Direct Action – Page 17

Athens, Greece: If you were invisible, would you rob a supermarket? by ALIENATION_2.0

Posted on 2023/12/03 by darknights

Athens, If you were invisible, would you rob a supermarket? by ALIENATION_2.0

At noon on Saturday 4/11, an expropriation took place at s/m My Market on Agia Sophia Street, in one of the most central parts of the Vyrvna neighbourhood.

Supermarkets have always been one of the businesses that never miss an opportunity to turn every crisis into an opportunity to multiply their profits on our backs in a variety of ways. Either by draining their workforce with meager wages and flexible hours, or by imposing exorbitant mark-ups on all their products, with priority given to basic necessities further hampering our quality of life.

We live to work, we live to rent, our salaries end on the 1st week of the month and in this condition the state tries to convince us that the “household basket” and the crumbs it called market pass constitute social policy. In the same vein, the “social policy” of humiliating compensations and accommodation in camps and stadiums with which it tried to convince the affected residents of the Thessalian plain that their lives will be restored. In the same situation, the entrepreneurs of the supermarkets, as modern-day black marketeers even took advantage of the lack of drinking water in the wider area of flooded Thessaly city by selling bottled water even more expensively. While the populations affected saw mud and debris, bosses studied balance sheets, turnover and profit margins.

EVERYTHING IS OURS BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS STOLEN

So we grabbed dozens of essentials from My Market (oil, cleaning products, toiletries) and left collectively without paying a cent. These products have already been given to people in Thessaly who really needed them, strengthening the hundreds of movements of solidarity that have been expressed throughout this time by the self-organized movement towards the affected. This small movement of expropriating and sharing what we need is inspired by the overall movement of counter-attack and recovery required to take back everything that we are deprived of daily and really need.

We don’t expect anything from anyone. We are collectively organizing against the continued devaluing of our lives. Fight for life and dignity.

We call for the proliferation of similar direct actions.

EXPLOIRATION_2.0

PS We decided to film our movement and share it to break the orchestrated silence of the media and to inspire similar initiatives…

Sequence_01.mp4

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Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1627728/

Via & Translated by Act for freedom now!

Ireland: Animal Rights Militia ‘Ulster Brigade’ smashes fox hunt vehicle’s windscreen whilst supporters are out on a hunt

Posted on 2023/12/03 by darknights

11th November, Annaghmore Ireland.

Received anonymously via email:

“The Ulster Brigade of the Animal Rights Militia paid visit to a fox hunting group who were terrorising the countryside of Annaghmore, County Armagh. (11/11/23)

The group in question are notoriously hostile towards any opposition to their presence. They are known for having zero control over their hounds and there have been several incidents involving people’s beloved companion cats/dogs being mauled, as well as wildlife.

Sab groups in the area cannot confront this particular hunt without large numbers due to the extent of violence this hunt are willing to inflict, even with cameras running.

ARM Volunteers were tipped off to this hunt being in the area and within minutes were on the scene.

Volunteers decided the best course of action was to inflict damage to the most expensive pickup truck in the group. The windscreen of this £100,000+ vehicle was smashed within a matter of seconds.

If Sab groups are unable to traditionally tackle this hunt, ARM Volunteers will ensure that every outing for them is a costly one. Our methods will only become more chaotic if our warning is not heeded.

PACK UP YOUR HUNT FOR GOOD.
Colonial British bloodspots are not welcome in Ireland.
Animal killers are not welcome in Ireland.

Saoirse Go Deo!
ARM Ireland.”

Source: Unoffensive Animal

Firminy (Loire) and Les Ancizes-Comps (Puy-de-Dôme), France: Double attack on Aubert et Duval steelworks, supplier to war industries

Posted on 2023/12/03 by darknights

During the night of November 19th to 20th, we attacked the power supply to two production sites of the Aubert et Duval group:

– At Firminy, we sawed through a pylon on the 220kV line supplying the site. It only partially fell.

– In Ancizes-Comps, we also set fire to a 220kV line, at the point where the high-voltage cables went underground. We were able to get close and place our devices at the foot of the sheaths, without danger.

Aubert et Duval is a key player in the French military industry. It supplies parts for Naval Group submarines, Dassault Rafales and Framatom nuclear power plants.

Our action resonates with the international call for a week of action against all wars, from November 17 to 25, 2023, published in early November (careful, it’s a bit late…) on Iaata.info. We welcome this kind of initiative, and in turn call for an attack on the military industry everywhere and at all times.

