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North London, UK: Anarchists and Antifascists covered a Barclays bank with red paint and slogan in North London in solidarity with the people of Palestine
Source: Act for freedom now!
Anarchists covered a Barclays with red paint and slogan in North London in solidarity with the people of Palestine. Barclays Bank holds over £1 billion in shares, and provides over £3 billion in loans and to companies whose military technology…
This is a small action, but as anarchists and Anti-fascists we believe that everyone should take whatever action they can, small or big to fight Israeli fascism and the genocide of the Palestinian people.
$hile: “Words from the confinement, necessary letters” by Marcelo Villarroel
On December 16, 2009 I was expelled from Argentina after 21 months of confinement in different units of the province of Neuquén to be at the disposal of the Chilean state and it has been 14 years since then.
In 2014 I was sentenced to 14 years for two bank robberies. Strictly speaking, I am serving this sentence in its entirety, from beginning to end, without any benefit and it ends today December 16, 2023 and still the state keeps me behind bars.
According to the gendarmes, I must serve 12 more years of imprisonment to be able to apply for some intrapenitentiary benefit only in 2036. According to their retroactive modifications of the illegal Chilean law, in 2056 I will definitively expire my sentences, all of them from events that occurred more than 30 years ago.
A madness of numbers and years typical of Pinochet’s military justice shamefully in force and still today endorsed by recent rulings of the Court of Appeals of Rancagua, of Santiago, of the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court of this amnesiac country governed today by the Communist Party, the Broad Front and all the progressive and social-democratic scum always at the service of the interests of the great god of capital.
In this context, a few days ago, Mónica and Francisco, anarchist comrades of action who received the full revenge of the state, were condemned by the capital’s democratic inquisition, particularly Francisco to whom the domination imposed 86 years, becoming today the revolutionary prisoner in the Chilean prisons with the highest sentence and whom we must know how to accompany from the daily practice without pauses since the road will evidently be longer. Always from the complicit affinity and never from the victimization!
On the other hand, in the occupied wallmapu, in the same week, the racist Chilean justice declares Peñi Luis Tranamil Nahuel, who these days is about to receive a hefty sentence, as well as Peñi Nelson Queupil, who faces an imminent sentence, both walking the path of the weichan, are in Chilean prisons, fists raised, living the onslaught of the state offensive of occupation. Continue reading “$hile: “Words from the confinement, necessary letters” by Marcelo Villarroel”
Berlin, Germany: Against environmental destruction, oppression and war – fire for CEMEX concrete plant
Inspired by a series of actions and sabotages against “the world of concrete” in France (2), Belgium and Switzerland, we visited the CEMEX concrete plant on Schleusenufer in Berlin-Kreuzberg in the early hours of December 27 and used fire to stop several concrete mixer trucks and bring the conveyor belt and a technical building to a standstill.
A master among the climate killers
The wasteland of concrete and asphalt continues to spread. In Germany alone, up to 30 hectares of living soil are buried under the most sought-after building material every day. Roads, squares, commercial areas, industrial plants and houses; huge parts of the earth’s surface are already sealed and infrastructure projects such as dams, freeways, bridges, airports etc. consume several billion tons of concrete every year.
All this is not without consequences. Concrete is considered the climate killer par excellence. Almost 10 percent of the carbon dioxide that this system currently blows into the air comes from the cement industry. That is almost three times as much as air traffic. At the same time, concrete production consumes enormous amounts of resources. Sand in particular, which is essential for production, is already in short supply, which is why coastal areas and sometimes entire islands are being dredged worldwide. With devastating effects on the surrounding ecosystems. The increasing sealing of soils also has catastrophic consequences. Urban areas are heating up more and more, while rainwater can no longer seep into the ground. Groundwater reservoirs are not filling up as before, which will lead to water shortages in many places in the long term or has already done so. Drought and aridity are the result of this on the one hand, while flooding and erosion are occurring elsewhere due to increasingly frequent heavy rainfall. More than that, every additional meter of concrete destroys habitats and food sources. The loss of natural ground areas and the lack of vegetation lead to a decline in biodiversity, which has an impact on many animal and plant populations and will result in the extinction of individual species. Continue reading “Berlin, Germany: Against environmental destruction, oppression and war – fire for CEMEX concrete plant”
Narrm/Melbourne, Austarlia: Attack on US Consulate in Solidarity with Palestine
NARRM.
From the river to the sea.
Always was always will be.
Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. blood money since WWII, shamelessly funding genocide, occupation and ethnic cleansing in Palestine for 75+ years.
U.S. terrorists have provided unwavering support for the IOF and show no remorse for the 30,000 martyred as a result of their murderous actions.
The people of Narrm condemn the U.S. for its crimes against humanity and refuse the existence of the U.S. consulate on Stolen First Nations Land.
LONG LIVE PALESTINE.
LONG LIVE GAZA.
LONG LIVE THE INTIFADA.
WHAT WILL YOU DO?
Source: Radical Graffiti
Via: Abolition Media
Berlin, Germany: Free Sonnenallee from SPD & Greens – smash!
On the night of Monday, November 20, we simultaneously attacked the SPD office in Hermannstraße in Berlin Neukölln and a Green Party office in Wrangelstraße in Kreuzberg as an action against the genocidal war in Gaza. With our small group action, we are participating in the weeks of resistance on the streets, a resistance that has fought for its rights through riots. You gave us “rights” because we gave you riots!
The resistance in Germany against the war is far from being symbolic. The German state and German capital have staked a lot on the outcome of the war. And not because of their alleged task of combating anti-Semitism. The two governing parties, the SPD and the Greens, have played a prominent role in this. They have also played a role in creating the racist narrative that has meant massive repression against the residents of Neukölln for many years and has led to a general de-“legalization” in recent weeks. Demonstrations were violently broken up, migrant political organizing was confronted with bans, skin color and certain clothing and colors became even more reason for brutal attacks in schools and on the streets.
On a global level, the SPD and the Greens stand for Western imperialism and despite their repeated attempts to interpret it otherwise, a capitalist offensive by Israel and its Western allies is taking place. German involvement, interests and investment in this war and in Israel’s occupation is obvious. The US Rammstein Air Base in Rhineland-Palatinate, for example, is essential for the deployment of US drones in the Middle East and in August of this year, Israel sealed the largest ever arms deal (3.5 billion US dollars) with Germany with the approval of the US. There is much more than guilt behind the German state’s “special responsibility” for Israel.
Against the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the police occupation of Neukoelln.
Free Sonnenallee from SPD and Greens.
PS: We were pleased to find our two targets already damaged. That didn’t stop us from adding even more visible damage with hammers, spray paint and paint bottles.
A few anarchists
Source: Kontrapolis
Firminy (Loire) and Les Ancizes-Comps (Puy-de-Dôme), France: Double attack on Aubert et Duval steelworks, supplier to war industries
During the night of November 19th to 20th, we attacked the power supply to two production sites of the Aubert et Duval group:
– At Firminy, we sawed through a pylon on the 220kV line supplying the site. It only partially fell.
– In Ancizes-Comps, we also set fire to a 220kV line, at the point where the high-voltage cables went underground. We were able to get close and place our devices at the foot of the sheaths, without danger.
Aubert et Duval is a key player in the French military industry. It supplies parts for Naval Group submarines, Dassault Rafales and Framatom nuclear power plants.
Our action resonates with the international call for a week of action against all wars, from November 17 to 25, 2023, published in early November (careful, it’s a bit late…) on Iaata.info. We welcome this kind of initiative, and in turn call for an attack on the military industry everywhere and at all times.
What’s certain is that we’ve achieved our goal of hitting the military industry. While we don’t have the means to know exactly how much damage we’ve caused, we do know that these industries know they’re being targeted, and that their weak points are highlighted by our actions.
“Behind the war, ordinary factories”.
As the tag left on the site of an aeronautics factory burnt down in March 2023 in Beauchastel so aptly put it, the war we’re told all day long must end and is unjust, starts here; and is made possible by seemingly innocuous businesses too.
It’s no secret that global conflicts are escalating in intensity. For almost two months, bombs have been falling on the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, at an unprecedented rate, and with broad political, military and financial support from the United States and most Western countries. The same people who call for a truce, respect for civilians and international law, are producing the bombs that massacre in a way they claim to condemn, there or elsewhere, since several billion people live in war zones; with the horror that this engenders and that we all know about: rape, torture, forced displacement, etc. This hypocrisy would be laughable if it weren’t so macabre.
These wars are the very concrete result of a military-industrial complex, with its factories, laboratories and technicians. In France, the eight major military industry groups – Airbus, Arquus, Dassault, MBDA, Naval group, Nextor, Safran and Thales – are celebrating record sales. Some 4,000 companies work for the defense industry, with the active, ongoing support of the state, which has earmarked a budget of 417 billion euros to increase its killing power and export its arsenal worldwide. Machines of death that are used directly for massacres, as in the case of Dassault fighter jets or Nexter tanks and guns used by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in Yemen.
