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North Wales, UK: Daniel Andreas San Diego arrested by counter-terrorist cops, wanted by the FBI in connection with two animal liberation related bombings in San Francisco in 2003.

Posted on 2024/11/27 - 2024/11/27 by darknights

Daniel Andreas San Diego has been wanted by the FBI in connection with two bombings which took place in San Francisco in 2003 claimed by Revolutionary Cells – Animal Liberation Brigade, simliar to the Animal Rights Militia in the UK, that ignores the Animal Liberation Front’s policy of taking all necessary precautions to avoid harm to human life. The two bombs were placed at the offices of biotechnology corporation Chiron Inc. in Emeryville, California, in August 2003. The first bomb detonated early in the morning, while the second, which was set to detonate an hour after the initial blast, was found and defused before it went off. Chiron Inc. was targetted for its links to Huntingdon Life Sciences (now Inotiv), the animal torturers and killers who were targetted by the Animal Liberation Front (A.L.F.) and campaigned against by Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC).

A month later, another bomb filled with nails went off at a nutritional products corporation, Shaklee Corporation, which makes nutritional supplements and eco-friendly shampoos and lotions – in Pleasanton, Calififornia. Nobody was killed or injured in the blast. It was targeted because its parent company, Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical, who does/did business also with HLS.

Communique of the Revolutionary Cells – Animal Liberation Brigade bomb attack on Shaklee :

“On the night of September 25th volunteers from the Revolutionary Cells attacked a subsidiary of a notorious HLS client, Yamanouchi. We left an approximately 10lb ammonium nitrate bomb strapped with nails outside of Shaklee Inc, whose CEO is both the CEO for Shaklee and Yamanouchi Consumer Inc. We gave all of the customers the chance, the choice, to withdraw their business from HLS. Now you all will have to reap what you have sown. All customers and their families are considered legitimate targets.

Hey Sean Lance, and the rest of the Chiron team, how are you sleeping? You never know when your house, your car even, might go boom. Who knows, that new car in the parking lot may be packed with explosives. Or maybe it will be a shot in the dark.

We have given all of the collaborators a chance to withdraw from their relations from HLS. We will now be doubling the size of every device we make. Today it is 10lbs, tomorrow 20….until your buildings are nothing more than rubble. It is time for this war to truely have two sides. No more will all of the killing be done by the oppressors, now the oppressed will strike back. We will be non-violent when the these people are non-violent to the animal nations.

In memory of all of those fallen before us in the war for liberation: Jill Phipps (animal activist), Barry Horne (ALF), Olaia Kastresana (ETA), Arkaitz Otazua (ETA), Angayarkanni (LTTE), Babu (LTTE), Bobby Sands (IRA), Patsy O’Hara (INLA), Carlos Guiliani (anti-globilization martyr), Lee Kyung-hae (farmer and anti-globablization victim), and many more on numerous other fronts. We won’t forget you, we won’t let your deaths be in vain.

Gora Euskadi Ta Askatasuna!
Up the Real IRA!
Long live the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine!
Viva La Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia!
Long live the Frontu Di Liberazione Naziunalista Corsu!
For the creation of Revolutionary Cells!
For Humyn, Earth & Animal Liberation!

Bringing the bomb and the bullet back into amerikan politics, Revolutionary
Cells –animal liberation brigade

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The revolutionary cells exists as a front group for militants across the liberationary movement spectrum. We are anarchists, communists, anti-racists, animal liberationists, earth liberationists, luddites, feminists, queer liberationists, and many more things across various other fronts. Where ever there is oppression there are those unwilling to idly stand by and let it occur, and those people make up the nucleus of the revolutionary cells.

Who are the revolutionary cells? It is an anti-gmo activist destroying a gmo crop, it is a basque youth driving a car packed with explosives destined for a spanish politician, it is a queer bashing back, a rape victim putting a bullet in the rapist, a corsican nationalist planting a bomb at a french bank, it is a cincinatti riot in response to police brutality, an animal liberationist shooting a vivisector dead on his doorstep. In short it is the spirit of resistance realized. It is moving from politics to praxis.

Anyone who takes part in the war against the oppressive heirarchies in this world can consider themselves a member of the Revolutionary Cells.

Revolutionary Cells Guidelines:

1. To take strategic direct action (be it non-violent or not) against the oppressive institutions that permeate the world.

