Direct Action – Page 12

Athens, Greece: Attack on the MAT (riot cops) in Exarcheia square for Mauricio Morales present!

Posted on 2024/05/24 by darknights

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!

Berlin, Germany: Claim of incendiary attack on sixteen Amazon vans

Posted on 2024/05/07 by darknights

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/

Chile: Clashes in Santiago on May Day

Posted on 2024/05/07 by darknights

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…”.

Posted on 2024/05/03 by darknights

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…”.” →

Berlin, Germany: Tesla fire is on the rise

Posted on 2024/05/03 by darknights

Numerous Teslas have been set on fire in Berlin in recent weeks.

This was the case, for example, of the two Teslas that caught fire on Monday night, April 23, at around 1.30 am in the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district.
Both cars were completely burnt out, and the investigation was handed over to the Berlin state criminal police. The police are assuming arson, since the two cars were parked several meters apart and appear to have been set on fire individually.

At around 2 a.m. on February 7, two Tesla cars had already been set on fire at two different locations in the Lichtenberg district,
one in Paula-Fürst-Straße and the second in An den Knabenhäusern.
Two weeks later, another Tesla was set on fire and partially consumed in the Neukölln district. The police claim to have found traces of firelighters on the vehicle.

Berlin, night of February 6-7, 2024

Overall, the number of car fires in Berlin rose again this year. Between January 1 and April 22, 2024, police recorded 139, at least a dozen of which are considered “politically motivated”. Over the same period in 2023, there had been 83 cases, 56 fewer, while in 2022 there had been fewer cases throughout the year (123 in total) than at the start of 2024! The police are not in a position to comment on the reasons for this increase.

Source: Sans Nom

U$A: NYC Anarchists Attack Caterpillar Equipment in Solidarity with Palestine

Posted on 2024/05/03 by darknights

To the Palestinian Resistance,
To the student uprisings,
To all those who struggle for liberation,

We took a strike against Caterpillar for their complicity in the settler colonial state, the Zionist regime, that has wreaked havoc on the lives of Palestinians for decades.

Today we struck several Caterpillar heavy machines as they lay dormant overnight, preventing them from working the next day.

Caterpillar decidedly chose a side by supplying the IOF with bulldozers as early as 1956 for use in the Sinai War and to this day they have not wavered from this position. During the Al-Aqsa Flood Battle the armored D9 bulldozer, which is a Caterpillar product, has been used in countless attacks against the Palestinian Resistance and people. In the early 2000’s during the Second Intifada, the Zionist regime demolished over 3,000 Palestinian homes, and murdered US activist Rachel Corrie in Rafah. The D9’s were used in the Battle of Jenin to destroy houses with fighters inside and raze the center of the Jenin refugee camp. During the Gaza War in 2008, 100 bulldozers were used to destroy Palestinian homes. In 2022, the D9’s demolished eight Palestinian villages in Masafer Yatta in yet another example of the long running Zionist genocidal project.

The Palestinian Resistance has renewed its struggle at the end of last year, fighting successfully to push the occupation out of Gaza and deploying clever tactics against a highly militarized enemy. The D9’s were brought out by the IDF once again to destroy farmland, desecrate a burial ground, to attack the Kamal Adwan Hospital, crushing the people who had been sheltering inside.

Caterpillar is clearly an agent and symbol of terror. We strike against it today to show our solidarity with those whose lives have been taken by the Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer. Since Caterpillar has joined the war, it can face attacks on any terrain. We strike at Caterpillar today to show our solidarity with and appreciation for the Palestinian fighters who have provided an inspiration for freedom fighters around the world.

Finally, living in the United States, the main supporter and funder of Zionist settler colonialism, it is our duty to become a thorn in its side. It cannot dispense terror half way around the globe and expect to continue without repercussions.

