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Lecce, Italy: Who builds prisons, who builds freedom!

Posted on 2021/08/03 - 2021/08/03 by darknights

“He who builds prisons expresses himself less well than he who builds freedom,” said an anarchist poet a few decades ago. And language in fact, understood as the expression of a world, is a central issue in this period, although in a reverse way to that recognized by the poet; those who build prisons are establishing a single dominant thought, while those who want to build freedom are forced into the corner, as often happens, after all. They started with confinement for everyone, then came the curfew; now the attack is directed towards those who are not vaccinated, who will be deprived of even the smallest freedoms if they are not convinced to do so. What is more frightening is the applause of the gray zone, that is the majority of citizens, especially of the left, convinced that taking away freedom is the way to solve the problems of all. If you do not align yourself with the single thought, you are considered irresponsible. It is not understood that the application of these measures will be extended gradually to all, regardless of health aspects: if you are not in compliance with what is prescribed by the State, whatever it is, you will be excluded from services and social life.

Yet the questions multiply. Why should we trust those who are using the bodies of billions of people as guinea pigs to make stratospheric profits and genetic information? Why should we trust those who created the health emergency: ignoring for years that it could occur, dismantling health care for decades, both territorial and centralized, in fact creating the conditions for the death of many people – we should remember this when we are continually clouded with numbers and we say that intensive care units are collapsing. Why should we trust those who feed a permanent war, in order to manage in a military and emergency way any problem that arises and to accept any abomination? Why should we trust those who exploit and devastate the planet, creating the conditions for epidemics to occur? The species jump has, in fact, an environmental cause. Why should we trust those who carry out criminal research in the laboratory to increase the danger of a virus? This happens and is allowed in the name of science. That science is the master of the world, accepted in a fideistic way, like an oracle. No doubts, no critical thinking, only obedience. This is the world that lies ahead. A world of digitized and medicalized slaves, without experience, without autonomy, without freedom. Unable to carry out any daily activity without the help or the imposition of a machine, an app, a device. Where it will not be the same machines to permanently replace the human being, now surplus of an economy and a world governed by computer processes and fear.

So be it.

There are not only those who build prisons. There are also those who build freedom. Who is banished, excluded, clandestine. Those who defend their autonomy, their experience, their culture, their history. Who will not be subjects, slaves, soldiers, who will not be a body to be recombined.

Who will continue to sabotage this world!

Source: Disordine

Athens, Greece: (sometimes) Truth is stranger than fiction

Posted on 2021/08/03 by darknights

PDF: (sometimes) truth is stranger than fiction…

The publication “(sometimes) Truth is stranger than fiction… (positions against lockdowns, bans, the organized institutionalization of discrimination, “Operation Freedom”, enforced vaccination and the dystopia of domination)” was printed in 750 copies in July 2021 in the metropolis of Athens by the “Council for the Diffusion of Disorder”. It is distributed hand in hand, challenging the rules of “social distancing”. It is distributed in self-organized spaces of struggle and occupations without charge.

For contact: councilofdisorder@protonmail.com

Council for the Diffusion of Disorder

Το έντυπο «(sometimes) Truth is stranger than fiction… (θέσεις απέναντι στα lockdown,τις απαγορεύσεις, την οργανωμένη θέσμιση των διακρίσεων, την «επιχείρηση ελευθερίας», τον επιβαλλόμενο εμβολιασμό και τη δυστοπία της κυριαρχίας)» τυπώθηκε σε 750 αντίτυπα τον Ιούλιο του 2021 στην μητρόπολη της Αθήνας από το «Συμβούλιο για τη διάχυση της απειθαρχίας». Μοιράζεται χέρι με χέρι, αμφισβητώνταςτους κανόνες της «κοινωνικής αποστασιοποίησης». Διακινείται σε αυτοοργανωμένους χώρους αγώνα και καταλήψεις χωρίς αντίτιμο.

Για επικοινωνία: councilofdisorder@protonmail.com

Συμβούλιο για τη διάχυση της απειθαρχίας

Source: Athens IMC

Altena, Germany: Three patrol cars set on fire

Posted on 2021/08/03 by darknights

Altena, July 30-31, 2021

Unknown persons have set fire to two police patrol cars in an underground car park in Altena (Märkischer Kreis) on Friday. The fire, which completely destroyed the two vehicles, was discovered around 12:30 p.m., according to police.