2. Make every effort to minimize non-target casualties, be they human or non-human.

3. Respect a diversity of tactics, whether they be non-violent or not.

4. Any underground activist fighting for the liberation of the humyn, earth or animal nations may consider themselves a Revolutionary Cells volunteer.”

San Diego was later put on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list in 2009. He was arrested at a property in a rural area next to woodland. Following his capture, San Diego appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court as the process to extradite him to the US to face charges begins.

Solidarity and complicity to Daniel Andreas San Diego who had the strength to take the eco struggle to the belly of the beast.

Lincolnshire, UK: Howling Wolf Commando set two meat trucks on fire in memory of Lobo

Posted on 2024/11/27 - 2024/11/27 by darknights

25th November, Lincolnshire UK

Received anonymously via email:

“On the night of the anniversary of the death of Lobo, Elefteria Hambi, we set alight two meat trucks parked on the road next to a slaughterhouse in Lincolnshire. We placed a small bottle of gasoline next to the front tyre and used fire starter paste to create a quick fuse that would allow us to monitor the safety of the operation. With no buildings or people around, the operation was successful and nobody risked being hurt.

We remember through fire, with the hope that from the ashes we can build a world all our martyrs would be proud of.

Lobo never forgotten.
Kyriakos Ximitris always present.

Howling wolf commando.”

Source: Unoffensive Animal

UK: Solidarity with Ross Smith

Posted on 2024/11/27 by darknights

Solidarity with Ross Smith imprisoned in UK

Ross Smith is imprisoned in the long-term high security prison HMP Garth for possession of a Skorpion submachine gun and a hand grenade. By the time Ross gets out he will have done 22 years in prison. Ross would like to hear from you and receive postcards, letters and books. He is part of the counter-culture and likes anarchist ideas, anti-art/Dada, sound-systems, nihilism, ecology and the natural world. Ross likes training and is into fitness. Ross is from North Wales. This is how he described himself:

“Free rave crew, Dub/Junglist hippie kid, been living with the middle-finger up to the state since the age of 6. Fight The System / Fuck Gun Control – FTS FGC. Started a 7 year sentence in 2016 for drugs, money laundering and constitutent parts of a Colt 1911a, got recalled for being inside an exculsion zone (my home town), got parole then 10 days later recalled for firearms and explosives, not charged then 2 days before release after serving 5 years of the 7 year sentence was charged and remanded, then given an extra 14 years 3 months after 9 month remand time deducted for a submachine gun, hand grenade and ammunition. This brings my total hostage time to over 15 years in decrepit hell-holes, the latter being a 2/3 sentence, even though no violence was committed.

Love and respect to all wishing for freedom and total destruction of the state.

I’m a lover of natural history, passionate about music and art, I was previously self-employed doing garden design, construction and maintenance in North Wales, also sub-contracting to Snowdonia national park and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, doing conservation work. I’m an audiophile, sound-system lover, worshipper of low frequencies.”

Write to Ross:

Ross Smith
A3659DT
HMP Garth
Ulnes Walton
Leyland
PR26 8NE
UK

UK: From London to Athens Solidarity to the Political Prisoners Marianna, Dimitra, Dimitris, Hands Off Romanos, Fallen Anarchist Kyriakos Forever Alive

Posted on 2024/11/22 - 2024/11/22 by darknights

SOLIDARITY FROM LONDON

On October 31, anarchist comrade Kyriakos X. is killed by a bomb explosion while handling it in an apartment in Athens. The explosion seriously injures anarchist comrade Marianna M., who, along with other anarchist comrades, faces prosecution under charges of forming and participating in a terrorist organization.

On November 18, comrade Nikos Romanos is also arrested in connection with the same events. Nikos Romanos held his friend and comrade Alexis Grigoropoulos in his arms as he took his final breath on December 6, 2008, assassinated by the bullet of a special state officer.

In the years that followed, the Greek anti-terrorist agency repeatedly targeted Nikos and other anarchists, imprisoning them with fabricated evidence in an effort to suppress the blooming anti-authoritarian social movements. Nikos Romanos spent years as a political prisoner, held hostage by the state, before being released in recent years.

