Note from InformantivoAnarquista
With regard to the hunger strike of the anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, it seems important to us to collect and value our anarchist history, to reread, reflect and sharpen our denials. Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino today face a new labyrinth of the judicial inquisition, trying to impose the article of political massacre to bury stories, experiences, courage, bravery and desire for freedom with life sentences and long sentences.
16 years ago took place the clandestine conversation that we are spreading, we resort to the timelessness of the ideas and reflections that arise in the course of the fraternal dialogue, it also allows us to recognize the comrades as beings close to us, neither heroes nor perfect militants, nor guerrillas coming down from the plain… the revolt is contagious and exponentially reproducible, we can all contribute and recognize our absence.
“Conspiracy and Subversion”, a conversation of the Informal Anarchist Federation (2006)
Some of the comrades who belong to the original groups of the FAI Informal Anarchist Federation have decided to discuss a few points and to make the transcription of the discussion known. There are some omissions due to security reasons, but in the whole the transcription reflects the direct and informal tone of the conversation, which avoids all formalisms just as we do in our life…
These groups take part in the discussion: ‘Crafts and Fire Cooperative’, ‘July 20 Brigade’, ‘Cells against Capital, its Prisons, its Jailers and its Cells’, and ‘International Solidarity’.
QUI: I like Pippo’s idea to record and write down our conversation, Quo and Qua like it too. We think it is worthwhile even if we risk to be caught (touching wood). What counts is that Pippo takes off what doesn’t have to be written and destroys the recording.
PIPPO: My idea was to make some points known, points that normally we have never clarified and that make us angry sometimes…yes, when we hear or read comments about us…in other words we need to show to this fucking movement that we are not ghosts coming from nothing (laughers…’hey, did you see you?’). We need to show to them that we think it very carefully before carrying out an action and that we leave very little to chance. Our actions are not indiscriminate, on the contrary they are so controlled that we haven’t managed to do what we really want yet…(laughers). Then there’s nothing obscure or clandestine in our way of life. Most of us come from the movement. Live inside it and know that reality. Some even come from shit situations. let me tell you that Paperino. I don’t know how you can do…
PAPERINO: Forget it, it’s a long story…
PIPPO: Alright, I explain better. Sometimes it happens that I read or hear very horrible comments on our activity, for example that we are ‘provocateurs’ or ‘secret services’ not to mention their partial and blind general vision of what we do and say. If we write down the content of this encounter we might make some of our dynamics clearer…this is also for the comrades of other FAI groups that we don’t know.
NONNA PAPERA: I’m not sure about writing down this discussion. Maybe a self-interview would be better: each group answers questions decided by everybody. In this way we avoid a transcription that would be incorrect for security reasons.
PAPERINA: I don’t think so. The meeting written on paper is more spontaneous and clarifying. We will make some corrections, pass it to the other groups and then it will be ready to be spread in a couple of weeks.
Paperino and I will print and send it, you know, we’ve got a new PC …
QUI: Let’s see which points we need to discuss. This might help us to understand better and then I’m willing to communicate with the groups that followed us in the FAI. We can reach them in this way and they can communicate with the same method.
ARCHIMEDE: I think that a very good point of this experience is experimentation, that is to say I put in practice things that I only talked about before, yes, to join thought: and action and to avoid that schizophrenic dualism between what is said and what is done. Then there exists another form of schizophrenia. a deeper alienation: the fact that you can’t talk openly to the comrades who surround you and who are not part of our groups, you can’t say what you really think or you risk exposing yourself and putting the comrades in danger. In other words,this caution, the fact that I can’t shout what I would like, is killing me.