What’s certain is that we’ve achieved our goal of hitting the military industry. While we don’t have the means to know exactly how much damage we’ve caused, we do know that these industries know they’re being targeted, and that their weak points are highlighted by our actions.

“Behind the war, ordinary factories”.

As the tag left on the site of an aeronautics factory burnt down in March 2023 in Beauchastel so aptly put it, the war we’re told all day long must end and is unjust, starts here; and is made possible by seemingly innocuous businesses too.

It’s no secret that global conflicts are escalating in intensity. For almost two months, bombs have been falling on the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, at an unprecedented rate, and with broad political, military and financial support from the United States and most Western countries. The same people who call for a truce, respect for civilians and international law, are producing the bombs that massacre in a way they claim to condemn, there or elsewhere, since several billion people live in war zones; with the horror that this engenders and that we all know about: rape, torture, forced displacement, etc. This hypocrisy would be laughable if it weren’t so macabre.

These wars are the very concrete result of a military-industrial complex, with its factories, laboratories and technicians. In France, the eight major military industry groups – Airbus, Arquus, Dassault, MBDA, Naval group, Nextor, Safran and Thales – are celebrating record sales. Some 4,000 companies work for the defense industry, with the active, ongoing support of the state, which has earmarked a budget of 417 billion euros to increase its killing power and export its arsenal worldwide. Machines of death that are used directly for massacres, as in the case of Dassault fighter jets or Nexter tanks and guns used by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in Yemen.

We don’t want to remain indifferent to this. We also want to send a message to the workers in these industries. That our actions will deprive them of their work for a while, and make them face up to their responsibilities. We also hope that these acts, and the words we put on them, will help to raise the profile of these most discreet factories of death.

Our thoughts go out to those who fight for their freedom, to those who face repression.

Let’s attack everywhere!

Source: lille.indymedia

Via: Attaque

Athens, Greece: Claim for attack upon the Israeli-owned NYX Esperia Hotel on 17th November

Posted on 2023/11/26 - 2023/11/26 by darknights

Taking responsibility for the intervention at the Israeli-owned NYX Esperia Hotel on 17 November

Following the righteous counter-attack of the Palestinian Resistance on 7/10/23- named the Al-Aqsa flood, the terrorist state of Israel has launched a widespread operation of ethnic cleansing, intensifying the 75-year process of annihilation and displacement of the Palestinian people from their lands. It is deliberately bombing homes, hospitals, schools, water and electricity networks, and banning all food, water and medicine, condemning the people of Gaza to certain death.

The time-honoured and current crimes of the Zionist colonial entity could not have been carried out without the political, economic and military support of the ‘western’ bloc. As a part of this bloc, the Greek state is leading the way in supporting the murderous state of Israel with joint military exercises, with the upgrading of the Souda base and with the conversion of the 112th Battle Wing in Elefsina into a NATO base, and politically it is reflected in the meeting between Mitsotakis and Netanyahu.

Apart from cooperation at the political and military level, there is also cooperation at the economic level, with Israeli capital investing in various sectors, with one of the main pillars being the real estate and tourism sectors. The result of these hits our pockets directly, pushing up housing costs, changing the character of entire neighbourhoods and turning them into tourist attractions.

In addition to the mass, militant marches in support of the Palestinian Resistance, we must block the Greek-Israeli alliance by targeting Israeli capital in Greece. Connecting the protagonists of the Polytechnic uprising with those of the Palestinian Resistance, we chose on November 17 to express our solidarity with the people of Gaza by attacking the facade of the Israeli-owned NYX Esperia Hotel on Stadiou Street.

SABOTAGE OF ISRAELI INVESTMENTS

TO BLOCK THE POLITICAL-ECONOMIC ALLIANCE BETWEEN GREECE AND ISRAEL

VICTORY IN THE ARMS OF THE PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE

IN GAZA THEY MURDER CIVILIANS WITH THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE GREEK STATE

From the river to the sea

Source: athens.indymedia

Athens, Greece: Claim for molotov attack on OPKE

Posted on 2023/11/26 - 2023/11/26 by darknights

On Thursday 16/11 we chose to attack the platoon of the notorious OPKE group (Crime Prevention and Suppression Groups, Ομάδες Πρόληψης και Καταστολής Εγκλήματος) at the junction of Navarino and Charilaou Trikoupis streets. The result of the attack was the burning of the vehicle and the injury of some of them. Our attack is both a small crack in the enforced blockade of the area of the annexes by the uniformed scum of the Democracy, and a small reminder that nothing will go unanswered.

