Chile: Autonomy and Persistence Against Prisons: Words from compañera Mónica Caballero

Posted on 2024/06/19 by darknights

June 8, 2024

Almost a month ago I was transferred to the prison where I will have to serve my sentence, the CPF of Santiago. This prison has a rather atypical structure in comparison to other prisons in this territory, since in some areas it maintains the foundations of the old convent that fulfilled the “correctional work for bad women”, from there different modules and sections have been built. Among the sections that were built to segregate specific groups of women prisoners are the following: Special High Security Section (SEAS), New Hope and Direct Custody.

SEAS was created mainly to house prisoners for crimes of political violence in the 90’s. In those years, those prisoners belonged to political/military/subversive groups (FPMR, MIR, Mapu-Lautaro1). With the release of the political prisoners, little by little, those with a history of escapes and/or refractory to the prison regime and leaders of trafficking gangs began to occupy the High Security Prison. It was not until 2010 that the women prisoners for political violence returned to the SEAS, the first “Bomb Case2” allowed the first anti-authoritarian women to take up the thread of struggle left by the first political prisoners. Over the years the SEAS continued with the same dynamic, until a few years ago where this section is used to keep prisoners while another permanent space is enabled for them.

Upon my arrival at this prison, I was informed that the SEAS would return to the place of yesteryear, so if or if I had to be in it. All this came to nothing because today there is a group of approximately 60 women brought from the San Miguel prison, these women live in deplorable conditions.

Another of these special modules is “Nueva Esperanza”, which has only and exclusively women for crimes against humanity, all these prisoners were responsible for some of the many atrocities that occurred during the dictatorship, I am referring to torture, disappearances, permanent kidnappings, murders, etc. Most of these women are former members of the F.F.A.A.*** and of the security forces. Although I do not know the living conditions of the torturers, since special care is taken in everything that surrounds them, but even so I would dare to say that they live in a place more like a rest home than a prison.

Finally, there is the module that I am currently in, Direct Custody. This section was born out of the need to segregate prisoners for violent and high-profile crimes, and over the years this has been maintained to some extent. This section has also been used to keep very specific cases of women for political violence, among these was a former militant of the FPMR and now me.

Since I entered this prison, both my comrades and I have requested through the different bureaucratic instances of the gendarmerie the authorization to continue my university studies, which I started in 2022 in San Miguel prison. This has not been authorized.

A little more than two years ago, I became the first inmate in Santiago to start university studies while I was in preventive prison. A matter that was not without problems, which one by one were solved thanks to the set of solidary wills that made that until today I am studying my third year as a student in the career of Law.

In this prison I have not been able to resume my studies because according to the information provided by the gendarmerie staff, the only thing missing is the authorization of the Regional Director, who can take as much time as he deems convenient to simply manage the continuity of something that has been going on for years.

It seems incredible that the facilities are not given and that obstacles are put in the way of something that seems to be as basic and essential as studying, we cannot ignore that the power structures are capable of breaking their own rules over and over again, according to their convenience.
What is it that the high command of the gendarmerie fears in order to give course to the authorization that does not allow me to study? Do they have direct orders from the Ministry of Justice or another organism? Or is it that they are apprehensive that if they give the authorization the prison population knows that there is no legal impediment that does not allow them to have higher education while in prison? Or perhaps they are exhausting all instances to prevent a prisoner (which they call common, but they maintain quite “uncommon” regimes) to have legal knowledge? Whatever the answer is, I demand that they comply with their own laws and allow me to maintain my university studies.

For this I appeal to all forms of solidarity that can pressure the regional and national directorate of gendarmerie to give course to the relevant authorizations so that I can continue my studies.

With all this I reaffirm that for greater degrees of autonomy the only option for those of us who choose the path of denial against domination is the persistent struggle, which would remain within these walls if it were not for the dozens of hands of solidarity.

Mónica Caballero Sepúlveda
Anarchist Prisoner
May 2024.

Source: Informativo Anarquista

DN Notes

1. – Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front (in Spanish: Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez, FPMR). Marxist-Leninist guerrilla organisation, the military wing of the Communist Party of Chile, created with the goal of a violent overthrow of the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.

– The Revolutionary Left Movement (Spanish: Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria, MIR) is a Chilean far-left Marxist-Leninist communist party and former urban guerrilla organization.