In addition to the police station, the complex also houses stores and apartments. The building was largely evacuated, firefighters extinguished the fire and pulled the vehicles outside. No one was injured. All tenants and users of the building were able to return to their rooms after the firefighting work.

In Altena, which had been badly hit by the flood disaster a few weeks ago, long traffic jams formed around the scene of the fire. Lenneuferstraße was blocked until around 3 p.m. Officials estimate the damage at more than 100,000 euros. To the possible damage to the underground parking no data could be made yet, it was said. The state protection in Hagen took up the investigations, witnesses are sought.

In Altena in the Märkischer Kreis district, another patrol car was set on fire in front of the police station on Saturday. The fire has been extinguished. Already on Friday, two patrol cars had been set on fire. We report up to date.

Altena – According to initial information, another patrol car, a Mercedes Vito, was set on fire on Saturday morning, July 31 – this time in the immediate vicinity of the Altena police station on Marktstraße.

The fire was extinguished by police officers with a fire extinguisher even before the arrival of the fire department itself and quickly. About the amount of damage police spokesman Christof Hüls could not yet make any statements.

On Friday two patrol cars had been set on fire by unknown persons in the underground car park of the Stapel-Center. The damage was over 100,000 euros. The state security in Hagen investigates

Reports from capitalist mainstream media

Source: Chronik

Genoa, Italy: GLONASS on board!

Posted on 2021/08/03 by darknights

The Glonass system, comparable to the American GPS, is a Russian global navigation satellite system used for tracking and tracing. It is also used as a back-up or support positioning system, which can provide a faster fix and greater accuracy than GPS.

This device was found in our car. It was connected to the power supply of the control unit underneath the steering wheel on the left-hand side and had been placed there with a magnet, insulating tape and a heating cloth. It consists of an antenna (QC in the photo) connected to a multi-frequency positioning receiver box containing a micro SIM card. On the same side, a long cable ran along the inside of the internal side pillar linings of the windscreen to the underside of the roof of the car. All on the driver’s side. At the top of the cable were two microphones.

Glon-my-ass!
On the Road Again!

Two anarchists in Genoa

[Received and published by malacoda.noblogs.org, August 2, 2021].

Philippines: The Haunted Archipelago by Isang Alipin (English, Tagalog, Taglish)

Posted on 2021/08/01 - 2021/08/02 by darknights

Author’s note

I wrote this to shed light on Max Stirner’s egoism for individuals who live in the so-called “Philippines,” but it can also be for any individual that is interested regardless where they may live. For whomever is reading this: I want to inform you that this contains my interpretation of Stirner’s egoism and my views at the time of writing; however, I hope my interpretation and views can be of use to you.

The Archipelago is haunted!

In the archipelago called the “Philippines” dwell many ghosts! These ghosts in every corner haunt the people that live in the archipelago…where can you find these ghosts you say? In your mind! What exactly are these ghosts? Let us find out together…

Spooks

Currently, many are being haunted by concepts like religion, state, authority, morality, nationalism, God, law, rights, duty, patriarchy and various other concepts that are treated as higher than their selves—concepts that they think they really have an obligation to follow—sacred concepts.

The people that are possessed by these ghosts, which are also called “spooks,” are doing things to serve the cause of the spook; an example would be a person that believes they and other people have an obligation to follow the law. Because of this, they are slaves of the law, because the cause of the law is to convince you that it is your obligation to obey their command. Because of this, the police are regarded as the servants of the law that you need to obey. If you don’t obey, they say the police have a right to arrest you or even kill you in the name of the law. It could be that a police officer thinks that they are only doing their job because they say it is their duty to fulfill the law. Oh my! This individual is being possessed! If this police officer shot a gun, why blame a concept called “duty” which they say is the reason why they fired the gun when they were the one holding the gun? Was the concept of “duty” the one that pulled the trigger or the police officer? The person fired the gun, not the concept of “duty.” Duty is merely a spook and nothing else! Why would you blame things that aren’t real such as ghosts? These spooks possess people to do the spook’s cause, but these spooks are only in their mind and are not actually real—because even though it looks like they are doing things to serve the cause of the spook, in reality they are doing these for their selves and they are not actually being possessed because there are no ghosts to possess them. But even though these ghosts are only imaginary, because of the people’s belief that there is really a ghost, it is like they’re actually there. Because of the people’s belief, these spooks are affecting their lives and can also affect others. The apparition that cannot be touched now has the ability to affect those that can be touched!

