Mexico – Dark Nights

Mexico: Urgent – Imprisoned Anarchist Comrade Jorge Esquivel’s Life Is At Risk

Posted on 2025/10/30 by darknights

From Cruz Negra Anarquista – Mexico City:

In recent weeks, Jorge Esquivel’s health has deteriorated due to a lack of adequate medical care. He has requested medical attention within the Reclusorio Sur prison, but it has not been provided properly or promptly. This has led to weight loss and intense abdominal pain, significantly reducing his mobility.

Jorge has a history of serious gastrointestinal problems and even underwent surgery to remove part of his intestine before being imprisoned again by the state. His recovery process was interrupted by his arrest in December 2022. Since then, he has not received any treatment to improve his health.

Let solidarity be expressed to demand medical attention and proper treatment!

Solidarity and strength to Jorge Esquivel!

https://prisonersolidarity.com/prisoner/jorge-yorch-esquivel

Mexico: Solidarity with the Archipelago of Fire! Demo at the Indonesian Embassy in Mexico City

Posted on 2025/10/28 by darknights

Report back of solidarity action in Mexico City for persecuted anarchists in Indonesia:

On October 17, 2025, anarchist groups such as the CATL and Cruz Negra, along with Radio Zapote and others, gathered near the Indonesian embassy in a wealthy Mexico City neighborhood to proclaim solidarity for anarchists persecuted and imprisoned by the state. Surrounded by police filming and intimidating us, we shared food with the community while we disseminated information about the crackdown against anarchist activists in Indonesia.

We undertook this action to express our solidarity with the uprisings which began after the Indonesian parliament awarded themselves a housing subsidy equivalent to ten times the minimum wage and passed legislation that allows military personnel to run for political office, renewing fears of another military dictatorship. These protests exploded after police murdered Affan Kurniawan, a 21-year-old delivery worker by smashing into him with their armored vehicle.

For many months, members of the Indonesia’s Generation Z have taken to the streets, participating in what has been called the “global south revolts,” a wave of resistance sweeping through countries such as Bangladesh, Morocco, Nepal, Madagascar, Ecuador and Peru in which the citizens of those countries have risen up against the misery imposed upon them by greedy capitalists and corrupt political elites.

During our anarchist solidarity event in Mexico City, we also discussed our comrade “Eat” who, along with other anarchists, has been detained incommunicado for some time. The police had been searching for Eat because he had been raising funds for and providing support to 42 Indonesians accused of being members of the insurrectionary anarchist movement.

It looks like we are facing a series of uprisings spreading across diverse geographies, and its ideas do not pursue a political model but rather an epic struggle against the injustices that are being sought to be installed in the global sphere, and especially in the South.

Throughout the global south and all reaches of the globe, a resistance is spreading against the misery and injustice imposed by global elites, an anarchist struggle that fights against venal politicians and predatory capitalists alike.

¡Muerte al estado y que viva la anarquía!
Death to the state! Long live anarchy!
~Anarquistas

Mexico: In memory of Alfredo M. Bonanno

Posted on 2024/02/05 by darknights

In memory of Alfredo M. Bonanno
(Catania 04/Mar/1937 – Trieste 06/Dec/2023)

…no one is totally the fruit of himself and each person, individual, it is certain that he is within a framework of relationships that can provoke him and affect his reactions, emotions and even the logic brought to that point.

– Antonio Lombardo

Before I began to think about these lines, I had given myself the task of searching and compiling data to write -with the intention of leaving a clue- about some of the many insurrectionary anarchist actions in contemporary Mexico that, although they have been sporadic, have not been recorded by the “official” historiography, either from “our side” or from the academy. The year 2023 marked the sixtieth (60) anniversary of some small attacks in the city carried out by the Libertarian Youth of Mexico, but I left it on the back burner, because I was taken by surprise by the news of the death of comrade Alfredo.

I did not have the opportunity to exchange impressions with him, the closest I got was when I briefly collaborated in the coordination -ten (10) years ago- of the Informal Anarchist Days / International Symposium, in Mexico City. [i] I did not consider it necessary to have a direct approach -because I refuse to pay homage to personality-, since in my opinion everything said about the “insurrectional project” (including the debate around insurrectionalism), was already circulating in our language since the beginning of the year 2000 in some anarcho-virtual forums, and to a lesser extent, in printed form his ideas were also circulating in some publications although only short articles or one or another lecture were disseminated. Unfortunately, no complete text of this tendency could be found; for this reason, in 2005 I acquired several copies of the Cuadernillos Incendiarios collection from the Chilean region, in order to distribute them in these latitudes.

Insurrection vs. Revolution

…there are people who are so miserable that even talking about them makes you dirty. And then, in the society in which we live and with which we have to deal with; we have many other more powerful (and even more serious) enemies and adversaries that we can easily overlook the “bites” of some “mistake”.

– Gianfranco Bertoli to Alfredo M. Bonanno

In spite of the little dissemination of these contributions in our region -which by then were no longer a novelty-, in 2001 informal actions began in different states of the country. At the time, these first attacks would not be claimed. This shows that the “insurrectional project” was already being debated in small groups among a few comrades and was being put into practice by concretizing the praxis. That is to say, from the need for action and, from the experience acquired in a sequence of attacks, theory was generated which, in turn, fed back into action to later distribute in print the new theoretical contributions and consolidate the debate through the international exchange of similar positions. Finally, some Bonannist postulates were abandoned and the attacks began to be vindicated by the different informal groups in operation. Continue reading “Mexico: In memory of Alfredo M. Bonanno” →

Projekt Feniks – Nieformalna Federacja Anarchistyczna (FAI)

Posted on 2024/01/27 - 2024/01/27 by darknights

Video: Conspiracy of Cells of Fire – Phoenix Project – An account of the FAI/IRF Project ‘Phoenix’ (Black International) 2015

Posted on 2024/01/22 - 2024/01/27 by darknights

English subtitled version of the film giving the account of the early part of the Phoenix Project, international project of sabotage and attack with over a dozen hits in a variety of different countries.

