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Anarchic and subversive words from Chilean prisons, in the framework of the international week for anarchist prisoners
Shouts of war; true sounds of freedom!!!
In this week of solidarity with the anarchist prisoners we make an open call to war, to continue and intensify the conflict against every expression of Power and to strengthen the bonds of affinity for combat among all the anti-authoritarian sectors that exist and walk common paths.
It is from this position that we remember comrades Sacco and Vanzetti as part of the broad sector of anarchic illegalism, who were called “the Galleanists”, who with bombs, expropriations and executions made the American soil tremble at the beginning of the last century. Supported by the creation and multiplication of affinity groups and violent action, the illegalists expanded anarchic ideas from the facts, understanding that word and action are inseparable.
Since then much water has passed under the bridge, many have been the deaths and many prisons have seen the passing of comrades who have proudly confronted Power from the place where it has been their lot to be, nevertheless the ideas that translate into affinity and action have endured and are those that today motivate us anarchists and subversives of the territory dominated by the Chilean State to continue the war from this confinement and in the streets, always bearing in mind the necessary harmony between prisoners and supportive and complicit environments that walk from the confrontation with the normality of the existing. Continue reading “Anarchic and subversive words from Chilean prisons, in the framework of the international week for anarchist prisoners”
Chile: New extension in the investigative term to comrades Monica and Francisco Solar
On August 9, 2021, the court agreed to a 4-month extension of the investigation period against Francisco and Monica, adding to the two previous 6-month extensions, before the beginning of the pre-trial stages. During that week the precautionary measure of preventive detention against both comrades was reviewed and completely rejected by the court.
Let’s multiply everywhere the solidarity and complicity with Monica and Francisco!
Chile: ‘The wind brings good signs’. Communiqué of anarchist comrade Mónica Caballero Sepúlveda
As I write this reflection on the day that marks one year since the Chilean State kidnapped Francisco and me, I hear the voices of comrades demonstrating outside the prison. On the other side of the bars, fences and walls, there are restless hands and hearts acting for those of us inside the cages of capital. On this occasion, not only did their shouts reach me, but I also received a pamphlet. The wind brought a beautiful and unexpected gift: beautiful anarchist propaganda!
For those of us who do or have done anti-authoritarian propaganda actions, many times we do not dimension the consequences that these can have on other people. In principle, the objective of any propaganda is to deliver a message, which ideally incites or inspires others to act against the current system of terror. But, perhaps, the receiver of this message will not act, will not be affected by the appeal and will remain a passive spectator. In that case, it is worth asking ourselves, perhaps the propaganda was not effective enough, what is it that leads an individual to confront what dominates him or her? Likewise, what drives someone to live passively in a world of misery and oppression?
I asked myself these kinds of questions on many occasions, sometimes I thought I had found answers but with time I understood that individual freedom, that is, the decisions and actions of others, cannot and should not be measured or foreseen. To speak of individual freedom in the first instance, there must be knowledge of reality and of the factors that create or limit it. In order to decide, it is necessary to know, and propaganda is fundamental in the latter.
In my case, what pushed me to take the path of permanent conflict was undoubtedly the propaganda of others (among other factors). My political knowledge would have been very different if I had not been the recipient of endless propaganda. I don’t know if it was a pamphlet, a street scratch, a communiqué, etc. or maybe it was the set of messages, slogans that led me to question and confront the hegemony of power and the society that sustains and needs it.
Today a simple piece of paper broke all the suggestive measures of this prison and flew to me. This propaganda in this place takes on an extra aspect; it showed me that no matter how much power has or pretends to have us prisoners who fight for a world where only mutual support and solidarity rule, we will never be alone.
We need a lot of propaganda, we need a lot of direct actions, if we want to hit capitalism and the relations it generates, as well as the imposed hegemony of power.
I take this opportunity to send a strong fraternal embrace to the Vergara Toledo family. Luisa Toledo was a propagandist who contributed greatly to the proliferation of many generations of young fighters.
