War Against The Information Age – PDF
This was originally published in 325 issue #10.
Tag: Anti-technology
Call to action against the International Drone Show in Denmark, Odense
On 3.-4. June 2026 at Hans Christian Andersen Airport, so-called “global players” and local startups will meet and show off their newest death toys.
These people who “just do their job” are making machines of “dual use technology”. The technology both makes you dependent on its usage in your everyday life, and can destroy that life upon the operators choice. They can try and pretend to have a cozy meeting in the middle of Fortress Europe, but we are many who live within the walls and are taking aim at the watch towers!
Drones aren’t toys, they are the very machines that terrorize and kill unnumbered people in the imperial wars haunting our times. People who have lived under the presence of drones become cautious and even afraid of clear blue skies, the perfect conditions for drone strikes. Drones fly across occupied Palestine carrying AI-assisted weaponry while playing sounds of babies crying, just to shoot the oncoming helpers. The same data center that delivers AI-girlfriends and deepfake-pornography can deliver critical information to militaries far away. Our simplest human joys and fears become the battlefield. Continue reading “Call to action against the International Drone Show in Denmark, Odense”
Bristol, UK: Transcript of a talk by anarchist comrade Toby Shone at BASE for International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners, August 2025
This is the rough transcript of Toby‘s talk at the solidarity event for anarchist prisoners on August 31st, 2025, at BASE social centre in Easton, Bristol, UK.
Hi everyone
Welcome to BASE social centre, I’m Toby Shone, I’m an anarchist ex-prisoner from the Forest of Dean. I was in the Operation Adream case, which was a co-ordinated international police operation which involved British, Dutch and German police, at least, we could say. I spent three years in various prisons in UK, mostly under 23 hour lockdown in conditions of solitary confinement. I also had 9 months in a secure bail hostel under anti-terrorist restrictions, and 3 months of bail conditions where I had to sign every day at a police station in the Forest.
I want to thank BASE for giving me this opportunity to talk. I’m not going to talk at length. And I want to properly thank all the comrades in Bristol who supported me during my imprisonment. The last time I was here for the International Week of Solidarity event, which was in 2023, I was out on license. As you probably know, the Counter-Terror Police South West had a surveillance team outside, and this event was a major reason cited by the National Security Division for my subsequent abduction back to prison. I have the surveillance report here from the police, so you can see the material on BASE, see the angle where the police took the surveillance photograph from, and see how the Counter-Terror Police South-West regard us. So it gives me great pleasure to be here with you all, to remember our prisoners and write them letters, to eat and exchange with everyone. It has a lot of meaning for me to be here and speak to you. Continue reading “Bristol, UK: Transcript of a talk by anarchist comrade Toby Shone at BASE for International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners, August 2025”
Arson attack on equipment at the Artificial Intelligence Campus construction site at the Equinix data center (Meudon, France, November 23, 2025)
During the night between Friday, November 22nd and Saturday, November 23rd, incendiary devices were planted in equipment at the Artificial Intelligence Campus construction site, adjacent to the existing Equinix data center. The construction site is located in the Vélizy-Meudon industrial zone, across from the construction site of the new Thales complex. Equinix customers include Thales, Dassault, Bouygues, Amazon, and many other companies operating in this neighborhood.
These companies are all part of the military-industrial complex that supplies weapons to Israel and is responsible for the genocide of the Palestinians. They all profit from colonial genocide, mass surveillance, and border control. The technologies they develop are tested on the Palestinian population and then sold to countries around the world at trade fairs such as Milipol, held in France from November 18th to 21st. Artificial intelligence is a key element of these technologies, which Israel uses to monitor and carry out genocide against the populations of Gaza and the West Bank. In addition to participating in colonial massacres internationally, France is militarizing its borders and strengthening surveillance and repression in colonized territories and neighborhoods. To try to put an end to all this, we have chosen the path of fire and sabotage.
We attack in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners, whose fate the State of Israel seeks to exacerbate by legalizing executions, which are already the norm in its prisons.
We attack in solidarity with the “Prisoners for Palestine,” currently on hunger strike in British prisons for attacking the factories of the Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit.[Hungerstrike ended at time of publication]
We attack in homage to the anarchist Kyriakos Xymitiris and in solidarity with the imprisoned anarchists Marianna and Dimitra, as well as the other prisoners in the Ampelokipoi case. The flame of struggle will never be extinguished.
