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Prague, Czech Republic: About the trial “Fenix 2” EN/CE

Posted on 2025/01/29 by darknights

In January 2025, another hearing will take place at the District Court in Most in the Fénix 2 case.
https://antifenix.noblogs.org/post/2019/03/27/what-is-fenix-2-about/

The trial will be held on Monday, January 27 and Tuesday, January 28, beginning at 9:00 a.m. on both days. Recall that four anarchists and one environmentalist are charged with offenses punishable by 3 to 10 years in prison. Support the accused directly in court or by another
solidarity action.

More information about history the Fenix 2 case is on the Antifenix blog

https://antifenix.noblogs.org/

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(ČESKY) Další soudní jednání v kauze Fénix 2

V lednu 2025 proběhne u Okresního soudu v Mostě další soudní jednání v kauze Fénix 2.
https://antifenix.noblogs.org/post/2019/02/15/o-co-jde-ve-fenixu-ii/

Soud se bude konat v pondělí 27. ledna a v úterý 28. ledna 2025, přičemž oba dny začnou v 9:00 hodin. Připomeňme, že čtyři anarchisté a jeden environmentalista jsou obviněni z trestných činů, za které hrozí 3 až 10 let vězení. Podpořte obviněné přímo u soudu nebo jinou solidární akcí.

Více informací o historii kauzy Fenix 2 najdete na blogu Antifenix

https://antifenix.noblogs.org/

Genoa, Italy: Ex Latteria Occupata under seizure

Posted on 2024/12/05 by darknights

On the night of December 2, the carabinieri, under the usual order of PM Giuseppe Longo, seized the Ex Latteria Occupata and reported three comrades.
Ex Latteria, like others, is a place that has always opposed the exploitative and repressive logic of the state at war. A place of gathering, frequented by many girls and boys.
After the arrests on May 4th, the prosecutor still wants to tell the tale of defending decorum, that is, the normalized, racist, and alienating everyday life at the expense of every individual’s freedom.
This latest attempt to stifle anger and dissent will not work, you will find us in the streets.

THURSDAY, December 5th from 6:30 PM at Stradone Sant’Agostino
FRIDAY, December 6th at 5 PM at Piazza San Donato

Milan, Italy: Everyone hates the police

Posted on 2024/12/04 by darknights

On Sunday night [November 24, in Milan], Ramy Elgaml died after falling from the scooter he was riding on with a friend, pursued by the carabinieri for several kilometers.
Ramy was a 19-year-old boy who lived in Corvetto.
Since his death was announced, numerous boys and girls, his friends, have gathered on the street at the crash site, alongside his family.
Soon the pain of his death turned into anger and a thirst for truth regarding what had happened.
The night between Sunday and Monday there were moments of clashes with the police in the streets of the working-class neighborhood where he lived, where someone had started to set fire to trash bins and rubbish.
Even on Monday evening, for a few hours, normalcy came to a halt, and in its place appeared burning barricades and groups of people clashing with the police, who responded by launching numerous tear gas canisters in an attempt to disperse the crowd, which, however, did not let itself be intimidated.
Ramy’s death is probably the straw that broke the camel’s back. Those who come from the working-class neighborhoods deal with the police every day, for one reason or another. He knows the arrogance and violence of the cops and knows well what a police stop means.

And that’s how the anger grows.

At the end of Monday evening, a 21-year-old boy was arrested and taken to San Vittore while in Corvetto the anger and the melted plastic from the bins on the asphalt remain.
Ramy will live in the hearts of his family and friends, in the anger that will set the streets on fire.
Cops out of the neighborhoods.
Freedom for all.

Source: La Nemesi

North Wales, UK: Daniel Andreas San Diego arrested by counter-terrorist cops, wanted by the FBI in connection with two animal liberation related bombings in San Francisco in 2003.