– The Lautaro Youth Movement (Spanish: Movimiento Juvenil Lautaro, or MJL) also known as MAPU Lautaro was a left-wing armed organization in Chile. During the military junta in Chile some members of the Popular Unitary Action Movement formed the Movimiento Juvenil Lautaro to pursue guerrilla warfare. The MJL was named after Lautaro, leader of the indigenous resistance in Chile. MAPU Lautaro continued its armed struggle even after the return of democracy to Chile and democratic elections.

2. ‘Caso Bombas’ 2010: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/caso-bombas

3. The Chilean Armed Forces.

Chile: Text by Marco Camenisch for the day of Memory and Kontrakultura

Posted on 2024/06/15 - 2024/06/15 by darknights

Text by Marco Camenisch for the day of Memory and Kontrakultura

Dear comrades and brothers and sisters,

To begin with, thank you very much for this initiative of commemoration by our dear compa and brother Punky Mauri and for being able to participate from a distance (geographically!) with some poor words.

On the one hand, commemorations do not excite me too much. Because dear compa and brother Punki Mauri is present and alive in my mind and in my life many days of each year. At this moment or another or without specific occasion as a presence that gives me courage in moments of courage, joy and sadness, reminding me of our common courage, our common struggle in the past.

And present and future! For this reason, on the other hand, this commemoration is very just and important. Comrade and brother Punki Mauri with all our other fallen reminds us and continues to live in our common duty (individual duty in front of our conscience!) to consolidate and give continuity to this struggle in a historical moment in which the situations, the reasons and the necessity of our resistance and struggle become more and more urgent and just as the only hope for our life, for the life of our planet! And for living a dignified life! Reminding us that we are nature, freedom and life that defends itself by attacking those who definitely want to exterminate us!

In this sense, this commemoration is very important for the continuity of our struggle, transmitting from generation to generation our experiences and “historical” memories as a living contribution to the present and future struggles.

And alone, but firmly, in these struggles of all our past, present and future fighting generations our brother Mauri and all our fallen comrades and brothers and sisters remain and will always remain alive!

With a warm and strong embrace to all of you,

Marco/martino

from Switzerland,

on May 17, 2024

Source: Espacio Fenix

Via: Informativo Anarquista

$hile: Words by Gabriel Pombo da Silva and Elisa di Bernardo for the day Memory and Kontrakultura

Posted on 2024/06/15 - 2024/06/15 by darknights

Words by Gabriel Pombo da Silva and Elisa di Bernardo for the day Memory and Kontrakultura

May 22nd, 2024

And it still seems like yesterday… a comrade fell in action… and soon we know his name: Mauricio Morales!!!

Coherence, the determination to put together an idea as a project does not seem to be part of the path of many comrades… there has always existed and will always exist the singular individual who stands out among his comrades for his revolutionary exemplarity.

It has always been difficult to open the way and transmit confidence to our own… Our own? Yes! Our own!

Convinced iconoclasts, we believe that “our own” are those who practice what they say and with them we recognize ourselves in discourse and practice. We know the price of coherence… like Prometheus we share the word, the experience and the torment… we believe in what we think and consequently we speak.

We are persecuted when we say ours because in our discourse and practice we are irretrievable for the state and capital. And yet, indecently, when they kill us or lock us up, those who have turned ethics into an alternative programmed leisure enjoy the undeserved glow of individual rebellion.

None of our people lives and dies in vain… existence teaches us strongly refractory individuals and the absorption or alienation they relentlessly fight against.

We remember Mauricio with his wide and luminous smile… a smile that always accompanied his determination, the power of his words, the coherence of his actions.

To be consistent with our own ideas is a choice of Extreme Love and he knew (we know) that this could mean imprisonment or death and it was death that found him that early morning 15 years ago.

We continue to find our comrade and brother Mauricio beautifully violent in every sigh of dignity, in every breath of rebellion, in every action of solidarity and in every cry of Anarchy.

To fight against the States and all authorities is a duty and a revolutionary pleasure just as it is to fight against oblivion.

Dear Mauricio, we do not forget you and here we remain on the warpath without ever lowering our guard.

We embrace you in the creative chaos that drives us at every moment to reach Freedom and Total Liberation!

Long live Anarchy!

Long Live Freedom!

Punky Mauri present!