Death to the state and long live anarchy!
Mónica Caballero, anarchist prisoner
San Miguel Prison
July 2021.
Source: Buscando La Kalle
[Estado Chileno/Brasileño] Solidaridad con lxs presxs subversivxs y anarquistas de largas condenas
Gesto audiovisual editado de manera conjunta en solidaridad con lxs prisionerxs subversivxs y anarquistas de largas condenas en lucha en las cárceles chilenas por el Ciclo de Cine Anticarcelario (Chile) y Antimidia (Brasil).
Source: Contra Info
Chile: Legal update on comrades Mónica and Francisco
On Monday, August 2, 2021, comrade Francisco Solar, through a simplified trial, assumes responsibility for the graffiti (“MEGA points, the police shoot”) outside the television channel, in the framework of a protest organized by the Coordinadora 18 de Octubre, for the freedom of the prisoners of the revolt.
Recall that on that occasion when he was arrested, on the sly, personnel of the OS-9 took DNA samples from his clothes, to later build the case for which he was arrested along with Monica.
Finally he was sentenced to pay 400,000 that he will have to pay when he is “free”.
On Monday, August 9, 2021, both companeros will face a hearing, where the South Prosecutor’s Office will request an extension of the investigative period, which has already been extended for nearly a year.
Sedition against the Police State.
Complicity and solidarity with Monica and Francisco.
Chile: Against Sectarianism. For an Affinity Supported in Practice. Words from compañerxs Monica and Francisco EN/ES
Facing what we see as direct interpellations towards us, the need arises to write this text to make clear the issues.
As we have written on several occasions both individual and collectively, we understand anarchy not as an embodiment or place of arrival, but as a tension, a permanent confrontation in the first personm putting at the center the search for individual freedom. For us, this constant struggle has been real, which is why we find ourselves today behind bars. This situation has not prevented us from continuing to participate in struggle initiatives both inside and outside the jail.
In short, anarchy for us is an ethics and a permanent practice against authority, a practice in which we have met with others (not necessarily “anarchists”), enriching and enhancing our visions and capabilities, as well as forging close relationships of complicity, strengthened in the course of years and confrontation. To designate that these relationships can only be established with those who are called “anarchists,” apart from being a fallacy that can only be believed by those who have not ventured to travel the paths of the conflict and spend their time in front of the computer, is something that we reject from the moment when we prioritize establishing links over repeating empty slogans until you get enough. To self-identify as “irreducible anarchists” does not mean anything without being accompanied by a confrontational practice that sustains it.
On the other hand – and most importantly – assuming that anarchists only should relate to anarchists reflects an absurd purism and a sectarianism that, without a doubt, is an expression of authoritarianism. Establish coordinations and joint struggle initiatives only between those who are self-defined “anarchists” is to restrict and limit greatly our relationships and with this our chances of growing. It is to lock up stupidly in dogmatisms that restrict us and prevent us from free association. So, we see how in the name of freedom, some raise absolutely the opposite, setting sects as the basis for relationships.
With this, we do not want to say that we establish indiscriminate relationships or do not have a type of filter.
We have left clear points that for us are impassable in previous communications; repentances, dissociations and institutionality corresponds to some red lines that constitute insurmountable aspects that prevent carrying out any joint initiative with those who opt for these roads. As you can appreciate, these points do not correspond to empty labels but are concrete, in ways of living in prison and not only here. They are options that generate a total contradiction between what is said and what what is done. Well, maybe for some, the only value is what incendiary proclamations are said online or on some social network. On the contrary, we prioritize the practice and from there, we are establishing affinities and ruptures.
