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IN MEMORY OF KEVIN GARRIDO – CALL FOR A BLACK NOVEMBER EN/ES

Posted on 2024/11/03 by darknights

CALL FOR A BLACK NOVEMBER

IN MEMORY OF KEVIN GARRIDO

The anti-authoritarian comrade Kevin Garrido was captured by the Chilean dirty police on November 19, 2015, after placing and detonating an artisanal explosive device at one of the entrances to the San Bernardo gendarmerie school. After his capture, he was also accused of carrying out an explosive attack outside the 12th police station of San Miguel on October 29 of that same year, which was attributed to the International Conspiracy for Revenge – Gerásimos Tsakalos Explosion Cell. During the early hours of November 19, the police also captured comrade Joaquín García Chancks, accusing him of belonging, along with Kevin, to this cell responsible for the attack against the 12th police station.

After a long trial, Kevin was sentenced to 17 years in prison for attacking both police institutions with explosives, and Joaquín García was sentenced to 13 years in prison for the explosive attack and carrying a firearm that he had at the time been recaptured after escaping from house arrest in 2016.

On November 2, 2018, after having lived 3 years of imprisonment as a space of conflict against all types of authority, the comrade Kevin Garrido had a fight with an unworthy and cowardly prisoner who attacked him from behind. Although his injuries were very serious, Kevin did not receive the medical assistance he needed inside the Santiago 1 prison/company and the ambulance took 1 hour and 15 minutes to transfer him to the Barros Luco hospital, where he died after a high-risk intervention.

Comrade Kevin Garrido Present in the anti-authoritarian and insurrectionary memory!

6 years after his cowardly murder, we do not forget the irreducible path that he followed from an early age, until the end of his days.

“On the street – and wherever I find myself – I am a mutinous complicit in everything criminal and in prison I do not cower nor do I have a submissive attitude towards the jailers and any authoritarian bastard who passes through here. I don’t choke on nice speeches or phrases like: “death to all authority”and after a while I became victimized by a few coming blows from the Authority, an authority that I intend to assassinate with my hands. I assume the “consequences” of my actions that never go hand in hand with passivity. Because this is my War, HERE AND NOW.” (Kevin Garrido, February 2016)

Comrade Joaquin García to the street
Comrade Freddy Muñoz Present
Down with all prisons and forms of authority

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Santiago, $hile: Numerous incendiary outbreaks at schools and university campuses in the month of October

Posted on 2024/11/03 by darknights

Yesterday (October 11), hooded individuals erected barricades and clashed with the police in the vicinity of the National Institute in commemoration of the death of Denisse Cortés, a comrade and human rights observer who actively participated in the protection and safeguarding of her people in the context of social struggle.

On the other hand, a banner was unfurled denouncing mismanagement and embezzlement of public funds regarding the management and payment of overtime for some officials of the institution, who look after their own interests instead of those of the educational community.

No arrests were made.

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Athens, Greece: UPDATES 2/11/AND 3/11 : Call for emergency meeting in solidarity with the injured anarchist comrade Marianna M.

Posted on 2024/11/03 by darknights

Saturday 2/11 solidarity gathering outside Evaggelismos hospital. About 100 comrades gather outside the hospital where the injured anarchist comrade Marianna M. is being held in a critical condition.

Sunday 3/11, 17:00 L. Strefi Exarxeia area. Continuation of the assembly in solidarity with the injured anarchist comrade Marianna M. and the arrested person, following an explosion on 31/10 in an apartment in the Ampelokipoi area of Athens. We don’t forget our anarchist comrade Kyriakos X., who died….

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1/11/ , We are calling for an emergency meeting in solidarity with the injured anarchist comrade Marianna M., after an explosion, yesterday 31/10, in an apartment in Ampelokipi area in Athens..

We know M. from her continuous and consistent participation and action in the social struggle. We stand unreservedly by her side, as well as with her family, friendship and comrade environment. We will not tolerate any anti-terrorist operation on people close to it, such as those that this agency has been accustomed to for many years.

Against the fear that the cops are trying to spread and the mud of the media, we all stand by the comrade.