Spooks are excellent tricksters. The concept of a promise is one example of a skilled deceitful spook—because at first—it looks like they’re not a spook, but don’t be fooled! That is also a spook! Promises give you an obligation to obey your past self, it wants to bind you to the wishes of your past self—it wants you to treat your past desires as higher than yourself, it wants to make your past self’s desire sacred. Promises enslave you to obey the desires of your past self. But if in the past you let yourself be a fool to want to do that, why fool yourself again if you know now that you don’t want to do it anymore? That is the spook known as promise, just another sacred concept. An obligation is sacred—something inviolable they say—something an individual treats as higher than their self. Since no power is above you, since nothing is sacred, there are no obligations. Obligations are not real; remove those imaginary shackles! Don’t let yourself be fooled by a feeling of indebtedness. You owe nothing to anyone! Including yourself.

The spook is one really skilled trickster, it will convince you that you do things not for yourself, but for its cause. Oh! Really? Is that really the reason why you do the things you do? Do you really not do things for your own sake? Even if you say that you were only ordered to, aren’t you the only one that can decide if you will follow or not follow what was ordered of you? Didn’t you do it because there was something you wanted or not wanted to happen? Orders are sacred; it is a spook. In the end you were the one who decided what you will do because you were concerned with what was more beneficial to you, because you are selfish. Continue reading “Philippines: The Haunted Archipelago by Isang Alipin (English, Tagalog, Taglish)” →

Chile: Informativo del caso envío de paquete-bomba a la 4°Comsiaria de Talca y palabras de los compañeros acusados Ignacio y Luis Avarca Mancilla

Posted on 2021/08/01 - 2021/08/01 by darknights

PDF: Informativo IMPRESIÓN detenidos talca paquete bomba

Source: Publicacion Refractario

Italy: An Immoral Fairy Tale by Anna Beniamino

Posted on 2021/08/01 - 2021/08/01 by darknights

AN IMMORAL FAIRY TALE

Anarchists read a lot and write even more, perhaps it is because of some excess of bookish culture that we talk about ethics to no end when you trudge to understand it and forget to apply it in everyday life. And… when one realizes the error one has made, one still writes pages and pages (it is not clear whether for private use or for a selected public) of redundant corrections that sound even more shaky and hypocritical than the trial declarations, when not comical in their frantic contradiction.

I don’t enjoy moralizing within four walls, but, noting that certain silences risk being filled by the chatter of others, I think it’s time to address a curious phenomenon of inversion of meaning and referents of discourse, a couple of years old and not yet clarified.

On the occasion of one of the many anti-anarchist repressive proceedings, as a defensive strategy, the defendants, who had been in prison for a month, decided to make spontaneous statements, which were filed for review in February 2019.

Without going into the merits of the content, the first incongruity is that this is done in secret to the comrades, the movement (… this mysterious entity to which we all refer anyway), revealing their political and “ethical” (with all the quotation marks of the case) on attack practices, mode of relations and fields of interest of the movements … only to the magistrates.

Strange, isn’t it?

In my naivety about movement fairness I had grown up hearing a different refrain, something that sounded simple, argue even fiercely but leave foil or cleaver outside the courtroom.

Instead, in step with the times, the moral of the story is different.

The damage is done, and if someone notices, let’s put a patch, or more than one depending on the interlocutor.

I HOPE I GET AWAY WITH IT

The “ethical” compass that is invoked so much becomes a useless burden in trying to stay afloat.

The “confidentiality” after the fact “in the desire not to aggravate the error by adding useful words to the repressors”, in order not to discuss so publicly the subsequent pieces, after having already privileged such an interlocutor, sounds particularly clumsy and serious. Not wanting to throw everything on the net when it has been filed in court is a blatant reversal of values.

To call this juggling between accusations to be rejected with indignation and defense of one’s own immaculate conscience “that oscillating line between technical and political” or to affirm that in the secret of the confessional courtroom “statements of principle” have been made, removing a few pebbles from one’s shoe, only demonstrates how shaky, jelly-like is the base on which the fixed points of one’s own “political” actions rest.

THE HYPOCRISIES ON THE SAFETY

In these times of daily psychopolice, I think we are all (among those who frequent movements and, consequently, courtrooms) aware that our ideas and solidarity between comrades are making us pay with years and years of stolen life and that often repressive operations move on the sounding board, rather than the facts, of the positions expressed in newspapers and publications, on the solidarity expressed and on the vivisection of human relationships.

