Forest of Dean – Dark Nights

New PDF & Magazine: 325 #13 – ‘Back to Basics’ – 2025 (ACN)

Posted on 2025/09/22 - 2025/09/22 by darknights

Download PDF here: 325#13 -‘Back to Basics’ – 2025

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

ANTI-COPYRIGHT NETWORK 2025

UK: Schedule 7 – Anarchist comrade Toby Shone stopped at Gatwick Airport after Ozora rave

Posted on 2025/08/18 - 2025/08/20 by darknights

Schedule 7: Anarchist comrade Toby Shone stopped at Gatwick Airport after Ozora rave

“I don’t know”, “I can’t remember”

On the 5th August 2025 Toby was returning from the legendary Ozora psytrance festival in Hungary where he’d been partying for 12 days and invited to speak about social shifts, the war on drugs and his experience of being in prison for psychedelics. At the UK passport checkpoint he was approached by an Officer William NORMAN #39947, accompanied by a larger group of basement dwelling plain clothes bureaucrats of the Counter-Terror Police South East. Toby was detained against his will for several hours and subjected to weak verbal threats and physical intimidation. Toby was searched and his phone and MP3 player were seized by the cops.

Officer NORMAN unsuccessfully attempted to covertly record Toby’s legal call with his lawyer and it was clear that the police were upset that he’d been able to leave the country. According to NORMAN their intent was the continuation of the open investigation and harassment of our anarchist comrade on the first occasion that he re-entered a UK border, which granted them special powers of interrogation and seizure. Toby was later released without any arrest or charge.

This incident comes as the last collective house from Operation Adream was attacked and raided by violent local thugs and an armed response unit of Gloucestershire police in late March. One comrade was arrested and released under investigation and another comrade was identified at gunpoint, as they had issued an arrest warrant for Toby for Grievous Bodily Harm, which was related to self-defense to the attack on the collective house in Forest of Dean. An armed police team with dogs and torches searched for Toby in the surrounding forest and issued threats that Toby was a “danger to police”, which is only to justify their use of violence. This marker against Toby was set by agents of the National Security Division and Counter-Terror Police, after a few of them got their feelings hurt.

At no point was Toby asked about any of this, nor about anything related to “extremism”, or “terrorism”. Every State, authoritarian or democratic, calls its opponents “terrorists”, “extremists”. In a world of modern televised genocide these terms have completely lost any meaning. The time for revolutionary change is now. Fuck Schedule 7! Fuck the CTPSE!

16/08/2025

Forest Case solidarity group

The Final Straw Radio Podcast Interview With Imprisoned Anarchist Toby Shone + A Request By Solidarity Group For Toby Shone

Posted on 2024/03/05 by darknights

The Final Straw Radio Podcast Interview With Imprisoned Anarchist Toby Shone

US web-based The Final Straw Radio Podcast has a new interview with imprisoned anarchist Toby Shone in which he gives a background to Operation Adream, his arrest and trial and his recent recall to prisons plus the involvement of the security services in his case and the ongoing harrassment that he has suffered in HMP Garth.

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2024/03/03/…

A Request By Solidarity Group For Toby Shone

The solidarity group for Toby Shone would like to ask that anyone writing to him could also take a moment to let us know that you have sent him a letter by dropping an email to forestcase@riseup.net

HMP Garth are telling him – as have other prisons he has been in – that he has no mail. The State and the pigs are desperate to isolate Toby and to make him believe that he has no support. This is stated in his probation paperwork as a goal of his probation team and the National Security Division.

Let’s not let them win! We have no control over whether the prison gives Toby his mail and books. We do however have control over writing to him and letting his support group know that you have so that even if he doesn’t receive it, he knows it was sent to him. A letter sent by recorded delivery so that we can tell Toby that yes, this letter arrived on such and such a date is even better.

Toby is very resilient and is always in good spirits. However, he has been very unwell, has lost a considerable amount of weight as a result of the lack of food and calorie count typical of Britain’s jails and now faces a month of no visits due to confusion over bookings. So now would be a really really good time to send Toby a postcard, a letter or an email (and then let us know that you have).

Thanks a million.
The State is the Terrorist.
No one is Alone!

Forest Case Folks
forestcase@riseup.net

Toby Shone A7645EP
HMP Garth
Ulnes Walton Lane
Leyland
Preston
PR26 8NE

Source: Brighton Anarchist Black Cross

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.

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

UK: Anarchist comrade Toby Shone abducted by armed cops & sent back to prison!

Posted on 2023/09/22 by darknights

Toby Shone is an anarchist who was imprisoned in Wandsworth, Bristol and G4S Prison Parc for nearly two years accused of being the administrator of counter-information project 325.nostate.net. After the political prosecution failed and the cops had to drop the case 5 days before trial in October 2021, Toby received a sentence of 3 years 9 months for possession of psychedelic medicines. He was released on 28 December 2022 under heavy restrictions (license conditions), oversight 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. He had just moved back into a flat in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire 9 days ago.

On the morning of 19 September 2023, he was driving to an appointment with his probation officer when he was pulled over and arrested by an armed police unit in-between the Forest of Dean and Gloucester. He was taken to HMP Bristol. He is awaiting more detailed information, but his legal team say that the allegations are that he breached two of his license conditions: being in possession of an [unauthorised] phone and attending a meeting in Bristol in August.

Toby is in great spirits as ever and requests letters and books. ■

Please write to him at:
Toby Shone A7645EP
HMP Bristol
19 Cambridge Road
Bishopston
Bristol
BS7 8PS

Update:
Let him know he is not alone and we stand with him.

WHEN: 8pm this Friday 22nd Sept.
WHERE: The Golden Lion, 244 Gloucester Road, BS7 8NZ

Bring banners, noisy things, and friends