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Berlin, Germany: Arson Attack on Vonovia

Posted on 2021/08/24 by darknights

In the night from 03.08.2021 to 04.08.2021, we torched Vonovia company cars in Berlin Mitte and in Lichtenberg.

Not much more needs to be said about Vonovia. They are real estate sharks and big capitalists worth billions. They are currently planning to take over Deutsche Wohnen for the third time. In capitalism, there are many responsible companies and individuals who ensure its continued existence through their existence. Vonovia, like many others, is certainly one of them.

But this arson is not a revenge action against their company policy.

It is meant to be a flaming call to do even more damage to property against the city of the rich and to fight for a society without hierarchies and authorities. In order to leave the age of exploitation and oppression behind us, the existing social tensions must be brought to escalation. The prerequisite for this is the symbiosis of theory and practice. We decide what, when is important for us, so attacks on the symbols and leaders of capitalism, among other things, can happen in the spotlight of the media or in the dark of the night. This time we have chosen the night. From an objective point of view, it is always to the advantage of politics and law enforcers if the subversives are accountable by acting in a temporally and spatially limited way. Subversion can be lived out, but only if it is not dictated by the guardians of the existing. This can also mean taking advantage of a demonstration to launch targeted attacks in order to eventually get into a confrontation with the cops, or instead of forcing a positional war against evictions, to occupy other houses. It would be fatal if the repression, the actions and the way of thinking of the authorities, would inhibit our insurgent ideas. We would become dependent on them and always react instead of deciding for ourselves what, when and how to attack or build.

This time it was a few cars, who knows what tomorrow will bring. Arson is only one of many tools that gives expression to destructive tendencies. It is up to us.

Source: Kontrapolis

Berlin: Defend Køpi-Wagenplatz/Køpi-Wagenplatz verteidigen

Posted on 2021/08/01 by darknights

In the last years we have witnessed the State and Capitalist tyrants relentlessly try and wipe out and destroy the last few self-organised places and autonomous structures in Berlin.

Attacking with ceaseless eviction of our spaces, dehumanising police tactics and constant repression.

The City of Berlin with its corrupt politicians have chosen to side with the criminals who are selling out the city. Andreas Geisel, Interior minister of Berlin, has supported every eviction with an army of robocops brutally forcing people out of their homes and collective spaces.

On 10th of June the verdict was given to evict Køpi-Wagenplatz. We will defend it with all we have.

We call for every friend, every supporter, everyone who doesnt want to see another unique place destroyed to join us in Berlin to fight the eviction of the Wagenplatz and defend our homes. We will try with as many people possible to stand in the way of the eviction, using barricades, blockades, de-centralized actions and every way imagineable. Let’s take our anger to the streets and let our diversity also be shown in our resistance.

We dont know yet the date of the eviction but think it will be soon. We also expect the police to put a red zone around kopi some days before the eviction, in an attempt to silence our solidarity and isolate us. We call for support from the moment the eviction date is announced, kopi and other autonomus projects in berlin will open thier doors for spaces to meet, discuss, exchange ideas, prepare and plan. Sleeping places and food will be organised for people coming to support. Get in touch with us – we welcome any form of solidarity. Spread the word in your cities and on your streets. Let us come together and show that despite the endless eviction threats and attacks or our way of life, we are still here, and our anger only fuels our strength.

They cannot destroy our ideas and they will not break us. Continue reading “Berlin: Defend Køpi-Wagenplatz/Køpi-Wagenplatz verteidigen” →

Berlin: Per non DimentiCARLO – 20 years of Genoa – Video and events

Posted on 2021/07/20 - 2021/07/20 by darknights

On July 20, 2001, 20 years ago, Carlo Giuliani was murdered by cops at the G8 summit in Genoa. This moment has affected many people in different ways, whether they were in Genoa themselves, followed the events from afar, or only read about them many years later.

Events like this, but also the context of a coming together of different rebellious structures mobilized across borders, shaped and continue to shape the struggle against the system.

Genoa is not forgotten and should continue to be part of our collective memory, stimulating discussion and bringing us together.

