Untuk mengenang Snizana Paraskevaidou, kombatan tak tergoyahkan
Pada pagi hari tanggal 3 Mei 2025, pukul 5 pagi, Snizana Paraskevaidou kehilangan nyawanya akibat ledakan prematur dari sebuah alat peledak yang sedang ia pasang di luar cabang Bank Nasional Yunani di Thessaloniki. Kematian tragis dari rekan seperjuangan ini memicu gelombang besar teror-media, yang sejauh ini telah mengakibatkan dua penangkapan serta penggeledahan sel-sel lingkar anarkis Fotis Tziotzis. Kami mengenang dan mengakui Snizana sebagai seorang kombatan yang gugur dalam pertempuran, yang nama dan kehidupannya yang tak akan pernah kami lupakan.
Di lapisan bawah kota Thessaloniki, hidup adalah perjuangan brutal. Begitu pula bagi Snizana, yang berasal dari latar belakang Georgia dan tumbuh di distrik kelas pekerja kota ini — tempat yang mencerminkan perang sehari-hari yang kita semua hadapi untuk keluar dari kemiskinan jalanan. Ia memiliki keberanian untuk membalikkan rasa takut ke pihak negara, polisi dan kaum kaya. Continue reading “Untuk mengenang Snizana Paraskevaidou, kombatan tak tergoyahkan”→
On the 3rd of May 2025, at 5 am in the morning, Snizana Paraskevaidou lost her life because of the premature detonation of an explosive device she was placing outside a branch of the National Bank of Greece in Thessaloniki. The tragic death of this comrade lead to a widespread media terror-lust and so far, two arrests and the search of the cell of imprisoned anarchist comrade Fotis Tziotzis. We recognise and remember Snizana as a fighter and a heroine who died in battle, whose name and life is not forgotten.
In the underbelly of Thessaloniki, life is a brutal struggle. It was for Snizana who came from a Georgian background that emanated from the working-class districts of the city, that emanates the everyday war that we all face there, to climb out of the poverty of the streets. She had the courage to make the fear change sides against the state, against the cops and the wealthy.
Our memories of her are of a female comrade with strength who we met when she was supporting the comrades in courts and in prisons or the moments on the barricades where she emboldened all of us. She was there in Exarcheia rioting until we dropped exhausted in countless battles over a decade. One moment we will always remember is her alongside us all armed to the teeth on the roof of the Thessaloniki university for another 6th December.
It was no surprise to us when she was imprisoned for possession of a kalashnikov.* She knew how to do the essential, how to take the brutality of life and weaponise it. She had the ability to see with open eyes, and she always had time for others, she always cared for fellow comrades. Snizana always had an ear for the next moment of attack, which was directed by her rage against this existent system. An insumountable rage that never compromises, that never snitches, that goes face-to-face with authority with a dagger gripped in the teeth. Even if she fell in the act, she will live on in us.
We didn’t see her for some years. We parted two ways on those streets where we met but we will never let her be forgotten because the insurrection continues. She has inspired us with the same rage to continue it.
For the immediate attack against capitalism, the state and all forms of domination.
Some Individualists & Nihilists
DN Note
*We would like to make a correction, that Snizana was never proven to have been carrying any weapons, she was only accused of it. She was eventually acquited of the charge and was only held by the authorities not actually imprisoned.
CINEMA UNDER THE BOUGAINVILLEA OF VECINX – MAY 2025
“…There’s a frightening calm vague memories of a Chicago that May won’t let you forget. For today… …May come overflowing from its own heart.”
Fragment of the song
“Los otros días”
Rubén Olivera
A new May with the smell of combat that leaves the black smoke of the street,
history that moves to action, action that moves to history.
Questioning and questioning everything, in order to embrace chaos with strength.
