Author: darknights
Athens, Greece: Attack on the MAT (riot cops) in Exarcheia square for Mauricio Morales present!
Shortly after midnight on Saturday 18/5, we carried out a coordinated attack on the MAT protecting the metro construction site in Exarchia square. We attacked them simultaneously from three different streets, Themistokleous, Solomou and Metaxas. The cops, once again, were running in panic trying to get away from the fires.
This action came amid a time when the sheet metal of the construction site is expanding, where the government is preparing the ground for new more repressive measures, both in the universities and more widely in the neighborhoods, taking advantage as usual of the summer season when the possibilities for organized and mass resistance are reduced. So this is our response to remind them that, as always, they will find us in front of them.
15 years after the death of Mauricio Morales we send a signal of fire and complicity from Greece to Chile, honoring the international cooperation that existed between these two lands not many years ago. Let the slogan “spark in Santiago, fire in Athens” become a reality again.
Mauricio Morales present
Source: athens.indymedia
Via & translated by Act for freedom now!
Chile: Texts by Anarchist and Subversive Prisoners for Anniversary of Death of Mauricio Morales
Words by Mónica Caballero for the Memory and Counterculture day
15 years after the death of Mauricio Morales, it is always necessary to remember.
15 years ago, the media of the powerful were feasting on the news… the one that spoke of the death of a young man who was about to place an explosive device in the Gendarmerie School. This young man was one of the suspected anarchists that the police already had among those possibly responsible for the approximately 200 bombs that had been placed in the city of Santiago in recent years. That young anarchist was Mauricio Morales.
With the identification of one of the explosive planters, the lines of investigation of the police and prosecutors were reduced, and in turn the urgency to go hunting for seditious criminals grew. It did not take long after the death of Mauri for the Chilean state to let fall all its power and bring the first anarchists before a court, a matter that had not happened since about 1920.
So it was that 14 years ago I first set foot in the prison where I am currently held.
It can probably seem annoying and even unnecessary for some people who still exist to commemorate the death of a comrade who fell in action. But what would have happened if Mauri’s death had not been commemorated in these 15 years? Most likely, May 22 would be an important date only for those of us who knew and loved Mauri. In this way, your memory, your ideas and most importantly… Your practices would not have transcended.
Today, May 22, I remember and commemorate Mauricio Morales because doing so is part of my own history. Because I loved him and above all I do and will continue to do so because he was a like-minded comrade who until his last breath tried to put into practice his ideas that are also mine.
15 years ago, today and tomorrow. Long live anarchy.
¡Mauricio Morales pte.!
Mónica Caballero Sepúlveda
Anarchist prisoner
CDP San Joaquín
Words by Marcelo Villarroel for the Memory and Counterculture day
15 years after the death of Punki Mauri, an eternal call for offensive resistance with fist raised from confinement, maintaining the memory of the insurrection, as a living manifestation of an anti-authoritarian struggle that is neither extinguished nor stopped by the state, the prison and the capital.
The daily combat inside the prisons manifests itself in millimetres. Breaking apathy and silence, contributing to the transmission of experiences and stories so that our experiences are not submerged in oblivion and are also a real learning tool for all those who are exposed to confinement as a result of a life choice in struggle. It is about making a concrete contribution in all possible and imaginable initiatives that maintain the link between prisoners and active comrades in the street.
Along these lines, Mauricio Morales maintained a permanent exchange of ideas and actions, as prisoners and with those who had gone through confinement, thus evidencing a freely assumed commitment of active solidarity and insurrectionary complicity for the destruction of prison society, inherent in his anarchist position of offensive against domination.
Fifteen years ago, in this territory, the attacks sustained to the social peace of the rich also expressed a solid disposition of combat of different anti-authoritarian, subversive and anarchist tendencies. It is in this context that Punki Mauri took his flight to some place in the universe and the stars to continue pushing the combat from there, helping his brothers in struggle scattered around the world and thus renouncing us that he has never left the side of those who do not give up, for convenience or accomodations, to the inescapable path of the conflict.
Nothing is over, everything continues!!
Memory, Resistance, Subversion!!