Video:

Events:

20.07.21

Kiezladen MaHalle (X-Berg | Waldemarstrasse 110)

18:00H: Discussion/Lecture

Summit protests: 20 years Genoa. 20 years Gothenburg.
A discussion about summit protests, repression, political perspectives and what is still there today.
Invited are two activists who were also in Gothenburg and Genoa and were affected by the repression.

Zum Goldenen Hahn (X-Berg | Rio-Reiser-Platz / Heini)
21:00PM: Film Screening
Reportage on the death of Carlo Giuliani

21.07.21

Wagenplatz Lohmühle (Treptow | Lohmühlenstraße)
19:00PM: Discussion
Reference instead of distancing
Building solidarity against states strategies of division

20 years after Genoa, movements worldwide are still confronted with different state strategies that divide them into “good” and “bad” in order to break their strength.
We would like to discuss counter-strategies and ways to find a collective response to repression.

24.07.21

Carlo-Giuliani-Park ( X-Berg | Engeldamm/Adalbertstraße)
21:00h: Cornern
Cornern in Carlo Park with music, speeches and info material

Signor K (Italy)

Inspector Lars (Berlin)

Sara & Sergio Mafic

Nomadas (Hardcore International Rap Crew)

https://neverforget.noblogs.org

Berlin: Vonovia car set on fire

Posted on 2021/07/07 - 2021/07/07 by darknights

Even if the smoke after the Rigaer 94 walk-through has cleared a bit in the meantime, this does not mean that the struggles for affordable and decent housing in Berlin and elsewhere have ceased. Many other tenants fear every year anew for their apartment and thus for their center of life. The prospects of finding a halfway affordable apartment in this city tend toward zero for most people with average salaries.

That this fear also has deadly consequences is shown by the death of Peter Hollinger on May 31, 2021. After a three-year, unsuccessful court case against an eviction action due to personal needs, the 67-year-old musician and long-established Kreuzberger killed himself.
This is not the first death in connection with evictions. It is also worth remembering the death of Rosemarie F. , who died two days after her eviction in a Berlin homeless shelter.
In both cases it was clear in the run-up to the eviction which immense pressure and psychological stress the persons concerned had been exposed to and in both cases it was urgently advised against an eviction from a medical point of view. The fatal consequence was accepted in favor of a property issue.

When with the beginning of the 2020 pandemic the voices became louder that landlords should please react “accommodatingly” to possible corona-related payment difficulties and that evictions should please be suspended, we had no illusions about what was actually going to happen.
The eviction of the Mutiny, the Liebig 34 and the Syndicate, as well as the upcoming evictions of the bookstore Kisch&Co, the Köpi and the Potse speak a clear language. What is transfigured in the media as the struggle of autonomists against the city is in reality the logic of a real estate market whose victims are selected not according to political identity but according to economic usability.
The fact that housing has become a commodity and an object of speculation for listed asset managers leaves all those in permanent fear for their existence who are financially unable to pay the constantly rising rents.

That’s why we torched a Vonovia car last night on Einsteinufer in the Tiergarten district.

The pandemic has hardly hurt the housing business. Companies like Vonovia in particular continued to raise rents on a regular basis. The average rent of Vonovia apartments in 2021 is already 3.5 percent higher than a year ago.
We don’t care what lip service companies like Vonovia use to try to gloss over their profit-oriented and anti-human housing policies.
As long as private, listed and thus profit-oriented real estate companies, with a short line to politics, determine our housing and thus our lives, we will attack them.

All humans have own need at dwelling!
Against the city of the rich!
In memory of all who have lost their lives because of this anti-human profit logic!

From: Kontrapolis

Die Rigaer lebt – an address to our friends and comrades

Posted on 2021/06/24 - 2021/06/25 by darknights

Thanks to every support that was developed during the last weeks and especially the last two days of preparation and collective fight against our common enemies, we managed to develop the most intensive fighting days that we could have imagined. Days which turned every plan from the state and capital into a catastrophy. A great reminder to ourselves, our collective and its supporters, how important the movement’s networks, infrastructures of solidarity and self-organisation are.

