Anarchic Memory

Santiago, Chile: Anarchic Propaganda in Memory of Comrade Mauricio Morales

Posted on 2024/05/07 by darknights

IN THE CONTEXT OF THE INSURRECTIONARY MAY 1

15 YEARS AFTER THE DEATH OF THE ANARCHIST COMRADE MAURICIO MORALES AND THE CALL TO ACTION AND PROPAGANDA IN HIS MEMORY

The black presence fills the streets of the city center, spreading chaos and anarchy!

As always, going beyond any context and fighting terrorism, the calls for calm and oblivion.

The appointment for a May Day of combat was made. Action groups and anarchic individuals burst in, bringing the memory alive, bringing our dead and imprisoned to the streets.

The Alameda was once again a scene of conflict, where our black propaganda was widely disseminated; canvases, posters, pamphlets, graffiti and clashes with the police took place, as well as barricades, sabotage and looting.

This is how Black May begins, remembering the comrades who died in the United States, as well as our dear brother Mauricio Morales, there they are connecting, different times and struggles, the same passion for destruction and total liberation.

HERE’S TO A BLACK MAY!
FOR THE SPREAD OF CHAOS AND ANARCHY!
MAURICIO MORALES PRESENT!

Source: Contra Info

Via & translated by Abolition Media

$hile: Call to action and propaganda 15 years after the death of anarchist comrade Mauricio Morales

Posted on 2024/04/30 by darknights

CALL TO ACTION AND PROPAGANDA 15 YEARS AFTER THE DEATH OF ANARCHIST COMRADE MAURICIO MORALES

“Before going to sleep I embrace chaos as an idea that frees my body and my mind
because at the end of the day it makes me feel alive.
I do not want the search for the grail that emanates freedom in future societies.
My fingers seek the bloody flight of the destruction of the chains of the rhythmic fire, of the nearby fire
rhythmic fire, of the nearby fire of power and its masters.
And my actions when I sleep are directed in that tomorrow when I wake up, I will break with the routine
with the routine and in the individual action with the chest like stone swollen by the destruction of this and any
destruction of this and any society.
Do me a favor: see to it that anarchy lives.”
-Punki Mauri

In the early morning of May 22, 2009 the anarchist comrade Mauricio Morales, Punki Mauri met his death after the early detonation of the explosive device that he intended to install in the Gendarmerie School in Matta neighborhood, Santiago.

Fifteen years have passed since his death in action and we continue to persist in his memory, remembering his warrior life, spreading anarchy in multiple ways and vindicating the insurrectional political violence that is still alive, that manifests itself in the proliferation of the idea and the facts with varied force and intensity, but always alive.

This call invites to a month of black memory, propaganda and action, to the concretion of public and anonymous gestures, without half measures, that the imagination flies, that we feel the blood in our veins, that the heart beats with emotion when we remember our loved ones.

Anarchy is dangerous and for it to continue this way we must endow it, empower it day by day, with discussion, feedback, with contagious propaganda and violent action, each one decides how to put into practice the ideas he/she propagates, the question is to do, without leaders or leaders, without hierarchies, in autonomy.

This humble contribution seeks to be one more contribution to the expansion of the memory of a comrade, positioning himself from the sidewalk of anarchic conflict against order, law, power and all authority.

FOR A BLACK MAY!

FOR THE EXPANSION OF CHAOS AND ANARCHY!

MAURICIO MORALES PRESENTE!

Anarchic Individualities

April 2024

Source: https://informativoanarquista.noblogs.org/post/2024/04/12/llamado-a-la-accion-y-propaganda-a-15-anos-de-la-muerte-del-companero-anarquico-mauricio-morales/

UK: God will not save the King! Toby Shone’s coronation letter + The History of Regicide by Anarchists, Revolutionaries & Rebels

Posted on 2024/02/23 - 2024/02/23 by darknights

Our comrade Toby Shone was released from prison on 28th December 2022 under heavy restrictions (license conditions), which was overseen by a multi-agency team (MAPPA) including the National Security Division (counter-terror) and forced to live in a filthy bail hostel in Gloucester for 9 months. Since then he was abducted on 19th September 2023 at gun point by the armed scum of the anti-terrorist unit in between Gloucester and the Forest of Dean, along with being thrown back into prison once again.