Gabriel and Elisa

Source: Espacio Fenix

Via: Informativo Anarquista

$hile: “If the streets could speak”: words of Mónica Caballero before another March 29th

Posted on 2024/05/02 by darknights

March 31, 2024

If the streets of this city could speak, they would tell us stories of barricades and fire, mixed with sweat, blood and tears. In those stories would be the petite and resilient figure of Luisa Toledo, who with a couple of words moved generations, and who, no matter how many years passed since the murder of her sons Eduardo and Rafael by the police, never stopped taking to the streets to commemorate their death and above all their lives as young fighters.

Today, March 29th, new stories of barricades and fire will emerge, those that will rise up for Eduardo and Rafael, and in turn for the dozens of young fighters who decided to take the step towards the offensive attack against domination.

The stories of yesteryear of the young people who fought the dictatorship give us a rich and nourishing path, in which today’s young people grew up and lay new paths for those to come.

If the streets could speak, they would tell the stories of the young fighters of yesterday and today, and we must do our best to make them tell the stories of those to come. Just as Luisa Toledo did with blood, sweat and tears.

Only those who forget die die. May the barricades never stop burning.

Mónica Caballero Sepúlveda.
Anarchist prisoner

Source: Informativo Anarquista

Greece: Two texts from the recently imprisoned comrade & former member of Conspiracy of Cells of Fire Christos Tsakalos EN/ES [Updated]

Posted on 2024/02/19 - 2024/02/21 by darknights

DN Note: We have decided to post these two texts from Christos Tsakalos, a former member of anarchist urban guerrilla organization Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, who represented a “third pole” of anarchist thought in Greece, anarcho-individualism and nihilism, contrasting it with social anarchism and insurrectionary anarchism.

Since mid-November 2010, Tsakalos had been at large, as a warrant for his arrest was issued shortly after the arrest of his brother Gerasimos. On March 14, 2011, he and four other comrades were arrested in Volos. He was prosecuted for the “Volos case” (alleged bank robbery, while being dressed up like cops), for his involvement with explosives and guns, which were found on other people prosecuted for the same case (arrests in Pireus and Kallithea), for the 14 parcel bombs case, for the case concerning 250 attacks by CCF between 2008 and 2011, for the text in solidarity with Anarchist Squat Nadir (second eviction in October 2011), written by CCF, for his personal text denying the cooperation with prosecuting authorities (instigating violence), for an attempted prison escape along with another three CCF’s members in December 2011 and for taking three prison guards hostage and for instigation concerning “Phoenix” project. He is also prosecuted for an attack at a bank in the centre of Athens, in 2007, as his DNA was allegedly found on the scene. He was also prosecuted by the Italian state after a law suit by former Italian prime minster Silvio Berlusconi, concerning the parcel bomb which was shipped to him and he was also under investigation concerning “Ardire” case, which was launched on June 2012 by the Italian prosecuting authorities.

Christos was serving originally 7 years for charges stemming from the ‘Halandri’ case and 24 years and 2 months for the Fire Cells Conspiracy case. In 2016 he was sentenced to a further 115 years for an attempted escape from prison and other CCF attacks.

On 24/7/2019 under the provisions of the Paraskevopoulos Law, Christos and his brother Gerasimos who were serving time as members of the “Conspiracy of Cells of Fire” were released, having served a third of their reduced sentences.

Christos was arrested on 09/02/2024 in an operation that involved a supposed police informer who has been paid 20,000 euros. He had been originally accused of involvement in the Greek Mafia, especially in bombings that have occured in a mafia war that has been raging in Greece for several years now. He was coonected originally to two Greek navy SEAL members, arrested at the same time elsewhere, who had with them explosives most likely taken from a military base. This connection with the others, including with the the mafia, bombings and other larger charges have been dropped. He has been imprisoned for 2 years and 1 month without appeal under the newly passed Penal Code, for the misdeamours of a pistol with bullets and drugs that were discovered in a property he was staying at that was not his own.

DN Update: We also add the introductory text of the comrades from Informativo Anarquista & their translattion of the two texts further below. We agree with our Chilean comrades analysis of the situation surrounding comrade Christos Tsakalos. We would like to add that for too long there has been a putrid smell of not only propaganda vomited by the Greek media about Christos and other former members/comrades of CCF but also we are aware of the slander and gossip in anarchist circles, the movement in Greece & internationally, who even replicate the words of the media scum, state and cops.

We are reminded of the quote from a poster in solidarity with the CCF:

“The Slime of the Media feeds the unstoppable Terrorlust of the TV Audience”

On February 10, 2024, police raided four houses, investigating a possible exchange of explosives. The detainees are two members of the Greek Navy, a nightclub bouncer and comrade Christos Tsakalos, a former member of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire.