QUA: Well, I feel the same but I don’t suffer out of that. To come back to the document….how are we going to spread it? There’s not much anarchist press and those who are willing to publish certain documents are very few…and then it is not fair to turn the comrades into targets for repression, as it often happens. Not to mention those who faint as soon as they read certain things or run to the cops…
Internet is a problem for us. we are not IT experts. And then, after the lndymedia server was searched because they published our claim of the bombs to the EU, it is very difficult that someone wants to publish our writing…
PAPERINA: And what about the free democratic expression, internet for everybody? (laughters)…
QUA: Forgetting the jokes, I think communication and censorship are fundamental problems. One of the most valid critiques they make to us concerns the means that we use to widespread our messages and the possibility that the latter can be manipulated by power. In other words, given our informalway and the fact that we choose not to communicate directly with new groups may damage on the level of communication and lead to false claims and actions.
PAPERINA: I don’t think this problem exists; it’s pure politics fiction. Either they censor us and decide not to publish our claims in the press (and this is unlikely, given the fact that journalists take everything) or we manage to place our communiques somewhere into the meshes of the system.
QUI: I agree with part of what Qua said: to communicate in the right way is very important. The potentiality of some actions was limited by the fact that claims of the latter were not widespread enough. For examples, we hardly heard about some actions, especially those done by new groups or done in the suburbs (laughers)…Please, don’t laugh, sometimes it’s easier that actions are censored on a local level before they reach the circuit of national communication. Even if we don’t have rules, we were wrong at the beginning because we gave too little importance to communication. For instance, we have neutralized the effect of our ‘motorbike bomb’ at the home office by underestimating quite superficially the right moment to make the claim. We need to invent something new, we need to make our actions as spectacular as possible so that the media cannot ignore them. Then we need to learn how to use the IT system. Considering how stupid investigators are, we can’t rely only on the papers of the movement to spread our ideas. As concerns possible provocations made using our name, it is up to us to make these provocations inoffensive with the clarity of our actions. So far, however, we haven’t run into this problem.
PIPPO: It’s the usual bullshit of infiltrators and provocateurs. bullshit that I heard not only from our homonymous [reference to the formal FAI] (laughers…’look, they get offended’…) but also from people who at least in theory, are supposed to understand certain mechanisms. That moderate people cry (laughers) is normal to me, it has always been like that…1 don’t understand, however, why certain thinkers (‘what do you mean?’)… yes, certain thinkers who have a little brain with nothing inside but a couple of fundamental concepts such as ‘Anarchists don’t do that’ …. for them the only thing anarchists can do is wanks… (laughs)… Anyway I was very upset when I saw comrades dissociating themselves from the struggle even if they claim they are radical. Since we started doing our actions and repression got stronger, strange phenomena have happened. Even the word ‘insurrectionism’ has become taboo since the press started using it…
PAPERINO: We can’t expect that everybody agrees with our actions. I don’t even care about that. What counts is that they don’t slander us with their critical attacks.
PAPERINA: Be careful when you talk about ‘infamous people’, I think the latter are only those who make people arrested, not those who have a different opinion.
PIPPO: What about when different opinions are used to point at people?
PAPERINA: This hasn’t occurred yet, as far as I know, and if it happens we’ll know what to do. What sounds strange to me is ‘we can’t expect that everybody agrees with our actions’. As I do actions not for my personal pleasure but because I think it’ s part of a struggle, I’d like that most comrades agreed and did the same, otherwise we’d be in a movement of spectators…
PAPERINO: As International Solidarity, we have always had the priority to communicate through the deeds, to make propaganda through the deeds. We decided to amplify intermediate struggles such as that against the FIES in Spain and to express solidarity to anarchists in Greece and elsewhere. Paperina, other comrades of our group and I have often asked ourselves if what we did really affected positively the struggles carried out by prisoners. We all reached the same conclusion: a concrete action of attack is always worthwhile even if it fails on a technical level. It’s not so much important to make damages as to get the message through. Unfortunately some of our technical failures (we are nor experts after all, even if we worked hard to create our instruments) thwarted certain actions that otherwise would have been much more powerful. You were better on a technical level later on.
ARCHIMEDE PITAGORICO: It’s difficult and risky if you don’t learn some basic technical notions. By the way I would like to share with you some tricks when the meeting ends. I think it’s important to talk about that and to show how it’s easy to find instruments and reproduce the actions.
