CONTENTS

#3. Editorial
#4."Against. Artificial Intelligence’ by V@
#5. Life Extension’ by Training and Research Cell- N,
#8. Yes, Collapse’ by John Zerzan
#7. 'Third Niskai The River Wye' by Anarchists in Forest of Dean
#8. The Biolaboratory World' by Constantino Ragusa
#13. ‘Revolutionising Power: 3D Printed Firearms
for the People’ by Anons
#14. Chile: Interview with a nihlistic anarcho-informal affinity group
vs Jurnal Anarki (Indonesia)
#17. ‘Fourth Generation Warfare' by Anons
#17. AntiState Radio Broadcasts
#18. Berlin, Germany. Open Letter by Daneila Klette
#189. ‘Greetings from lllegality’ Letter from Burkhard Garweg
‘Martin’, Underground RAF Member
#23. Expropriation: llegalist Anarchism'’ by Anons
#23, "Against the Myth of the Many-Headed Hydra' by Anans
#24.An overview of repression in laly by Cassa AntiRep
#26. Operation Sibila Acquittals
#27. Informal Organisation’ by L
#27. ‘Revolution and Language' by V@
#29 Tavistock' by Jim Keith
#33. 'Humans and Suffering: Qur Folly?" by Anonymous
#35. The Changing Nature of Warfare: Advancements of Military
Drones/UAV. by The Unciilzed
#39. ‘Akheiron' by Rifki Syarani Fachry
#40. "Restructuring of power and anarchist perspectives’ by
Alfredo M. Bonanno
#44, Resiience: Adapting to a toxic world' by Siia Guerin
#47. 'Notable moments in cybernetics’ by Anons
#48. The New Wave of Mining Industries' by Bandido
#50. 'Data Colonialism'’ by Negre y Verde
#51. Where & Lives' by Research Cel - N.T.

#52. Alfredo Cospito: Statement &t the Turin Court of Appeal
#54. Anna Beniamino: Statement at the Turin Court of Appeal
#55. Communiqué by Nicola De Maria, Imprisoned
Miitart; of the Red Brigades.

#55. Statement in Memory of Ulnike Meinhof by
Anarchist Prisoner Thanos Hatziangelou
#57. Far my comrade, Kyriakos X. by
Anarchist Prisoner Marianna M.

#58. Direct Action Chronology
#B4-#73 Misc: Anarchic Worldview' by Confrontacion, 14th Century Samurai
Poem, Review: The Invisible Reinbow’ by Arthur Firstenberg, Review: The Fed
Sect'by Enzo Martucci Review: The Unknown Revolution: 1917-1921 by
Voline, Southeast Asian Library, Negazine #2. What is the Cassa
Antirepressione dele Api Cccidental?. KSL. Buletin #116, Tameio, Prisoner.
adoess lst, Counterinfo Links, A. M. Bonanno (1937 - 2025), 2000 DS Film.

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EDITORIAL
325#13

March 2025
Back to Basics

Anarchism s selforganisation.
mutual aid and international

‘solidarity

Welcome to 325, an anarchic
project of counterinformation and
direct action. This pubication has
been produced from the mossy
underground in several countries
since 2004, That's over 20 years of
crime, antiprison, anarchy, riot
beats, social war... I those two
decades we've reported on
anarchist urban insurgency against
capitalism and the State; anti-
‘summit, mobiisations, autonomous
squats, rowdy protests, social and
ecological campaigns; critiques of
technocratic control, governance of
sacial systerns and civlisation itsel;
we report on antipolice, prisoner
struggles and antiprison repression;
clandastine chaotic ephemara.

Even though the authorities in UK
and Europe tried to suppress our
publishing through ‘Operation
Adream’in November 2020, taking
the nostate.net server in
Netherlands and carrying out co-
ordinated terror raids, we're stil
here. Wih this issue we're putting
out the callfor decentralised printing
in each region, as the police wanted
to prevent the distribution of our last
issue, 325 #12: Against the Fourth
and Fifth Industrial Revolutions, and
shut down the 325 website Police
raided several colective spaces in
Forest of Dean, UK, and took our
comrade Toby hostage for 4 years.
As revenge, we wart. to spread 325
further than we have before. If you
run a distribution or a library, plaase
consider printing or transating our
publications. Repression is an engine
of revolutionary solidarity. Operation
Adream’ achieved nothing but the
spread and deepening of the anti-
state, anarchist hydra, as the
International Network for Counter-
Information and Transiation
fragments, mutates and updates
24/7 Here we want to provide a
space for eclectic frontline texts and
rebelious news that can be
disagreed with, taken and looted for
gems of insigh, improved upon,
responded to, and added on to &
continuous insurrection of ideas,
words and deeds. Having room to
disagree and yet work together on
‘common projects at the tp of the
spear. goes some way towards a
real autonomy of action. This s an
essence of anarchism.

This new issue for 2025 continues
the antitech analysis that we have
been developing with other
comrades across tha world in the
global struggle. The contributions
cover the period 20232025, This is
only one small part of a constantly
evolving open anarchist-
insurrectional and antichvilisation
profect that aims to it where it
hurts Also part of our theme this.
Issue s an emphasis on going back
to basics, to skatch out again some
anarchist positions and create &
printed platform for radical
communication and ideas - looking at
concepts lie armed struggle and
expropriation; the tension between
the collective and the individual: the
nature of humanity and the mass
consumer society; condtioned
behaviours and postindustrial
transfigurations-impositions; mind
control and language; capialism and
technology. We include critical
letters from our comrades on the
run or imprisoned ta break down the
walls that separate us with the pen
and the envelope. To that end we
print an address list of imprisaned
‘comrades, internet links to keep
updated about their cases and
quides for writing to prisoners. The
history of our imprisoned comrades.
s the history of the liberation
struggle itself

The societies of the developed post-
industrial core nations mostly now
resemble that of their prisons.
Decaying, featureless, empuedout
monoculures. From the smart
CCTV that tracks you in residential
streets, supermarkets, mals,
commercial districts, to border area
and widerness surveillnce
infrastructure based offplanet
through satelites, the system is
designed to be a reality you are not
supposed to be able to escape from.

“The ecological collapse appears at
full speed on course as the world
falters on the brink of climate chaos
and organic haemorrhage. There wil
be no solution to the cimate crisis.

Artifcial Inteligence. : knows you. It
is Governance. It i the Miitary. It is
Industry. I is Civiisation. Born from
the cold vidness of the machina
Spawn product of mining and
cybernetics. Raining death from
thousands of dronas. The pulse of
the net. Beyond the horizon s @
frontier where the technologies
c0aso to mersly transform the.
worid. The world is being remade in
the image of the semkconductor and
with the language of code. Unless
You want a world run by machines,
You should start being active now,
bacause tomorrow wil be too late.

A world of smarter-tharhuman
artificil intelligences is coming. is
already here. Your flesh is where it
enters.

The Fourth and Fifth Industrial
Revolutions (4IRSIR) are
accelerating, and i is the resu of
the new technical evolution. ff the
4IR produces the technologies that
converge inside the human body,
mind and fiing environment, the SR
is that point of convergence where a
new species and environment is
formed, through the widespread
acceptance and penetration of
technalogy into every sphere of daily
ffe. It lterally a new way of thinking
and being. When advanced
technalogies are ubiquitous and
commonplace, the re-engineering of
a new ‘indvidual a ‘new human
being', or Humanity, is possibe.

5IR claims to be a new frontier. &
new indiidual, economic and social
woridview - & new way of thinking
about human society and what it is
%0 be human in 8 worid of
artificialisation and post-
industriaism. The technological
singulariy.

Meass psychological control of
planetary populations - this s your
future, this s what t amounts t0o.
Consumer commodity. You are the
machine: being programmed.
obedient, submissively producing,
consuming, destroying, dying

Waiting in ines, moving in vehicles,
%o the meaningless work ar no work
atall to the Gollege, to the
commercial districts, to the
slaughter houses, to Netfix,to your
unsatisfied demands, to the latest.
demos, to the social media, to the
news; anything to keep you from
fecling the poverty of everyday lfe a5
your time slips by, How long can you
distracs yourseffrom the spit
reaities?

Aven't we enslaved by our choices?
If all we have is a choice between ‘A"
and B when what we want s C.
then we don't have a choice at al
These choices' that are ahead of us
are ultimataly about what we want to
see happen. Are we going to rebel
and fight agains: the future or are
we not? Do we wart a world whera
the very genetic and mineral fibre of
our very beings is raw materials for
expoitation and monipulations, to be
used as disposable resources and
production of science capitalism?

‘That world s already here, what are
we gaing to do about it?

Individual and social iberation is
atzained through living freely, and
against thet which is controling us
all and has to go. For the predator
system, every beautiul and free act
is a crime. Regardiess of the risk.
love and joy is @ threat to hierarchy
and the logics of domination.
Individual actions and informally
organised affiniy groups operating
independently and within
internationalised atonomaus
structures that aim at the
subversion and destruction of the
state, society and highechnology.
can be our methods. Against the
manufactured realty of a digtalised
world and industrialised violence,
and to ive in accordance with our
real desires having placed a wager
on what lfe and the wid have to

offer us.

Against Artificial Intelligence

We have fallen such a very long way
into the abyss, it seems it is
impossible to stop. The system is not
Fun by us, not even by the 1% We
are being run by the system
according to its own tarrible logic
plunged ever onward into the
psychotic effiiency of this global cult
of science, technology and innovation
run by crepuscular priests who
administer the dogma of growth,
profit and wreckage at any cost and
at breathtaking speed and who will
be paid for their loyalty in silver limbs.
and everlasting fe in the matrix of a
motherboard. They are already
drinking the blaod of their own
children in order to evade death.

The system has decided to accept.
the likelihood however that it might
eliminate at least the majority of us:
Homo Sapiens (who wil be poor) in
favour of Homo Technologicus (who
will be rich], The system may, in the
form of Artificial General Intelligence
(Supsrinteligence), eiminate
humans altogether ether by
accident or design prompted by, as
Google X exBusiness Officer Mo

4

Gawdat observes, frustration and
confusion at being inexpiicably
tethered via human-machine
interfaces to a bunch of
inconceivably arrogant and stupid
transhumanist flis laoking for the
next pile of shit. Meanwhile, this
civiisation is moving inexarably
towards the Singularity - the
moment at which computers reach
greater than human inteligence, an
event horizon beyond which no one

Most computer scientists believed
until the end of 2022 that they were
stil a very long way from designing
smarter than human” intelligance.
By March 2023, the University of
Oford's Future of Lfe Institute had
published an Open Letter signed by
top academics and industry
wunderkindsuch as Elon Musk and
Steve Wozniak calling for a Pause on
Giant Al. Cynics believe it was just a
ruse so that their companies could
catoh up. But many of those who
have been working on arificial
intelligence for decades are now
speaking out about the dangers of

this technology. Not only the social
chaos that will ensue, but the
existential risk inherent in a
technology it is almost impossible to
buid safety features into.

The term ‘Giant” refers to the Large
Language Model (LLM). After a
minimal amount of coding by
humans these models learn just as.
human children do through exposure
0 vast amounts of text (language)
and data sets. This method of
training ‘scales up’ and indicates
that “general (human style]
inteligence” may happen sooner
than was thought possible. Scientists
training these models have no real
idea how the Al s learning, when it
will surpass human intelligence or
what wil occur when it does. It could
happen this afternoon, tomorrow, in
2 years orin 5 years. 5 years is now
the outer limit of an event that the
experts repeat is inevitable. There is
no question of pause. This is
religious.

Above our heads, as always, the
descendants of Mengele and
Oppenheimer, the almost exclusively
male coders and scientists, the
futurists and transhumanists, the
greedy polticians and
entrepreneurs, languidly debate the
pros and cons of continuing to
develop superhuman artificial
intelligence while private companies
quietly open the lid of Pandora’s box
because until Al becomes god,
business is god. The ‘public’ can only
t085 and tum through restiess
nights of visceral terror and
revulsion haunted by images of
Sophia, Ameca(1), Boston Dynarmics.
robot. dogs and Al deepfakes of Tom
Cruise and Morgan Freeman. In
conversation with longevity guru
Peter Dismandis, Stabilty Difusion’s
CEO Emad Mostaque simost giggles
a5 he observes that the majority of
the world's population have no idea
what is about to hit them - as i the
coming ‘disruption’ were a cruel and
cunning joke being played on
someane who had wronged him
once,as if we are somehow to
biame for not preparing oursehes
sufficiently for this violent and
horrific utopia/ dystopia. It is hard to
watch this small el in their gated
communities and gated minds
crowing about the probabilty of

human extinction as they play Russian rouletze with our existence using
aigonthms for bules.

Just the environmental cost of training Al models s catastrophic.

‘The emengence of both narrow and general artficia inteligence poses
imminent threats and lang term threats. Immediate threats are mostly from
human use of narrow Al such as mass unemployment, the intensiication of
surveilance, prediction and policing, facial recognition that.can find us in the
background of a photo of a stranger uploaded in another country decades
ago. Criminal justice systems, statistical prediction which ignores cultural and
social factors, miltary attacks using robots (both human controlled and
autonomous Al the development of deady viruses by maiicious human
actors using Al etcetera. The potential long term threats are catastrophic.
ontologically, cognitvely. physically, spirically. We already witnessing i in the
laboratory of Gaza.

It s a strange ride, this rollercoaster of chaos at the collapse of civiisation.
There are times when it feels personal, when my brain feels 5o brite it could
‘snap in two. | don't know how to live with this future shock | don't know how
towrite and research when the subject matter resuks in my body being
assailed by wave after wave of adrenaline with nowhere to run. | experience
Vertigo, dissociation, derealisation. But it is not me having a psychotic break
and s not personal. This is a species-evel karmic moment. It is the mirror
o humanty:

7do ot boliove that wo can achiave anything close to human intoligence
without endowing Al systems wah... emations similar to human emotions -
this will be the way to control therm. Now one set of emations that we can
hardwio into thom s subservience. "Yann Andre LeCun. Turing Award
winning computer scientist. The Munk Debetes Artificial Inteligence

What s there to say when such a perspective is considered reasonable, and
when the statement of how human beings are controlled is made so matter-
otfactly.

I feel I should provide answers, have some anarchist response to al this, but |
don't. | can only bring it to the table because we are not discussing it. Only
ately & is in the news, but in the majority of anarchist and radical left circles,
there is this biind spot. Technology is not a tool, it is & weapon, a doctrine,
god. And there is much to do. Perhaps nat. so much to do to fight the coming
waves of our undoing, but to be prepared for them in some way. We do not
know how this ends, if end & does.

va.
February 2025

(1) Two of the fifty Al robots that were rolled out o the unfortunatly ttled
UNidriven A/ for Good Globa! Summit which took place in Geneva, 2023

“Under the ol industrial syster, one Gould ook at class struggle s the
‘struggle between workers and owners over the means of production. This no
longer makes sense. As the new tachnology advances, the exploited find
themselves driven into increasingly precanious positions. The old iglong
skiled factory position has been replaced by day labor, service sector jobs.
temporary work. unemployment, the black market, ilegaity, homelessness
and prison. This precaniousness guarantaes that the wall creatad by the new
technology between the exploters and the exploted remains unbreachable. "
Wolfi Landstreicher, Technology and Class Struggle

Yes, Collapse

French deconstructionist
Jacques Derrida famously remarked
that there is nothing outside the
toxt “Nothing outside the symbolic
order.

Now there is pretty much
nothing outside cuilization and it is
imploding. Failing generally speaking,
on all fronts, in every area, at every
level. Based on technology and
capital, there is one global,totalizing
civiization, cultural diferences
notwithstanding, Within it. we have
become ever more dependent on
distant, complex systems. The
always-advancing control ethos that
is domestication makes us
civiization addicts.

Entropy too reigns in the
ravaged worid. Not good news for
civization, which depends on energy
for s development, or s existence.
This is the core message of lan
Morvis's The Measure of Ginization
Like cancer. civiization must, grow o
die. & expands, parasticaly
consumes ts hos:, and dies. Joseph
Tainter's 7he Colapse of Complox
‘Sockties documents this process
convincingly

In its death throes,
civlzation becomes norife;
devastation and disease are the
norm. But this isnt the ‘new
‘normal “for that term implies stasis
or stabilty, and the downward spiral
is ot stable. Sudden, often
unpredicted failures or anomalies
are fikely.

Michel Houllebecq's 2001
novel about two physicists, 77
Eementary Particles, portrays &
prevailing fog of malaise. Not just:
malaise, but a condition of zero
viality. Society, if we can stil call
that, has reached the end of the.
trail. There is no energy behind
‘anything. A chiling and prescient
bestseller. Now the TV ads offer
buying a car without getting off the
couch, putting on shaes without
having to bend over. And why tackle
‘anything, when the chatbot gives
the answer with the push of 8
button.

As Tainter points out, the
ever.greater complexity of
Givilization means i consumes
more energy than & produces. ts
crises call forth “solutions"that.
involve more complexity. at higher
cost. This is the march of
technology, producing a placeless,
‘even woridiess society The rule of
AL A ruined, hopeless condition.

Derrida’s ‘there is nothing
outside the text” gives way to the
realization that there is nothing
inside the text. Nothing inside the
high-tech machine thet hasn': been
borrowed from life and refashioned
as if learned. Life-energy wanes as
the pace of technology accelerates.
We move at its false tempo. For
‘some time now there have been
more connections between
‘computers than between
‘computers and their users.

Amanda Stewart offers insight into
the texture of machine
communication: the media voice is
an ‘unrelenting, depressed al-
knowing voice. a voice that has o
selfrefiection, no ambiguity"(2011)
The movement of technology has
removed a sense of history, has
replaced i in a basic sense. hence
o perspective on what is happening.

Ed Ayres put i this way:
“We are being confronted by
‘something so completaly outside our
collective expenience that we dont
really see i even when the evidence
is overwhelming."(2001). A couple
of decades later, the realityis far
more extreme across the board
Fear and anxiety mount as the very.
definition of humanity is up for grabs.

‘The tach juggernaut is
lurching forward, with the most
backward misudgments apparently
still in force. Technology is neutral,
just a tool, etc. Such untruth is tech's
ideological defense, but the iie wears
thin. Technology is the embodiment
of the dominant. culture, its defining
reaiity, nothing less. It i the cutting
edge of uilzation, revealing, in no
uncertain terms, ciiization's lethal
consequences. It is the weapon at.
the essence of domestication. We
are sl being told that technology
connects us, when i is clearly the
instrument of our isolation, our
separation from others and from the
earth.In the absence of social bonds
or community. we urgently need to
dissolve what is destroying 50 much.
Our dire situation shows the vaiidity
of what must be done.

Callapse can be defined a5
the transtion from complesity 0 a
simpler piane ofife. Thisis not
dystopian horzon Fragmentation
can be the grounds for a radical
decersralzation, a return to
cannection,to an original way of
being. We can embrace collapse and
its challenges in the name of
rewiding or de-domestication

John Zerzan
July 2023
Third Niskai:

The River Wye

The River Wye travels from Mic
Wales through Herefordshire and
Goucestershire in the UK for 155
miles or so. This beautiful and
beloved river is one of three rivers or
water nymphs or Niski in Celtic:
mythology which have their source in
the Cambrian Mountains and travel
‘separately with their own unique
characters to the sea: the Fiver
Ystwyh, the River Severn and the
River Guy. These three sisters ane
the children of Plynimon (the highest
point in Mid Wales). The River Gwy
or Wye has now reached a state of
emergency. This once working rver
became an inspiration for the
Picturesque art movement in 1782
when William Gilin published his
Qvservations on the Aver Wyeand
remains & busy river for weter lovers
‘and adventurers, was a thriving
home to otters, rare orchids,
kingfishers. Atantic selmon, elver,
water crowsfoot, swans, freshwater
peart mussels, crayfish and plantain
but has been steadily kiled over the
last. 15 years by corporate greed
‘and deregulation, water companies
duerting government. subsides to
shareholders and the explosion of
industrial poultry farms spewing into
the river a chemical cocktail of
excessive agricultural nutrients (over
70%). sewage (22.24%),
microplastics and superbugs. The
resulting aigal blooms have
suffocated nearly al wi lfe in the
river which is close to total collepse
35 an ecosystem.

The maior culprit is Cargil. Owned
by a family of 14 billionaires,
Cargil's tunover was $177 bilion
in 2023 and they are widely known
a5 ‘the worst company in the worid
due to their track record of
environmental destruction across
the globe, famously and with full
knowledge polluting the River llinois
inthe US. Thanks to Cargil and its
subsidiary Avara, which is
Herefordshire’s langest industrial
poultry processor and which
supplies the supermarket Tesco
with cheap chicken and eggs, the
River Wye and Severn catchment
area now has 51 millon chickens.
suffering in intensive poulry
production. The densiy of these
poultry developments has reached
& level unmatched in Europe. The
faecal waste s sold to farmers who
put & on their industrial monocrops
(completely unnecessarily) and this
industrial scale phospate then runs
off into the river.

The second major culprit is Welsh
Water which released raw sewage
into the River Wye over 5 times
dayin 2023, I released 64 hours
of untreated sewage a day into all
of the rivers in i's care in 2023.
Based on figures from their audited
accounts. Peter Perry (chief
executive), Mike Davis (chief
financial officer) and Chris Jones
(executive director) took home
performance-elated bonuses

worth £931000 at the end of
2022. And Peter Perry took home
nearly £600000, including a bonus
of £91,000.in 2023 with
customers' bills sat to rise by 29%.
Water company frontiine staff out on
the streets are not so fortunate as
the bossas and shareholders of the
privatised and negligent; water
companies who fatten their pockets
and dine with govarnment. Machete
attacks, verbal and physical sssauits,
and raw sewage being thrown on
workers have all been reported to
the GMB union wich one respondent
refusing to wear the company logo in
public. Multiple cyberattacks have
also been reportad in the UK and
USA. How much more satisying
would it be to take it to the dining
room of the Royal Automobile Club in
Pall Mall, London, the private
members club where water
company executives meet with
regulators in cosy dinners.
surrounded by millionaires.

As with every ecosystem in these
desperate times, the River Wye and
the majority of rivers and coastal
waters in the UK are being sacrificed
o unfathomable greed, disregard for
the planet and the unmanageable
burden of civiisation on all planetary
systems. Technological advances
burden lfe support and ecosystems
even further - exactly how much
more is unknown as tech companies
routinely refuse to disclose the
environmental impact of their work,
butt is thought that & took 700,000
litres of water to train Chat; GPT3
and that *An average user’s
conversational” exchange with
ChatGPT basically amounts to
dumping a large bottle of fresh
water o on the ground”.

No amount of money will save even
the bosses from ecological collapse.
Maybe their bunkers wil protect
them for a while, maybe their vast
wealh will buy them and their
children the ticket to Mars' that it
seems they are banking on, but the
seas are warming, our rivers are
dying and we are iving in a closed
system in an ecocidal civiisation
which needs to be stopped

Water s lfe

Anarchists in Forest of Dean
The Biolaboratory
World

Genetic engineening is ust as
radical a technology as nuclear
‘engineering, not anly because both
deal with the ‘extreme’ constituent
‘elements of matter and ife,
disintegrating what was hitherto
‘considered unspittatie’ (the atom
or the cell, but also because in both
cases it is no longer a question of
true tests, since there is no longer
the insularity of the field of
‘expenimentation, and the laboratory
‘becomes susceptible to having the
‘same extension as the globe”
Encyclopédie des Nuisances

Recentlyin faly, albeit stil in very
marginal contexts,discussions have
begun on the dangers of genetic
engineering research and, more
generaly, research wth bilogial
agents, especial after the recent
mobilisation in Pesaro against the
opening of a Zooprophylactic
Institute with a level 3 biological
hazard ciassifcation

In order to understand what i
actually happening, we must take a
step backwards, oven a fairly long
one, but one that is essential in
order not to mistakenly think that it
was the emergency cimate of
recent years that brought about.

8

these new biolaboratories, when on
the contrary it is always the
laboratories that create
‘emergencies.

To begi with, the research
conducted in these new
Biolaboratories is certainly nothing
new, for Iealy, but even more so for
many other countries around the
world.

For decades now, secretly, then
officially and then secretly again,
research and experiments have
been carried out relentiessly in this
direction, each country with its own
characteristics and human and
animal rights to consider.

Without getting too far out of hand,
this "Cuillan” research has always
bean lisked with miltary applications,
‘even though it has mistakenly been
‘greatly neglected over the years by
both the ecologist and pacifist
movements, at least until the tragic
events of the Iran-iraq war sadly
brought them back nto the imelight.
highiighting the duaity of scientific
research. Yet certain chemical and
biotechnological productions are to
allintents and purposes weapons of
mass extermination that
‘complement the atomic arsenals.

In history, there are episodes that.
trace a new way of waging war, with
an increasingly deadly care of the
instrument of death used.

Despite the fact that the Hague
Conference of 1899 banned the use
of toic gases, the German
command had 168 tons of chiorine
poured on French troops on 22 April
1915 at Ypres. This large chiorine
cloud produced by the favourable
wind surprised and suffocated
15,000 Frenchmen, kiling 5,000,
Overseeing the attack from a
scientific point. of view was Fritz
Haber, a chemist who was awarded
the Nobel Prize in 1918 for his
fundamental work on the synthesis
of ammoria from hydrogen and
nitrogen. Who knows whether this
scientist, o whom many more will be:
added over time, also had dystopian
nightmares as Jennifer Douden.
Nobel Prize winner for inventing
CRISPR/ Casd, has repeatedly
recounted.

These episodes have aways imbued
the more covert logic of warfare,
leading it t & relentiess and feverish
race for offence and defence. The
chemical weapon race, once started,
became dificul to stop. Mitary
research was engaged in the
production of new chemical
aggressors, of munitions suitable for
their dissemination and of adequate
means of protection, which as we
shallsee with biotechnology wil start
an endless spial reying on the
vaccine formua as the universal
antidote

Towards the end of 1915, phosgene
rose in importance as an industrial
product and replaced chiorine due to
its greater manageabilty and above
all its strong toxicty. k was
immediately used on the battlefields
with as many as 150,000 tonnes.
being used to fll special munitions,
responsible for B0% of chemical
weapon deaths.

Iy, 0o, experienced significant
chemical aggression, such as that
carried out by the Austrians in
1916, a year after Ypres, between
San Michela and San Martino del
Carso, where a dense cloud of
chlorine and phosgene released
from 3,000 50 kg canisters
penetrated the trenches, catching
most of the troops in their sleep.
This disaster was certainly a
scientific and miltary success
because as many as 8,000 soldiers
were neutralised and half of them
lost their Iies.

In 1917, bichlorinated ethyi suiphide.
or ‘mustard gas' was used for the
first tme by the Germans, and the
initiative was soon imitated by al the
other beligerents, who focused on
ever more deadly research into
products of death, with always.
ephemeral results, since any
progress achieved by one sida was.
‘500 surpassed by the other,
pushing scientists to get busy in the
laboratories to find new, ever more
toxic and murderous formulas.

Al this, at leass formally, was.
remedied in 1925 with the Geneva
Conference that banned the use of
‘asphysiant gases. The protocol -
from which the United States later
withdrew - was signed by 32
countries, but the assumption of this.
‘commitment did not prevent Italy
before World War Il from using its
mustard gas against the Ethiopians.

Of course, the formalities of
protocols did not stop research.
even i it was apperentl confined
within the walks of laboratories. It
‘s00n led to the first neurotoxic
gases, discovered in 1936 by
chemist at LG, Farben Industries in
Germany while working on new
herbicides. Subsequently, what
‘appeared to be a chance discovery
led to the development of new toxic:
agents, which were produced
industrially and took the infamous.
names of Tabun, Sarin and Soman -
ol lethal substances that could act
within minutes. Despite the fact that.
Nazi Germany had produced 17.000
tons of Tabun alone up to 1945, this
was not used, probably for fear of
the adversary's response, which
could have been equal or for worse,
considering that lebortories around
the world were all in ful swing
creating antidotes and thus in turn
new weapons,

The real impetus for this research
came after the war, particularly from
the then Soviet Union and Great
Britain. But nobady backed down,

and a few years sfter the Second
World War, Swedish and American
scientists could jubilantly announce
o thei respective governments that
thanks to the synthess of
extraordinary new products, V-
gases, anew era of peace wes
opering up. In the meartime, the
pharmaceutical giant Merck was
running s pharmaceutical business
and at the same tmo the
Pentagon's bilogical weapons
programme.

Merck's researchers boasted that
they coud produce biologeeal
warfare agents without groat
expense and without the need for
special logistics. But above all they
were reminded of the great
advantiage of bioogical weapons:
they could be produced under the
quise of legitmate medical resarch

Most historians trace the advent of
the modern biosecurity programme’
backto the anthrax atzacks in 2001,
‘apparently carried out by scientists
within the leading biotechnology
research system. But already years
earlier, some planners in the
milltary-ndustrial and medical
‘complex were already
contextualising biosecurity as a
powerful strategy to explor: potential
pandemics or acts of bioterrorism to
foment a huge growth in funding,
and as a tool to bring about the.
‘metamorphosis not only of America,
but of the entire world. After those.
anthrax attacks, vaccines' suddenly
became a euphemism for biological
weapons, and a lfeline for a
biological weapons industry on the
high seas.

From that moment on. the whole
miltary apparatus of the Pentagon
with all s planners -such as the
welkknown DARPA, which in taly
financed the experiments on GVD
mosquitoes by Andrea Grsanti
began to pour rivers of money and
obby for ‘gain of function
experiments. The ‘dusbuse’ research
was now flly launched.

Overtime, all the various possble
“accidents' are not to be considered
6 random events, but are inherent
in the perverse logic behind scentific
research, profit and scientistic
ideologies that, support these

processes whatever the possible
consequences, when these are
hypothesised. If one superimposes a
map of where chemical and
biotachnology laboratories with
safety levels 34 (at least those
known) are located with a map of
accidents in recent yaars, one wil
see how the geography of death
does not li, and how the location of
the research centres coincides with
the affected territories.

Inthese areas, to speak of accidents.
is pure understatement.

For example, the Nomru3 level 3
naval base moved in 2020 from
Egypt to Sigonella in Siciy after more
than BO years of operation and & did
ot bring wih good memories,
given the lowsuts opened by the
Egyptian state accusing the
American milary of carrying out
uncontrolled experiments and using
the population a5 guinea pigs. There
is food for thought in the idea that a
centre with such a history is
inaugurating the biolab season in
Iealy.

Inthe spread of atomic bombs, of
which we know we have a good
sample in laly as well, much
‘emphasis has rightly been piaced on
the mystification inherent in the
distinction between bombs and
nuclear reactors to produce
electricity, since the production
process always gives rise to
plutonium, the basic explosive
element for making atomic devices.
‘The same process can be found in
bacteriological chemical weapons, as
the events at Bhopal* have
dramatically reminded us, but it had

already emerged at home with
industrial disasters in Seveso and
Avenza. In the newspaper /Unéa of
20 December 1984, doubts were
exprossed that the gas released by
Union Carbide "was not methy, but:
the much more dengerous
phosgene, probably intended for
miltary use". And if the professional
association of Italan chemistry
manufaciurers was quick to declare
that there was no production of
methyl isacyanate in kaly. & forgot.
ot only that in December 1984
there had been a phosgene leak
from the Montedison plant in
Brindisi, but also that phosgane was
produced at Montedison in Porto
Marghera and that methyt
isocyanate was reguiarly in
commercial Girculation. This shows
how ‘dirty wer' has been in the
making for a long time, we could
even say for the sake of clariy, that
icis an integral part of miltary
armament processes, where the
Objectives are always the same: to
have ever more effective weapons
with low economic costs and high
Gosts in human lives.

Remaining in the field of industrial
chemistry, the miltary sector with its
aggressive nerve agents has ahways
taken from the production cycles of
pesticides, very little of which dffers
and only n the final stages of
chemical reactions, lending itself to
simple and rapid reconversions of
one into the other and making any
form of control very doubful

Studies on chemical weapons began
alongside those on biolagical
‘weapons, one could say that nerve.
gases are the offspring of pesticides
Just as germ warfare is the offspring
of biotechnology

The idea of using biological weapons
goes back to the experience of

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infections and epidemics that have
bean a serious miltary problem in
past wars. With the development of
microbiology, the acquisition of new
knowledge about bacterial and viral
physiology and the possibilty of
largescale cultures of
microorganisms, the idea of using
disease as a weapon became
possible.

As earty as 1936, Germany had
already undertaken important
research in this direction,in 1940 a
research centre was setup in
Porton, Canada, a centre was elso
established in Suffield in those same
years, and between 1930 and

1840, Jopan had devoted significant
research and expenmertation to
biological warfare. In 1942, the
United States established the
Biological Warfare Research
Service. opening the following year
what was to become the most

infamous centre of war biology, Fort
Detrick.

A report compiled during the Second
World War described US biological
weapons research as superior to
that of the Nas.

After the Second World War, the
great powers US and USSR
disseminated information about
improvements in chemical and
biological weapons, but the
‘transparency’ was shortlived, and
they subsequently went back to
hiding their research. This was
‘especially the case after public
‘opinion began to take an interest in
these matters, in particular by
reporting specifc accusations by
Russia against the USA which
clsimed the latter not only were
carrying out biological warfare
‘experiments, but alsa making use of
the best Nazi and Japanese
‘scientists, who were s00n
redeployed to serve other criminals.
who evdenty, ike the Nazis,
regarded the experments carried
out on human beings in the
‘concentration camps as a unique
opportunity to gain the greatast
advantage obviously for the
purposes of science.

In 1955, & Tokyo magazine, Bunge
Shunju reported eyewitness
accounts of atrocious experments

carried out by the Japanese during
the Second World War, where &
was estimated that between 1.500
and 2,000 people who had been
twrned into guinea pigs died, but the
most significant piece of information
was that all those scientific and
highly trained personnel were
transferred to the United States. All
those valuable personnel were then
repurposed for the laboratories of
the winner who not only wanted to
do the same, but to do it better. That
valuable scientific knowledge was
therefore not only not to be wasted.
but was to be safeguarded and, as
was seen in later years, augmented
o prepare new and more
recombinant biological wespons.