According to the Greek press, pistols, ammunition of various calibers, fragmentation and incendiary grenades, flares, industrial fuse, detonators and two sealed boxes filled with TNT were seized during the raids.

The Navy members were referred to a Maritime Court, for possession of explosives and weapons, while the discotheque bouncer and Christos Tsakalos were prosecuted for the crime of arms control.

Finally, an Athens Court sentenced comrade Christos Tsakalos to two years and one month in prison without parole.

Note from Informativo Anarquista

The almost non-existent translations, dialogues and information exchanges dangerously distance us from the anarchist realities of other territories, especially when we speak different languages, therefore, we do not know more details about what the hegemonic press has vomited against comrade Christos after his release from prison and his new arrest.

Whatever the scum of power may say about our comrades must be read with the utmost care, as they are ultimately the complicit voice of our enemies, their propaganda tool. Their headlines, news and reports are nothing more than the graphic representation of the hatred and fear that Power has towards anarchist ideas and practices, against our history, our memory, prisoners, fugitives, dead and active comrades in the work of revolt. Let us understand that their designs and fantasies will never be the truth, they will always be an easy trigger to delegitimize our denials.

For months the Greek media has been linking the comrade with the mafias dedicated to the smuggling of fuel, designating him almost as the leader of one of the most powerful groups in the sector, also linking him with bombs that have detonated in Greece and that the police attribute to territorial disputes between mafias.

As Informativo Anarquista, we recognize Christos Tsakalos as a comrade, we believe in his warrior word. It is the voice of the comrades the only channel of communication we have between anarchists, without intermediaries or representatives.

Some writings of the comrade

We encourage you to review and correct the translations below.

Source: Informatovo Anarquista

And now some truth gentlemen…

One misdemeanor two years in jail, that’s the math of the new penal code. First they set up a fearful lie with “terrorists” and Greek Mafia that eventually scared the lie itself. They linked me to ΟΥΚαδες*, who I not only did not know, but value-wise and ideologically we are in opposite worlds . They linked me to “Greek Mafia” bombs which is a place that makes me sick. They used two of my personal friendships with people who have died to set up a script that would give medals to the Ministry of Civil Protection and feed lies to willing journalists. Their lie was exposed, but no one will talk about it.

During my time in prison I had developed friendships with various people who had experienced the conditions of incarceration with me. These friendships did not mean professional cooperation or common goals in our further life. The truth is simple and clear. The friendship I had with certain people, who have now been dead for some time, had nothing to do with either their professional or any other occupations. Their own business, choices, friendships and enmities were their own business, not mine. The media has dubbed me as a man who owned, not one but more than one, petrol stations in partnership with other people. A lie that never and nowhere has the slightest grain of truth and I challenge the police or the media who are so fond of repeating it to report the slightest evidence to back it up. Where I operate professionally is fully known to the counter-terrorism and all the other police agencies that have been watching me for years at my place of work. Then, in addition to being potentially involved in fuel smuggling schemes, they are now trying to make their stories even more inflated by trying to implicate me in cases involving cigarette smuggling and clashes between people involved in it… Another outright lie and I challenge the police and the media who are now reproducing it to find the slightest evidence that shows any connection to anything like this. The police who have had me under constant “surveillance” since my release if there was the slightest basis in these fictions you can be sure that they would have already set up an inflated case to sell another one of their “successes”. They even went so far as to report that they are even considering my involvement in blowing up the Aegina water pipeline, far surpassing previous stages of ridiculousness.

My life path was and is different. I had and have no connection with these places and if the media that are so fond of reproducing it, let them say a single fact, apart from the existence of certain friendships, which, after all, I have never hidden. If I ever went to jail for something I actually did (not like now that is the product of a frame-up) it would be for political reasons and never for criminal and “para” capitalist reasons.

My case was eventually separated from the ΟΥΚαδες and I ended up being tried by a single judge misdemeanor court for a simple misdemeanor. Continue reading “Greece: Two texts from the recently imprisoned comrade & former member of Conspiracy of Cells of Fire Christos Tsakalos EN/ES [Updated]” →

Italy: ‘In the sunlight’ Luigi Palli

Posted on 2024/02/11 - 2024/02/11 by darknights

Carlo Carrà, The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli, 1910-1911 (oil on canvas, 198.7×259.1 cm, currently at the Museum of Modern Art, New York).

