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screen reading version – single page for easy scrolling
print-ready version – (imposed, print double sided, short-edge bind)
We present the English translation of the French publication ‘Black Out. Controversy about meaning and efficiency of sabotage’
Between February and March 2020, all over the world, heads of state made solemn and grave announcements in order to prepare their populations for what appeared to be a new era : one of war against the virus. Within a couple months, the sabotage of telecommunication infrastructures had almost become a daily event in France, as well as in other European countries. Simultaneously, a debate sprang up within anarchist and radical ecological publications, in particular about the meaning and efficiency of these acts. How could we undermine technological control ? Could we provoke a tipping point within this situation? What scenarios did these sabotages open up ? How could we consider efficiency, organization and ethics altogether? Nowadays, the situation has evolved, but the problems brought up by the following texts remain unresolved, maybe even more so now, and without obvious answers : what are the links between direct action and social or ecological movements? What strategies emerge when we separate or combine anarchist, ecologist and techno-critical perspectives? How do these strategies integrate a now-decisive element : the war in Europe, which will guide and harden the grip of states on their populations.
This text, since it publication, has inspired many anarchists in their projects, proposals and practice, but it is with no sense of nostalgia that we have reprinted this booklet, rather because we realize that its central questions and critiques are more relevant than ever: how to identify the enemies of freedom, those in the ivory towers, those on the streets, those within our struggles?
“Published in May 1998 by NN editions, a publisher started only seven months earlier by some anarchists who had participated in the weekly newspaper Canenero, this booklet, has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, Dutch, German. Since then, it has nourished reflections, offered suggestions, strengthened tensions, raised doubts, as well as provoking much irritation (the concept of ‘the existent’ in particular, in its bursting totality, has proven rather indigestible for those who aspire to administer the State in any way). In its small way, At Daggers Drawn has contributed to the spread of an autonomous, insurrectional anarchist perspective. A perspective that is inherently irreducible to “small reformist steps” and not seduced by “a revolt for a few intimates to the sound of pyrotechnics and poorly crafted slogans”. Forged in the rejection of the false choice between citizenist reformism and vanguardist armed struggle, these pages assert the immediate necessity and possibility of an insurrectional poetry carried out by all. This should not be confused with pathetic political propaganda, nor with boastful and self-referential communiqués.
[…]
It is well known who the authour of this text is: no one. Born from long and continuous discussions, writing, re-writing, additions, changes, suggestions and corrections, At Daggers Drawn should belong to anyone who recognises themselves in it, just as it always should be. Like everything that is the work of no single individual, it belongs to everyone in general.”
– From the introduction of Ai ferri corti, ed. L’oro del tempo, 2015
At daggers drawn: an expression that can be traced back to a variety of historical anecdotes, commonly defining a very specific moment of a violent conflict – the crudest, in the greatest physical proximity and the closest to its end. For those choosing to not look away, nor accept, nor reproduce the miserable and tragic existent that authority imposes, conflict seems inevitable.
As power, its promises, its progress, its blackmails, keep scaring and seducing even those who speak of freedom from authority, we are still faced with the same frustration. We find, over and over, and closer and closer, anarchists making choices based on logics of convenience, efficiency, political strategy and the spotlights of the spectacle, rather than defending, no matter what, anti-authoritarian ethics. So yes, conflict also against the false critics, those who talk about freedom, but when “necessary” throw away our ideas and practices for the sake of favourable alliances, popular acceptance and a chance at a by-all-means-necessary “victory”.
So what these pages declare is permanent conflict: anti-authoritarian ethics are under permanent attack, from all sides, and if those who carry them in their hearts do not defend them, even when it’s exhausting, uncomfortable and inconvenient, their existence in space and time and memory will be relinquished to where authority wants them…
It is with the same passion and urgency that shook us the first time we read these pages that we announce a new print run, in English and German.
Available at: rupture.noblogs.org
It has been 13 years since our comrade Mauricio Morales, the punky, left his earthly life in the midst of the offensive that with courage and will he raised against the tortured bastards of the gendarmerie school. Unfortunately, the explosive device he was carrying started earlier than expected, generating the consequences already known by many. We embrace punky and his actions from the depths of our irreducible spirit, meeting him on different fronts: against prisons, capital, speciesism and civilization.
It is in this last front, responding to the call to raise the memory of punky in this Black May, is that we have decided to attack a telecommunications antenna of the Entel company, located on a hill in the commune of Puente Alto, in the capital of the territory dominated by the Chilean state. We are and will always be against the advance of technology and the digitalization of our lives. The existence of these means the exploitation and devastation of the ñuke mapu, the extraction of its minerals through the genocide of wild species in pursuit of the filthy commodities needed by the warriors to reproduce their cursed existence. Antennas like this one erode their natural environment, both at the time of their installation, as well as in the recurrent maintenance they require. Moreover, the effects on the different beings produced by a world overloaded with electromagnetic waves through these antennas and new technologies such as the 5G network are doubtful. We are not scientists nor do we pretend to prove that they do harm, but the invitation of our instinct to destroy them is enough for us.
We know the winkul, we are not alien and we will never be alien to the wild and free life that lives there. We identify with the insects, the earth, the plants, the animals, the birds. We set out to fly like them and direct our sights to the target. We attack without hesitation, claiming with dignity the destruction and sabotage against the power, its authorities and the gear of domination that spreads thanks to the murderous civilizing progress. We studied the place, we understand the risks of actions in nature, so we made sure that the necessary firewalls were in place so as not to affect wildlife. And so it was, in an act of consistency and thanks to a timed incendiary device, all the electrical connections of the antenna were destroyed by the restless fire of our free piukes. The company is still unable to resume operations in the sector, which fills us with joy. Continue reading “Civilization’s Hostage Situation”
PDF: Dark Nights #52 ‘Alfredo Cospito: Class hatred & the myth of avenging anarchy.’
