Counter-Information – Dark Nights

Bristol, UK: Transcript of a talk by anarchist comrade Toby Shone at BASE for International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners, August 2025

Posted on 2026/03/20 by darknights

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” →

$hile: Interview with anarchist prisoner Francisco Solar

Posted on 2026/03/09 by darknights

In this fourth interview, we engaged in a dialogue with our anarchist comrade Francisco Solar, acting as a bridge to spread his words and delve deeper into various topics and contexts of interest. His perspective and participation in grassroots projects are vitally important, as they break with the inaction that prison seeks to impose. Throughout this conversation, we address not only aspects related to his personal experience in prison, but also broader political reflections on the ongoing struggles and challenges facing anarchist circles.

1.- How are you doing now? Could you tell us a little about your experience in La Gonzalina prison? What differences do you see between the prison systems in Europe and Chile?

Almost a year ago, I left the maximum security wing where I had spent almost five years and moved to a high security wing with a normal regime, which basically means eight hours of yard time and the possibility of conjugal visits.

Based on the above, my situation is clearly more favorable, as I am not subject to the restrictions of a maximum security regime. However, sharing my daily life with fellow anarchists and subversives who were already in this unit makes prison life much more bearable. Escaping at times from the harmful authoritarian dynamics that exist among prisoners and trying to practice relationships that are contrary to these is a constant challenge and struggle that involves constant questioning. It is clear that we are not an island within this unit; we deal with contradictions and obviously sometimes reproduce behaviors that we say we reject. However, our dynamics, those of the anarchist and subversive prisoners, are different from those of the rest of the prisoners. Our relationships are not based on the stark authoritarianism of the other prisoners, and that is evident.

My daily routine consists of playing sports in the yard, talking and walking with my compañeros, and reading. As I have pointed out in other writings, it is important to have a daily routine, which, at least in my case, allows me to maintain a certain mental clarity and avoid falling into prison despair.

The differences between the Chilean prison system and that of Spain lie mainly in control. The Spanish prison system has managed to discipline life inside prisons through constant and prolonged adjustments to its control strategies. Through the FIES (Ficheros de Internos de Especial Seguimiento, Special Investigation and Security Unit) and dispersion, the Prison Service has pacified Spanish prisons, even managing to turn prisoners into their own jailers, as can be seen in the increasingly numerous “respect modules.”

Although the Chilean prison system is moving towards exercising control in the “Spanish” (or European) manner, the truth is that it is still a long way from achieving this. The control mechanisms are much more precarious and ineffective, which leads, among other things, to the establishment of certain “rules” imposed by the prisoners themselves within prison life. These rules are based on extreme authoritarianism that produces and reproduces relationships of outright slavery among the prisoners themselves. If solidarity was once present in these dynamics, today such relationships have been virtually relegated to make way for ostentation and the aforementioned authoritarianism that makes prison life a hostile environment. Continue reading “$hile: Interview with anarchist prisoner Francisco Solar” →

In Contempt #4: Support the Prairieland Defendants on Trial, Inside-Outside ICE Detention Center Protests, Palestine Action UK Actionists Acquitted, Free Alabama Prison Strike, & More!

Posted on 2026/02/18 by darknights

We return with the monthly news roundup of analysis on prison rebellions and imprisoned freedom fighters that is IN CONTEMPT!

https://incontempt.noblogs.org/2026/02/17/in-contempt-4/

Following the closing of It’s Going Down, a new collective will continue publishing monthly “In Contempt” updates on this noblogs. We hope this publication helps develop networks of inside-outside solidarity – over 100 copies are mailed to people behind bars each month! Please submit any updates and calls to action to the new email in_contempt at autistici dot org.

We’re interested in providing more up to date roundups about international political prisoners (and their birthdays!), as well as including as thorough and comprehensive information about what we do cover, so please contribute if you can, whether updates, events, calls to actions, translations, or whatever else.

This month’s column includes:

Prairieland Defendants on Trial
Dilley Family Detention Center Protest
Free Leqaa Kordia!
Palestine Action UK Wins Again
Free Them All!
Phone Zaps
Calls to Action
Political Prisoners / POWs
George Floyd Uprising Prisoners
International Political Prisoners
ICE Watch: Minneapolis
At The Gates: Fighting Detention Centers
Repression
Not Guilty
Media
Birthdays
In Memoriam: Khalid Raheem

Two printable zines will be available in the coming days to print & share with our comrades inside, so be sure to check back on the noblogs!