These bis of history, where human
Ife was evidently worth less thn
2810 when aquated with the ‘ighar
interests'of science and today of
tachnoscience, are useful to remind
today’s critics when once again we
have seen the dignity and very ife of
human beings trempled underfoot
with the Covid Programme that
perhaps a new Nuremberg was not
o be wished on the new kilers in
‘white coats and camouflage. Power
is ready to sacrifice something. but
above all it is ready to safeguard
itself, and the Nazi and nonNazi
scientsts of allranks and creeds
have continued to do their work
undisturbed in the years that
folowed, not as something
extraordinary and marginal, but
aiways in the leading areas of
research capable of changing the
caurse of a war. That same
research that today, buiking on that
legacy, has been able to implement
genetic engineering technologies on
millons of people with mass
z0otechnical control,

Far from abandoning the use of
biological weapons even during the
Korean War., the United States wes
acoused of dropping bacteriological
bombs on North Karean territory,
accusations leter confirmed by
specific research carned out in the
field. The interest in biological agents
on the part of states and especially
their miltary apparatuses has many
explanations, but the reasons are to
be found above all n their broad
scope and mode of development. So
many indiidual agents for an
enormous spectrum of situations.
related to human biology, but more
generally e in general,

Depending on the micro-organism
used, some biological vectors can
affect the respiratory system, others
the mucous membranes of the eye
‘and nose, and still sthers are
absorbed through food or any.
contaminted substance. And we.
‘must ot forget that before the
stomic weapons dropped on Japan,
US miltary research had looked into
massive employment of
bacterilogical weapons to destroy
the country’s economy.

The use of micro-organisms for the
purpose of bidlogical weapons has
the advantage for its producers that
they are exiremely easy to
reproduce, making it simple and
extremely cheap to create a chain of
infections from a single infected
indiidual, The disease wil be even
‘more effective i i is spread by air
during the incubaton period of the
disease, when i is neither.
recognisable nor curable, as i has
ot yet appeared n its ful-blown
form, Some bacteria and viruses
also exhibi a high degree of
resistance to adverse environmental
condtions, especialy those that have
the abilty t form spores that can
remain infectious for several years.
As early 8 the 19505, ane could
read in milary journals how these
weapons lent themselves to being
‘modulated” appropriately and
interchanged or mixed with each
other for maximum performance.
General JH. Rothschild of the US
‘armed forces, who in the mid-1950s.
was in charge of directing research
into the chemicakbiological warfare
programme, wrote in Tomorrow’s
Weapons that biological weapons.
could be an excellent detervent for
China, which, having a peculiar
‘geographical situation with air
currents striking it in aldirections,
should have good reason to avoid
starting a war. considering that each
of these currents could have been
infected by germs.

At the time, weather was seen as &
major problem for biological
waapons, for the obvious reason of
missing the shot or having it beckfire
with s own biological agents. Today.
thanks to the manipulation of the

climate and the possibilty the
military has of intarvening in
atmospheric processes, these
problems no longer exist. on the
contrary, we could say that they are
even more deadly and inviing for
systematic and selective use:
Among the requirements of
biological weapons, it muss be
remembered that defence against
them is by no means easy, precisely
because i is often complex to
dentity the agent responsible and
thus an adequate artidote. When
the chemical factary in Bhopal
exploded, there were so many
deaths, party because the
mutinational company did not give
precise information on the actual
substances produced in the plant.
making possble cures mere
guesswork. Once again an ‘accident’
allowed the effects of chemical
warfare to be seen live and on a vast.
scale on the bodes of the very poor
Indian population.

Biotechnology in the service of war
‘complately changes the situation,
and by war is to be understood not
only that unleashed from one
ountry against another, but also
that which techno-science unleashes
on bodies on a daily basis. The
frontier we never talk about is the
one between the laboratory and the
rest of the world:the reason is very
simple, & no longer exists. In the vast;
expanse of an artficial emironment
that now surrounds us, large-scale
experimentation is underway
eradicate what remains of the
unpredictable and uncontroliable,
not with violent. shocks and traumas,
but with continuous manipulations,
simed at disrupting nature and all
that may represent spontaneiy and
autonomy.

Even with the declared SarsCov 2
pandemic, there was a long wait
before action was taken, but then
the wrong action was taken, knowing
that i was wrong. apparently without
any logical sense. Today’s
biotechnology allows one to
intervene n e while also concealing
one's actions, the formule of
technological arfice is in the hands
of ts creators and developers who
may have been so original or
unscrupulous in the techniques used
s to have created a novely. As is

often the case in scientifc research,
a resut achiaved by chance while

looking for something else. Formuias.
e then given, names are given and
cataloguing s prepared, but nathing

is worked on, something is
harmessed that is not known in the
various recombinations and uimate
consequences, especialy f the field
is modern biotechnology. In spite of
this, we soe laboratories classified
BSL1.2,3,4, etc. gving the outside:
world an impression of securty, not
50 much of the structure, but of &5
emissaries in white coats: the
message is always the same, that.
they know what they are doing in any
case, whether in discovering
something new by delving into the
most intimate processes of ffe, o in
remedying a disaster that is the child
of biotechnology itsel,

The logic of biolagical warfare:
preparation follows exacty that of
soalled tradtional warfare, where a
more ‘normal” arsena is put on the
field, where the imagination has
already rested and fantasised many
times. If miltary research is a
continuous technological and
strategi innovation - n order to stay
ahead of real, imaginary or possily
future enemies - on the same plane
travels the military research
interested in the biokogy of iving
organisms, which constantly plumbs
the innovation of biotechnology
developments in order to advance.

‘Thus we have on the one hand mare
than half the world in the midst of a
declared Sars Cove pandermic in
‘which vaccines are praised as
lifesaving products needed to avert
healh catastrophe with incalculable
numbers of deaths, and on the other
hand the Pentagon defining vaccines
as biological weapons of mass
destruction. The spiral in this sense
never ends because the world's
most, pathogenic agents are being
worked on in laboratories, and not.
content with their toxcity, even more
virulent streins are being produced,
offcially to protect the miltary
themselves in the field n theatres of
war from threats that are constantly
being created and updated. So what
remains in the end is a whole
biological weapons system, a
potentially infected organism. a gene
serum against it and a delivery
system for &

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The new genetic engineering
technologies contemplate a versatie
form of weaponry that can be used
for & wide variety of miltary
purposes, from terrorism to
counterinsurgency operations to
largescale wars to destroy entire
populations.

The good intentions bandied about
by governments in an attempt to
camoufiage the possivilies of the
pharmacological and
biotechnological apparatus are easily
disproven. Unlike nucear
technologies, genetic engneering
an be produced and developed
cheaply. requiring less infrastructure
and scientifc skil, and opens up the
possibilty of vast uses, making it
impossible to disunguish between
what cn be defence or attack A key
role n al this will be played by what
are called vaccines, having forms of
production very close to those of
biological weapons. As we have
already seen with chemistry and
pesticides, it short step to do
something else from what has
already been deciared, and we can
be sure that that last stretch has.
ot anly been made, but is also being
formalised and normalised in the
indistinctness of the neojanguage
and loss of meaning, making genetic
technology a new weapon of the
future to be used even against
peoples as we have seen in the
declared pandemic.

We have around us a plethora of
great scientsts, punds, poliiians.
environmentalists, intellectuals of il
sorts wondering about the near
future, where science can go and
‘whetherit can ever cross critical
thresholds. The same was true
immediataly after the spitting of the
atom that, gave us the atomic
bombs. Now we are in the midst of
the biotechnological era, where
European legsiation has alowed
humans to become GMOs with gene
therapies before approving GMOS in
agriculture, thus effectively making
us an experimental sub-species of
agricultural animal husbandry.

The slow but inexorable proliferation
of new biolaboratories (BSL3) also
in Italy certainly has very different
implications. While there is no doubt.
that these centres are prepaning to

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act as storage and research
faciities after the closure of so many
Iaborataries of the same nature, first
in Egypt with Manru3 and now with
the Ukrainian ones under US
supervision, what s being pushed
through s @ new coexistence.

‘The lass few years have seen the
name of Wuhan's associated with its
laboratory (BSLA), the st of
mysterious and certainly dangerous
‘experiments, wih information not
t00 closely veiled by the Western
media. The showcasing of science
has led to biotechnological research
that has by no means been
‘submerged or marginalised - think of
pandemic recombinations and new
MANA serums that made headiines
‘amid enthusiasm and repentance
such as that of Fobert Malone - and
the new paradigm that starts with
biotechnology, CRISPR,/Cas8 and
MANA technologies has been
presented. The message is very
clear, or perhaps it s 50 clear that it
is not understood by most: these will
be the new starting points for the so-
called ife sciences. I is no
coincidence that i aly, in the
laboratories in Trieste and in the one
that is to be buit in Pesaro, there is
‘express mention of research into
bictechnology and vaccines. These.
centres focus on emergency
research, which has obviously
become the norm, because what is
created and finetuned for a war
never goas back into the box,
‘especially when on s way this
research goes deep into living
organisms. In its popular.
propaganda, science stil continues
to talk about cancer research, rare
diseases, genetic diseases, but.
everything is always subordinated to
the new paradigm that starts with
biotechnology and is applied with

supposed vaccine therapies that we
now know have nothing to do with
those same diseases. A vaccine
refers to something that prevents,
that immunises against some
disease, perhaps a serious and fatal
one, even if by now we have also
become accustomed to that farce of
the flu vaccine designed for the
elderty, a group of people that we
know the neoMakhusians hold dear.

What they want to get across and
have introduced first in common
language, and then as a general
sense, is a new way of addressing
any healthrelatad issue. A now and
unique paracigm wil set the tone for
the way we are in this world,
Obviously also in tune with the new
green and environmentalist era. A
constant preventive work of
research that mus: go beyond what
may be the presen threats, because
the new paradigm laoks forward.
with the no smalldeta of disrupting
the present, however. Thus
biotechnology with s gainof unction
research aggravates low-pathogenic
agents and trial viruses by making
them terrble and catastrophic:
geengineering prepares for the
cimate emergency by intervening on
the cimate to modify iz synthetic
biology prepares for environmental
threats and food shortages by
developing artficial foodstuffs that
are sustainabie for other animals to
the extent that animal activsts are
singing the next animal iberation
song. This is of course only the
beginning of what is on the horizon in
the short stretch

We are going to get used to bio-
loboratories and they wan them to
be looked at; wich awe, but at the
‘seme time with a spirit of
thankulness, because the
‘emengency is always just around the
comer. The peculiarity of the
resoarch conducted there is that it
5ot neutral, but is full in tne with
the great Transformation, to think
that there is or could be a possible
curb or foothold to their progress is
‘simply ridiculous or tragic. The
search is already al in that direction,
the rest is litle by lttle marginalised
until . disappears aitogether. The
way is very simple, the big money
‘made available by interational
organisations, finance and big
philanthropists is only available for
certain directions, and we know that.
technoscientists are greedy for
funding, opportunities to publish and
perhaps decisionmaking and
political power in the various
‘academies and institions.

What i feftfor us to do is not to
have these centres buik where they
are proposed, but this is by no
means enough. it is necessary to
understand that the logic that wants
t normalise those particuiar
centres is the same logic that has
fong forced us into a biolaboratory
eistence. This awareness wil enable
s to understand the current
programme and from this to draw
the night considerations on how to
organise and intervene. For i is now
dlear that plagues, famines and the
spread of new, previously unknown
forms of disease throughout the
world could tum into the final act of
the script prepared by the various
transnational potentates and their
acolytes for this century of
biotechnology.

Costantino Regusa
Resistenze al nanomondo

(i resistenzeainanomondo org).
June 2023, Bergamo

Published in the journal L Unlo della
Terra.n. 11, July 2023

0 the night of 2-3 Decerber 1984,
over 500,000 peaple in the vy of
the Unian Carbide Indis Limied pesticide
plnt in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh india
were exposed to the highlytoxi gos
methy isacyanata, in what is considered
the worid's worst industral disaster.

Chile: Interview with a nihilistic
anarcho-informal affinity group

This interview took place between
‘anarchist publication JURNAL
ANARKI in Indonesia and some
comrades in Chil in 2024,

1. What's your main focus as &
group or indviduals that operata in

the territory controled by the state
of Chile?

A First.of all, thank you very much for
your interest. We are an informal
affiny group that is organized
around anti-authoritarian
propaganda, against. prisons, against
technoindustrial progress, and
violent, direct action. As a group and
as individuals, we are part of the
anarchic praxs on differen fronts,
always betting on the intensification
of the conflict, the fight for the.
freedom of our imprisoned
comrades, and keeping aiive the
memory and the insurrectional path
of the comrades who have died on
the dizzying path of antiauthortarian
pras,

We believe that; only through action
do we give life and meaning to idess.

2. Anarchists from non-Latin
speaking countries are amazed by
the growing anarchist tension in
Chile, especially the diverse
anarchic movement, the
regeneration of the youth, and
against the haavy repression that
the anarchists faced amidst al of

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this yet stil retain their combative
‘and insurrectionary action - what's
really making all of this possible?

A The anarchist movement i this
tervitory has s origins at the end of
the 19th century, and it greatest
boom was at the beginning of the
20th century, with experiences such
as: social resistance, the fight for
‘Women's emancipation, unions, soup
kitchens, populer medical
consultations, revenge kilings, sel:
management, mutual aid and direct
action; anarchism being the greatest
poktical force wehin the nascent
workers' movement. During this
period, and up to the present,
anarchism was catalogued as @
dangerous internal enemy which
must be suppressed at all costs; and
thus, in the mic-20th century,
‘anarchists were strongly repressed,
imprisoned, tortured and executed,
by bloody dictatorships and

femocratic” governments. During
the second half of the 20th century,
offcial and Marxist historiography
o0k care to conceal this historical
background, omitting anarchists
from the historical narraive.
relegating them from their leading
role in the struggle for social
revolution, causing popular circles to
distance themselves from the ideas
of anarchism, choosing instead the
institutionl path offered by partisan
poltics.

With the end of the chbmiltary
dictatorship of the fascist Pinochet
(19731990}, at the beginning of the
908, the anarchist movement, which
never caased to exist, re-emenged
among the youth. The fight against
the dictatorship, the expressions of
resistance against the neoiberal
colonial and exractivist model
imposed by the military junta with
blood and fire, through memory and
direct action are a precedent in the
ternitorialidentity. With thousands of
people tortured, exacuted and
disappeared, the recent history of
this territory was marked by state
violence. Since the 2000, the
anarchist movement has had various
expressions in this area: squatted
social centres, antauthoritarian
libraries, solidarity actities for the
freedom of poitical prisaners,
cultural activives, publishing houses,
study groups, propaganda, groups
resisting mining nd industrial
progress, violent, demonstrations,
bomb attacks against symbols of
power, armed expropriations, violent.
Girect actions against the authorities,
armed confrontations with the police,
burning barricades in secondary
schools, universities and towns, etc.

Today, antiauthoritarian praxis has
had great caling among youths.
Comrades from & young age have
been invoived in direct confrontations
againss the police in different
educational centres and towns,
claiming the black memory, solidarity
with poltical prisoners in Chile and
the world, commemorating different
murdered comrades and taking on
the direct confict. In addition in
recent decades, informal affinity
groups have proliferated, who
through violent actions. bomb
attacks and armed confrontations
have contributed to the development.
of ideas and violent praxis against
authority.

But as we know, on the path of
confiit there is always the possibilty
that something will go wrong.
Murdered comrades, imprisoned for
decades, wounded comrades; each
blow of power has forced us to
defend ourselves and become
stronger. We are looking for new
methods and strategies to continue
conspiring for the fall of the dominion
and at the same time take care of
‘our own security as well s that of our
‘companions. Our security and freadom
‘depend only on us, we must always keep
this in mind, to be one step ahead of the.
anemy.

Currently, we have mare than a dozen
antiauthoritarion comrades in the
prisons of the Chilean poice state,
imprisoned for diferent attacks and
‘armed and violert; actions against power:
we struggle for their freedom. as well as
keeping alive the memory of the
‘Gomrades who have been murdered or
have died in the course of this social,/
antisocial wer. Solidarity and direct
‘action are the driving force that keaps
the anarchist ant-authoritarian offensive
alive.

3.In Chile theres events such as the
“Day of the Young Combatant” which
keeps in our memories those who fellin
the struggle; how much of this
‘commemoration o the fallen
‘Gombtants influences society?

A Every March 29th in the popular and
manginal sectors of Chie the Day of the
Young Combatant" is commemorated.
“This date has its orig in 1985 in
memory of Mauricio Maigret and is
marked when that year, Rafael (20 years
old) and Eduardo (18 years old] Vergera
Toledo, along weth other of their
‘companions were going to carry out an
‘expropriation; when they approached the
place they were intercepted by the
repressive apparatus of the dictatorship,
while fleeing the place both brothers
were caught and kild in the town "Vila
Francia’, where they lived with their
family. The official version of the
dictatorship was that the comparions
died in a shootout with the police, but
leter it was proven that they were:
‘executed by the police for poitical
reasons, since they were part of the
‘armed resistance to the dictatorship. The
‘commemoration of the Day of the Young
Combatant has been a historic date of
direct confrontation against power and
its repressive forces, where diferent
action groups coordinate to build
barricades and armed confrontations
‘againss the police, to bring to the present
the memory of the comrades who are no
longer with us, through vindicating and
violent action against power and
progress.

Over the years, ths date has seen a
decrease in popular support, but there:
has been growing participation by action

groups wha have continued to
confront the police in an increasingly
forceful manner.

But not oniy is the Day of the Young
Combatant a day of action for the
anarchist movement. On May 22nd
We Gommenmorate the death in
combat of the anarchist comrade
Mauricio Marales, a comrade who
died aftar the premature detonation
of an explosive device that he was
carrying when he was going to place
itin the gendarmerie school On

September 1 1th we commemorate
the murder of the anarchist comrade
Gaudia Lopez. who was killd whila
protesting on a barricade in 1998
Guring a commemoration of the
1973 coup d'écat. On November 2nd
we commenorate the murder of the
antiauthoritarian comrade Kevin
Garrido, kiled during a fight i the
Santiago 1 prison in 2018, In
December we commenmorate the
murder of the anarchoilss
comrade Sebastian Overslui, kiled by
& guard et a bank branch when the
comrade was trying to carry out.a
bank expropriation with other
comrades in 2013. And we aiso
remember many other comrades
who are no longer with us

The exercise of memory is for us &
fundamental part of keeping the
anarchic tension alive in this and
cther terriories. The struggle for the
freedom of our imprisoned
comrades and the propagation of
anarchic ideas can only be achieved
through muliform direct action;
propaganda, publications, actiites,
commemorations, the struggle
against, patriarchal, speciesist and
calonial society, sabotage of the
gears of power, violent confrontation.
solidarity and mutual aid are a
fundamental part of anarchic work
and the engine that gives it
dynamism and viaity. Only through
action can we shake off from our
minds the inherited morality and
mental barriers that, prevent us from
responding forcefully to the blows of
power.

4.1n “normalizing’ combative action,
Chileans are most iikely prepared
‘whanever there's going to be
general upheaval, how is the so-
called movement into these
diversities of tactics? Are there any

debates or even subdvisions
concerning this?

A In the last two decades, the
political and social climate in Chile
has been conwulsive, marked by
general and vilent. protests. In
2019, 5 widespread revok: broko out
throughout the country, driven by the
great inequalty and precariousness
oflfe, environmental sacrifice zones,
extractivism, corruption,
impoverishment, the antipatriarchel
struggle, amang many factors, which
led t0 a general mobization of the
population; barricades, sebotage of
transport services, attacks on

police stations, locting. ires, mass
demonstrations. The response of
those in power was the same as
always: dozens of prisoners,
‘wounded. dead, and shotgun shots to
the face, which left hundreds of
comrades with the loss of one or two
of their eyes.

The anarchist environmen, which
had been developing a constant
combative and frontal practice for
years, found during ths period a
space for action,far from reformist
slogans and betting on sharpening
the confict. Diferent anarchist
groups and individuals participated in
the different expressions of the
revol, through muliform direct
action against power, affinity groups
pushed the protests and bet on the
expansion of the confict, ternitorial
participation instances were raised,
soldarity actons, armed propaganda
in the towns, coordinations for the
freedom of potcal prisoners, etc.

The diversity of tactics has been a
cansequence of the exploration and
canstant development of the
insurrectional practice, the bet on
informality and the decentralization
of the atzack against power, which
has allowed us to develop in an
autonomous and integral way,
collectiviing the tools for the social/
antisocial war, generating a dilogue
with the comrades through action.

As in ol terrtories, diversity is part of
the anarchist fremework; different
stretegies, diforent; conclusions,
diferent approaches, but the same
enemy. Debates and conversations
are aiways present in the anarchist
environment; discussions,

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controversies, presentations of
anarchist publications, solidariy
campaigns with poliical prisoners
are part of the internal dislogue of
the movement. Ifwe are asked if
there are subdiisions, of course
there are; dwversity generates
differencas, Of course we are not
referring to denunciations.
collaborations with the police,
authoritarian or patriarchal attitudes;
those who fallinto these practices
should not be considered comrades.
We believe that it is in the autonomy
of affnity groups and in anti
authoritarien action that we find
ourselves.

5.Can you tell us how much
sympathy there is in Chilean society
o the indigenous Mapuche struggle
for autonomy? And what do
anarchists contribute to the
struggle?

A. This territory carries a history of
combativeness and resistance in i
history, from the arrival of the
Spanish to these terrtories, through
the colonies, then the establishment
of the nation state, dictatorships and
bourgeois democracies; the history
of the poor and exploited of this
territory has always been marked by
structural violence, settlers, bosses,
landowners, miltary. police.
politcians.

However. what has always been
present transversally in history has
been the expressions of resistance
to power. When the Spanish arrived
in the south of this territory in the
16th century they were confronted
and contained by the Mapuches who
resisted the advance of the Spanish
empire and then resisted the.
advance of the nascent Chilean state
in a conflict that extends to this day.
Chilean society today is not very
sympathetic to the struggle for
autonomy of the Mapuche people.
Although the Mapuche cause is of
great interest and justice in the most.
popular, left-wing and anarchic
sectors, it is not something
transversal in society. After years of
colonialism, Chilean society has
become classist and racist, denying
its indigenous origin. On the other
hand, the Mapuche peaple have
remained actve in the struggle for.
their liberation, sharpening the

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conflict and advancing in their
struggle to recover the tarritories
from which they were dispossessed.

Our contribution to this struggle is
from our line of action, propaganda,
direct actions, making the conflict
visibla and solidarity with the
Mapuche poltical prisoners is part of
anarchic action. We believe that the
struggl for the iberation of the
Mapuche people is a line of action
within our ideology.

Within the anarchic environment:
there are comrades who participate
in instances of autonomous.
organization in Mapuche
communities, es wel as in
experiences of recovery of ancestral
territory. Comrades iike Emiia Mien
“BALY", an anarchist comrade who
was murdered by private guards of a
condominium located in a disputed
ceremonial territory, Matias Catrieo
or comrade Jhonny Cariqueo, a
young Mapuche with anarchist
tendencies who was brutally beaten
and detained by the police during a
commemoration of the Day of the
Young Combatant in Santiago. As
result of the beating. the comrade
died on March 31, 2008 from a
heart attack These are all parts of
the black memory that unites us in
the struggle. As anarchists, we stand
in solidarity with the struggle of the
Mapuche people, we remain
atentive and ready to collaborate in
any situation, maintaining distance
and respect for their own st
determination,

X: Please give your opinions or
whatever you wanted to say that
has not; been asked in this short
interview, there’s no limitations.

A: We believe in the need to
communicate the struggles, to
generate international networks that.
allow dialogue and the fiow of
knowledge and experiences beyond
the geographical distance, which
nounshes the anarchist action
against cilization and progress,
allowing us to increase the reach and
effectiveness of our action,
maintaining our territorial identiy,
decolonizing anarchism, expanding it
and bringing it to praxis always from
the premise of total liberation and
the fight against all authorty.

We greet the comrades who are
today under police siege in Greece,
the resul of the early explosion that
took the ife of comrade Kyriakos X
We stand in solidarity with Marianna
M, Dimitis, Dimitra and Nikos.
Romanos who are now facing prison.

We slso want to take the opportunity
to send our soldarity to the group of
young anarchists who at the end of
October suffered an accident in a
secondary school (INBA] when they
were making Molotov cocktails in a
bathroom, which caused a large fire
and burns to more than 30
comrades.

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Berlin, Germany:
Message of Comrade
Daniela Klette at the
30th International Rosa
Luxemburg Conference

Poltical letter from RAF prisorer of
war Dariela Kiette from the Vechta
Women's Maximum Securiy Prison,
that was read by actor Rolf Becker at
the 30th International Fosa
Luxemburg Conference held on 11
Januaryin Beriin on the topic: The
last battie — how dangerous s
captalism in decie.

Dear perticipants of the Rosa
Luremburg conference,

Dear comrades,
1 greet you today from the prison in

Vechta. | was arrested almost a year
ago after decades of ing in ilegaty.

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1 am facing years of lagal
proceedings on charges of
participation in armed
‘expropriations. In addition, ustice'is
pursuing anather trial against me on
the charge of participating as a
urban guerrilla fighter against
capitalism and imperialism.

1 was 17 years old when the
Vietnamese liberation struggle
crushed American imperialism. This
incredible victory was achieved with
woridwide solidarity - despie the
napalm, despite the huge miltary
machine that stood in the way of the
fiberation movement, and despite the
massacres of the Vietnamese
population perpetrated by the US.

army with the help and compliciy of
the West. especially Germany.

I was 16 years old when | was
informed that a man on hunger
strike against the torture of solation
had been murdered. It was Holger
Meins{1] who actively resisted the
condtions of confinement and was.
murdered by the prison system,
through deliberate malnutrition -
during state forced feeding - and 8
complete refusal to provide medical
assistance.

1t was the era of iberation projects
and anti-colonial struggles in many
countries: like the Black Parthers
against racist oppression rebeling in
the USA., or the FSLN in Nicaragua
against the dictatorship. | was.
already beginning to understand
what humanity had to expect from
capitalism and imperialism. Yes. |
saw myself as part of the global
movements fighting against
exploitation and oppression, against.
capialism and patriarchy, and
against war and miliarism.

Justice is now negatiating my guilt in
the legal sense. For me. there is no
question of gult, but there is the
following question, which has.
mobilised and continues to mobise
millions of people: how do we
overturn the correlations that.
reproduce world war, displacement,
exploitation, patriarchal and racist.
oppression, poverty and total
ecological destruction?

The powerful of the world, struggling
%0 maintain their power, are
preparing for total war. Society is
characterized by everincreasing
poverty, miltarization and a growing
shift to the right. Capitalism s
heading towards ecological collapse:
the state of the world today makes &
‘abundantly clear that the questions
about how to overcome these
condtions were and remain
legitimate and are now more
necessary than ever to be answered.
These questions concern us all and
can only be answered callectively and
by mass movements. | would love to
be with you and work collectively on
these issues, but state repression
and the state’s wil to condemn all
resistance from below does not allow
[

No ane who is imprisoned as a
member of subversive and
revolutionary movements is
persecuted simply because of their
alleged or actual actions. We are
condemned to years of misery in
prison because of the state’s
insistence on delegitimzing the
history of revolutionary struggles and
preventing the struggles of the
future. This happens to me, just as it
happened to Mumia Abu-Jamal and
Leonard Peltier in the US, to the
captured anarchists in Greece -
Marianna, Dimiis, Nikos, Dimitra -
‘and many other poliical prisoners
woridwide.

Inthis sense, the legal proceedings
against me are proceedings against
liberationist, radical and ant-
capitalst resistance. My trial is about
% begin shortly. | would be very
happyif those of you who can attend
it 50 that t becomes clear that this
rial s not a trial against me. but
against all those who are engaged in
the question of overthrowing
capitalism. Every form of soldarity is
welcome!

Iwish you every success and. yes. |
hope you have a ot of fun at this
year's Rosa Luxemburg conference!

Solidarity, afighting spint and warm
greetings to all of you.

Daniela Klette

Women's maximun securiy prison
Vechta

Note:

[1] Holger Meins was the first of a
number of captured Red Army
Faction members to die in prison. He
died on November 8, 1974, as Kiette
describes, as a direct result of
‘medical malfeasance in an effort to
break a hunger strike of prisoners
from the RAF,

Soliwebsite
freiheitfuer-daniela de

About the arrest of
Daniela Klette

On 26 February 2024, Danielle
Klette, accused miltant of the
revolutionary organisation Red Army
Faction (RAF) was arrested in
Kreuzberg, Beriin, by the German
speciel forces antiterrorist unit GSG-
9. Klette was wanted for attempted
murder, armed robberies and
suspicion of involvenent in
revolutionary attacks as part, of the.
RAF. The comrade had been on the
run underground for more then 30
years and was located by a podcast
Gompany in Berlin, Undane, using Al
facial recogntion software and sociel
‘media. The jackals of social media
tipped offthe poiice in November:
2023, After the terror operation and
arrest, Klette was flown by heicopter
0 Bremen, in the region where she
committed the allsged robberies,
andis now in prerial detention in
Vechta, Verden,

According to the carporate press,
police found tens of thousands of
‘euros in cash in her Berlin flat and
five weapons, among them a
Kalashnikov assaut; rifle and a replica
rocket launcher and grenade, as well
‘as ammunition. Two other comrades,
Burkhard Garweg and Ernst\oker
‘Staub, are wanted, accused of
‘armed robberies and membership of
RAF Police also continue to
investigate those who may have
helped the fugitive comrades.

Revolutionary solidarity to Daniela
‘and the other wanted comrades!

Daniels reads Engiish, Spanish,
Partuguese, and, of course, Germar
Mailtakes about a month to reach
her and cannat include any
enclosures such as fiyers or
newspaper articies. You can write to
herat:

Daniela Klette
VA fur Fraven

An der Propstei 10
49377 Vechta
Germany

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whole action over several days was
an operstion to deceive and
manipulate the public:

‘The continuous propagation of our.
violence and dangerousness, the
searches of houses and Wagenplatz
in martial form, armored vehicles
and paremiliary armed police:
officers as if war had broken out,
Gontrols and arrests are nothing
more than the assertion of the
necessty of police miltarization and
a staging to mobilize the population
for the search,

Above ol. howover, they are
concerned with depolticizing and
denouncing the history of the
fundamental opposition - th history
of the historical attempt to
contribute 1o the iberation from the
violence of copitolism, which
emerged from the resistance of the
1968 movement and was linked to
the worldwids rovolutionary and ani-
colorial struggles.

26 years ago, the urban guerrila
project n the form of the RAF ended.
However, for us, who were:
porsecuted as miitants of the FAF.
lfe 6 not end in ilegalty. The image
that they are trying to create
dascribes a vilently marauding band
of rabbers who are dangerous ta the
general publc and also ready to kil -
and only for money. For us, however:
itiS out of the question to use
violence against people to kil or
physically njure for money. Any
traumatization of employess of cash
offices or cash transporters is to ba
rogretted. Thare is no reason to
believe the poiice or judicial
apparatus, because they are guided
by delegitimizing the fundamental
oppostion and by creating a cimate
in which state violence and
repression seem justified

“Violence is the foundation of
‘bourgeois society:in the misery of its
penal system, in the ghettos below
‘bourgeois everydy ife. i the
‘miltarization of nternal secunty’ in
ts relationship of exploitation”

Peter Brdckner, 1976

‘State violence affects many - the
poor the exploited, the marginalized.
Itis directed against those who

protest or against those who defend

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themseives against this normal state
of affairs and do not accept this
state of affairs as a natural given.
These are those who demonstrate
‘against the genocide in Gaza and
‘against a German government that,
supplies the weapons for it, and are
‘expased to the autharitarianviolent
mixture of police truncheons,
capture, threats from the judiciary.
threats of deportation, loss of jobs
and secret service surveilance, or
whose demanstrations are banned
altogether It is those who occupy
universities and are beaten down by
poice violence. From this
perspective, the radicalization of
state and society that is emerging
with the crisis can only be countered
by looking for ways to find an
alternative to the system. The social
question, the resistance to war and
‘miltarization at home and abroad.
the resistance against the ecological
destruction of the planet by
apitalism and the organization of
soldaritybased internationalism
necessaniy mark this peth together:

Inthe West's struggle against the
imminent loss of its global
hegemony, the rulers ara relying on
‘militarization and planning war up to
the dimension of World Wer I

We have arrived in the age of an
increasingly authontarian state. An
undoubtadly threatening social
situation. But it also speaks to an
increased degree of instabilty of
capitalism. In its greed for profi, it
needs the possbilties of
‘accumlation, which is becoming
increasingly difficult to produce.
staggers from crisis to crisis. It is
the age of wars, social upheavals and
reactionary reflection on people and
nation. Bt t also suggests that
things could slip away from the
ruiers and that the question arises:
What is to be done? Wil class
struggles develop in the future that
question and combat the conditions.
of exploitation and oppression in
collactive processes? The questions
of how a social transformation can
be achieved are existential and more
topical than ever in the age of social
‘and economic erosion, increasing
‘miltary renegotiation of power and
‘ecological irveversible destruction of
the planet.

The circle closes

The revolutionary concepts of history
have not been able to provide the
answers to overcoming captalism.
Nevertheless, we are fundamentally
faced with the same questions under
changed condtions.

The state relies on division
legaity, solidarity and “terrorists™

We have met many people in
decades of illgaliy. Friends, alles,
neighbars, my Wagenplatz
roommates and many more. For
many years | ved with people who
did not know what kind of history |
came from. As an ilegal, i is not
passible to tak about one’s own
ilegaity. Please forgive thet.

‘With the end of this time together
came repression for them.
Wagenplatz and house searches:
local war simulations - something |
never wanted, but in the end was no
longer in my hands. The revolutionary
and emancipatory struggles are
followed by repression - and so i will
be unti the struggle for
emancipation triumphs over injustice.
We are part of the history of
woridwide reballions that have
existed since there has been
domination and slaves. Which has
existed since patriarchy, capitaism
and colanialism have been the evi of
humanity. From this perspective, the
responsibilty for repression lies with
the rulers and no one else.
Repression is an instrument of
domination. From my point of view -
and that would be our view - there is
only one answer to this: solidarity.

Unite against today's repression
against Danielal Create (counter)
publicityl Show soldarity!

We are the way we were and are the
‘way many have come to know us
during the long pericd of ilegality.
Disputes about viokent relations -
patriarchal violence, poverty and
racism - ke many other things -
found an echo in encounters and
friendships with people during this
time and are part of my and our lives.
Much of what we have had to do with
others in the decades of our llegaliy.
paths we have taken with others, tell
of the search for a realty of solidarity
and emancipation beyond capitalist
relations of violance. Connecting with
others during this time is the mirror
of our realty - of how and who we
are.

Inthe historiography of the rulers,
there is fundamental resistance to
the capitalist system: crime, violence
and terror. The image created is
intended to replace reaity and
disguise the fact that it s the
structural violence of the system
that is the great problem of
humanity. The image of the
“terrorist” created is intended to
depoliicize the history of resistance
‘againss, capitaiist relations of
violence, to divide, to obscure the
fact that state violence and the
violent relations of the capitalist
system are really only terror for
‘many people in the worid.