50 years after the Polytechnic uprising, 15 years after December ’08, which erupted after the murder of the anarchist student Alexandros Grigoropoulos, the states and the capitalists have launched an attack of unprecedented intensity on the conquests won through blood and struggle. The intensity of the attack is experienced by the most impoverished sections of society who are subject to daily exploitation. The murders in the workplaces and work sites, at the borders, in prisons and police checkpoints are dubbed ‘industrial accidents’, ‘isolated incidents’, ‘shootings’ and occupy a single column in the margin of a newspaper. But they are clearly state and capitalist killings in an environment where our lives are devalued and expendable. In a neoliberal environment where the bosses, whose sole criteria is to increase their profitability, aim the guns of the cops at the disposable, poor, outcasts and petty criminals. The forces of repression have always been the murderous assault battalions of bourgeois democracy. The uniformed murderers have stained their hands with blood, blood that has not yet dried after the recent cold-blooded murder of the Roma Christos Michalopoulos in Voiotia, the murder of Kostas Manioudakis, the attempted murder of the 16-year-old girl B. in Neo Heraklion and the countless beatings of demonstrators, strikers, etc. The natural perpetrators and instigators of the above incidents were men of the OPKE, a gang of murderers and torturers. To remind that no state murder will go unanswered, that the lives of the Roma count, that the blood flows and calls for revolt, interventions like these are an organic duty of every movement, organization, social process that has reference to the cause of social revolution. They are an organic task for the formation of a revolutionary movement so that the projections of social and class self-defence are not empty and heavy-handed declarations but positions of battle that actively challenge the monopoly of state/capitalist violence.

We send militant greetings to the antifascist comrades who have confronted the state and the fascists in the run-up to November 1, striking blows against the common front of cops and fascists, promoting solidarity and comradeship which remain our most powerful weapons.

Good Freedom to the guerrilla and member of the Revolutionary Struggle Pola Roupa and to comrade Kostas Dimalexis.

Solidarity to comrade Polykarpos Georgiadis (trial 13/12) and to those accused of the state frame-up called “comrades”.

Strength to the comrades D.S. and R.Z. accused of attempted explosion in Thessaloniki.

Freedom for Palestine.

Nothing is over, everything continues.

Michalis Kaltezas* Cell

Source: athens.indymedia

DN Note

*Michalis Kaltezas, the murder took place during demonstrations on the anniversary of the Polytechnic uprising in 1985. The cop Athanasios Melistas shot the 15-year-old student Michalis Kaltezas in the back of the head from a distance of twenty metres as he was running with other demonstrators towards Exarchia Square. Immediately after the death of Kaltezas, anarchists occupied the old Chemistry building on Solonos and the Polytechnic in protest. On the morning of 18 November, the University Asylum Committee, chaired by the rector Michael Stathopoulos, gave permission for the police to enter the Chemistry building. The invasion was carried out with the use of tear gas, for the first time since 1976 and the police arrested 37 people and beat them severly, while a few managed to escape and reach the occupation of the Polytechnic through the sewers. This was the first lifting of the asylum since its official establishment in 1982. The riots in Athens continued in the following days. The cop murderer was sentenced to two years imprisonment, but he appealed and was declared innocent. Revolutionary organization 17 November attacked a police van to revenge the death of Kaltezas; the attack resulted in the death of a police officer.

Athens, Greece: Claim for attack on house – offices of the company ERGOMAR of the well-known businessman Dimitris Marinelis by ‘Conspiracy Vengeance’

Posted on 2023/11/26 - 2023/11/26 by darknights

We take responsibility for the attack on the house – offices of the company ERGOMAR of the well-known businessman Dimitris Marinelis, at 12 Ious Street, in Kifissia.

The reason for the attack is to target the corrupt role of construction companies. It is a common secret that the cabal of politicians and big bosses, dividing state resources and European funds between them, thus embezzling large sums of money at the expense of the Greek people.

For years now, with direct assignments to their own minions, they manage to obtain huge sums of money – kickbacks with the well-known over-budgeting of projects and materials needed for their implementation. It is the construction companies that are responsible for many accidents at work – accidents, as in order to make as much profit as possible, they reduce the necessary safety measures for workers.

ERGOMAR of Dimitris Marinelis has undertaken the construction and maintenance of large state and private projects, cooperating with the largest companies in Europe and the country, such as AEGEAN, GERMANOS, COSMOTE, VODAFONE and many others.

Also, most important of all, is the company’s involvement with the fiasco of the Kalatrava roof, which, on the one hand, with its implementation, huge amounts of money went into the pockets and on the other hand, the amounts of money that were constantly granted for the maintenance of the roof, ended up in the well-organized party of corruption, since the maintenance was never done, thus putting thousands of people at risk.