Until All Are Free

Welcome to the ICE List (USA)

Posted on 2026/01/28 - 2026/01/28 by darknights

The ICE List is an open journalistic project, created by Crust News, aimed at collecting and sharing information that can hold ICE members legally accountable.

https://icelist.is/

Infiltrators Database

Posted on 2026/01/19 by darknights

https://www.notrace.how/infiltrators/

Searchable database of cases of long-term infiltrators who have targeted groups engaged in subversive activities in the 21st century. The goal is to help anarchists and other rebels understand how infiltrators operate.

UK: Wildfires will begin: An interview with Toby Shone

Posted on 2025/09/18 - 2025/09/18 by darknights

1st June 2025

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” →

Porto Alegre, Brazil: New Counter information site: invasaosonora.noblogs.org

Posted on 2025/07/20 - 2025/07/20 by darknights

EN: Porto Alegre, Brazil: New Counter information site: invasaosonora.noblogs.org

Weekly, and for a few years now, from Porto Alegre (Brazil), the radio program Invasão Sonora Pela Terra Contra o Capital has been transmitted. Acting through orality as a path of anarchist propaganda, we share on air a reading of current events from an anti authoritarian perspective, encouraging and inciting anarchist action, in that sense it is a voice of struggle, subversion and solidarity.

On air on Saturdays at 7:30 pm on Radiocom 104.5 fm in the city of Pelotas, it can also be heard on www.radiocom.org. At 3 pm, also on Saturdays we are played on Web Radio Insubmissa in Natal/Rio Grande do Norte at: www.radioinsubmissa.org. Reverberating on Mondays at 7 pm on the Web Radio Periferia Resiste in: periferiaressite.site.radio.br.

We do not stimulate the lobotomy of internet, online daily life, social networks neither the entire technological sewer that has been systematically sucking the attention, the life, of half of the world, paralyzing and trivializing everything. For us, reality is destroyed and built with our feet in the ground, our hands in the dough and the horizon beyond the screens. In this sense, this site that we are opening is just a way to incite anti-authoritarian practices, to encourage thought and ideas to be transformed into action.

And it is precisely the need of expand the anarchic gaze and action in face of the permanent struggles we need to afford that we insist to continue with this program. Expanding its diffusion, the site invasaosonora.noblogs.org, where the programs are been uploaded weekly, has just been created. programs of 2025 and the last ones of 2024 are already on the site.

For the expansion of anarchic struggle!

invasaosonora.noblogs.org.

PT: Nova página de contra informação invasaosonora.noblogs.org

Semanalmente, e já fazem alguns anos, ecoa a intervenção de rádio Invasão Sonora Pela Terra Contra o Capital, agindo através da oralidade, como canal de propaganda da Anarquia, compartilhando uma leitura dos acontecimentos desde um olhar anti autoritário e fomentando a ação anarquista, é um grito de luta, subversão e solidariedade.

Aos sábados às 19.30 hs vai ao ar na Rádiocom 104.5 fm na cidade de Pelotas podendo ser ouvido também no www.radiocom.org, às 15hs dos sábados toca na Web Rádio Insubmissa de Natal no Rio Grande do Norte em www.radioinsubmissa.org, reverberando ainda nas segundas-feiras às 19 hs na Web Rádio Periferia Resiste em periferiaresiste.site.radio.br.

Não estimulamos a lobotomização da internet, o cotidiano on-line, redes sociais e todo ralo tecnológico que tem sugado sistematicamente a atenção, a vida, de meio mundo, paralisando e banalizando. Para nós a realidade se destrói e constrói com os pés no chão, a mão na massa e o horizonte para além das telas. Nesse sentido, a página que se abre é apenas um meio de incitar práticas antiautoritárias para impulsionar que o pensamento e idéias virem ação.

É precisamente, a necessidade de expandir o olhar e ação anárquica diante das lutas que nos atravessam permanentemente o que impulsiona a continuidade desse programa. Ampliando sua difusão acaba de nascer a página invasaosonora.noblogs.org onde estão sendo subidos os programas semanalmente. Já estão no ar as interveções de 2025 e as últimas de 2024.