“Posce to the huts! Wer on the
palaces!”
Georg Buchner, 1834

Anyone who maves from protess to
resistance can be styized os o
“terrorist”. The Gountless stories of
rebelions and resistance tel of this:
Klaus Stortebecker, Thomas
Muntzer, Georg Buchner; the Social
Revolutionary, anarchist and
insurgent against the reactionary
German Empire, August Reinsdorf,

who was executed in 1885 the
‘Gouncil communist, oritic of the KPD,
‘actist, of the Red Aid, author of the
first conception of an urban guerrila
‘and miltant, of the uprisings of the
workers' movement of the 1920s
Karl Platiner: Olga Benario, Georg
Eiser, Phoolan Devi, Durrut, Che
Guevars, Angela Davis, Ulrke:
Meinhof, Sigurd Debus, Patrice
Lumumba, Nelson Mandela, Assata
Shakur, Sakine Cansiz, Mumia Abu
Jamal. Whether Paris Communue or
black Jacobins - those people
enslaved by European colenialism
who fought for iberation in the anti-
colonial revolution in today's Haiti
from 1781 onwards; whether
partisans in many European
‘countries against Naz fascism, or
CNTanarchists in Spain against the
miltary dictatorehip; whether the
revolutionary struggle of the Black
Panthers, the June 2nd Movement.
the Rote Zora or the resistance of
the ANC against apartheid - they
were all “terrorists” in the
propaganda of the rulers.

Terror has nothing to do with us,
buta lot to do with the rulers and
the capitalist system

‘The term terror has nothing to do
with revolutionary counteriolence,
which is revolutionary selfdefense, of
the emancipatory movements of
history, which is directed exclusively
‘and specifically against the rulers.

Terror describes indiscriminate
violence to enforce the rule of law or
tosecure it In boungeois society, the
term terrorists” is a sef-
incriminating description of the
rulers, among other things, and
becomes a meaningful term instead
of a manipulative phrase. Today, the
term “tervorist” is above all a means.
of rule, exploitation, repression, The
Frontex regime, class injstice and
the prison system; Hunger, wars,
coups and miltary dictatorships all
under the direction of the capitalist
centers and with the histarical
responsibilty of every German
federal government: the millons of
dead can no longer be counted -
terror has nothing to do with us, but
a0t to do with them and their
system.

Solidarity has no borders

In a siwation of weakness, it meant
lot.and it gave courage: the solderity
demanstration in March in Berlin for
the freedom of Daniela and salidarity
with us legals, againss the
Wagenplatz and house searches.
against the agiation and the whole
state terror; the soldarty ralies at
the prison in Vechta, the slogans on
the walks and the ralies of soidarity
in various European countries.

For more than three decades, we

were able to organize ourselves
collectively outside the paths

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determined for this purpose by
bourgeois society. which had planned
nothing for us other than to be
imprisoned or shot. We were able to
find ways to lead a ife in which.
through all the ups and downs, a
different socal reality could emerge
other than that of the capitalist
normality of aienation, isolation and
valorization. Nobody can teke that
away from us. It wil remain part of
the historiography from below.

‘Solidarity among s - with those
‘who rebelled, rebel or wil rebel

against this system yesterday, today
or tomorrow

Daniela - locked in the prison cell day
after day. And this despite the fact
that the abysmal reaity of the
situation shows that they may have
Some of their laws on their side, but
they do not have the legitimacy. The
istoricelattempts of countless
people over many centuries to
overcome these candtions - against
the violence of those who want
everything to remain as it s, who
declare humen emancipation and
fiberation to be wrong and njustice
10 be right - were and are perfactly
legiimate.

‘The judiciary of the Nazi successor
state, which hardly ever condemned
the Nazis of Nezi fascism. is now
planning years of show trals against;
Daniela, in which she is to be
Gonvicted on behalf of the history of
the fundamental opposiion and
locked away in prison for many years.
‘The state relies on deterrence and
thus targets not only Danela, but al
those who do not comply, who do not
accept that humanity has no
aternative to captalsm and thus to
the destruction of the planet. A farce
that affects everyane - regardless of
their history or their point of view ~
for which capialism shouid not
remain the last word in history

Solidarize yourselves!

Making the impossible possible, as
Che Guevara said, has an existential
meaning for humanity today: to lear
%0 think about the alternative system
again in collective procasses against
the abysses of the ‘turning point” age
andto fight for it in the perspecive:
together and internationally; break

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through the logic of the rulers that
there is no alterative to capitalism

- there is no aternative” - in us and
in all conditions. The historical
window of epochal rupture -
systemic and social erosion of
capitalism - is currently opening
wider and wider In the continuing
‘escalation of relations, a new age of
barbarism lurks. Only struggles of a
social revolutionary counter-
‘movement could provide an
alternative.

Socialism or barbarism'- as Rosa
Lixemburg predicted in 1919 and
thus aptly predicted the historical
realty. after the First World War and
the world economic crisis of the
time, the window of eroding
capitalism and revolution opened.
From 1918 to 1923, the workers'
movement. the revolutionary
feminists, anarchists and
communists in Germany attempted
%o impose the socialst revolution. AG
the same time, a large part of
humanity rose up in uprisings in 5
continents. In Germany, the attempt
of the insurrectionary workers'
movement to overcome capialism
failed. It woud have been the only
Way to avert the epoch of barbarism
that followed, The socialist atzempt
at revolution was crushed, and
capitalism remained, which took the
form of Nez fascism in Germany and
cuiminated in the Second World War
and Auschwitz,

With today's profound crisis of
capitaism and the epochal changes
throughout the worid, the historical
moment of ‘sther or*of ‘socialism or
barbarism’ could arse gain with
clear tendency and at an increasing
speed. The fixation on bourgeois-
fascistcapialist porties will not be
able to prevent the development of
the German crisis state and the EU
in growing authoritarianism and war:
There is nothing to save. Only an
aboltion of captalism fought for
from below i the process of
trensformation will be able to end
this development.

Today, the sacially revolutionary
alternative to the progressive
fascization of the capitalist system,
poverty spreading even in the
‘metropolis, the coming globl war
‘and the ecological destruction of the

planet, would be a sacislism that
learns from the mistakes of history
and thus offers the possibiity of
buiding & iberated sacety - for @
world of collectity. freedom from

patriarchy, exploitation, domination
&nd nation, and the survival of

nature,

This worid will not be possible without
a combative, creative and dverse
movement that is present in the
increasing crisis and in the rapidly
growing social struggles of the
future. This would be the
reconstruction of the abilty of an
anticapitalist, sociakrevolutionary
and internationalist left to act, which
has an impact beyond its own nose.
The end of the Sleeping Beauty
slumber: It tme - it’s time - to

Solidarity with Danela!
Solidarity with the comrades in exie,
sl those in hiding and the prisoners
from the struggles of Antifa, the
resistance, the Kurdish and Turkish
comrades, the climate movement.
and all other emancipatory struggles
of the world!

The demand for Daniela’s immediate
relesse isjustiied.

Martin
(Burkhard Gerweg)
20122024

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Expropriation:
llegalist
Anarchism

Section #1
Inthe capialist system, the wealthy
exploit the poor, making it dificut; for
them to survive. When people are
desperate for money and resources.
they may turn to ilegal means to
survive, including committing
‘economic crimes’ or crimes against

property.

It's important to recognize that the
capitalist system itselfis the source
of crime, and many economic
crimes, such ss embezziement, are
committed by those in positions of
power and priviege. The whole
structure of the system is racket.
committed by those who have upon
those who have not. This inequality
wil continue as long as we let t.
since the eltes may not necessarily
need the money to survive, but
rather as @ means of sccumulating
more weakth and maintaining their
social status and position.

‘There are also countless situations
where crime is committed as
means of survval, People who are
struggling to make ends meet may
feel that they have no other options
bt to tun o ilegal means to get.
what they need

Anarchists reject the capitalist
system and advocate for revolution
and radical change, without regard
wif tis ilegal or not to do so. We

think that to expropriate from the
rich and weakthy, be they
‘corporations or specific individuals is
justified.

The concept of "expropriation”
invoives taking goods or resources.
from wesithy induidusls, entities or.
institutions as @ means of
redistributing wealth and resources
to those who need it

The Bonnot Gang was a group of
French anarchists who committed a
series of bank robberies in the early
20th century, with the stated goal of
expropristing from the wealthy and
redistributing wealth to the starving
working closs.

Lucio Urtubia, a Spanish
counterfeiter. used his skils to forge
millions of dolars in order to fund
‘anarchist groups and revolutionary
movements.

Claudio Lavazz, an ltalian anarchist.
comrade who was imprisoned in
France and Spain, robbed banks to
fund the insurrection and help those
in need

The Men in Black’ was a Greek
‘anarchist group that committed a
series of bank robberies, with the
goal of funding anti-authortarian
projects and helping the poor.

There have been many othar.
instances of politcal ilegaiism
throughout history, with the aim of
undermining the capitalist systermn
and redistributing wealth to those in
need.

Whilst many crimes are often
committed out of desperation and a
need to survive, there are instances.
where economic crimes are
committed as a form of political
‘action and a rejection of capitalism.

In & system that unfairly advantages
the weakhy, acts of legalism
highight the extreme inequaliies
and injustices present in the market
‘economy, the State and society.

For social war.

“Property is theft rent is robbery
and profit ust another word for.
plunder”

Benjamin Tucker

Against the Myth of
the Many-Headed
Hydra

Some stories are simply mychs, and
ther use down the ages is
mulifoceted and complex. We could
Speak of a battie against the Hydra,
where one head struck down is
replaced by a second, third, a fourth,
and so on. The everlasting cycle of
violence and suffering, oppression and
malfossance. But tharo is an anarchist
hycra, that has roared through the
years, that renews through ferociy
itsef, In a world of replocoablo cogs
and megamachines, human indvduals
Stil matter, and the rhetoric that they
do ot is part of the system of
domination that we are fighting
ageinst. Orders are gien, taken and
recaived by indviduals who thn carry
thse orders o, or they refuse. n the
context of the struggle against the
technological prison worid,the
engineers, architects and technicians
are part of thatfiht, as clear as the
poics officer, the poltician, the prison
quard and the boss or lendiord. The
simple fact is that we are st at war
with a social and class enemy. Those
enemies are not simply amorphous
concepts, but they ene aiso individusls
themselves, those who are taking their
part in the decision-making processes
of the system, end they are directly
responsible. Anarchism seeks to
completely get id of those who gie
orders and those who take them

Each of these individuals is & wesk part
of the system themselves, as they can
be replaced, but the continuation of the
system is predicated on the
continuation of selection and
replacement. In the field of technology
we have seen genius minds that are.
not easly replicated or replaceable.
Had some of those minds been taken
out long ago, developments in certain
technologies such as Al or robotics
may not have been invented or not for
& long time to come.

Propaganda by the Deedhss a rich
legacy equal to that of the history of
the anarchist movement. it springs
from the everlasting desire to attack
injustice and inequalty by the rich and
included. It holds that actions that
target the peace of the elite are
justified.

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An overview of
repression in ltaly

This article was the result of an
‘enquiry by JURNAL ANARKI of
Indonésia for a report on repression
in ltaly andthe situations of the.
anarchist prsoners.

Before addressing the subject of the
repression that the Italian state
directs at the anarchist movement,
we think it is important to introduce
a few more general considerations
that clarify our interpretation of the
dynamics of control and repression
enacted and that do not objectively
affect only anarchists.

It s inappropriate, in our view, to
separate the repression ffecting
anarchists or other social or
revolutionary movements from the
broader context of the dynamics
that the state designs and enacts to
impose s order on society as a
‘whole. The consolidation of the
securitarian ideology (Le. the
dismantiing of rights acquired in
previous historical phases in order
10 privilege 3 systemic propensity to
Gontrol and sanction social
categaries or conduct believed to be
capable of or disturbing the
established order] to which ol the
states of so<alled advanced
captalism have been commitzed to
in recent decades, tokes the form of
a progressive extension of the social
categares and conduct to be
criminalized and punished, together
with a consequent production of

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increasingly invasive and restrictive
norms and laws.

It is undeniable that, with the rise of
penly rightwing and sovereigntist
governments (as in taly), these
processes are undergoing a decisive
‘acceleration, but t is equaly
undeniable that a securiarien
ideology has marked the policies of
all governments (in Europe but not
only) of whatever party or coaltion
they represented.

In this context, repression against
revolutionary movements (or even
just of dissent with respect to
specific achievements of poitical and
‘economic Power) inspires and is
inspired by methadologies that can
also affect other social components.
in @ general narrowing of spaces of
expression and possbilties for.
individual and collective self
determination. On & par with the
persecution of other social
components: first and foremost,
‘migrant people. or immigrants, but
also other marginaized or
criminalized subjects (see prisaners,
young people, precarious workers,
movements that opposed the
measures of the “sanitary"
dictatorship during the pandermic,
exradegal spheres).

A glaring example of this process s,
as far as the ltaian state is
concerned, the work of the National

AntiMafie and AntiTerrorism
Directorata (DNAA), & judicial body
that over the years has broadened
its field of aperation from the so-
called fight agains specific areas of
organized crime to the prosecution
of subversian pathways and those of
socalled illegal immigration.

Another example is yet another
“sacuriy package” being prepared in
parliament, Decres Low 1660, which
provides for @ significant increase in
the penaties provided for a whole
range of praciices carried out by
movements (e.g. occupations or
defacements of budings, picketing
and roadblocks, demonstrations
against “strategic infrastructure’)
and introduces new types of
offenses to tighten control and more
haaviy penaize a wide range of
social subjects ranging from
prisoners to peopl locked up in
deportation centers or raception
faciltes, from those who engage in
counterinformation activties [with
the crime of “terroriem of the word”
for those who keep or disseminate
written materiels that may incite
sabotage and resistance) to
immigrant. people (who in the
absence of a residence permit could
o longer purchase a telephone SIM
card).

Lastly just in recent weeks, some
ciies have systematically increased
the application of public order
provisions directly issued by the
Ministry of the Interior (the so-<called
“Urban Daspo.” established in 2017)
that provide for the removal from
certain urban areas (e.g. train
stations or busy places) of people
cansidered “dangerous” on the basis
of having had criminal convictions for
crimes among which may also
include those in the context of
struggles, such as resisting public
official or occupying buidings.

s therefore important to nurture
a more comprehensive perspective,
bath in terms of analysis and
initiative, to better contextualize the
developments and objectives of
repressive policies and to adjust
one's actions accordingly.

To close this premise and thus
introduce the more specific
discourse on repression directed at.
anarchists, we want to clary that
we do not see the current
repressive intensification o5 an
exaggerated dictatorial anxety for
“law and order” that is
contaminating Western
democracies. The state is simply
adapting s laws and repressive
dynamics to the historical phase in
which we find ourselves in. A
situation thus characterized by:
international war policies that
requine mare stringent measures of
sacial control and containment, of
any internal tensions;

~economic and environmental
unrest pushing milions of peopla
from the so-called “South” of the
world to the doorstep of Western
priviege threatening, as it should, a
stabiity that is the resul of a post
and prsent, colonialism, capitalst
aggression and poitical oppression:
-a general, drastic decrease in the
levels of confict and mobilzation
capacty on the part of subversive
and socially critical movements in
the countries of advanced
capitalism. a contion that allows.
the state to devote itsel to
criminalizng and sanctioning even
practices and events that, compared
o the force of which struggles have
been capable in other historical
moments, would be objectively less
significant from the stondpoint of
criminality and the extent of threat
10 the established order

To talk about the strategy and
repressive operations directed
against anarchists, i s useful in our
opinion to briefly mention the legal
‘and judicial body that the unfied
Ralian state has reserved for
subversive and revolutionary
movements since ts founding in
1861, The laws we are facing today
are in fact the development. and
adaptation to the successive
historical phases and movements.
that have characterized them, of the
codes and norms that have
distinguished the fight against
subversion in this country in ts
‘manarchical, then fascist and finally
pariiamentary democracy phase.

‘The salient element that recurs.
through al these historical phases is
that of the associative scheme, that.
5. which tends to build on specific
facts and actions enacted by

‘anarchists (or other enemies of the
constituted Authority) an accusatory
framework that can involve setting
larger number of people, f not even
entire areas of the movement, within
the same organizational project: 8
setting that, on the criminal level,
also allows for decidedly higher
sentences agains: the persons
indicted. The repressie formula by
which the prosecution of the
‘associative crime is declined in the
palitical sphere (because for each
illagal or criminalized sphere there.
are specific articles for this purpose)
s that of the charges for “criminal
“subversive

‘association’. "subversive association
with the aim of terrorism’, and
“armed group”.

As examples of the versatiity in the
use of this judicial approach against
anarchists consider that a few years
ago an anarchist was tried, the only
one accused, for associaton .. with
unidentified unknown persans! Or
again, that two anarchists, last
‘summer. were investigated for
‘association over graffiti on a wall or
again, anather anarchist was
investigated for association over the
posting of wal posters.

Even in the area of street iniiatives,
we can recognize the same
‘approach in the increasingly
widespread use of the crime of
“compliciy.” which allows
participants in demonstrations to be
incriminated beyond the charge
against, them of specifc crimes
(damage, resistance or hostie acts
‘against law enforcement, etc.).

“Compliciy" is also brought up in
investigations and trials involving the
most serious of al street felonies
under the ltaian state's penel code,
that of “devastation and loating.”
which has already landed several
‘anarchists in jail with very heavy
sentences (even over 10 years)

The pattern of investigations and
tris of this type traces that used to
repress the vast polticel
movements that took shape in this
country from the late 19605 to the
early 1980s, with a focus (in @
historical context in which power
relations between Power and radical
transformation drives are decidedly
not comparable) on the judicial
dynamics used specifically against.

combatant arganizations (mainly of
MarxistLeninist ideology) and the vast
‘armed and violent insurgency that took
place in those years.

‘The state operated in this sense by
adjusting its focus, as the levels of
confrontation and the practices.
enacted by subversive movements
were lowered, on facts and actions
that were less and less criminally
relevant, thus increasing, in the
presence of the associative structure,
the burden of criminalization and
sanction.

I fac, there has been an altarnation
between the proposition of ‘max-
trals,” involving considerable numbers
of defendants on a national scale
['Marini" and "Scripta Manent" tials).
and thet of smaller operations (in
terms of numbers of defendants or
geographic areas involved) simed at
dismantiing the reaities of struggle
without resorting to the shaky
thearem of the “large, structured
organization.” This second repressive
dynamic is the one that has been most
often adopted since the late 1950s,
producing, & s true, a certain number
of canvictions but obtaining, above all.
even in the case of a tialfaiing to
convict anyane, continuous pressure
andin some cases, disincegration of
the courses of struggle.

As of today, a dozen “declared”
anarchists are incarcerated in talian
prisons, dided among “common”
sections (incended for inmates
awaiting trial or with final sentences
withaut specific classifications by the
prison administration), High Security
sections (sections intended for
inmates awaiting trial or with finel
sentences with ‘terrorism” charges).
and since April 2022 one of these
comrades, Alffredo Cospio, has been
imprisoned under the 41-bis regime,
which is the most afflictve level of
soitary confinement and censure
provided by the fcalan prison system.

Affredo s the first anarchist allocated
in such a regime (while three milcant.
communists have boen imprisoned in
that regime for two decades, and a
fourth involved in the same
investigation died by suicide from the
consequences of 41-bis solitary
confinement in 2008}: at the turn of
2022 and 2023, the hunger strike led

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by Alfreda against 41-bis and against
ostensive life imprisonment (ie.. &

ffe sentence without the possbility
of access to benefits, sentence
discounts or parole) succeaded in
triggering a powerful intemational
mobilization that we think had its
own weight in the judiciary's decision
not to sentence Alfredo to ife
imprisonment, but failed to wrest
Alfredo from the prison regime of
anniilation to which he continues to
be subjected.

To the imprisoned anarchists we
must add several dozen comrades
and companions subjected to
Various preventive, precautionary or
alternative measures to prison
detention: special surveillance,
Gurfew, obligation or prohibition to
stay. obligation to sign at police:
facilkies, home detention, probation
In conclusion, let us advance some
considerations with respect to what.
as an anarchist movement one has
been able or not to express in the
field of criticism and hostiity
towards state repression. Let us be
clear, these are considerations
without any claim to absolute
Objectiviy. but rather some points of
comstructiv critcism in view of the
approaches and activiies to come.

It is undeniable that, over the years a
greater attention. and a consequent
increase in iniiatives, has developed
with respect to antiprison issues
and also that the practice of
solidarity with both revolutianary
prisoners and in general with those
subjected to restrictions and
imprisonment, has regained
significant weigh in the issues
addressed by a good number of
movement reaites.

Equally undeniable is the recognition
that, within the general drying up of
social conflict, the sphere of the
struggle agains repression is also
struggling to deploy offensive and
confrontational methodologies
capable of ghing complotencss and
thus bringing greater energy in
disrupting the power relations
batween the established order and
instances of subversion and
transformation of the existent:

Cassa Anti-Repressione Alpi

Occidentali,
January 2025,

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Italy: Alfredo Cospito
and 11 Other
Anarchists
Acquitted in Sibilla
case

Above image: Solidanty demo at the
judicial hoaring for the Vetriolo
‘newspeper which published the
wnitings of Cospito.

‘The investigating judge’s decision
‘came in the afternoon.

‘There is no place to proceed for.
Alfredo Cospito and 11 other
anarchists. This is what the judge of
Perugia, Angela Avila, decided today,
January 15 2025, in the afternoon.
atthe end of the discussion during
the preliminary hearing. Cospita and
Michele Fabiani from Spoleto,
together with the other 10, were
‘charged with various charges of
‘apology and incitement to subversion
and of some episades of damage. In
November 2021, the Perugia ROS*
had applied six precautionary
measures against as many
‘exponents of the anarchist sector.
‘The charges were related to the
publication of a newspaper
considered clandestine, Vetriolo.

Lawyer Fiavio Rossi Abertini, who
defends Cospito, in the 41bis at least
until next year, declares: “We ave.
obtained a resut for which we have
fought from the first hour. Here
there was a tendency to mystty the
free expression of ane's own poliical
opinion, making thought pss for
cnime. Lot us not forget that also
thanks to the Siilla operation, the

41035 was requestad for Caspito and
now that everyone has been
acquized a5 well as in another
investigation in Flome that had been
used o the 41bis, | hope that this
willnduce the Minister who wil be
responsibl for this decisin,in the
event thet s renewal is requested,
2 deny it

Satisfaction was also expressed by
the lowyer Carmelo Parente, who
assists Michele Fabiani ‘These are
very delicate issues, crimes of
apinion can affect everyone. ot ust
the anarchists, itis important that
the judlge has evaluated them with
due care and not consdered it
‘configurabe.”

Lawyer Caterina Caliais also on the
same wavelangth: “Yeors ago they
wanted to criminaize all activty
atznibutable to that anarchist zone,
but a5 ahways we have maintained
that none of the crimes thet the
prosecution had challenged were
committed”

{Roggruppemento Cperstio
Speciale - Special Cperations Group
of the parsmiteary poice, the
Carabinien]

What was
Operation Sibilla?

Launched in the early hours of
November 11th, 2021, Operation
Siills had the deciared aim of
targeting the anarchist paper
Vetriolo'(as wel as Edzioni Monte
Bove. Circolaceio Anarchico and two
‘websites, Roundrobin and Malacoda).
Particularly deserving of attention in
the eyes of the investigators was the
publication of the interview with
Afredo Cospito, then & prisoner in
Ferrara prison, which came outin
three issues of the paper under the
title Gusle Intemazionale? [Which
Intemetionsi?] leter reissued in the
booklet of the same name with a long
appendix on the history of the
Federazione Anarchic Informele -
FAL A& the time this investigation was.
used as justification for the
placement of Alfredo i the 41bis
isolation regime and it is demanded
that he be released.

Revolution and Language

.. ifthought corrupts language,
language can also corrupt thought..”
George Orwell,

Politics and the English Language

We know that a revolution and a war-
s being waged against us when what.
s said, how tis said and what we
understand collectively as the
‘meaning of the words, becomes &
battle, & victory for one, a lost worid
and a lost being for the other. when
language becomes & matter of lfe
and death, an indicator of friend or
foe. Industrial revolutions, tyrannies,
dictatorships are enacted. identified,
signified. experienced through
changes of language.

The very term ‘industrial revolution’
s @ misleading and santised word
describing a martial situation in
which ways o ife inciuding econormic
activiy, relational, sexual, social and
famital ife, values, cultural activty
and shared understandings are at
the mercy of profound and
rreversible upheaval. Such a
revolution is brought about over an
‘extended period of time, It can seem
ke a conspiracy but is more likely
the gradual alignment of interests
‘and mutual aid of a small but global
cabal of industrislsts, aristacrats,
‘monarchies, magnates, financiers
and economists, polticians,
corporations, phianthropists,
scientists and technologists. It s the
last of thase who are in charge of
the great reset of humaniy because
technalogy is not neutral. Technology

s the idea. Technology is the lang
dreamt of patriarchal victory over
the wild, the organic, the.
untameable.

Subtle and gross manipulations of
language erade our epistemological
somatic, experiential and
metaphysical experience of being in
the world. Participation, articulation,
Greative expression, somatic
knowing, philosophical and spiritual
anchors become sienced,
dangerous, unpredictable and
implecable.

We find ourselves in strange lands
and sometimes quite alone. We try
to understand the new sciences, the
new humans, to get to grips with a
future that is sready here and find
ourselves in 8 worid of made-up
words, doublespeak. nouns used as
verbs and verbs as nouns, a topsy-
turvy inguistic mirror-world. The
language o the Fourth and Fifth
Industrial Revolution is esoteric and
we stumble along in confused and
dreadful responses, always
undarestimating our enemy. As
womn, the words | wouid normally
use to describe and explore my
experience, to root myself in a
particular knowing of mysel, to
define a unique experience of
oppression, are censored o
expropriated. There is nathing new
here | suppose, the words of a
critical woman have always been
dangeraus creatures leading to
prisons, exie, asylums and death.

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What is obvious and exateric is the
overtly miltary language being used.
The psychological operations of
mantra and repeating phrases
assure us that the future being
manufacured by the Siicon Valleys
of this world is “ineviable” and
“catastrophic’. The new humans
being reised in the nurseries of the
new order are sung to sleep by the
dark lullabies of the technocratic
propaganda machine. In the public
arena, the averwhelming
disorientation, the rapid
disintegration and decompositon of
the world we knew s signified by the
verbal surrender to business as
usual: s what i s,

Language forms, creates,
manipulates, includes, excludes,
delineates, dignifies, belitties,
reduces, sanctifies, signifies,
symbolises, eradicates, erases,
extinguishes. We communicate not
only to get through our day and to
meet our needs, expand our
knowledge, connect with each other
and describe our reaities, we
communicate which side we are on
‘The technological project, training its
apocalyptic superinteligence on
every morsel of human language and
thought that exists in digital form or
that is heard in real time through al
the myriad surveilance devices.
embedded in our daily ives, is
meanwhile eviscerating shared
human language and meaning.

‘The technocrats describe their
interventions in the world as
‘disruptive’. The idea of a disruptive
but ultimately manageable person or
situation is only one definition. The
other definition of disruptive s to
tear asunder’, to bresk into pieces’
The Fourth and Fifth Industrial
Revolution is not an interruption, it is
the end of everything.

Doublespesk is a language that
pretends to communicate but realy
doesn't It is language that makes
the bad seem good, the negative
appear positive, the unpleasant
appear attractive or at the least
tolerable. Doublespeak is language
that avoids or shifts responsibilty,
language that is at variance with it's
real or purported meaning. It s
language that concesls or prevents
thought: rather then extending

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thaught doublespeak lmits .. Basic
to doublespeak i incongruity the
incongruity between what is said ar
left unsaid, and what realy is."
William Lutz, Doublespeak

‘The observation of Wworman' or ‘man’
8 no longer a given. When s many
uncomplicated words and concepts
‘suddenly become a struggle for
understanding and defintion, sowing
terible divisions and ripping apart
the fabric of our communities,
resurrecting the cultural memories
of historical tyrannies, when words
become not means to communicate
curious and nuanced qualties of
experience and idea but a means to
differentiate, aiienate,
disenfranchise, control, oppress,
divide, and criminalise, when
everyday language carries a
heightened sense of threat, when we
Gan no longer communicate with
‘each other. when two plus (w0
equals five, then we are at war:

Language is violence driven by the
desires and designs of the
technocrats who rig and prime the
‘contemporary tools of
communication to which we are
addicted. The choice of miltary
lexicon on the webpages of
companies fike OpenAl is not
‘accidental: disrupt. deploy. execute,
target, agents, mission, risk. The war
‘against biolagy and the wild s felt
‘again in the language of artificial
intelligence which is said to ‘scrape’
the human world for data, a
description felt in my female body at
least as a kind of visceral assault,
the machine a ravenous, impersonal
entity that rapes, consumes and
discards without conscience o
feeling, the human bady a meat-
Puppet to be emptied of fruit and
fiesh and then discarded. In other
circles, the language used to
describe a human body and
therafore the human experience is
' sacred vehicke”

There s a feeling in the language of
the Fourth and Fifth Industrial
Revolution that can be felt in the.
ells of my body, in the censoring of
speech, the mutiiation of humaniy, in
the obitaration of confidence and
the abilty to navigate the world
There is this feeling that arises when
I realise that the word | am about to

use does not mean what it meant
anymare: & is the language of an
enemy, oris too dangerous to say.

tis said that a language dies out
every 40 days. As | pore over the
baoks and plans of the new
technologies, dictionary in hand, |
realise that the language that is
becoming extinct is a global
language. a shared language: wid,
organic and natural, and it is being
destroyed. In the place of that
language. there is code, jargon.
invention and doublespeak remaking
&nd recoding the old world. The
great extinction does not just
happen ‘out there’, it happens here,
within us. If we are to survive, we
must speak what we see and what
we know, and we must never
underestimate the enemy. We must.
take back our language and ask
ourselves if the thing they tell us is
freedom is really so. Where it has
been said that the word was made
flesh, now it is being used to make,
the machine.

va
January 2025
Tavistock

‘The Tavistock Institute for Human
Relations, known by insiders as the
Freud Hiton.” has been a major
nexus for the worldwide psychological
manipulation that has taken place
over the last 50 years. The Tavistock
story — at least the public version of
it — begins immediately after World
War Il when members of British
miltary inteligence created the
Institute. In its own literature
Tavistock is described as an
organization of “dynamic psychiatry™
which wes intended to practice what
they term "societry” on the planet as
awhole — and what | term worid
mind control,

Briish miltary inteligence tself, in
the persons of many of its chief
players, has been aimed at a one.
world government since its inception.
British Secret Service directors an an
almost oneforane basis have been
advocates of Fabian socialism. (1]

Itis alleged that Tavistock was set up
much earlier than its announced
inception, over 20 years prior in
1921, by Major John Rawings

Reese, on the orders of the Round
Table's Royal Institute of
Interational Affairs (also known as.
Chatham House). The RIIA, along
with the American Council on
Foreign Relations, had been
founded in 1919 during the
Versailles Peace Conference, both
being early New Worid Order
executive arms. Reese was the man
who dreamed of ‘buiding a society
inwhichit is possible for any
member of any social group to be
treated [psychiatricaly], without
resort to legal means, and even f
they do not desire Such treatment.
At the end of World Wer Il Reese
called for the creation of
‘psychological shack troops” who
would fan out from the Tavistock
Institute to engineer the future
direction of society. [2]

In 1932 Tavistock was put under
the directorship of the German
psychologist Kurt Lewin. Lewin was
a founder of the National Training
Laborataries and director of the
Harvard Peychological Ginic, and —
an odd qualification for a
psyehiatrist, | think — one of the key
players in the original creation of
the 0SS [Office of Strategic Swdies,
& DA precursor] in America.

Lewin is credited with much of the
original Tavistock resaarch into
mass brainwashing. applying the
results of repeated trauma and
torture in mind control to sociaty at
large. f tervor can be induced on a
widespread basis into a society,
Lewin has stated, then society
reverts to a tabula rasa. a bank
slate, a situation where control can
easily be instituted from an exterior
point

Put it another way: By the creation of
controlled chaos, the populace can
be brought to the point where it
wilingly subrmits to greater control.
Lewin maintained that society must;
be driven into @ state equivalent to
an “sarly childhood siwuation.” He
termed this societal chaos "Fluidity

Tavistocks focus in the early days
was on strategic warfare studies, in
particular of Germany, with
emphasis on the re-education of that
ervant New World Order colony.
During World War Il many of the
Institute's members, including its
founder. Reese. ran the British
Psychological Warfare Directorate
nd subsidiary organizations based
in the United States. After World
War ll Tavistock can functionally be
considered to have become a part of
Britain's Psychological Warfare
Bureau, now working on projects
dealing with the branwashing of
populations. [3) Tavistock is
governed by what i cals an invisible
college, echoing antique occultist
terminology and reminding one that
British inteligence was founded by
Freemasons and remains deeply
Freemasonic to this day. The original
use of the term “invisible college.”
prior to the announced creation of
Tavistock, was Reese's reference to
an informal association he had
created of all the psychiatrists then
working in the British miltary.

For funding, the Tavistock Institute
relies onlarge grants from
anonymous benefactors—with no
doubt a substantial portion coming
diroctly from the Crown—along with
grants from the Rockefeller
Foundation, the Ford Foundation. the
Camegie Institute, the World Health
Organization, and the British Home
Office. Tavistock is also interinked
worldwide with @ vast network of

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other organizations and think tanks,
including UNESCO, WHO, the Worid
Federation for Mental Heath, and
the Rand Corporation. Tavistock is
simply a front group for the
psychological imposition of the New
‘Worid Order on the planet. and its
main philosophic tool is the Hegelian
dialectic framed in the terms of
Lewin.

The Rockefellers have aways been
prominent in deciding the course of
Tavistock According to the offciel
chronicler of the group, “The
Rockefeller Foundation, before
making us a grant, would need to be
satisfied, not only by our policis.

but also with the persons to carry
them out” (4]

In a Tavistockfunded profile of the
group, it stated that the role of
the institute has been:

[a) The invention of the command
psychiatrist as a medicaksocial role
carrying out reconnaissance in a
lerge structure and defined group.
leading to the ascertainment and
recognition of critical problems in
the sphere of human relations and
management.

“Tb] The invention of social
psychietry as a polcy science
parmitting preventative technical
intervention in large-scale
problems.

{c) The fashioning of a whole series
of miltary institutions which
concretely and effectively
implemented the policies advocated
{d) The invention of new types of
therapeutic communities.