We as anarchists in complicity with our comrade would like to highlight an intriguing and amusing event that occurred when Toby was still under bail and in conditions that were no better than an open prison.

Added to this post is a letter dated 14th April 2023 received from Lewis Thomas the scum Probation Service – National Security Division officer who was managing Tobyâ€™s bail and conditions. It expresses in a comical language that puts across an image of wanting to help our comrade rather oppressing him, which was pretty much the tactic adopted generally by the goons of the National Security Division towards our comrade, as if anarchism and holding revolutionary ideas is a mental disease that needs to be treated. For us this letter highlights even more the climate that is starting to begin in the United Kingdom that anarchism is to be combined alongside fascist and Islamic ideologies as extremism and terrorism.

In the spirit of this comical letter and in the age-old tradition of assassination that the UK state and all states around the world should fear, we give a limited chronological account of the history of attempted and successful assassinations of monarchs by anarchists, revolutionaries and rebels who made the fear change sides, with the propaganda of the deed.

God will not save the King!

Anarchists in complicity with anarchist comrade Toby Shone

The History of Regicide by Anarchists, Revolutionaries & Rebels

(Attempted) Napoleon III of France, 1858

On the evening of 14 January 1858, as the Emperor and Empress were on their way to the theatre in the Rue Le Peletier, the precursor of the Opera Garnier, to see Rossini’s William Tell, Felice Orsini Italian revolutionary, leader of the ‘Carbonari’ and his accomplices threw three bombs at the imperial carriage. The first bomb landed among the horsemen in front of the carriage. The second bomb wounded the animals and smashed the carriage glass. The third bomb landed under the carriage and seriously wounded a policeman who was hurrying to protect the occupants. Eight people were killed and 142 wounded, though the emperor and empress were unhurt. They judged it best to proceed to the performance and appear before the public in their box.

Orsini himself was wounded on the right temple and stunned. He tended his wounds and returned to his lodgings, where police found him the next day. Orsini was sentenced to death and went calmly to the guillotine on 13 March 1858. Accomplices Pieri was executed and Gomez condemned to hard labour for life. Di Rudio was sentenced to death, which was commuted to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island near Cayenne, whence he escaped and later went to America.

The improvised bomb that Orsini used was infamously named after him the ‘Orsini Bomb’ (pictured below). The weapons were somewhat commonly used by anarchists in the latter half of the 19th century in Europe, and surplus bombs were also used by the Confederacy during the American Civil War. The design is reminiscent of modern impact fused grenades, such as the Soviet RGO hand grenades. Orsini bombs were designed to remove “the uncertainty of slow burning fused weapons”. In several plots, including an attack at Rossini’s Opera William Tell at Liceu Theater in 1893 by anarchist Santiago Salvador; resulting in the death of 20 people and wounding 30.

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Mexico: In memory of Alfredo M. Bonanno

Posted on 2024/02/05 by darknights

In memory of Alfredo M. Bonanno
(Catania 04/Mar/1937 – Trieste 06/Dec/2023)

…no one is totally the fruit of himself and each person, individual, it is certain that he is within a framework of relationships that can provoke him and affect his reactions, emotions and even the logic brought to that point.

– Antonio Lombardo

Before I began to think about these lines, I had given myself the task of searching and compiling data to write -with the intention of leaving a clue- about some of the many insurrectionary anarchist actions in contemporary Mexico that, although they have been sporadic, have not been recorded by the “official” historiography, either from “our side” or from the academy. The year 2023 marked the sixtieth (60) anniversary of some small attacks in the city carried out by the Libertarian Youth of Mexico, but I left it on the back burner, because I was taken by surprise by the news of the death of comrade Alfredo.

I did not have the opportunity to exchange impressions with him, the closest I got was when I briefly collaborated in the coordination -ten (10) years ago- of the Informal Anarchist Days / International Symposium, in Mexico City. [i] I did not consider it necessary to have a direct approach -because I refuse to pay homage to personality-, since in my opinion everything said about the “insurrectional project” (including the debate around insurrectionalism), was already circulating in our language since the beginning of the year 2000 in some anarcho-virtual forums, and to a lesser extent, in printed form his ideas were also circulating in some publications although only short articles or one or another lecture were disseminated. Unfortunately, no complete text of this tendency could be found; for this reason, in 2005 I acquired several copies of the Cuadernillos Incendiarios collection from the Chilean region, in order to distribute them in these latitudes.

