Analysis – Dark Nights

IT: 325 #12 – ‘Contro la quarta e la quinta rivoluzione industriale’ – 2020 (ACN)

Posted on 2026/08/26 by darknights

Nuova versione del 325 #12 in italiano. Scarica qui:

IT | PDF: 325 #12 – ‘Contro la quarta e la quinta rivoluzione industriale’

Presentiamo 56 pagine di anarchia anti-organizzativa, insurrezionale e anti-civiltà del XXI secolo. Una raccolta di testi e lettere critiche da prospettive anarchiche che esaminano i nuovi cambiamenti nella produzione e nel controllo sociale introdotti dalle nuove tecnologie, che stanno inaugurando un mondo carcerario totalitario e l’avanzata di macchine più intelligenti dell’uomo. Questo numero di 325 si basa sulle riflessioni e sui contenuti del numero precedente, incentrato sul tema della Singolarità Tecnologica. Sei anni dopo, i meccanismi, le ideologie e gli impatti di questo progetto distopico globale sono più vicini e chiari, e i testi che leggerete in questo nuovo numero affrontano le realtà emergenti di queste rivoluzioni tecnologiche.

Contenuti- Editoriale; Automazione, robotica e lavoro nella 4a e 5a rivoluzione industriale; Dalla rivolta all’insurrezione – Estratto; Una piccola critica alla scienza e al suo mondo; Il mondo del Covid-19: epidemie nell’era del capitalismo; Le fratture del dominio; Attacchi incendiari coordinati contro le antenne di ripetizione a Grenoble, Francia; La 4a e 5a rivoluzione industriale; La riproduzione artificiale dell’umano: la strada del transumanesimo; Psicologia delle macchine: un atto di scomparsa; Uno sguardo obliquo; Smartphone, suonerie, capitale; Società senza contanti e criptovalute: la fine dell’era tradizionale del sistema bancario e finanza; Contributo al 1° Incontro internazionale contro le tecnoscienze dell’anarchico imprigionato Dino Giagtzoglou; La società cibernetica e il suo mondo; Contro Starlink; Spazio: Parte 1; Venire Liberato; Cronologia delle azioni dirette…

About counter-information practices and a warning

Posted on 2026/08/15 - 2026/08/15 by darknights

When we speak, it should be clear, to show reality and not to obscure it and/or reduce it to a spectacle.

We issue a warning about suspicious, manipulative and reckless individual(s) behind the “FAI ARCHIVE” – just set up by the “No War But My War” blog and Instagram, who have been trying to contact admins and sites in the international counter-information networks and anti-repression solidarity groups in a duplicitous way and spreading misinformations and smears. We note that FAI/FRI* has been recently designated as a foreign terrorist organisation by the American administration for which they also target “Antifa Ost“, etc, as part of a hyped and aggressive move against domestic and foreign radical-left and anti-state anarchist movements and tendencies of all sorts, including single-issue unrelated subjects to anarchism.

This individual(s) claims to be in contact and know others in the international anarchist networks, when it has been investigated and found that they are lying, which is deeply suspect. Claiming to be in contact and to have the confidence of others when you do not is unacceptable and treacherous. It is the way of the undercover cop, the infiltrator or, in the “best” case, the self-aggrandizing fantasist. Continue reading “About counter-information practices and a warning” →

Flyposter: ‘Against Surveillance State UK – Against Facial Recognition CCTV’ (PDF)

Posted on 2026/07/06 - 2026/07/06 by darknights

As requested, here is the ‘Against Surveillance State UK‘ CCTV article from Dark Nights #47 (2018) as an A4 PDF to be enlarged to A3 and flyposted as a spread, or printed out on to double-sided A4 and handed out. Attack the world of machines and the technological system. “Hit where it hurts”.

PDF: A4 – Against Facial Recognition CCTV

Against Surveillance State UK – Against Facial Recognition CCTV

Britain is an authoritarian surveillance State, which has pioneered how many modern societies look; entirely covered by security cameras at almost every urban point, place, square, road, corner, shop, bus, train, etc. Partially perpetually in a state of decay and disrepair, here they have built a life almost as in a vast prison, and it is what their world looks like. Prison society; endless drab shopping centres, housing estates, tower blocks, industrial and recreational areas capable of being on lock-down at short notice. Regularly practised large-scale multi-agency counter-terror response drills to terrorist attacks, inner-city riots. Mind-control media beams out lies, half-truths, distractions, impossible consumer desires, morning, noon and night. Every potentially disruptive mass event, social and environmental crisis, is hyped by the media as threatening such an abrupt end to normality that at least all the police’s resources will be stretched so thin that the military will have to be involved to restore order under martial law. Austerity, flooding, Brexit, immigration, Islamism. Reactionary, racist, nationalist discourses and ideologies are everywhere; religious and far-right neo-nazi groups are regrouping. Anarchist and eco-action is called “extremism” or “terrorism”, in the double-speak of the police-state. There will never be any chance of individual, social and environmental change without the recreation of daily life into an existence that reflects our desires, passions and joys, rather than a cog in their system of fear. Likewise there is zero possibility of any social change without an insurrection, a social war. Continue reading “Flyposter: ‘Against Surveillance State UK – Against Facial Recognition CCTV’ (PDF)” →

Saint Max: The Heretic Marx Couldn’t Silence

Posted on 2026/05/16 by darknights

Translated from Indonesian.