Nothing is finished in the face of state and capitalist barbarism, we stand with fortitude and dignity against them.

Remember well that none of you will be immune and we can visit at any place and time we choose. By any means we choose.

You will not sleep soundly thinking that your scams will go unpunished.

P.S.: Regarding the mainstream sites that made constant references to the fascist garbage Konstantinos Bogdanos, journalist and former MP of the ridiculous Mitsotakis government, that 6 months ago he was staying in this area, we know very well where he was staying and where he is staying now ( besides, in the past he had received a visit in the afternoon hours, resulting in the burning of his vehicles ). When the time comes, we will visit him and not for property damage, but for actions befitting such scum.

CONSPIRACY VENGEANCE

Source: athens.indymedia

DN Notes

*Referring to the roof of the national stadium OAKA, that was opened for the 2004 Olympic Games, hosts the National football team matches including recently been used by AEK as a home stadium until the end of last season and recently by Panathanaikos for their European games. A study found that the roof had been done on the cheap, that it is so unstable and will easily collapse on those attending the stadium.

Rome, Italy: Claiming fire barricade and stone pelting against Terna headquarters (November 2, 2023)

Posted on 2023/11/26 by darknights

Claiming fire barricade and stone pelting Rome – November 2.

On the night of November 2, we placed and set fire to tires blocking both directions of traffic in front of the Terna spa headquarters on Via Egidio Galbani and threw stones to break its glass.

Terna is the main company in Italy for the construction and maintenance of electricity infrastructure, but it also operates abroad in countries such as Chile. Terna is not only responsible for the environmental devastation and pollution that follows the building of power lines and related transformer stations, as a leading actor in the process of electrifying the world as a consequence of the unhealthy idea of progress that this deadly system propagates, but it is also a promoter of the “green revolution” caused by the recent need to restructure capitalism that will only bring further exploitation of ecosystems and people. Unveiling its responsibilities is one of the goals of our action.

This action is to be seen as part of the international campaign to free Marcelo Villarroel. Marcelo is an anarchist prisoner in Chile’s state prisons who was imprisoned after a period of absconding in 2007 for a series of bank expropriations. He was sentenced to more than 40 years in prison without access to prison benefits because he was held responsible for certain actions that took place during the years of the military dictatorship in Chile and therefore condemned by military laws. Despite the rhetoric, Chilean democracy shows perfect continuity with the dictatorial regime when it comes to striking those who act without mediation for the end of all oppression and exploitation caused by the State and Capital. That is why we join the chorus of actions and initiatives for its immediate liberation.
IMMEDIATE FREEDOM FOR MARCELO VILLARROEL SEPULVEDA!

We would like to take this opportunity to send solidarity greetings to anarchist Francisco Solar and anarchist Monica Caballero, who have undergone a lengthy trial in recent months for the collation of explosive devices against institutional targets in the context of the 2019 uprising in Chile, of which they were recently found guilty.
SOLIDARITY TO MONICA AND FRANCISCO!

We would also like to express our solidarity with Alfredo Cospito who was recently refused for the umpteenth time the cancellation of his classification under the 41bis prison regime.
FORZA ALFREDO! THE STRUGGLE IS NOT OVER!

Solidarity with the anarchist Stecco recently arrested by police special units after 2 years of absconding.

SOLIDARITY TO ALL ANARCHISTS AND ANARCHICS IMPRISONED, HIT BY REPRESSION OR ON THE RUN!

FINALLY WE WOULD LIKE TO SEND OUR SOLIDARITY AND STRENGTH TO ALL THOSE PALESTINIANS WHO ARE RESISTING AND FIGHTING AGAINST THE INFAMOUS ZIONIST OCCUPATION AND GENOCIDE OF THEIR PEOPLE.

RESIGNATION IS DEATH, REVOLT IS LIFE.
LONG LIVE ANARCHY!

Anarchists

Source: La Nemesi

Santiago, Chile: Incendiary outbreak at UMCE (Ex-pedagogical) 5 years after Kevin Garrido’s death

Posted on 2023/11/26 by darknights

On Tuesday, November 21, leaflets were thrown and barricades and confrontations were set up against the presence of Carabineros in Av Macul, in the vicinity of the ex-pedagogical (Umce). This action is part of the multiple instances of agitation that have occurred in the last month for Kevin Garrido:

November 12: Rally and arson attack on Red bus 5 years after the death of Kevin Garrido.