Insurrection vs. Revolution

…there are people who are so miserable that even talking about them makes you dirty. And then, in the society in which we live and with which we have to deal with; we have many other more powerful (and even more serious) enemies and adversaries that we can easily overlook the “bites” of some “mistake”.

– Gianfranco Bertoli to Alfredo M. Bonanno

In spite of the little dissemination of these contributions in our region -which by then were no longer a novelty-, in 2001 informal actions began in different states of the country. At the time, these first attacks would not be claimed. This shows that the “insurrectional project” was already being debated in small groups among a few comrades and was being put into practice by concretizing the praxis. That is to say, from the need for action and, from the experience acquired in a sequence of attacks, theory was generated which, in turn, fed back into action to later distribute in print the new theoretical contributions and consolidate the debate through the international exchange of similar positions. Finally, some Bonannist postulates were abandoned and the attacks began to be vindicated by the different informal groups in operation. Continue reading “Mexico: In memory of Alfredo M. Bonanno” →

“If the Cops Kill Me I Want You to Riot”

Posted on 2024/01/09 by darknights

“If the cops kill me I want you to riot
Burn down their stations and set their cars alight
Know that I went out fighting and wish we all
Could just have peace and be free
…
We cannot have peace until this empire falls. Even then, peace takes work and freedom is a constant struggle. If the cops kill me I want you to riot, to kill as many of them as you can.” – Tort’s diary p. 121

Tortuguita lived and died fighting for the dispossessed, the wild, and the feral; against the world of empire, prisons, and police. It was a true warrior who made the forest its home, devoted their life to the struggle, and was willing to die a revolutionary death rather than be captured. We invite all those who knew Tort, and all who were impacted by its life from afar, to take the anniversary of their death as an opportunity to reflect on our own commitments and deepen our resolve, so that we might invigorate and intensify our conflictuality.

Rather than retreat into the bounds of comfort and safety, let us allow our memory of Tort to remind us of what it means to truly act in accordance with our values, and to challenge ourselves to follow through. We are rendered harmless only when we allow our fear of the enemy to eclipse our desires to defend the land and reduce this capitalist hellworld to ashes. Remember that the mechanisms of subjugation and control encroach all around us. Wherever you are, you need not venture far to find the veins of industry; go out and sever them.

We need not be concerned with optics and media portrayals. We have no interest in seeking validation, recognition, or understanding from the same media outlets — agents of the society we wish to destroy — that deadname and misgender Tortuguita and relentlessly whitewash its life as one of nonviolence and passivity. Additionally, to contort our actions to render them acceptable to the general public is to inevitably dull them to the point of irrelevance. To work only within the confines of the existent is to disarm ourselves completely. As anarchists, we are able to speak to each other in a language all our own. When we redecorate walls, shatter windows, and set fires, we speak to each other in ways that the media and the general public need not understand; we become beautiful. When we refuse legibility, when we refuse sympathy and demands, we refuse cooptation, we refuse recuperation, and we seek out life.

Avenge Tortuguita — Avenge the Forest

Submitted Anonymously Over Email

Source: Scenes from the Atlanta Forest

Santiago, Chile: Incendiary attack in Liceo Manuel Barros Borgoño 10 years after Sebastián Oversluij’s death

Posted on 2024/01/06 by darknights

During these days, hooded students set up barricades and confrontations against the presence of Carabineros (COP), injuring one in the back with minor burns. In memory of pelao Angry, who on December 11, 2013 was killed during a bank expropriation in Pudahuel.

Below are some records:

Source: Informativo Anarquista

Santiago, Chile: RED bus incendiary attack 10 years after Sebastián Oversluij’s death

Posted on 2023/12/17 by darknights

On Monday, December 11, between 5 de Abril and Luis Infante Cerda, a RED bus was burned after a commemorative activity 10 years after the assassination of comrade Sebastian Oversluij, who in an attempt to expropriate a State Bank was killed by a guard with military training.

