AGAINST SPECIESISM, CIVILISATION AND THE REIGN OF IDEAS
“There are paths that can be followed, and there is a path that cannot – it is not a path, it is the wilderness.”
Call for submissions for a new publishing project:
At the forefront of this call is a wish to deepen the conversation between anti-spe and anti-civ anarchists. Whereas these currents are normally kept separate, this doesn’t resonate with us at all – we want to better understand their shared potential. We also want to explore more deeply the topic which, for lack of a better term, might be described as “nihilism”, along with the critiques of ideology, rationalism and in general the civilised obsession with surrendering our lives to daydreams.
We warmly invite our unknown comrades to submit original essays, English translations of beloved texts, poetry, artwork and whatever else potentially relevant to the following topics: anti-speciesism, anti-civ anarchy, nihilism, egoism, gender chaos, rewilding, irrationality. Beyond these more specific concerns, we also wish to pose a riddle: How are we to affirm the here and now, with all its toxic overflows, not pretending to be somewhere else?
(Submissions by mid May or sooner would be great – we hope to release by summer 2022). nopath [at] riseup [dot] net
GUERRA A LA GUERRA. FUCK OTAN
NATO SUMMIT IN MADRID ON JUNE 29 AND 30
On June 29th and 30th a new NATO summit will be held in Madrid. This military organization was created after World War II as a weapon to defend the interests of the winner of the war: capitalism.
During these days the streets will be filled with military, owners of arms companies, leaders… with the aim of planning and developing new war scenarios, new weapons and ultimately prepare for all the difficulties and adverse scenarios that the techno-capitalist project may encounter.
In a world increasingly precarious and full of miseries we have been able to see how little by little the military presence in the streets has been normalized, as for example the military deployment during the pandemic generating a climate of war, terror and social control. A demonstration of force, of government of the catastrophe with military forces as protagonists such as, for example, NATO.
NATO not only defends the geostrategic projects of capitalism and imposes its way of life on the entire planet, but will also be the main shock force against the revolts that follow. One of these geostrategic conflicts is the one taking place right now between Russia and NATO, with Ukraine as a scenario. That region has been destabilized in a state of permanent low-intensity warfare and with elements of the so-called “hybrid war” between the imperialist powers since 2014.
From the media, the army has been getting a facelift since the pademia and now they pretend to sell us the idea of NATO as a pacifying force, which is totally far from reality.
That is why we launched this blog with the aim of providing information, analysis and calls against the NATO summit because we refuse to become merchandise for their wars.
OUR WAR IS THE SOCIAL WAR
FUCK NATO
Rupture – Multilingual anarchist book distro
The passion for freedom, as well as the firmness to refuse any attempt to commercialise it, has led us to create this space to host a catalogue of books by different anarchist publishers. Written or translated, edited, and printed autonomously, these publications aim to give a concrete and coherent reference to the analyses, history, struggles, and experiences that have – and continue to – nourish our anarchist projectuality.
Our selection will not be exhaustive but will gradually increase. One will not find every title from the anarchist heritage, as it is not our intention here to create a supermarket of anarchist ideas, theories, or perspectives – not necessarily because we are not interested in all the forms this can take, but because we are in love with the idea, proposal, and practice of subverting the world of authority without delay. The freedom that we stubbornly seek is against any political strategy, suspicious of democratic consensus, and refractory to submission. So, this selection, available to all, carries the explicit intention of proposing, deepening, and refining anarchist practice that aims for social revolt, without mediation, without compromise, without anything to offer to the reform of this world.
At a time when perspectives of social revolution seem frozen in a sea of deliberate confusion, resigned fear, calculated catastrophes, technological colonization, and authoritarian hysteria, we relaunch, even more obstinately, the words in these books about and for struggle, to invite their readers to sail towards new and unknown horizons of freedom, autonomy, solidarity, conflict, joy.
This book distribution offers publications in English, Dutch, and German, available for single orders and for other distributions.
For anarchy!
When the hours begin to count down to the complete loss of freedom from the teeth of confinement, each moment acquires its own distinct existential meaning. A smile, a touch, the warmth of a comrade’s voice in a cold phone call, the chants outside the interrogation are the flames which burn your heart, reminding you that nothing ends. Battles have casualties. The war itself has casualties. But nothing was given to us, nothing was given to us bloodlessy because we extended our hand. Nothing was won through prayers.
“This inhuman, insidious white of your empty eyes reminds me of the armistice in battle…”
In this life, everything is won through faith and dedication to the field of social antagonism. With consistency in the battles and a relentless tension, a persistence on the offensive horizon. Through my small contribution to the evolution of the class struggle, beyond my contradictions and mistakes, if there is something that characterises me it is social consciousness and the commitment to the revolutionary duty. These are the two things that, on some evenings, become a noose around your neck and do not let you sleep. Screams, sobs, and even silences awaken, and they anger you, they enrage you, they arm you. Responsibility, comrades. We have responsibility. For all those restless nights I feel proud, because all of those nights I chose for my eyes to look at the stars. I remain unyielding, unrepetant, and angrier than ever, because I defend my proud captivity against the dead freedoms of decay.