Punk Mauri you live in the social/anti-social war!!
Until the last bastion of prison society is destroyed!!
As long as there is misery there will be rebellion!!
Marcelo Villarroel Sepúlveda
Sweep out snitches and their accomplices!
In 2022, the section of the International Workers Association in the region of Russia called for a boycott of the provocateurs, Anatoly Dubovik and Alexander Kolchenko. The statement said:
“The latter means that these fake anarchists, by publishing the addresses of anti-war activists located in Russia, are directly inciting Russian secret services and nationalist thugs against them, as opponents of the war, in order to deal with them with their hands! In the conditions of ongoing harassment, dismissals, threats and physical repression against anti-military-minded people in Russia, such actions are tantamount to real denunciation with a direct indication of whom the repressive forces should turn their attention to.”
It is now necessary to reiterate this issue. The snitches Kolchenko and Dubovik continue to be given space while their intrigues are concealed or downplayed. Both continue to organize support for the Ukrainian State in the name of anarchism, and others provide media space for their war propaganda. Specifically, these include Ondrej Slačálek (1) in the academic journal Kontradikce, the Anarchist Federation website, the Belarusian website pramen.io (2) and the Russian-language website avtonom.org. Kolchenko and Dubovik are denouncing our anarchist comrades in the region of Russia, therefore they deserve contempt. Slačálek, the editors of afed.cz and others who uncritically support the denunciators must all accept the consequences.
For those who are not yet familiar with the context, here are some important facts. Kolchenko and Dubovik made use of doxing, i.e. the act of publicly providing personally identifiable information about anarchists who, in times of war, oppose a State that applies an aggressive war policy. Anarchists obviously oppose all States that engage in war. It must be taken into account that at the same time as the Russian State is invading Ukraine, it is also cracking down very harshly on any anti-militarist criticism and activity. Those who were relatively “safe” to declare their anti-militarist position in Russia before the outbreak of the war are now, for security reasons, expressing their position covertly. The risk for open anti-militarism is now too great, and people are ending up in jail for even just standing with an anti-war picket in a public place.
In wartime, Kolchenko and Dubovik broke the anonymity of the anarchists and deliberately used doxing as a means to expose them to harassment or legal sanctions by the State. After the information about the doxers’ activities was disseminated, they attempted to deny everything. The article “Lies are being spread about Ukrainian anarchist Anatoli Dubovik” was precisely intended to do that. However, shortly after its publication, evidence was presented. It turned out that there was an attempt on the part of the denunciators to cover their tracks by falsifying the content of the history of posts on the Facebook profile. The editors of Autonomous Action first retracted the article, and it was clear from a brief comment that the reason for the retraction was that the original text had proven the guilt of Dubovik and Kolchenko. Later, however, even this justification was replaced on the website by another. However, this is so vague that a person without knowledge of the context can hardly understand what actually happened. The original article is replaced by the following text:
“This blog has been retracted as it included erroneous results of an investigation due to technical issues with the Facebook. Eventually all the contents had to be removed because they could gain access to some personal information. Apologies to everyone involved.”
By the way, the context is well illustrated by the post in the discussion below this statement:
“You are lying. We can all see that the comment has indeed been edited as well check its edit history, where we easily see that Dubovik has indeed been doxing people.”
One thing is sure. Certain structures are consciously engaging in war, defending the Ukrainian State and reproducing NATO’s war propaganda. According to the logic of “those who are not with us are against us”, they are ready to jointly destroy their opponents in the anarchist milieu. These people are open to side with anyone who says the same things about the war as they do, even if it means siding with denunciators.
History is replete with examples of how revolutionaries deal with denunciators and their accomplices. Snitches must expect that there may be a strong response.
Anti-Militarist Initiative [ AMI ], April 2024
Notes:
(1) We mention Slačalek specifically because he was the one who pushed for the publication of the texts by Dubovik and Kolchenko in Kontradikce, despite the criticism of his colleagues. Although he claims that he did not know about the activities of the informers before, he continues to defend the provision of space for their voices. Among other things, he said: “(…) This enquiry is not a political act, but an attempt at a cognitive procedure of a professional journal, although certainly a journal with a certain profile. So, yes, under certain circumstances I can imagine that I would address people with an even more unacceptable profile to the enquiry of such a journal (…)”.
