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About counter-information practices and a warning

Posted on 2026/08/15 - 2026/08/15 by darknights

When we speak, it should be clear, to show reality and not to obscure it and/or reduce it to a spectacle.

We issue a warning about suspicious, manipulative and reckless individual(s) behind the “FAI ARCHIVE” – just set up by the “No War But My War” blog and Instagram, who have been trying to contact admins and sites in the international counter-information networks and anti-repression solidarity groups in a duplicitous way and spreading misinformations and smears. We note that FAI/FRI* has been recently designated as a foreign terrorist organisation by the American administration for which they also target “Antifa Ost“, etc, as part of a hyped and aggressive move against domestic and foreign radical-left and anti-state anarchist movements and tendencies of all sorts, including single-issue unrelated subjects to anarchism.

This individual(s) claims to be in contact and know others in the international anarchist networks, when it has been investigated and found that they are lying, which is deeply suspect. Claiming to be in contact and to have the confidence of others when you do not is unacceptable and treacherous. It is the way of the undercover cop, the infiltrator or, in the “best” case, the self-aggrandizing fantasist. Continue reading “About counter-information practices and a warning” →

Posted in GeneralTagged Analysis, Antifa Ost, Counter-Information, Densus 88, Indonesia, Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI), International Revolutionary Front, Prairieland Defendants, Prairieland ICE Detention Center, Repression, USA

Letter from ex-prisoner Thomas Meyer-Falk for the International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners (Germany)

Posted on 2026/08/10 by darknights

(Prison) walls don’t protect people—they protect the status quo!

I’ve spent nearly 27 years of my life in prison. Eleven of those years were spent in solitary confinement. I’ve now been living in freedom again for three years. That’s how I’ve come to realize that prisons aren’t just buildings made of concrete and steel. They are always also an expression of a society that relies on exclusion; it is above all the marginalized members of society who end up in prison.

In school, in the mainstream media, and even at the regulars’ table (today that’s social media), people say that prisons serve the purpose of security. In reality, however, they manage the failure of this society. They manage and punish poverty.

I experienced this firsthand during my years in prison: almost all the people I encountered were living in precarious circumstances, and many had immigrant backgrounds. This is the second key factor that puts people in the crosshairs of the justice system. Continue reading “Letter from ex-prisoner Thomas Meyer-Falk for the International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners (Germany)” →

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged Anti-Prison, Germany, International Solidarity, International Week of Solidarity With Anarchist Prisoners, Letter, Repression, Thomas Meyer-Falk

UK: Call for solidarity post for Ross Smith in HMP Garth

Posted on 2026/08/10 - 2026/08/10 by darknights

Recently we received the news that Ross Smith, imprisoned in the long-term high security prison HMP Garth for possession of a Skorpion submachine gun and a hand grenade, was called to the ‘Prevent’ team (so-called “anti-extremism senior officers”), who wanted to know about his friendship with released anarchist ex-prisoner Toby Shone. Ross appears to be being hit with the same kind of undeclared censorship and surveillance that was applied to Toby and therefore it is needed to denounce it openly.

Apparently, the hapless and greasy pigs of ‘Prevent’ wanted to know all about Toby and “his plans outside prison”, which fits into a pattern of state repression against the comrade since his release. The names of the Prevent scheme duo are Ian Turner and “Mick” McCormack, acting on orders from a state directive.

Turner and McCormack do not typically identify themselves to the prisoners, they hide their IDs to inmates and wing staff alike, and frequently try to trick prisoners into meeting them, or they go to their cells and ignorantly try to question them about books they are reading or talking about on the telephone, whilst trying to turn prisoners to snitches. Almost any innocuous book could be banned by them, particularly anti-racist, social critique and anti-fascist books, in the case of what our prisoners face. Continue reading “UK: Call for solidarity post for Ross Smith in HMP Garth” →

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged "Mick" McCormack (Prevent), 'Anti-Extremism', Counter-Terror National Security Division, HMP Garth, Ian Turner (Prevent), MAPPA (Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements), National Security Division, Prevent Scheme, Repression, Ross Smith, Toby Shone, UK

In Contempt #9: Black August Approaches, Resistance and Repression in the Aftermath of Prairieland – Against Cooperation and Compromise, Up With Total Liberation!

Posted on 2026/08/06 by darknights

Issue #9 of In Contempt has been released:

In Contempt #9: Black August Approaches, Resistance and Repression in the Aftermath of Prairieland – Against Cooperation and Compromise, Up With Total Liberation!