QUO: Okay, but let’s still talk about ‘theory’, especially as what we are saying is going to be spread around. I’d like to make clear why we consider armed propaganda as a useful means to spread anarchist ideas in the semi-pacified western world of the XXI century. I think that too many comrades, scared by the fact that the movement has lost in these last years, keep on stressing on the ‘social’ initiatives and afford the ‘few’ struggles that arouse spontaneously with extreme care sticking on programs that are often laughable. I do believe that it’s not useful for any revolutionary project that we moderate our language and our actions. We need to be honest and consequently say and show openly and practically what we are struggling for. It is then up to single individuals to decide if they want to stay on the side of power or try to struggle for a free life. This is not enough for revolution, of course, but it’s a very important and efficient way of fighting the existent.
PIPPO: Our task is, at least we try, to continuously throw petrol on the little fires of revolt that break out here and there. Let me quote something: ‘A parcel bomb sent to a carabiniere and to a journalist servant of power or a bomb that provokes a simple crack in the wall of a prison are basically useful as in one moment they show how dominion is vulnerable and point out at the enemy and at the variety of means that can be used to fight the latter. Most importantly, they make everybody consider the possibility to directly intervene against the oppressors!’ (‘AMEN’… big noise, mess).
PAPERINO: Unfortunately there’s still exists someone who thinks that social conflict can be triggered through the paper, using incendiary words or, worst than ever, making charitable work… we will end up in catholic associations… [laugher]…I don’t think that revolution will be made by an armed vanguard (‘but where is this vanguard?’). Can you see what a low level the so-called struggle in the social has produced?
ARCHIMEOE PITAGORICO: I’d like to come back to what Pippo said. I was also bothered by certain critiques, especially those coming from areas of anarchism that are not extraneous to violent action in some cases, at least in theory (laughers). But at the end of the day they are a bit ignorant and superficial.
Why on earth do they care about the safety of a postman or a secretary every time a parcel bomb is sent? First of all they must have seen that no innocent people was hurt so far. On the contrary, by being cautious (assessment of time, places, ways and doses) we saved even the guilty. It is obvious that a parcel bomb that doesn’t detonate is not due to chance but to the precise will not to hurt a secretary. Of course we hope that the fear the latter felt makes her open her eyes…once the smoke has vanished (laughers)…on the institution she works for, and maybe she will want to change job.
QUA: Those who belittle our actions with false superiority and maybe believe in the bullshit published in the press really make me angry. They don’t even imagine that if two explosive devices are hidden into a skip outside a prison or a police headquarters and are detonated in two different moments it’s not to make cleaners crazy but to hit some servants of the state. I want to point out that if these actions have failed it’s only because we had too many scruples towards passersby.
PAPERINA: Then it must be pointed out that even if an action fails as concerns its main target it makes damage to power. Every time we approach them and put something under their arse we ridicule the whole repressive apparatus and the system of control they boast they have. For example, the two bombs close to the offices of the RIS in Parma were not at all a joke for them, shame that the second bomb didn’t work…these actions compel power to increase its system of control…never mind, there will always be some new rebel who will succeed in overcoming them.
NONNA PAPERA: This is also true as concerns a parcel bomb that doesn’t detonate: it makes the jailers live under fear, compels them to have an escort and shows to everybody the infamy of their job.
Giovanardi, for example [the manager of the CPT in Modena], has been having an escort since he received a beautiful present from our comrades of FAI/Narodnaja Volja.
PIPPO: I like the campaign against the CPT in Turin carried out by FAI/RAT. These comrades have understood very well our strategy, that is to say carrying out an intermediate struggle through radical actions.
PAPERINA: On the contrary I have to say that I’m a bit disappointed by the results so far reached. We did touch the anarchist movement, but relatively, and I see a state of lethargy everywhere, not only among anarchists. Years ago, when Paperino, other comrades and I formed International Solidarity, I expected we would grow in number. On the contrary I’ve seen many comrades staying behind and sticking themselves into institutional or social issues.
ARCHIMEOE PITAGORICO: I don’t think numbers are important. When you want to work in a social sphere, in front of millions of people, it doesn’t matter if you are 300 or 3000…what counts is the quality of the actions.