(2) Pramen.io, for example, published the following text, which quotes Dubovik as a relevant source without any critical reflection: Vadim Damier’s Myth of “Classical Anarchist Internationalism” https://pramen.io/ru/2023/08/otvet-na-tezisy-vadima-dame-o-vojne-mezhdu-ukrainoj-i-rf/ (published on 21/08/2023)
On reaching the bottom, you can always dig. On statist and militarist drifts
A friend and correspondent of ours found this statement in a Telegram channel (this one: https://t.me/s/matrioskainfo?before=3540). We believe it should be publicized, and deserves a few words. But clear ones.
The support of various anarchist groups (in Germany, Eastern Europe and elsewhere as well) for a non-existent “Ukrainian resistance”-which is actually the armed force of a state-had already embittered and distressed us. But that now “the various anarchist groups in Germany” (on whose behalf do these people speak? ) are calling speeches at the demonstrations of Ukrainian nationalists and NATO ventriloquists, moreover, issuing the relevant communiqué at the “international” level; that they explicitly speak out against “the cease-fire” [sic], equating its demand with “cooperation with the Putin regime” [sic]; and that all this is happening at the very time when NATO states (i.e., our own) are shamelessly pushing for direct confrontation with Russia, all this becomes a real enlistment. If we then consider that, during the period-Covid, part of the “antagonist movement” in Germany went so far as to demand the obnoxious green pass at the entrance to many self-managed spaces; that, during that same period and in the same circles, anyone who did not vaccinate was branded a fascist; that those who solidarize with the Palestinians against the Israeli genocide have a hard time saying it – and, if they do say it, are attacked by self-styled “comrades” as “anti-Semites”… if we think about all this, a question arises: what the hell kind of antagonism is it that on decisive issues sides with “one’s” state and “one’s” ruling class? And if there are comrades there who-we are sure-do not share these statist and militarist drifts, are they saying so openly? If so, we would gladly publish their positions.
The times into which we are plunging no longer permit reticence. Against war, against peace, for social revolution.
International communiqué from German anarchist groups
Anarchist bloc at February 24 demonstration in Berlin
On Feb. 24 at 12 noon in Berlin, the Anarchist Bloc will join a demonstration to mark the second anniversary of the large-scale invasion of Ukraine. 12 noon, Unter den Linden (U-Bahn station).
“We, the various anarchist groups in Germany, invite you to join the February 24 demonstration in Berlin, on the anniversary of the beginning of Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine, to express solidarity with the Ukrainian people who are fighting for their lives and for freedom from imperial domination and terror.
On this day, we want to call on the international community to actively protest politicians in their countries who are calling for a ceasefire and negotiations with the Putin regime. A ceasefire at this stage will only give Russia some rest and a foothold in the occupied territories so that it can strike back at Ukraine and other countries with full force. The object of the “peace” negotiations at this stage is the lives of the people in the Russian-occupied territories, people who are suffering from unprecedented repression and terror. The negotiations are preparing the ground for a new war.
We say NO to any cooperation with the Putin regime. We express solidarity not only with the anarchists/anti-authoritarians fighting on the front lines or engaged in humanitarian works, but also with the entire Ukrainian society that has been resisting and fighting the consequences of Russian aggression for two years.”
A photograph disseminated by the Resistance Committee.
Source: La Nemesi
Berlin, Germany: Claim of incendiary attack on sixteen Amazon vans
Claim of incendiary attack on sixteen Amazon vans (Berlin, Germany, May 1, 2024)
Hey Jeff, do you see the clouds of smoke?
On the night between 30/04/2024 and 21/04/2024¹, with 6 incendiary devices we permanently disabled at least 16 Amazon vans in a company parking lot in Berlin/Thyssenstraße.
Notoriously, May 1 is the international day of struggle of the working class. Our gasoline barbecue is meant to incite the struggle against the oppression of people and nature and fuel the inevitable clash between exploited and masters.