In the sunlight

I had thought, clumsily, that this would go on for less time. Yet, given the stubbornness with which the state wants to silence us (and quickly condemn us), I decided to take the floor again. Which is wise or not matters little. Then again, hard to say whether giving up (whether by compulsion or not) any interaction with one’s affections and struggle is wise.

Sure, there are many ploys that are surely smarter than a signed first and last name black on white. But there is one thing I can’t stop thinking is right: putting your face to it. Yes, this small but profound issue for me is very much linked to what have been (and will be) all the publishing projects or stirring moments that have involved me over the years.

It is what I have always, personally, ardently supported. To say loud and clear that I support and agree with direct action, making explicit what I think is the most congenial method of achieving the zeroing out of the “values” of bourgeois society. The insurrectional method. The attack on men and structures of the state and Capitalism.

Here, I don’t believe there are anarchists who are afraid to say these things. I think it is the essence of the revolutionary himself this obstinacy, this constant quest, to spread and bring out ideas, to create or sustain dimensions of social confrontation.

The attempt to define us as a clandestine and terrorist organization fails not so much in the actual facts, such as our membership in an extremely public anarchist circle, or for editing a newspaper that was distributed not certainly (and perhaps unfortunately) in secrecy in the locker rooms of some factory, but fails and is demolished by the simple fact that anarchists, revolutionaries all in general, spread ideas in the light of day.

We are not a sect of little boys who tell themselves about it, we are proletarians and with other proletarians we interact, spreading the ideas that seem most congenial to us for human liberation.

Depriving us of the availability, then of our books and our venues (which, moreover, are expressly and insistently OPEN to everyone except cops and bosses), would lock us into a vortex of total isolation aimed at a forced “hiding” unable then to operate effectively, alienating anarchism in the eyes of the exploited. Which, in my opinion, we have seen happen and intensify over the past two decades. Dangerous, then, closure. Continue reading “Italy: ‘In the sunlight’ Luigi Palli” →

Greece: Thanos Chatziangelou|…firm steps to the end

Posted on 2024/01/25 - 2024/01/25 by darknights

Don’t stop me. I’m dreaming.

We’ve lived bent over centuries of injustice.

Centuries of loneliness.

Now don’t. Don’t stop me.

Now and here and forever and ever and everywhere.

I dream of freedom…

I dream because I love.

Big dreams in the sky

Don’t ask. Don’t stop me.

It’s now to restore

the supreme act of moral right.

To make a poem of Life.

And Life into action.

It’s a dream that I can I can I can

I LOVE YOU

And you don’t stop me I don’t dream. I’m living.

I’m waiting! I’m waiting for those looks, those looks, those looks, those looks, those looks, those looks, those looks. Fearful faces behind the robes of blind justice. Sons and daughters – the genetic children of Themis – critics of justice, who steel their filth with the law of silence. And in their path, the fates of men dragging against the earth like a ragged rag.

I wait! I expect the spectators to be ashamed, when they are silent while they suffer. They build the principality of submission with empty denials and conventions. With prayers and pleas, with begging and misery. Political misery. And they weave their slavery, one knot at a time. One knot at a time. Till all the light is hidden.

I’m waiting! I go back and wait. Among men forgotten and excommunicated. Carrying a heavy burden, for my ego, for the us. For the we to exist. For the cold not to become an unbearable totality. So every morning, in the mirror of my cell, I see a human face. Tired, yes, but human.

With an inert conscience and rigid pride, I serve the denial and wait. This day and the thousands of nights in its wake. Without spotless moons and fixed sunsets, without dry rains and untouched winds.

As many times as it takes and from the beginning.

I am defending ANARCHY.

Thanos Chatziangelou, imprisoned member of the Anarchist Action Organization

C’ Wing, Larissa Prison

24/1/2024

Source: athens.indymedia

DN Note

On January 24, the second application for suspension of the sentence of comrade Thanos has begun to be examined by the five-member Criminal Court of Appeal in Larissa. It has already been rejected 1st September 2023 and his request for a short leave.

$hile: Faced with life imprisonment in disguise, action is always worthwhile. Statement by Francisco Solar.

