10 years after the arrest of the comrades Kevin Garrido and Joaquín García and 7 years after the murder of the comrade Kevin Garrido in the prison/company santiago 1, Chile.
Direct action against civilization and its cages!
“If we failed yesterday, tomorrow and always will continue to attack.
FOR THE FREEDOM OF ALL PRISONERS OF THE WORLD!”
(International Conspiracy for Revenge/Gerasimos Tsakalos Exploding Cell.)
*Both comrades were accused of belonging to the Exploding Cell Gerasimos Tsakalos, author of the explosive attack at the 12th commissary of San Miguel, for which they were sentenced, Joaquin Garcia to 13 years for the attack on the police station and for carrying a revolver and Kevin Garrido to 17 years for the attack on the police station and also for the explosive attack against the school of San Bernardo jailers on November 19, 2015.
The eleventh and final week of the trial against our comrades Aldo and Lucas came to an end. Following the closing arguments by the prosecution and the defense teams for both comrades, which were in response to the statements made by both sides in order to present their own theories, the prosecution was emphatic in pointing out the guilt of both defendants in the acts with which they were charged. Aldo was charged with crime No. 1, which corresponded to the attack on the National Gendarmerie Directorate, as well as crime No. 2, which was after the raids, for which he was charged with the items found in Loncura, Quintero, and crime No. 3, which involved Lucas and the items found at the La Victoria neighborhood residence, as noted in the previous update.
On October 3, the judges began the verdict hearing, in which Aldo was convicted of the attack, but acquitted of the crimes of 16 less serious injuries to gendarmerie officials and the crime of receiving stolen goods. Regarding incident No. 2, he was convicted of the crimes charged at the residence in Loncura, and regarding incident No. 3, he was acquitted of all crimes at the residence in La Victoria.
Lucas was convicted of the vast majority of the crimes at the residence in La Población La Victoria, except for the crimes of manufacturing weapons and manufacturing explosive devices, of which he was acquitted.
After the verdict, the sentencing phase began, which concluded with the plaintiffs requesting a sentence of 32 years and 1,100 days for Aldo and 18 years and 800 days for Lucas. On the defense side, they requested a sentence of 26 years for Aldo and 12 years for Lucas. The final outcome and length of the sentences will be determined by the judges on the day the sentence is read. At the same hearing, the date for the reading was set for Monday, November 3 of this year.
SOLIDARITY AND ACTION WITH OUR COMPAÑEROS ALDO AND LUCAS
Originally released in March 2025, the PDF online version of 325 #13 is out now. 76 pages of anarchist, anti-capitalist and anti-civilisation writings, coverage and news. Continues the focus on high-technologies whilst providing space for critical anti-state perspectives and a restatement of principles. DIY print and distribution. For the next generation of international struggle.
For all the nameless unknowns.
CONTENTS
#3. Editorial #4. ‘Against Artificial Intelligence’ by VQ #5. ‘Life Extension’ by Training and Research Cell – N.T. #6. ‘Yes, Collapse’ by John Zerzan #7. ‘Third Niskai: The River Wye’ by Anarchists in Forest of Dean #8. ‘The Biolaboratory World’ by Constantino Ragusa #13. ‘Revolutionising Power: 3D Printed Firearms for the People’ by Anons #14. Chile: Interview with a nihilistic anarcho-informal affinity group vs Jurnal Anarki (Indonesia) #17. ‘Fourth Generation Warfare’ by Anons #17. Anti-State Radio Broadcasts #18. Berlin, Germany: Open Letter by Daniela Klette #19. ‘Greetings from Illegality’: Letter from Burkhard Garweg ‘Martin’, Underground RAF Member #23. ‘Expropriation: Illegalist Anarchism’ by Anons #23. ‘Against the Myth of the Many-Headed Hydra’ by Anons #24. ‘An overview of repression in Italy’ by Cassa AntiRep #26. Operation Sibilla Acquittals #27. ‘Informal Organisation’ by L #27. ‘Revolution and Language’ by VQ #29. ‘Tavistock’ by Jim Keith #33. ‘Humans and Suffering: Our Folly?’ by Anonymous #35. ‘The Changing Nature of Warfare: Advancements of Military Drones/U.A.V.’ by The Uncivilized #39. ‘Akheiron’ by Rifki Syarani Fachry #40. ‘Restructuring of power and anarchist perspectives’ by Alfredo M. Bonanno #44. ‘Resilience: Adapting to a toxic world’ by Silvia Guerin #47. ‘Notable moments in cybernetics’ by Anons #48. ‘The New Wave of Mining Industries’ by Bandido #50. ‘Data Colonialism’ by Negre y Verde #51. ‘Where It Lives‘ by Research Cell – N.T. #52. Alfredo Cospito: Statement at the Turin Court of Appeal #54. Anna Beniamino: Statement at the Turin Court of Appeal #55. Communiqué by Nicola De Maria, Imprisoned Militant of the Red Brigades #55. Statement in Memory of Ulrike Meinhof by Anarchist Prisoner Thanos Hatziangelou #57. ‘For my comrade, Kyriakos X’. by Anarchist Prisoner Marianna M. #58. Direct Action Chronology #64-#73 Misc: ‘Anarchic Worldview’ by Confrontación, 14th Century Samurai Poem, Review: ‘The Invisible Rainbow’ by Arthur Firstenberg, Review: ‘The Red Sect’ by Enzo Martucci, Review: ‘The Unknown Revolution: 1917-1921 by Voline, Southeast Asian Library, Negazine #2, What is the Cassa Antirepressione delle Alpi Occidentali?, KSL Bulletin #116, Tameio, Prisoner address list, Counter-Info Links, A. M. Bonanno (1937 – 2023), 2000 DS Film
One year after the departure of Tortuga and Belén. Words from subversive comrade Marcelo Villarroel
The daily struggle and resistance against imprisonment in centers of extermination and isolation would not be possible without the fertile bond of insurrectionary complicity between different comrades in different parts of reality.