NO ONE ALONE / NO ONE IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE

THE REBELLION OF THE EXPLOITED IS NEVER TERRORISM

FROM LONDON TO ATHENS, SOLIDARITY TO NIKOS, MARIANNA, DIMITRA, DIMITRIS AND ALL OTHER PRISONERS OF THE STATE AROUND THE WORLD

FALLEN ANARCHIST KYRIAKOS LIVES FOREVER IN OUR STRUGGLES

UK: Twenty three hens liberated in memory of Barry Horne

Posted on 2024/11/13 by darknights

4th November, UK.

received anonymously via email:

“23 years later and we are still thinking of Barry Horne. Those who take action for liberation are never forgotten.

Barry gave his all and fought like hell. If you don’t know about some of the things he was involved in; from fighting to save Rocky the dolphin, to raiding Interfauna, to smashing fancy wine bottles at a vivisectors conference and so much more! You need to go learn some history and get inspired.

We thought of you Barry as we broke our way into a ‘free range’ egg farm and the stench stung our eyes. We thought of all the fire inside you that fueled you to fight so hard for animal liberation, right till your last breath. May that fire burn as bright for all of us and spur us on till we win.

Fuck fur farms, fuck vivisection labs, fuck zoos, fuck oceanariums, fuck your ‘free range’ farms, fuck the hunts, fuck prisons, fuck all cages everywhere!

In his own words “If you don’t act then you condone. If you don’t fight then you don’t win. And if you don’t win then you are responsible for the death and suffering that will go on and on.””

Source: Unoffensive Animal

Anarchist Toby Shone Free in the Forest!

Posted on 2024/11/13 - 2024/11/18 by darknights

Toby Shone walked free from HMP Garth on Monday 11th November after serving his entire sentence. He was released at 8:30am and picked up by friends and comrades. He has no licence conditions or restrictions.

The State made a few last desperate attempts to exercise their spite and misery at losing Toby, including removing another close comrade from his phone list four days before his release, but it was to no avail.

Nothing is over, everything continues.

UK: “Unsurprising Fact” – Letter By Anarchist Prisoner Toby Shone + Fallout From Publication Of “Unsurprising Fact”

Posted on 2024/11/02 - 2024/11/03 by darknights

“Unsurprising Fact” – Letter By Anarchist Prisoner Toby Shone

17/10/24

Some things don’t surprise us and for sure the recourse to judicial options I find distasteful but expedient. Anarchism is either illegal or it is not anarchism as our dear comrade Gustavo Rodriguez reminds us. Nevertheless, over the past few months my lawyers were able to obtain a Security Intelligence Report (SIR) produced by the prison’s anti-terror bureaucrats. This disclosure occurred in the course of a parole motion, which was denied in any event. The Secretary of State opposed my release and used a non-disclosure application to prevent me from seeing or being able to respond to “evidence” used against me on grounds of “national security”. The Parole Board disagreed and granted me access to a scant eight pages of intelligence reports. These cover the time period September 2023 – January 2024 and show an incomplete snapshot of the surveillance and censorship of my correspondence and books, the gathering of information on those that I am in contact with and the intel received about the fireworks solidarity demo at Bristol prison last year when I was detained there. The report revealed the collection of all the names, addresses and personal details of all those who communicate with me. For example, it is noted that one comrade writes that he works as a postman, another comrade “has a daughter in prison”, etc. Also listed in the entries are any personal connections and any details related to affiliations to any groups or tendencies. Geographic analysis using Google Maps has been made to view their locations. The Star and Shadow Cinema in Newcastle upon Tyne is designated a “potential meeting point” and BASE in Bristol described as “a heavily graffitied possible squat or commune.

Thus the level of intelligence and analysis displayed is low and crude but we can anticipate that the data is funnelled to the security services and the police state.

The security regime that I am imposed with is directed from outside the prison by a panel* comprising of senior police, Counter Terror Unit, National Security Division, governmental administration and forensic psychology.

We know that the state is afraid and takes step of repression; however it is rare that we see the evidence and its workings, therefore I am giving this account as my response.

I have nothing to justify.

In this situation I already knew perfectly well before disclosure what the secret “evidence” consisted off – the fact that I maintain my perspective and contacts with the anarchist dependency and with the social movement. The stand that I continue to write “and try to receive” letters and I am sent books and publications with critical content.

I will not apologise one sentence for those things.

I send my greetings to Alfredo, Anna, Juan and all the prisoners and those persecuted in Italy.