In The German Ideology, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels devoted hundreds of pages to attacking a single man: Max Stirner. They called that section “Sankt Max”—Saint Max, mockingly. They never published it during their lifetime. The manuscript was only discovered and published long after both men were dead.

Some interpret this as evidence that even they themselves felt the section was unfinished—not strong enough to publish. And when it was finally read more widely, many readers did not come away thinking “Marx successfully refuted Stirner,” but rather the opposite: just how much energy had been spent avoiding the questions that actually needed answering.

Except, of course, for Leftists, who desperately defend Marx and Engels without ever having read the work of the ‘Saint’ targeted by their intellectual idols. And if they have read it, I suspect they sweated through trying to decipher The Ego and Its Own in Byington’s English translation from the original German—a translation already notorious for interpretive distortions. It is absurd, obviously, to read and claim to understand a response while failing to understand what that response was actually responding to.

But setting that aside—what really happened there? Continue reading “Saint Max: The Heretic Marx Couldn’t Silence” →

Revisiting Social Revolution in the Aftermath of 2020 (USA)

Posted on 2026/02/20 by darknights

Submitted anonymously –

“Our task as anarchists, our main preoccupation and greatest desire, is to see the social revolution come about: a terrible upheaval of men and institutions which finally succeeds in putting an end to exploitation and establishing the reign of justice.

For we anarchists the revolution is our guide, our constant point of reference, no matter what we are doing or what problem we are concerned with. The anarchy we want will not be possible without the painful revolutionary break. If we want to avoid turning this into no more than a dream we must struggle to destroy the State and the exploiters through revolution.”
–Alfredo Bonanno, Why Insurrection?

Few anarchists today have any speak of social revolution. Many laugh off or roll their eyes at the mention of it or worse, talk about realism and reform. The few who talk talk about it as if it were a religious desire or an otherworldly force. But what is social revolution, and what is anarchy without the social revolution? A desire, a goal, an over arching project of our entire lives – without it, what are we, what are we doing, and why?

The anarchist movements in the U.S. today are largely a reactive force, always waiting for another movement or uprising to come along to attach ourselves to. Emptying anarchy of its content, anarchists are content to be the militant auxiliary or informal organizational vanguard of social movements or simply sit back and look for forms of anarchy in other peoples and places so we can rest assured that anarchy is a latent impulse in all peoples, that we are less alone than we really are and that it’s a simple matter of time before everything falls into place. If I were to sum it up, I would say that there is a great confusion about what it means to be an anarchist and what it is anarchists aspire to. Continue reading “Revisiting Social Revolution in the Aftermath of 2020 (USA)” →

An Anarchist Critique of Post-Modernism and Post-Anarchism

Posted on 2026/02/08 by darknights

AN ANARCHIST CRITIQUE OF POSTMODERNISM AND POST-ANARCHISM

The 20th century, which began as a revolutionary whirlwind, ended with a collapse of emancipatory ideas, from anarchism to socialism, which were “defeated” by a capitalism that would mutate and transform itself according to its needs. Capitalist domination recovers old “revolutionary” struggles—social, economic, ecological—absorbing many of these emancipatory ideas and incorporating them into its program. On the one hand, the inability of revolutionary movements to see and analyze these new capitalist restructurings, and on the other hand, capitalism with its endless wars and conflicts of domination and destabilization of entire territories, or in its communist form, with its immense sinkholes of moral and material misery, represented by the gulags, led to the destabilization of the revolutionary movements that had cornered capitalism at different points in the 20th century.

This succeeded in shackling all yearnings for freedom and emancipation, provoking a widespread exodus of revolutionary movements that later converged in the ideas of postmodernism. Faced with the fall and crisis of these revolutionary movements, it seems that many found a way out: retreating into individual subjectivity and fleeing to the market as the guarantor of a happiness based on the privatization of life (the destruction of community) and the hyperconsumption characteristic of postmodernism. The hyperconsumption of identities is particularly noteworthy. Continue reading “An Anarchist Critique of Post-Modernism and Post-Anarchism” →

New Zine “Words Mean Things – A Compilation of Anathema Articles” (USA)

Posted on 2026/01/24 - 2026/01/26 by darknights

This compilation is coming together in a moment when it feels that many anarchist ideas are losing their meanings. Dragged out of anarchy into leftism or activism, drained of their radical content. Mutual aid isgiving away supplies, direct action is a more aggressive form of begging, anti-fascism is reduced to publishing personal details about our enemies, attack is left to gather dust or spectacularized as a social media aesthetic.