In high-security and maximum-security cells, in the furtive mountains, in cities and metropolises riddled with techno-surveillance, on the paths of the struggle to live free… there is always one of us, one who does not adapt or surrender to the vicissitudes of domination, and that is where we find Tortuga, on that path of subversive antagonism, and Belén, walking freely through Anarchy.
We walk with our dead, our prisoners, and our fugitives. This is not a slogan but pure reality. We walk with our lights and shadows that feed the eternal fire of our rebellion. We walk with a firm step, seeking change by first changing ourselves, even if it costs us.
We walk without lowering our arms and we resist, we persist, and nothing stops us, not even the death that inevitably embraces us on this long road.
A fraternal and complicit embrace to all those whom nothing and no one can stop. To those who organize, to the imprisoned comrades who wrote, and to all those who resist with dignity in prisons and cages.
One year after the departure of Tortuga and Belén, we will continue to sow chaos and anarchy!
With all our fallen brothers and sisters and comrades!
Subversive anarchist prisoners and Mapuche prisoners out of jail now!
Until we destroy the last bastion of prison society!
As long as there is misery, there will be rebellion!
As prisoners known to be opposed to order, we feel it is our duty to send our love and fond memories to three individuals who are no longer with us on this earthly plane, and to their loved ones: Tortuga, Lupi, and Belén.
We were fortunate to have known all three of them.
Tortuga, in countless days of insurrectionary expansion of the anarchist seed, giving precious moments of propaganda, music, and questioning.
Belén, in the heat of the same struggle and direct action. We all knew how she bravely and fiercely put her words into practice, and she was always greatly respected for it.
And Lupi, when we went to welcome him with our comrades from Carreta Anárquica in Santiago 1, when he was imprisoned. We tried to give him a warm and supportive welcome: bringing him delicious food and warm clothes, laughing for a while in the face of misfortune. Seeing firsthand how, despite the nervousness and fear that comes with entering prison for the first time, he maintained a stoic and proud consistency in his words and actions. We met him in prison and will never forget his innocent and beautiful energy, the light he carried above his head despite the dire circumstances.
For all of them, honor, fire, gunpowder, and flames! To remember them without these elements would be disrespectful.
Let’s bring theory into conflict: let ideas set fires.
In our colorful and dangerous hearts live the comrades who are no longer with us physically. But we, the masterless, know that they walk beside us in danger and calm.
On the night of August 21, one year after the death of anarchist comrade Belén Navarrete, various individuals displayed propaganda in her memory, remembering her in the streets where she shared, conspired, and took action in various instances, leaving her anarchist mark.
With our dead in our hearts and active hands that fuel the confrontation against power.
One year after the death of anarchist comrade Belén Navarrete and in the context of Black August.
This propaganda is beginning to appear on the streets of some cities, bringing to mind a comrade who was part of various anarchist initiatives during her lifetime.
We recognize her concrete contributions to the struggle against power with a clear position, without lukewarmness, and we value that today in a world of ambiguity and half-measures.
With seriousness, solidarity, and determination, she reached out to comrades, supported projects, and became part of others. In recent months, some accounts of her participation in propaganda and action initiatives have been published.
In this Black August, which reminds us of our sisters and brothers who have left this plane, the call is to spread their memories through the initiatives that we bring to life, that we participate in, that we support, that we conspire with.
Death is not the end for those who were committed to an anarchist journey. We will continue to contribute to the construction of the combative memory of our comrades.