Source: Informativo Anarquista

$hile: 1998-2023 Commemoration 25 years after the death of comrade Claudia Lopez

Posted on 2023/09/01 - 2023/09/01 by darknights

1998-2023 COMMEMORATION

CLAUDIA LÓPEZ 25 YEARS OF THE COWARDLY ASSASSINATION AT THE HANDS OF THE POLICE OF LA PINCOYA.

NOT A MINUTE OF SILENCE

A WHOLE LIFE OF COMBAT!

September 9, 2023, Plaza Claudia López Recoleta #5600.

Parade, live music, common pot, space for children, mural in tribute, libertarian fair, collection for prisoners.

Invited: Individualities and Antiauthoritarian Organizations

Source: https://informativoanarquista.noblogs.org/post/2023/08/25/chile-1998-2023-conmemoracion-a-25-anos-de-la-muerte-de-la-companera-claudia-lopez/

DN Note: More about the beautiful combatant anarchist comrade Claudia Lopez: https://en-contrainfo.espiv.net/2012/09/13/chile-claudia-lopez-dance-student-and-anarchist-was-shot-dead-by-a-bullet-in-her-back-14-years-ago-this-week/

Nothing forgiven, no one forgotten!

Those July days still linger in the wind EN/IT

Posted on 2023/07/31 by darknights

Those July days still linger in the wind

Many of us did not experience that July 2001 firsthand, others did, and those of us who were there do not forget the beatings, the charges and the murder of Carlo, but today as at the time neither do we wonder.

Similarly, even those who did not live through those years grew up with contempt for both the police and the foam-clad rabble in the middle of July who mimicked police riot gear and, with ridiculous “declarations of war” to the powerful, led an entire generation astray.

In the years that followed until today we continue to experience the product of those days in Genoa. The same dynamics recur today: on the one hand there are echoes, albeit different, of words that are bursting but lacking in concreteness; on the other hand, as opposed to these new “declarations of war,” there is the continuous concerted effort with the enemy to grab a few crumbs, a few accreditations that increasingly pave the way for that “beggar’s mutualism”-which is nothing but the privatization of the beggars.

Once again we ask ourselves “other possible worlds” or anti-capitalism?

From all those who choose other possible worlds divides us a gulf, sharp and deep between opportunism and combat, between mediation and social revolution.

“We do not forget the murder of Comrade Carlo Giuliani, just as we do not forget those who forgot, exploited or sold out on the altar of political and electoral interests. We do not forget the concerted protests, the attempts to divide the “movement” before the Genovese revolt, the delusions afterwards.

Let us not forget those who enriched themselves between Europarliamentary seats and institutional positions.

Let us not forget those who first used, then divided and exploited, and finally sold out the 2001 Genoa revolt.”

Carlo lives in the struggles of those who, like us, daily put up battles that have anti-capitalism as a fundamental point without expiring in the search for the phantom “new possible worlds” nor in the annual ritual commemorations: each of us must give something, so that some of us do not have to give everything.

HONOR TO CARLO GIULIANI!

HONOR TO ALL FALLEN COMRADES FIGHTING AGAINST THE STATE AND CAPITAL!

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$hile: Numerous incendiary outbreaks in active memory of anarchist comrade Mauricio Morales ‘Punky Mauri’

Posted on 2023/06/05 - 2023/06/05 by darknights

Incendiary outbreak at Liceo de Aplicación in memory of Mauricio Morales

On Monday, May 22, a rally was held in the vicinity of the Liceo de Aplicación leading to barricades and confrontations with Molotov cocktails against the presence of the Carabineros (COP) in memory of comrade Mauricio Morales who died in combat when he detonated in advance the explosive device he was trying to install in the Gendarmerie School in 2009.

Banners and leaflets were read: “May 22nd, day of chaos”, “Before sleeping I embrace kaos. For a May as black as gunpowder. Mauricio Morales”, ” There are still backpacks like Punky Mauri’s”, “Mauricio Morales present, let anarchy live”, “14 years after your departure, you are still alive in our anarchist hearts and souls.”

Below are some records:

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