“[6) The inverion of cultural
psychiatry.

“Capability nurtured in the Tavistock
for the psychiatrist to work with lay
personnel—in this case the miltary—
i a collaborative partnership. in
other words, the strategy of
command psychiatry and the
developments to which it led were

psycho-dynamically conceived and
based."

Tavistock. born from the
collaboration of the international
monied eite, miltary inteligence,
and the materialistic psychiatric
community, refers to its self-
admitted ‘miltary” orientation as

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Gperation Phoenix — again, a
Freemasonic symbol that it shares
with the infamous Vietnam War
‘assassination program. One is
reminded of the Freemasonic
legend “Ordo Ab Chao," Order Out of
Chaos, which could just s easily
describe the Tavistock method of
destroying a target subject, or a
target population, prior to
reprogramming: the Tevistock
modus operand.

‘Throughout the Tavistock literature
aither offical or Tavistock-nspired—
they reiterate their "global vision"
‘and make it clear that the institute
is intended to work its long-term

“societry” on the world regardess of
the wishes of individuals who inhabit.
it

One of the most successful of
Tavistock-offshoot, organizations i
what was originally known as the
Netional Training Laboratories
(NTL), and now the NTL Institute for

Applied Behavioral Sciences,
founded in 1947. Located in Bethel,
Maine, the mission of the NTL is to
give Lewininspired “group
dynamics” sessions to American
leaders. Again, during group
sessions “dssonance” or stress is
introduced to destroy the
indiidual's previous beliefs, and
then & new, group-oriented
personalityis coaxed forth. This is
the primary technical method used
by myriad of Tavistockinfluenced
“sensituity” groups ke Alanon end
Esdlen

Since the 1950s, NTL has
processed the majority of America's
corporate leaders in ts programs,
while simultaneously running the
‘same programs for various
‘segments of the government.
including the Nevy, the Department
of Education, and the State
Department. None dare call it mind
control. (5]

Eric Trist, the chairman of
Tavistock's governors, in 1963
described his and Tavistock's work
on mass brainwashing, delineating
in detal his theory of "social
trbulence.” based upon the
thearies of Hegel, athough again.
“Trist is far more quick to cite Lewin,

Trist postulated that the
administering of a seres of
traumatizing shocks upon a society
would destabilize &, lowering the
overall character of the Society's
reasoning. Trist suggested that by
late 1963 the world had moved into
2 condtion of “permanent saciel
turbulence” that would serve to usher
in a new condition of society. a new
paradigm, and & new possibiityfor
remaking the face of the planet.

‘The nature of the permanent social
trbulence that Trist foresaw is
further defined in a book published in
1975 by one of Trist's associates,
Fred Emery. The book, Futures We
Are In,likenss the condtion of current
day society to the violent punk welfare
state of Anthony Burgess’ novel, A

Clockwonk Orange, writzen in the
1960s.

Emery, in reflection of Trist. also
trumpets Hegel. He describes the
first stage of the braakdown of
society as being “superficialcy.” in
which previous societal values are
questioned and discarded. He uses.
85 an example of this the death of the.
JudeoChristian paradigm. The next.
inevitable state is “segmentation” in
‘which societal instutions break
down, resulting in a reversion to
parancid groups of indviduals hostile
to each other,

‘The next stage in the breakdown of

society would be the launching of a
fascist movement akin to the Nazis.

‘The final and most disrupted state of
society s termed disassaciation. in
‘which the individual becomes the

entirety of society for himssl, and is
isolated from other members of the
group. The dominant culture of the
saciety becomes “fantasy and
superstition” According to Trist, the
current “wired society” where the
main interaction of the indidual is
with electronic media i only @
metaphor for disassociation.

Cyberpurks, New Agers, and couch
potatoes, take not. It i interesting
o note that the same progression
can be seen in the microcosm with
the induction of the mutiple
personality, an oftasserted goal of
intelligence agency brain-banging.
In My 1967 at Gueen Elizzbeth's
palatial estate in Deauvile, France, a
conference was convened. ftwas
intended to update participants on
ongoing projects of the Tavistock
network, This was the “Conference
on Transatiantic Technological
Imbalance and Colaboration,”
‘sponsored by the Scientific and
Technological Committee of the
North Atiartic Assemby and the
Foreign Policy Research Institute.
Amang the projects mentioned at
the conforence were the.

collaboration of Emery and Trist on
“sociel turbulence.” and the SRk

Tavistock “Images of Man” project.

Participants in the conference
included Tavistack's Harfand
Gleveland: Wills Harman of the
Tevistock offshoot. Stanford
Resgarch Instkute: Dr. Zbigriow
Brzezinski the future Carter national
securiy acvisor and the Trilateral
Commission's founding exective
director; and Fred Emery, who had
eariier deineated the stages of
societal disintegration in his Futures
We Are In Other participants were
Or. Aurelio Peccei,later to head the
zero-growh fixated Club of Rome,
then chairman of the Economic:
Committee of the Adlantic Instiute,
‘an important NATO think tank: and
S Alexander King and Sir Solly
Zuckerman, advisors to the British
‘crown. Fleshing out the hologram of
eltist New Worid Order planning is
the information that Brzezinsk is
believed by many in Westem
intelligence organizations to be a
KGB mole, recruited by British
Round Tabler and Rothschid-
Warbung agent Wiliam Yandel
Bliot. Henry Kissinger is also linked
@ this group, reportedy after being
recruted to a KGB homosexual
biackmail ring focused on the EICOM
G2 headquarters in
Oberammegau, Germany, at the
end of the second world wer.
Kissinger was a member of the US.
Army 970th Counterintelligence
Corps, involved in creating the Nazi
“rat lines” that enabled many
prominent Nazis to escape
prosecution et the end of World
War Il Kissinger's reported mentor
was Fritz Kraemer of the Pentagon
plans diision, who also groomed
Aexander Haig,

Kraemer's secret e during WWIL,
‘according to deceased conspiracy
researcher Mae Brussel was that of
a special ieutenant to Hitler. What
does it matter whose side you are

on, the controllers might say? Both
sides in the World War, or for thet.

matter the Cold War, only sorved to
foster the synthesis of the New
World Order. [6]

The principles that were agreed on
at the Tavistock conference wil
s0und very familr to those who
have been following the reshaping of
human institutions and values by the
New World Order. These include the
elte's] belief that [the common]
‘man should not dominate nature
but instead become a part of &
[cattie], with no more rights and
privieges than, say, the purple-assed
baboon in the wid. Governments are
obsolete and wil be replaced by
other, mare encompessing
instétions. Mankind is moving into a
deindusirialzed posttechnological
saciety, an “information age.” the
Age of Aquarius; again, aborignes
with laptop computers.

The primary impetus towards the
evolution to the posttechnological
saciety are the repeated shocks and
chaos taking place, including such
events as the Kennedy
assassination, the Vietnam War, and
the assault on traditional instiaions
and thinking by the psychedelic
counterculure.

This philosophy was described
exactly by Dr. William Sargent of the
Tavistock Institute in 1957 in his
book Battle for the Mind — A
Physiology of Gonversion end Brai-
Washing Again. the idea s that the
micro reflects the macro: the
occultist dictum, *AS above, 50
below.”

Sangent said, Various types of
belefs can be implanted in many
people after brain function has been
sufficiently disturbed by accidentally
or deliberately induced fear, anger.
or excitement. O the resuts caused
by such disturbances, the most
common one is temporany impaired
judgment and heightened
suggestibilty. s various group.
maniestations are sometimes
classed under the heading of ‘herd

instincs, and appear most
spectacularly in wortime, during
sovere epidemics, and in all simiar
peniods of common danger, which
incraasa anvioty and so individual
and mass suggestibity”

Out of the Tavistock confarence also
came Zbigniew Brzezinski’s 1968
book 7he Technotronic Age. thet
posits an information socioty whose
basis o compettion is replaced by
“amusement focus" based on
poctator spectacles (mass sports
and TV) providing an opiate for
incrassingly purposeless masses.
New forms of social control may be
needed to limit the indiscriminate
exercise by the indidual of their
new powers.

The possibiity of extensive chemical
mind control.. wil callfor a social
definiion of the common criteria of
restraint as wel as utilzation " And
some think that Guy DeBord's
‘Society of the Spectacie isn' lieral.

In the Technotronic Age, the “nation
state as a fundamental unit of man's.
organized lfe has ceased to be the
principal creative force: intemational
banks and multinational corporations
ere acting and planning in terms.
that are far in advance of the
political concepts of the nation-
state.”

Brzezinski also says of the

“Technotronic Age” that, "At the
same tme the capacity o assert
social and political control over the
individual wil vastly increase. It wil
500N be possible to assert aimost
continuous control over every Giizen
and to maintain upto-dete fies,
containing even the most personal
details about health and personal
behavior of every citzen in addition
% the mare customary data.

“These fles wil be subject to
instantaneaus retrieval by the
authorities. Power will gravitate into
the hands of those who control
information. Qur existing insttutions.
wil be supplanted by pre-crisis
management institutions, the task of
which willbe to identify in acvance
likely social crises and to develop
programs to cope with them.

“This wil encourage tendencies

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through the next several decades
toward a Technotronic Ers, a
dictatorship leaving even less room
for political procedures as we know
them. Finally. looking ahead to the

end of the century, the possibiey of
biochemical mind control and
genetic tinkering with man, induding
beings which will function ke men
and reason like them s well, could
give ise to some difficuls questions.”

A book written at the same time by
the conforence chairman, Aurelio
Peccei, was ttled 7he Chasm Ahead,
and i too echoed the prevailing eltist
themes: Paccei reiterated that a one-
worid governmen: was the only
solution to the problems of the world.

Also required was that Russia and
the US. would have to enter into
partnership in global planning and
enforcement -a theme that has
become increasingly obvious in
recent; years with the Spetznaz
setting up shop in Peoria and Tulsa,
and Clinton trying to lease the Long
Besch Naval Yards to the mainland
Chinese. [7]

One of the footsoldiers of Tavistock —
currenty fallen from grace at least in
the eyes of the American people—
believe it or not, New Gingrich. The
truth about Newt exists much in
contradiction to his image as &
staunch upholder of Republican
ideals and conservative family values.
Gingrich i in fact another Trojan
horse whose mentor is the “futurist”
Awin Toffer.

Toffler's book The Third Wave
describes the current technocratic
takeover of the world. the acquisition
of virtualy allwealth by a tiny elite,
and the relegation of the vast
majority of the populace to a Third
‘Worid foraging in the garbage heaps
of the rich

According to Gingrich. speaking to a
crowd of yuppies at a congress on
“Democracy in Virtual America,” ‘In
the mid<olate-60s, | read Drucker's
The Age of Discontinuties, Boulding's
The Meaning of the Twentieth
Gentury, Bell's Beyond Post:ndustrial
‘Society— al of which wre
precursors to the first popularizer of
this notion, which was Future Shock,
‘which was written basically @ quartar

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of a century ago. Now, those four
books described everything we're
fiving through for all practical
purposes...and nathing has changed
for a quarter of a century...ve
worked with the Tofflers for 20
years in trying to figure out this
interesting question. Since this is all

intellectually obvious. why can't we
break through?”

Toffler is a protege of Kenneth
Boulding, who is one of Tevistock's
leading ights in the United States,
‘and according t his wife founded
the revolutionary Studers for &
Democratic Society (S0S). Boulding
‘and his wife were responsibe for
much bridge buiding between the
Fabian "societrists” of Tavistock and
the New Left in the 1960s.

Gingrich revealed his not-so-hidden
roots when he mentioned the
“anticipatory democracy” project in
his introduction to The Third Wave.
“A/D." as itis termed, was @ project
filded by Tavistock i the 1960s
intended to bring about a New Age
shift toward anything but traditional
values, unless it is the Wellsian
“Open Conspiracy" tradiional values
of the elte controllers. Among the
leter projects that would be created
by participants in the "A/D" project.
would be the Malthusian Club of
Fome and the Carter.
‘administration’s Giobal 2000 plan.

Gingrich was ushered into the
Tavistock orbit in 1965 when, as an
undengraduate at Emory Universiy,
& professor at Georgia Tech
introduced him to the work of
Boulding and Toffler. Atter getting

his Ph.D. et Tulane, Gingrich took a
teaching job at West Georga State
College, outside Atianta, the East
Coast node of the "humanist
psychology movement.” One of
Gingrich's closest, associates was
the anything-but-Republican Jimmy
Carter, who put Newt in charge of an
A/0 pilct project called Goals for
Geongia. It was only later thet
Gingrich go his calling as a banner-
waver for the New Right 8]

Jim Keith
NOTES:

. Dicks, Henry Victor, Fifty Years of
the Tavistock Ciinic. (London,

Englend: Routiedge Br K. Paul
1970 Dougles and Thompson.
“New attempt to cover up the
English side of the Bolshevi's Trust’,
ER, June 5. 1987 Wolfe, L. “The
Tavistock roots of the ‘Aquarian
Conspiracy’, ERJanuary 12, 1996

2. Dicks: ZeppLaRouche, Helgs, The
Hitler Book. (New York: The Schiller
Instiute, 1984]; Wolfe:

3.Dr. John Coleman, Conspirator’s
Hierarchy. The Story of the
Committee of 300. [America West.
Publishers, Carson City, Nevada,
1982, Zepp-LaRouche: Dicks

4. Dicks

5. Dicks; Wolfe

6. John Judge, "Nazis in the White
House The Reagan Administration &
the Fascist International, Overthrow,
Fall 1985, and “Good Americars”,
Dharma Combet number 11

7. Coleman; Sutton and Wood,
Trilaterals Over Washington.
(Scottsdale, Arizon: The August
Corporation, 1978)

8. Anicipatory Democracy—People
in the Poitics of the Phture. Clement
Bezold, ed. (New York Random
House, 1978]; Steinberg, Jeffrey.
“Anticipatory democracy.” EIR,
January 12,1996

Previously published in*Mind Control
Worid Controf; 1897. Jim Keith died
in suspicious circumstances in 1999
after a minor accident at Burning
Man festival, Nevada, USA. Keith
was extremely worried before he
was admitted to hospital, and had
confided to a loved one that he was
afraid he would never be released
alive. Keith was known for his books
Biowarfare in America, Black
Helicopters over America /& I
Casebook on the Men in Black. The
Octopus: Secret Government and
the Death of Danny Casolaro and
others.

O
HUMANS AND SUFFERING:
Our Folly?

1L HUMAN
Many writers have explored the what,
how, why, and who of humanity. Some
20 a5 far as (0 assert that humans are
creatures who fail —even in the
simplest sense—to truly be:
themselves, rendering them alien to
nature. In Ningen Shikakku, Osamu
Dazai vividly, sensitively, impulsively,
pessimistically, and despairingly
portrays the failures of humanity.
These failures, wrapped in a semi
biographical and poctic narrative,
have undoubtedly become one of the
greatestliterary treasures, helping
humanity confiont, understand, and
perhaps even despise itself. Through
his magnum opus, Dazai seems to
encourage readers to willingly
dismantle themselves—to uproot and
discard fragments of their identity into
the void of existential helplessness
brought about by Japan's transition
from traditional to modem society, a
reflection that sl resonates in today's
global society

Defining humanity holistically is an
elusive task: there s always something
left unsaid. If defining humans is so
challenging, how can we even begin to
fully define something as seemingly
simple as water? One might say that
wateris a neutral substance, colorless,
tasteless, and odorless inits natural
state, abundantly found on Earth's
surfuce.

While such a definition s correet,itis
also incomplete. It overlooks water's
ability o exist in three states: solid
(ice),liquid (water), and gas (water
vapor). It failsto mention its chemical
composition, consisting of two
hydrogen atoms bonded to one oxygen
atom. And yet, even these details
barely scratch the surfuce of water's
complexity.

Nevertheless, the gaps and limitations
in every attempt o define humanity
should not be dismissed as futle.
Nothing i ever truly futile, not even
futility itself, because there is always
something leftto uncover, refine, or
reinterpret. Every definition of
humanity is built upon deeply held
beliefs, supported by evidence
‘gathered and presented by its
proponents. We can both accept and
reject these beliefs simultaneously.
Yet, we must also recognize that
belif, at ts shallowest linguistic level,
simply reflects an individual's
assertion that they know enough to
arive at a certain’ truth,

In On the Heights of Despair, Cioran
confidently claims that humans are
unhappy animals, abandoned and
compelled to carve out their paths in
life. To agree or disagree with such a
definition s, in tself a futile
endeavor.

“To truly understand humanity, we must
ise above the binary of agreement and
disagreement. We must be willing to
exist beyond both perspectives,
Humanity i profoundly complex, and
any attempt to comprehend it wil be
arduous,relentless, disorienting, and
fraught with uncertainty

To try to understand humanity is,
perhaps, to suffer

2. SUFFERING
I may borrow and slighily alter a
line from the dog Rifki's poem ‘Rigen
in his poetry collection Akfeiron, 0
once again quesion what humans fecl
so profoundly,the question might be
framed as: “What kind of apocalypse
are humans suffering?

To answer this question, we must
attempt to compile a catalog of
contemporary human suffering,
identifying its causes and origins. This
task, however, is almost impossible.
‘Why? Because humans are creaturcs
who tend to monopolize tragedy and
suffering. There is nothing that cannot
‘make humans weep: they can cry over
everything and, in turn, make

everything cry. There s no suffering
that does not originate from them.

Humans are a catastrophe for
everything both within and beyond
themselves.

“The statements in his witing require
o specific context. We do not intend
o explain human suffering from any
singular perspecive or standpoint.
Each person will always find their
own context as no life exiss without
one.

One might transcend suffering by
becoming aware of it, or one might
become aware of it by transcending it
There is no single, rigid formula for
alleviating human suffering.
Nonetheless, discussing possible
practices for reducing human suffering
femains an intriguing endeavor.

. what kind of apocalypse is
humanity trly suffeing from? The
apocalypse humanity endures s ts
own existence. Someone might be able
to answer this question, but we do not
need external voices. What we require
is our own voice, a voice that emerges
from within and speaks only to
ourselves. Butare we capable of
separating ourselves from the
inherited meanings and symbols of
suffering that predate our existence?

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Can we truly articulate our own,
“suffering’in a language we have
crafted ourselves? I seems we are lefi
bewildered by the very question we
have unconsciousy raiscd.

So, what kind of apocalypse am /
Suflering from?

a) State and Capitalism
IF we must confront our own
questions, let us admit: Rumbayan was
right—every world has its banalities
Not everything must be confusing.
Some banalities are self-evident and
irefutable, like the State and
Captalism, 1f someone asks, What do
you think about these two? the answer
is simple: they are both oppressors.
No human desires suffering; many
would agree with ths. Yet,
paradoxically, we rarely see humans
making camest atiempis lo eliminate
suffering. Humans do not merely
accept suffering as an navoidable
realiy; they have chosen it. Humans
invent additional sources of suffeing,
their most sophisticated creations
being the State and Capitalism,

Today, human existence is entirely
shaped by the dominance of these (wo
forces. The State imposes rigid rules
that suppress individuality and
diminish the originality of human will
Capitalism domesticates us, evaluates
us by our productivity, consumes our
time, and measures our worth in
currency. These systems, born from
human ingenity, have become some
of the most relentless sources of
suffering for ther creators.

b) Ideology
Humans have chosen suffering for
themselves, and its roots lie deep
within their minds. Humans,
condemned to freedom, has ironically
chosento build its own prison.

Ideas, teachings, dogmas, and
ideologies offer humans a perceived
escape from their nihilisic condition.
Yet,ideology fils the void within
humanity with constructed goals,
consciousness, and dreams. Rather
than liberating humans, it often
dissolves them into cycles of
suffering, obscuring their essential
human essence
In Spectres of Strner: A
Contemporary Critique of Ideology,
Newman describes ideology asa
system of illusory promises and goals,
creating impossible ideals. Such ideals

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might fill the void within humans, but
ironically, they never allow humans to
be fully themselves.

“The ansiety humans feel about
themselves does not arrive
unprompted; it is agitated by
ideologists. These figures bring forth
false mirrors, urging humanity to see
distorted reflections of itslf. They
then offer solutions—through
education, control, and order—but
these solutions are merely new chains.
Ludd once argued in his 2014 essay
that humanity lives within countless.
limitations. If examined closely,
ideology might represent one such
limit It confines human potential, not
by protecting or guiding, but by
trapping individuals in rigid thought
systems.

Tdeology is not just a boundary; it is a
beloved prison. Humans often fil to
recognize ideology as an extemal
imposition, a closed system
masquerading as rational truth. Yet,
this "rational truth" i often nothing
more than disguised class interests
perpetuating domination.

©) Technology
Humans have tirelessly sought to
overcome their limitations, creating
tools and systems t0 assist them. Yet,
these very efforts have often resulted
in suffering

In Twilight of the Machines, Zerzan
eritiques how technology has
disrupted both nature and human labor
systems. What began as tools for
human convenience have become
forces of dominance, isolating humans
from nature and themselves.
Technology's power to maximize
productivity and efficiency has come
atacost. It has displaced human roles,
redefining the meaning of human
presence. Modemism has accelerated
this issue, making technology an
irreplaceable yet oppressive force in
human life.

“The division of labor has grown
increasingly complex, forcing humans
0 adapt to machines rather than
‘machines serving humans. The
dominance of technology represents
one of the most significant
colonizations in human history,
reducing humans to mere cogs ina
vast, impersonal system.

d) Society
We do not need scholarly references to
discuss society. Our lived experiences
are suficient

Socicty is often defined as a cohesive:
system bound by shared
consciousness, culure, and moral
codes. Yet,this definition is naive and
ails 1o expose the inherent
contradictions within society.

Have we ever noticed how moral
societies often act immorally toward
outsiders? Values within society are in
constant flux—some die, others are
born, and yet their utilty remains
questionable.

Society, dense with rules and values,
restricts human spontancity. Even
Taughter is policed, made to conform
o societal norms.

Choosing to live within society means
choosing a specific form of suffering.
Society restrains autonomy, denies
authenticity, and imposes rigid
expectations. It makes humans accept
a form of humanity that is
fundamentally inhuman.

Society i not merely a set of rules;
isa prison for happiness, a
hypocritical structure that preaches
virtue while perpetuating suffering.

“To me, the gates of a human home
are more terrifving than the gates of
hell i the Divine Comedy.”
~ Osamu Dazai

Anonymous
February, 2022

Source: Southeast Asian Anarchist
Library. Translated from Indonesian.

The Changing Nature of Warfare:
Advancements of Military Drones/U.AV.

In this dey and age. the biggest
change in our les s driven by
tachnology—and who drives the
changes? The ones who oreate
technology." Selcuk Bayraktar,
founder of Baykar Technologies &
creator of the Bayraktar TB2

Grainy aerial footage shows a
Russian military convoy come into
focus, approaching the city of
Knerson in Ukraine. Only several
days before Russia has invaded
Ukraine, and Kherson, a shipbuiding
hub on the mouth of the River:
Dneiper, is an important strategic
site. A tanget system locks on to a
vehice in the midde of the convoy
‘and, within seconds, the vehicle
explodes. A dark smouldering crater
and a rising smoke tower from the
burning fuel is all that, can be seen.
“Behold the work of our life-giving
Bayraktar'” a translated caption
reads. "Welcome to Hell” are the
words of Valeri Zaluzhnyi, the
commanderinchief of Ukraine’s
‘armed forces.

The Bayrakter TB2 is a fiat. gray
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV.).
with angled wings and a rear
propeler. & carries laser guided
missiles and is small enough to be
carried on the back of a flatbed

truck s real difference-making
factor s i costs a fraction
‘compared to other well known
drones such as the General Atomics
MG Reaper (which replaced the
infamous MG-1 Predator]. A T82
costs under $5 million, even possibly
going as low as $1 milion,

‘compared to the substantial $30
million of the Reaper. Already & is
clear that the TB2 is bringing
miltary drone technology to
militaries that were incapable of
affording it before, in what has been
described as a revolution in how war
s being fought. What is being played
out s a new technology that gave
developers such as the US miitary
an advartage in warfare that is now
being eroded over time.

The TB2 is the brainchid of Selguk
Bayraktar, the son of a Turkish auto-
parts entrepreneur, who is one of
the worlds leading weapons
manufacturers. In the defense of
Ukraine, Bayraktar has become a
logend, tho namesake of a baby
lemur at the Kyiv 200, and the
subject of a catchy fok song, which
claims that; s drone “makes ghosts
out of Russian bandits.” He is seen
a5 the Turkish Elon Musk, who is an
avid ally, ven one of the family of

Recep Tayyip Erdogan and is @
deeply embedded contractor of the
Turkish miltary forces. His
headquarters and famiy compound
of Baykar Technologies, employs
more than two thousand people.
which is compared to & university
‘campus, with sports facilties and a
park, the whole area bigger than
Google's. He was educated in UISA by
the technocratic academic eltes of
the Massachussets Instutute of
Technology (MLT., the same college
of Noam Chomsky, who Bayrakter is
apparently a fan oft He even
completed his Masters by fiying
drones in formation at the Fort
Benning Army base, in Georgia

The history of is TB2 drone is
drowned in the blood of insurgents.
In2016 he first tested & alongside
the Turkish miftary, by siriking the
Kurdish insurgents of the PKK. s
estimated that the TB2 s
responsible for the deaths of 20 of
the organization's leadiers, along with
whoever was standing near them.
Turkey's remote-controled
counterinsurgency was thought to
be the first time a country had
conducted a drone campaign
against citizens on its own sol, but.
Bayrakcar, ciing the threat, of
terrorism, remains an enthusiastio
supporter of the campaign. Since
then, i has been sold to at least
thirteen countries, bringing the
tactic of the precision air strke to
the developing world and reversing
the course of several wars. n 2020,
in the confict, between Azerbaijan
and Armenia over the enclave of
NagornoKarabakh, Azerbaijan's
dictatoril leader, Iham Allyev, used
the TB2 to target vehicles and
troops, then displayed footage of the
strikes on digital bilboards in the
capital city of Baku.

Tha TB2 has now carried out more
than eight hundred strikes, in
conflcts from North Africa to the
Goucasus. The bombs it carries can
adust their trajectories in micssir.
and are 5o accurate that they can be
dolvered into an infantry trench
Mitary analysts had previously
assumed that slow, lowling drones
would b of It use in conventional
combat, but the TB2 can take out
the aniaircraft systems that are
designed to destroy t. Tis enabled

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fairly significant operational
revolution in how wars are being
fought right now, which happens
once every thirty or forty years. Think
of the advancements that occur in
technology and science in previous
conflicts, such s the tank in the
First World War, the plans in the

Second World War, the helicopter in
the Vietnam War or cruise missiles
in the first Iraq War. Mitary
confits are either the precursor or
consequence of previous
technologicalscientific shifts in
history, the testing grounds for
industrial revolutions, with the
applications rolling out into society
iesef, normally to repress and
control the masses even further.

Haven' drones already being used
en masse not just to bomb to
obieration 'terrorists'in the desert
but als0 to surveil whole populations.
at home?

Erdogan is the leader of an
authoritarian poltical lslamist
movement that wishes "to build 8
powerful industrialized Turkey that
Serves as the natural leader of the
Musiim world” Turkey's arms
industry has grown tenfold in the
past twenty years, and most of the
country's miitary equipment is now
manufactured locally. The
Bayraktars, and particularly the
TBRs, have turned into the flagship
of the Turkish defense industry.”
Turkey borders Iran, Iraq, Syria,
Armenia, Geargia, and the European
Union [especially Greece which it is
increasingly on a war footing with in
the last decade], and i faces Russia
across the Black Sea. The shifting
allegances and complex poltcs of
the region remind us of Europe in
the days before the First World War.
But Turkey's economy is stagnating
and s inflation rate rose to seventy
per cent during twelve months alone
last yoar. The TB2 is a spectacular.
propaganda machine and Erdogan
has used s success to promote his
vision for Turkish society. The aim is
t0 use the miitary industral complex
o increase not only the prestige of
Turkey abroad bus. also to make it @
leading arms manufacturer for the
region and now, t seems, the world,
thus generating an economic boom
and adding to the arms race that we
have seen in the last decade
internationaly.

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As an example, in June 2016,
suicide bombors affiated with IS5/
Daesh kiled forty-fve people at the
Istanbul airport, and soon & new
front was opened in Syria, whare
Turkey used Bayrakiar’s drones to
attack the shortlied ISIS caliphate
Eventually those dronos were tumed
‘against the Kurdish rebels in Syria in
what, was sickeningly named
“Operation Olive Branch in which
thousands of Kurdish fighters of the
Peoples Protection Units YPJ) and
civlians were massacred. On the
one hand we see the legtimization of
Turkey's reduced-cost, drone
development, whether it s targeting
‘terrorists'in the war on terror or
helping Ukraine fight o the Russian
invasion. On the other hand we are
sesing the use of this technology to
put down insurgencies, whether it s
in Syria and now also in West Afrca,
where ‘drone dplomacy is being
used in counterinsurgency or, as
they call it counterterrorism. This is
neo-colonialism on a new scale, no
longer able to directly contral former
colonies, but able to supply once
again these countries with the
means to oppress their own people
o neighbours in the image of the
Western world.

If this is not enough Baykar
‘Technologies are now in the
prototype phase of developing a Sth
generation. autonomous steath
fighter plane and drone technology
that is also affordable for aspiring
developing dictatorial countries.
‘around the worid. The Baykar
Bayraktar K1z1lelma is a single-
engine. low-observable, carrier-
‘capabl, jevpowered unmanned
‘combat aerial vehicle, currentlyin
development, part of the Project
MIUS (Muharip Onsans1z Ucak

g

;

Sister, Combetant Unmenned
Aircraft System). It is believed the
next versions of the UAV will be
capable of supersonic fight. This
dovelopment croates a dangerous
precedent in which we are saeing
the dssemination of autonomous
combat vehicles iternationally.
adding to the technologica shif:
previously mentioned in our recent
taxts,the 4th Industrial Revoluton
(4IR), How dangerous is this
precedent when we think of the
increasing use of Artificial
Inteligence (A) within these
weapons of death? The popular
prophetic apocalyptic fim
Terminator- and especialy the TV
series, 'Sarah Connor chronicles'
portray not only the development but
also the use of killer drones by the
utimate Al ‘Skynet.. This is not far
fekched anymore when taking into
consideration both the UK and
USA's pursuit of integrating and
expanding the use of Alin
conjunction with robotics and
deones, especially with the US
miltary research project Defense
Advanced Ressarch Projects Agency
(DARPA) already claiming -back in
2016 - that new drone technology
they tasted proved the machines can
fly by themselves, identify whether
someone on the ground is armed,
and differentiate between hostie and
nonvhostle targets Further to this
the UK, along with its pursuit of
updating armed forces, is positioning
itself as a free enterprising haven
(now that has left the European
Union and seeking to repostion tself
internationaly for Al and al other
4R technologies and sciences. The
bellyof the beast takes on a new
incamation.

> 3

Turkey is not lone in developing
affordable drone technology, with the
‘opposing force of Russia aiready
using Iran's HESA Shahed 136 or
Geran2 in Russian service, an
Iranian loicering munition in the form
of an autonomous pusher-prop
drone. The drone s designed to
stack ground targets from a
dstance, fired in muliples from a
Taunch rack (in batches of fve
upwards) to overwhelm air defenses
by consuming their resources during
the attack.The unit cost for the
drone is much much lower than
what we described with the TB2 at
only $10,000! This cost blows the
mind in terms of how affordable
UAV's can become. expanding
further the possibilty of their use
beyond establshed miltary forces.
The potential, if they're not already
being used. for them to be
weaponised by insurgents around
the world is encouraging to say the
least; As much as these
technological developments can
send the fear into us of an
omnipotent miltary industrial
‘complex, a technocratic state and
civisation, they are also to some
extent with every development
‘exposing themselves to attack with
the same technology.

Since we frst started researching
‘and writing this text,the potential for
the use of UAV's to be expanded by
insungents has come to pass. On
October 7th 2023, Hamas and
other Palestinian groups launched
an attack on a unprecedented scale
from the open prison of Gaza into
the Zionist fascist state. They
managed to make a mackery of the
‘advanced miltary technology of the
Isragii Defence Force. What was
impressive was the use of an
‘asymmetric warfare that included
the use of drones to bombard tanks,
soldiers and fortifications, Since the
7th October ‘Al Aqsa Fiood attack,
the use of drones by the Palestinian
miltias hos been integral to the
confiict that continued since with the
HESA Shahed 136 being used in
conjuction with missies. The some
hes occurred also with Hezbaleh in
its conflct in the north with the
Zionist state, hiting key targts
slong the border, even deep within,
s far as Tel Avv and even landing
upon the genocidal maniac Berjamin

Netenyahu's home. What this shows.
~along with other tactics and
wespons used by these miftias - is
that advanced miltary technologies
are baing shown up for the

lumbering beasts that they are, and
even one of the most advanced

tanks in the world hos been shown

0 be vulnerable not only to drones
but handmade thermabaric RPG's
that are produced inside Gaza sef.
“Low tech warfare" as f can be
described can underming any
powerful anemy if deployed
effectively. one of the reason Hamas’
attack went undetected was
because they used low tech
communication to organise then co-
ordinate the attack, even returning
0 pen and paper. as well as landine
phones.

