofanarchist guerrillas have burned a policecar on the parking of the road policestation. Khimki is a place of a hard socialconflict because of the project of building apaid road through the Khimki forest. Duringthe protests of locals and ecologists, ahorrible police brutality has been shown. Sowe send our message to bloody policescum! It is time to continue the struggle todefend nature and justice and to abolishstate and capitalism!

May 4 - ELF-FAI Russia takes responsibilityfor torching a tree havester: "During thenight of May 4th we sneaked upon anothertree harvester and torched it, using theheavy rain as cover. 15 minutes later itexploded ...This spring saw clearcutting ofthe huge Khimki forest continue unabated.In spite of numerous and massive peopleprotests, all the legal and liberal stuff (polls,petitions, law suits, concerts, demos, vigils,etc.), authorities, law enforcement, andtheir fascists and mafia lackeys (forevertogether in Russia) push for the completionof clear-cuts so that they may get on to theactual road-building.And in one part of the forest they’vealready redirected a flow of a river (a singleand major body of water and site ofsignificant avian population in the area) tofacilitate construction of a road junction.We ask of all whom it may concern toconsider actions against Vinci, of France(the international consortium financing thisdeforestation project), as it seems the onlyviable target outside Russia.Appreciation for your solidarity out there,people, and our solidarity with your localfights of our global resistance!" - ELF-Russia, International Network of Actionand Solidarity / Informal AnarchistFederation

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Yaykil village, Turkey - Resistance tothe construction of a thermal powerplantOn 5th of September, drilling vehicles ofAnadolu Group (this group is the biggestpartner of McDonalds and Coca Cola inTurkey) which are involved in building athermal power plant tried to enter Yaykilvillage. Local people and eco-activistsbarricaded the roads to the village todefend their land, but police and gen-darme attacked the people with tear gas,pepper spray, water cannons and batons.Activists answered this attack with stonesand slogans. During the police attacksome buildings, barns, farms and bushescaught fire; 25 activists and 4 policemeninjured. Because of their resistance, drillingvehicles should leave the village. At nightpolice took 6 activists into custody fromtheir homes. In the night of September 6,a drilling vehicle which was waiting in a gasstation near the village was burned byunknown people. The vehicle is totallydestroyed. Gendarme and local police isstill searching for the arsonists in Gerze.Animal and Earth Liberation Support-ers from Turkey

Belarus - Anarchists sentenced to upto 8 years of hard regime, despite lackof evidenceOn the 27th of May, judge ZhannaKhvoynitskaya sentenced the Belarusiananarchists Ihar Alinevich, MikalajDziadok, Aliaksandar Frantskievich,Maxim Vetkin and Yeveni Slivonchik.The young men were accused of a numberof political actions, amongst which wasthe attack against the Russian embassy inMinsk in August of 2010. Ihar Alinevichwas accused of attacks against theRussian Embassy and Belarusbank(“Property destruction with intent”), anattack against the remand prison of Minsk,an attack against a Casino and an illegaldemonstration at the military headquarters(“Aggravated hooliganism”). The prosecu-tor asked for a 9 year sentence in hardregime, eventually he received 8 years ofhard regime (1). Mikalaj Dziadok wassentenced for actions against the Casino,the military headquarters and a yellow (2),State-controlled trade union, all consid-ered “aggravated hooliganism”. Theprosecutor demanded a 6 year sentenceof hard regime, he received 4.5 years ofhard regime. Aliaksandr Frantskievich wassentenced for actions against the State-controlled trade union, military headquar-ters and a police station at Soligorsk, allconsidered “aggravated hooliganism”,and also against defacing website of city

of Novopolotsk (“Electronic sabotage”,“Illegal access to electronic information”,“Development, using or spreadingmalware”. Prosecutor demanded a 5 yearsentence, eventually he received 3 years ofhard regime. Maxim Vetkin was sentencedfor the actions taken at the Belarus Bankand the Russian Embassy in Minsk. Hesnitched and has been cooperating withthe investigation and giving testimonyagainst the others. He was given a 4 yearsentence in a low-security prison accord-ing to the prosecutor’s demands. He hasbeen temporarily released. YevgeniSilivonchik was sentenced to 1.5 years inopen regime prison for the attack inSoligorsk. He has also snitched and iscooperating with the investigation andgiving testimony against the accusedcomrades.

