Note: The events that are claimed below happened on November 4 of last year, and their late date is explained by the fact that, in the words of the comrades themselves, it is “to be able to remember it with the aroma of the passing of time and to begin a new year of subversion and explosions.”
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Santiago, Chile: Bus set on fire outside the Ex-pedagógico (UMCE) and armed confrontation against special forces of carabineros for the iconoclastic memory of Kevin Garrido and in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito and the comrades of the Susaron Case. (04/11/2022).
“We speak of a new war, a new partisan war. Without front or uniform, without army or decisive battle. A war in which the focal points are deployed far from the mercantile flows, although they are connected to them. We speak of a totally latent war. That has time. Of a war of position. Which is being waged where we are. In the name of no one. In the name of our own existence, which has no name” (How to do? Tiqqun).
About the action.
During a quiet and bohemian Friday afternoon at the Ex Pedagógico, while the citizen/student mass lives its lethargic and alienated youthful fun, a violent direct action took place. This action is framed within the so-called “Black November”, where it is informally called to commemorate the life and death of comrade Kevin Garrido through the violent, diffuse and multiform attack. The action begins with our exit through the front of the university to proceed to cut off vehicular traffic in the area. We set up a barricade of tires and debris that we lit at the moment of intercepting a public transport bus. Our intention was to cross the bus horizontally to the street in order to cut off all traffic, however the driver of the vehicle blocked its driving, so we proceeded to set it on fire at the place of its interception with accelerating liquids. Without intending to harm the mass of citizens, we were constantly rebuked and repudiated for this action. We did not care and we responded verbally to their desperate insults and we were attentive to any onslaught that could emerge from any individual-citizen-cop with a craving for civil heroism, we shit on those people who, upon seeing armed comrades, dare to insult them, believing themselves -imbecilically- untouchable, voluntarily putting their physical integrity at risk in front of us. After this eventful moment, we entered the campus to wait for the police deployment and to receive it with all our strength: thunderous gunshots and a rain of Molotov cocktails hit the bodies of the squad of henchmen who naively took cover on the corner of Juan Gómez Millas street while the armored cars crossed the street. They clearly did not expect our means of attack to put their miserable lives at risk, which left a couple of policemen on the ground (apparently wounded by the shots) and provoked an almost immediate response: they shot at us with their service weapons and gassed the entire area of the front gate. After this counterattack, we used and unloaded all our material and disappeared fleetingly from the place.
Motivations.
This action -as we mentioned before- is part of the international campaign for a Black November in memory of the savage iconoclast Kevin Garrido, 4 years after his murder in the Santiago 1 prison. It is also a blow to the gears of capital that subject all forms of life to a lethargy of normality/passivity typical of a counterinsurgent period catalyzed by the democratic mechanisms of a social democratic government that has established an atmosphere of post-transition.
We abhor this reality and have no hope of reforming it, whether for democratic or “revolutionary” ends, so we attack it. Besides, hope (even the “hope of revolution”) is just that: hope. We do not hope. We attack… “when hope dies, action begins” (Beyond Hope, Derrick Jensen). Let those who still believe in social and human redemption wait while their social bases are camouflaged according to the dictates of the government of the day. We no longer believe. We do not even believe in the Social Revolution that the prophets of anarchy occupy to embellish their babbling tongues and project a false image on the depressing reality of this world. We deny it. “The idea of “progress” is central to the modern Western paradigm in which the assumption that the whole world is moving towards an ever better future predominates. The idea of the inevitability or possibility of a global libertarian future arises from that belief” (“Desert”, anonymous). We leave theoretical fables for the masturbatory leisure of academics. We are not part of any revolutionary tradition that dictates and imposes our practical work. Our action is Pleasure through destruction. We live our anarchy today and not in a “revolutionary” tomorrow.
Perhaps a burned bus, a few Molotovs and a couple of bullets will not put an end to domination. However, we prefer to contribute decisively to its destruction without any consequences. Our freedom is found in the attack, because it is only when we untie the chains of morality and the servitude of capital and decide to take action, that we conquer that freedom of which the old and dusty philosophy books talk so much.
Solidarity cannot be just a written word. It must inevitably be a relentless attack.
Our attack is sister to and embraces the anti-authoritarian conviction of all prisoners the length and breadth of the world. Domination wants to extend its pincers in ever more sophisticated and thorough ways, but our desires for destruction are stronger. For this reason, we salute the comrade of anarchic praxis Alfredo Cospito, who has been on hunger strike since October 20, 2022 against the 41 bis solitary confinement and torture regime. We recognize and embrace Alfredo as one of our own. His irreducibility and anarchic conviction that he has carried to the last consequences has provoked his isolation as a vengeful response by the Italian State, which naively thinks that with these mechanisms it will be able to placate and oppress the seditious desires of a comrade who has carried the insurrectionary cry of the social/anti-social war even while inside the walls of power. This attack is an embrace of encouragement for Alfredo and all those who twin with his war by putting their bodies and minds as a weapon of combat against prison isolation and torture (Juan Sorroche, Ivan Alocco, Anna Beniamino and all the prisoners and individuals who stand in solidarity with Alfredo through action). We hope that these words travel to their latitudes and break the concrete walls that keep their bodies locked up.