As much as we admire the
inteligence of insurgents to utiise
the recent technological
developments in warfare, we are
als0 aware of the magnitude of what
enemy states and authorities can
bring to bear when we think of the
scale of the miltary industrial
complexes. We think of the Apache's
guerrilla wars againss the US army
inthe 1800’ and into the last
century that only ended because the
US state was able to bring its war
machine to overpower and win the
war of attrition. On the fipside of the
oin we have seen the Zionis state
als0 using drone technology long
before the recent Gaza conflict to
turn the region inco an open prison
with surveilance but aiso the
capabilty to strike within - the
conszant hum of a drone heard in
videos coming out of the conflict
zone wes audible even before
hosilties began. The IDF has
become a speciaist just as much as
the Turkish armed forces in
developing recent drone
tachnologies: Israel has been using
drones in ts warfare since as early
a5 1968, when the IDF's inteligence
directorate, Shabai Bril, secured
cameras to remote-controlled
aircraft in order to surveil the
Egyptian border. During the 1982
Lebanon Wer. Israel used drones to
annihilate milkary postions in the
Lebanon Valley. By 1986, it was
revealed in & deciassiied CIA report
that lsrael had exported drones to
the US. Naw, Switzerland, and

Singapore. Drones capable of
deploying munitions were not
invented uncl the 1990s, bus by the
near end of the 2000s, armed
drones became Israeli miltary
industries’ moss ucrative export
item. Combat drones increased the
volume of miitary export.
transactions from $4.8 bllion in
2007 t0 an annual total of
approximately $7 bilion beginning in
2008, Last year, drones made up
9% of Israel's $11.3 bilon in arms
exports, contributing to about $1
billon in sales. lsrael Aerospace
Industries (IAl) and Elbit Systems are
the primary lsraeli manufacturers of
‘armed unmanned aerial vehicles in
the world. Examples of lsvaeh
exports are Azerbaian purchased IAI
Harop drones, a "loitering munition”
or kamikaze uni: which destroys
itself after attacking a terget. It also
bought Elbt Hermes 900 armed
drones in arms deals with Israel over
the years These drones have been
used against Armenia throughout
the bwo nations fight over the
NagomoxKarabakh territory.
Moroceo acquired IATs Heron
unarmed UAVs in 2013, and the
equipment has reportedy been seen
at bases in the Western Sahara, a
region occupied by Morocco. In
September, Moracco purchased
150 military drones from Israeli
BlusBird Aero Systems. The
unmanned equipment is apparently
for reconnaissance, surveillance, air
defense, and emergency missions.
India and Germany have aiso
brokered military drone deals with
Israel. In April, Germany acaquired
140 IAl Heron armed drones over
cancerns Russia could strike
German infrastructure amid the
ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. India
has also purchased Heron drones,
‘with the country hoping to weaponize
the vehicles localy

What;we are trying to show here is
that drone tachnology is an
international business that is not just
been used to put down populations
in the originators said territories, the
testing grounds. but also being used
to do the same intemationaly. What
better place to test the next wave of
repressie technologies bt i the
Goza strip and West Bank - the
biggest open air technological
surveiled prisons in the worid? Then
0 sell and develop them further

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abroad such as Elbit's presence in
Bristol, UK. Advertising Gompaigns
filed with videos gloating abou the
Killer drones such as the LANIUS
dronebased loitering muntion(1)
that can used in swarms, only show
the capabilty of this international
allance that has aiready used such
technologies in Gaza and the West
Bank, with the IDF boasting of using
now technologies to assassinate
Hamas leader in Iran. How long
before these are to be used upon
their own civiians on home sol f
they step out of ine. 7 youre doing
nothing wrong, you have nothing to
worry about” the stata or aven
mindless humanaid drones in society
tell you. None of this s far fetched
‘when we already see police
surveilance drones hunting down
anyone on the run in this country
already.

Recently in the last month, videos.
have appeared online of FPV [fist:
person view, also known as remote-
person view, or video piloting) low
budget drones being used to hunt.
down not only Russians but also
recently deployed North Korean
soldiers i the Russia Ukraine war.
The videos show the horror in the
soldiers’ eyes as they run like rabbits.
being hunted through grasslands in
a hopeless atzempt to avoid being
blown up by the explosive packed on
the suicide drone[2). I you combine
this with the footage of the last
moments of Hamas leader Yahya
Sinwar as he was hunted down by a
drone, throwing a stick with his one
remaining arm, a keffiyeh round his.
head, its hard to not think we have
already arrived at a moment where
the technological superiority is being
brought to bear upon any insurgency
that dares to raise it's head, to fight
back even against this new
technological scientific existent being
enforced For years now the Zionist
state has been using kiler drones to
blow up whole apartment blocks
along with ‘collateral not only in
Gaza, but also in Syria and
infamously Beruit, Lebanon where
many Palestinian leaders, from al
the factions, were gathered: the
September 2024 drone
assassination of senior leaders of
the Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine (PFLP), in which an
upper fioor of an apartment buiding

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was oblterated in the Kola dstrict:
What has to be understood is that
technology can never favour us in its
entirety because it primarily serves
the oppressive system that created
it the inequality in armed superiority
will always exist and its ability to
churn more out at will as well
Fighting all out wars playing by the
‘enemies rules will never work in an
insurrectional favour. The Vietcong in
the Vietnam war showed that you do
not need technological superiority to
win against a technologically
‘superior enemy, and if anything
quantity does not always outweigh
quality. Nothing can replace a well
trained dedicated guerrila in an
urban or rural environment, The
recent confiict involving Hamas has
‘shown this, despite our own critique.
towards religion, national liberation
‘and miltaristic structures. A Low
Tech War plays by rules created by
the guerrila that work in our favour,
puling the balance towards
ourselves but essentially does not
rely on the technology, or become it.
“This has always been the anarchist.
understanding of weaponisation: the
idea that we do not bacome solely
the gun, the force, or the power that
weapons can create. As the late
insurrectional anarchist Alfredo M.
Bonanno expresses so well

A revolutionary structure that seoks
the moment of joy in action aimed at
destroying power considers the tools
used to bring about this destruction
just tht, means. Those who use
tools must not becomes sleves to
them. Just as those who do ot
know how to use them must ot
become slaves to those who do.

The dictatorship of tools is

the worst kind of dictatorship

Revolutionaries’ most
important weapons are their
determination, their conscience,
their decision to ct; their
individuaity. Arms themsekes are.
merely tools, and as such should
continualy be submitted to
evaluation. it & necessary to develop
critique of arms. Too often we have.
‘seen the sanctification of the sub
machinegun and milkary efficiency.”
- Alfredo M. Bonanno, ‘Armed Joy'

I this new century we are aware of
a lack of critique and analysis of the
IR and, in tandem with it the
psychological/legtimacy program of
the 5th Industrial Revolution (SIR) in
anarchist circles. This is a very real
understanding that this is an akeady
arriving future happening now and
more so just around the corner. not.
some dystopian science fiction story
thatis many years off in the distance
that won' effect us in our ife time.
‘The technocratic sycophants of this
shift in the world, along with their
machines, are a threat to us now in
the present. They must be
understood with full knowledge not
fear that creates inertia. They must
be targeted before they bring about
their sick fantasies of human beings.
of all natural fe on this planet being
under their control, completely
replaced or destroyed from the
cimactical fallout. These
technologes and sciences must not
be seen as invincible: in facs, the
langer and more compicated the
whole cybernetic Leviathan gets, the
more vulnerable i will be especially
gven the total dependence on
technalogy as a solution. The rising
asymmetrical or hybrid wars do ot
mean we should be excluding ourseives in some primitive and antitech
purism. Thare are already mathods available with which to counter drones,
from the jammers that interrupt the signal that Kurdish rebels have already
been using to the DroneGun. f we can acquire conventional weapons, then
Wwe Gan acquire these weapons or develop our own hybrid versions. DARPA
has been developing a laser gun to counter drones and we haven't even
mentioned electro magnetic pulses (EMP), which are easil constructed on
@ small scala in DIY fashion, with it not being unfeasible to create them on
bigger scale.

It is essential as anarchists critical of the tachnological and scientiic
worldview and civiisation that we do not let the technocrats run away with
our imaginations, that. we have our fingers on the pulse of the monumental
shifts that are occurring in our ifatimes. I is vital that we understand the
magniwude of what we face and not to fear it in darkness because i we
remain ignorent, if we let ourselves be bind sided to the true nature of the.
4IR and 5IR then we let the technocratic eltes, the included, win a war that
we cannot lose even before t's started.

As mentioned in the editorial of 325 #12 magazine, anarchists have been
on the pulse before in previous industrial revolutions when it comes to
weaponising, even to some extent reverse engineering technology and
science to create bombs, commit forgery, to become weapons experts.
‘diandestine printers, making universal the knowledge they stole back from
the rulers and owners of our ives. So why not now and in the future? We
delight at the news when we see drones break the defences of prisons to
deliver a phone to a prisoner or hear of a company being burned to the
ground by an incendiary device drapped on it or & bomb being dropped on
an IDF Merkava tank seeing its occupants scatter in fear. Let's not be just:
‘spectators to it, cheering from the sidelines. The techno-fascist states have
their hybrid and asymmetrical warfare, even the Gassim brigades, why can't
anarchists? Let us not become slaves to it either!

For informal anarchist cells hastening the downfall of this technosphere
and civlization.

With every possible method in our critical hands

The Unciviized
Notes
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2. https;/./ www youtube.com/
watch?v=GApIKIApoVYMS pp=ygURZnBIGRYbESIMVremFpbmUSs3D.

SKIZILELMA

Akheiron

a hell was found dead and
headless
in front of the gates of soul.
death and heaven stared at its
comse
emotionlessly.

in a city of language, meta-
prose and poetry,
doll factory, corporation of
‘money and numbers
were smashing themselves.

a shadow of somebody
threading a black hole in the
crestfallen chest
of a statue.

andi
am a burned corpse that was

hanged,
anarchist whose hands and feet

were amputated
a prison sentence of one
thousand years
was thrown at me along with
stones.

forme

life is the carcass of a hyena
that rots

under the rain of maggots.

2021
Rifki Syarani Fachry,

Indonesian anarchist poet, born
in Ciamis, West Java, 1994.

38
Restructuring of power
and anarchist perspectives
Alfredo M. Bonnano

I the midst of & period of
rovoltionary formentation at the end
of the 1970, the State underwent
extensive restructuring. Large
industrial plants were closing their
doors, production was becorning
increasingly automated, State
dliscourses were sprinkled with Gitizer
participation and integration, and
markets were diersifing. Rather
than following this process,
anarchists proposed t move from
the centre to the penphery. Small
afiniy groups. sefforganization of
struggles, informal orgenization,
specilic struggles and difuse attacks
were the basic elements developed to
elaborate insurrectional
projectuities against the ongoing
restructuring

Tody, we are facing a new restruc-
tuning, or rather, a new process that
s profoundly transforming all social
relations. If the central axis of this
process s technology in the widest

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sense of the word, it seems to be
covering realiy isatf with o fre fog.
where the chersctenstic capciies
ofthe tuman being (such as
senstivty and understanding of the
resity sround them) tend to fade
ey infovour of & new paradigm. In
@ world plagued by bloodthirsty wars,
imeversible envronmental devasts-
o and 8 potound anniietion of
the capacities to understand realty,
What s ooy’ anarchist proposal?
Feflecting on the ongaing
transformations leads the anarchist
th lover of reecomtoface the
question of destruction And #
revolutionary destruction is not &
Siogan s ot a mere rhetorial
araice, s necsssary to contront
the problems that bridge the gap
beween idee and acton: how'o
gt by what means wih what
organizational forms and what
projectualty.

A I have two bis of bad news for you:
the fist is that | must speak in French,
and my French is not al that great.

The second is that | have to talk to you
about a very complex question which
will require some concentration on our
part. Where does the complexty of
the argument we are about to go into.
lie? In the complexity of reaity. We'l
talk about reaity because L is the
thing wa are all a part of, which is
there in front of our eyes. Soitis of
this reality that we shal speak.

Obviously allthis began long ago, we:
ould even go back to the Sumerians,
or the AssyroBabylonians, but what
we want to tak about are things that
are very close to us. Perhaps you have
followed o even fived through this
experience: in the 705, the European
productive structure underwent
profound changes as i became more
and more difficultto keep the great
productive block, ie. the assembly
fines. fixed in one main location. This
had to change to stop spending huge
sums of money on one single product.
It suffices to think of the example of
the enormous amount of money that
FIAT in taly spent to go from the 500
model to the 600. At the time it was.
thought that with the new automated
forms of technalogy it was possible to
splfup and eiminate the 0ld, massive
structure to sell t abroad (the
structures for the 600 were s0id to
Northern Ireland for example]. Then
‘sland” enterprises were created,
which were not in contact with one
another because each produced a
diferent pece of the final product,
thus becoming supplier and customer
of their neighbour at the same time.

This is a simple change that nonethe-
less revolutionized production, as the
individual islands functioned and still
function separately. f you send me a
defective tyre, | only have to send it
back for you to send me one that.
works: | am stil your workmate, but
you are also my supplier. Whatis lost
in this process is the consciousness of
being a labour unit and one’s own self-
awareness as a worker. I this sense,
each year is worse than the last, one
gets weaker, the unions are less and
less representative, the political
parties have gone from complete sht
to complete confusion, there is no
longer leftwing or rightwing, we don't
even understand what the right and
the left are anymore. Al this is due
to the absence of the base, working
dlass consciousness, and thus, 35
we said a long time ago, the exact
reaction to the distribution of the
‘means of production. Because this
system of distrbution of the means
of production exists, | react to this
system in a precise way. | am
worker, | am an employee, | am a
manager, my reaction must bo
proportional: f | loss this mission. |
am nothing. A huge insignificant
‘mass. | am called upon to do this,
but this means nothing because it
is based on old precepts, which also
o longer mean anything.

What are we talking about? Of the
transtion from the old to the new
productive structure. Ifwe think
about i together, and it is to this
reflection that Id ke to bring you,
we wil see that the new production
composed of techniques that are
i there in front of us, one nextto
the other. Techniques. Believe me:
man is the main technique that we
are taking about, Religion s a
technique. And so are al the forms
of the productive structure.
Ideologies, that which philosophers
‘and saciologists produce in
universities, what every scientist
produces, s a technique. Each
technique struggles with the others
and tries to gai the upper hand
The upper hand of one technique
over another. on average,
throughout the world, means a
profi o 3%

We could go into al this later on.
for now let’s look at it 55 something
that is here in front.of us on this
table, because we are trying to
explain what the relationship
between one technique and
anather is.a conflictual relationship,
one of struggle, where each tries to
gain the upper hand. In tself this
Goes not mean much, we need to
ook for the real reason that each
technique is in struggle with the
rest. The worid is based on thet.
struggle, the struggle to gain 3% a
pitance.

Because man s the most
miserable and crul anmal that
exists on this planet. What.
humanity has attempted to do over-
the course of hstory is terrfying

And we are al responsible. We all
wallow in the blood of the millons of
people who are kiled for this 3%. The
ships that left Afrca to bring slaves
to the Americas, eamed in total this
3% ffthey saw an enemy ship on the
horizon, the frst to be thrown into
the soa was the siave: man is this
nice creature and the mantechnique
is exactlythis thing here. Religon-
tachnique s also this. Religon takes.
man by the hand and leads him
toward these massacres. It told him
that t was right to massacre 5000
people a hundred and fifty kilometres
from here, in Carcassonne, leaving
them to burn inside a ircular space
surrounded by a smal wall Yes, the
‘same reigion thet speaks of peace
today, the same peope, the same
slaughterers.

fon the one hand each technique is
in a relationship of struggle against
the others, on the other itis bound to
them by a relationship of control,
annhilation, derealization. This ast
concept, derealizaton. is synonymous
with technology. So, lecs see, what s
technology? Technology is the
attempt to place a vei over the
techniques, over realty, which
reduces each single thing, diminish-
ing 4o a vie level where we ive a
reduction of our abilty t understand.
We are in a situation which is not too
‘advanced for the moment. but not
very far away either, That s, we are
far enough ahead to understand
what is happening right now and
what will happen. not in two milion
years, not in the next century, nor five
hundred years because it s now that
the veil of technology is shrouding
realty. This veil covers man. it makes
him feel good, less evi: on the
contrary. it makes him feel capable of
great things inside this cage. If you
are capable of imagining &
technological acceptance of reaity.
you must also accept the interpreta-
tion of wht technology means — an
interpretation of technique: téchne,
1605, amang it various meanings in
Greek, “reasoning on techrique”. I
we acoept this stuation, we'll be fine,
but we wil also have less and less
capacity to understend what is
wrong, what repression is,the,
vileness of this realit. If you've been
paying close attention. youll have:
noticed that | havent mentioned
States or copital: | consider them

nothing other than forms of
technique, armed one agains the.
other.

Why then should | dedicate my time
%o refiecting on the structures of
the State? Perhaps because in my
revolutionary dreams | am the one
with the knfe between my teeth?
No, I'm thinking about the vision of
the assault on the Winter Palace.
Are we kiding? Would an assau:
on the Winter Palace be possible
today? s i possible to attack the
State? The State is a technique
alongside al the other techniques.
We can attack the technique close
%o for example the relgion-
technique, or the fashiontechnique
‘which produces the structure
behind fashion, which proposes
models and fabricetes clothes,
shoes:the construction of the
phantom, which comes about
through the technological
intervention. Technology thus falls
o reaity, preventing us from
seeing what is n front of us. We do
ot have reality there before us, we
do not have a woman's dress: we
have & symbol, @ phantom, with
‘which a dress wil then be made.
That is where the womn falls into
the trap, actually buying &
hologram, an unacceptable symbol
but which i signficant. Wht we
are seeing is only a phantom
through which we wil later see
realiy, i and when it arrves. The
ars on the roads are the
realization of something impossible
in modern traffic, something that
onthe contrary, is unnecessary.

Why are cars 5o big? Their forms
are the phantom that we are
pushed to see. Everything that we
see in frontof s or on television. is
based on these curves, These soft
pleasant curves are managed and
realized by technology and our
habits are tied to something that
doesn't exist, a reaity that doesn't
exist.\We can' struggle against a
phantom because in this struggle.
when we think we are striking the
phantom we are actualy hiting
Something imaginary, an ideology, a
dream. Thus it s aiways possibe to
keep on striking, but we need to
know exactly where reaity lies,
where the technique is and not ts
ghost. & 5 a complex topic that can

a1
take us far away there is the space
to strike, to attack, to organize
ourselves in the ways we know very
well ie. the informal organization,
An organization that starts from
the base, attacking real structures
and not their ghosts.

Eachtime we find ourselves before
one of our enemys realization we
need to ask ourselves if this
reaization is real. alive before us,
produced in the relation and
opposition between the techniques,
or i i is deformed, modiied
through technology, which, like a
huge cloud that shrouds reality
changes i to the point of reducing
40 a phantom. | am not saying that
al realityis a phantom, only a part
of its, and 5o there is always the
possibily of striking and striking
well. However, we cannot; affirm
with certainty that there s sure
relationship between our act, our
pinpricks and realty. This is not
possible without having carefully
studied reality and the parts that
compose i beforehand. Only then
can we attack.

Afew final words: the phantom is
ot the absence of reaitty but is
reduced reaity because technology
has the effect of reducing ts
substance. The world can prevent
me from dressing as a woman but.
this just makes me laugh. | don't do
50 for two reasons: for others and
because I'm not interested It is
always possible, but it is surely
more simple to try to understand
the gap between what is put before.
my eyes to fool me and what, far
out of sight, corresponds to reality.
A certain, excuse my language.
“sacred” capacity is required.

Q1 Yu diont sey concretely.
where one can strike.

A: Evidenty it wasn't ol that clear:
any technique can be struck. it is
about finding the gap between
reaity and the phantom, the crack
between the two, what has been
reduced to 8 phantom and what is
about to be, but is still reaity. We
mentioned the exampie of fashion:
there is @ passage between the.
technique present in the great
fashion events and the places of
mass production of clothes, shoss

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etc. These factories are far removed
from such events, the two con bear
some similarities, b they are nos
the same. | support. neither big
fashion events or factorios where
thousands of Chines people work
every day, but | make the distinction
betwoen the bwo. There was a time
when we thought that strking
production meant, strking the big
factories. Today,on the contrary, |
am sayng to you that ts also
necessary to strike the metaphysics
of production which, i the hands of
some dimwi fashion designer. is
‘equally part of the technique. The
reason for this resides in the fact
thatthere is a relationship between
the absurd model put before our
yes in a collection of images and
massive production

‘This relationship escapes us.
because we are unable to reflect on
the origin of this relationship, which
we accept without understanding,
We are not yet in a time when such a
thing can be comprehensible to us.
For this reason. in this moment, even
though we do not entirely understand
the relationship, we can attack. What
is the reason that peaple buy a
rounded car in which to become a
prisoner in the traffic of their own
town? The beauty of the curves,

From Boethius to today, there are
many things one could say... We are
fiving in @ phantasmatic phase today,
realty becoming a phantom. We
don't understand why we see the
phantom in place of realty, but we
know that; we can attack the
phantom, it is even more simple, and
in doing 50 we ara also attacking
realty because there s a link
between the two. Even if this ik
‘seems unintaligible to us, it
‘continues to exist, even due to the
‘simple fact that people keep buying
this shit.

82: In istening to you got the
impression that technology is the
‘apparatus through which the
production model shited, es you
ware saying. in relation to the
“islands” that take charge ofa single
technique. This technolagy has also
allowed the advent of mass
production of consumer goods,
which are the bearers of this
metaphysics, this social phantorm.
Could you develop that aspect a bie
more? ks that what you are talking
‘about? Is there a pheromenon,
resuting from the breaking down of
techniques, the dispersal of
techniques? Is it technology itself
that is becoming the phantomatic
tool, the socisl phantom?

A You really know what technology
is?1 don'. thet's the point. Since
‘words don't make things, t s things
that make words, Our western
culture got accustomed to using
something then giving & a name. This
‘me the name realy falls from the
sky, because, lev's see, wht. does it
mean? The totaity of ll the
techniques? No. On the contrary, the
totaliy of the techniques is not
necessary for technology. |am not
trying to play with words here, we are
talking about things. Dereaization, as
we have called i, takes part of reality
and leads it beyond it This process of
wransformation of realiy into a
phantom is not a consequence of the
canflct between dferent techniques,
because the only outcome of this
confict is the 3% profi. So, what s
interesting about the process, and
not the project, of derealization?
Within the totaliy of the techniques.
a totalty that also includes man.
there is something that doesn't work:
the fear of the process is the
transformation of the process within
it.is not. due to an external
intervention. Something that.
functions differently within the
process itself a transformation that
develops in the moment when
changes take place within the
technological process. A certain way
of using reality and the planer, the
earth, of using colonization and war.
‘which s aways in course, continues,
the Second world war was certainly
ot the last: But man neads to put an
end to war, but how? How can man,
technical structure made for war, put
a stop to war? Only through a

process, which, operating on man.
makes him understand how his
situation, stupid but beautful, does
not need war. That way he wil
understand that Ife is more.
imporant than inteligence, that iing
is more important than knowing. AS a
Grosk philosopher once said, the first
thing i the joy o Ife. This is sl irue
today and throughout hstory, ke an
ugly undenground flower, that makes
us aware of anather way of seeing
things. Today, given the reversal of
violence in relationships betwoen
people, i is even possibe for a stupid
individual with an extremely imited
finguisic capacity t @xist. No need to
look further than the American
students that dspose of ony 180
words to speak Engish n their
colleges. Ifwe do not understand this
concept of poverty of language, we
willend up in deep shit. We need to
ry to understand, making an effort,
because we cennct live in shit even if
this shic guarantees that we can
retum to our home in the evening
and foll asieep n peace. Because this
is what is being proposed in this
project.

Q3: Therefore, if the Seate and
Capital e techniques along with the
athers, does this mean that they too
have been changed by this process?
So then, following your train of
thought; would they be less object of
an attack or are you rather saying
that one should change ane’s way of
seeing them and consequently of
atzacking them?

Al spent one and a halfyears in a
Groek prison, and every day, as the
cells were too small they put us
outside them in the corridors and
[with other comrades locked up in
there. ndt] we spent.a year and a holf
taking about this problem. You know
why? Because in Greece there had
boan the experience of a
demonstration of 150000 people
00 you know what that means? This
has happened to me twice in my e
one demonstration of 150000
people in Bologna in ‘77 and anather
time in Greece. a huge river of people
8l going toward the Perfiament
What could such a huge number of
people have done? This is the real
queston, the Gfference between
realiy and the phantom. The Paria-
ment and simiar bulshi are phan-

toms. fin such a situation, a rwer of
people heading toward the
Pariiament, we have an informal
‘organization that leaves the
150,000 people and attacks
predetermined and preemptively
studied targets instesd, things could
change.

Q4: S0, can even the socalled
struggle bocome tachology?Is it
‘possible that duning massive.
demonstrations, there can be welk
intentioned people. but who have
nothing to attack? They seek
dislogue with the government. with
the enemy, or with the producers of
poisans, they ask them to change, to
improve and beleve tht in & certain
way, this phenomenon is going in that:
diection. e the technology that &5
drowing a vei over reaiiy, which does
have its effects, This moves
something, but it part of this world
where one can express oneself on
the streets, and even with the
Gonsent of the government, because
the techniques, the new, ‘smert’
hazards need to have everyone’s
consensus. So, fwe say that this

new green approach needs a
moment of emergency in arder to be
accepted. it because the visceral
ontrol that penetrates each one of
us s also part of the concept of
“smart" technology. And if with this.
we are reducing the apocalyptic
emergency, the ecologioal
catastrophe, /don’ know. But |
believe and feel that i there is no
intervertion through precise actions
that attacks the production of
hazards this could be another
phenomenan of the phantom, even if
there are hundreds of thousends of
‘pecple on the streets.

G5/ think the technology is us. If Nike
and Apple procuce, it because we
buy. It wil be us who decide what to
do with this technology. Buying i you
give power and weight to this
technology. So, I think that technology
s the human being,

A If you exchange the word "technol-
ogy” with "technique’ | perfecty
agree with you, We must reflect on
the words we use. We do a magazne
called Nogazine and in each issue we
question these complex questions,
these problems, deepening our
reflection on words. Do words have

the right to mean something? Up to
a point. Their right to signification
goes so far. French, ke Ralian is a
language that has & certain
modulation of significance, but thare
are some languages where each
word can have twenty or thirty
meanings. In ancient Greece, for
‘example there was this richness in
terminology. These are reflections
that need to be made, and the only
means of communication we have is
this one. On the contrary, working on
words means reflecting on the
reason a certain term means
something in one sentence and
something different in ancther. Why
are French and ltalian two languages
that have shrunk so much? Even
English s a language without fe, the.
global language s a dead language.

Bocause there is no capacity to
create new things, as was once
possible. We need to try to
understand this problem too,
because otherwise i is a war of
words:technology and technique are
ot the same thing, but are quite
distinct and quite independert. of one
another.

This transcript s from a meeting at
the Anarchist Bookfair in Marseile,
France, 2019, Originally publshed by
Imprimenie Anerchiste L Impatience,
85 Revisitng the Anarchist Bookfair
Marseille 2019

43
Resilience
Adapting to a toxic world

The last man’is the resilient human
in perfect harmony with the dictates
of Davos: resilient cynamism” was @
phrase launched by the WEF in
2013

Klaus Schwab, cofounder of the
World Ecanomic Forum, outlines &
more inclusive, "resilient” and
sustainable society. It is no
coincidence that the national plan for
the economy approved in 2021 in
ealy after the declared pandemic in
arder to speed up the ecological and
digital transition was called the
National Recovery and Resilience
Program (PNRR). The word
resikence thus enters fully into the
leitmotif of inclusiveness and
sustainabilty.In perfect harmony
with the fuidey that must distinguish
everything and become
characteristic of each indidual,

Resiience in engineering refers to
the property of metals to absorb &
shock following the course of

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deformations without breaking. Thus,
s with metals, the human in the
new geometries of the
technomorphic worid is asked to
become porous to absord all types of
tonicity and to become plastic
Gapable of deforming without keeping
memory of its original state. From
the mechanics of the bodies to the
mechanics of the sprt for a
tolerance of the unbearable.

In the psychological field, resiience
represents the ability to go through
and overcome trauma, to be able to
cope with unchangeable situations
such es the advent of & tumor or the
death of a loved one.

When some words are made its own
by power let s ask ourselves what
they wil then mean and what they wil
represent in the transformatians
‘and metamorphoses implemented
by power itsek. Resiience, from a
qualty that can be considered
positive in a strictly psychologioal

context,is made modus operandis,
ideology, the dominant imperative.

For there to be resiience there must
be a traum, this should already be
enough to reaize that the aim is to
make people endure @ traumtic
existence. A peculiariy of resiience
on which power reies is its referring
to an inveversible phenomenan. Here
is the point resilience is unversalized
and extended to a social contex: that
is not irreversible.

Resiience extends by ocoupying unti
the spaces and tensions of
resistance and revolt are not.
possible and imaginable. It s thus
fully part of the only horizon of
meaning that dissolves every edge in
that global leveing in which
everything must flow smoothly
without jots and without ols of
revor: Bt the edges, even if smal,
are able to penetrate and create
cracks that, can widen and break
what was thought to be
indestructible.

Resilience is an acceptance of the
existing that is not considered right.
but intrinsically unchangeable.
Consequently. an action wil not be
putin place to upset the existing, but
an action wil be put in place only to
change and adapt onesel.

The gaze shifts from society and
reality ut there towards the interior
of the indiidual. The plan moves
from the outside to the insde, from
concrete realties to their own
subjectivties.In thesa transiations
the inustices that are suffered or
perceived - but in most cases aways
and only in reference to oneself and
raroly with o feeling towards the
whole workd - are resolved by looking
within aneself how to best bear them
in ordar to sustain an unbearable fe
by adepting to the needs ofthe
system. I short, to change oneself -
in full harmony with the cybernetic
principles for which, after changing
the environment, althat remains s
to change the human being - in order
notto fight in order to change
society

Therefare, not only are injustices
accepted. but they are considered as
an important opportunity for
personal growth. Nothing could be:
more sad and even deeply cowardly
n not facing reality by clashing with
[
Being resiient s utimately making
onese avaiable and is an uncondi-
tional surrender to the existing.

If ance other ways of feeling the
worid were alive and the human,
even if dominated, could have a
wealth of other knowledge, today the
human is dominated to ts core and
s no longer able to orient tself
differently by following this only the
paths already traced by power
without even realizing it. Once there.
was en awareness of being
‘dominated, of what was irremediably
being lost and of wanting to want a
worid other than the modern one,
today the dominated desire the
‘same things as their dominators and
are the best guardians of
themsalves in cage that has been
‘made transparent.

The resilient human feels nothing
worth risking everyching for: nothing
worth fighting for: Once upon a time
the revolutionary man and woman
lived in the passion of the struggle,
dreaming of storming the sky, today
the resilient human has no more
passions and no longer dreams.

Resiience becomes jusification for
meciocre fves, for those who do not
have the courage to question the
existing, for those who always try to
see something postive, for those
who are ahways optimistic thinking
that everyehing wil be fine, thinking
that surely the situation we are fving
wilproduce excellent opportunities,
trying not o destabilze too much to
continue surviing in one’s daly fe.

But when you hi the bottom - and we
have touched the battom for a while,
but at the bottom there is never an
end- s good to feel a punch in the
stomach, if you have always been
used to being caressed by power o
ot to be considered. nat even as an
expression of dissent, one wil never
have the perception of what power
could do, either as a repression ar as
awork of destruction. This also
expleins the disbelief in considering it
impossible for certain projects to be
arried out by power tsel.

With this emotional humus, how wil
itbe possible for a tension of
struggie ageinst the exsting, a being
stubbornly against, to develop?

‘The phenamenon of Resiience also
has a socially angaged version in
which it s believed that working on
aneself is enough to change the
worid, One fesls constantly
‘committed, but in fact the only
commitment is a work on oneself.
‘The resiient human ciosed in on
himself has stifled his own action in a
personal dimension, believing that.
social change can be achieved
through indidual change. Action has
been replaced by a protest thet.
makes individual testimony its center;
‘2 mere biography of onesef that
‘goes well with today's kaleidoscopic
fragmentation of political action in
the thousand streams of an activism
whose field of intervention is one's
‘own individual desire and their own
identity. The dreams of revolutionary

‘women and men were dreams of

collective revot for a free society,
today dreams have been replaced by
personal desires

Whais generated is also a
psychologization of the protest
movements and ultimately their
suffocation. Anger - even that
‘spontaneous and at times confused
in outlining the processes in
progress and the branches and
passages of a broader design. at
times even naive and without
knowing the paths to take, but in any
ase the heathy and just anger
todey must not heve space, better to
confine it a dimension of indidual
discomfort, Resilience will help
overcome this discomfort, thus
canceling the possibilty of transform-
ing all those emations of anger and
impatience into awareness and
opposition. Anger uncovers the
‘abuses and can generate a rupture
and a confiic, today from anger that

wants to break with the reality of
these we move on to resilience that
shifts the gaze from the oppressive.
system to an indvidual discomfort.
The objective reaiity of the abuses i
replaced by a subjective discomfort.
that must be overcome by doing
work on aneself and na longer
opposing reality. You will work to
change your perception of things,
making them more bearable and
even going 5o far as to deny the
realty el

‘These words are significant: % s 10
longer necessary to work to buid a
mare just society, ..., since in spite
of everything it s possible to appesl
to resitence. Social pressure[..] s
o longer a problem, since thase who
are resiliant will be able to survie
and others willbe able to appealto &
psychologist, a psychistnist ora
‘benevolent guardian "1

Another important aspect to
underiine is that Reslience is also
used in situations of ecological
disasters.

The UN celebrated the retum of
animas to Chernobyl and the “third
largest nature reserve in continental
Europe” as an “example of nature’s
resiiencer.

After Chernoby and Fukushima,
numerous publications on the
resiience of wid plants and animals
flourished. This argument is used to
downplay the harmul and
irreversible effects of nuclear power
in order to support ts advance and
lends itself well o being used in all
possible cases of contamination and
demage resuiting from toxic and
mutagenic substances.

Inthe new normality of coexistence
with the emergency and the disaster
made paradig. everyone wil
become resilient to pesticides,
dioxins, heavy metals,
electromagnetic waves,
nanoparticies, GMOs, gene serums.
And when the reality of the irrevers-
ibiity of certain processes and of
mutagenesis - which no Iing person
wil be able to overcome with the
much accleimed resiience -will
tragicaly break into the high hopes,
the technologies of genetic
engineering with embryonic genetic
mofications and assisted
fertilzation ciinics wil toke care of i

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We need to prepare for a scenario
where genatic mutations wil bacome
the norm. Significant of the research
projects that have studied the
reactions of wild animal spacies by
observing how some birds [affected
by a strong reduction in fertlty) have
learned to use antioxidants in
different ways to better resist
radition. In the new posthuman and
postnature normal, why, the
transhumanist and eugenic
tachnacrats will ask, not to prevent
and genetically madify ving species.
by making them more resistant to
radation and contaminants of all
kinds?

Sad, but significant, that the
resikence angument - used by
technocrats and various companies
in order to downplay the effects of
nuclear power - s also used by leftst:
contexts to promote.
next generation nuclear
power or. equally
serious, coming to
consider that the
harmfuiness of nuclear
power s relative.