Assembly: Strefi Hill, Saturday 2/11, 14:00 exareia Athens
Gathering: Evangelismos hospital, Saturday 2/11, 17:00

HONOUR FOREVER TO THE DEAD COMRADE

NO ONE – NOBODY ALONE IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE

Solidarity assembly for imprisoned, fugitives and persecuted fighters

updates will follow

Via & translated by Act for freedom now!

Athens, Greece: Arson Attack on the Offices of New Democracy party

Posted on 2024/11/03 by darknights

We take responsibility for the attack on the premises of the local organization of New Democracy, in the 5th municipal district Agios Eleftherios on Petridis Street, with an incendiary device in the early morning of October 13th. We chose to place the device in front of the metal door of your offices because although we could have broken into them and burned them completely, we did not want to risk the safety of the residents of the apartment building located above your hole. So we consciously hit this target and minimized the damage, because for us it had great symbolic value, clearly proven by the fact that you kept quiet about it.

In its 50 years it has remained and will go down in history for the dozens if not hundreds of scandals with bribes, murders, trafficking rings, participation in fascist groups, etc. This right-wing, patriotic-traditional party, which still gathers a huge percentage of supporters, has been in power for 5 years and with a specific and methodical plan has created the ultimate European paradise for domestic and international capital, as well as for the mafias all over the world, and absolute hell and dystopia for the lower economic and social strata. New Democracy and all its cronies (judges, mafia, businessmen) act shamelessly and cynically without trying to hide their atrocities, sodomizing anyone who tries to take out their dirty laundry or opposes even their own victims.

Every day we wake up in a world that is sick without dying. In a world where citizens’ discontent is limited to painless protests for the state, harmless symbolism and “remembrance anniversaries”. All this while the most murderous government of the 21st century is devouring and plundering the last forest areas on the altar of profitability, stifling entire settlements. The same moment that orchestrates dozens, and for us who count the deaths from covid as such, thousands of state murders. Migrants at the border, at sea, in police stations, Roma by cops for any reason, militants, prisoners, women, drug addicts. It is as if the 7 plagues of the Pharaoh had fallen on our heads, except that it is not some god that is punishing us, but the state and its armed minions, seeking by force to make us a “civilized country”, the one that dismantles hospitals and is responsible for thousands of dead, the one that burns-floods-loots and murders in the name of its own god, capital. With the 2 most recent murders of immigrants in the police stations most “famous” for their barbarity, Agios Panteleimonas and Omonoia. And this power is not impersonal. Above all it is not invincible. The people who make it up have houses-jobs-offices-vehicles, the parties have their offices, all institutions exist somewhere in their physical form. Power is not an abstract concept that is imposed and fragments our lives. It is the people of the state and capital, and it is through a methodical plan of theirs and their external allies that the Trojan Horse is attacking us.

The repressive framework that they have installed and is managed by the Greek police aims to neutralize those who resist their universal hegemony. That is why they want to put us in the cells they build to punish those who ignore their orders. What is unprecedented in the period we are going through is the intransigence of the state and the “omerta” attitude that this government has been holding since 2019. For all these years many struggles have been begun by various subjects and a striking example is the hunger strikes of political and non-political prisoners, few of whom have been vindicated.

However, this is not a defeat but a trigger for rallying. Because every beast state makes a noise when it falls. The consistency of speech-action, aggressive solidarity and the transmission of empirical knowledge are the characteristics that give us hope no matter how dystopian things might seem. The war against the state continues and our values lead us to extend the struggle.

Solidarity with the militant prisoner Thanasis Pikasis!

Free Nikos Maziotis!

Fire in the cells of the Republic!

Victory to the weapons of resistance in the Middle East and Kurdistan!

Feet on Earth, head in the sky, soul always deep!

Anarchist Attack Group

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Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1632448/

Via & translated by Act for freedom now!

Athens, Greece: Call for emergency meeting in solidarity with the injured anarchist comrade Marianna M.

Posted on 2024/11/02 by darknights

2 November 2024

We are calling for an emergency meeting in solidarity with the injured anarchist comrade Marianna M., after an explosion, yesterday 31/10, in an apartment in Ampelokipi area in Athens..