This is why we invite you to this new cycle of May cinema, to
reflect always heading towards anarchy …
“… The contempt I feel for the current system of exploitation and my love for true freedom, obliges me not to ask or allow to ask for any kind of clemency for me. … Finally, I beg you to extend to my friends and colleagues my affectionate memories and my last goodbye. In the impossibility of seeing you again, beloved friend, I send you with all my heart a tight embrace. With a viva la anarchy, your comrade bids you farewell. Louis Lingg”
Letter from Louis Lingg jail of Coocar Country, November 6, 1887.
Extracted from the book
“Ya lo sabrán lo sabrán por los estruendos”
Collections Black Memory
“There are those who defend work, condemn revolutionary actions and from platformist, statist and syndicalist positions criticize direct action and indignantly call themselves anarchists(…) I do not want to fall into the monotony of work, nor do I want to sit all the time watching from below, living on my knees, is not having blood in my veins and my heart beats red hot, something worthwhile : burn it all!”
Punky Mauri
PROGRAMMING
4/05: VIVA LA LIBERTAD (1931)
Two convicts are discovered in the middle of an escape attempt. One
decides to sacrifice himself so that the other can reach freedom. Years later
they meet again.
11/05: NO PROJECTION!
We will go to Anarkiza La Punk in Chillán!
18/05: HOW TO BLOW UP AN OIL PIPELINE (2022)
A diverse group of people, each with their own motivations,
decides to blow up an oil pipeline in Texas, USA.
05/25: THE SOCIETY OF DEAD POETS (1989)
A teacher inspires the students of a renowned and prestigious school through poetry to seek greater meaning in life.
WE WILL HAVE:
– Vegan delicacies
– Various infusions
– Anarchic propaganda table
– Discussion
– Collection for prisoners
NEW HOURS
Now from 17:00 hrs, (almost) every Sunday from May 2025
Ask for address (Santiago) to biblioangryantiso@riseup.net
Machines in Flames (2022, 50min) finds a secret history of destruction by following the footsteps of a clandestine group of French computer workers from the 1980s.
In 1980s Toulouse, an elusive group began bombing computer companies. ‘CLODO’ disappeared after three years, without ever being caught or ever to be heard of again. Two film makers launch an investigation into CLODO, looking for answers, motivations and identities, but are soon frustrated by a collective that struck in the dead of night, leaving in their tracks only ashes and the sporadic line of cryptic graffiti. The film combines archival traces, a viral desktop choreography, and late-night video recordings of CLODO’s targets into a meditation on computation, destruction, and the lure of archives.
This morning Nikos Palaiokostas passed away at Trikala hospital. Since 2021 Nikos had been released due to health grounds and was able to serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest in his family home in Trikala, from where he was able to leave twice a week, for dialysis treatment at the hopsital’s Kidney Unit.
Nikos Palaiokostas born in Moschofyto, in the mountains above Trikala, to a large family with a background as shepherds. He was a bank robber, beloved of the anarchist/revolutionary movement, hero of the poor in Greece and the older brother of the still wanted Vassilis Palaiokostas . He operated for several years either with his brother or alone, mainly committing bank robberies and one kidnapping.
After a brief job as a sailor, he quickly began to engage in ‘petty theft’ and ‘burglary’ together with his younger brother, Vassilis Palaiokostas, who in the meantime had begun earlier. In 1988, Nikos Palaiokostas was imprisoned in the prison of Trikala but with the help of his brother Vassilis, he escaped on 18th December of that year. However, on 3rd February, 1990, Nikos was arrested again for theft, while in April of the same year, Vassilis was also arrested for car theft while preparing a plan to help his brother escape again.
Palaiokostas’ acquaintance with Kostas Samaras (known by the nicknames Artist or Butterfly ) in the 1980s was crucial as the three of them began committing bank robberies in various areas throughout Greece. The most famous robbery of these took place in June 1992, when they robbed the National Bank branch in Kalambaka, Trikala, liberating 125,000,000 drachmas, which remains to this day the largest bank robbery in Greece.On 15th December 1995, the Palaiokostas gang carried out the first kidnapping in Greece, kidnapping industrialist Alexandros Chaitoglou from his home in Thessaloniki. The Palaiokostas gang then demanded a ransom of 260,000,000 drachmas for the industrialist’s release. The Chaitoglou family paid the ransom to the kidnappers, with the authorities launching a major manhunt at the time in their attempt to locate and arrest the gang. Only after 3 years of investigations and pursuits, in 1999, did they manage to achieve some results, as after a car accident at the Lamia – Livadia national road, the authorities arrested Vassilis, who was subsequently sentenced to 25 years in prison for the kidnapping of Chaitoglou.