Political violence can be understood, from an anti-authoritarian perspective, as an aggressive response that seeks to break, attack, or fracture each of the components that make up domination.
This response could be limited to damaging the symbols of authority, thus leaving a powerful propaganda message, that is, one that manages to capture each of the motivations behind the action and, ideally, causes the violent response to be repeated or spread, or at least part of it.
As I said earlier, it is possible to attack symbolically, understanding that the current system of oppression can be seen represented in different elements or physical objects, or even in people.
For example, we have the case of Sante Caserio, who stabbed French President Sadi Carnot. From my perspective, he did this because the president represented political power, which at that time had led to the deaths of his comrades Ravachol, Vaillant, and Henry. His action sought to be a direct attack on those who publicly upheld power in the territory dominated by the French state in the 1890s. In addition to carrying out revenge, Sante wanted there to be no doubt about his motivations, which is clear in his cry: “Long live anarchy!” At the time of his arrest, as well as in his court statement.
Currently, we understand that the capitalist, heteropatriarchal system of domination is intertwined with complex social and cultural relationships, in addition to material structures and the people who sustain them. Consequently, and from an anarchist perspective, I have (and have held for several years now) the following questions:
How could a decisive qualitative leap be made that goes beyond attacking the symbolic? Is it really possible to “hit where it hurts” the capitalist system, in a world where relations of domination have reached a network of networks throughout the world?
The answers to these questions have changed as I have come to understand how domination has developed and persisted, and I have tried to act on these answers by shaping the many ways in which we can destroy everything that prevents the full development of each individual.
On the long road of how anti-authoritarian political violence is exercised, the successes and failures must necessarily be a collective learning experience for those of us who stand on the same side.
Among those of us who have found ourselves in anarchist/anti-authoritarian “action,” we constantly meet new comrades, just as we painfully say goodbye to many others.
Comrades Belén, Tortuga, Lupi, your memory lives on.
Health and Anarchy!
Mónica Caballero Sepúlveda Anarchist prisoner Black August 2025
August has a black memory. One that is indispensable for those who stand their ground and decide to act against domination. In memory, something from the past merges with the present, even more so when memory ceases to be words and manifests itself accurately in insurrectionary action or in a concrete gesture of solidarity. Thus, black memory manages to transcend the censorship of power and advances without temporal or generational boundaries.
There also come moments when those who kept that black memory alive become part of it. And in diffuse temporal spaces, the present, the now, memories, and memory converge once again.
There are moments when life and death, from a binary understanding, vanish, creating an instant in which nothing and everything exists.
How must those who witnessed the cowardly and despicable trial that ended in the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti have felt in August 1927?
Despite the insurrectionary actions of comrades, demonstrations, and petitions of all kinds for their release around the world, they were electrocuted by the United States on August 23, 1927, at midnight.
“We must respond to their violence with our violence: revenge. We must oppose their infamous instrument that burned the bodies of Sacco and Vanzetti with our instruments of vengeance,” said Di Giovanni in Culmine, in response to the infamous execution of his comrades. He also made it happen: he blew up the Washington monument and the Ford Motor Company in Buenos Aires…
The physical separation from so many comrades is an experience that weighs heavily on us. Only by breaking free from imposed understandings can we heal the absences and learn to live with them.
Last year, two dear comrades left us physically: Luciano Pitronelo and, a few days later, Belén Navarrete, both close to people we loved very much, comrades in ideas, activists, and supporters of our comrades in prison.
After that blow, after the impact, the actions began. The banners and graffiti with their names, barricades and pamphlets with their faces, incendiary outings and other chem were once again merging the present and the recent past, in violent actions, in fire, in banners, in graffiti.
And just as others remembered and made present their comrades almost a century ago, confronting cowardly and pacifist positions, today’s actions serve the same function.
Belén Navarrete lives in the explosion that blew up the door of the Abbott Recalcine laboratory on the stormy night of May 19 this year. The cells that bear her name made her present in an act of revenge for the distribution of contraceptive pills that forced an as yet undetermined number of women and pregnant bodies into pregnancy.
In every gesture, in every action, memory and action, a mixture that fuses the present and the past, in August when the renewal of the trees reappears, when the buds are about to burst, the black memory opens the portal where we make our comrades present… every gesture… every action.
May actions thin the veil that separates life from death.
Belén Navarrete and Tortuga live in insurrectionary action.
For our comrades who transcended the earthly plane.
On July 22, hooded students from José Victorino Lastarria carried out an incendiary attack, setting up barricades, distributing pamphlets and banners, and throwing Molotov cocktails at the cops (COP) in solidarity with Aldo and Lucas Hernández, anarchist comrades who are currently on trial for their explosive actions.