“These a bit roughly, for the restoration of the black.”
All my thoughts, love and support remain adamantly on the side of these two people that are imprisoned next to me, giving the most important struggle of all of us. The struggle against the absurdity of repression. As for me, I will remind you that the revolution against tyranny is an account that remains open. And revolutionary violence ought to be a non-negotiable, one-way street.
Comrades, until we meet again on the battlefields, let us not compromise with anything less than everything.
Down with statism, long live Anarchy
Thanos Xatziagkelou, Thessaloniki Police HQ
Thursday, 10/2/22.
Source: athens.indymedia
Once again death took a walk around San Miguel, and as on other occasions, the door was opened for her by those who anecdotally work closing them, the Chilean Gendarmerie.
On Saturday, January 29, in a macabre coincidence, Milena Cartes, confined in Tower 5, died after a week of ailments. Tower 5 was the same place where more than 10 years ago 81 prisoners died in a fire.
At the moment the information that has been disseminated about the causes of death of Milena is appendicitis, which worsened to peritonitis, something that (without being an expert) if it had been treated in time is not fatal. Cases like Milena’s in Chilean prisons are counted by the hundreds, there is a long list of deaths in prison due to avoidable circumstances and medical negligence, to which we could add the deaths that no one bothered to investigate.
The death of Milena Cartes will be forgotten unless the real reasons for her death are not disclosed.
Gendarmerie will try to hide and/or disguise what happened.
Mónica Caballero Sepulveda.
Anarchist prisoner held in San Miguel Prison.
February 2022.
Source: Anarquia
In order to break our political stagnation, due to the Coronavirus epidemic, we went out on the night of January 24th.
We decided to set fire to several vehicles of the municipal police – parked in the parking lot of the city hall, in Ossietzky street*.
We wanted to oppose the arming of the control and repression organs, which is linked to the pandemic situation.
If we look at the last years, we see a significant strengthening of the municipal police force.
The tightening of the police laws and the continuing crisis due to the pandemic are giving (have given) them more and more competences. We can see how they are “policing”. In an increasingly authoritarian and violent way.
It is the municipal police who impose violence when we have to be restricted in our so-called free time, outside of work.
Because the measures taken to curb the pandemic are intended to forcibly maintain our ability to work and to deprive us of our social freedoms.
You will always try to restrict our freedom of movement, especially at night, or to close down meeting places, rather than factories or office floors. But we will always find ways to oppose you, no matter how difficult it is. On October 23 last year**, you managed to ban our demonstration. The city was cordoned off by the cops in a military way, that day our room for maneuvering was limited, the direct truncheon in the face would have probably been the consequence in many situations. In the years to come we will be confronted with such bans again and again.
You can ban our demonstrations and control the areas where you expect us on those days. But we remain “Autonomous. Resistant. Irreducible”.
If you take us away during the day, we’ll fall back on the night.
People who will still do it!
Until you lay down your weapons and open the way for a new emancipatory beginning!
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Attaque Notes:
* according to German newspapers, four electric cars of the Polizeibehörde (comparable to the municipal police in French cities) were set on fire in the backyard of the city hall in the Abtnaundorf district.
** A demonstration against the criminalization of the revolutionary movement and the stigmatization of the working-class district of Connewitz was planned in Leipzig on October 23, 2021, but was banned.
Sourcre: de.indymedia
Via: Attaque
“Man, your head is haunted; you have wheels in your head! […] You have a fixed idea!” – Max Stirner
It’s been some time that I wanted my anger to be heard. An anger that awaited for its moment, so that it can be ready to be released from within me. If this denunciation won’t bother everyone, it will bother most, if not then it will bother a few. And for many reasons that I won’t analyse!
I have been active in the anarchist / anti-authoritarian milieu in Thessaloniki since September ‘21 and I was not pleased by many things and generally they do not express me. Because, as Renzo Novatore wrote, “I am an individualist because I am an anarchist and I am an anarchist because I am a nihilist.”
Nevertheless, I did not fall into the trap of dogmatism, I did not stop my activity just because most collectives and squats do not represent post-left anarchy, pure negation, direct action and informalism. Whenever and wherever I could, I showed my solidarity in practice, from participating
in postering, to taking part in protests, and only out of personal desire because I was tired from complete isolation in Athens.
But some do not appreciate it and worse, they turn against me.
Since the announcement of the plans for the demolition of the Biologica haunt, I wanted to show my solidarity and support in this situation that the squat has come. I knew very well what had happened 9 years ago, but it wasn’t an obstacle in this particular action of mine, because I was not involved in the “civil war” 1 as I did not and will never hold a position in these past events, because nothing will change, as it would be stupid of me to maintain vendettas. I always look at the present, I only study the past when there is something useful for today!
The first open assembly in support of Biologica is announced and took place in SPS 2 . In short, before the assembly began, I was asked by a person (whom I do not know if they are from Biologica or from another collective that is housed in the haunt) to leave because I am not accepted,
because I am from the anarchist haunt of Nadir. I respected this request because I had no mood for fights and quarrels. I left SPS and then some comrades (not related to Nadir) left some minutes later dissatisfied by this request. Continue reading “Thessaloniki, Greece: The time has come for my roar to be heard – Denunciation of sectarianism by the Biologica haunt”
On the night of Dec. 13, we set fire to two transmission towers of the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office in Nuremberg.