Ralf Kleber, former head of Amazon-Germany:
“We are much more disturbed by a frostbite than a call for a labor struggle by ver.di²”
The dismissal or even socialization of large technology companies and global players such as Amazon, Tesla, Apple, Facebook or Google is inconceivable and cannot be a prospect for the exploited. We believe that reforming these companies or making them more “socially acceptable” is futile because their power is too great and the ideas and concepts of humanity inherent in them are diametrically opposed to our idea of freedom. We believe that the desire to scrutinize and control every human thought, every social relationship and even the smallest step in work processes is a threat to life itself. If then even these smallest dimensions are to be controlled and adapted to a predetermined appearance, it is violent domination in its purest form! Often it is the megalomaniac white men who seek to shape and exploit the whole earth according to their patriarchal ideas. All this is called progress, although in reality these patriarchs are only trying to direct society in an all-powerful way toward their abstruse authoritarian visions of the future! Jeff, Elon, Mark, Bill and the like, rest assured that you will not rest!
These large corporations plan to dominate, surveil, and exploit people more and more intensively. Their digital networks, algorithms and technologies have become indispensable and permeate all areas of our lives. They affect our existence, our daily lives, our feelings, our thinking, our communication and our social relations. The technological onslaught thus also targets everything that has so far resisted capitalist exploitation. A dystopia that tends toward its fulfillment: endless amounts of data are collected, selected, evaluated and analyzed so as to ensure continuous and real-time analysis of social and relational processes. They must be monitored in order to predict developments and (ir)regularities. Small changes and shocks in the fragile economic market can affect supremacy in the race to maximize profits.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) represents the symbol of the link between the repressive organs of the state and capital. Not surprisingly, AWS has also specialized in armaments. For example, offering a new type of data center that will be used to gain military advantage anywhere in the world: the so-called AWS – Modular Data Centre (AWS – MDC), which is basically a modular database system placed in a container. It provides access to many of amazon’s cloud-based services and can be easily expanded with additional modules (containers). It can be downloaded anywhere, which is a clear military advantage: of course, Amazon limits the availability of AWS – MDC to U.S. government customers eligible for “Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability” (JWCC). In this case, it is the U.S. Department of Defense that will be able to acquire cloud computing capabilities and services directly from commercial providers of such services (including Mircosoft, Google, Oracle, etc.) at the desired speed and at all classification levels, from core to tactical.
The struggle against the exploitation of people and nature is a struggle against the wars of the rulers, their military, their armament industry! For the social revolution!
There are endless arguments and possibilities for attacking companies like Amazon and Tesla. That is why we look forward to an exciting week of action against Tesla.
Hi Jeff! Do you think your ego is as big as Amazon’s tower? Can you see the clouds of smoke from up there?
Elon, your GIGAntesco ego won’t be able to protect your electric carts!
Our greetings go out to all those who took to the streets last night at the “Take back the Night” demonstration, to all the anarchists and anarchists in prison, to the comrades and comrades affected by the “We are conspiring”³ proceedings, and to all those who are currently on the run.
[Published in German at https://de.indymedia.org/node/355896 | Translated into Italian and published at https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2024/05/03/rivendicazione-dellattacco-incendiario-contro-sedici-furgoni-amazon-berlino-germania-1-maggio-2024/]
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Notes from La Nemesi
1 There is likely an error in the date. From what can be learned from German regime media, the action was completed on the night of April 30-May 1, 2024.
2 German trade union, one of the largest in all of Germany.
3 In German Wir haben eine Verabredung. This is a campaign in solidarity with two anarchists who, in February 2023, were located by a German federal police helicopter (apparently flying a routine reconnaissance mission) in a Berlin railway tunnel. The cops who arrived in large numbers at the scene claim to have found near the tunnel, in a cable shaft, a backpack containing incendiary material, as well as other items of great interest to their investigation (gloves, radios, a list of license plates of plainclothes cops’ vehicles, lighters…). The two comrades were taken into custody and released after 40 hours in custody. They are currently subject to precautionary measures (requirement to sign), awaiting trial for “conspiracy to commit crimes (fire) in conspiracy with unknown persons.” The trial will begin on May 27, 2024. This is the website of the solidarity campaign: https://verabredet.noblogs.org/
Athens, Greece: On an international day of action in solidarity with the arrested comrade D.Klette and comrades E.Staub and B.Garweg, who are persecuted as members of the RAF
On Sunday, 14/4, responding to the call of the International Red Aid on an international day of action in solidarity with the arrested comrade D.Klette and comrades E.Staub and B.Garweg, who are persecuted as members of the RAF, we held a solidarity gathering outside the German embassy. The gathering lasted about an hour, with the comrades that participated shouting slogans. The banner was opened on Loukianou Street and leaflets were distributed.