The accused have to compensate 100million Belarusian rubles (around 20,000dollars) in criminal damages to therespective institutions. Alinevich, Dziadokand Frantskievich deny their involvement,with the exception of the action at themilitary headquarters. They are consider-ing appealing their sentences, but theappeal court may hand out even moresevere sentences. The Strasbourg courtis not an option for the Belarusians, asBelarus is excluded from the Council ofEurope. Valentina Alinevich, mother of Ihar,said “Yesterday someone else’s childrenwere arrested, and we thought it wasnot our problem. Today they arrest ourchildren. Tomorrow they will arrestsomeone else’s children. People, beaware! Do not let it happen!”.

She also noted the role of RussianFederation in the case of Ihar: “Russiaaccepted the kidnapping of a person onits territory. It is an outrageous violationof human rights, which took place incompliance with the Russian authori-ties.”

Keep in mind, that on the 28th of Novem-ber Ihar Alinevich was kidnapped fromMoscow by agents of an unconfirmedspecial service, and illegally transferredacross State borders to the remandprison of the Belarusian KGB in Minsk.Aliaksandr Dziadok, the father of Mikalajand an experienced lawyer, who has alsoworked as a judge, made the followingstatement to the press: “There wereplenty of violations during the courtprocess. The prosecution’s case wasnot proven. The sentence is unjust andillegal. An objective, law-abiding courtwould have dropped all charges against

the accused”. Aliaksandr Dziadok made acomparison between the case against theanarchists, and the case brought againstthose arrested after the 19th of Decem-ber (court cases against the latter, whoprotested against the falsification of thegeneral elections, which have attractedsizeable international attention). AnarchistBlack Cross of Belarus considers thesentences politically motivated, and thecharges unproven. Besides this, all of theactions for which the accused weresentenced, may be considered non-violent. No living being was hurt as aconsequence of the actions. Most of theattacks were merely symbolical, andmaterial damage was insignificant.Anarchist Black Cross Belarus

1. hard regime means less allowancesin terms of visits, mails, and packagesand other “privileges”2. yellow unions reject class struggle,oppose strikes and favor the collabora-tion between capital and labor

UK – British company sells anti-Skypespyware to defeat social insurrectionsThroughout the recent Middle Eastuprisings, protesters have used Skype forconfidential video conferences, phonecalls, instant messages and file ex-changes. In Iran, opposition leaders anddissidents used Skype to plot strategyand organize a February protest. Skypealso is a favorite among activists in SaudiArabia and Vietnam, according to StateDepartment cables released by WikiLeaks.

In March, following the Egyptian revolutionthat toppled President Hosni Mubarak,some activists raided the headquarters ofAmn Al Dowla, the State security agency,uncovering a secret memo about theinterception of Skype calls. In addition,26-year-old activist Basem Fathi says hefound files describing his love life and tripsto the beach, apparently gleaned fromintercepted emails and phone calls.

A growing industry of companies fromUSA and UK are now designing andselling “spyware” tools that can be usedto block or eavesdrop on Skype conver-sations and perform other surveillancetasks. When the insurgent masses inEgypt stormed Egypt’s spy service lastyear, they confirmed that the governmenthad bought and tested at least oneproduct, called FinSpy, made by Britain’sGamma International UK Ltd., accordingto Egyptian government documents andGamma’s local reseller.

Corporate fascism is always the enemy ofthe people and must be fought.