Lining up anarchist ideas and practices is not always easy, which is no reason to lower the bar. It’s with this in mind that it felt useful to compile these articles, to clarify just how radical anarchist ideas really are, to encourage people to keep imagining and moving toward absolute hostility with authority and anarchic relations with everyone else.

https://anathema.noblogs.org/files/2026/01/wordsmeanthings_screen.pdf

“Yet Another War of Extermination” – Letter by anarchist prisoner Luca ‘Stecco’ Dolce (Italy)

Posted on 2026/01/21 - 2026/01/22 by darknights

Now that the masses all over the world have expressed their solidarity with Gaza, I’d be curious to know how social scientist Elias Canetti(1) would describe his concept of the “masses” in such a technological, warmongering and at the same time, exterminating age as ours. He says that mass society exists in the mind of human beings before it materially expresses itself. If ancient societies chose certain social and economic forms of mere subsistence, it was because they deliberately chose not to use bureaucratic or authoritarian methods: they foresaw their dangers. Our ancestors, therefore, were perfect political animals, aware and active observers of the community’s social life.

So what are these squares and streets full of people today, if in our daily lives we go back to the riverbed of a life organized and imposed by others?

Now that the “truce” in Gaza is divulged and imposed with the stamp of the army boot and the mediatic hype on the Flotilla, now that they are silencing and dampening the surge against the massacre, how to transform it into an action going beyond the manifestation and expression of opinions? Power uses human emotions as a can opener; often, the former gives its best in its “delayed reaction” empathic emotion and during “emergencies”, and it coagulates in peaks of scorn. A humanity which is nevertheless still alive despite all the efforts to atomize it. Its more progressive components are proving united in the face of the evidence of an extermination. Over the reaction timing, we should reason at length. Unfortunately, we haven’t yet understood in depth how deceitful and blackmailing the tactics of the enemies of life are, to what extent do commodities and quiet living manage to recuperate the movements, even sincere ones, at least here in Europe. In order to be more incisive and longsighted they have to doggedly overcome exactly the traps scattered over the ground of the struggle, which have the precise function of making everyone go back to the wishy-washy pen of the democratic morals, to issues such as the use of liberating violence or not, to inaction. Let’s move from emotions to self-organizing and direct action. If the roads of freedom are hindered, revolutionary movements of the past teach us opacity and going underground.

Continue reading ““Yet Another War of Extermination” – Letter by anarchist prisoner Luca ‘Stecco’ Dolce (Italy)” →

Dos publicaciones del pensamiento anárquico para libre descarga: Negazine y La Tempestad, materiales para combatir la desrealización tecnológica y la guerra global

Posted on 2026/01/08 by darknights

Hemos traducido al español dos interesantes y más que recomendadas publicaciones del pensamiento anárquico e insurreccional italiano, traducidas en más de un idioma y publicadas en más de un territorio, resultado de la inquietud, donde grupos de compañeros han tenido algo que decir sobre la realidad, enfatizando nuevamente la urgencia por destruir aquel entramado tecnológico configura un horizonte cada vez más desalentador para quienes se niegan al progreso y el control.

Gracias a que este material se dispuso para descarga en las páginas de la editorial Elephant Editions (elephanteditions.net), Edizioni Anarchismo (edizionianarchismo.net) e Il Roverscio (ilrovescio.info), hemos podido acceder a estos fascinantes análisis que continuarán propagándose en el universo anárquico hispanohablante… Continue reading “Dos publicaciones del pensamiento anárquico para libre descarga: Negazine y La Tempestad, materiales para combatir la desrealización tecnológica y la guerra global” →

June 1953 – Proletarian uprising in East Germany

Posted on 2023/06/19 by darknights

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Reality of proletarian struggle versus workerist myths

It was on June 17th, 1953. Important sectors of the proletariat rose up in East Berlin before this revolt spread all over the “German Democratic Republic” and was repressed by the intervention of the Red Army (red with insurgent proletarians’ blood).

We will not here, in this short text, develop in detail how this movement expressed itself. We only insist on drawing the main forces and weaknesses, which historically recur from one struggle to another despite the particular conditions that make emerging such a struggle at a place and a moment, and not at others. Our goal is not to tell a story but to draw programmatic lessons from previous struggles for the future insurrections. Nevertheless, we invite comrades to read Cajo Brendel’s booklet “1953: The Working Class Uprising In East-Germany” (which was one of many sources of inspiration) despite the fact that we have reservations about the ideological framework (i.e. councilism) of this militant and that we criticize in the course of the present text.

This uprising, some weeks after Stalin’s death, put back on the forefront of history the visceral antagonism that opposes two social classes with antagonistic and contradictory interests and programs. And this, whatever shape the bourgeoisie takes to contain proletarians. Because it’s always with force that the proletariat imposes its existence of a class which is deprived of all and its necessity to put an end to this old world, whatever the nature of the facade restoration may be or the colour (red, white, brown…) used to repaint our exploitation. At the strongest moment of the counterrevolution, whereas our enemies robbed our flags, whereas their state proclaims itself to be a “workers’” one and they pretend to manage us in the name of the “dictatorship of the proletariat” (which in fact never existed and was replaced by their dictatorship over the proletariat), it’s the internal contradictions of the social relation that make class struggles re-emerging. Continue reading “June 1953 – Proletarian uprising in East Germany” →