We don’t want to remain indifferent to this. We also want to send a message to the workers in these industries. That our actions will deprive them of their work for a while, and make them face up to their responsibilities. We also hope that these acts, and the words we put on them, will help to raise the profile of these most discreet factories of death.
Our thoughts go out to those who fight for their freedom, to those who face repression.
Let’s attack everywhere!
Source: lille.indymedia
Via: Attaque
Greece: Thanos Chatziangelou ‘The Palestinian Resistance as a reference point for the declaration of the anti-imperialist civil war’
Message of the imprisoned member of the Anarchist Action Organisation, Thanos Chatziangelou, on the strategic diversion of the Palestinian Resistance in the heart of the imperialist centres.
Car bomb attack of Red Army Faction at the HQ USAFE and HQ 4th ATAF parking lot of Ramstein Air Base in 1981
The Palestinian Resistance as a reference point for the declaration of the anti-imperialist civil war in the Western metropolises
“A sacrifice today for tomorrow
the numbers suck their blood
Good morning, you’ll say good morning to me again on Saturday.
wrapped in a shroud.”
The Zionist atrocity of the Israeli occupation forces and the Western allies is growing day by day. Invoking the provocative narrative of the rules of war, they baptize entire migrant camps, hospitals, churches, playgrounds and entire urban centres as Hamas bases and operational centres in order to legitimize the exemplary massacre of the Palestinian resistance for communication purposes. Israel’s war crimes are officially underwritten by the North Atlantic Alliance, with bilateral military support and the legitimisation of Israeli interventions by Western media propaganda. The Western narrative cuts off the practical popular resistance of dozens of Palestinian organizations from the Palestinian right to self-determination and independence, wanting to criminalize and drown in blood any attempt at liberation defined by the popular base, moving outside and against the imperialist Western centers.
Combatant comrades,
Since the dawn of Saturday 7 October and the realisation of Operation “Al Aqsa Storm” on the Israeli military bases outside the Gaza Strip, we have witnessed a historic breakthrough. Decades of armed popular resistance by Palestinian fighters is verging on an impending victory for the twin goals of liberation and self-determination. A victory of the armed struggle against Zionism and imperialism. It is our responsibility, our duty, but above all our political choice whether to be spectators of these events or to make a decisive contribution as a real and existing part of the internationalist front in defence of the liberation struggle everywhere.
This juncture can and must become the contemporary reference point for the combative construction of the international anti-imperialist front, constituted by revolutionary initiatives that will speak with action – will speak the language of fire. It is today that the strategic experience of the internationalist comrades and the experiences of those who wrote history in blood and gunpowder must become a common ground and source of inspiration for the necessary revolutionary initiatives. Continue reading “Greece: Thanos Chatziangelou ‘The Palestinian Resistance as a reference point for the declaration of the anti-imperialist civil war’”
Athens, Greece: Claim for attack upon the Israeli-owned NYX Esperia Hotel on 17th November
Taking responsibility for the intervention at the Israeli-owned NYX Esperia Hotel on 17 November
Following the righteous counter-attack of the Palestinian Resistance on 7/10/23- named the Al-Aqsa flood, the terrorist state of Israel has launched a widespread operation of ethnic cleansing, intensifying the 75-year process of annihilation and displacement of the Palestinian people from their lands. It is deliberately bombing homes, hospitals, schools, water and electricity networks, and banning all food, water and medicine, condemning the people of Gaza to certain death.
The time-honoured and current crimes of the Zionist colonial entity could not have been carried out without the political, economic and military support of the ‘western’ bloc. As a part of this bloc, the Greek state is leading the way in supporting the murderous state of Israel with joint military exercises, with the upgrading of the Souda base and with the conversion of the 112th Battle Wing in Elefsina into a NATO base, and politically it is reflected in the meeting between Mitsotakis and Netanyahu.
Apart from cooperation at the political and military level, there is also cooperation at the economic level, with Israeli capital investing in various sectors, with one of the main pillars being the real estate and tourism sectors. The result of these hits our pockets directly, pushing up housing costs, changing the character of entire neighbourhoods and turning them into tourist attractions.