We know M. from her continuous and consistent participation and action in the social struggle. We stand unreservedly by her side, as well as with her family, friendship and comrade environment. We will not tolerate any anti-terrorist operation on people close to it, such as those that this agency has been accustomed to for many years.

Against the fear that the cops are trying to spread and the mud of the media, we all stand by the comrade.

Assembly: Strefi Hill, Saturday 2/11, 14:00 Exarcheia Athens
Gathering: Evangelismos hospital, Saturday 2/11, 17:00

HONOUR FOREVER TO THE DEAD COMRADE

NO ONE – NOBODY ALONE IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE

Solidarity assembly for imprisoned, fugitives and persecuted fighters

updates will follow .

Via & translated by Act for freedom now!

UK: “Unsurprising Fact” – Letter By Anarchist Prisoner Toby Shone + Fallout From Publication Of “Unsurprising Fact”

Posted on 2024/11/02 - 2024/11/03 by darknights

“Unsurprising Fact” – Letter By Anarchist Prisoner Toby Shone

17/10/24

Some things don’t surprise us and for sure the recourse to judicial options I find distasteful but expedient. Anarchism is either illegal or it is not anarchism as our dear comrade Gustavo Rodriguez reminds us. Nevertheless, over the past few months my lawyers were able to obtain a Security Intelligence Report (SIR) produced by the prison’s anti-terror bureaucrats. This disclosure occurred in the course of a parole motion, which was denied in any event. The Secretary of State opposed my release and used a non-disclosure application to prevent me from seeing or being able to respond to “evidence” used against me on grounds of “national security”. The Parole Board disagreed and granted me access to a scant eight pages of intelligence reports. These cover the time period September 2023 – January 2024 and show an incomplete snapshot of the surveillance and censorship of my correspondence and books, the gathering of information on those that I am in contact with and the intel received about the fireworks solidarity demo at Bristol prison last year when I was detained there. The report revealed the collection of all the names, addresses and personal details of all those who communicate with me. For example, it is noted that one comrade writes that he works as a postman, another comrade “has a daughter in prison”, etc. Also listed in the entries are any personal connections and any details related to affiliations to any groups or tendencies. Geographic analysis using Google Maps has been made to view their locations. The Star and Shadow Cinema in Newcastle upon Tyne is designated a “potential meeting point” and BASE in Bristol described as “a heavily graffitied possible squat or commune.

Thus the level of intelligence and analysis displayed is low and crude but we can anticipate that the data is funnelled to the security services and the police state.

The security regime that I am imposed with is directed from outside the prison by a panel* comprising of senior police, Counter Terror Unit, National Security Division, governmental administration and forensic psychology.

We know that the state is afraid and takes step of repression; however it is rare that we see the evidence and its workings, therefore I am giving this account as my response.

I have nothing to justify.

In this situation I already knew perfectly well before disclosure what the secret “evidence” consisted off – the fact that I maintain my perspective and contacts with the anarchist dependency and with the social movement. The stand that I continue to write “and try to receive” letters and I am sent books and publications with critical content.

I will not apologise one sentence for those things.

I send my greetings to Alfredo, Anna, Juan and all the prisoners and those persecuted in Italy.

To Francisco, Monica and all the imprisoned comrades in Chile.

To the comrades imprisonned and those in struggle in Greece.

To Daniela Klette in Germany, strength.

Likewise to all the comrades detained in every territory and to the groups of action, I send a hug and my complicity.

A warm hug to Claudio who is now free.

To the application of practical theory.

For a black international.

Toby Shone
13th October 2024
HMP Garth
North-West

* MAPPA – Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangement

Fallout From Publication Of “Unsurprising Fact”

22/10/24

As the result of Toby Shone having giving the text “Unsurprising Fact” to Brighton ABC, he had a visit from Counter-Terror Prevent duo Ian Turner and Mick McCormack on the morning of October 21st. He was issued 3 administrative sanctions and is now on Basic IEP regime, which means no television and only £5 a week to spend. The sanctions were for: writing an open letter to Joe Black at Brighton ABC on October 13th. [“Unsurprising Fact” was dictacted over the phone]; repeated phone calls to a friend during which she put him on speaker phone so that he could also talk to others in the room; and for speaking disrespectfully about staff including his Probation Offender Manager person Clare Ashton in a conversation with another contact in September. The first two people have been removed from his phone list.