Posted on 2024/01/10 - 2024/01/10 by darknights

Faced with life imprisonment in disguise, action is always worthwhile

Was anything else expected from Power? Although the sentence of 86 years in prison has provoked surprise and some consternation, the Power acted accordingly. It has punished forceful actions directed against its defenders and representatives, the audacity of the open rebellion that hit their spaces that they believed impregnable and also the unabashed and unambiguous vindication of such attacks, demonstrating that they perceive the danger implicit in the dissemination of ideas and actions.

The State has acted as it is and that should not surprise us.

It proceeded as it has historically done when it has been directly attacked, when they have really felt the threat of seeing their lives at risk and when, moreover, it has not found submission or repentance.

Along with seeking to bury me for life in this place, this sentence clearly constitutes an intimidating signal for all anarchist spaces and individualities that openly position themselves for combat insofar as it intends to put an end to offensive practices that refuse to disappear and that demonstrated their scope and potential in the October revolt. It is, in short, a blow to anarchism of action as a whole that reflects the threat it poses to Power, which, although it may sound paradoxical, shows that the insurrectional path fulfills part of its purposes. The fact that we are being persecuted, that years ago they created a specialized anti-anarchist unit which they have now replicated to fight organized crime, and that we are given 86-year sentences, are indicators that the path of action worries and worries the powerful.

The insistence and, at times, the intensification of anarchic action has led to a forceful condemnation that clearly has a demobilizing pretension and a sense of political revenge.

However, it is undeniable that lately there has not been an advance in the anarchic offensive, presenting, rather, a stagnation and even a decrease in the development and multiplication of transgressive practices. I think this is due to multiple aspects among which are the repressive variable as well as a post revolt effect that, apparently, has led to demobilization in several environments and individualities. I believe that a deeper analysis of this issue deserves a more detailed analysis, which is not the case here.

And if you ask me if it was worth it. I answer not only that it was worth it, but that it is and will be absolutely worth it. That taking the individual decision to rebel, to take revenge and to put an end, even for an instant, to the impunity of the powerful is one of the most beautiful moments that can be experienced. That linking word and action, going beyond mere slogans emptied of content, strengthens and gives meaning to an individual and collective position of conflict. That taking ideas to the realm of the possible is always necessary and indispensable if one freely decides to confront Power, even if it costs decades of imprisonment and even life. Action is always worthwhile.

This concealed life sentence, which is one of the highest international sentences against an anarchist, is obviously intended to pacify, but it is up to us to ensure that this signal achieves its goal. It is in our will and decision to make these sentences completely lose their meaning and even constitute one more motive to attack, as the “Grupo de acción 6 de julio – Nueva Subversión” rightly exposed after the recent explosive attack against a bank branch.

Here inside, understanding, as I pointed out a few years ago, that anarchists in prison are active comrades who are temporarily locked up, in opposition and avoiding the limiting pigeonholing of the figure of “prisoner”, is that I intend to continue contributing to the different initiatives of the anarchic struggle. To insist on the permanent struggle for the annulment of the sentences of the military justice and with the campaign for the liberation of comrade Marcelo Villarroel, the freedom of anarchist and subversive prisoners and the destruction of the prison society.

Anarchist and subversive prisoners to the streets!

Let the prisons explode!

Long live anarchy!

Francisco Solar Dominguez

La Gonzalina Prison – Rancagua.

December 2023

Source: Informativo Anarquista

Greece: Thanos Chatziangelou ‘The Palestinian Resistance as a reference point for the declaration of the anti-imperialist civil war’

Posted on 2023/11/28 - 2023/11/28 by darknights

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’” →

$hile: Anarchist comrade Francisco Solar’s words in solidarity with Marcelo Villarroel

Posted on 2023/09/21 by darknights

Solidarity is attack

It is not the fruit of a profound analysis that by striking with forcefulness and frequency, it is possible to bend the hand of Power. This has been demonstrated in multiple experiences of struggle in different territories and at different times.

At this moment the situation of comrade Marcelo Villarroel requires, without a doubt, that decision and collective and individual will to make the Power and its legal apparatus bend. There are several documents, writings and communiqués that have been disseminated in recent times that expose Marcelo’s situation and the legal aberration that is being applied to him, where ultimately a clear reason of State is perceived to keep him locked up. Therefore, what remains is to act to get the comrade out on the streets and thus open unsuspected paths for the return to the streets of the anarchist and subversive prisoners.

Marcelo Villarroel to the street!

Anarchist and subversive prisoners to the streets!

Long live anarchy!

-Francisco Solar Dominguez

La Gonzalina Prison – Rancagua

Sept 2023

Source: Informativo Anarquista