Posted on 2024/11/27 - 2024/11/27 by darknights

Daniel Andreas San Diego has been wanted by the FBI in connection with two bombings which took place in San Francisco in 2003 claimed by Revolutionary Cells – Animal Liberation Brigade, simliar to the Animal Rights Militia in the UK, that ignores the Animal Liberation Front’s policy of taking all necessary precautions to avoid harm to human life. The two bombs were placed at the offices of biotechnology corporation Chiron Inc. in Emeryville, California, in August 2003. The first bomb detonated early in the morning, while the second, which was set to detonate an hour after the initial blast, was found and defused before it went off. Chiron Inc. was targetted for its links to Huntingdon Life Sciences (now Inotiv), the animal torturers and killers who were targetted by the Animal Liberation Front (A.L.F.) and campaigned against by Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC).

A month later, another bomb filled with nails went off at a nutritional products corporation, Shaklee Corporation, which makes nutritional supplements and eco-friendly shampoos and lotions – in Pleasanton, Calififornia. Nobody was killed or injured in the blast. It was targeted because its parent company, Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical, who does/did business also with HLS.

Communique of the Revolutionary Cells – Animal Liberation Brigade bomb attack on Shaklee :

“On the night of September 25th volunteers from the Revolutionary Cells attacked a subsidiary of a notorious HLS client, Yamanouchi. We left an approximately 10lb ammonium nitrate bomb strapped with nails outside of Shaklee Inc, whose CEO is both the CEO for Shaklee and Yamanouchi Consumer Inc. We gave all of the customers the chance, the choice, to withdraw their business from HLS. Now you all will have to reap what you have sown. All customers and their families are considered legitimate targets.

Hey Sean Lance, and the rest of the Chiron team, how are you sleeping? You never know when your house, your car even, might go boom. Who knows, that new car in the parking lot may be packed with explosives. Or maybe it will be a shot in the dark.

We have given all of the collaborators a chance to withdraw from their relations from HLS. We will now be doubling the size of every device we make. Today it is 10lbs, tomorrow 20….until your buildings are nothing more than rubble. It is time for this war to truely have two sides. No more will all of the killing be done by the oppressors, now the oppressed will strike back. We will be non-violent when the these people are non-violent to the animal nations.

In memory of all of those fallen before us in the war for liberation: Jill Phipps (animal activist), Barry Horne (ALF), Olaia Kastresana (ETA), Arkaitz Otazua (ETA), Angayarkanni (LTTE), Babu (LTTE), Bobby Sands (IRA), Patsy O’Hara (INLA), Carlos Guiliani (anti-globilization martyr), Lee Kyung-hae (farmer and anti-globablization victim), and many more on numerous other fronts. We won’t forget you, we won’t let your deaths be in vain.

Gora Euskadi Ta Askatasuna!
Up the Real IRA!
Long live the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine!
Viva La Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia!
Long live the Frontu Di Liberazione Naziunalista Corsu!
For the creation of Revolutionary Cells!
For Humyn, Earth & Animal Liberation!

Bringing the bomb and the bullet back into amerikan politics, Revolutionary
Cells –animal liberation brigade

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The revolutionary cells exists as a front group for militants across the liberationary movement spectrum. We are anarchists, communists, anti-racists, animal liberationists, earth liberationists, luddites, feminists, queer liberationists, and many more things across various other fronts. Where ever there is oppression there are those unwilling to idly stand by and let it occur, and those people make up the nucleus of the revolutionary cells.

Who are the revolutionary cells? It is an anti-gmo activist destroying a gmo crop, it is a basque youth driving a car packed with explosives destined for a spanish politician, it is a queer bashing back, a rape victim putting a bullet in the rapist, a corsican nationalist planting a bomb at a french bank, it is a cincinatti riot in response to police brutality, an animal liberationist shooting a vivisector dead on his doorstep. In short it is the spirit of resistance realized. It is moving from politics to praxis.

Anyone who takes part in the war against the oppressive heirarchies in this world can consider themselves a member of the Revolutionary Cells.

Revolutionary Cells Guidelines:

1. To take strategic direct action (be it non-violent or not) against the oppressive institutions that permeate the world.

2. Make every effort to minimize non-target casualties, be they human or non-human.

3. Respect a diversity of tactics, whether they be non-violent or not.

4. Any underground activist fighting for the liberation of the humyn, earth or animal nations may consider themselves a Revolutionary Cells volunteer.”