There are countless reasons to hate and attack the police.
The original task of the police is to maintain the social status quo. That is, police officers are paid to maintain an exploitative, racist, sexist economic and social system based on the exclusion of minorities. Their job is to defend the profit and supremacy of those powerful in this system against any attempt at change towards justice, equality, redistribution or environmental sustainability.
The police therefore share the ideology of inequality, in which FLINTA (Frauen (women), Lesbian, Intersex, Nonbinary, Transgender, and Agender), migrants, the poor or people with disabilities are worth less and can be systematically denied access to fundamental rights and equality. The police, by its very basic mandate, is necessarily to be located conservatively and politically on the right.
The police are ascribed, medially, politically and legally, a neutrality and expertise that never existed, which is supposed to enable them to objectively report on events or evaluate situations. In fact, it is a political actor that openly acts against its own enemy images (people who show deviant behavior or strive for social change and migrants) and is still granted interpretive sovereignty over its attacks.
In order to maintain the relations of domination, it is of enormous importance for the profiteers of capitalism, which is why the police are given more and more powers and means to use violence. It receives new weapons like tasers (NRW) or tanks and hand grenades (Bavaria) to use against its enemies. According to their own preferences, the police prohibit demonstrations or have events such as soccer matches postponed, arbitrarily take people into custody, or search and vandalize homes. Continue reading “Nuremberg, Germany: Two transmission towers set on fire of the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office”
“Να δημιουργήσω; Όχι, Να καταστρέψω, να καταστρέψω και ξανά να καταστρέψω, οτιδήποτε επιτρέπει η δύναμη που έχει απομείνει σε αυτούς τους μύες. Γιατί η καταστροφή είναι η δύναμη που έχει απομείνει. Το μοναδικό πράγμα που αξίζει έστω μια δεκάρα. Όλα τα άλλα θα περάσουν και θα χαθούν. Μόνο η καταστροφή τους θα διαρκέσει. Είναι ένα παράδοξο με ελάχιστα αντίστοιχα. Οι νέοι και ικανοί να χτίσουν καινούριους κόσμους, εκείνοι που για χρόνια, σε καθημερινή βάση, έθεταν τα θεμέλια της πίστης για μια καλύτερη ανθρωπότητα, τώρα οφείλουν να καταστήσουν την αιματοχυσία, την εσπευσμένη δράση, το σαμποτάζ, τα χαλάσματα, την καταστροφή, την εκμηδένιση, κορυφαία επιτεύγματα της ζωής.”
-Gusta Drenger, εβραία αντάρτισσα
Σκοπός του εγχειρήματος “Ευλογημένη η Φλόγα” δεν είναι μόνο μια θεωρητική διάχυση της μαύρης αναρχίας, αλλά τη διάχυση της ριζοσπαστικής θεωρίας/κριτικής που πηγάζει από την ενέργεια της εξεγερτικης οπλισμένης επιθυμίας, αναγνωρίζοντας ότι η κοινωνική κατάσταση, στην οποία βρισκόμαστε και δεν επιλέξαμε, οδηγεί τις ζωές μας στην πτώχευση, στην αποξένωση των εγώ μας.Δεν υπάρχει διαφορά στο τι κάνουμε και το τι σκεφτόμαστε. Μηδενιστές δεν είμαστε επειδή είμαστε απλά απαισιόδοξοι.Όχι, μηδενιστές είμαστε επειδή οι καταστάσεις γύρω μας δε μας επιτρέπουν να σκεφτόμαστε μελλοντικές ουτοπικές κοινωνίες αλλά ο αγώνας ενάντια στον πολιτισμό(κοινωνία, κράτος, κεφάλαιο κοκ) να είναι το μοναδικό πράγμα που να απολαμβάνουμε. Μηδενίζουμε μέλλον και ελπίδα ώστε να αγωνιστούμε εδώ και τώρα.Να απελευθερωθεί κάθε οργή κάθε εξεγερμένου.Δεν επιθυμούμε να ποντάρουμε στη μαζική κινητοποίηση εφόσον η κοινωνία είναι ρομποτοποιημενη.Οι πιθανότητες για ένα απελευθερωμένο κόσμο ίσως αρχίσουν να υπάρχουν όταν σταματήσουν εντελώς να ελπίζουν σε οποιοδήποτε σενάριο φλυαρίας ιδεολογιών.Στο εγχείρημα, συνεπώς, φιλοξενούνται αναρτήσεις, αναδημοσιεύσεις και μεταφράσεις -ενώ καλοδεχούμενα είναι κείμενα και μεταφράσεις- που κινούνται στην κατεύθυνση αυτή.
“Είθε η απόλαυση να είναι η ευλογημένη φλόγα που θα μας οδηγήσει στο κενό”
Διαχειριστική Ομάδα του εγχειρήματος “Ευλογημένη η Φλόγα”
Για την αναρχία και τον μηδενισμό
mail: blessedistheflame@protonmail.com
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