November 3 and 4: Incendiary outings in Internado Barros Arana, Liceo Manuel Barros Borgoño, Instituto Nacional and Liceo de Aplicación 5 years after the death of Kevin Garrido.

Here are some pictures of the events:

Source: Informativo Anarquista

Santiago, Chile: Incendiary attacks at Internado Barros Arana, Liceo Manuel Barros Borgoño, Instituto Nacional and Liceo de Aplicación 5 years after Kevin Garrido’s death

Posted on 2023/11/26 - 2023/11/26 by darknights

On November 3 and 4, four high schools in Santiago agitated with leaflets, banners, barricades and confrontations with Molotov cocktails against the presence of carabineros (COP), in commemoration of the comrade Kevin Garrido murdered five years ago inside Santiago 1. Refreshing his memory, we share a brief account of his life trajectory:

In the early morning of November 19, 2015, eighteen-year-old Kevin, in complicity with the night, went on his bicycle to the perimeter of the gendarmerie school of San Bernardo, armed with a bomb, a lighter and a knife. After the detonation, the filthy police, who were already on his trail after a long investigation, captured him a few meters from the place, and simultaneously, Joaquín García was kidnapped from his home, leaving both of them in captivity in the filthy high security prison, specifically in the maximum security section. Accusing both of the explosive attack ( thwarted) to the 12th police station of carabineros of San Miguel (October 29, 2015), bomb “composed of a 6 kilogram fire extinguisher filled with more than 3 kilos of black powder, about 100 4-inch nails and 50 1-inch nails inside to function as shrapnel, a 1 liter bottle of sulfuric acid and two one-liter bottles with benzine, all this activated by remote control, consisting of a cell phone connected to a 2.5 volt light bulb modified as a detonator”, claimed by International Conspiracy for Revenge/Deflagration Cell Gerasimos Tsakalos, also for an explosive attack to the electricity company Chilectra (October 16, 2015) claimed by the Karr-kai Cell and the explosive attack against the gendarmerie school in San Bernardo (November 19, 2015), the latter two attacks linked only to Kevin. [DN Note: All three attacks have been translated below for reference]

After 7 months in captivity, Kevin asks to be transferred to the prison/slaughterhouse Santiago 1.

On June 15, 2018, the inquisitorial trial of the comrades begins, declaring them guilty on August 15; Joaquín for illegal possession of a firearm, which he was carrying at the time of being captured while he was in hiding after breaking a total house arrest measure, and also for the attack on the 12th police station in San Miguel, together with Kevin, who was also found guilty of the explosive attack on the gendarmerie school in San Bernardo. On September 5, 2018 they are sentenced to a total of 13 years in prison for Joaquín and 17 years for Kevin.

On November 2, when going down to the yard, the comrade is involved in a fight with another prisoner, which seemed to be one of the many daily conflicts that are lived in that place, being lethally wounded; without receiving timely medical assistance, he is transferred already deceased from Santiago 1 an hour and a quarter later to the external hospital “Barros Luco”.

Banners and pamphlets read: “Fire to the prisons and to those who sustain them. Every death in prison is a State crime. Kevin Garrido present”, “Down with the cages of civilized society”, “Long live terror, explosions and fire”, “Five years after the murder of comrade Kevin Garrido. We call for a black November in memory of those fallen in the social/anti-social war” and “Joaquín García to the streets”.

Below are some pictures of the events:

Liceo de aplicación (Friday, November 3).

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Santiago, $hile: Banner and incendiary attack on Red bus 5 years after Kevin Garrido’s death

Posted on 2023/11/26 - 2023/11/26 by darknights

On Sunday, November 12, a day was held in Villa Francia in memory of Kevin Garrido. The day began early with musical presentations, projections, workshops and collections for Joaquin Garcia. In the late afternoon there was a parade through the territory and ended at Av 5 de Abril, where in the vicinity there were confrontations with Molotov cocktails against Carabineros (COP) and a Red bus was burned to the ground.

According to the account of a lieutenant, “(…) later the bus driver was located, who stated that approximately 20 to 30 subjects, dressed in black, hooded, three of them armed with pistols, had intimidated the driver and the passengers, making them get off the bus”.

A banner read: “For the fallen, prisoners and fugitives… Because there is a whole world to be destroyed. Kevin Garrido present!”

Here are some pictures:

Source: https://informativoanarquista.noblogs.org/post/2023/11/22/chile-pasacalle-y-atentado-incendiario-a-bus-red-a-5-anos-de-la-muerte-de-kevin-garrido/