San Diego was later put on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list in 2009. He was arrested at a property in a rural area next to woodland. Following his capture, San Diego appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court as the process to extradite him to the US to face charges begins.

Solidarity and complicity to Daniel Andreas San Diego who had the strength to take the eco struggle to the belly of the beast.

Realities Behind the Arrest of Nikos Romanos

Posted on 2024/11/27 by darknights

This is an attempt to provide information and context for those outside Greece concerning the recent state abduction of anarchist Nikos Romanos.

On 31 October, 2024, an explosion in the Athens neighborhood of Ampelokopoi killed the comrade Kyriakos X and severely injured the comrade Marianna M.

They were both in an apartment where an explosive device detonated, knocking out one wall of the building. The state claims they were planning to detonate a bomb elsewhere and that it exploded prematurely. Both Kyriakos and Marianna are anarchists, respected participants in the movement.

The press in Greece is owned by a handful of old families who control most of the remaining greek assets– those that haven’t been sold off to foreign investors. The Greek mainstream media exists to disseminate state narratives, and it immediately began slandering the victims of the explosion as well as engaging in wild speculation– such as that the israeli embassy was the intended target. Whether or not that’s true, it is true that israeli mossad agents came to assist the Greek police in their investigations. Since the explosion, the state has made additional arrests of people it claims are somehow connected to the apartment and its lease, sublease, etc.

As the Greek press promoted the propaganda of the state, there commenced activity in some cowardly corners of the left to distinguish the more “guilty” of those accused from the others. This is the question of who to tar with the labels of “anarchist” and “terrorist” — thereby assumed to deserve repression– vs. who is really “innocent.”

The anarchist movement itself, both in Greece and internationally, has rejected such division and remained strong in solidarity despite a chilling increase in repression. There were multiple support gatherings outside the hospital where Marianna was held under guard and when, shortly after her second surgery, she was transferred to Korydallos prison, comrades also gathered there. Kyriakos has been honored with actions, banners, marches, events and memorials, and will remain a beloved comrade forevermore. There has been no “disavowal,” no step back.

Since the tragedy in Ampelokopoi state repression against those suspected of being “anarchists” has become more aggressive, although this is consistent with an ongoing trend since the pandemic. What we have seen now are not new tactics but an increase in frequency: police actions such as stopping and searching people around the neighborhood Exarcheia, early-morning “preventative detention” of targeted individuals (people considered politically prominent) on the days of demonstrations and marches, and an increase in surveillance of those the greek state has a grudge against, including by parking unmarked cars with surveillance equipment in front of their homes.

Few people in the anarchist movement here have been under as heavy surveillance, long-term, as the comrade Nikos Romanos. He was a friend of the anarchist Alexis Grigoropolous, and witnessed Alexis’ murder by police on 6 December 2008. Since that time Nikos has been arrested many times and accused of many crimes, along with false accusations of involvement with the direct action group Conspiracy of Cells of Fire. Continue reading “Realities Behind the Arrest of Nikos Romanos” →

[URGENT] Athens, Greece: Anarchist Comrade Nikos Romanos arrested by anti-terrorist cops

Posted on 2024/11/18 - 2024/11/21 by darknights

Word comes to us from comrades in Greece that anarchist comrade Nikos Romanos has been arrested by anti-terrorist cops during an operation today in Athens and has been taken to the GADA (Athens Central Police Headquarters). All we know so far is that he has been arrested in connection with the same case involving the explosion at an apartment in the neighborhood of Ampelokipoi in Athens on 31st October.

Strength and complicity comrade, you will not be left alone!

DN Collective

[URGENT] Call for a solidarity gathering at GADA, 9pm

We are calling for a solidarity gathering with the 31-year-old detainee today at 9 PM, at GADA.

NO ONE ALONE/NO ONE IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE

SOLIDARITY WITH THE IMPRISONED COMRADES MARIANNA, DIMITRA, AND DIMITRIS

KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS ONE OF US A COMRADE FOREVER ON THE STREETS OF FIRE

SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON

Assembly of Solidarity with imprisoned, fugitive, and persecuted fighters

Source: athens.indymedia

Athens, Greece: [URGENT] Transfer of comrade Marianna to Korydallos – Call for gathering in Korydallos

Posted on 2024/11/15 - 2024/11/15 by darknights

The anarchist comrade Marianna, just one day after her second consecutive surgery and while remaining hospitalized as a multiple trauma patient for 15 days at Evangelismos Hospital, was transferred to Korydallos on Friday morning.