We attack in solidarity with those crossing borders and in homage to those who have lost their lives there.
We attack in homage to all those who have died in prison and for the freedom of all prisoners.
Dos publicaciones del pensamiento anárquico para libre descarga: Negazine y La Tempestad, materiales para combatir la desrealización tecnológica y la guerra global
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”
UK: Wildfires will begin: An interview with Toby Shone
The former political prisoner talks about his anarchism, the 325 project and resisting the physical and mental jails that surround us all.
~ Interviewed by Elizabeth Vasileva ~
You recently spoke about the importance of solidarity and connections, between prisoners and with their supporters on the outside. Can you give us any examples of this kind of mutual or collective empowerment in the pushback against prison’s continuous repression?
Shortly before I was released in 2024, violent cell searches by a tactical unit of prison guards known as the National Search Team took place on C-wing of HMP Garth in Leyland, where I was being held. The NST took over the wing with dogs and riot gear. Cell by cell the raid took place with a lot of pointlessly brutal drama. In ones and twos we were handcuffed and placed in a locked wet room. Some prisoners were beaten, abused and a lot of our things were trashed. Some of the guys fought back, flooded their cells, banged their doors or played music really loud as a protest. The next day the whole wing refused to go back into their cells after the early morning unlock hour. As a cacophonous and unruly mob we demanded the immediate return of seized items, the replacement of damaged items and denounced the violence. This lead to the screws backing off. There was nothing at that moment that the screws could do because we all acted together, and without any leader. At the end of the lunch period, the stop-out ended.
Similar things happened in my experience when one of the prisoners was killed by depression or hopelessness. Demonstrations outside the prisons where I was held also were a strong experience that had an impact upon the guards and us. Especially when the fireworks exploded across the night sky and the comrades outside were militant. I found other prisoners to be generally supportive of each other in the roughly anti-system and criminal environment. Whenever I was transferred or moved to a different cell, the local guys usually would come to check if I was okay and if I needed anything. I helped other guys with their legal cases or prison admin, and tried to find common points of interest and subversion. We’d try to back each other, and if I had some problem, the guys would be voicing their demands too. There’s refusals and kick-offs being made in most of the prisons around the country each day about conditions and treatment. I lost track of the number of prison labour refusals and walkouts I heard about when I was inside, they are very common, as is getting on the netting that separates the landings to protest about treatment and poor conditions.
When I heard that comrades outside were carrying out revolutionary solidarity, that is when I felt our power inside the prison, I can say. From hearing about the direct actions with the Adream case in Chile, France, Italy, Indonesia and around the world, to the phone-call interventions that I was able to make from inside prison to meetings of comrades on the outside, I could feel the warmth from the comrades. Also knowing about the censored letters and books, the solidarity funds and benefit events, it was great.
For readers who don’t know 325, what can you tell us about the project and its content?
325 is an anarchist network of counter-information and direct action. In November 2020, Dutch counter-terrorist police took down the nostate.net server which held the 325 website, upon request from their German and English colleagues. The website was a long-running information clearing house of general news, reports, communiques, publications, event listings, etc. Mostly the website covered Europe, Latin America and South East Asia. 325 is also a hard-copy magazine which comes out on an intermittent basis, and dozens of publications have been published by the collective, including the newsletter Dark Nights, which has it’s own website.
Over the years, 325 has participated in an evolving participatory international network based on direct action and the support of prisoners, as well as providing space for various tendencies of anarchist, anti-capitalist and anti-civilisation groups. In recent issues of the magazine the analysis has shifted slightly to the profound new industrial changes in production and technology, such as artificial intelligence, life sciences and automation. The archive of the 325 site is an important document of social and armed revolutionary struggle over a number of years in Europe and internationally. The project started in 2003 and continues. Continue reading “UK: Wildfires will begin: An interview with Toby Shone”
Berlin, Germany: Claim for arson attack on Micro Resist Technology company, which specializes in the production of microchips
Shutting down the heart of the megamachine – Fire of microchip production
Last night, we set fire to fuse boxes, supply cables and a ventilation system belonging to Micro Resist Technology on the grounds of the Wuhlheide Innovation Park. While Germany is once again unrestrainedly mobilizing for military strength and war capability with a turnaround, special funds and compulsory military service, we are targeting the heart of the technological mega-machine with our sabotage and, with microchip production, are also hitting one of the most sensitive points of civil-military cooperation. This attack is intended as a contribution to the protests against National Veterans Day next Sunday – fire and flame instead of glory and honor for militarism, soldiering and fatherland!