PAPERINO: I think that the quality of the actions depends on the number of the comrades involved. If you are alone you can do beautiful things but you end up with hitting your head against the wall, you really risk hurting yourself. We need more comrades to be involved in the actions, that’s the point.
PAPERINA: Many people will be angry for what you are saying, even inside our group. I think that the level of the actions has to be lowered and diversified. Now we are all trying to get rid of some servant of the state…this is fair enough…but if we stay stuck to this some anarchists, those who are not with us, will be frightened and disorientated. Either they will boast about infiltrators and provocateurs or they will engage in abstruse struggle losing the ability to understand the reality they live in. Look what happened in Valdi Susa, the struggle against the TAV: a vast range of people got involved, from unions to catholics, from fascists to anarchists…they all agreed…and a smoke bomb was enough to make all of them shocked (including the anarchists).
ARCHIMEOE PITAGORICO: I think the problem is the opposite. We need to show that we are serious, that we don’t hide behind tortuous reasoning and that we don’t have any problem to attack even at risk of our life!
PAPERINA: What a fucking rhetoric!
ARCHIMEOE PITAGORICO: Let me finish. The problem is that we have too many scruples and that we never go further. We need to be more efficient, more audacious with explosives and we don’t have to think that we can hurt a secretary if the target is her boss.
QUO: It’ s a matter of means, we have to be more selective: guns instead of explosives. Everybody can find guns whereas we are still stuck to minor explosives. I’m talking on behalf of my group, we discussed the matter and resolved we need to find guns and use them.
ARCHIMEDE PITAGORICO: This is not a problem, I know where guns can be found. As for me old dear dynamite is still the best means. I can mange the action, asses the time of escape and I also think it’s more effective, it frightens more. And then the risk of being caught is minor. Come on, we are few as we are…
PAPERINA: Yes. but I still think that managing dynamite is quite risky because we are not experts. Even if we used all caution possible, once we risked blowing ourselves up owing to an electric circuit that was not insulated properly. I’m not joking…on that occasion I had decided to stop with bombs and to use guns…but not to kill…
ARCHIMEDE PITAGORICO: How the fuck do you want to use them, as slings?
PAPERINA: It’s obvious, to hit but not to kill! Not that I wouldn’t be happy with killing some pig but consider the usual old matter…In other words, repression would burst out indiscriminately.
ARCHIMEDE PITAGORICO: Repression is always indiscriminate and then anarchists must be ready to face it. I’m very sorry for the captured comrades, but it has always been like that…especially with anarchist papers, solidarity initiatives and so on.
PAPERINA: What to you mean? Better them than us? You are crazy man, if anarchist papers are stopped and comrades are hit by repression it’s trouble for everybody!
PAPERINO: Yes, but it’s not our fault. If anarchists do their job properly the system defends itself. Those who end up in jail the first are those who do things better in the open air.
QUI: What do you mean? If we start shooting they will arrest the whole movement?
Bollocks…when the communists shot there were no raids in the movement as far as I know. They were only labelled by the media as relics of the past.
PAPERINA: Please, don’t talk about relics of the past…this is rhetoric good for all leftist revolutionaries…even for us…for any little leftist intellectual that in this way can stay sound and safe without any problem of conscience.
ARCHIMEDE PITAGORICO: Let me explain. When I say that repression is indiscriminate it’s not out of cynicism. We with our explosions and all anarchists and rebels that hit at dominion contribute to increasing the level of repression. At the same time those who choose to make propaganda through papers and open initiatives are aware of the risk of ending up caught.
PAPERINA: Yes, but for the future I’ll try to diversify my actions, even with the help of new comrades, I’ll try less spectacular actions than climbing on the Duomo in Milan…less spectacular but more widespread and that can be reproduced, even if I don’t like this word. Faster actions as regards both their planning and their execution…little explosive devices as a shower on the territory, cooking pans filled with petrol and gas bombs…in other words, the basic KIT for the DIY of anarchists! (laughers)
PAPERINO: Yes, we decided this together with the other comrades of International Solidarity. They didn’t come because we resolved never to go around more than two or three at a time…you know, in case things go wrong…l don’t agree completely with what Paperina said…for example, I don’t understand why a blown up dead should bring more repression than a shot dead. But I agree with the idea to amplify and diversify our actions.