International zine of social war contributing a partial text of Alfredo Cospito’s book ‘Which International?’ that has been used against him as a reason to incarcerate him in the isolation regime of 41 bis. They want to silence him, but we will not let the fascist Italian state to do so.
Dark Nights returns to its original 4 page format with the flyer handed out by comrades in Italy ‘Class hatred & the myth of avenging anarchy.’ Included is also a ‘Direct Action Chronology’ since our comrade Alfredo was imprisoned in the torturous 41 bis.
A STORM IS COMING!
Print it out, distribute it, leave it in a random place!
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PDF: Anarki & Pembebasan Hewan – Jurnal Serangan Liar
Penulis: Warzone Distro
Sumber: Warzone Distro
Alih bahasa & penyunting: Rudal Jelajah
“Hubungan anti-otoritarian dengan hewan non-manusia (dan bumi) dikombinasikan dengan serangan klandestin terhadap masyarakat industri dapat dilihat sepanjang sejarah. Dahulu dan sekarang, banyak anarkis tidak hanya mempertahankan gaya hidup vegan sebagai penolakan hierarki dalam hubungan mereka dengan hewan non-manusia, tetapi juga mengakui perlunya menghancurkan peradaban itu sendiri.
Zine ini dibuat dengan tujuan untuk menggambarkan hubungan antara veganisme, anarki individualis, dan serangan insureksioner dengan menyoroti beberapa dari banyak kelompok dan sel yang mengubah kemarahan menjadi tindakan”
EN: Anarchy & Animal Liberation: A Journal of Wild Attack
PDF: Anarchy & Animal Liberation – A Journal of Wild Attack
From back cover:
“The anti-authoritarian relationship with non-human animals (and the earth) combined with clandestine attack against industrial society can be seen throughout history. Past and present, many anarchists not only maintain a vegan lifestyle as a rejection of hierarchy in their relationships to non-human animals, but also recognize the necessity for destroying civilization itself.
This zine was created with the intention of illustrating the relationship between veganism, individualist anarchy and insurrectionary attack by highlighting a few of the many groups and cells that turned anger into action.”
Source: Warzone Distro
We present here for the first time 325 magazine in Indonesian, translated by our Indonesian comrades & Semerdekazine.
For the Black International & conflict with the Techno Prison World.
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https://anathema.noblogs.org/post/2022/10/24/volume-8-issue-2/
In this issue:
What Went Down
Interviews from the Meadows
Alabama Prison Strike
The Social and Survival: On Becoming a Threat
When One Door Closes….Break It In: Thoughts on the Criminalization
of Abortion
The Conscious Soldier-Brother: Puerto Rican Struggle
Cospito on Hunger Strike
Service
Fanzine and review of the documentary on CLODO (Committee for the Liquidation or Destruction of Computers)
A documentary delves into the mystery surrounding a group of anonymous activists who carried out a series of arson attacks in Toulouse in the 1980s.
In the 1980s, the French city of Toulouse was home to a number of companies that used computers to further the aims of France’s police and military-industrial complex. These companies, such as Sperry Univac – a major U.S. equipment and electronics company – were among the first to create digital surveillance systems and manufactured products that would make warfare easier for the state by improving the accuracy of missiles.
In addition to housing these private military companies, Toulouse was also home to a milieu of radicals, including Spanish anti-fascists fleeing Franco; Action Directe guerrillas; and a new left forged in the aftershocks of May 1968, when students and workers staged a series of strikes that rejected the authority of the ruling Gaullist party and the orthodox Marxism of the French Communist Party.
It was in this context that an activist group called the Committee for the Liquidation Or Destruction of Computers (CLODO) emerged, which carried out several arson attacks against computers of military technology companies in Toulouse during the 1980s. Not much is known about CLODO. It disappeared completely after committing some six successful and two unsuccessful attacks against technology companies, leaving satirical communiqués as the only proof of its existence.
An introduction to the translation of one of its communiqués suggests that the group may have emerged from a citywide coalition to prevent the construction of the Golfech nuclear plant on the local Garonne River. In 1981, when this movement reached a stalemate, some participants resorted to an intensive campaign of sabotage. CLODO, who claimed to be computer workers, may have taken this sabotage impulse and applied it to computers, which in their view were “the preferred tool of the rulers. They are used to exploit, file, control and repress”. Continue reading “CLODO (…when matches were the “off” button)”
Ya esta en las calles:
Kalinov Most. Publicación Anarquista Internacional #9/Agosto 2022.
En este número podrás encontrar:
-Editorial
-Un virus recorre el mundo, una pandemia que lo encierra. Reflexiones sobre la cuestión del COVID
-Apuntes al inicio de la guerra en Ucrania
-Entre la exposición y el silencio. Reflexiones sobre un debate en curso
-El engaño y la falsificación en la guerra social
-La mejor defensa es un buen ataque. Sobre la situación de lxs anarquistas presxs en Italia
APORTES EXTERNOS
-Historias
-Algunos extractos de «Nacionalismo dos punto cero»
Este y otros números los puedes encontrar en:
Chile (Editorial Memoria Negra), España-Barcelona (Librería La Rosa de Foc), Argentina (Expandiendo La Revuelta), Uruguay (Criaturas Fantásticas) y México (Konspiración Iconoclasta)
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