The pressures from the scum of the anti-terrorism unit, who operate in perfect collaboration with the investigator handling the case, resulted in the comrade being discharged and taken to the women’s prisons of Korydallos, where there isn’t even a hospital and thus no possibility to provide her with the appropriate care for her injuries.

We make it clear in all directions, whatever happens to our comrade, it will have consequences and will not go unanswered.

We call for a solidarity gathering for our imprisoned comrades Marianna M. D.Z. and D., on Monday, November 18 at 18:30, at Korydallos Prison, with a pre-gathering at the Korydallos Town Hall.

SOLIDARITY WITH THE IMPRISONED COMRADES MARIANNA, DIMITRA, AND DIMITRIS

HANDS OFF THE INJURED ANARCHIST COMRADE MARIANNA

KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS ONE OF US A COMRADE FOREVER ON THE STREETS OF FIRE

Assembly of Solidarity with Prisoners, Fugitives and Persecuted Fighters

Source: athens.indymedia

Poster for Kyriakos, Marianna, Dimitra and all comrades affected by the explosion in Athens 31.10.24

Posted on 2024/11/11 by darknights

“…for I obeyed only my heart, which was torn by the suffering of all proletarians, the unfortunate, the hunted and the enslaved outcasts ” Germaine Berton*

These are the moments when big words seem inappropriate and presumptuous, when life in all its intensity makes us realize how short our path can be. When we speak up at such a moment, we hope to offer empathy, solidarity, perhaps a little solace to those who want it.

It is these moments that make us painfully aware that the life we have chosen is not only intense, exhausting, dangerous and at the same time beautiful, but also very fleeting. When a person with revolutionary ideas dies fighting for them, it is important to take a moment. We do not believe in necessities, collateral damage or martyrdom. As anarchists, we fight for life, even if we realize that in this world it is reserved for a few to be allowed to live a dignified life. That is also why we fight.
The confrontation with power often seems so abstract to us in everyday life, even if it has an impact in the smallest actions and moments. Losing a person on the path we have chosen is probably one of the most terrible scenarios imaginable. Our hearts are shaken at the thought of the situation our fellow comrades find themselves in, their pain is unimaginable.
When we look around in the world today, it is not easy to find hope. And yet we want to remember how much beauty there is in the experiences we have had, the struggles we have shared, the new and different relationships we are creating on the path of revolution, of anarchy. It is all these small and big moments that allow us to move forward.

For Kyriakos, who died in an explosion in an apartment in Athens on 31.10.24. You will not be forgotten.

For Marianna, who was injured in the explosion and imprisoned, Stay strong, you are not alone.

For Dimitra and other imprisoned and persecuted comrades, Freedom and luck for you!

Solidarity and complicity!

Anarchists from the north

DN Note

* Germaine Berton, French anarchist who on 22 January 1923, assassinated secretary of Action Française (far right, monarchist and nationalist) and leader of The Camelots du roi (far-right youth organization of Action Française), Marius Plateau, with five revolver shots at the organization’s headquarters. When police arrived, Berton declared she was avenging the assassination of Jean Jaurès (socialist and anti-miltarist assassinated by a nationalist), Miguel Almereyda’s mysterious death (socialist and antimiltarist journalist who died in a prison cell), and France’s occupation of the Ruhr.

Chile: A death in action is an eternal call to struggle. Letter to the comrades of Kyriakos and Marianna. EN/ES

Posted on 2024/11/07 - 2024/11/07 by darknights

A death in action is an eternal call to struggle.
Letter to the comrades of Kyriakos and Marianna.

Kyriakos has left us, he died in an apartment last Thursday. Marianna is seriously wounded in the Evangelismos hospital. Both anarchist comrades present in different scenarios of the struggle. We receive the news with sadness and closeness because the last breath of her life could have been eventually also the last of several of us. Our feelings cannot be more than immense affection and admiration because we know that those who walk the path of the anarchist offensive are valuable and unique in their qualities, contradictions and contributions to the struggle.