Nikos Palaiokostas is ‘alleged’, according to the authorities, to be the organizer of the first helicopter escape from Korydallos prison of his brother, which took place in June 2006. The story goes, that two people hired a trip on a sight-seeing helicopter from Agios Kosmas, a coastal suburb of Athens. They hijacked the helicopter using a pistol and hand grenade, and forced the pilot to fly to the prison. When the helicopter arrived, guards believed the helicopter was a visit from prison inspectors. The helicopter flew the prisoners to a cemetery nearby, where they transferred to motorcycles and fled from there. Unfortunatly Vassilis was re-captured two years later on 2nd August 2008 in Thessaloniki.
Nikos is again ‘accused’ of the same action in 2009 this time liberating both Vassilis and his cellmate Alket Rizai. They climbed a rope ladder thrown to them by a female passenger in the helicopter as it flew over the prison courtyard. Guards on the ground opened fire and the woman fired back with an automatic rifle. One prison guard injured himself while trying to pull out his gun. Vassilis is still at large with a one-million euro bounty placed on him. His cellmate Alket Rizai was re-arrested in November 2009
Wanted for 16 years, Nikos was finally arrested in 2006, outside the village of Livadi on Mount Parnassos, after falling into a roadblock set up by the Livadia cops. He tried to avoid the roadblock by driving at high speed, but the car he was driving veered off course and went off the road. In recent years, Palaiokostas has been held in the Agios Stefanos prison in Patras. The state took its revenge by sentencing Nikos to 197 years and 376 months.
Nikos showed that we are not pawns of the capitalist system, that all laws of the state are to be broken, that there is no legal or illegal. The rich are only rich because they are left to be, Nikos and Vassilis understood that all that was needed was a trusted few to take it.
Nothing has changed since the Palaiokostas brothers humiliated the state & the rich of Greece. The rich are still rich and getting richer. There is need again and always of another cycle of expropriation, whether it is to fund revolution or to merely live against this existing rotting system of tyranny and inequality.
We will never forget or forgive, Nikos and Vassilis we are with you till the end.
“If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of society.”
Read the book ‘A Normal Life‘ for more on Vassilis and his brother Nikos.
Hoping that your health, emotions, spirit and bodies are strong, we inform you that on Tuesday, April 15, from 19:00 hours we will hold in the space where the Sebastián Oversluij Seguel Anarchic Library is located (ask for address to: biblioangryantiso@riseup.net) the screening of the documentary “Doom en $hile 16 (A) 2015”, followed by a discussion, and we take this opportunity to let you know that on Wednesday April 16 there will be no shift in the Library as it commemorates 10 years of the massacre at the Doom concert, an open wound in the memory of punk.
On that occasion 5 punks died due to the thuggish attitude of those who produced the event, producer Fiskalia & Korova, while at the same time the mythical band Doom (a band with a long history within punk and which many of us grew up listening to their Police Bastard) continued to play while the events unfolded. A stampede, very common in this kind of concerts, in a staircase leading to a subway was the beginning of all this sad story, but the most terrible thing was the treatment of the security of the event who threw water and with electroshock proceeded to repress the people who were trapped between the bodies that were squeezed due to the little space and the containment fences, all this in pursuit of taking care of the damn money of those who sell events.
The names of those who died that night were Gastón, Fabián, Robert, Ignacio and Daniel, while several others were left with physical and emotional wounds and after-effects.