Link:
https://incontempt.noblogs.org/2026/07/31/in-contempt-9-black-august-approaches-resistance-and-repression-in-the-aftermath-of-prairieland-against-cooperation-and-compromise-up-with-total-liberation/

Posted in GeneralTagged Anti-Prison, In Contempt, International Solidarity, Prairieland Defendants, Repression, USA

Chaos in the Archipelago of Fire: A Compilation of Texts from the 2025 Insurrection in Indonesia & Subsequent Repression

Posted on 2026/07/21 - 2026/07/21 by darknights

Click link: https://archive.org/details/archipelago-of-fire

Print-imposed & Read-only PDF’s of the zine “Chaos in the Archipelago of Fire: A Compilation of Texts from the 2025 Insurrection in Indonesia & Subsequent Repression,” Parts One & Two

Adapted from the French-language zine:

Chaos dans l’Archipel de Feu
Sur l’insurrection d’août 2025 en Indonésie et sa répression

https://infokiosques.net/spip.php?article2312

Posted in LibraryTagged Adit, Bandung, Dena, Eat, Indonesia, Indonesia Riots August 2025, Insurrection, Jakarta, Komar, PDF, Repression, Surabaya, Toska item chaos network, Zine

Indonesia: Actualización Presxs Palang Hitam

Posted on 2026/07/18 - 2026/07/18 by darknights

Hemos estado inmersxs en las trincheras del apoyo legal estas últimas semanas. Acompañar a lxs secuestradxs por Densus (ndt: Densus 88, unidad especial policial anti-terrorista de Indonesia) no es solamente una cosa táctica — es como mapeamos sus métodos de represión para desmantelarlos. Por sobre todo, rehusamos abandonar a cualquiera a merced de la maquinaria del Estado.

Estamos disminuyendo el apoyo a Komar, puesto que ya está siendo asistido por ST (ndt: Setapol, Unión de Presos Políticos) y otrxs. Nuestra prioridad siguen siendo lxs presxs restantes del 1 de Mayo 2026 y todxs lxs que aún tienen que enfrentar los tribunales sin solidaridad. Por supuesto, esto incluye Adit, quien seguirá encerrado hasta el próximo año. Continue reading “Indonesia: Actualización Presxs Palang Hitam” →

Posted in GeneralTagged ABC Indonesia, Adit, Densus 88, Hitam Palang Anarkis, Indonesia, Indonesia Riots August 2025, Jakarta, Komar, Mpe RR, Repression

Flyposter: ‘Against Surveillance State UK – Against Facial Recognition CCTV’ (PDF)

Posted on 2026/07/06 - 2026/07/06 by darknights

As requested, here is the ‘Against Surveillance State UK‘ CCTV article from Dark Nights #47 (2018) as an A4 PDF to be enlarged to A3 and flyposted as a spread, or printed out on to double-sided A4 and handed out. Attack the world of machines and the technological system. “Hit where it hurts”.

PDF: A4 – Against Facial Recognition CCTV

Against Surveillance State UK – Against Facial Recognition CCTV

Britain is an authoritarian surveillance State, which has pioneered how many modern societies look; entirely covered by security cameras at almost every urban point, place, square, road, corner, shop, bus, train, etc. Partially perpetually in a state of decay and disrepair, here they have built a life almost as in a vast prison, and it is what their world looks like. Prison society; endless drab shopping centres, housing estates, tower blocks, industrial and recreational areas capable of being on lock-down at short notice. Regularly practised large-scale multi-agency counter-terror response drills to terrorist attacks, inner-city riots. Mind-control media beams out lies, half-truths, distractions, impossible consumer desires, morning, noon and night. Every potentially disruptive mass event, social and environmental crisis, is hyped by the media as threatening such an abrupt end to normality that at least all the police’s resources will be stretched so thin that the military will have to be involved to restore order under martial law. Austerity, flooding, Brexit, immigration, Islamism. Reactionary, racist, nationalist discourses and ideologies are everywhere; religious and far-right neo-nazi groups are regrouping. Anarchist and eco-action is called “extremism” or “terrorism”, in the double-speak of the police-state. There will never be any chance of individual, social and environmental change without the recreation of daily life into an existence that reflects our desires, passions and joys, rather than a cog in their system of fear. Likewise there is zero possibility of any social change without an insurrection, a social war. Continue reading “Flyposter: ‘Against Surveillance State UK – Against Facial Recognition CCTV’ (PDF)” →