To Francisco, Monica and all the imprisoned comrades in Chile.

To the comrades imprisonned and those in struggle in Greece.

To Daniela Klette in Germany, strength.

Likewise to all the comrades detained in every territory and to the groups of action, I send a hug and my complicity.

A warm hug to Claudio who is now free.

To the application of practical theory.

For a black international.

Toby Shone
13th October 2024
HMP Garth
North-West

* MAPPA – Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangement

Fallout From Publication Of “Unsurprising Fact”

22/10/24

As the result of Toby Shone having giving the text “Unsurprising Fact” to Brighton ABC, he had a visit from Counter-Terror Prevent duo Ian Turner and Mick McCormack on the morning of October 21st. He was issued 3 administrative sanctions and is now on Basic IEP regime, which means no television and only £5 a week to spend. The sanctions were for: writing an open letter to Joe Black at Brighton ABC on October 13th. [“Unsurprising Fact” was dictacted over the phone]; repeated phone calls to a friend during which she put him on speaker phone so that he could also talk to others in the room; and for speaking disrespectfully about staff including his Probation Offender Manager person Clare Ashton in a conversation with another contact in September. The first two people have been removed from his phone list.

NB: Toby is due to be relased on November 13th, 2024, having served his full sentence. This is just the latest (and hopefully the last) vidictive move by HMP Garth’s “anti-terror bureaucrats” attempt to punish him during his final days at “His Majesty’s pleasure.

Source: Brighton Anarchist Black Cross

UK: Further attacks planned by fascists across the island

Posted on 2024/08/05 - 2024/08/05 by darknights

Trusted comrades have handed to us details of new planned attacks across the country organised by fascist/far right groups. After the attacks upon the Rotherham and Tamworth hotels yesterday, where asylum seekers are housed, both had side entrances set on fire by fascists. We cannot let the blatant attempts by fascists to lead pogroms around the island, to terrorise everyone that doesn’t agree with them.

For anyone who is still under the illusion that this is about children being murdered or some kind of rebellion, revolution or insurrection of the people, that its not to do with the far right, fascists, neo-nazis, racism and Islamophobia, we advise you to sort out your head, not listen to social media influencers or the manistream media, we have seen with our own two eyes well known fascists and neo-nazis on the streets, organising online through social media and telegram.

Fascism and racism doesn’t exist in a void, successive governments not only here on this island but also around the world have been using racist, Islamophobic, anti-immigration propaganda to serve their own power games, from Trump to Bolsonaro and Suella Braverman to Priti Patel, even the cops and armed forces being infiltrated by neo-nazi groups proscribed by the state as terrorists, the whole liberal democracy is corrupted to the core. If they don’t tell you that the refugees are the problem, they will tell you not to fight back, to rely on the cops, the very system that also brought this about.

The only way to fight back against racism and fascism is to physcially fight it off the streets.

Keep safe, organise with trusted comrades, keep commucation off phones and internet, mask up.

“Adolf Hitler himself said that the only way the rise of the German Nazi Party could have been prevented was if its enemies had recognised it for what it was right at the start and had smashed it in its infancy with utmost force.” – Oi Polloi, ‘Bash the Fash’

UK: Convicted neo-Nazi terrorist was at Southport riot

Posted on 2024/08/02 - 2024/08/02 by darknights

One of the far-right activists who travelled to Southport on Tuesday night was Matthew Hankinson, an unrepentant neo-Nazi terrorist, who was jailed for six years for his membership of the proscribed neo-Nazi youth group National Action (NA).

Posts on Hankinson’s account on X (formerly Twitter) reveal he was present at the riot, where he took photographs and recorded videos of the violence. In one gleeful post, which included a video of a burning police van, Hankinson wrote: “‘Piggy in the middle’ Police vans trapped between English People showing solidarity in the face of foreign terror get set on fire by misguided Patriots who take vengence (sic) into their own hands. ”.

Before he was jailed, Hankinson lived outside St Helens in Newton-le-Willows.

NA were proscribed in the wake of the murder of Jo Cox MP after one of them posted “649 to go” on Twitter and they set the title on their website to “Death to traitors, Freedom for Britain”, the slogan said in court by Jo Cox’s killer.

Hankinson’s first post on X includes the same slogan and says: “Those who take issue with the Righteous and Just sentiment of these Noble words are those same subversive Traitors that are oppressing and destroying Britain.”