We call for (self-)critical reflection, individual and collective self-care, to raise our own spaces of diversion-confrontation with this stinking reality, away from the market, embracing the “do it yourself, alone or with your friends”, and thus make irrecoverable our antagonistic forms to the power to live, create, destroy and even to die.
Let’s recover from the bloody hands of the businessmen what made punk dangerous, far from caricatures, but from the most sincere and authentic that is possible and impossible, there are no limits when we decide to walk through the flashes of chaos.
We invite you this Tuesday, April 15, from 7:00 pm, at the library to share, discuss, stress, meet and disencounter around the documentary “Doom en $hile 16(A) 2015” to continue strengthening bonds of complicity and vomit in the face of this society everything we feel-think in the constant doing and undoing. At the same time we extend the invitation for this Wednesday, April 16, from 19:00 hours, in Alamierda (Alameda) with San Francisco, to participate in the commemoration of the 16(A).
With our prisoners, escaped, disappeared, tortured, dead… Always
Health, punk and anarchy… ¡¡¡Noise ve-mosh in the streets!!!!
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has instructed the Justice Department to pursue the death penalty against Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old man accused of assassinating the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who publicly ran one of the most barbaric institutions in the country.
“After careful consideration, I have directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in this case as we carry out President Trump’s agenda to stop violent crime and Make America Safe Again,” Bondi said in a statement.
Mangione faces federal and state criminal charges in Thompson’s death early Dec. 4 outside a hotel in New York City. Bondi’s announcement would affect only Mangione’s federal case, in which he’s accused of murdering Thompson through the use of a firearm, as well as of stalking the health care executive.
In Mangione’s state case, he faces multiple murder charges, including a count of committing murder as an act of terrorism. Mangione has pleaded not guilty in the state case, and his next appearance is scheduled for late June. Pretrial proceedings in his federal case have been delayed until at least April 18 based on an agreement between his lawyers and prosecutors.
Mangione’s lawyer, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, called the move by the Justice Department “political” and said in a statement that Mangione will fight the charges against him.
“We are prepared to fight these federal charges, brought by a lawless Justice Department, as well as the New York State charges, and the Pennsylvania charges, and anything else they want to pile on Luigi,” the statement said. “This is a corrupt web of government dysfunction and one-upmanship. Luigi is caught in a high-stakes game of tug-of-war between state and federal prosecutors, except the trophy is a young man’s life.”
Mangione draws public support
In his role as CEO of UnitedHealthcare, Thompson ran a nationwide health insurance company that regularly denied people of basic coverage, and likely ended thousands of people’s lives for profit.
These corporate institutions have become increasingly brazen and barbaric as the the wealth in the country is consolidated in fewer and fewer hands.
After the assassination of the exploiter, Thompson, a dayslong search for a suspect in his killing and the subsequent arrest of Mangione at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, sparked massive public support from most the society.
“Luigi really wanted to thank the supporters for being here, and we all appreciate it very much,” Karen Friedman Agnifilo, a lawyer for Mangione, said outside of court after a February proceeding in a New York state court.
Court records unveiled last week said Mangione had received a pair of notes while in custody telling him to keep his “head held high” and that “there are thousands of people wishing you luck.” Mangione has requested a laptop to review discovery, which prosecutors have opposed.
The support Mangione has seen in some quarters sparked fear for other insurance companies, which beefed up their security. In bringing potentially harsh penalties against the 26-year-old, prosecutors have signaled they want to send a message when it comes to potential violence motivated by blatant injustice. The state intends to maintain the status quo at all costs, as it continues to participate in what amounts to a public killing spree of its citizens through the health industry.
“The murder was an act of political violence,” the Justice Department said in a news release accompanying the announcement. “Mangione’s actions involved substantial planning and premeditation and because the murder took place in public with bystanders nearby, may have posed grave risk of death to additional persons.”