The text of the intervention:
On February 26, 2024, after 34 years of living illegally, Daniela Klette was arrested, accused of participating in the Red Army Faction (RAF), as well as for a series of bank robberies after the dissolution of the organization in 1998. At the same time, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has launched a manhunt across Germany for Ernst Volker Staub and Burkhard Garweg. Ernst Volker Staub had been imprisoned as a member of the RAF in the 1980s and had participated in the organization’s hunger strike in German prisons in 1984.
After his release in 1988, German authorities in early 1990 issued arrest warrants for Staub, Garweg, and Klette, due to which all three went into hiding. The warrants are based on DNA samples and connect the comrades with the armed attack on the U.S. embassy in Bonn in February 1991 and the bombing attack and destruction of the under-construction Weiterstadt prison in March 1993. After the dissolution of the organization in March 1998, all three continued to live in hiding, and law enforcement authorities continued to search for them, linking them again through DNA and fingerprints to robberies of money transports and banks in various parts of Germany. Information about how the authorities reached Klette’s arrest are unclear, as the police themselves do not clearly state how they tracked her down. It is rumored that they collaborated with journalists from the investigative site Bellingcat, who, through an artificial intelligence program, identified old photos of Klette’s arrests with current photos of her on social media, as well as an anonymous tip from an informant in November 2023.
The German state continues its relentless pursuit of those who participated or are accused of participating in the organization, as if 26 years have not passed since the dissolution of the RAF. The message is clear: the state will never forget those who resist, rebel, and revolt. Prosecutions therefore aim beyond the capture of the three, to disciplining and terrorizing those who resist today, those inspired by the struggle waged by the RAF in the heart of the beast in previous decades. In the case of the three persecuted comrades, we see another campaign of terrorism and slander against the organization and the solidarity movement.
This campaign is nothing new, as for decades the German state, in close cooperation with the establishment media, has been trying desperately to dissolve what they call the “myth of the RAF,” which is nothing but the social and political legitimization of the organizations of the competitive movement of European metropolises, something that is alive and well today, as evidenced by the fact that accused members have been untraceable for three decades. Today’s reality, moreover, proves that things would be better if the global wave of rebellion, of which the RAF was a part, had succeeded. In a situation where European states are militarizing, political power becomes increasingly reactionary, societies are impoverished, and Western imperialism once again shows its teeth, bloodthirsty in Gaza, the struggles waged inside and outside prisons in European metropolises become relevant as ever.
WHOEVER FORGETS THE PRISONERS OF WAR FORGETS THE WAR ITSELF
FREEDOM TO CAPTURED COMRADE DANIELA KLETTE
SOLIDARITY WITH THE PERSECUTED COMRADES ERNST VOLKER STAUB AND BURKHARD GARWEG
Solidarity assembly with the imprisoned, fugitive, and persecuted militants
Via & translated by Act for freedom now!
Santiago, Chile: Anarchic Propaganda in Memory of Comrade Mauricio Morales
IN THE CONTEXT OF THE INSURRECTIONARY MAY 1
15 YEARS AFTER THE DEATH OF THE ANARCHIST COMRADE MAURICIO MORALES AND THE CALL TO ACTION AND PROPAGANDA IN HIS MEMORY
The black presence fills the streets of the city center, spreading chaos and anarchy!
As always, going beyond any context and fighting terrorism, the calls for calm and oblivion.
The appointment for a May Day of combat was made. Action groups and anarchic individuals burst in, bringing the memory alive, bringing our dead and imprisoned to the streets.