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ANTI-INFO & RESOURCESFOR ACTION

22 of May (Anti-info site from Chile)http://22demayo.wordpress.com/

Angry News From Around The World:http://sysiphusangrynewsfromaroundtheworld.blogspot.com/

Act For Freedom (Greek anarchy + world)http:/ /actforfreedom.wordpress.net/

Black Bloc (Russian radical news)http:/ /blackblocg.info/

Contra-Info (Greek + worldwide news)http:/ /contra-info.espiv.net/

Culmine (Multi-langauge radical news)http:/ /culmine.noblogs.com/

Direct Action News From Germanyhttp:/ /directactionde.ucrony.net/

Hommodolars (Chilean radical news)http:/ /hommodolars.org/

Informa-Azione (Italian radical news)http:/ /informa-azione.info/

Suie & Cendres (Belgian radical news)http:/ /suieetcendres.blogspot.com/

Takku (Radical news from Finland)http:/ /takku.net/

This Is Our Job (Spanish translations)http:/ /thisourjob.org/

Tokata (Spanish language anti-prison news)http:/ /boletintokata.wordpress.com/

Total Liberation (Total war news in Spanish)http:/ /liberaciontotal.lahaine.org/

Viva La Anarquia (Chilean comrades)http:/ /vivalaanarquia.wordpress.com/

War on Society (USA in translation)http:/ /waronsociety.noblogs.org

Catalonia - Tamara jailed for 8 yearsThe Court of Barcelona has sentencedanarchist Tamara Hernández Heras toeight years in prison for sending a letter-bomb to former Prison Services GeneralSecretary Albert Batlle in October 2009.The action was dedicated to AmadeuCasellas, long-term anarchist prisoner,who Batlle was responsible for denyingfreedom years long after his sentence hadexpired. The device was not murderous.Hernández was to be tried on 14 Sep-tember in the seventh circuit of the Courtof Barcelona, but she ultimately acceptedthe reduced sentence offered by theProsecutor’s Office, settling for eightyears in prison—half of what the Prosecu-tor’s Office initially requested. Theprosecutor would have liked to push for a16-year sentence—12 years for attemptedmurder and 4 years for possession ofexplosives. Despite strict security meas-ures, a demo for Tamara was held at theentrance to the Court of Barcelona.http://tamaraalacalle.blogspot.com/

Argentina & Chile - New soli-group forthe support of Juan Aliste Vega,Marcelo Villarroel Sepúlveda, andFreddy Fuentevilla SaaIn October of 2007, a Santiago branch ofBanco Security was robbed, during whicha servant of the a cop was killed. Fromthat moment, a political, judicial, media andpolice campaign was launched, aiming touse this well-known incident in the anti-capitalist struggle to criminalize specificpeople: just like during the Pinochetdictatorship and the so-called democratictransition. Shortly afterwards, moreprecisely, on December 13th of that year,comrade Axel Osorio was arrested andsentenced to 3 years and 1 day in prison.Fortunately, he is now back in the streets.Today, Marcelo, Freddy and Juan are inthe High Security Prison of Santiago inChile, awaiting the trial, which is expectedto begin in November 2011. While themedia incessantly reprints the pictures ofthe dead policeman’s widow, clamoringfor revenge for their “loss” and PresidentPiñera and his inferiors all spread thesocial condemnation of these threewarriors, we know they are strong and inhigh spirits, proud of their decisions andof having followed through with them tothe end. freddymarcelojuan.noblogs.org

Greece - Trial date set for the case ofthe Revolutionary StruggleThe 5th of October has been set as theday that the trial of the RevolutionaryOrganization – Revolutionary Strugglewill begin. The trial will take place in thecourt room of Koridallos prisons. Eightaccused will stand trial, who according toa recent order of the Council of Appealswill be tried for participation in theorganization. Accused in the case of theRevolutionary Struggle are: N. Maziotis, P.Roupa, K. Gournas, Ch. Kortesis, V.Stathopoulos, S. Nikitopoulos, K. K.,(not arrested he is on the run) and M.Beraha (K.Gournas wife). The first threeaccused, Maziotis, Roupa and Gournashave taken responsibility for the organiza-tion and remain imprisoned, but in mid-October the 18 month detention periodexpires [so they must be brought beforethe court or be released under presentGreek law]. The rest of the accused arefree under conditions. The charges ofeach individual concern the felonies ofconstitution and participation in a terroristorganisation, supply manufacture andpossession of explosive materials,explosions and numerous attemptedhomicides.