Pela expansão da luta anárquica!

invasaosonora.noblogs.org

ES: Porto Alegre, Territorio en conflicto con el estado Brasileño.

Nueva pagina de contra información: invasaosonora.noblogs.org

Semanalmente, y ya hace unos años, desde Porto Alegre (Brasil), sale al aire el programa de radio: Invasão Sonora Pela Terra Contra o Capital.

Actuando a través de la oralidad como canal de propaganda anarquista, compartimos una lectura de los eventos actuales desde una mirada anti autoritaria, fomentando e incitando a la acción anarquista, en ese sentido es un grito de lucha, subversión y solidaridad.

Los sábados a las 19.30 hs en la Rádiocom 104.5 fm en la ciudad de Pelotas pudiendo ser escuchado también en www.radiocom.org. A las 15hs también los sábados toca en la Web Rádio Insubmissa de Natal/Rio Grande do Norte en: www.radioinsubmissa.org. Reverberando aún los lunes a las 19 hs en la Web Radio Periferia Resiste en: periferiaresiste.site.radio.br.

No estimulamos la lobotomía del internet, el cotidiano on-line, redes sociales ni toda la alcantarilla tecnológica que vienen succionando sistemáticamente la atención, la vida, de medio mundo, paralizando y banalizando todo. Para nosotros la realidad se destruye y construye con los pies en la tierra, las manos en la masa y el horizonte más allá de las pantallas. En este sentido, la pagina que se abre es apenas un medio para incitar prácticas anti autoritarias, para impulsar que el pensamiento y las ideias se transformen en acción.

Y es precisamente, la necesidad de expandir la mirada y acción anárquicas delante de las luchas que nos atraviesan permanentemente, lo que nos impulsa para la continuidad de este programa. Ampliando su difusión acaba de nascer la página invasaosonora.noblogs.org Donde están siendo subidos los programas semanalmente. Ya están en el aire los programas de 2025 y los últimos de 2024.

Por la expansión de la lucha anárquica!

invasaosonora.noblogs.org

Issue 3 of anarcho-nihilist / insurrectionary newspaper “Blessed Is The Flame” has been released

Posted on 2025/01/30 by darknights

PDF download link: [ENG] Blessed Is The Flame – Issue #3

(For those who wish to print the newspaper, see the instructions below.)

The 3rd issue of the anarcho-nihilist/insurrectionary newspaper “Blessed Is The Flame” has been published. Its pages contain reports of direct actions, claims of responsibility, texts, poems, and news from anarchist prisoners and trials that were published in November and December 2024 in ten different languages across various parts of the world, or were sent to us via email and are being published for the first time. (Some of the texts published for the first time will also be uploaded as standalone posts on our blog, blessed-is-the-flame.espivblogs.net.)

Our goal is not only to break down the linguistic barriers that hinder information, solidarity, and the dissemination of propaganda by the deed on an international level but also to give counter-information a printed form. We believe it is crucial for counter-information to transcend the limits of the digital realm.

In an era of rapid developments, we unfortunately published the 3rd issue a bit later than we had planned, as this is the first time the newspaper is officially published in seven different languages: Greek, English, Spanish, Indonesian, French, Italian, and German. A new post will include links to all these translations, once they are published on the respective counter-information platforms.

We extend our heartfelt thanks to all comrades—both within Greece and abroad—who contribute by translating, offering financial support, and enabling the circulation of this newspaper in different parts of the world. Anyone interested in helping translate “Blessed Is The Flame” into even more languages can contact us at: blessedistheflame@riseup.net.

Printing Instructions:

For those interested in printing the newspaper, ask a trusted print shop to print it in A5 format as a colored booklet. In a few weeks from now, the English and the Spanish editions of the newspaper will also be available in an alternative format appropriate for the US paper sizing system.

For printing, please download the PDF directly from our website, as the download link may be updated in case we detect minor formatting errors in the file that may have overlooked.