The Alameda was once again a scene of conflict, where our black propaganda was widely disseminated; canvases, posters, pamphlets, graffiti and clashes with the police took place, as well as barricades, sabotage and looting.
This is how Black May begins, remembering the comrades who died in the United States, as well as our dear brother Mauricio Morales, there they are connecting, different times and struggles, the same passion for destruction and total liberation.
HERE’S TO A BLACK MAY!
FOR THE SPREAD OF CHAOS AND ANARCHY!
MAURICIO MORALES PRESENT!
Source: Contra Info
Via & translated by Abolition Media
Chile: Clashes in Santiago on May Day
Clashes took place in Santiago as part of the commemoration of Workers’ Day from 10 a. m. until the afternoon. Clashes were reported in the midst of the demonstration called by the Central Clasista de Trabajadores, on both lanes of the Alameda, particularly in the section between Brasil and Matucana streets.
Carabinieri arrived at the scene, using water and gas cannons. Hooded anarchist demonstrators confronted the police with blunt instruments, Molotov cocktails and destroyed commercial premises and erected barricades in various areas
Anarchists threw incendiary devices inside the Central Station. The Carabinieri reported at least 16 arrests, including 5 for carrying incendiary bombs.
Source: Abolition Media
DN: Capitalist scum media footage of the clashes… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM32vE2elYE&pp=ygUPY2hpbGUgZGlzdHVyYmlv
Pößneck, Germany: “It is better to commit a disorder…”.
The small town of Pößneck, some 30 km south of the city of Jena (Thuringia), is not known for its antics, to say the least.
Unlike its little sister, Jena’s walls have, over the centuries, endured the fury of peasant rebels who, between 1524 and 1526, destroyed and pillaged hundreds of castles and religious buildings in the Holy Roman Empire. This insurrection, dubbed the “Uprising of the Common Man” (Erhebung des gemeinen Mannes) or more simply the “Peasants’ War” following Engels’ study, even aroused the ire of the Pope of Protestantism, Martin Luther, who advised the nobility to slaughter the 300,000 insurgent beggars to the last man. In his pamphlet entitled Contre les hordes de paysans voleurs et assassins (May 1525) (Against the hordes of thieving, murderous peasants), Luther wrote: “Let all who can, strike, kill and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that there is nothing more poisonous, harmful or diabolical than a rebel. It’s like when you have to kill a rabid dog: if you don’t hit him, he’ll hit you, and a whole country with you.”
But today, the good city of Jena is best known in the textbooks of domination as having been one of the cradles of German Romanticism, whose university saw Goethe and prestigious teachers such as Fichte, Schiller and Hegel pass through, not to mention a famous student, Karl Marx, who completed his doctorate in philosophy there in 1841. A little later, it was also here that Ernst Haeckel, patent eugenicist and inventor of the term “ecology” in 1866 (preferred to “mesology” by the anarchist Elisée Reclus), made his career. However, it would be a pity to remain in the academic sky of bourgeois ideas in 19th-century Jena, without mentioning another, lesser-known revolt that brought the city down to earth.
In June 1953, after the first strikes against increased work rates, when the insurrection broke out in East Berlin against red fascism before being crushed by the tanks of the Army of the same color, it’s easy to forget that a large part of the former East Germany rose up. In Jena itself, for example, a crowd of 30,000 people attacked and ransacked the headquarters of the Communist Party (SED) and several official buildings, as well as looting the headquarters of the political police (the Stasi) and storming the Steiger prison, forcibly releasing some sixty inmates. Needless to say, the welders and other coal-mining delegates who had tried to mediate with the Party pundits to present them with a few reasonable demands, ended up either in front of a firing squad or in prison for a very long time. But wasn’t it the poet who had helped illuminate Jena, author of Faust and statesman decorated with the Legion of Honor by Napoleon himself, Johann Wolfang Von Goethe, who had professed this pinnacle of authoritarian cynicism destined to pass into posterity: “I’d rather commit injustice than tolerate [public] disorder”? Continue reading “Pößneck, Germany: “It is better to commit a disorder…”.”