NB: Toby is due to be relased on November 13th, 2024, having served his full sentence. This is just the latest (and hopefully the last) vidictive move by HMP Garth’s “anti-terror bureaucrats” attempt to punish him during his final days at “His Majesty’s pleasure.

Source: Brighton Anarchist Black Cross

UK: Further attacks planned by fascists across the island

Posted on 2024/08/05 - 2024/08/05 by darknights

Trusted comrades have handed to us details of new planned attacks across the country organised by fascist/far right groups. After the attacks upon the Rotherham and Tamworth hotels yesterday, where asylum seekers are housed, both had side entrances set on fire by fascists. We cannot let the blatant attempts by fascists to lead pogroms around the island, to terrorise everyone that doesn’t agree with them.

For anyone who is still under the illusion that this is about children being murdered or some kind of rebellion, revolution or insurrection of the people, that its not to do with the far right, fascists, neo-nazis, racism and Islamophobia, we advise you to sort out your head, not listen to social media influencers or the manistream media, we have seen with our own two eyes well known fascists and neo-nazis on the streets, organising online through social media and telegram.

Fascism and racism doesn’t exist in a void, successive governments not only here on this island but also around the world have been using racist, Islamophobic, anti-immigration propaganda to serve their own power games, from Trump to Bolsonaro and Suella Braverman to Priti Patel, even the cops and armed forces being infiltrated by neo-nazi groups proscribed by the state as terrorists, the whole liberal democracy is corrupted to the core. If they don’t tell you that the refugees are the problem, they will tell you not to fight back, to rely on the cops, the very system that also brought this about.

The only way to fight back against racism and fascism is to physcially fight it off the streets.

Keep safe, organise with trusted comrades, keep commucation off phones and internet, mask up.

“Adolf Hitler himself said that the only way the rise of the German Nazi Party could have been prevented was if its enemies had recognised it for what it was right at the start and had smashed it in its infancy with utmost force.” – Oi Polloi, ‘Bash the Fash’

UK: Convicted neo-Nazi terrorist was at Southport riot

Posted on 2024/08/02 - 2024/08/02 by darknights

One of the far-right activists who travelled to Southport on Tuesday night was Matthew Hankinson, an unrepentant neo-Nazi terrorist, who was jailed for six years for his membership of the proscribed neo-Nazi youth group National Action (NA).

Posts on Hankinson’s account on X (formerly Twitter) reveal he was present at the riot, where he took photographs and recorded videos of the violence. In one gleeful post, which included a video of a burning police van, Hankinson wrote: “‘Piggy in the middle’ Police vans trapped between English People showing solidarity in the face of foreign terror get set on fire by misguided Patriots who take vengence (sic) into their own hands. ”.

Before he was jailed, Hankinson lived outside St Helens in Newton-le-Willows.

NA were proscribed in the wake of the murder of Jo Cox MP after one of them posted “649 to go” on Twitter and they set the title on their website to “Death to traitors, Freedom for Britain”, the slogan said in court by Jo Cox’s killer.

Hankinson’s first post on X includes the same slogan and says: “Those who take issue with the Righteous and Just sentiment of these Noble words are those same subversive Traitors that are oppressing and destroying Britain.”

After NA were proscribed, Hankinson continued to be involved and was present at a meeting in a Wetherspoons where the now convicted neo-Nazi paedophile terrorist Jack Renshaw shared a plan to murder his local MP. Renshaw was jailed for life and must serve at least 20 years in prison.

The violence in Southport on Tuesday night, where far-right activists and racist locals rioted in a grieving community, has sparked a wave of anti-migrant violence with disorder taking place in London and Hartlepool last night and anti-migrant protests in Manchester and Aldershot. More protests are planned around the country over the coming days.

We revealed fascist group Patriotic Alternative (PA) were one of the groups behind the protest which turned violent in Southport on Tuesday evening. David Miles (aka Jack The Nipper) from the West Midlands, was one of the PA activists to have travelled to Southport.