Our era is marked by the naturalization of war and death in the service of conflicts between powers, turning loss into a figure, forgetting names and identities. On the other hand, in this, our war against power, we do not forget any face, we do not forget any name. From now on, every 31st of October will be a day in which we, the anarchists of the world are summoned to take a step forward and take up arms against the states, capital and authority, internationally braiding the horizon of anarchy and freedom through attack. None of our dead will be a reference to an old history, they are the present of action and combat.

We can already imagine comrades what they must be facing:crude press statements, lurid images, inaccurate theories, repression and surveillance. Faced with this, the urgency to confront the coarse and lies: it is the precise moment to tell our story and defend it proudly and fiercely.

Recently some thirty young fighters suffered an incendiary accident while they were participating in a day of street fighting at a high school in Santiago de Chile (INBA). Several of them are still in vital risk. The response from the surrounding area has been concise: many people have come forward to donate blood, there have been instances of solidarity to collect money and there have been several expressions of propaganda in the streets, while at the same time resisting the police harassment in the hospitals where our young comrades are fighting minute by minute to live and recover.

We are telling you this because we feel and we understand the pain that unexpectedly looms and floods everything, wounds that in the heat of the hours seem to transform, seem to turn into a labyrinth with no way out. But it is here and in these moments where we must go out to meet the uncontrollable and rabid flight for freedom, without restraint or confusion. Transiting through the genuine, the precariousness and the hard-won, we have learned the bad habit of persisting even when the obstacles seem colossal, consolidating through facts that our only defeat will be not to try.

Incendiaries, nonconformists, restless, unyielding, tireless, irascible: Let us push and give body to our desires to subvert the existing order through the use of all methods of struggle within our reach. We greet with affection and affectionately to your families, comrades, friends and close ones, know that from Chile to Greece we we show our solidarity in these difficult moments.

Anarchist comrade Kyriakos Present!
Strength and courage to comrade Marianna Manoura.
Solidarity with the arrested and persecuted.
Forward the anarchist urban guerrilla.

Nueva Subversión
Células Revolucionarias Nicolás Neira
Fracción Autonómica Cristián Valdebenito
Células Revolucionarias Mauricio Morales
Grupo de Acción 6 de Julio
Grupo Antiespecista Emilia Bau
Célula Insurreccional por el Maipo
Célula Sediciosa Santiago Maldonado
Grupo de Afinidad 25 de Julio

Received and translated by Dark Nights

Continue reading “Chile: A death in action is an eternal call to struggle. Letter to the comrades of Kyriakos and Marianna. EN/ES” →

Athens, Greece: Solidarity Gathering for the persecuted anarchist comrade Dimitra Z. – 7/11, 10am, Evelpidon courts

Posted on 2024/11/07 - 2024/11/07 by darknights

We call you to a solidarity gathering for our persecuted anarchist comrade Dimitra Z. on Thursday 7/11 at 10am in Evelpidon courts . The comrade is being persecuted as a result of the bomb explosion on 31/10 in an apartment in Ampelokipis which claimed the life of our anarchist comrade Kyriakos X. and seriously injured our anarchist comrade Marianna M.

We know the comrades through their continuous and consistent participation and action in social struggles. We stand unconditionally next to them, as well as to their family, friendly and social environment. We will not tolerate any anti-terrorist operations on people close to them, such as those that this agency has got accustomed to doing for many years. Against the fear that the cops are trying to spread and the mud of the media, we all stand by them.

Thursday 7/11, 10am Evelpidon courts

SOLIDARITY TO THE ANARCHIST COMRADE DIMITRA Z.

SOLIDARITY TO THOSE DETAINED FOR THE CASE

HANDS OFF THE ANARCHIST COMRADE MARIANNA

HONOUR FOREVER TO THE DEAD ANARCHIST COMRADE KYRIAKOS

Solidarity assembly for imprisoned, fugitive and persecuted fighters.

Via & translated by Act for freedom now!