ARCHIMEOE PITAGORICO: Good luck then, but bear in mind that it’s quite possible to die when you play with explosives…
PIPPO: Let’s come back to our discussion and forget the theories about the best way to die…the stronger and more spectacular the actions are the more the oppressed will know about them. Our reference can’t be the movement, it is too a limited context and it’s not relevant. On the contrary we need to communicate with the oppressed in the wider way possible.
NONNA PAPERA: Remember, however, that those who make the actions come from the movement, that is to say from the comrades who consciously chose to fight the existent.
PIPPO: I don’t think it is always like that. Then, who knows, the groups that were formed in the last years can be made by oppressed who decided to revolt. And again, where is the difference? This is a discussion I would like to develop, maybe not now, but to talk about ‘movement’ in this sad time is nonsense.
QUI: Give it the name you like, movement people-society. I don’t mind. For me the problem – and Paperina is right in this case – is that we are very few and we risk becoming specialists, a risk we must avoid!
QUO: I wish we were specialists… we only managed to wound a couple of cops with all our bombs and little bombs in these last years! Hooligans do more at football matches on Sundays!
QUI: The problem is not this. The point is the idea that lies behind. We need to bring about the spark that burns the field in this time of peace!
QUO: What a poet you are! It seems to me that nowadays the only things that burn by popular initiative are gypsy camps…
QUI: Don’t play the shit nihilist! The episodes in the gypsy camps are driven by fascists in search of adepts, and they do that under the sight of TV cameras.
QUO: No it’s you who are wrong. The right, both the old fascists and the lega nord members, are doing a very good job in creating a public opinion that is apathetic on the one hand and full of hatred on the other. And they also use words such as health and ecology, things that didn’t belong to them in the past.
QUI: I can’t accept the fact that the right is rebuilding its social base whereas we, who in the past had had a real growth. are at a dead point. Do you remember the period of the G8? Many of us were in Genoa and it was a very beautiful moment and even the actions carried out in Genoa and Bologna brought very good results…
ARCHIMEOE PITAGORICO: It’s again the question of the strength of our actions: things would have been different if we had used dynamite instead of gunpowder in that parcel to the carabiniere in San Fruttuoso.
QUI: Yes, tension between the cops would have been very high, but it would have been better if we had taken guns in the street besides gunpowder. In that case the recovery of the enemy would have been very difficult.
ARCHIMEOE PITAGORICO: It’s a lesson we need to take into account next time.
QUI: Anyway, even the attack on the police headquarters in Genoa, the one that failed for little, also produced good results. The movement was still shocked by the brutality of repression and reaction in the society was still good. Personally I heard positive comments even by those who are now criticizing us.
QUO: Look, today it is exactly as it was then: first everybody is happy with the bomb under the cop’s arse; then the claim arrives and they turn their nose up to us. They fear the revenge of repression on the movement and they conceal it behind an ideological refuse of the claim…because they think that an action that is not claimed can be reproduced, it’s the product of social rebels. whereas the action claimed by a name is the product of a vanguard…but these are plays of words…
PIPPO: Yes, but it’s not like that for everybody. Six new groups were formed in these years, many things were done and the message got through…not to mention the not claimed actions that are still been carried out.
PAPERINA: And then even the communists are doing their job in the last months. I read about various actions, one in Livorno and one in Milan if I’m not wrong.
QUO: Paperina. I’m pessimistic too sometimes, but the alternative is even worse. I don’t feel like joining some collective attended by dusty brains, I no longer want to take part in demos that looks like funerals of ideas dead before their time has come. I don’t want to become a social worker for the oppressed nor do I want to become the manager of some alternative bar. Given that I’m oppressed myself I have no other choice than acting…it’s very simple.