Also, we salute all the individuals and action groups that have attacked diverse objectives of the State/Capital and all forms of domination during the last period: Nueva Subversiones Anárquicas – Célula Alex Núñez, Federación Anarquista Informal (Attack on Oxiquim S.A.), Fracción Autonómica Cristián Valdebenito – Nueva Subversión (Attack on Sercor S.A. of the Angelini Group), Célula Célula Alex Núñez – Célula Alex Núñez, Federación Anarquista Informal (Attack on Oxiquim S.A.), Fracción Autonómica Cristián Valdebenito – Nueva Subversión (Attack on Sercor S.A. of the Angelini Group), Célula Insurreccional por el Maipo – Nueva Subversión (Arson attack against Empresas Baeza for its responsibility in the devastation of the Maipo River), Grupo Antispecista Emilia Bau – Nueva Subversión (Arson attack against medialuna in Renca), Grupo de Acción 6 de julio – Nueva Subversión (Explosive attack against Empresa Besalco S. A.), Grupo de Respuesta Animal (Arson attack against Club de Huasos y Rodeo Gil Letelier), Célula Insurreccional 2 de noviembre (Explosive attack against retired Gendarmerie Officers Circle), Negra Venganza. Núcleos de Melipulli José Huenante (Explosive attack against Special Forces Carabineros Police Station), Células Revolucionarias Mauricio Morales (Explosive attack against Fullclean Security Company). We also affectionately greet all the individuals who with determination and determination continue to occupy as a trench of attack the educational establishments within Chilean territory, whether in high schools or universities: Internado Nacional Barros Arana, Instituto Nacional, Manuel Barros Borgoño, Liceo Confederación Suiza, Liceo de Aplicación, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, UMCE (Ex Pedagógico), Universidad de Chile (Campus Juan Gómez Millas), Universidad de Concepción, Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, among so many attack trenches that have destabilized the normal mercantile functioning of the rotten Chilean society. This is a summary and complicit account of the anti-domination actions that have broken the media barriers of communication during the year 2022 within the territory dominated by the Chilean State. It is also a reminder to those who believe that black terror and propaganda by the fact has ceased: this is only the beginning.
We also salute and embrace our fellow prisoners accused of the attack against the animal death company Susaron. The news of the imprisonment of the comrades was a bucket of cold water for us, since our action took place on the same day of their arrests. However, we deployed our attack with the strength of the rage that this news brought us. This is a greeting of encouragement and full of black smoke for you comrades. The anti-speciesist war against civilized anthropocentrism advances towards the destruction of all the cages that keep our human and non-human animal brothers and sisters captive.
Finally, we salute all the anti-authoritarian comrades captive inside the filthy prisons throughout all the territories bound by domination: Monica Caballero, Francisco Solar, Juan Flores, Mawühnko, Tomas, Gabriel Pombo Da Silva, Thanos Xatziagkelou, Juan Aliste, Toby Shone, Felipe Rios, Marcelo Villarroel, Claudio Lavazza, Giannis Michailidis, Nicola Gai, Pola Roupa, Erick King, Dayvid Ceccarelli, Nikos Maziotis, Davide Delogu, the comrades linked to Negra Venganza (recently imprisoned for the thunder to the miserable jailers in December 2021? hugs accomplices of freedom! ) and especially to comrade Joaquín García Chancks; Kevin’s partner in action, we embrace your indomitable existence during this black November. We leave some words from comrade Joaquín in memory of Kevin, words that motivated our untamed behavior in the face of the useless scratches of the citizen-police mass:
“I remember an action many years ago now; a sea of citizens lashes out at us at a barricade, we are few… Alternatives? Retreat and abandon the action or confront them with Molotovs and force them to flee, we decided to take the first option, with the opposition of, guess who? that’s right, Kevin, who intended to defend that space tooth and nail, I remember his indignation and our -my- subsequent shame; perhaps logic told us that we acted well, a confrontation in those conditions would have been clearly unfavorable, but an idea ruminating in our minds all that day, a bitter taste did not leave us calm, we were free and intact, but we had lost that battle… What did this mean? That we, who wanted to attack and break with normality, had been absorbed by our enemy (…).
On that occasion we hid our fears under the mask of Reason, reality prevented us from dreaming, it led us to inaction; perhaps having tried to confront them did not suppose as much risk as we thought, perhaps dividing that horrible beast that is the mass, we would have obtained the victory, small and partial, but decisive for our confidence and very important as an individual process, even if, from the beginning we had been right, the passivity of those who do not confront those who stand between them and their action or even put their freedom at risk is very far from responding to a rational or logical thought, how possible is it to reason with the guardian of any master?
There is in every heroic impulse of those self-sacrificing citizens the unconscious notion that they will not suffer any consequences – it is so easy to be a superhero -, that the action will cease before their irruption, that not being a primary target they will not run any risk… Let’s shake this idea from their minds! A different morality and valorization only tangentially graze this point; there is no dignity in turning the other cheek.” (December 2018, one month after Kevin’s death)
To expand, multiply and spread the insurrectionary attack for total liberation; human, animal and of the earth. To arm and bet on the qualitative advance of our forces. To strengthen the gestures of international solidarity for the end of the isolation regime 41 bis. May the new anarchist urban guerrilla strike at the disgusting faces of power and turn to ashes every vestige of this authoritarian world. For the violent and incessant negation against all that exists and against those who sustain a world that falls to pieces to the sound of progress. By savage and antisocial anarchy we advance towards the abyss of confrontation.
“We will not give up one minute of our lives in the hope that the multitude will suddenly realize and wake up! If the oppressed are not ready to pick up the hatchet it is a problem of the oppressed” (International Anarchist Federation/International Revolutionary Front).
Long live the Black International. We are in every corner.
Kevin Garrido presente! Your phlegmy spitting is the thunder of today.
Down with the cages of civilized society.
Greetings, anarchy, nihilism and freedom.
PS: We claim this attack months later in order to remember it with the aroma of the passing of time and to begin a new year of subversion and explosions. Reviewing our most recent journey is part of weaving our black threads of denial towards this world.
Some incendiaries