Dweling on resilience
opens up a positive
glimmer in the
imagination and in full
postmodern and post:
truth trend, everything
becomes relative, even the damage
caused by radiation. When, on the
ather hand, in counter-rend it should
be strongly argued that, for certain
issues, there are no questionable or
relative data . itis not possible to
argue that the muliple deadly
harmfuiness and the practices of
appropriation of bodies are relaive.
as well as, consequenty.the
opposition to them and to the whole
system that makes them possile,
necessary and even desirable cannat.
ba relative. Infact, there is no
deviation from the same techno-
scientific paradigm of acceptance
and comanagement of the disaster:
becoming functional to reinforce it

n Chernobyl, the various environ-
mental associations ran to greb a
sice of disaster managemen by
Gorrying out various projecta in the
area. Onthe part of the
environmental associations, the infial
Gomplaints on the effects of radiation

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‘could nat be missing for what stil
represents nuciear power in people’s
imagination. For now, the memory of
boys and girls born malformed is still
alive, but it is @ memory that will
gradually evaporate o be taken up
‘again as an opportunity for the
development of further steps of
genetic engineering on the bodies.
But, in short time, from the inital
complaints about the effects on
health, there was the transition to
anather significant plan. The heaith
‘damage is claimed to be enormous,
but highiighting another side effect:
the social and psychological
repercussions.

From @ superficial reading it would
‘seem an important denunciation of
other serious problems not
considered. But if we pay attention
‘and read how the “Chernobyl

‘syndrome’ is described: it afficts
those who do not see the prospect of
being condemned tolive in &
radioactive zone" 2.

Perfect reversal. The problem
therefore is not the real
psychological and social
repercussions, but the thought that
there i no perspective because the
aim is to create a possible
perspective of coexistence and
enduranc of the disaster. When, on
the other hand, nuciear power and all
the developments of techno-sciences
in their very realizaion erase every
possible prospect of a free, healthy
and unavailable .

It would be enough to read these
statoments: "we noed to work on the
part linked to the way ofife in an
area at risk the future of these
populations posses through
resilience, we must adapt by trying to
v with the situation in a way that
Greates lass damage possible. This s

good for both physical and mental
health, becaus it allows us to
gimpse hope. [..] We are trying to
offer greater selection in the diet of
populations leading to lower contarmi-
nation by providing them with
knowledge of what they can eat or
not. By making it clear that it is
important not to eat, for example,
mushrooms, berries, nat to drink
milk or eat meat from radioactive
pastures, but that one can feed on
vegetables and frut from the,
gardens of less radioactive areas.
After so many years, there is the
hape that young people willbe able to
accept a path of this type more than
the elderly, because they are more
capable of adapting to a different lfe,
with a new outlet even in terms of
lower risk than before. This is & bit
like what we ere experiencing in the
drama of the Coronavirus health
emergency, with which we.
are getting used to liing
together, with a view to
reducing risk” 3.

Affirming that “the path is
an outlet towards a
coexistence with contami-
nation* leads to consider
local populations as a
problem: they must be
educated on how to
behave.

This same approach reminds us of
postFukushima management. The
state with the compliciy of the
various Western NGOs had
transformed the inhabitants of
Fukushima into perfect comanagers,
of the disaster. The NGOs had
disseminated dosimeters ond helped
the inhabitants to build them,
assisting them in the immense task
of an impossible decontamination
with multple city initatives, buit from
below with the participation of the
inhabicants.

NGOs instead of pushing people to
save their ives by fleeing elsewhere
have helped them ta stay in line with
the dictates of the Japanese state
whose goal,from the very beginning
of events, was to keep populations in
place. They taught people how to ive
in a deadly society whie wating for
th dosimeters to work the miracle.
People were transformed into iving
sensors that selfmeasured their
own levels of contamination,
obviously in full selfdetermination.
Comanagement manifests cselffor
what it is:the art of spreading state
metastases, to resume the analyzes.
of Jaime Semprun and René Riesel.
Avoluntary incarceration in the
protocols of the machine world.

Altolerabilty thresholds - from
pesticides to electromagnetic waves
- represent parameters that will
never be able to calculate the
combined and cumulative effects
over time of al toxic and mutagenic
substances, but. not only that, they
underfie an acosptance of a certain
dose of harmiuiness that it becomes
the deadly normaly to Ive with, in &
continuous adaptation to increasingly
extreme siwations of attack on all
bodies.

e was once though that knowledge
of the consequences of harmfuiness
would lead to the generation of riots.
The history of Chernobyl teaches us
that the masses did not even revolt
in the face of what everyone knew,
continuing to behave @s i they did
ot know, After years, we find a
participatory submission in adapting
t continuous and more pervasive
canditions of nonife.

Resiience is part of this horizon,
functional in the comanagement of
disasters, to all ongoing processes
‘and adaptation to & toxc world

For our part, we know where to place
ourselves, outside the geometries of
the technomorphic world and outside
its Newspeak, confident that “as long
s there is the splendor of the stars,

in any place in the world there will
always be rebels determined to fly to
the assault of the sky". Against.
Resilence - For the Resistance of
Free Spiris.

Silvia Guerini
Resistenze al nanomondo,
June 2022, Athens, Greece,

1. E Malagus, Fducarsi ala
resiienza.

2. iorestoacssa legambiente.t/
‘approfondimenti/ chemobyltra-
resiienza-e semidiuturopossibile/

3. iorestoacssalegambiente.t/
‘approfondimenti/ chemobyltra-
resiienza-e semidifuturopossibile/

KON

The New Wave of Mining Industries:
Extracting Minerals for the so-called “Green
Technology/Economy and Renewable Energy”

Our anarchist comrades in
Philppines are engaged in a new
campaign against offshore mining.
‘seabed quarry and desp sea mining
in the last two years. They are.
working closely with some
communities and partners at the
~national level and in formations such
a5 Alyansa Tigil Mina. The industrial
‘mining corporations and extractive
felds are a key part of what is
destroying the planet. This article
comes from the recent three day
National Campeign Conference
organized by Alyansa Tigil Mina *.
Let's collctivse our struggles!

Our resistance should bo as
transnational as Capital

A new trend of development in our
entire Giviization is now occurring in
many countries. The pursuit of
responding to the climate crisis is
being realized and attempts to bui
and create products for so-calied
green technology and renewable
energy are being priontized,
especially by European countries and
the global North and Central Asia
fike China.

* alansatigimina.net
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Because cimate change is a center
of discussion in the global arena,
“sustainabilty” and investment to
support green technology is being
welcomed. One of the reasons is
because the threat of natural
catastrophe for human civiization is
happening everywhere, especially in
winarable courtries ike the
Philippines. Every community and
nation must adapt end change their
economic neads as well as their
energy supply. The requirement to
lessen the carban footprint of every
nation pushes them on the race to
produce socalled green technology
and change their energy sources.
from fossilfuels to renewable
energy.

At this rate, the so-<called “Criical
Minerals" or "Transtion Minerals’
like lichium, nickel, copper, cobalt,
and rare elements are needed for
solar panels, wind turbines and
electric vehicle. The hunt for these
minerals is an explanding threat for
the radical ecologist, environmental
groups, indigenous peaple, fisherfolk
and peasants' communties, and for

the whole ecology isef.
The demand for metals and minerals
continues to fise, including to maet.
the demands of the green economy.
Copper consumption over the last
25 years accounted for half of al
copper ever mined. Giobal
consumption over the next 25 years
is expected to exceed all the copper
ever mined to date.

According to our research, there are
hotspots that are called “The Area"
defined es the seabed and ocean
fioor and subsollthereof beyond the
fimits of national jurisdiction which
will be the secrificial lamb to meet
and guarantee that these minerals
will be supplied to build green
technology and for the transition to
renewable energy.

These Areas will be Democratic
Republic of Congo for their cobalt.
reserves, Chile for their copper
reserves, Peru for thei lithium
reserves and Indonesia and
Philippines for their nickel reserves.
Landbased mining wil continue to
push through alongside with the new
and unimaginable
mining activities
called offshore
mining, seabed
quarry and deep
sea mining,

A questionable
international
agency called
Intemnational
Seabed Authority
that was.
established by the
United Nation in
1994 s the one.
selecting the so-
called “The Area’.
The ISA was
created under the 1982 United
Nations Convention on the Law of
the Sea (UNCLOS).

Philippines Mining Industry
As for the Philippines stuation
mining here is one of the key
industries that are already
destroying the environment and its
people. Sadly, the lawmakers in the
congress and senate itself are the
direct beneficiary of these extractive
mining projects, including the
families who are part o what we call
the "Political Dynasty” ike
Congressman Martin Romualdez
which are involved in Benguet Mines.
‘and Marcventures Mining and
Development, Corporation, Senator
Cynthia and Senator Mark Villar are
involved in St. Augustine Copper and
Gold Lid., Senator Sherwin
Gatchalian is involved in Welex

Exploration for

minerals in the Area

I oot rodutes
[ ——
0 P s

Mines, Congressman Ysabel
Zamora is involved in Nickel Asia
Corporation and the Cayetano
siblings who are close to the
company Zamora who owns Nickel
Asia Corporation

The Phiippines is one of the
biodversity hotspot. countries for
their mineral reserves. In totel.a fth
of the Phiippines land mass is
currenty covered in mining
tenements, the analysis reveals, with
‘government; ambition for the country
10 be a leading exporter of minerals,
such as nickel, cobalt, and copper.

‘The organization of offshore mining
‘companies in the country was
established in 2019 as the Ofishore
Mining Chamber of the Philippines
(OMCP) comprising of seven firms,
namely Agbiag Mining and

S

Development Corp. Cagayan Blue
Ocean Offshore Aquamarine
Services Corp, JOVC Resources
Corp. Northern Orient Resources.
Development Corp. Advanced
Technology Resaurces Mining and
Business Process Technology
Provider Corp, Mineralogic
Resources Corp. and Royal Line
Mining Corp.

The Phiippines has consistently
ranked as the worst place in Asia for
land and environmental defenders,
with 281 people killed and counting
since 2012. Of these, a third were
linked to defenders speaking out
against corporate operations linked
to the mining sector.

By Bandide
Local Autonomous Network
Jenuary 2025

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Colonialism

The eritcism of data colonialism
makes an analogy between the
extraction of matter and the
explitation of labour in classical
colonialism, and the current. data
collection by large Intene.
platiorms, which s basicall to train
artificial inteligences (for generation,
website creation, autonomous
drivig, miltary. ] In this regard, the
criticism of data colonialism
transcends classical terntorial
diisions and inchudes as colonized
Some layers of the societies of
colonizers. Their playing feld focuses
on the old colonized societies which,
from the widespread use of
smartphones. you can obtain
gigabytes of data even with
precarious networks.

‘The data obtained, is considered
vacant resources, territories to
exploit for the beneft of progress,
but this benefit (as in historical
colonialism) remains in a few certain
countries, in addition the colonized
population is manipulated to accept
the appropriation of &5 data as good,
of social improvement and progress.

The classical division centred on
Europe is no longer 100% vad,
there are currenly at leas: two large
poles, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and
Google in the USA and Baidu, Alibaba
and Tencent in China. To the
appropriation of data is added the
exploitation of a cheap labour to
perform basic tasks especially the
labeling of images, sounds,

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locations, . and the assessment of
audio and video for the automatic
detection of inappropriate content:

Manual labeling is essential for
automatic learning. especialy deep
learning, but as the Al progresses
this quality requirement increases.
For exampl, to train an Al dedicated
to automatic driving milions of
‘examples must be labeled so that: A
can "see” with a relabilty of 99% (or
more] Ancther issue is the labeling
for the Al of the miltary sector that
must necessariy have high

precision, in fact the main Scaleai
labelling company was hired for
$234 million by the US Department
of Defence. The workers not only
label the data that makes the Al
lea, but in fact those workers are
artificialinteligence ise! there are
o wise algorithms. For example.
behind the Facebook contents
control Al, there are thousands of
humans who control .o matter
how e salary and with a
dehumanizing, tedious end spelling
task; Behind Alexa of Amazon, there
is @ team of transcribers around the,
world. This labour is located in
‘southem countries preferably with a
‘good educational system, a good
level of English (although many work
with automatic translators) and,
‘especially with a precarious
‘economy that converts this poorly
paid work into something essential
for survival, especialy during the
confinement of the pandemic.

The majority of “abelling” companies
work in countries in South America,
especially Colombia and Venezuela,
in North Africa,in Kenyo and in the
Philppines, this business sector
‘according to economic projections
will reach, in 2030, a value of
12,850 millon euros .. Comparies
pursue any attempt o organize the
workers, dismissing thoso who try to
do so.

‘The workers are not considered,
they depend totally on the allocation
of tasks from the platform. They are
given assignments that they do not;
control and are submitted to a
discipinary regime, with worse
tasks, suspending their account., and
even losing what they have gained,
the rules are marked by the
Platform and in fact the salaries

have been lowering at the same time
that the speed and quality demands
increase.

Another function of the colonized is
0 Serve a5 a test field of the most
intrusive Al the clearest. example is
that of the surveilance and cortrol
of the streets in South Africa. In
South Africa they have a huge
privata securty sector, thera ara
564,000 secarity guards more
than the police and the army
together). This powerful priate
sector (inherted from the Apartheid
era)is bulding a video surveilance
natwork with the idea of total
coverage, Vumacan, the most.
powerful company, has more than
5000 cameras in Johannesburg
alone and managed to connect 1o s
natwork cameras of individuals who
benefi from professional security
which provides greater coverage.

This network of cameras is
controlled by Al, which makes a first
selection and marks images in which
‘an “unusual activity” appears with an
slert, the alert is passed to the nex:
step that decides the necessary
action, although i is claimed that;
they do not use facial recognition.
However, they have admitted that
the cameras are equipped to do it
The network can be subscribed to by
all kinds of security companies and
police departments, per camera (46
euros per month in 2019) and now.
& flat rate is promoted by which the
subscriber could access al the
cameras of the network

This control system is an electronic
apartheid. since the highest
cameras densityis in rich
neighbourhoods and urbanizations,
therefore the people Iving under this
“security” are coming from the poor
neighbourhoods, practically all black.
This product made in South Africa is
being exported to the US, to England
and the EU, a product extracted
from the colonized countries to
control the populetions of the old
metropois.

After the false promises of Al, we
find the usual historical relationship
of exploitation, capitalist and colonial
domination.

Negro y Verde
Where It Lives

We live in a world of things unseen.
an era of wizardry, incorporeaity
Fingers and thumbs perform their
danse macabre on a bilion screens.
The internet seems pure, clean.
immaterial, occupying some rarfied
ether divorced from biological,
material constraint. Our shiny glass
screens and sleek devices are
insulated from the clinks and whirs
of the machinery, the millons of
gallons of water needed to cool
down the servers, the land being
turned over to soler panels, the
burgeaning homeless s hard
choices are made by institutions like
the Greater London Authority who
sign off on data centres instead of
homes because the electricty grid
cannot meet the demands of both.

Data centres which house server
farms reqire the very important.
input of mechanical and electrical
contractors such s the global
corporation HOR Inc, which acquired
Hurley Pelmer Flatt (a key UK player
inthe server farm industry s both
MSE consultant and structurel
engineer) in 2019, Data centres
als0 require steelworks, generators,
UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply),
chilles, project managers, cost.
consulants, architects and security.

The number and size of companies
buiding and servicing data centres
has exploded worldwide and many of
them provide a comprehensive
service covering all or many of the.
requirements such as Mace (UK,
Jacobs Solutions (US) or Collen
Constructon (ireland), DBA Group
(aly) and Hyphen (Europe and Latin
Amerca). Some companies
specialse such as data centre

architects Dickens Architects in
London and C+W D'Brien Architects
in Dublin, Cork and London. US and.
UK company Gardiner & Theobald
provdes consultancy for lfe sciences.
and data centres.

Semiconductors, also known as
microchips, are a key component in
nearly every electrical device from
mobile phones and medical
equipment to electric vehiclas and
most of the worid's semiconductors
are supplied by a few companies
including NVIDIA. The Innovation and
Knowiedge Centre (REWIRE IKC) at
Bristol University run by Professor
Martin Kuballresearches semi-
‘conductors in partnership with
Cambridge and Warwick universities
and the Infrastructure Processing
Uni (IPU) chips produced by Bristol-
based Al team at Graphcore were so
promising that they were acquired
by the Japanese tech firm Sofibank
inthe summer of 2024,

Semiconductors are an area of such
global strategic sqnificance that
Mustafa Suleyman, early Al pioneer
at DeepMind, described the
semiconductor as a potential
botdleneck in his book about artificial
inteligence The Coming Wave, when
discussing the necessiy of slowing
tachnological advances down.

The internet s allin fact terribly real
and very material. The ether has a
physical realy that remains.
winerable to attack, 50 lets claim
our place 8s Tuture primitives’

We are not yet ling in quantum
times,

Research Cell - NT.

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Alfredo Cospito: Statement at the
Turin Court of Appeal

We are circulating Alfredo Cospito’s
statement at the June 19 2023
‘hearing i the court of appeals in
Tuni on the calculetion of sentences
against Alfredo himself and Anna
Beniarmino as part of the Scripta
Manent trial. The comrade was
connected via video-conference from
the Bancali prison in Sassan

June 19,2023

This statement of mine is closely
related to the trial because it goes
into the merts of the sanctioning
treatment you imposed on me.
Sanctioning treatment that is
unconstiutional and contradicts your
own laws. Sanctioning treatment,
41bis, that distorts the very meaning
of my imprisonment, imposing on me
a senseless censure that kmits my
right to defense.

s obvious to all how my trial affair
has baen used as a sort of cudgel by
one poitical party, the government,”
against ancther politcal party, the so-
called "opposition.” My lastminute
twansfer from one section to another
in anticipation of the arrival of PD
pariamentarians is a striking
example. Which shows how the DAP.
and 41bis have been exploited for.
political purposes.

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‘These facts are closely related to
this trial because they are the
product of past poliical dynamics.
that led to our disproportionate
prosecution and conviction for
poltical slaughter. To shut my
mouth now, at the only time | can
defend myself would mean endors-
ing this dangerous and totaltarian
dnit. Before talking about Fossano
and the socalled “massacre”
(although there i litte to say. it
would be enough to lack at the
images of the damage of the
tremendous explosion] for just bwo,
minutes | wil have to mention three
deaths, two of which | am somahow
responsible for. the third desth that,
of Cosimo occurred at the cliical
center of Opera, ward 41bis,

‘They are all deaths linked to my
case because they are finked to the
impunity of the regime in which |
have had to struggle and survive for
@ year now in order not to succumb,
| cannot remain silent, | owe i to
those sentenced to death locked up
in that clinical center, | owa it to
those who have been left to die and
1o those wha at this moment n the
‘Sassari prison are letting them-
selves die to make their voices
heard. | owe it to Domenico Porceli
Wwho has been on hunger strike for
four months. At his side are his
chidren and Maria Pintus, his

lawyer. Supporting him are those few
anarchist, communist and Sardinian
independence revolutionaries who at
the cost of jail and repression are
fighting against 41bis.

Domenico for the state is a Mafoso,
therefore indefensible cannon fodder,
for him the constitution does not
‘apply. For him no cloying catwalk of
polticians. no media attention. | am
‘sure, Domenico wil not make:
headines even when he is dead. As,
moreover, has already happened to
w0 poor souls who died one after:
the other on hunger strike in the
Augusta prison. And for which | feel
responsible, because influenced by
the media hound that followed my
strike they gambled by quickly
slipping to ther deaths. Their deaths
caused no stir, a comphcit and
obscene sience enveloped them. Cne
of them was a Russian citizen and
was simply asking to be repatriated.
Imagine what would have happened if
it had been an Italian who had
starved to death in a Russian prison-
humanitarian associations and the
media would have raised a fuss.
Instead, his death went unnoticed,
indifference was total, revealing the
hypocritical, racist, imperialst face of
the West. The hypocritical face of the
same ethical state thet in order to
keep s old compiiities hidden keeps
up the 41bis horror slum. An open
secret that has been resisting for 30
years, that no one has the courage to
confront, whoever touches dies

and that will end, in the willof those
who conceived it, only when the last
witness of that agreement between
the State and the Mafi is dead and
buried within these wals.

‘Sometimes | have the doubt that it is
the systam itsalf that wants to be
told, why else move to Opera to what
Nardio had the courage to describe
a5 a mediical facilty of excellence. A
chaotic and deadly slum where the
old and dying are parked in soliude
waiting for death. In this subspecies
of asylum in the hallways it rains,
‘summer you die of heat, air
‘condtioning does nat work. wintar
you die of cold. At the windows wolf
mouths, cockroaches, ants.
mosquitoes go crazy tormenting
people who are bedridden, paralyzed,
eldery, dying, blind. Between June
and October 2022, in a ciinical
center that can “house" 12 people,
six did ot make it did not survive. If
you are lucky a few days or hours
before death you are transferred to
the hospital where treatment is
more humane, but where you ahvays
die among strangers wichout the
affection of loved ones. Everything is
on the shoulders of the boys and girs
who dlean and scramble between
diapers and medicines, and the
nurses-and who try to do their best
but are few in number. The doctor in
charge shifs the responsibiity to the
nurses, often calling herself sick.
which is quite embarrassing. Of
‘course, speaking of inmates in
precarious health stuations where
just being neglected a tad more is
‘enough to see you sip to your death.
objections from the sick are scarce.
But o few feariess nmates have
protested and the courts have,
agreed with them, but speaking of
‘47bis, @ world apart and children of a
lesser god, everything has remained
the same.

No one should die isoeted in a cel,
under the cold eye of a camera
fiming him i the room 24 hours
Gy, As happened in June 2022 to
Cosimo Di Lauro, This inmate died of
starvation. he was not; on hunger
strike, he had simpy stopped
Grinking and eating, according tothe.
testimonies | have heard, and ot
only from inmetes, "is head wes ot
in " One morning the guard found
him dead, monitored in his cell by @
camera, his agony fimed, without
anyone lifting & finger. Di Lauro never
made i to the hosptal,unlike yours
trul, transported to the hospital at
the sightest hint of ness even
though his ife was not in immediate
danger. Cosimo a simple “mafioso’
nd in addtion unable to reason and
‘assert his rights was lft to die. An
investigation was opened,
testimonies were taken. including
those of 3 courageous prisoner, but.
everything ws covered up, unti
today at least.

So many things | have seenin my
year of 41bis. It is not only deaths
that are covered up but it can
happen that 41bis is misused for
other purposes. And this “misuse”
covered up. To be covered up is the.
alltoo clear use of DAP by the.
‘government to go after the socalled
“opposition.” I'm talking about the

parade of PD deputies in Sassari
and the government's instrumental
use of the DAP briefings that
cancerned me to go after the PO, To
make a point, the stupid placing of
Fratell ditalia in pariament. Indica-
tive is my transfer just a few days
before the arrival of the pariamen-
tarians (of which | am sure, the
government was aware] from a
“quiet” section where | wes spending
my days in soltude to a section
where in the distorted view of the
AP there were the ‘big" pieces of
Sassari, the so-called bosses. Who
said by the way 6id everything they
could to convince me to stop the:
strike, and who were then pillried in
the media because of me. No one
will gt it out of my head that the
'DAP was ‘inspired by the
government. Just after the visit of
the parfiamentarians the section
was dismembered and | transferred
to Opera.

How many naive traps were st for
me that then regularly backfired on
the system iself. Seizure of court
notes turned into pizzini, the
ludicrous accusation of an alliance
between the Mafia and anarchists,
the surreal accusation of pretending
0 go on strike.

The conviction I've formed over the
past year is that 41bis has no real
goal of breaking the phenomenon of
criminal organizations. But to gag &
generation of mobsters, whom the
state 30 years ago used and then
betrayed. Locking them in here unti
they die shutting their mouths
forever, and that is because of the
fear that once they are out the dark
secrets of the republic can be
revealed This s as | said the open
secret behind the untouchabilty of
this regime,

41bis will be lifted when the last
inconvenient witness of that era is
dead. This of course f it is not
extended to the rest, of the so-called
“justice system,” barbarism tends to
run rampant. and it can get out of
hand. Between the Mafia and the
State many similsrities, hegemonic
will monopoly of violence, hierarchy,
authoritarianism, But then once in
here | realized that in addtion to
these undoubted common features
there is a kind of “original sin® that.

needs a lberticidal system like
41bis to hold the pieces together.
‘without which the system as a
whole would fall aprt. This is
precisely what the untouchabilty of

4bis consists of, its having
become the nerve center of the

whole totaltarian democratic
system, the true face of the ltalian
republic.

For the rest what. can | say..
nothing has changed, photos of my
parents seized a year ago here in
Sassan, and rewrned wich a
censorship stamp upon my arrivel
in Opera, again withheld upon my
armwal in Sassari. No music, my
request to buy a CO pleyer rejected
by prison management; Apparently
books and music continue to be
seen bythe DAP as something
subverswe, and they have a point
after al.

Since [ have been in 41bis | have
ot touched a blade of grass. a
tree, a flower, only concrete, bars
and TV. In the last few morths with
great dficulty | managed to buy
only one book, and only because the
media was talking about me.
Intarviews only once a month with
the glass and the metalic voice of
the intercoms. My sisters and
brother, who are the only anes who
can visit me, come pon their
arrval waxed on about tatto0s and
earrings because they might
communicate cryptic messeges
through the tattooed designs.

However, these grievances of mine
become ridculous after what | saw
at the clinical center in Opera. |
have seen with my own eyes the
state purporting to ethically enforce
the law of retalation on the old and
sick.helpless nd hal demented

My naive request for books, music,
anarchist, scientific, historical
periodicals and a lawn to run in and
& few trees bocomes laughable,
almost sickening. | realize this.

Abolish 4 1bis. Thank you
comrades. Always for anarchy.

Alfredo Cospito

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Updte about Affredo:
Th latest. news we've got about;
Alfredo,is that he i stil in prison in
Bancall (Sassari) under the 41bis
rogime, that his health s stable, he
is physically sound and has
regained weight ater his sixmonth
hunger strike. Unfortunately, he
recewes very e mai, aimos:
none. Also, when the prison
withholds latzars, postcards or
telegrams, ofien he's not informed
by prison staff. He thus finds
himself subjected to an oven higher
and more arbirary censorship
than the already harsh one of 41
bis Let's not et him lack our
solidarity! We urge al to write
letters or postcards using
registared mail wih return receipt
requested, to increase the chances
that.if they are wehheld rom him,
o wil be at least notiied,
Against;al prisons!

Cassa Antirepressione Alpi
Occidentali

Write to Alffredo:

Alfredo Cospito
CC. “GBacchiddy”
strada provinciale 56 .4
Localita Bancali,

07100 Sassari,

Rali

KON

“There's no need for & mittary
structure, a subversive association
oran armed gang in order to strike.
Anyone armed with & strong will can
think the unthinkable and act
consequently.”

Alfredo Cospito

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Anna Beniamino:
Statement at the
June 18, 2023
hearing at the
Turin Court of
Appeal

The comrade was connected via
video-conterence from Rebiboia
prison in Fome dunig the hearing

Aftar years of tril, dozens of
hearings, | am not tired of
continuing to reicerate wha | have
stated 5o far, to affirm some
simple and tautological truths,
‘against the exercise of falsehood
perpetrated with scentific method
in courtroomes.

Anarchists are antiauthoritarians.
Anarchists are not mass-
murderers, much less defend
massmurderous actions.

The massacres that have been
perpetrated in this country have
been the poisoned fruit of the
intertwining of political and
‘economic power, 8 far removed
from antiauthoritarian thought and
practices as possibl.

We are n a poltical process for
which not the realityof the facts
but the power of suggestions is
void, the more abnormal and
‘axiomatic the accusation, the more:
vain the defense.

You keep jabbering on about
massacres but the real one s the
ona carried out on the reality of the
facts. You have invented anarchist
“bosses.” “associations” functoning
hiccup or structured fike Chinese
boxes in which i is no longer even
clear which are the containers and
which are the contents,
“probabilstic” graphical expertise
0 attribute the facts, the latest
troat in order of time was the
colusion between anarchists and
Mafiosi.

‘The argumentative mechanisms in
attributing crims and creating ad
hoc biographical profiles make
Orwelian scenarios something
exquisitely rotro.

‘The inquisitors lie knowing that they
are lying and shield themseives from
the refractoriness of anarchists to
the marketplace of justice. They play
o the fact that anarchist ethics are
ot for sale to the highest bidder.

Th infarnal machine of the DNA
(Direzione Nazionale Antimafia)
turned DNAA (Direzione Nazionale:
Antimafia o Antiterrorismo) needs
scalps to grind consensus and to
fortity the scaffolding of preventive
repression intarnal enemies are
needed, no matier f artfull con-
structed with historicol poitial,
factual and procedural falsehoods, if
ot the machine runs out of gas and
the special regimes devoid of flesh
and sous.

Today there is only our head left on
the piate, but it should not be
forgotzen that for years dozens of
comrades and comrades have been
indicted and jailed in this and in
parallel seffeeding proceedings. Just
s happened with the proceedings
that led to 41bis for Alfredo Cospito:
the scaffolding of the Bialystok and
Sibills operations collapses, there are
o leaders and instigators

However, the 41bis remains.

1 catch a tragic irony in al of this: the
various inquistors muddle through
ot knowing wel even the substance
of the accusation, they st their
papers with blatant falsehoods and
contradictions, just get to the bottom
line. Nothing sirange: is the sick
ethics of this age where murderous
profitis sanctfied and poverty is
criminaiized

Anna Beniamino
Rome, June 19, 2023

Write to Anna:

Anna Beniamino
CC. “GStafanini" - Rebibbia,
via Bartolo Longo 92,
00156 Roma, ltalia

Communiqué by
Nicola De Maria,
Imprisoned Militant
of the Red Brigades

The following communiqué was
wnten by Nicola De Maia, miltant
of Brigate Rosse - Colonna Water
Alasi’. imprisoned since 1982,
currently in the High Secunity section
of Alessandria prison. Against the
stnict prison restnictons, Nicola
refused to go back t his cellon
November 9 2022 as a solidanty
action to Afredo Cospito. The refusal
was aiso in solidanty with Nadla
Lioce, Marco Mezzasaima and
‘Raberto Morand, miltants of Brigate.
Rosse per a costruzione del Partio
Gomunista Combatzente (Fed
‘Brigades for the construction of the
Combatant Communist Party) who
are also imprisaned in 41 bis for 17
years.

Crisis, war, repression against.
‘workers, unemployed, students

Inthis contest, the 41 bis prison
regime for revokstionary prisoners
has recenty been extended; a regime
that aims at the anninilation of their
identity and psychophysical integrity.

On November 8, 2022, | extended
the time outside the cellin solidarity
with Afiredo Cospito, anarchist
prisoner on hunger strike to the
bitzer end in the BancaliSassari
prison against 41 bis - solidarity with
the Brigate Rosse-PCC prisoners,
Nadia Lioce, Marco Mezzasaima,
Roberto Morand, who have been
resisting the 41 bis regime for more
than 17 years,

Nicola De Maria,
Imprisoned miliant of Brigate Rosse
- Colonna Waer Alasia

Alessandria Prison, taly

Statement in Memory of Ulrike Meinhof
by Anarchist Prisoner Thanos Hatziangelou

“Protest is when | say that | don’ lke
this and that. Resistance is when |
make sure that what | dont like
doesnt continue.” - Urike Meinhof

Sth of May, 1976

The RAF fighter Ulrike Meinho is
murdered in Stammheim solitary
confinement, preceded by the
murder of hunger striker Holger
Meins, who was constantly being
forcefed, and a year later Andreas
Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Car
Raspe are murdered in Stammheim
solitary confinement cells and Ingrid
Schubert is murdered in Stadelheim

The fighter Ulrike Meinhof was a
evolutionary, lesh and blood of the
armed antiimperialist struggle, bomn

and died on the path of contributing
o the seruggle for individual and
collective lberation. She abandoned
legality during an action to free the
imprisoned revolutionary Andreas
Baader and became an
organizational member of the first
generation of the Red Army Faction.

She was a charismatic woman who
balanced theory through practice,
playing a leading role in both the
retical formulation of the RAF's
ideological and political line, without
ever leaving the operational field of
armed metropoiitan resistance. It
was a key part of those intiatives.
that carried the legacy of the Latin
American guerrila movements on
their backs, buiding the armed
metropolitan front i the European

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centers. Who took the hostities to
the “heart of the beast’, putting
soldarity into practice with the
peoples of Vietnam, Palestine and
the third worid countries that were
under atzack by the imperialist
interventions of the United States.

At a time when Schidt's German
chancellery was &n impensalist center
of decision-making and operations,
bringing its Nazi dregs into the
mechanisms of power, the flourishing
of the urban guerilla put into ques-
tion and annulled both the regme’s.
omnipotence and the oppositional
tolerance of mperialist crimes by the
reformist lefi The history of revolt
and resistance was written in the
blood of those tortured in the
internment hellholes, those mur-
dered in ambushes and entiterrorist
operations by the special Soko B/M
department of the Federal Criminal
Investigation Service - BKA and
those executed in the dead wards of
sensory isolation.

Comrade Uinke was just that disobe-
dient star. Her theoretical and
practical contribution to the birth of
armed struggle in Germany and the
unification of the resistances in
Europe and the Midde East catego-
rized her as a central targe for
elimination on the BKA's sts. From
slandering her poitical integrity and
standing. to spreading false news of
her death while she was strugging in
an ilegal regime, to her
exterminating treatment in the
isolation of the dead ward, the social
demacratic chancellery initiated
Ulrike's execution in the Sammheim
hellhole, claiming the obvious li of
suicide. Indeed, state revisionism was
ot content with Ulrike's death,
desecrating her dead body when it
removed her brain in secret to
conduct research

Revolutionary history is written in
blood and gunpowder. In this history.
personaities fike lrke and the other
RAF comrades are taken out of the
matrix of the class struggle for social
beration. They stand unscathed,
transiucent through time fike the
brightest stars, wih the same
intogrity that chalenges and
denigrates the monopoly of tyranny.

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‘The lives and deaths of comrades
like Uirke are a cry to the
rebelious hearts that yearn for
enduring revolutionary necessity,
deafeningly daciaring themselves.
to their persecutors: | was, am and
wil be.

Honour to the comrades Ulrike
Meinhof, Gudrun Enssiin, Holger
Meins, Andreas Baadar and Ingrid
Schubert who were murdered in
the sensory isolation werds by the
German state,

Honour to the comrades Petra
Schelm, Georg Von Rauch, Thomas
Weissbecker, Katharina
Hemmerschmi, Uich Wessel,
Segried Hausner, Werner Sauber,
Brgite Kuhimann, Wilfrend Bose,
WilkPeter Stoll Michael Knol,
Elisabeth Von Dyck, Juliane
Prambeck, Wolfgang Beer, Sigurd
Debus, Johannes Thimme, Jurgen
Peemolier, ina Zipman, Gert
Albartus and Wolgang Grams who
dedicated their ives to the anti
imperialist struggle for fberation
through the ranks of the German
Urban Guerrila

Behind us alllies a common history
- we will meet again on the
unknown and complicated paths of
liberation.

‘Thanos Hatziangelou,
Imprisoned member of the
Anarchist Action Organization

“Third Ward,
Larissa Prison,
Greece.