Dedicated to Alfredo Cospito and Nicola Gai, Olga Cell FAI/IRF, who took responsibility for the laming of CEO Roberto Adinolfi of Ansaldo Nucleare.

“We are here, where everything starts now.”

The Project of ‘Phoenix’ is the unfolding of a hidden map marking one of the routes to the Atlantis of practical theory. An unknown and lost continent that exists beyond the edges of the burning cities of the interzone. Created through action, dialogue and ideas and organised informally with anarchic principles of permanent autonomous attack, revolutionary solidarity and internationalism. A sequence of attacks by different radical direct action groups around the world, breaking the silence of isolation and striking back again against the prison societies of the techno-industrial system.

The imprisoned members of CCF are charged with instigation for the attacks, Spyros Mandylas and Andreas Tsavdaridis were arrested and charged for act #4 in the project, sending a parcel-bomb to the former commander of the anti-terrorist agency, Dimitris Xorianopoulos, whilst Christos Rodopoulos is reportedly accused of the mailing of the parcel bomb to Dimitris Mokkas, chief prosecutor in the CCF case, as act #6.

The Phoenix project is now renewed through the 2015 attacks in Chile, Czech Republic and Greece, with the comrades within the territory of Czech Republic initiating the campaign “Let’s destroy repression“. The story of the Phoenix continues to be written…

SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON

NOT A MILLIMETER BACK

NINE MILLIMETERS TO THE COPS’ HEADS

Source: 325

DN Note: Eternal gratitude to the comrade who sent a copy of the English version of video our way that dissapeared from cyberspace.

Below we translate the article from the reposting of the Spanish version of the video that inspired us to repost the English version.

Nothing is over, everything continues…

Continue reading “Video: Conspiracy of Cells of Fire – Phoenix Project – An account of the FAI/IRF Project ‘Phoenix’ (Black International) 2015” →

Oaxaca, Mexico: Claim of explosive attack against Banco Bienestar – Anarchic Informality/F.A.I.

Posted on 2023/03/09 by darknights

We claim the detonation of a homemade explosive device placed at an ATM of the Banco Bienestar located on the outskirts of the city of Oaxaca, a territory dominated by the Mexican state.

In the early morning of 14/02/23. We ignited the explosive. In the distance we heard the bang and the alarms of the bank. We calculated a more powerful impact that would cause greater damage to the ATM, and break for a moment with the tedium of social peace. This time the action was silenced by the henchmen of order and the press. We will sharpen the knife better for the next one. This seditious gesture is a combative salute to Alfredo Cospito and his irreducible war against prison and the 41 B.I.S. isolation regime.

It is clear to us that insurrectional solidarity needs will, courage and gunpowder.
We must intensify the conflict by pushing forward the attack!
For the extension of the combat and the seditious solidarity!
DOWN WITH THE 41 B.I.S. ISOLATION REGIME!!!
For the practice of anarchic vandalism against the established order!

Informalidad Anarquica [Anarchic Informality]
F.A.I.

Source: Contra Info

Athens, Greece: Taking responsibility – Against the war industry by Anarchists

Posted on 2022/11/25 by darknights

Taking responsibility – Against the war industry

In the days of commemoration of the Polytechnic, we must not forget the anti-militarist implications of the uprising. In the midst of military dictatorship, one of the central slogans of the occupied Polytechnic in ’73 was “Out with NATO”. Picking up this thread, anarchy today must find a way of direct action against those who profit and gain from these wars.

While we try to develop anarchist considerations and analyses of every interstate war conflict, one of the most important aspects of the multifaceted anti-military struggle is often ignored: sabotaging the death machine on the ground we are on.

Since we are in NATO’s territory of influence, we have a duty to sabotage everything used by the armed forces of the Greek state and its allies, the arms industry, the financiers and those who give orders and make decisions.

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Mexico City, Mexico: Explosive Attack against “Ricardo Flores Magón” Police Station

Posted on 2022/09/10 by darknights

After midnight…

On September 3, 2022, we set off an explosive artifact made with dynamite, gunpowder, ammonium sulfate, nitrates, phosphates and butane gas. This happened at approximately one in the morning at the Ricardo Flores Magón Police station located in Jaime Torres Bodet and Ciprés streets of the Santa María la Ribera neighborhood in the territory occupied by Mexico City.

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We are anarchists. We repudiate that the Mexican Police dare to use the name of Ricardo Flores Magón, whom we consider an important reference of the internationalist anarchist struggle and who detested all kinds of government during his life, to appoint a station of the Mexican police repressors in Mexico City . We warn that we will burn the same station again and again until they stop staining his name in such an opprobrious way.

We also repudiate that the Government of Mexico use our comrade Magón in an attempt to make the imposition of its militarized government legitimate.

We are not afraid of them! We will not allow you to misrepresent the history of anarchism to legitimize any government! Continue reading “Mexico City, Mexico: Explosive Attack against “Ricardo Flores Magón” Police Station” →