After NA were proscribed, Hankinson continued to be involved and was present at a meeting in a Wetherspoons where the now convicted neo-Nazi paedophile terrorist Jack Renshaw shared a plan to murder his local MP. Renshaw was jailed for life and must serve at least 20 years in prison.

The violence in Southport on Tuesday night, where far-right activists and racist locals rioted in a grieving community, has sparked a wave of anti-migrant violence with disorder taking place in London and Hartlepool last night and anti-migrant protests in Manchester and Aldershot. More protests are planned around the country over the coming days.

We revealed fascist group Patriotic Alternative (PA) were one of the groups behind the protest which turned violent in Southport on Tuesday evening. David Miles (aka Jack The Nipper) from the West Midlands, was one of the PA activists to have travelled to Southport.

Miles could be seen facing down riot police, wearing a t-shirt featuring the slogan ‘Free Sam Melia’. Melia, PA’s Yorkshire regional organiser, is currently serving a prison sentence for producing racist stickers. The protest was promoted by PA’s Wales regional organiser, violent football hooligan Joe Butler (aka Joe Marsh). Butler has a series of convictions for stabbing football fans and attacking women.

Leading politicians are discussing responding to the Southport riot by proscribing the English Defence League, an organisation which has not existed for more than five years. Hankinson’s presence shows that state bans won’t stop neo-Nazis from being involved in violent disorder.

Source: Red Flare

DN Note:

Patriotic Alternative (PA)’s regional organiser for Wales is Joe Butler, also known as Joe Marsh, a leading figure in the Pie & Mash Squad hooligan group. Butler is a violent fascist and football hooligan who was jailed in 2015 for attacking a female anti-austerity protester in central London the previous year.

The Pie & Mash Squad have been responsible for several attacks on left-wing activists, including an attack on a squat and an attack on a 12 year-old girl and her father. The attack on the squat in January 2017 was led by the Pie & Mash Squad who were joined by supporters of the now-banned neo-Nazi terrorist organisation National Action (NA). The squat mentioned was Belgravia ANAL Embassy a £15 million mansion in London’s bourgeois Belgravia neighbourhood which had been opened up to rough sleepers.

Patriotic Alternative activist David Miles in Southport, 30 July 2024. One activist to bus into town was David Miles (AKA the English Wanderer) from Birmingham, a core member of Patriotic Alternative (PA), the UK’s most active fascist group. Miles somewhat unwisely posted pictures of himself at the event on social media.

Conservative-endorsed “youth” group Turning Point UK linked to political violence

Posted on 2024/08/02 by darknights

DN Note: The PDF contained in the text mentions organising against the Labour Party and Jeremy Corbyn as well as attacks on the Socialist Worker Party. We would like to express that we don’t care for these political entities which we are also opposed to, we add this PDF because we find it clearly explains the increasing connections between the Conservative Party that has lurched more to the far right during and now out of power. It also identifies the far right scum involved which we will always never hesitate to broadcast far and wide. We also add that Turning Point is one of the most prominent groups that have been pushing the protests, riots, attacks on mosques and migrant accomodation that have spread in the last week.

Our report, Turning Point UK: Conservative hooligans, details our undercover infiltration of Turning Point UK (TPUK) which saw members of the group’s secret “elite” Direct Action Team offering to sell offensive weapons to other members ahead of protests which subsequently saw outbreaks of violent disorder.

TPUK has previously been endorsed by several leading figures in the Conservative Party, is involved in far-right street violence and has activists currently in prison.

TPUK’s honorary president, Conservative candidate Marco Longhi may have misled the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards about his relationship to the group.

Allan Jones, a spokesperson for anti-fascist investigators Red Flare, said: “TPUK connects the halls of power to violent neo-Nazis involved in racist attacks. In between schmoozing with Conservative party establishment figures, Jack Ross has been rubbing shoulders with violent neo-Nazis convicted of hate crimes.

“Ross should be expelled from the Conservative party for leading a violent far-right street gang. If the people of Dudley decide to re-elect Marco Longhi, he’s got questions to answer about his relationship with TPUK.”

On 11 November 2023, TPUK mobilised for far-right protests which caused widespread violence and disruption across Westminster, leading to 126 arrests and Suella Braverman’s subsequent resignation as Home Secretary.

Source: Red Flare