Starting with the defence of the neighbourhood against the establishment of the red zone we drew the right concequence out of the aggressions of the state and the real estate market, against the people living in the city. The announcement of dangerzones and red zones, where people get easy targets for the police in order to create an atmosphere of isolation and fear, has become normality in this city of the rich. We saw in the last years many occassions where we as those who are targeted by the states attacks had to stand in almost silent protest at the fences, guarded by a militarized police force. Let’s name the eviction of the Ohlauer School in Kreuzberg, the eviction of the Kiezladen Friedel54 and all the other projects as Syndikat, Meuterei and our neighboors Liebig34. This fact can not be tolerated anymore – the people have to rise up!

Therefore, as a result,for more than 48 hours, we managed all together, locally and decentrally to take the offensive into the streets and defend our structures and ideas through militant means and put pressure before the enemies had even started their repressive-operations. We decided not to wait for the lackeys of the state to create another zone where they can easily target autonomous structures and rebellious neighborhoods. That’s why an autonomous zone was build up around the Rigaer94 at an hour the cops did not expect. Streets got closed together with many people and a long-lasting defence of barricades happened, with the means of the autonomous movement . Until the deployment of heavy technical equipment as an eviction tank and two watercanons the police was not able to enter our street. Let’s understand these events as a proposal to the people in the metropolitan field and outside of it, to answer the upcoming attacks. Not only against Rigaer94, also against Köpi and all the other threatened projects and our ideas, as well as any attack of the state and its merely presence.

But the state and capital war is not over yet. They will not only attempt to attack Rigaer94 again but also attack and target every single structure and individual who fights against this suphocated society on a daily basis. We should continue getting organised and expand our networks of solidarity broader. We call for more intensive fighting not only around Nordkiez to reinforce the continuity of this rebellious neighborhood, but also decentrally, in every corner of the city.

Let’s continue fighting all together against the city of the rich. Until every initial plan from the state and capital are ashes!

Friends and comrades of Rigaer94

For more informations:https://rigaer94.squat.net/

Athens: Banner in solidarity with Rigaer94 [ENG/GR]

Posted on 2021/06/24 - 2021/06/24 by darknights

[ENG]

For many years, Rigaer94 has been a hub of revolutionary anarchism andresistance against state & capital, gentrification and development in Berlin. Our comrades at Rigaer94 are currently facing an intense wave of state repression. As a minimum sign of solidarity, we have hung a banner from the squatted social center of Zizania.

Long Live Revolutionary Anarchism

Victory in the Resistance of Rigaer94

From Athens to Berlin, Fight for Occupied Spaces Everywhere

Assembly of the Squatted Social Center Zizania

[GR]

Για πολλά χρόνια, η Rigaer94 έχει υπάρξει κέντρο επαναστατικούαναρχισμού και αντίδρασης ενάντια στο κράτος, το κεφάλαιο, τονεξευγενισμό και την ανάπτυξη στο Βερολίνο. Τ@ σύντροφ@ μας στη Rigaer94 αντιμετωπίζουν αυτήν τη στιγμή ένα έντονοκύμα κρατικής καταστολής. Ως ελάχιστη ένδειξη αλληλεγγύης κρεμάσαμε έναπανό στο κατειλημμένο κοινωνικό κέντρο Ζιζάνια.

Ζήτω η Επαναστατική Αναρχία

Νίκη στην αντίσταση της Rigaer94

Από την Αθήνα ως το Βερολίνο, Αγώνας για Κατειλημμένους Χώρους Παντού

Συνέλευση του Κατειλημμένου Κοινωνικού Κέντρου Ζιζάνια

From: Athens IMC

Germany: An unsere Freund*innen in der R94 // To our friends in R94 GE/EN

Posted on 2021/06/23 by darknights

To our friends in R94

This is our first summer without the Dorfi. Our first summer without you as neighbors. Sure, not everything was easy, but it doesn’t have to be, we have many great memories! Be it in a bathrobe on Dorfplatz to come over to you to shower, a water fight in the summer or just meet for a beer on our self-built benches, which the cops have stolen us again and again, but which were also welded again and again to the road.