QUI: You know, it’s what we are doing but you also know that in some areas of the movement they think badly of what we do.
QUO: I don’t mind about spectators more or less satisfied. And then I know even too well how false certain areas are, where they do benefit for prisoners, or rather for prisoners’ lawyers, and then attack any action that breaks the dominant schemes.
PIPPO: Before saying that you should also think of positive things. There has been some growth, even if very small. At first there was a great debate about the utility of our actions in the movement, on the papers and on the internet. The elderly don’t always succeed in preventing young comrades from asking themselves questions. And don’t forget that many youths have joined us following the G8 in Genoa. The actions carried out in Genoa were very different from those of pacifists or formal-FAI members.
ARCHIMEOE PITAGORICO: It’s impossible that such organisations can do anything useful. What we are experiencing is unthinkable for those who use anarchism as a hobby or somethirng to do in their spare time. To risk one’s freedom for one’s actions gives a deepness and easiness in one’s ‘political’ activity that any formal FAI or intellectual can never imagine.
PIPPO: I close this lyric moment about free bodies and souls, which I agree with (cheers), to make you notice a few weak points of the system…The first is that the campaigns proposed by groups that were not in the 4 original groups of the informal FAI have never been supported by the latter. For example FAI/Animal Revolt has never received any answer, as far as I know, and not even FAl/Metropolitan Cells with their attacks on the work agencies in Milan, even if they acted simultaneously to International Solidarity’s attack on prisons.
PAPERINA: It was a coincidence, well, a very pleasant one.
PAPERINO: It’s again a problem of communication. We didn’t hear in time about the animal action because the official media didn’t talk about that, and when we learned about it we were already engaged in other stories.
PAPERINA: Information and communication are no doubt our weak points but at the same time they are our strength, our way of being unpredictable. If we don’t know one other, apart from those who are here today, and don’t know how many others are doing actions, imagine how little repressors know.
QUI: If the media censor us it can be considered a victory for us. It demonstrates that freedom of information is bollocks, and this is true also as concems certain alternative ways of communicating.
PIPPO: But if they don’t publish our claims and manipulate the strength of our actions they make big troubles to us. We can’t rely on the papers of the movement because they have a limited circulation and then repression strikes at them quite easily. It’s a bit better with internet but the websites of the movement are not so much visited either.
ARCHIMEDE PITAGORICO: We have to insist on spectacular actions whose visibility must be at its maximum. If fireworks are powerful everybody hears and sees them! It’s enough to make people understand that fireworks are not so difficult to prepare…
PAPERINA: I keep on thinking of the mechanisms of repression and I would like to start a campaign for arrested anarchists a classical one I mean.
ARCHIMEDE PITAGORICO: We can talk about that later on. Now I’d like to make a last consideration. It seems to me that International Solidarity. QUI QUO QUA and I are willing to carry on. Some of us didn’t speak much, maybe they will add corrections later, and for tonight it’s enough Let’s toast to REVOLT AND ANARCHY!!!
Letter to the various realities of the informal FAI. A reflection by Gabriel Pombo da Silva (2007)
“Dear reunited comrades of “Paperopoli” in the house of “Paperino”:
your letters arrived to me, (from the Grabada assembly) which Iread with extreme attention for Iam interested in the content of your reflections, and in addition I get along with and Iidentify so much with the project of the
F.A.I. (obvious informal) like with all and each one of the actions that you have carried out. The reason for writing these letters is not of course “advice” of some type, for this world is full of “advisors”, “theoreticians” and “celebrities” of all color and condition… No, Ionly want to send from this camp of extermination words of subversive tenderness, revolutionary spirit and rebellious complicity; words as much from my companion Jose as my own…
And of stepping to comment on some of the things on which you have reflected and debated in the assembly…
Indeed the attacks serve to demonstrate the vulnerability not only of the State but also of the idea of the State that has been composed by symbols,things and people, for they are the mediators and reformers of one and the other.