Revolutionary Struggle has made manyattacks, among which the rocket launcherattack on the American embassy, onJanuary 12th 2007 and the armed attackon cops on Bouboulinas street on January5th 2009.

SOLIDARITY TO THE 5 ACCUSED INTHE REVOLUTIONARY

STRUGGLE CASE

FREEDOM NOW TO NIKOSMAZIOTIS, POLA ROUPA AND

KOSTAS GOURNAS

HONOUR FOR EVER TO ANARCHISTFIGHTER AND MEMBER OF

REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLELAMBROS FOUNDAS

SOLIDARITY TO ALLIMPRISONED FIGHTERS

“The three comrades who took respon-sibility for the actions of RevolutionaryStruggle show that fighting for what

you believe in is not a task that only the‘elite’ can take on. It’s inside everyone

that has suffered in the system that hasbeen created to control us. The state

knows they are the real terrorists and aslong as no one is fighting back theyhave nothing to fear. Its time to showthem enough is enough and attack it

with all means available.”

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UK - Statewatch release PDF about EUinfiltration and repression of “Euro-Anarchists” and their circlesHighly recommended PDF detailing the useof secret infiltrators across Europe andbeyond by EU police forces. Includesinformation about their databases andexamples of their “international” and“conspiratorial” role :http://www.statewatch.org/analyses/no-146-undercover-exchange-protests.pdf

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It’s over!?Nothing is over, just another edition of 325 finishedand put on the streets. When you are ready torecycle this zine to your friends, look out for the newtitles from Elephant Editions, including the long-awaited English translation of “Huye, Hombre, Huye”,by Xose Tarrio Gonzales. This classic book writtenby an anarchist in the FIES (isolation) units of Spainwas widely received to acclaim and connected to thestories of the book is “Adios Prision” by Juan JoseGarfia, which is a collection of prison escape storiesof the same period. Also soon to be published byElephant Editions is “We’re going to burn the cityto the ground”, a book of texts by Mauricio Morales,the slain Chilean anarchist.

Coming soon from Actforfreedomnow is a zine allabout the RO-Revolutionary Struggle, including newintroduction and their last communique which hasnever been translated into English.Plus, not least, a new Actforfreedomnow websitehosted by the comrades at nostate.net

Nothing is over - Everything continues!

From the Psychedelic Revolution:Ok, so it’s a bit of running theme in 325 that we reserve the last page or so for

something a bit far-out or hallucinogenic, texts which might not usually be foundanywhere else. Anyway, in this frame, for the last few paragraphs, is part of a

communique written by the revolutionary psychedelic LSD theorist and trickster/disgraced intellectual academic, Timothy Leary, who rebelled against the CIA’s

control of LSD and used it to kick-start a cultural revolution. This is from an openletter he wrote after he escaped from prison with the help of the armed groups

Weather Underground and Black Panthers, in a time of great world upheaval.

... Listen. There is no compromise with a machine.You cannot talk peace and love to a humanoid robot whose every Federal

Bureaucratic impulse is soulless, heartless, lifeless, loveless. ...

In this life struggle we use the ancient holy strategies of organic life:

1. Resist lovingly in the loyalty of underground sisterhoods and brotherhoods.2. Resist passively, break lock-step & drop out.

3. Resist actively, sabotage, jam the computer & hijack planes& trash every lethal machine in the land.

4. Resist publicly, announce life & denounce death.5. Resist privately, guerrilla invisibility.

6. Resist beautifully, create organic art, music.7. Resist biologically, be healthy & erotic & conspire with seed & breed.

8. Resist spiritually, stay high & praise god & love life & blow themechanical mind with Holy Acid & dose them & dose them.

9. Resist physically, robot agents who threaten life must be disarmed, disabled,disconnected by force & Arm yourself and shoot to live & Life is never violent.

To shoot a genocidal robot policeman in the defense of life is a sacred act.

... Listen, the hour is late. Total war is upon us. Fight to live or you’ll die.Freedom is life. Freedom will live. ...

Timothy Leary, from the fourth communication of the Weather Underground,September 15, 1970