Just in the last few days we noticed again how shitty it is not to live next to you on the corner. It hurts to not be able to support you from our house. While the fucking cops besiege our street, our neighborhood as if it were their territory. At the same moment we all had a big smile on our face as you instead of reacting just acted and the pigs were standing there completely surprised and the street has burned again so right!

We had great years together! And they are not over yet! We still have a lot of potential and energy to get the neighborhood back. We have seen in the last days how many people don’t want to live in a chic bourgy neighborhood with overpriced rents and a constant presence of cops. We have seen how many people on the street have the potential to attack this fucked up system and we have also seen that the cops are afraid of exactly that. This is shown by the fact that because of ten people who make a fire on the Rigaer at night, five cars full of robocops come. It also shows in the excessive repression they put on the day. They think they can break us, but they don’t realize that they are sowing the seeds that will turn us into insurgents.

We would like to call on everyone to support the Rigaer94 with all means, even now that supposed calm has returned. After all the years of direct neighborhood, the R94 is especially close to our hearts. As far as we know, the Rigaer94 is with us the only confessed and acting anarchist house in Berlin and it should be defended to the end.

We wish you a bit of peace and a lot of strength after the stressful days.

Solidarity greetings and kisses.
see you soon, your Liebig34 Continue reading “Germany: An unsere Freund*innen in der R94 // To our friends in R94 GE/EN” →

Berlin: Glass breakage at banks and supermarkets – solidarity with Rigaer 94

Posted on 2021/06/21 - 2021/06/21 by darknights

We look back on turbulent days full of fear and anger, but also hope and solidarity in relation to Rigaer 94. The escalation around the “fire inspection” is only the visible tip of the iceberg in the struggle for living space. For eviction and displacement take place every day, but usually without attracting public attention. They are tragedies that lead to homelessness, isolation, lack of dignity and, in extreme cases, can even be fatal. So recently happened on 31 May in Kreuzberg as the 67-year-old musician Peter Hollinger, because of his impending eviction after 40 years in the apartment, took his own life.

In deep solidarity with the resistant residents of Rigaer 94 and all those who do not give up the struggle against the city of the rich, we attacked symbols of capitalist rule at Antonplatz in Berlin-Weißensee during the night. It has caught a savings bank, a Targobank, a Volksbank, LBS, Postfinance and two supermarkets. Meanwhile, the street was blocked with burning garbage cans. On a wall in the square we left our message: “R94 remains – Peter R.I.P.”

From: Kontrapolis

Leipzig: For the uprising, For Rigaer94 – fire at house of police and prosecutor’s office

Posted on 2021/06/18 by darknights

In our thoughts we were with the brave fighters of the autonomous zone Rigaer Straße when we set a fire at the Haus des Jugendrechts (House of Juvenile Justice, an institution where representatives of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the police, the judicial assistance to youth and the City work together to repress and prevent “juvenile delinquency”) last night. Our solidarity will always be with the people who do not give up without a fight. Red Zones take whole neighborhoods under captivity and are one of the most effective means of counterinsurgency. The House of Juvenile Justice in Reudnitz, Leipzig is also an actor for the pacification of rebellious individuals, especially “juvenile intensive offenders” like us. In here, cops and prosecutors work hand in hand. That’s why we thought it was a good sign of solidarity to set fire to several tires and the door in front of the House of Juvenile Justice.

The House of Juvenile Justice has been hit several times in recent years. Whoever writes police and public prosecutor’s office big on the front door, will be attacked!

Much strength to Berlin for the coming days! Do not let the pigs rest!

From: Kontrapolis

Athens: Flaming barricade of solidarity for Rıgaer94 on Alexandras Street

Posted on 2021/06/17 by darknights

Since yesterday morning, our comrades of Rigaer94 in Berlin are under attack and they are resisting against german police in order to protect their house and their struggle.

As Prosfygika (Refugees) being under a constant threat of state repression and exploitation we consider as our minimum political duty to stand in solidarity with our comrades who are fighting against the modern Freikorps.

– Solidarity to Rigaer94

– 10 100 1000s of Squats

Assembly of Occupied Refugees (SY.KA.PRO)

From: Athens IMC