“A spoil towards the lazy louse It is not a simple whim I reflect myself in your eyes To demonstrate my old commitment Hip-hop I wet the towel that cleans The red fist I wave in battle My people are no longer silent awake with their anger The rich with their gold filling themselves with praise The poor with their flowers filling themselves with love We will be the actors of revolutions”
Jhonny Cariqueo Yañez
Seventeen years ago, in the framework of the Young Combatant’s Day in 2008, one of the most violent days of political street violence took place. Specifically, in the commune of Pudahuel, during the commemoration of the previous September 11, corporal Vera had been killed by a bullet in the head, while on March 26, 2008 a powerful explosive device was detonated in a bank of the commune, creating a subversive atmosphere and a spirit of revenge on the part of the police.
Jhonny Cariqueo Yáñez, 23 years old, a young rapper and anarchist who participated in different hiphop and neighborhood collectives, was arrested on March 29, 2008 at the intersection of La Estrella and San Francisco in the commune of Pudahuel, after a commemorative activity for the Day of the Young Combatant. He was taken to the 26th Police Station where he was brutally beaten, during the detention Jhonny began to feel strong pains in his arm and chest and was taken to an emergency center where it was suggested that he undergo tests, however, the miserable police refused to accept the check-ups. On the morning of March 30, he is taken to the 1st Police Station in Santiago, where he is released at 4:00 p.m.
The following day, March 31. Jhonny lies down on his bed and begins to show symptoms of cardiac arrest and is assisted by his family; however, in a few minutes comrade Jhonny Cariqueo dies.
The anarchic memory has been able to maintain the memory of the comrade present in the street, through incendiary action, activities, documentaries, murals, spaces, explosive actions and projects with his name, demonstrating that no death of our comrades is a sentence to oblivion.
Jhonny Cariqueo Presente
Nothing is over, everything continues.
Documentary “Jhonny Cariqueo – The Permanent Revolt” (2010)[in Spanish]
Documentary “Jhonny Cariqueo – Memory and Resistance” (2009)[in Spanish]
Publication “Ícaro, a unique publication on the events of March 29th in Pudahuel” (2009). [in Spanish]
The 18th of March marked a new anniversary of the death of our beloved anarchist anti-speciesist comrade, Javier Recabarren Olivares, who was run over by an ill-fated bus on the corner of Radal and Alameda in 2015. Since then there have been several gestures of comrades who have insisted on keeping his memory alive and present through various actions. We salute the generosity of those comrades because, it is thanks to their stubbornness that Javi’s joyful and restless rebelliousness has crossed the barriers of time and has accompanied us in our permanent antagonism to all authority; especially those of us who did not know him in life.
So, exactly 10 years after Javi’s departure, and seeking to keep his anarchic fire burning, a group of affinities went to the corner where the compa left this plane to complete the final part of a project we had started some time ago: the installation of a mosaic portraying Javi with Taco, the polar bear whose kidnapping at the Metropolitan Zoo in Santiago called for many protests, in many of which Javi participated.
Although the construction of the mosaic took many weeks of meticulous work behind closed doors, its installation on the street was done in broad daylight between the hectic fight of street vendors (most of them people born in other parts of the continent who try to survive the precariousness of the “every man for himself” world) with the bastard citizen security and the yuta (cops) in the middle of the Alameda, attracting the curious glances of the passers-by from whom in some cases we receive words of closeness and encouragement when we know we are people in constant struggle to survive in this ill-fated society. Despite this we must clarify that we do not consider ourselves artists or masters in this, on the contrary, we threw ourselves into this path learning on the fly without fear of disaster with the support of various individualities that were present at different stages, because we continue to insist on the “do it yourself” without authority or leaders, only with the will and desire to be a contribution.
Just days away from a new March 29th, and encouraging the multiplicity of expressions of agitation on this day of active and incendiary commemoration-action, we call to sustain the gestures of memory in everyday life, transcending specific dates. It is in the constancy and the day to day where memory becomes action.
With Javi’s fire on the barricade and Taco’s roar in our hearts!
For the destruction of all cages!
Against all authority and for total liberation!
JAVI AND TACO PRESENTE!