And certainly, authoritarian practices represent a point that we will not tolerate. We have never established fighting relationships based on authoritarianism and the experience of anarchist and subversive prisoners is no exception. The common points we have between all of them are a lot stronger than the discrepancies that we can have, discrepancies that evidently, do not represent insurmountable aspects, since if it were so, we would have set aside from the beginning of this initiative. The ties that unite us with the comrades have been forged in the confrontation. Inside as outside the jail, for more than a decade, meaning for us a relationship and enriching experience that, undoubtedly, has nourished, strengthened and qualified our anarchic path. Today, in this new confinement situation, this joint initiative is not new, but the last year has counted on important mobilizations that allow us to develop interesting projections. Now, as we affirm it in the article “about the need for continue the fight within the prison” of the magazine Kalinov MOST 4, the anarchist prisoners have broken with certain codes inside of the prisons, installed and reproduced by the members of the armed left groups from the ’80s, codes that mainly had to do with the reproduction of organic-partisan logic inside jail and also with establishing a ratio of superiority with respect to the rest of the penal population. They have been in charge of keeping live subversive codes with which we feel identified and that we see indispensable to incorporate and live. We refer to a refractory position and attitude against the prison institution that grants a particular identity, view and recognition both by social prisoners and the jailers. We also refer to the undeniable fact of continuing the fight within the prison, to show in practice that with the confinement nothing ends, that It is only another struggle, which breaks with victimism. Many times in the struggle for liberty of prisoners, comrades for decades have raised and taken forward an anti-carceral practice that has pierced the walls that divide the street and jail. These are just some of the subversive codes that we share with the comrades, who reinforce our ties of affinity in the task everyday and we are moving away from those who, even calling themselves anarchist, diverts away from the fight or is completely disconnected from this. What do these purists and so-called “anarchists” who are completely disconnected from these ideas and practices do when they face a trial or are in prison? We reiterate, we establish relationships based on common practices, not on the basis of words or incendiary announcements published on the Internet. Finally, we see the need to refer to the danger that sectarianism or purism represents within our spaces, apart from authoritarian relationships mentioned above.
From our clear anarchic positioning, supported in the permanent conflict and in individual freedom, we are establishing relationships and coordinations that potentiate us and strengthen us on this path for total liberation.
As the incendiary comrades of Conspiracy of Cells of Fire said a few years ago: Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners and Those that Do No Repent of all Revolutionary tendencies!
TODAY WE SAY: Comrades Pablo Bahamondes, Marcelo Villarroel, Juan Aliste, Juan Flores and Joaquín García: To the street!
Mónica Caballero Sepúlveda. C.p.f San Miguel.
Francisco Solar Domínguez. C.p. Rancagua.
Translated by AMW
Continue reading “Chile: Against Sectarianism. For an Affinity Supported in Practice. Words from compañerxs Monica and Francisco EN/ES”
Chile: On the reformalization of comrades Monica and Francisco
On Wednesday, July 14, 2021, comrades Monica and Francisco, were reformalized by the South Prosecutor’s Office in the 11th Guarantee Court.
Through a virtual hearing, Monica, from the San Miguel Prison, and Francisco, from the Rancagua Prison, listened to the monologue of the prosecutor Claudio Orellana, who reformulated them, keeping the same crimes and accusations under the arms control law, penal code and military justice, but adjusting small details.
A review of the investigative period, which has already been extended for nearly a year, is scheduled for August. In view of the possibilities that the investigation is closed or that the court does not give any more time, the prosecutor’s office would have decided to reformalize the case so that it would be coherent and without any details in case the judicial process moves forward.
In summary, the comrades are still accused of the following crimes:
Francisco: Sending explosive packages against the 54th police station and against former Minister of the Interior Hinzpetter, resulting in 2 shipments of explosives, 2 frustrated homicides to policemen, 1 frustrated homicide to Hinzpetter, 6 light and less serious injuries to police officers, 1 crime of usurpation of identity and 1 crime of aggravated damage.
Mónica and Francisco: Double explosive attack against Tánica, which resulted in 2 crimes of placing an explosive device on the public highway.
Mónica: Marijuana allegedly found in a common place of the raided house, resulting in illicit trafficking in small quantities.
The same day of the reformalization a rally was called in the center of Santiago.
To every movement of power, a response from the street.
Things are clear: Comrades are not alone!
Solidarity and complicity with Monica and Francisco!