On the basis of this, we are often called upon to pay attention, to weigh the meaning of every single phrase, of every single slogan. But this must be done in a positive sense, a priori, by weighing the contents (in public and in private) not by fear, a posteriori, of sanction. Otherwise, ethics becomes merchandise for sale, on sale because it is flawed.

ON SUBSTANCE

The first step to take when faced with the facts would be… to make an effort to know them before taking a position, and not only for defensive purposes. Rushing to explain one’s reasons along the lines of an intimidated reading of the charges or of the media hype produces monsters in the worst cases, at best unpleasant hypocrisies and simplifications that only play into the hands of the inquisitors.

Individual responsibility, the rejection of top-down structures and indiscriminate acts are tautological for anarchists: I can decide to repeat them or not in a courtroom based on a number of factors. The basic problem is the harmony with the co-defendants, the solidarity between comrades.

The basic problem is above all the awareness that judges play dirty, we don’t, or at least we shouldn’t, not even with words, which only end up besmirching those who pronounce them thoughtlessly.

Anna
June 2021

P. S.: If this fairy tale seems too cryptic, you can start the treasure hunt for subsequent tears and patches, asking those directly involved who wanted a debate… en privé.

PDF: Anna, “An Immoral Fairy Tale.”

Source: Malacoda

Berlin: Defend Køpi-Wagenplatz/Køpi-Wagenplatz verteidigen

Posted on 2021/08/01 by darknights

In the last years we have witnessed the State and Capitalist tyrants relentlessly try and wipe out and destroy the last few self-organised places and autonomous structures in Berlin.

Attacking with ceaseless eviction of our spaces, dehumanising police tactics and constant repression.

The City of Berlin with its corrupt politicians have chosen to side with the criminals who are selling out the city. Andreas Geisel, Interior minister of Berlin, has supported every eviction with an army of robocops brutally forcing people out of their homes and collective spaces.

On 10th of June the verdict was given to evict Køpi-Wagenplatz. We will defend it with all we have.

We call for every friend, every supporter, everyone who doesnt want to see another unique place destroyed to join us in Berlin to fight the eviction of the Wagenplatz and defend our homes. We will try with as many people possible to stand in the way of the eviction, using barricades, blockades, de-centralized actions and every way imagineable. Let’s take our anger to the streets and let our diversity also be shown in our resistance.

We dont know yet the date of the eviction but think it will be soon. We also expect the police to put a red zone around kopi some days before the eviction, in an attempt to silence our solidarity and isolate us. We call for support from the moment the eviction date is announced, kopi and other autonomus projects in berlin will open thier doors for spaces to meet, discuss, exchange ideas, prepare and plan. Sleeping places and food will be organised for people coming to support. Get in touch with us – we welcome any form of solidarity. Spread the word in your cities and on your streets. Let us come together and show that despite the endless eviction threats and attacks or our way of life, we are still here, and our anger only fuels our strength.

They cannot destroy our ideas and they will not break us. Continue reading “Berlin: Defend Køpi-Wagenplatz/Køpi-Wagenplatz verteidigen” →

Talcahuano, Chile: Incendiary Attack against Construction of Police Station of Carabineros

Posted on 2021/08/01 by darknights

We carried out sabotage against the construction of the police station in Talcahuano, in memory of our Weichafe comrade, fallen into the hands of the police cruelty of murderous $hilean $tate.

In honor and memory of Luisa Toledo.

Down with the forest industry of the Wallmapu

Down with the yuta [Chilean slang for cops] of the hills of Thno

Down with the yuta of the entire world

Via: AMW

Source: https://es-contrainfo.espiv.net/2021/07/27/concepcion-chile-adjudicacion-de-atentado-incendiario-contra-construccion-de-comisaria-de-carabineros-en-talcahuano/

Chile: Against Sectarianism. For an Affinity Supported in Practice. Words from compañerxs Monica and Francisco EN/ES

Posted on 2021/08/01 - 2021/08/01 by darknights

Facing what we see as direct interpellations towards us, the need arises to write this text to make clear the issues.

As we have written on several occasions both individual and collectively, we understand anarchy not as an embodiment or place of arrival, but as a tension, a permanent confrontation in the first personm putting at the center the search for individual freedom. For us, this constant struggle has been real, which is why we find ourselves today behind bars. This situation has not prevented us from continuing to participate in struggle initiatives both inside and outside the jail.