Tiny giants at the intersection of technology and war
The web of capitalist domination is tightening ever tighter around us. Technological progress is the engine that drives the destructive mega-machine and allows it to penetrate ever further into the most intimate areas of our existence. Inanimate objects made of plastic and metal, which, equipped with sensors, microphones, lenses, microchips etc., are increasingly becoming prostheses for social interaction, replacing genuine, empathetic relationships and causing our cognitive abilities to atrophy. At the same time, we are being tracked at every turn by social media, voice assistants, artificial intelligence, “smart” devices, facial recognition and many other surveillance tools, whereby everything we do is being increasingly incorporated into the capitalist value chain. Big data becomes big money. The implementation of such technologies in our everyday lives shapes our existence and the algorithmic calculations derived from them increasingly decide and determine our future. Once we have become accustomed to them, these mechanisms have such an all-encompassing effect that it is almost inconceivable for most people today to escape their digital grasp. For many, even the thought of it triggers anxiety. What remains is an army of slaves to the machine, dependent, controlled, externally determined and not even aware of this relationship.
However, this is only one side of the technological attack. Technology can and should not only manipulate our thoughts and actions, it should also kill. Almost all relevant technologies can be traced back to military research and development in order to gain advantages on the battlefield. Not only against hostile nations, but also in the social war against the exploited, superfluous and precarious of the population. From nuclear power to the internet, from cybernetics to artificial intelligence – our everyday lives are permeated by things that have a military logic at their core. In extreme cases, this can mean that apps that playfully accompany us through the day today feed and train the same machines on the basis of which an AI-controlled drone will determine and destroy its target tomorrow. A practice that is sometimes used by the Israeli military in particular through AI programs such as “Lavender” in their unleashed campaign of destruction against the Palestinian population of Gaza and with the friendly support of their Western accomplices. What seems like an episode from a dystopian science fiction movie is the gruesome reality of technological “achievements”, which are summarized under the term “dual-use” and are inherent in most technologies. Companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Siemens, Telekom and Tesla are just some of the best-known players operating at the interface between civil and military applications. Companies that produce highly specialized key technologies such as microchips/semiconductors, without which none of the modern technical devices would work, are far less well known. Smartphones, computers or cars just as little as tanks, guided missiles or war drones. Continue reading “Berlin, Germany: Claim for arson attack on Micro Resist Technology company, which specializes in the production of microchips”
II Jornadas contra el sistema tecnoindustrial – Madrid, Espanya
II Jornadas contra el sistema tecnoindustrial
Ateneo Libertario La Garra – Madrid
Calle Pico del Moncayo 22
Metro Puente de Vallekas
Junio
Viernes 20
19.00Hrs. Charla-Debate: “ Resistencia contra la nube: Impacto ambiental de las macrogranjas de datos” A cargo de Tu nube seca mi rio
Sábado 20
12.00Hrs Charla-Debate: “Perspectivas y experiencias de la lucha en defensa del territorio en Cantabria”
14.00Hrs. Comedor 100% Vegetariano
17.00Hrs. Taller “Un uso más seguro de los smartphone”
19.00.Hrs. Charla-Debate “La crítica anarquista de la ideología-La abolición de la esclavitud moderna” A cargo de Jason McQuinn
Domingo 21
12.00Hrs. Proyección del documental: “Nada nos detendrá: ZAD del Amassada”
17.00Hrs. Charla Debate: Guerra robotizada e Inteligencia Artificial
19.00Hrs Charla-Debate: ¿qué es el sistema tecno industrial?
PDF: ‘Memory Loss’ – Collected Communiques from CLODO
PDF: Memory Loss
“Our society of “IF… GO TO” – squared, codified, aligned, controlled – this society where we connect like trains in a rail yard, desperately hoping to reduce chance and cancel the revolt, where those in power consider themselves the indispensable designer or analyst, where the binary and the quantitative are supposed to solve the crisis, this society in which we live is unbearable and inhuman”
Machine in Flames: a documentary tracing the 1980’s computer-bombers
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.