In addition to the mass, militant marches in support of the Palestinian Resistance, we must block the Greek-Israeli alliance by targeting Israeli capital in Greece. Connecting the protagonists of the Polytechnic uprising with those of the Palestinian Resistance, we chose on November 17 to express our solidarity with the people of Gaza by attacking the facade of the Israeli-owned NYX Esperia Hotel on Stadiou Street.
SABOTAGE OF ISRAELI INVESTMENTS
TO BLOCK THE POLITICAL-ECONOMIC ALLIANCE BETWEEN GREECE AND ISRAEL
VICTORY IN THE ARMS OF THE PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE
IN GAZA THEY MURDER CIVILIANS WITH THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE GREEK STATE
From the river to the sea
Source: athens.indymedia
Athens, Greece: Claim for molotov attack on OPKE
On Thursday 16/11 we chose to attack the platoon of the notorious OPKE group (Crime Prevention and Suppression Groups, Ομάδες Πρόληψης και Καταστολής Εγκλήματος) at the junction of Navarino and Charilaou Trikoupis streets. The result of the attack was the burning of the vehicle and the injury of some of them. Our attack is both a small crack in the enforced blockade of the area of the annexes by the uniformed scum of the Democracy, and a small reminder that nothing will go unanswered.
50 years after the Polytechnic uprising, 15 years after December ’08, which erupted after the murder of the anarchist student Alexandros Grigoropoulos, the states and the capitalists have launched an attack of unprecedented intensity on the conquests won through blood and struggle. The intensity of the attack is experienced by the most impoverished sections of society who are subject to daily exploitation. The murders in the workplaces and work sites, at the borders, in prisons and police checkpoints are dubbed ‘industrial accidents’, ‘isolated incidents’, ‘shootings’ and occupy a single column in the margin of a newspaper. But they are clearly state and capitalist killings in an environment where our lives are devalued and expendable. In a neoliberal environment where the bosses, whose sole criteria is to increase their profitability, aim the guns of the cops at the disposable, poor, outcasts and petty criminals. The forces of repression have always been the murderous assault battalions of bourgeois democracy. The uniformed murderers have stained their hands with blood, blood that has not yet dried after the recent cold-blooded murder of the Roma Christos Michalopoulos in Voiotia, the murder of Kostas Manioudakis, the attempted murder of the 16-year-old girl B. in Neo Heraklion and the countless beatings of demonstrators, strikers, etc. The natural perpetrators and instigators of the above incidents were men of the OPKE, a gang of murderers and torturers. To remind that no state murder will go unanswered, that the lives of the Roma count, that the blood flows and calls for revolt, interventions like these are an organic duty of every movement, organization, social process that has reference to the cause of social revolution. They are an organic task for the formation of a revolutionary movement so that the projections of social and class self-defence are not empty and heavy-handed declarations but positions of battle that actively challenge the monopoly of state/capitalist violence.
We send militant greetings to the antifascist comrades who have confronted the state and the fascists in the run-up to November 1, striking blows against the common front of cops and fascists, promoting solidarity and comradeship which remain our most powerful weapons.
Good Freedom to the guerrilla and member of the Revolutionary Struggle Pola Roupa and to comrade Kostas Dimalexis.
Solidarity to comrade Polykarpos Georgiadis (trial 13/12) and to those accused of the state frame-up called “comrades”.
Strength to the comrades D.S. and R.Z. accused of attempted explosion in Thessaloniki.
Freedom for Palestine.
Nothing is over, everything continues.
Michalis Kaltezas* Cell
Source: athens.indymedia
DN Note
*Michalis Kaltezas, the murder took place during demonstrations on the anniversary of the Polytechnic uprising in 1985. The cop Athanasios Melistas shot the 15-year-old student Michalis Kaltezas in the back of the head from a distance of twenty metres as he was running with other demonstrators towards Exarchia Square. Immediately after the death of Kaltezas, anarchists occupied the old Chemistry building on Solonos and the Polytechnic in protest. On the morning of 18 November, the University Asylum Committee, chaired by the rector Michael Stathopoulos, gave permission for the police to enter the Chemistry building. The invasion was carried out with the use of tear gas, for the first time since 1976 and the police arrested 37 people and beat them severly, while a few managed to escape and reach the occupation of the Polytechnic through the sewers. This was the first lifting of the asylum since its official establishment in 1982. The riots in Athens continued in the following days. The cop murderer was sentenced to two years imprisonment, but he appealed and was declared innocent. Revolutionary organization 17 November attacked a police van to revenge the death of Kaltezas; the attack resulted in the death of a police officer.