In short, anarchy for us is an ethics and a permanent practice against authority, a practice in which we have met with others (not necessarily “anarchists”), enriching and enhancing our visions and capabilities, as well as forging close relationships of complicity, strengthened in the course of years and confrontation. To designate that these relationships can only be established with those who are called “anarchists,” apart from being a fallacy that can only be believed by those who have not ventured to travel the paths of the conflict and spend their time in front of the computer, is something that we reject from the moment when we prioritize establishing links over repeating empty slogans until you get enough. To self-identify as “irreducible anarchists” does not mean anything without being accompanied by a confrontational practice that sustains it.

On the other hand – and most importantly – assuming that anarchists only should relate to anarchists reflects an absurd purism and a sectarianism that, without a doubt, is an expression of authoritarianism. Establish coordinations and joint struggle initiatives only between those who are self-defined “anarchists” is to restrict and limit greatly our relationships and with this our chances of growing. It is to lock up stupidly in dogmatisms that restrict us and prevent us from free association. So, we see how in the name of freedom, some raise absolutely the opposite, setting sects as the basis for relationships.

With this, we do not want to say that we establish indiscriminate relationships or do not have a type of filter.

We have left clear points that for us are impassable in previous communications; repentances, dissociations and institutionality corresponds to some red lines that constitute insurmountable aspects that prevent carrying out any joint initiative with those who opt for these roads. As you can appreciate, these points do not correspond to empty labels but are concrete, in ways of living in prison and not only here. They are options that generate a total contradiction between what is said and what what is done. Well, maybe for some, the only value is what incendiary proclamations are said online or on some social network. On the contrary, we prioritize the practice and from there, we are establishing affinities and ruptures.

And certainly, authoritarian practices represent a point that we will not tolerate. We have never established fighting relationships based on authoritarianism and the experience of anarchist and subversive prisoners is no exception. The common points we have between all of them are a lot stronger than the discrepancies that we can have, discrepancies that evidently, do not represent insurmountable aspects, since if it were so, we would have set aside from the beginning of this initiative. The ties that unite us with the comrades have been forged in the confrontation. Inside as outside the jail, for more than a decade, meaning for us a relationship and enriching experience that, undoubtedly, has nourished, strengthened and qualified our anarchic path. Today, in this new confinement situation, this joint initiative is not new, but the last year has counted on important mobilizations that allow us to develop interesting projections. Now, as we affirm it in the article “about the need for continue the fight within the prison” of the magazine Kalinov MOST 4, the anarchist prisoners have broken with certain codes inside of the prisons, installed and reproduced by the members of the armed left groups from the ’80s, codes that mainly had to do with the reproduction of organic-partisan logic inside jail and also with establishing a ratio of superiority with respect to the rest of the penal population. They have been in charge of keeping live subversive codes with which we feel identified and that we see indispensable to incorporate and live. We refer to a refractory position and attitude against the prison institution that grants a particular identity, view and recognition both by social prisoners and the jailers. We also refer to the undeniable fact of continuing the fight within the prison, to show in practice that with the confinement nothing ends, that It is only another struggle, which breaks with victimism. Many times in the struggle for liberty of prisoners, comrades for decades have raised and taken forward an anti-carceral practice that has pierced the walls that divide the street and jail. These are just some of the subversive codes that we share with the comrades, who reinforce our ties of affinity in the task everyday and we are moving away from those who, even calling themselves anarchist, diverts away from the fight or is completely disconnected from this. What do these purists and so-called “anarchists” who are completely disconnected from these ideas and practices do when they face a trial or are in prison? We reiterate, we establish relationships based on common practices, not on the basis of words or incendiary announcements published on the Internet. Finally, we see the need to refer to the danger that sectarianism or purism represents within our spaces, apart from authoritarian relationships mentioned above.

From our clear anarchic positioning, supported in the permanent conflict and in individual freedom, we are establishing relationships and coordinations that potentiate us and strengthen us on this path for total liberation.

As the incendiary comrades of Conspiracy of Cells of Fire said a few years ago: Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners and Those that Do No Repent of all Revolutionary tendencies!

TODAY WE SAY: Comrades Pablo Bahamondes, Marcelo Villarroel, Juan Aliste, Juan Flores and Joaquín García: To the street!

Mónica Caballero Sepúlveda. C.p.f San Miguel.

Francisco Solar Domínguez. C.p. Rancagua.

Translated by AMW
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