NYC Anarchists

submitted anon through email

Source: Abolition Media

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Chile: Incendiary outburst at Instituto Nacional against repression in high schools

Posted on 2024/05/02 by darknights

May 1st, 2024

On April 16, hooded students of the Instituto Nacional confronted with Molotovs against the presence of riot cops, responding to the harassment and internal repression that they have suffered lately and in particular to the events occurred on Friday, April 12, where a group of students, after going out to demonstrate, officials of the establishment closed the access gate. At that time, some students tried to open the gate to protect themselves from the cop attack, to which the officials responded again by closing it. In that moment of struggle, between pepper spray and other chemicals, a student was seriously injured in the left index finger, having to be taken to a health care facility and end up with the amputation of the distal part of the finger.

Below are some photos:

Source: Informativo Anarquista

Hermannsburg, Germany: Incendiary attack on Armin Papperger. Switch off Rheinmetall!

Posted on 2024/04/30 - 2024/05/03 by darknights

Incendiary attack on Armin Papperger
Switch off Rheinmetall!

On the night of April 28 to 29, 2024, we carried out an incendiary attack on the Armin Papperger’s property in Hermannsburg, Turnerstr. on the corner of Immenhoop, where an incendiary device was placed on his garden shed. Papperger is CEO of Rheinmetall, one of the big players in the German armaments industry.

Papperger feels at home here in the Südheide. Surrounded by military training areas and not far from the GÜZ combat training center in the Altmark. The Rheinmetall plant in Unterlüß is only a stone’s throw away. This is where thousands of forced laborers who worked for the German war economy at the Rheinmetall-Borsig Rheinmetall-Borsig plant for the German war economy. In a region where, after the war where many National Socialists found refuge after the war, including Adolf Eichmann and the murderer of the Adreatinian Caves, Kappler. In a region where in the 1980s and 1990s regular Nazi military exercises took place regularly in the 1980s and 1990s. Not far from Papperger’s house is Munster, one of the largest military bases in Germany. In he feels safe and well accepted in this environment, including by his friends with whom the hobby hunter occasionally goes stalking. But tonight may have signaled to him that he doesn’t just have friends and that his retreat is not safe.

Rheinmetall is one of the beneficiaries of the so-called turnaround. This can be clearly seen from a few figures: Since 2022, the Rheinmetall’s share price has quintupled since 2022; Papperger himself has replenished his share portfolio with Rheinmetall shares several times. In 2023 the Group, which has been promoted to the DAX index, increased its turnover to 7.2 billion euros, with a target of 10 billion euros for 2024. Before February 2022 the annual production of artillery shells was 70,000 units, 350,000 in 2023 and 700,000 in 2024. Following the takeover of the Spanish ammunition company Expal, Rheinmetall sees itself as the the world’s largest manufacturer of artillery ammunition. The groundbreaking ceremony for a for a new production facility in Unterlüß was attended by Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the Ukrainian ambassador and Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (“Germany must become fit for war”). The new factory is expected to 200,000 shells a year.

Papperger is one of the arms managers with a particularly high media presence. The days when the armaments industry suffered from its image are over. In March 2024, Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck assured at a meeting of the 20 most important German arms manufacturers: “We need this industry!” Self-confident and offensively, killing machines can now be presented and advertised. And Rheinmetall has other things to offer besides ammunition, of course tanks in particular: the Lynx and Puma infantry fighting vehicles, the Boxer wheeled tank and the Skyranger anti-aircraft tank. For the Leopard Rheinmetall produces the gun barrel. Rheinmetall also stockpiles various old tank types, which have now been sold to Ukraine, complete with ammunition at a hefty profit. But parts production for the US F35 fighter jet is also on offer.

Rheinmetall plans, produces and murders not only on a national framework. The Group employs over 30,000 workers worldwide in 28 countries. A new ammunition production facility is planned in Ukraine and a maintenance plant for tanks is also due to open there in summer 2024. In addition, the production of infantry fighting battle tanks is also planned. There are also plans for an artillery factory and Rheinmetall is developing a completely new type of battle tank. In the USA, Rheinmetall is participating in tenders and is close to winning a 45 billion dollar contract for the successor to the Bradley infantry fighting vehicle. The development of the Russian market is now off the table for the time being. But as recently as 2011, Rheinmetall concluded a contract with the Russian government for the delivery of a training center for the Russian army and saw itself in the role of a pioneer and door opener.