Sedition against the police state!
Subversive prisoners and anarchists to the streets!
From: Buscando la Kalle
Chile: Communiqué of Subversive and Anarchist Prisoners for Comrade Luisa Toledo Sepúlveda
“By all means, I believe the violence within us is just. It’s necessary. I believe that we can no longer try to turn the other cheek. Not only is this motto a lie, but it also isn’t good for anybody. It can’t be. We have to capable of defending ourselves by being beautifully violent. We must cover our faces and go out into the street to be against everything that represents the atrocious powers we fight against.”– Luisa Toledo Sepúlveda
Words from Prisons for Luisa Toledo Sepúlveda.
Our mother, grandmother and eternal comrade Luisa Toledo Sepúlveda has left. From the different centers of punishment and isolation where we have traveled for decades and years, maintaining upward the autonomous, subversive and anarchic resistance, we meet again at the hearth of our herd to eternally embrace “Luisa”, our subversive mother.
We are in pain, with our hearts broken, traveling between different generations of comrades to whom the words and actions of “grandmother” have marked the journey for years from children in the town, rebellious adolescents and young combatants.
Feel the power of her voice as the voice of her children who at the same time are all of us who have been undeniably marked with the certainty of her words of fire, of bullets, of roars, of conspiracy, of conscience, of beautifully violent memory, from the inalienable insistence to the frontal fight against the world of power and all authority.
Your children who resist in prisons, the fugitives who remain in struggle, from different territories of the planet where your name is heard as a synonym of Resistance, Memory and Subversion, today, we shout together and united very loud and clear that we continue unconditionally hoisting the banner of social war, the permanent gesture of the conflict in the struggle for total liberation.
We call on all rebels who worthily claim the frontal struggle against power through direct action to demonstrate in war with concrete gestures in memory of Luisa Toledo Sepúlveda.
We call to keep alive the fire of her voice, her fighting spirit, her wise words, her incessant practice always on the side of illegality in clear subversive complicity.
We hug you and we are with you. Manolo, Flaca, Sol, Alen.
We salute Villa Francia and all the accomplices.
We embrace the Peñi and Lamngen at war!!
We embrace you with eternal love in war, dear woman, mother, grandmother, comrade!!
Luisa Toledo Sepúlveda, you live in the anti-authoritarian, autonomous, subversive and anarchic struggle forever!!
As long as there is misery, there will be rebellion!!
Death to the state and long live anarchy!
Combatant youth: permanent insurrection!!
Until destroying the last bastion of prison society!
Towards total liberation!!
Pablo Bahamondes Ortiz, Jail company Stgo 1.
Monica Caballero Sepúlveda, San Miguel female prison.
Marcelo Villarroel Sepulveda, Juan Aliste Vega, Joaquin Garcia Chanks, Juan Flores Riquelme, Francisco Solar Domínguez, Rancagua company jail.
Tuesday July 6, 2021- Santiago, Rancagua. Territories dominated by the Chilean state.
Translated by AMW
Further link giving breakdown of the life of and events following the death of ‘The Mother of the Joven Combatiente (Combative Youth)’
Chile: Reformalization Hearing of Monica Caballero & Francisco Solar
A few days before the one year anniversary of the arrest and imprisonment of Monica and Francisco, the 11th Court of Santiago set a hearing of “REFORMALIZATION OF THE INVESTIGATION” of our comrades for Wednesday July 14 at 11:00 am, which in concrete terms is a reformulation of charges.
It should be noted that in August the second investigative period will be completed after the extension of the initial investigation period of 6 months and given the punitive line of judges and prosecutors and the policy of extending the investigative process and pre-trial detention, it is a fact that the investigation and incarceration times will be extended even further.
We call to be attentive to the situation of Monica and Francisco and to express from an always active and combative solidarity that our comrades are not alone.
MÓNICA AND FRANCISCO A LA KALLE
SOLIDARITY WITH THE ANARCHISTS AND SUBVERSIVES PRISONERS