On the criticism that some comrades have spilled on to you in relation to the possibility “of hurting” or “of killing”, “innocent people*” (for example the mailman or secretary) . Ithink that it is a question of the technical means of the explosive package, rather than the methodology (armed attack). I suppose that the one that must decide, must be each group, based on what it has decided to carry out…
It is undoubtable that if it is decided to attack a servant of the state one must study the movements, customs and places that the target frequents to save in this way disagreeable surprises.
Once being in possession of all the information only then can the attack be valued. All the valuations (Objective- subjective-moral-etc) are unique and the exclusive work of those decided companions who will carry out the action (Not in vain if someday they fall into the hands of the oppressors, for they will be themselves and only they who will undergo the weight of the laws and the consequences of their acts).
Personally, in the fruit of my experiences, I am convinced that the fact to identify (or not) with the armed actions is a question of the “degree of individual conscience”, plus of the oppressed who would act the same. With this I mean that all those that are not oppressed, do not identify with my answer to answer force with force. This has always been the way and there is not an idea or movement that is going to change anything without understanding this.
And I am not a theoretician companions, but one of the oppressed, enamored with the freedom (and liberty) that infects the oppressed with the passion for a worthy life …
And in 22 years and six (seven) months that I have been jailed (and for that reason tortured until unimaginable limits by “oppressed” “others”). I have said that to be oppressed in fact does not bring even a radical desire to finish yet what oppresses us…
One needs to have “pride”, dignity, conscience, hatred and intelligence to wish to face the enemy and all the consequences…
I ignore that thing which is “the social thing” and doubt that the opinions of these “oppressed” “vague beings” like, “movements”, “subjects” are going to influence in some way my ideas and actions. I was asked if also they are going to “accuse” me of thinking and acting in a “vanguard” form since my hatred of class is not “reproducible” by “the oppressed” others…
Considerations aside, I want to declare that your project of informal and insurrectionary organization has demonstrated clearly:
A) That it has grown at least in quantity and not only in the Italian Peninsula (referring to the adhesion of new groups to the F.A.Informal), then it is possible to be seen clearly in the actions of other groups that the essential of the proposal (the diffused attack, the informa l organization, etc) has been extended and assimilated by other companions as their own project, even though they have not made use of the acronym F.A.I.;
B) That it has demonstrated that the attack is possible and reproducible by all those that know that things have become very bad, and are tired of hoping and have decided to now shift today to the offensive, not delegating its management to “elites” and “specialists”…
Finally Imean that all projects of these characteristics require time for their development and evolution (without mentioning their social understanding)…
And of course Iam in favor of the objective value (and not for fetishism) for the reach of this project to use the acronym of the F.A.I…. And Iwant to finish these considerations (that Ialways consider unnecessary) with wise words of the comrade Errico Malatesta :
“Amongst the anarchists there are the revolutionaries whom think it necessary to use force, to bring down the violence that maintains the present order, to create the atmosphere in which the free evolution of individuals and the collective is possible; and then there are educationists that think that it is only possible to arrive at the social transformation after educating the people by means of propaganda. They exist in favor of nonviolence, or the passive resistance, that avoids the violence although it is for rejecting it. Well they are divided as well, with regards to this nature, and the degree of violence. n addition, there is discord with respect to the attitude of the anarchists as opposed to the union movement, and also on their own organizations, with permanent or occasional differences between the subversive anarchists and other parties.
Exactly these and other similar questions are those that requires that we try to be understood; or if, according to the understanding it is not possible, it is necessary to learn tolerance, to work together when one agrees, and when not, to leave it alone without preventing another. Because, in truth, if all the factors are taken into account, nobody always is right… “
Errico Malatesta
A Warm embrace for your comrades! For the extension of the Revolt,
For Anarchy! Viva la F.A.I.!”
Aachen, Germany, 28.01.07.
1 About “innocent” or “guilty” people, it is worth writing a volume in installments… It is absurd!
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DN Note
These two texts were originally published in the zine ‘Escalation #1 – Texts about the Informal Anarchist Federation and the Insurrectional Project (ACN)‘. We have used the English versions from the zine.