THEMES OF THE 3RD ISSUE:

Counter-information for November – December 2024 (p. 1–11)
Luigi Mangione and political violence (p. 2–3)
Ampelokipi case: Memory and solidarity (p. 2–7, 17–18)
Italy: Words and actions against militarism (p. 7 – 10)
Statement from the Anarchist Union of Sudan (p. 10)
Anarchist news from Indonesia (p. 10–12)
Offensives against green capitalism (p. 12–13)
Responsibility claims with guides for action (p. 14)
Chile: Black memory, attacks, words from the prisons (p. 14–16)
Christmass offensive actions and anarchist wishes for the New Year (p. 17, 20)
Repression and counter-surveilance (p. 18–20)

Continue reading “Issue 3 of anarcho-nihilist / insurrectionary newspaper “Blessed Is The Flame” has been released” →

Scenes From The Atlanta Forest Website Is Offline

Posted on 2024/11/27 by darknights

This is our last canary,
you can find our pgp key on our canary page at https://web.archive.org/web/https://scenes.noblogs.org/submissions/promise/

As of 11/22/2024(MM/DD/YYYY), no-one working on this project, nor the project itself has ever received a National Security Letter, an order under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, has been contacted by law enforcement, contacted by any government entity, has been served a subpoena for a Grand Jury related to this project, or any other classified request for user information. If we ever receive such a request, we would seek to let the public know.

This project has come to a close.
The noblogs team Autistici/Inventati decided to shut down this blog shortly following the republication of the Heritage Foundation dox from againstbeltwayfascism.noblogs.org and after the dox of the Elbit Systems of America. This blog hosted a great deal of antagonistic content over the years, and we are thankful to the Autistici/Inventati team for allowing a majority of the content to remain up for so long. They undoubtedly tolerated a great deal of resistance – we trust that their decision to shut down the blog did not come lightly.

the addresses published in the aforementioned two doxxes are still easily available on https://web.archive.org/web/sceneshosting.blackblogs.org and https://web.archive.org/web/20240815105347/https://againstbeltwayfascism.noblogs.org/the-fascists-of-the-heritage-foundation/, https://web.archive.org/web/20240815105347/https://againstbeltwayfascism.noblogs.org/heritage-staff-listed-as-contributors/, and a significant archive of the rest of the blog is hosted at
https://web.archive.org/web/https://scenes.noblogs.org/

This site served as a nexus for anonymous publication, a space for engaging in dialogue with other rebels, and a place to spread complicity and proliferate autonomous activity.

Please keep those who are languishing in jails for accusations related to this movement in your hearts- better yet, send them letters.
Continue fighting for the end of RICO charges.
Never forget Tortuguita, a hero whose bravery cannot be understated.
Continue fighting for a world without markets, hierarchy, and fascism.

For a time, the struggle in the atlanta forest was one of the powerful torches that carried the flames of antagonistic anarchist destruction. We hold our actions in this struggle proudly, and hope you do as well.
We will never forget the weelaunee forest, we will never forgive those that perpetrated its destruction.

!Viva Tortuguita!

Nothing is Finished
Everything Continues

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Found Dark Nights issues 7,11,12,16,23,24,25,32,33,35,36,38,40,41

Posted on 2024/05/30 - 2026/01/22 by darknights

Dark Nights #7 – Let the Greek fire spread across the EU April 2010

Dark Nights #11– Anti-System Conflict in the United Kingdom May 2011

Dark Nights #12 – European Social Struggle – May Supplement

Dark Nights #16 – Insurrection … Is the Mother of Revolution – March 2012

Dark Nights #23 – Chaos just around the corner – July 2012

Dark Nights #24 – ‘Some Notes on Anarchism and The Proletarian Myth’ + ‘The Nihilist Abyss’ – July 2012

Dark Nights #25 – ‘The Bosses Grand Idea – The Olympic Spectacle of Money and Power’ – July 2012

Dark Nights #32 – Words from José Miguel Sánchez to all the comrades and underground action groups of the world – Apr 2013

Dark Nights #33 – ‘The Submissive Crowd’ & ‘About the case of the arrested anarchists in Nea Filadelfia (Northern Athens)’ – May 2013

Dark Nights #35 – ‘Fragment: Violence’ + ‘Letter from Giannis Naxakis’ – Late June 2013

Dark Nights #36 – ‘Freedom to the Wolves of the North’ – August 2013

Dark Nights #38 – ‘Letters of Nicola Gai & Alfredo Cospito’ – Nov 2013

Dark Nights #40 – ‘Freedom and Solidarity to C.Xiros’ – March 2014

Dark Nights #41 – ‘Against all States – Against all Gods’ – Sept 2014

Issues 1, 2, 3 & 34 still missing.

Eternal gratitude from the Dark Nights collective to the comrade who sent us the missing copies!