Posted in Library, Social ControlTagged Analysis, Anti-technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Biometrics, British Transport Police, CCTV, Facial Recognition, Flyer, Intelligent Video Surveillance, London, PDF, Poster, Real-time Surveillance, Repression, Surveillance, Surveillance Capitalism, Techno-Surveillance, UK, Video Surveillance

Prison transfers and updated addresses for the arrested Italian anarchists

Posted on 2026/06/29 - 2026/07/18 by darknights

Update: Seven people arrested on June 16 in a crackdown targeting anarchist groups have been released by a judge. They were being prosecuted under Article 270 bis of the Italian Penal Code, which concerns subversive association with terrorist aims. The judge ruled that this offense had not been established. Two other people arrested during the operation remain in separate cases, facing charges of “speech terrorism” after leaflets were seized during searches. Source: Secours Rouge

Here we share the current addresses of the Italian comrades from the last operation. It is importsant to note the solidarity account for donations and also because these are “fixed” directions of high security prisons where the comrades are supposed to spend their pre-trial detention.

Update 28/06:

Yesterday, June 27th, Stefano and Toni were transferred.

We share updated addresses:

Stefano Marri
Pietro Rosetti

Terni Central Prison
Strada delle Campore 32
05100 Terni (TR)

Andrea Toniolo
Francesco Benedetti

Rossano Central Prison
Contrada Ciminata Greco 1
87064 Corigliano Rossano (CS)

There is still no confirmation about Nico and Arnau but we know they were also transferred yesterday.
Micol remains in the AS2 of Rebibbia.

Micol Marino
C.C. Rebibbia femminile,
via Bartolo Lungo 92,
00156 Roma

A PostPay account has been opened to support comrades:

Giovanna di Romano
IT67E3608105138259570159586

PostPay Card Number:
5333174809836489

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged Andrea Toniolo, Francesco Benedetti, Italy, Micol Marino, Pietro Rosetti, Prison Transfer, Repression, Stefano Marri

Statement by Benjamin “Champagne” Song (U$A)

Posted on 2026/06/25 - 2026/06/25 by darknights

Benjamin “Champagne” Song was sentenced to 100 years in the Texas Prairieland ‘Antifa’ Frame-Up, solidarity to the defendants and all those who resist, tear all borders and prisons to the ground:

I don’t hate. I don’t hate anyone. I don’t hate cops. I don’t hate Trump. I don’t hate Nazis. My beliefs are composed thus:

First, that we should help each other.

And second, that we should protect one another.

I never want to see anyone get hurt. I never want to see good people, standing up for what they believe in, gunned down in the street. What we all saw happen to Renee Good and Alex Pretti is my worst nightmare.

It was the kind of thing I had feared for a long time, after dealing with officers who could be reckless, who could be bullies, who could be violent. But fear is not hate. Sadness is not hate. Wanting people to live is not hate.

So, when I was standing in the street on July 4th, 2025, in plain view with reflective safety strips and high visibility clothing, what I saw right in front of my eyes was my worst nightmare. Continue reading “Statement by Benjamin “Champagne” Song (U$A)” →

Posted in Anti-FascismTagged Benjamin “Champagne” Song, ICE - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Letter, Migrant Workers, Migrants, Prairieland Defendants, Prairieland ICE Detention Center, Repression, Texas, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE), USA

Hamburg, Germany: Against the police and the world that needs them!

Posted on 2026/06/24 - 2026/06/24 by darknights

On the night of May 17–18, we smashed the windows with hammers at the “Police IT Cooperation” office at Notke Straße 13–15 in Hamburg.

The “Police IT Cooperation” is an alliance of five state police forces that jointly develop software for day-to-day police work and provide interfaces to national and European databases.
Other state police forces, the Federal Police, and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) also use the software.
This involves the digital, AI-supported expansion of the police control and surveillance system to enforce the prevailing order, which results, among other things, in deportations, forced evictions, and repression being carried out violently.

Conspire for a world where everything is different and everything is possible!
Against the police and their violence!
Love and strength to those in the underground and in prison!

Source: de.indymedia

Posted in Direct ActionTagged Artificial Intelligence (AI), BKA - Bundeskriminalamt [Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany], Cop Attack, Data Surveillance, Germany, Hamburg, Police IT Cooperation, Repression

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