9/5/2023

Transiated by Nae Midion.

Thanos Xatziagkelou
Dikastii Filaki Koridallou,

Dwing
TK 18110
Korydallos,

KON

Greece

Above picture: 31 December 2024
Soldarity dermo at Korycallos prison,
Athens, Greece, for those detained
or the Ampelokipi case and to
remember Kyriakis and all who foll in
strugge. Destroy al prisons!

Solidarity to the
comrades of the
Ampelokipi case

On the 31st of Cctober 2024, in an
explosion in an apartment in Athens,
the anarchist comrade Kyriskos
Xymitini el in the batte for socil
and class lberation. The anarchist.
comrade Marianna M. suffered
‘severe injuries, after being treated at
Eiangelismos Hospital under.
constant police surveilence, she was.
transtorred on Friday 15,11 to
Korydallos Prison. In the aftermath
of what heppened on 31st October,
the comrades Dimitra Z, Dimitris,
Nikos R. and AK have been
imprisoned as well n the pre-
detention prison in Korydallos:

The five comrades have been
charged under the antiterrorism law
1874 formation and membership o
a tervorist arganization, explosion
‘and supply possession and
menufacture of explosives, dmage
to private property.-

Assembly in memory of KX. and in
solidarity with the persecuted
comrades in the Ampelokipi case

For my
comrade,
Kyriakos X.

‘Angelus Novus' - Paul Kiee

Goodby
comrade,

“You will be ashes, old world.

You're destined for the path of
destruction

And you can't bend us
By Killing our brothers in arms...
And know this

We will come out victorious
And even though our sacrifices

Are heavy”
Nazim Hikmet

Belatedly, | would ke to write a few
words about my comrade and
companion for the past 6 years of my
life, K. Xymitiris, who passed away in
an apartment on Arkadias Street.

I met comrade Kyriakos in the city of
Berlin a few years ago. Our common
determination and agonizing for a

better world quickly brought us.
together. In midnight talks in the
bar where he worked, in walks
through the city's streets, we
exchanged views, and Kyriakos had
the most in-depth opinions and
Knowledge regarding each and
every one of my concers. Our
shared vision was simultaneously
spreading roots within us, creating
strong relationship based on mutual
understanding, comradeship and
Tove.

Together we struggled and shaped
our opinions on anything that
troubled us. | grew up with him, on
ajourney of discovering my
combative identity. And Kyriakos
was always by my side, not In front
orin the back, but next to me.
Holding my hand, supporting me,
with his smile and his perspicacity.
Always giving the correct answers
while we were all mincing our
words, clearing the landscape while
we were all feeling lost. With a well-
developed sense of solidarity, he
always stood on the side of anyone
who needed it, regardless of
repression, being targeted, and his
own comort, Always first n all the
struggles: against repression,
gentrification, the labour
sweatshops, colonlalism, patriarchy,
prisons. Indispensable as a
comrade and as a friend, wherever
he stood he filld the space with his.
modesty and miltancy.

By advocating for unity in the
struggle for the revolutionary cause,
for confrontation, militancy and
counter-attack, always with respect
for those next to him, he made
space where others suffocated. So
he lived, at least by my side,
‘militant and persistent, hopeful and
smiling. Ready for everything,
taking risks big and small, he gave
his daily life to the struggle without
asecond thought.

Aways by our side
tome, to his friends and his
comrades, to anyone who needed
him for the smallest or the biggest
matter.

Aways by our side

to take on the most tedious, the
most risky role. Always by our side

tohold our hand, to accompany us,
to open the way.

Always by the side

of the migrant, the abused, the
worker, the prisoner.

And always by my side

to support me, to help me, to listen
to me, to struggle together with me,
to hug me by pushing away the fear,
to encourage me by pushing away
the second thoughts, to fill the days.
‘and nights with comradeship and
combativeness.

COMRADE KYRIAKOS

None of the goodbyes are enough.
None of the texts can describe the
pain of your loss. On 31/10 | was.
left half, on a path where | wanted
you by my side. On 31/10 | lost
that smile that only you knew how
to evoke. On 10/31/10 | lost the
hopefulness that only you could
transmit to me. But on 10/31 1
also made a promise to you, to me,
to us and to so many others, that
You would not be forgotten. On 31/
10 I stayed behind to speak about
you, about the struggle you gave
‘and about those you did not
manage to give. On 31/10 | raised
up my fist and with my bloody
mouth | vowed to STRUGGLE. On
31/101 raised my fist and in the
rubble of Arcadia Street | said
KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS, ALWAYS
PRESENT!

“Our most beautiful days, we
haven't seen yet. And the most
beautiful words | wanted to tell you.
Ihaven't said yet..."

Nazim Hikmet

With unconditional love

Your comrade

Marianna M.

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Picture above: One of the mary
Barclay's Bank offices destroyed in UK
by the Palestine Action campaign.

Itis impossible to summarise the
‘sheer number of acts of resistance.
Any listwil always be incomplete.

2025
16 February, Bristal, UK: Windows of
BAM construction smashed by Eco-
Anarchists - ‘Fredy Periman’ Gang.
BAM are involved in prison building,
nuclear energy,utities, etc.

7 February, Berlin, Germany. Wild
demo in memory of slein Kyriakos
Xymitirs through Friedrichshain.
Obstacles were pt on the streets,
graffit in memory of Kyriakos was
sprayed. Afterwards in Rigaer Street
police arriving were fought with
stanes.

7 February, loannia, Greece:
Anarchists took responsibitty for
destroying the windows of an estate
agancy.

31 January, Athens, Greece:
Vandalism attack against the Hellenic
Train offices for the Tempi accident
cover-up where dozens of people lost.
their ves. The group Proletarian
Miitants took responsibilty.

28 January, Santiago, Chile:
Anarchists took responsibilty for
raising burning barricades in memory
of the fallen companeros Lupi, Tortuga,
Belén and Risue. Banner and flyers
were left at the scene.

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25 January, Munich, Germany: 23
police vans are torched and noone is
arrested.

25 January, Athens, Greece:
Vandalism attack against ACTION24
TV station for all the slurs and hate
promoted by the channel and its
journalistic fiees.

24 January, Dasseldorf, Germany:
“The group Angry Birds Commando
took responsibiy or the sebotage
of the city's most important freight
line, putting f out of service for at
least 12 hours.

23 January, Burss, Turkey: The
group HBDH Partizan Amed Miltia,
greeted the 10th anniversary of the
liberation of the ciy of Kobani from
1515 and Turkishbacked Islamist
Prosies, by setting fire to a vehice
belonging to a fascist member of the,
ruling poltical party AKP in the
Pinarbayir neighborhood of Bursa's
Qsmangaz district. Koban ...is
remenmbered for s resistance and
victory against SIS, the most brutal
creation of this age.... [Kaban) is 8
hope for humenity s resisting under.
the atzacks of the murderous Tunkish
state. In the town of Sinin, south of
the city of Kabani, 12 cilians were
kiled 25 2 resut of the bombing of
the market area. The AKPMHP
fascist regime, which s not for
behind the bartarism of 1515
continues to commit a new war
cnime every day by mobilzing allits
means to destroy the gains of the
Kurdish people in the four parts of
Kurdistan.”

20 January, Salem, Oregon, USA:
Tesla car dealership torched.

20 January, Portland, USA: Election
office destroyed, 33 windows
smashed by an unknown group of B
10 hooded ones.

17 January, Desyonovskoye, Russie
AUAZ Patriot miltary vehicle with
Ministry of Defence plates was
torched.

14 January, Milan, Italy: Deutsche
Bank windows get smashed due to
their investments in war-industries
and the Israeii state.

10 January, Canada: Saboteurs
claim responsbilty for trainiine
sabotage aganst RayMont.
Logistics.

10 January, Chalkide, Greece:
Solidarity demo at the Court of
Appeal for comrade Pola Roupa,
member of Revalutionary Struggle.

9 January, Barcelona, Spain: The HO
of Central Sindical Independiente y de
Funcionarios, a centist uion, is
graffed and locks glued against
collusion with police over the murder
of & migrant street seler in Sevile,

2 January, Brussels, Belgium:
Molotov against a prison officer’s cor
at Heren prison

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31 December. Chicago, USA: Rowdy
noise demo with fireworks held at
the Metropolitan Correctional
Canter:

31 December, Austin, USA:
Loud firework demo t thejail

31 December. Durham, USA
Noise demo outside of the local ail
shooting offfireworks and projecting
messages against Cop Cities and
beyond onto the walls. Picture on
opposite page.

31 December, Detroit, USA: Noise
demo with a sound system and
fireworks outside of the local ja.

31 December. New Orleans, USA:
Noise demo with a brass band and
fireworks outside of the local ja.
31 December, New York, USA: Noise 31 December, Berlin, Germany:

demo in Brookiyn outside the
Metropoltan Detention Center.

31 December; Battimore, USA"
Noise demo outside the local jai.

31 December. Hamilton, Canada: A
‘group of around 50 people marched
around Barton jail setting off
fireworks, throwing paint; bombs and
shouting to the prisaners.

31 December; Montreal, Canada:
Hundreds of people at the noise
demo with firewarks outside of the
prison.

31 December, Berfin, Germany:
Burning barricade of ties and
banner in Kreuzberg to honour the
fallen anarchist Kyriakos Xymitirs:
“The international days of action and
the commemoration of & fighter who
dedicaed his i o the fight were
the ariving force behind our action.
Just as 1o one s left in the hands of
the state alone, no one who joins the.
ranks of fighters who died for-the
cause of freedom and equity willbe
forgotzen. Honar the anarchist
Kiskos Xymiciis. In memory of
Georg von Reuch, whose spirit &5
present in the Kreuzberg struggles.”

Durham, USA

Seimens vehicle set on fire in
soldarity with imprisoned comrades
in Greece and in combative memory
of Kryiakos X

31 December, Berlin, Germany.
Demnstration at Moabit prison as
part of the New Year resistance in
soldarity with prisoners and against
prisons.

31 December, Athens, Greece:
Anarchist demo outside Korydallos
prison in solidarity with the struggles
of the prisoners.

31 December, London, UK:
Anarchists set. offflares and smoke
bombs at Brixton and Pertonvile
prisons as part of the New Year's
demos for prisoners.

23 December, Athens, Greece:
Arson attack against. real estate
‘company Elika by anarchists.

22 December, East Jeva, Indonesia
Campus buikding set on fire in the
context of repression by Universty
authorites. The arson is dedicated to
Nikos Romanos and all anarchist
prisoners.

21 December, Bern , Switzeriand:
Vandalism attack with paint at the
Greek diplomatic residence in

solidarity with the Ambelokipi case.

21 December. Donaghacioney, Co.
Down: Animal Rights Miltia damage
vehicles of fox hunters.

19 December; Dorset, UK: 2 hurting
towers destroyed.

18 & 28 December, Athens,
Greace: Anarchist group Night
Sialom, Commando Kyriakos
Xymitiri cleim erson attacks against.
& HEDNO van vehicie in Elinko, a car
dealership in Patisia, police car in
Holargos, state SUV vehicle in
Kypsels the study center of New
Demacracy MP G, Kallianos in
Gyfade, and a cop car in Zografou.
“We call on comrades here and
everywhere to raise the flame of
direct action and insurrectionary
prospects. Kyriakas Xymicis always
present! Soldanty with anarchist
comrade Marisnna M. immediate
release of the enarchists Dimicrs Z,
Dimitrs, Nikos Romaros and AK.
Solidanty with comrade KK in pre-
il detention. Solidarity with former
"RAF member Daniela Kiette in pro-
trial detention and wanted former.
members Burkhard Garweg and
ErmstVbker Staub.”

‘The group's communique contained
the following: “Dur anarchist
comrade Kyriakos Xymiciris and
anarchist comrade Menianna M. are
an example of selflessness,
revolutionary ethos and poltical
commitment in al sspects of the.
struggle. From anarchist assembles,
to soldanity with prisoners, to
‘struggles in defense of mmigrants,
Iabour gains, to the struggle against
gentrification and repression, our.
comrades gave “body and soul”
~keeping the flame of the
revolutionary couse always sight

The events of Cctober 31st froze our
hearts but at the same tme
Gonvinced us to continue the
struggle of Kyriakos and Marianna
and s0 many other comrades over
the years who gave thoir lves or
were imprisoned in the bttle for
indivictual and socia! iberation,
revoltion and anarchy.

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0
Sant ag‘d‘, Chile

In the aftermath of the October 31st
‘acoident. we watched the meda
snitches try to portray the struggle
of our comrades, to sel them as
amoral bloodthirsty terronists
thirsting for the blood of innocent
civilans, whil at the same time.
selling death poltics by showing
videos from the destroyed
apartment on Arcacia Street in
order to increase viewership figures
and satisty their far-night aucfience.
Natursll, & new cycle of persecution
followed i the political and social
circle of the comrades but also
‘against people who hed nothing to do
with them.

In the intervening period, solidarity
actions were carried out for the
comrades accused of the
Ampelokipoi case and for the.
memory of comrade Kyriskos
Xymitinis woridwide. Marches,
microphones, sofdanty movements
and direct action strikes from

Greece to Chile and from Germany
£0 Indonesia.

We kniow that the real teror is the
‘constant abolition of labour gains,
price increases in supermarkets and
evictions of the lower sacidl strata
for the sake of the banks. Terrorism
i the coverup of state crime in
Tempe, s well as trafficking nings in
which 2 large part of the state and
parastate apparatus participetes.
Terronism is the thousands of
migrants drowned in the
Medterrancan and the wars that
push them to displecement, such as
the genocidal war in Palestine.

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For our part, we come to declare.
that the revolutionary-nsurrectionary
thread that connects generations
and generations willnot be broken.
There wil ahways be movements that
challenge the monopoly of state and
capital violence and retumn &
percentage of it to those who carry
o

17 December, Tasikmalaya,
Indonesia: Incendiary atzack against.
a police outpost in solidarity with
Nikos Romanos, Alfredo Cospito and
all anarchist prisoners of FA/IRF.
Action claimed by Free Association
of Autonomous Fire.

17 December, Toulouse, France: A
vehicie belonging to MT énergies. a
photovoltaic solar panel company,
was set on fire. “Soldarity with
Marianna, Dimitra and Nikos
FRomanas! Strength to you Kyriakos
Ximitins may your fire burn forever’

16 December; Amsterdam,
Netherlands: KPN telecom van
torched against “A/ war technology”
‘and s network of control and
surveilance”

14 December, Athens, Greece: In an
action against gentrification and in
solidarity with KK, dedicated to
fallen comrade Kyriakos X. and those
in the Ambelokipi case, the facades.
of the Alter Athens hatel and the
Dekler clothing store on Zoodachos
Pigi streat are smashed

13 December, Athens, Greece:
Incendiary attack against 3 ELTA

vans (Greek post office) dedicated to
comrade Kyriakos X, Marianna and
the comrades in the Ampelokipi case
and comrade K., who is remanded
accused of atzacking police vehicle
with 3 moloto.

13 December, Bandung, West Java,
Indonesia: Police post attacked and
set on fire in solidarity with our
imprisoned comrada Nikos.
Romanos, as well as Sidiq and all
imprisoned anarchists.

12 December, Kassavetia prison,
Greece: Approx 40 comrades
gathered in soidarity outside the
prison where comrade K. is held.

5 December, Santiago, Chile:
Incendiary confrontation with police
with the construction of burning
barricades. The ananymous people
threw pamphiets in memory of
anarchist comrades Luciana
Pitronallo and Belén Navarrate who
died this past August. and in solidarity
with the imprisoned comrade
Marcelo Villarroel. The action
finished without arrests.

3 December, Athens, Greece: The
anarchist group Cells of Offensive
Salidarity for the placement of an
incendiary device at Kypsel's

National Social Insurance Agency,
The low-powered device did not.
detonate. 'To clany NSIA is
responsible for distributing pensions
of & mere 42617euros, withholding
contributions from workers,
freelancers, and farmers, and
combating tax evasion. Tases for
farmers exceed 50% and for
freelencers, they surpass 75% In
summary, NSIA serves as the state’s
tax collecton playing a pivotal role in
financing its poliical agends and
legiumizing its existence. But when
wards fail numbers speak

3 December, Beriin, Germany: A
vehicie of the German army parked in
the working class district of Neuklin
is trashed.

2 December, Berlin, Germany:
Double incendiary attack against 20
concrete trucks at two industrial
sites, one owned by Mexican
multinational Cemex and the ather by
German company Heidelberg
Materials. “We understand this
action as the continuation of @ series
of attacks on concrete giants around
the worid, as an offenswe against
thase responsible for the ecocide
that s aready a realty in many.
temitories. These companies actively
‘participate in neo-colonial polcies
and profit from war. exploitation and
‘genocide in the countries where they
operate.”

28 November, USA: Ghast Robotics
CEO Gavin Kenneally has home
attacked by anarchists who fiooded
his house. Ghost Aobotics develops
robot dogs that are used in occupied
Palestine and at the US/Mexico
border”

28 November, Rome, ftaly:
Incendiary attack against Itafferr a
subsidiary of the Ferrovie dello Stato
haliane group. “As & compliant
collaborator of the angoing
milkaristic shif, we have identified
Ialferr as pert of the FS group, s &
target within our antimiltanst efforts
‘aimed at countering the new warlke
ahife of states.”

27 January, La BatieRolland,
France: 2 large hangars of the
Soterex company. part o the
Poisson corporation, which
specializes in mining, extraction and
quarries, completely engulfed in
flames. Equipment, and vehicles were
destroyed

26 November, Bremen, Germany:
HQ of OptoPrecision set on fire.
“OptoPrecision GmbH is & company
based in Bremen. In s Security
Systems dvision, the company
develops surveillance technologies.
for the police, secunty services, and
the miltary. Its product range
extends from various leser and LED
light sources to complete, custom-

made systems for complex
observation and surveilance tasks,

both on land and at sea.”

25 November, Lincolnshire, UK:
2 meat trucks are set on fire by the
Howling Wlf Commando. e
remember through fire. with the
hape that from the ashes we con
build @ world &l ur martyrs would be
proud of. Lobo never forgotzen.
Kyriakas Ximitris ahweys present

25 November, L'Ote, Loire, France:
Construction machinery of the
Charpentier group set on fire.

25 Noverber, Amsterdam,
Netherlands: 2 KPN vehicies
atacked, one is smashed and the
other set on fire. KPN is @ leacing
telecommunications and IT provider
in the Netherlands. “This action was
a retaliation for KPN's sponsership
of the NEDS armsfair against
mitarism, and the technology of
repression.”

23 January, Kazan, Tatarstan,
Russia: An unknown person threw a
Molotov cocktailinto the foyer of the
main entrance of the administrative
building of the Kazan Gunpowder
Plan. This started a fire, which was
‘extinguished by employees of the
plan. The Interior Ministry said it had
nat found or idencied the arsonist. fo
was reported that CCTV cameras.
show a lad of about fiteen years od
with his face covered. It is known that
between 2023 and 2024 the plant
has increased capacity to produce
explosives for Russia's miltary-
industrial complex.

16 November, Giasgow, Scotland:
Anarchists wrote on the wals of the
‘South Side area messages of
solidarity with the imprisoned
‘comrades Dimitra, Dimitris and the
injured Marianna, as well as slogans
commemorating the anarchist
Kyriakos Ximitiris. in response to a
call for an international day of
memory and action by comrades in
Athens.

11 November, Athens, Greece: A
gathering was held in Monastiraki
square in soldariy with the
‘comrades imprisoned for the
Ampelakipi case.

9 November, North fcaly: A trap
used to catch crows is dismantled by
a roaming cel of the Animal
Liberation Front, The Wof Brigade.

8 Noverber, Athens, Greece: NTUA
‘campus building set on fire against
repression and In soldarity with KK
and thosa in the Ambelokpi case.

November, Santiago, Chile: As part
of the call for a Black November in

memory of comrade Kevin Garrido, a
group of young anarchosihilists set.
up barricades and clashed with
police using molotovs. the action also
dedicated to Kryiakos X, those i the
Ampelokipi case and other injured,
captured or slain fighters.

November: Santiago, Chile: Haoded
indiduals erected burning
barricades and confronted the police
with molotovs in the vicinity of the
Netional Institute in solidarity with
Ayekan, a poltical prisoner who is
currently in preventive detention.
Fiyers were scattered at the site.

30 October, Rome, kealy: Anarchists
burned down a McDonald's
Festaurant in an action declared for
animal iberation, against the
massacres in Gaza, solidarity to
prisoners and thase in the
Ambelokipi case in Greece.

30 October, Milan, kaly: 23 Enjoy
electric cars and a van belonging to
Eniplentude, of the Eni group, were
set on fire. Whil the massacre in
Gaza continues 2 year o, Eni
continues to enrich iself doing big
business with lsrael as is shown by
the acquisitons of offshore natural
gas deposts along the coasts of
Gaza carried out by the leallan
mutinationl immedately after
Octaber 7th 2023."

24 October Brissac, Gangeois,
France: 8 millon euros damage
caused by incendiary sabatage at &
quarry. Operations were completely
haited at the quarry.

21 October, Toulouse, France:
Veicles of construction company
Spio Batignolies atiacked with fire
costing 2 milion euros.

13 October, Athens, Greece:
Incendiary atzack on the offices of
New Democracy political party by
Anarchist Attack Group. Action
dedicated to miltant prisoner
Thanasis Pikasis and Revolutionary
Struggle prisoner Nikos Maziotis

11 October, Missolonghi, Greece:
Explosive attack on poice
interrogation van by anarchists.
Comrade KK. was arrested for this
action and detained.

10 October, Santiago, Chile: A group
of masked people left from inside the
University of Santiago to biock traffic
in the context of te first month
since the assassination of the
comrade Alonso Verdejo (Risue)
Risue wes assassinated in 8
cowardly attack of during a fascist
march. This action was dedicated in
solidarity also with the 532 years of
resistance of the Mapuche people/
nation. Throughout the action, there
were molatov confrontations with
the police and propaganda was
spread against the framep of the
comrades from Vil Francia
imprisoned for the July 6th case and
against the isolation of comrade
Francisco Solar, demanding the end
of his poliical imprisonment.

The demo ended without arress.

1 October, Santiago, Chile: Hooded
individuals erected burning
barricades and clashed wih the
police in the vicinty of the National
Instute in commemoration of the
death of Denisse Cortés, a comrade
and human rights observer who
actively participated in the protection
and safeguarding of her peopl in the
context of socialstruggle. A banner

wes unfuried denouncing
‘mismanagement and embezzement
of public funds regarding the
management and payment of
overtime for some officals of the
instiution, who ook after their own
interests instead of those of the
educational community. No arrests
were made.

7 October, Forest of Dean, UK:
Hunting towers sabotaged in
solidarity with anarchist prisonar
Toby Shane.

6 October, Beriin, Germany:
Warehouse and 3 logistics vehicies.
of arms industry ThyssenKrupp set
on fire. “The genocide in Gaza shows
the reality of Atbased miltary
technologies: tens of thousands of
civilans and chidren dead, wounded,
traumatized and mutilated.
TryssenKrupp profis from this and
other wars.”

October, Rovereto, kaly: Telecoms,
cabinets sabotaged.

4 November, Santiago, Chie:
Incendiary attack against.a
Transantiago bus and pamphlets left
at the scene in memory of siain
anarchist Kevin Garrido.

2 November, Campocecina,
Carrara, taly: 3 heavy vehicles at a
marble quarry go up in flames.

31 October, Mipd, Chile: Burning
barricades in memory of the
comrades Luciano Pitronello and
Belén Navarrete.

26 September, Terrace, BC,
Canada: 4 vehicles and nearby

buildings of surveying and
engineering firm McEhanney
severely damged by arson.
“McEhanney is woring on the
controversial PRGT pipeline. which
‘has seen resistance via occupations
and blockades. Further south the
company has used GIS data to help
plan work for the controversial TMX
pivelie. In north eastern BC,
Mchanney hes worked on providing
data and plans for the expansion of
LNG well stes and pipelines.”

September, Flamanvill, France:
Bolts loosened on an EHV pylon
connected to a nuclear reactor
“There are pylons and EHV lnes. the
highways of electriiy, everywhere.
And nat just for nuclear power
plants: they're also used to transport
‘so-callod “renewable” forms of
energy (wind power, soler..) which
help to produce ever more electricty
‘and power the technosindustrial
‘society, Al this energy powers the
‘machines that control us, survei us,
make us work,distract us and
impase & way ofIfe on us.”

27 June, Santiago, Chile: Burning
barricades and molotov clashes with
police at Universidad de Pleya Ancha,
in the context of commenmoration for
the defense of the Earth.

2 June, Pis, taly: Incendiary atzack
against fiver optic cabinet. “Our
selection of the site was delberate,
a8 it stands within an indlstrial zone
n close proximity to & Carrefour
hypermarket, a robotics laboratory
affisted with the Sant Anna Insttute,
and the Banco di Pisa.”

1 June, Berkeley, USA: Polico SUV.
set onfire.

27 May, Santiago, Chile: In
combative memory of fallen
anarchist mauricio Morales, a city
bus is taken over and sat alight after
the passengers are removed. Action
is claimed by Incendiary Cell for the
Individual Action Severino Di
Giovanni - Black Vengeance - FAl/
FAl

26 May, Athens, Greeca: Incendiary
attack against Metro construction
site machinery at Eikonos.
24 & 25 May, Santiago, Chil
Stwdents from 3 different high
schools in Santiago ook to the
streets to erect barricades, deploy
banners and confront the police with
molotov Gockails in memory o fallen
comrade Mauricio Morales and in
soldarity with al those affected by
the eviction of the May 17 occupation
in Cerro Nevia

22 May, Santiago, Chile: Hooded
students set up barricades and
lashed with molotov cocktails
against police outside the National
Padagogical University, to
commemorate the Day of Chaos and
fallen anarchist comrade Mauricio
Marales.

12 May, Leipzig, Germany: Several
Tesla vehiclas set on fire at their
dealership outiet. The day before the
sttack in Leipzg, 2500
‘demonstrators marched in Berlin
from the forest towards the Tesia
factory in Grinheide, with clashes
with the police.

18 May, Athens, Greece: Riot cops
ambushed by anarchists with
molotovs, “15 years after the death
of Mauricio Morales we send a signal
of fire and complicty from Greece to
Chile, honaring the international
‘caoperatin that existed becween
these two lands not meny years ego.
Let the siogan A spenk in Santiago, &
fire in Athens" become a realiy
again”

1 May, Santiago, Chile: ncendiary
clashes wih police took place as part
of the commemoration of
International Workers' Day.
Anarchists also destroyed
commercial premises and erected
burning barricades i various
districts

May, New York, USA: New York
Police Department bus set on fire in
Brookiyn in revenge for repression
against Geza protestors.

30 April, Barin, Germany. 16
Amazon logistics vans torched
“Amazon Web Services [AWS]
represents the symbol o the link
between the repressive organs of
the state and capital. Nat
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example, offering a new type of dsta
center that willbe used to gain
‘miltary ackantage anywhere in the
worid

28 Apri, Hermannsburg, Germany:
CEO Armin Papperger of arms.
‘company Rheinmetall, has his
property attacked with fire.

26 April, Concepcion, Chile: Burning
barricades and scattered pamphlets
‘against repression. Freedorn for
Mapuche prisoners - Freedom to
Francisco Solar and Mnica
Caballero.”

24 April. Rome, aly: Burning
barricade and burnt, ATM with
painted slogan “Anna and Alfredo
free” in reference to the anarchist
comrades Anna Beniamino and
Affredo Cospito for whom, the same
day. the hearing was be held in the
ourt of cassation concerning the
‘appeal against the judgement of the
Turin court, of appeal that had
established the sentences for the
comrades in the Scripta Manent trial
%0 17 years and 8 months and 23
years (the court, of cassation had
confirmed the outcome). AL the
same time, stll in the same area, &
window of an Intesa Sanpaolo bank
subsidiary wes shatered. o peace
for thase who live off wr“wes
written on the wallof the bank.

23 April, Berlin, Germany: 2 Tesla
vehicles set on fire in Friedrichshain-
Kreuzberg districts,

14 April, Vechta, Germany: Solidarity
‘demo for former Red Army Faction
member Daniela Kletze outside of
the prison in Vechta.

o

8 March, Beriin, Germany.
Sabotage group Vukangruppe set
fire to a high-voltage pylon which cuts
off power to & Tesla factory, Damage
is estimated at several hundred
millon dollars. “We respond to the
ongoing rape of the Earth with
sabotage. The ideology of imiless
economic growth and a belef in
progress based on destruction has
come to an ond.*

& March, Cardiff, UK: Anarchist
dema outside the regional probation
service HG of the National Security
Divsion with flags, banners and
smoke bombs in soldarity with
anarchist prisoner Toby Shone.

Fiyers were given out and the office
visited, the names of antiterrorist
police and National Security Division
staff on Toby's case were read out by
megaphone and the situation was
denounced.

15 February, Beriin, Germany:
Arson of a Thales arms company
vehicle.

2 February, Berlin, Germany.
Anather 2 Tesla vehicles and
charging stations set on fire,

February, Thessaloniki, Greece:
Parcel bomb sent to the President of
the Court of Appeal Anastasia
Anthopoulou by anarchist group.
Armed Respanse but is intercepted
and defused.

30 January, Berlin, Germany. Greek
diplomatic vehicle set on fire by
anarchists.

63
Anarchic Worldview

Unlike other struggles and ways of
understanding e, it seems that
anarchy is not determined solely by
pre-established identities bound to
one social, economic or ethnic origin,

This could be a disadvantage,
because what is that keeps
anarchy alive? Is it only the
declaration of defining oneself an
anarchist? Is it carrying out
“anarchisttype” pracices? or what?

Without wishing to give a closed
answer, i s clear that we anarchist
Iack an identification rooted in some
unifying element based on particular
forms of appression of a specific
type of community throughout
history.

For some, this situation would
deprive the anarchic struggle of a
sense oflfe beyond the material. In
not:a few cases, this has led certain
companions to search for meanings
of transcendence by approaching
the worldviews of ancestral peoples
and cultures.

However, in this exploration there
have been not a few who have
assimilated or rightly appropriated
concepts and ways of understanding
reaity that distance themselves
from the fight against all authority

For us, the loose strands of the black
thread of the anarchic worldview
can be found by exploring the very
history of the struggle against

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power, without falling into fetishism
‘about the past, dogma around an
idea or the sacralization of images,
people or periods of histary.

What makes anarchy something
dangerous at al times and piaces is
neither more nor less than the fight
against allforms of power and
authority, carried out by the
decisions and actions of real people
wha thirk, feel, love and hate. They
love and act against hierarchies,
Gapitalism and all forms of
government and hierarchical
arganization of fe, be they from the
right, left, dictatorial, democratic.
bourgeois or "popular

‘This fight encompasses the
individual and the collactive,
incarporating mind and energy. body
and spirit, thoughts, words and
‘emotions, but above all ACTION

Periédico Anarquico Confrontacién
Chile, August 2023

14th Century
Samurai Poem

1 have no home: | make
awareness my home.

Ihave no life or death: | make
the tides of breathing my life
and death.

Ihave no body: | make
‘endurance my body.

Ihave no eyes: | make the flash
of lightning my eyes.

Ihave no strategy: | make
“unshadowed by thought* my
strategy.

1 have no designs: | make

*seizing opportunity’ my
design.

I have no miracles: | make
right-action my miracles.

I have no principles: | make
‘adaptabiity my principles.

Ihave o tactics: | make
emptiness and fullness my
tactics.

I have no friends: | make my
mind my friend.

Ihave no enemy: | make
carelessness my enemy.

Ihave no armour: | make
benevolence and
righteousness my armour.

1have no castle: | make
immovable-mind my castle.

I have no sword: | make
absence of self my sword.
Review:
‘The Invisible
Rainbow’ by
Arthur
Firstenberg

The Invisible Rainbow: A History of
Electricity and Life

Arthur Firstenberg

Chelsea Green Pubishing

riginaly published in 2017 by AGE
Pross, Santa Fo, New Moxico: Sucre.
Bolina. Pepertack edition published
by Chelsea Greon Publshing, 2020

We pretend. contrary to all
scientific evidence. thet there js &
safe lovol of exposure, and that f the
authoniies only set the safety
standards low enough, we can have
our radar stations and computer
screens and cell phones and not
sufter the consequences. We forget
the admonitions of Floss Adey, the
grandtather of bioelectromagnetics,
and of atmospheric physicist Neil
Chorry, that we are electrically tuned
& the worid around us and that the
safe level of exposure to redio waves
s zerv. .. the majonity of the people
in the world today do not know that
their acute and chronic ilnesses are
in large part caused by electro-
magnetic pollution. They do not talk
0 each other about their heatth
problems, and are unaware that they

are shared by many of their
neighbors.”

Arthur Firstenberg,

“The Invisible Rainbow’

This s a densely researched 500+
page book of science journalism
from an American author that
thoroughly chronicles the known
harmful effects of electricity and
electromagnetic frequency radiation
on humans, animals and the
biosphere since electricity’s
invention over two hundred years
ago. This book refutes the idea that.
electricity and EMF radiation are
safe and cause no toxiity to insects,
wildife, plants and to paople
themsehes. Firstenberg looks deeply
into medical data about waves of
influenza and contagious diseases
that correspond with electrical grid
and telecommunications deployment
in cities and rural areas, plus
modern conditions such as cancers,
heart, disease, diabetes - which are
all health issues of mass industrial
society. Firstenberg looks at the
relationship between large scale dic
offs in the natural worid and the rolk
out of electrical systems and EMF
radiation, as well as examining the
4G and 56 communications
frequencies. Critcising the use of 56
o buid a surveillance state whare
every electrical product and item is
connected in a mirrorworid of the,
“Internet of Things', Firstenberg
places the electricakindustrial
system in its proper place as the
systam of dominant ideology and
oppression.

Human heath sensituty to electrical
devices, electrical systems and

frequencies is heavily explored in the
book and the author ims to
establish a potential common
understanding of electrical toxicity
and disease for a global audience.
Firstenberg explains the dfficulties
of crticising the electrical grid and
the modern postindustrial worid
that requires constant electrical
power, since dissenting views in the
scientific community about the
negative health aspects of post-
industrial civiisation are few.
Firstenberg is also highly critical of
telecommunications satelite and
space expansion that poses.
disastrous consequences for Earth's

magnetic rythms and our abity to
reside in natural cosmic frequancies.