However, the so-called turnaround does not only mean gigantic rearmament armament and new record profits for the arms industry. It also means a reorientation of the entire society towards war. Politicians from almost all parties are outdoing each other with proposals. The reintroduction of compulsory military service, military education in schools, interlinking research and the military,…
The fact that armies and the arms industry are the biggest destroyers of the environment, devour gigantic amounts of resources and, of course, are also the and are of course also the biggest producers of greenhouse gases.

The fight against climate destruction is also the fight against war, the military and the arms industry!
War starts here, let’s stop it here!
Switch off the system of destruction!

Freedom for Daniela!

Strength and luck to all those in hiding from of the radical left and those who agree to militantly attack structures of power!

Source: de.indymedia

$hile: Call to action and propaganda 15 years after the death of anarchist comrade Mauricio Morales

Posted on 2024/04/30 by darknights

CALL TO ACTION AND PROPAGANDA 15 YEARS AFTER THE DEATH OF ANARCHIST COMRADE MAURICIO MORALES

“Before going to sleep I embrace chaos as an idea that frees my body and my mind
because at the end of the day it makes me feel alive.
I do not want the search for the grail that emanates freedom in future societies.
My fingers seek the bloody flight of the destruction of the chains of the rhythmic fire, of the nearby fire
rhythmic fire, of the nearby fire of power and its masters.
And my actions when I sleep are directed in that tomorrow when I wake up, I will break with the routine
with the routine and in the individual action with the chest like stone swollen by the destruction of this and any
destruction of this and any society.
Do me a favor: see to it that anarchy lives.”
-Punki Mauri

In the early morning of May 22, 2009 the anarchist comrade Mauricio Morales, Punki Mauri met his death after the early detonation of the explosive device that he intended to install in the Gendarmerie School in Matta neighborhood, Santiago.

Fifteen years have passed since his death in action and we continue to persist in his memory, remembering his warrior life, spreading anarchy in multiple ways and vindicating the insurrectional political violence that is still alive, that manifests itself in the proliferation of the idea and the facts with varied force and intensity, but always alive.

This call invites to a month of black memory, propaganda and action, to the concretion of public and anonymous gestures, without half measures, that the imagination flies, that we feel the blood in our veins, that the heart beats with emotion when we remember our loved ones.

Anarchy is dangerous and for it to continue this way we must endow it, empower it day by day, with discussion, feedback, with contagious propaganda and violent action, each one decides how to put into practice the ideas he/she propagates, the question is to do, without leaders or leaders, without hierarchies, in autonomy.

This humble contribution seeks to be one more contribution to the expansion of the memory of a comrade, positioning himself from the sidewalk of anarchic conflict against order, law, power and all authority.

FOR A BLACK MAY!

FOR THE EXPANSION OF CHAOS AND ANARCHY!

MAURICIO MORALES PRESENTE!

Anarchic Individualities

April 2024

Source: https://informativoanarquista.noblogs.org/post/2024/04/12/llamado-a-la-accion-y-propaganda-a-15-anos-de-la-muerte-del-companero-anarquico-mauricio-morales/

Concepcion, Chile: Propaganda action in support of Anarchist and Mapuche prisoners

Posted on 2024/04/30 by darknights

By: Anonymous/ Sent to La Zarzamora

“In the early hours of this morning, April 26th, we carried out a propaganda action in support of our comrades kidnapped in the jails of the Chilean state. We vindicate each one of their struggles against this system of death that only seeks exploitation in pursuit of its economic interests, destroyers of land and life.

We call for solidarity and action in the face of this punitivist scenario that imprisons those who struggle. In addition to the above, we call to be present in a concrete way with the families in struggle in the different land seizures of the Chilean territory.

Down with the anti-takeover law !!!!

Freedom for Mapuche prisoners

Freedom to Francisco Solar and Mónica Caballero

See to it that anarchy lives”