Miles could be seen facing down riot police, wearing a t-shirt featuring the slogan ‘Free Sam Melia’. Melia, PA’s Yorkshire regional organiser, is currently serving a prison sentence for producing racist stickers. The protest was promoted by PA’s Wales regional organiser, violent football hooligan Joe Butler (aka Joe Marsh). Butler has a series of convictions for stabbing football fans and attacking women.

Leading politicians are discussing responding to the Southport riot by proscribing the English Defence League, an organisation which has not existed for more than five years. Hankinson’s presence shows that state bans won’t stop neo-Nazis from being involved in violent disorder.

Source: Red Flare

DN Note:

Patriotic Alternative (PA)’s regional organiser for Wales is Joe Butler, also known as Joe Marsh, a leading figure in the Pie & Mash Squad hooligan group. Butler is a violent fascist and football hooligan who was jailed in 2015 for attacking a female anti-austerity protester in central London the previous year.

The Pie & Mash Squad have been responsible for several attacks on left-wing activists, including an attack on a squat and an attack on a 12 year-old girl and her father. The attack on the squat in January 2017 was led by the Pie & Mash Squad who were joined by supporters of the now-banned neo-Nazi terrorist organisation National Action (NA). The squat mentioned was Belgravia ANAL Embassy a £15 million mansion in London’s bourgeois Belgravia neighbourhood which had been opened up to rough sleepers.

Patriotic Alternative activist David Miles in Southport, 30 July 2024. One activist to bus into town was David Miles (AKA the English Wanderer) from Birmingham, a core member of Patriotic Alternative (PA), the UK’s most active fascist group. Miles somewhat unwisely posted pictures of himself at the event on social media.

Conservative-endorsed “youth” group Turning Point UK linked to political violence

Posted on 2024/08/02 by darknights

DN Note: The PDF contained in the text mentions organising against the Labour Party and Jeremy Corbyn as well as attacks on the Socialist Worker Party. We would like to express that we don’t care for these political entities which we are also opposed to, we add this PDF because we find it clearly explains the increasing connections between the Conservative Party that has lurched more to the far right during and now out of power. It also identifies the far right scum involved which we will always never hesitate to broadcast far and wide. We also add that Turning Point is one of the most prominent groups that have been pushing the protests, riots, attacks on mosques and migrant accomodation that have spread in the last week.

Our report, Turning Point UK: Conservative hooligans, details our undercover infiltration of Turning Point UK (TPUK) which saw members of the group’s secret “elite” Direct Action Team offering to sell offensive weapons to other members ahead of protests which subsequently saw outbreaks of violent disorder.

TPUK has previously been endorsed by several leading figures in the Conservative Party, is involved in far-right street violence and has activists currently in prison.

TPUK’s honorary president, Conservative candidate Marco Longhi may have misled the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards about his relationship to the group.

Allan Jones, a spokesperson for anti-fascist investigators Red Flare, said: “TPUK connects the halls of power to violent neo-Nazis involved in racist attacks. In between schmoozing with Conservative party establishment figures, Jack Ross has been rubbing shoulders with violent neo-Nazis convicted of hate crimes.

“Ross should be expelled from the Conservative party for leading a violent far-right street gang. If the people of Dudley decide to re-elect Marco Longhi, he’s got questions to answer about his relationship with TPUK.”

On 11 November 2023, TPUK mobilised for far-right protests which caused widespread violence and disruption across Westminster, leading to 126 arrests and Suella Braverman’s subsequent resignation as Home Secretary.

Source: Red Flare

Dining with Vultures – Bristol Anarchists & the UK Media

Posted on 2024/07/13 - 2024/07/13 by darknights

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The purpose of this piece is to better understanding of mass media’s relationship to rebels (including anarchists of all stripes), in general as well as in the context of a repressive atmosphere in Bristol. As well as raising local specifics, it hopes to encourage stronger awareness around wider issues of representation and counter-insurgency…

… even in the best-case scenario, on the level of sheer pragmatism, the mass media cannot be made to serve liberatory purposes. It works by systematically removing events, ideas or proposals from their context, to then re-package and re-serve them as fragments so we can consume them while never actually living them. What sense can critiques with the depth of anarchist ones make when presented as a 60-second jumble sandwiched between ten others in contradiction, how can anything meaningful take root in an environment dedicated to keeping everything restricted to surface level only?