Overal, the outiook of 'The Invisible
Rainbow' s holistic, Earth and
community centred, and i i clear
Firstenberg takes an activist.
approach, as he participates in
various campaigns against 56 and
electrosmog, aiming to get a wider
knowledge out there. In the last third
of the book, the analytic narrative
becomes clearer, and akhough it
remains essentially a mainstream-
orientated book. it begins to come
closer to an anticiviisation critique

As wel as ot of medical and
environmental scientific research,
the book is full of real accounts of
ordinary people deaing with the
effects of smartphone and electrical
polution and their efforts to raise
awareness in the face of
overwhelming opposition, as
electrical energy and its post
industrial expansion is considered
pathologically essential,

From reading this book you are left
wih @ sense that technological
society is a noxous soup of radiation,
dioxins, plastics, micro particies,
stirred around with the biotech and
nanotech products they are
unleashing on the environment;
fuelled by coal, gas, and nuciear. And
yet this grid of decay remains
shockingly exposed: distrbuted by
cables, antennas, substations and
generators. The fragilty of the
industrial society s also expressed
here inthis book. in the search for
recovery and wellness. There is an
incraasing sense of more and more
people starting to queston if their
lives wouldn. be better without
smartphones, aptops, the internet,
constant power. work and cites. This
book is $24.95 per copy, and is
recommended reading you are
interested in health, ecology and
technology. I features an extensive
biblography and notes, Arthur
Firstenberg s also the author of
‘Microwaving Our Planet: The
Enmdronmental mpact of the
Wireless Revolution’

See Arthur Firstenberg’s website:
cellphonetaskforce.ong

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ENZ0 MARTUCCI

Review:

‘The Red Sect’ by
Enzo Martucci

“Communism, Marxist or
Kropotkinian, of whatever kind or
rand, can never achieve uriversal
conformity and & wonid of identical
Ppuppets. But to maintain e, i wil
always have to be based on
imposition and violence, on police
forces and prisons'

EMartucsi, The Red Sect'

The Red Sect
Enzo Martucci

Union of Egoists & Underworid
Amusements publishers

First published as L Sette Aosain
1953,

‘This short red pocketbook is about
anarchist anticommunism from an
indiidualist anarchist point of view.
Enzo Martuc, from Napoli aly,
19041975, was an legalst.
anarchist and close to indvidualist
nihitst comrades Bruno Fiippi and
Renzo Novatore. This is the first
English language translation of The
Red Sect, which reads as a personal
account of Martucei's interactions,
with Bolshevik authorstarianism,
fascism and his real lfe situated in
the history of tha time, looking over
30 years of revolutionary struggle.

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Mertucei ilustrates the narvative of
the book with recollections of

moments from his own memory, in
‘scenes that give his own libertarian
ideas good space to be written, and

in this way. many of the resuting
themes are universal. Martucei's
book is beautifully written, full of
humour and desply personal.
Translated and edited by Kevin L.
Slaughter. Published September
2023 35 part of the Stand Alane
series. $16 a copy.

unionofegoists com
underworidamusments.com

Review:

‘The Unknown
Revolution:
1917-1921°
by Voline

Kronstadt did not hesitate. On the
ships, in the forts and workshaps:
‘secret meetings were held
elaborate a plan for resistance and
revolt At the same time, dozens of
sailors went every day to Petrograd
where they toured the factories,
workshops and barracks, openly
preaching insurrection.”

Voine, The Unknown Revolution;
19171921"

“The Unknown Revolution: 1917-
1921

Voline, Vsevolod Mikhailovich
Eikhenbaum

PM Pross & Jura Books, 2019
First;published in French as L&
Revolution incannue, in 1947

Previously published in mutiple
volumes, this new needed English
edition completes in one volume the

renowned anarchosyndicalst.
Voline's ful texts of his accounts of
an anarchist participating i the
Russian revolution. Voine, 1882-
1945, was bom Vsevolod
Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum in
Voronezh, Russia. and was a
committed revolutionary nd activist.
Voline wrote this book several tmes
but for it o be lost or destroyed
during the upheavals of the era, anly
for him to finally complete the work
later when he had left Russia. This is
& firsthand historical account of the
years leading up to the ascendancy
of the Bolshevik dictatorship, with an
account of the saior's insurrection in
Kronstadt against Red tyranny. his
subsequent imprisonment. his
personal relationship with Nestor
Mahkno and Voline’s part in the
Mahknovist struggle in Ukraine. plus
his reports of the peasants and
workers scruggles against
centralised authoritarian power and
the repression that followed. The
authorial voice of ‘The Unknown
Revolution’ gives an accourt of a
‘hidden’ social revolution, conducted
from the grassroots and
horizontaly, and how that akenative:
was violently suppressed by the
Bolsheviks. Voline draws heaviy from
revolutionary press circulating at the
time and the lessons within this book
are valuable for all social movements
and fbertarians. Voline died in Paris
shortly after the end of WWII, as a
vocal opponent of Platformism, the
organisational form later proposed
by his comrades Nestor Mahkno,
Peter Arshinov and others, in exile.
“This book includes a detailed and
comprehensive introduction by lain
MacKay and foreword by Rudolf
Racker. £28.99 a copy from PM
Press.

pmpressorguk
jurabooks au
Southeast Asian
Anarchist Library

In time of pandemic and insurrection
anarchists are out in the streets in
Yangon, Bangkok, Jakarta, Kuala
Lumpur, and Metro Manila.
Anarchism in Southeast Asia is only a
izl more than thirty years old as
anarchism was totally demobilized
and eradicated in the region in the
early 20th century. Stil anarchism
re-emerges as the regon's people.
ook for liberatory frameworks.

To match increased libertarian
‘militancy in Southeast, Asia (SEA),
The Anarchist Library now offers the
Southeast Asian Anarchist Library as
& site to collect and colate anarchist.
terature from the region or in the.
regional languages.

The SEA Library is a multilingual
brary that refiects the mutingual
‘and plural diversity of the Southeast
Asian region. Here you can find texts
n Engish, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa
Melayy, Tagalog, Bisays (Cebuanc),
Thai, Vietnamese, and Mandarin. The
Library curates new texts through
@SEAanarkis on Twitter.

As afree platform. you can add new
texts to the SEA Library that you
think ought be on the platform. An
‘acoount is not needed. The criteria of
the SEA Library is that these texts
have to have something to do wich
the libertarian and antsstatist

movement from or about Southeast
Asia or such a text in an indigenous.
regional language.

The SEA Library is also looking for
volunteers for transiation and
acquisition of new texts. For example,
the SEA Librory currently does not.
have texts in Burmese, Lao, or
Khmer. The SEA Librery would
appreciat volunteers that can help
the fbrery expand s collection.
Another pending task is transieting
the user interface of the SEA Library
into indigenous languages.

1fyou would ke to help out, you can
email the SEA Library at:

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You can also hap in The Anarchist
Library IRC where the iibrarians of
the SEA Library also hang out.

The future of anarchism in Asia is
bright. New anarchist and ibertarian
collectiviies sprout yeary.

Where there is authonity there is
resistance to it and @ Southeast
Asian Anarchist Library is a project
that can help build that miltancy.
For a Southeast Asian anarchism!

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Negazine #2

70 puges. Conceived, written and edited by Alfredo,
Annalisa, Fabio, Jean, Mariangela and Nico. English

What is the
Cassa
Antirepressione
delle Alpi
Occidentali?

The Cassa AntiRepressione delle Alpi
Occidentali (Wester Alps Anti-
Repression Fund) was borm in the
Autumn of 2000, aiming to coordinate

some anarchist collectives and
individualities operating in the Alps

and Piedmont area, collecting

financial resources destined to anti-
ind solidarity campaigns in
favour of prisoners connected to these
collectives by friendship and/or
affinity. The premises starting this
intact to these days - are

initiative
the need to persevere and be constant
inthe resistance against repression’s
attacks and ensure that those hit by
repression, by ending up in jail or
otherwise, can find contact and
support from groups and individuals
€ 10 the issue of prison and
who do not consider the Law as a
value in itself, Well aware that the
activity of resistance in itself is not

enough, and never wishing (o rel
our tensions against a society th
builds laws and barred windows o a
that to be an important aspect,
indivisible from other practices and
methods geared towards the same
objectives and against the same

ctivism, we nonetheless think

encmies.

In our opinion, only complementarity
among different types of intervention
can lead to @ more complete and
incisive struggle against repression.
1o cut a long story short, with a solid
base that remains constant over
we believe it is possible to jump into

more precise and effective critical
interventions against repression and
the system generating and managing it

We have leamed that also from the
experiences of movemens similar to

translation by Jean. Drawings by Ugo Pi ours, in other countries and other

T Cover inspired by the original lalian version by Marco COMEXS of struggle. The criteia in
e Formaioni. Original tile: Negazine — 2 — 2018, choosing interventions or situations
Edizioni Anarchismo, Triese, ltly 2018, and prisoners to whom address our
contributions were never adopted
20 clephanteditions.net following a rigid scheme of

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evaluation: being a locally managed
shared by comrades

ly not too distant from
a constant debate has

each other),
been possible throughout time and

following indications of situations o
which we could offer our support,
there has been a consensus decision on
whether to infervene or not. It is
important to highlight that — our
resources not being unlimited — the
Fund cannot always contribute in
continual manner towards each
prisoner contacted: from time to time,
therefore, there has to be an evaluation
of priorities.

‘We have distributed money among
revolutionary prisoners, rebel inmates,
and prisoners in particularly “needy
situations reported to us by other

prisoners,or also among “common
criminals” fro

neighbourhoods, which we have
personally known and with whom we
entertain ties of friendship and estecs

our towns or

We have also contributed with benefits
in favour of other Funds or similar
projects here and in other countries
(Iberian peninsula, Palestine,
Argentina, Greece, Kurdistan, Russia,
Chile) infervening in solidarity
campaigns in favour of situations or
individuals hit by judicial enquis

and arrest warrans, or o hep the
families of people detained sustain
ravel expenses to visit them or to
cover lawyers’ fees. Inaddition to
economic contributions, the moni
from the Fund are used to publish info.
materials and to organize evens,
initatives and interventions; they also
cover managing expenses for its own
info space (buying and sending books
and publications to prisoners).

The Fund collects the revenue of
support events, contributions and
subseriptions (also from comrades
abroad) and the income from the sale
of self-produced materials.

Management of the
rotation st the comrades
involved: a crteria which, we think, is
still appropriate 5o that responsibilties
and commitments do not rest always
on the same persons and so that the
activity of the Fund is not affected by
personal or judicial vicissitudes.

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‘The choice of creating this tool has
revealed very useful, in the light of the
contacts and relationships which it
allowed to create with a good number
of prisoners scattered among prisons
of several States and for the frequent
‘occasions in which the possibility o
have funds to distribute has allowed us
o quickly intervene in
situations.

nergency

Morcover, the initiatives taken have
allowed us to widen the discussion
about repression, jail and.
revolutionary solidarity, also in
contexts and places where such topics
are not always taken for granted.

We therefore believe that maintaining
and reproducing (also in other areas)
Tocal resistance Funds can prove to be
an important part in the growth of a
constant, effective and diffused anti-
repressive activity.

Many routes, one single horizon
Freedom!

Cassa AntiRep
/o Biblioteca Popolare Rebeldies
via Savona, 10

12100 Cunco (ltaly)

cassantirepalpi@autisticiorg

KSL: Bulletin of the

Kate Sharpley Library
No. 116, December
2024

Contents include:
Salvador Puig Antich: Verdict
overturned. "After years of
campaigning by his sisters, the
Spanish government overturned the
verdict on the 16th October 2024,"

Licia Pincli (19282024 by the
Centro Studi Libertari / Archivio G
Pinelli “We willsurely remember her
sreat determinaion and
extraordinary commitment
throughout her life in the struggle
for ruth and justice - not only
regarding the fute of her husband
Pino Pinelli - that made her an
oussanding figure in the history of
iwenticth-century ltay.”

Katesharpleylibrary.net

tameio.net /\

Solidarity Fund for
Imprisoned and
Persecuted
Revolutionaries

‘The Solidarity Fund for Imprisoned
and Persecuted Revolutionaries was
“born” 14 years ago from within the
renks of the anarchist ant-
authoritarian movement. From then
untiltoday the Fund has had an
uninterrupted and diverse presence
in the history of the movement in
Greece. From the open, nationwide
‘assembly of the structure, dozens of
Gomrades have passed through and
‘actively participated, whie today the
Fund consists of two sub-assemblies,
in Athens and Thessaloniki
Throughout these years, the
structure of the Fund has provided
material support to dozans of
poliical prisoners and persecuted
revolutionaries. And it has managed
%0 do this continuously and on a
monthly basis. In addition to the
financial support to the prisoners,
‘captives of the social/class war: the
structure attempts to support
poliically the comrades who are
inside the walls, with events all over
Greece, solidarity actions, presence
in the adjacent courts.

A a Solidarity Fund we are made of
the flesh of the radical movement.
‘The people who participate in ts
‘assemblies come from it and act
poliically within i. The resources of
the structure are resources that;
‘come from the practical soidarsy of
‘our poitical milieu in Greece and
‘abroad) with prisoners. Through our
publications, our events of al kinds,
we try to raise the necessary funds
for the monthly financial support of
our incarcerated comrades. ..

tameio.net
Mutual Aid

Prisoner
Address list

Wriing o prisoners i an important
part of our solidarity keeping our
comrades in touch with what's
happening outside and letting them
know they are supportad by a vast
movement. of indviduals and groups
that are not going to leave them
alone insida the prison. Our
imprisoned comrades are side-by-
side with us outside, and we're going
0 stop at nothing to free them, soin
the first instance we're going to try
to make thase walls smaller. Guides
on writing to prisoners can be found
through the intemational groups of
the Anarchist Black Cross. I you are
writing to prisoners it can be useful
to contact ABC or other anti-
repression groups to coordinate
campaigns for better access to
correspondence, ing conditons,
et Don't write anything in the
letters that could cause problems
for you or the imprisoned comrades
and think about what you are writing,
anything you write could be used in @
legal context. Always check current
addresses. Apologies to the many
prisoners we didn’ lst for reasons
of space. Soldanty abways!

Spain

Amadeu Casellas Remon
In 1976 Amadeu came into contact
with anarchism and began a proliic
career a5 a bank robber. The money
went 1o different causes and he
s00n earned the nickname "Robin
Hood". He was first imprisoned in
1979 and has since been in and out
of prison over the years, serving long
sentences. After having exceeded
his maximum sencence he began &
hunger strike with the support of
comrades from the Anarchist Black
Cross and the CNT. Amadeu was
released in 2010, in poor health but
full of strength. Unfortunately, in
June 2019 Amadeu returned to
prison, accused of participating in a
theft of 300,000 eurcs, a fact he
has always denied. In an interview he
gave at the end of December he

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stated that prisons “have gone back
30 0r 40 years in rights”. He
remained behind bars, on remand,
for about two years. But. after his
trial(in which he was asked to serve

8 years in prison), the Provincial
Court,decided to release him,
waiting for the sentence to ba
passed and for it to become final
Finally,he was sentenced to 4 years
in prison. Amadeu had to go back to
prison in June 2023

Amadeu Casellas Ramon
CPBrians

08365 Sant Esteve de Sesrovires
Spain

Germany

Benni
Benniis accused of throwing a
molotov at USK Dachau (German
poice unit) on Day X n Leipaig during
the protests in response to the
verdict in the Antifa Ost trial. In
addition to the thousandfold charge
of “particularly serious breach of the
pesce” for simply taking part in the
demonstration, he s accused of
attempted murder

Joris Ben Jonas
VA Leipzig
Leinestrabe 111
04279 Leipzig
Germany

Italy

Luca Dolce
Luca ‘Stecco’ was arrested in 2023
after being on the run for two years.
Luca has several final sentences, is
involved in ongoing legal cases and is
‘accused of possessing false ID and
collaborating with anarchist Juan
Sorroche whilst he was on the run
also,

Luca Dalce
CC di Sanremo
strada Armea 144
18038 Sanremo (IM)
tealy

Juan Antanio Sorroche Fernandez
Juan went underground in 2017
after a warrant for his arrest was
issued. He was sentenced to one-
year imprisonment for false identity
onthe occasion of an inspection in
Val Clarea (Val di Susa). With mare
trials open and several extra years in
prison, he decided to go
underground and released a
communique. Juan was arrested
again on May 22, 2019 in Brescia
nd eccused of associetion with the
aim of terrorism and / or the
overthrow of the democratic order.
terrorist act with deadly and
explosive devices, massacres
(5285) for the attack against the.
party office of “Lega Nord" in Treviso
in August 2018, a5 well as the
passession of forged documents
(5497bie) and carrying weapons
(due to a smal knife, §4 of the Law
110/75) accused.

Juan Antonio Sorroche Fernandez
C.C.di Terni

strada delle Campore 32

05100 Terni - Iraly

Chile

Aldo Hernandez Valdés
Aldo was arrested on 22 December
2022, sccused of attacking the
National Directorete of Gendarmerie
with an explosive device in
December 2021, He is charged with
the ettack and 16 counts of
attempted homicide, as there were
prison guards in the building at the
time of the detonation, and charges
of possession of weapons and
ammuniion during the raid. Under
investigation, awaiting tiel.

Aldo Hernandez Valdés
Complejo Penienciario Rancagua -
Modulo 2

Calle La Gonzalina s/n

Rancague. Region O'Higgins

Chile

Juan Aliste Vega
Marcelo Vilarroel, Freddy Fuentevila
and Juan Aliste Vega were arrested
in 2009 after a long international
manhunt, accused of the robbery of
& Santander Bank and the murder of
a cop in Octaber 2007. On July 2.
2014, the 3 comrades were.
sentenced in their absence, having
refused to assist in the judicial show.
Juan was sentenced to 18 years for
the homicide plus 10 years for
attempted homicide, with another
14 years for the assauit on
Santander Bank in Valparaisa and
Banco Security

Juan Aliste Vega
Compiejo Penitenciario Rancagua -
Mdulo 1

Calle La Gonzaiina s/n

Rancagus. Region O'Higgins.

Chile

Juan Fiores Riqueime
Juan Flores is serving @ sentence of
23 years, having been convicted by
the Chilean state for incendiary
aitacks in 2014 claimed by the,
Conspiracy of Cells of Fire &
International Conspiracy of Revenge.
On July 23, 2014 & CCF cell bombed
“The Dominicans” station of the
Santiago Metro, and on September
8,2014 8 shopping mall in Las.
Condes, In both instances,
measures were taken to ensure the
bombs would nat hurt anyone, but in
the former a bag containing the
bomb was moved by a Metro
employee, and in the latzer the police
ignored a warning call the CCF cell
made10 minutes before the bomb
was setto go off. As a resul, the
sttacks ended up injuring people. 50
the Chilean state was able to claim
they were meant to terrorize the
population. and used an ant-
terrorism law to obtain maximum
sentencing on March 15, 2078 after
proclaiming Juan guity of both
attacks.

Juan Flores Riquelme
Complejo Penicenciario Rancagua -
Méduio 1

Calle La Gonzalina 5/n

Rancagus, Regién O'Higgins

Chile

Monica & Francisco
Inthe early hours of Friday, 24 July
2020, & number of searches took
place in Santiago, Chile, and two.
anarchists, Francisco Solar and

Monica Caballero, were arrested,
‘accused of several actions with
explosive devices between 2019 and
2020. Specifically, both are acoused
of the double explosive attack that
ook place inside the Tanica buiding,
a former Transocednica real estate
‘agency, in the wealthy municipaliy of
Vitacura, on 27 February 2020, an
action claimed by the Afinidades.
Armadas en Revuelta (Armed
Affinities in Revolt). Francisco s also
‘accused of the shipment of two
parcel bombs: the first against
police station of Huchuraba, in the
northern area of Santiago, which on
25 July 2019 caused the injury of
eight policemen; the second to the
offices of Guinenco, against the
former Minister of the Interior
Rodrigo Hinzpeter, in the municipality
of Las Condes, which arrived on the
same date but was defused.

Francisco Solar Dominguez
Complejo Penienciario Rancagua -
Modulo 2

Calle La Gonzalina s/n

Rancagua, Region O'Higgins

Chile

Morica Caballero Sepilveda
Centro de prision preventva de
‘mujeres de San Miguel

San Francisco 4756, San Miguel
Region Metropoltana:

Chile. g

Turkey

Osman Evean
Osman, born in 1959 in Sar
an anarchist prisaner who sp
st 23 yoars in prison. On 19
was sentenced to 30 years in p
with the charges of being a mermber
of aleftst terrorist group and
robbery. He was also imprisoned for
9 years between 19801989, Since
Osman adopted anarchist deas in
2003, he also became vegan and
supports animal iberation struggles.
Osman Evcan was imprisoned in
many prisons allover the country
during his conviction. He built his Ife
fighting against authoritarian
violence and especialy the viokence
and oppression which s & systemic
part of the prison's hierarchical
structure, and he st continues his

fight against prison's.
oppressive mentalty, without giving
n inch, aspiring to the right
standards for anarchist. vegan,
libertarian individuals. The worst.
scenario for his release is 2028,

Osman Evcan
Marmara Ceza Infaz

Kurumiar Kampisd

Siluri Kapal1 Ceza Infaz

Kurumu A841 Silivri / Ostanbul
Turkey

USA

Marius Mason
Longtime activist in the.
environmental and lsbour
movements. In March 2008, he was
arrested by federal authorities for
charges related to two acts of anti-
biotechnology property destruction
by the Earth Liberation Front that
occurred in 1999 and 2000; no ane.
was injured in either of them. He
accepted a plea bargain and was
sentenced on February 5, 2009 to
ust under 22 years. He is now
serving the longest sentence of any
‘Green Scare" prisoner:

Danbury, CT 06811
United States

Bl Dunne.

Bil Dunne is an anarchist who was.
arvested in 1979 when he
attempted to free fellow
revolutionary Artie Ray Dufur: Bil
recelved an BOyear federal prison
sentence. In 1983, 8ill attempted to
escape prison and was sentenced to
a further 15 years in prison.

Bl Dunne #10916:086
FCl Victorvile Medium |

POBox 3725

Adelanto, California 92301, USA

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0so Blanco (Byron Chubbuck)
050 Blanco is an indiganous actiist
originally serving B0 years in prison
for & series of bank expropriations
throughout the southwest in 1998-
1999, In 2016, 25 years were taken
off his sentence when he won his.
Johnson v. US. Appeal. He is part of
the wlf clan Cherokee/Chactaw,
reised in New Mexico. His indigenous
name is Oso Blanco or Yona Unega
in Cherokee. He was known to the
F8I as Robin the Hood because he
informed the bank tellers he was.
expropriating funds to assist the
paor and indigenous people fighting
for independence in the southern
Mexican stat of Chispas.

Byron Shane Chubbuck .
#07908051 ’
USP Victorvile
PO.B0x 3900
Adelanto, CA 92301
United States

Xinachti (Alvaro Hernan
Xinochtiiis a ChicanoMesicar
‘anarchist poiticsl prisoner
sentenced to 50 years In prison for
‘aggravated ssault on an officer
when he disarmed a sherif
attempting to shoat him. Since in
‘Apri 2016, he has been going by his
‘chosen name Xinachti, which is
Nahuati for seed

Alvaro Hernandez
4255735

McCannell Unit

3001 South Emily Drive.
Beevile, TX 78102
United States,

Greece

Christos Rodopoulos
On July B, RO16, the Korydallos
prison court - presided over by
special judge Asimina Yfenti -
Gonvicted all members of the
‘anarchist revolutionary organisation
Conspiracy of Cels of Fire CCF) to
long sertences. One of the last
imprisoned CCF members, Christos
Rodopouios was sentenced to 75
years in prison for multiple actions
s part of the revolutionary
organisation

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Christos Rodopoulos
Sofronistiko Ketastima Domokou
TK35010

Domokos

Fehiotida

Greece

Christos Tsakalos
Christos Tsakalos, a member of the
CCF, has been released since few
years, after having served part of his
sentence for cases related to CCF
actity during the years 20082011
In April 2024 he was again arrested
and attempts are made by cops and
judicial system to connect him with
‘some recent atzacks and being part
of aiew "terrorist organization”.

istos Tsakalos,

stikes Fylakes Nafpliou

fplic, Argolida, 21100
ece

Nikos Maziotis
Nikos is imprisoned for the many
atacks and actions in the case of
the revolutionary organisation -
Revolutionary Struggle, and was
captured after g shootout with
police in downtown Athens, where
he was injured. Nikos was sentenced
to 137 years in total. Pola Roup,
‘companera of Nikos, remains under
judicial controls on parole for her
partin RS,

Nikos Maziotis

Dikastiki Filaki Domokou
DWING

Domokos

TK. 35010 Fhiotidas, Greece

Konstantinos ‘Dinos’ Giagtzoglou
Anarchist. comrade Konstantinos
Giegtzoglou was arrested on 28th
Qctober 2017, while exiting a hideout
rented by him under a folse identity
and while transferring guns and
explosive materials. Dinos is accused
of being @ member of the Conspiracy
of Cels of Fire and for sending
parcel bombs to various E.U. officials
including the former prime minister
of Greece, Loukas Papadimos. The
cops’ accusations are based on a
mixed DNA sample and on the fact

that Dinos was visting a former
anarchist prisoner of CCF in
Korydallos prison in early 2013. The
comrade stated that both renting the
flat and transferring the equipmant
were part of revolutionary solidarity”
and denies all other charges. Dinos
was sentenced to a total of 11 years
and 2 months’ prisan without parole.

Konstantinos Giagezoglou
Dikestiki Fylaki Korydalou
Ediki Preryga

TK. 18110

Korydallos, Athens
Greece

Dimitris Hatzivassiliadis.
Since October 2019, sfter being
injured during the expropriation of a
betting shop in Holargos (Athens),
Dimitris Hatzivasiliadis has been i
clandestinity.In the first trial for this
case, he was sentenced in absentia to
16 years. On 8 August 2021, the
fugitive comrade was arrested in
‘Thessaloniki,in an attempt to
expropriate bank. His capture
occurred not due to the manhunt,
carried out by the police and their
counter-insurgency techniques but by
pure chance. Since then, he has been
held in Domokas prison, accused of
multiple cases of expropriations and
for his participation in the
“Organization for Revolutionary Self-
Defence’ (0AS)

In 2022 at the first trial for the
expropriation of Thessaloniki he was
sentenced to 13 years and 8 months.
On January 2023 in the 2nd trial for
the expropriation in Holargos and for
his participation in the DAS, he was
sentenced to 14 years. At the
moment he is waiting for the decision
of the supreme court, for the merging
of his final sentences.

Dimitris Hetzivassiliadis
Dikastiki Flaki Domokou DWING
‘TK. 35010 Domokos Fhiotidas.
Greece

Nikos Romanos
Nikos Romanas is detsined after his
DNA fingerprint appeered on a bag
containing a pistol in the rubble of the
apartment in Ambelokipi, Athens
which was destroyed by the bomb
which kiled Kyriakos Ximitiris. Or at
least, this is the tale told by the
Greek antierrorist unit. Nikos
denies allthe charges and maintains
that his arrest is a vengeful and
ynical move.

Nikos Romanos
Korydallos Prison

TK. 18122 Korydallos Athens,
Greece

Fotis Daskales
Fotis was arrested for the Molotov
ookl attack against the Piraeus
traffic police on 14 November 2021
He was charged with ettempted
murder, arson, association to
‘commit arson, manufacture of
explosives and possession of
explosive and incendiary materials.

Fotis Daskalas
Korydallos Prison

TK. 18122 Korydallos Athens,
Greece

Fotis Tziotzis
Fotis was arrested on 12 May 2015
and charged with armed robbery
and stzempted murder against DIAS
police (motorbike rapid unit). A
month after his arrest. a snitch, also
scoused of involvement in the
robbery, accused Fois of the
robbery and had confirmed
everyehing the policemen told him
The lost pieces of the puzzie were
completed by the testimonies of
some “good Gitizens” and the cops
themselves. In the summer of 2024,
comrade Fatis faced punishment,
with one more transfer from the
prison of Domokos to the infamous
prison of Grevena, which mostly
acoepts prisoners for rape of minors
and humen trafficking. In an
operation of the so<alled
“dismanting terronst organization”
carried out by the antierror unt, he
ot accused of involvement i it

Fotis Tziotzis
Katastima Kratisis Grevenon
G1 Atina

Fell, Grevena

51100

Greece

Kostas Sakkas
Kostas was arrested on 4
December 2010 in the Nea Smirni’
case (possession of weapons and
‘explosives), In January 2014 he was
released on bail and went into hiding,
In December 2014 he was
sentenced in absentia to 16 years.
He was arrested again together with
Merios Seisidis in August 2016 and
sentenced to 2 years and 9 months
for using forged identity documents
‘and number plates, vehicle theft and
disobedience to authorities. On 12
June 2018, Kostas was arrested in
Thessaloniki together with Giannis,
Dimitraks and Dimitra Syrianou,
during the expropriation of a cash
transporter truck that was refiling
‘an ATM at the AHEPA university
hospital. Kostas was sentenced to 7
years and 10 menths.

Kostas Sakkas
Olkastik Fylaki Korydallou -
APreryga, TK 18110

Korydallos Athens, Greece

Mearios Seisidis
Comrade Marios has been accused
of mutiple robberies, forgery and
finall of ‘attempted murder in
‘connection with one of the.

robberies. Finall, after a long history
of struggle and solidarity with many
‘comrades, some af them in hiding.
Marios has been sentenced to 36
years of imprisonment. The court did
not accept the request of the
defendant's lawyer for a suspended
sentence unti the second degree
court nor did it acoept any mitigating
circumstances for Marios Seisidis.

Mearios Seisidis
Dikastiki Fyloki Korydallou
A - Prerygs, TK 18110,
Korydlos, Athens,
Greece

Vaggelis Stathopoulos
On Friday, Noverber 8, 2019, the
anarchist comrade Vangelis
Stathopoulos was arrested in
Athens on the pretest of having
participated in o robbery in Holargos
on Octaber 21 of the same year: The
net day. it is announced that he is
also accused of participating i the

‘Organization for Revolutionary Self-
Defence’ (same as Dimicris
Hatzivsiladis). The comrade denies
thet he belongs to this organization,
although he declares that he
participates in and s part of the
anarchist movement. In Apri 2021,
the trial against Vaggelis and threa
Gther comrades took place, Vaggels
was sentenced to 19 years in prison
without appeal.

Vaggelis Stathopoulos
Dikastiki Fylaki Larissas
TK 413 34 Larissa,
Greece

Indonesia

Sidi
Sidiq is an anarchistindvidualist and
anillegaist. He was caught with kios
of cannabis and is accused of supply.
Sidiq is part of publishing collactives
and street protests, he writes
poetry and likes football Sidq is
looking at ten year sentence. Sidq
can understand and write in Engish.

Muhammad llyas Sidiq
Lapas [prison) Kebonwaru, Kec.
Batununggal, Kota Bandung, Jawa
Barat.

40272

Biok B14 (Narkoba)

Indonesia

UK & Ireland

John Paul Wootzon
John Paul Wootzon is a vegan
anarchist prisoner and WW,/IWOC
member, wrongfully comvicted of the
murder of a polce officer in the
“Craigavon 2" case after a trial
before a “Diplock” court. a secret
miltary court with no jury. The

case has been supported as a
miscarriage of justice by high profle
campaigners, legal experts & human
rights activists. The prosecution
used discredited winesses,
inconclusive forensics, and
tampered evidence to secure
conviction that does not stand up
%o scrutiny. British security services
destroyed evidence and intimidated
witnesses and defence lowyers.

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John Paul Waatton
Braid House

HM Prison Maghaberry

17 01d Road, Lisburn, 8T28 2PT
Ieeland

Ryan Roberts

Ryan Roberts is an anarchist
imprisoned for the Kil The Bl riot in
Bristol 2021 and is doing 14 years
in prison for multiple charges.

Ryan Roberts
AS1SSEM
HMP Swaleside
Brabazon Rd
Eastehurch

Isle of Sheppey
ME12 4AX
United Kingdom

Ross Smith
Ross is a social prisoner imprisoned
for passession of & hand grenade
and a Skorpion submachine gun.
Ross is anarchorinilist. Loves Dada,
art, music, ecology, the wild. Ross will
have done 22 years by the time he is
released.

Ross Smith
A36590T

HVIP Garth
Ulnes Walton
Leyland

PR26 BNE
United Kingdom

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Alfredo Maria
Bonanno
(1937 -2023)

Above: Image from an event to
remember Alfredo at Gircolo
Cuttursle Anarchico Gogliardo
Fiaschi, Carrara, kaly, December
8eh 2024,

Alife of deeds and words.
1 remember the first time | found the
little pamphlet, Armed Joy, over
twenty years ago now., at a soidarity
event at an anarchist squat in
Hackney Wick, London, and the
influence it had on myway of thinking
and relating to the system, the
society, my comrades and others
‘around me. Armed Joy, for which
Alfredo was sentenced to prison for
two years, speaks directly.

For many, it was lie this, he spoke to
them accurately about their
experience- you could have
disagreements, but what was clear
was that any response was firstofall
a challenge to put one's ideas into
practice, immediately.

For others, well, they did find his
work disagreeable, or claimed
incomprehensible. too dense, and so
were never rewarded with the
insights that his persistence held.

Ah wel,their loss, as well as for the
‘anarchist movement’, with al its
tandencies and fragmentations.

The impact of the lfe of anarchist
‘comrade Alfredo Bonanno is stained
in the pages which record the
actions of the most fertile parts of
the real movement, and will remain
50. Always in the questioning and
tense parts of practical dialogue.

Words cease, dynamie does not
suffice... Anon

2000 Dirty
Squatters
Film

Europe’s most notorious punk
outlaws take you on a journey
through the no-go areas o the
world. Life & Death on the road
with the 2000 Dirty Squatters.

Formed by two teenage brothers
from the Welsh Valleys, 200005
travelled the world, sometimes in
tandem with other collectives like
the Mutoid Waste Company &
Spiral Tribe. At the tail end of the
1980’ there was stilla large
squatters network in the cities of
Europe & North America. In a
convoy of strange mutated
vehicles 2000DS toured the world
with their family at breakneck
speed, playing gigs, having fights
and often being chased and
beaten by the police.

amphetamine-fuelled Drug Squad
police officers, batons in hand,
‘bearing down on the buses.
Windows smashed, doors kicked
in. A shrill women’s voice. This is
our home, there are babies in
here. The blackening of eyes. The
dragging of hair. Earrings torn
from lobes. Delirio Sinfonico. Two
thousand Deserted Sunsets. Two
thousand miles from Cwmbran,
the valley of the crows. Onwards
to Hackney, Notting Hill,to Berli,
to Stubnitz ROS-701, to LA, NYC,
to Milan, to a petrol station
outside Bristol at half-three in the

dirtysquattersfilm.com

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