Internationalist solidarity with comrade Salvatore Vespertino Ghespe
As a minimal signal of solidarity, banners were placed in Kypseli, Patisia, Exarchia, Neapolis, and Victoria area in Athens
On February 15, anarchist comrade Salvatore Vespertino (Ghespe), who had been a fugitive for the last 2 years or so, was arrested in Madrid. According to the regime, his arrest was the result of cooperation between the authorities of various countries, including Greece.
We present the second part of this winter’s double-issue (part i here), and a separate version of the covers if you’re printing yourself. Contents follow:
Green Anarchy in the UK
(posing the old question anew)
L’Espoir C’est La Lutte
(strategy for subversive encounters)
‘The Position of the Excluded’
& ‘Thrown Out of the Troika of History to the Wolves of Memory’
The Kanak Insurrection and the Nickel Industry
(anti-colonial uprising in the age of “green” energy)
Calling It Terror
& ‘A Lose-Lose Situation’
Avoiding the ‘Peaceful Protest’ Trap
(getting street-wise for the coming round of confrontations)
Follow the Fires
& ‘Identity Precedes Ideology’
Beyond the Screen, the Stars
& We Close the Door
Poems for Love, Loss and War
Memory as a Weapon
(a window into mind-sets of revenge and pleasure in (pre-)revolutionary times)
Rebels Behind Bars
(text by prisoners & repression news)
Wounded Healers
(review: Derrick Jensen’s ‘Anarchism & the Politics of Violation’)
The Darkness Criticizes the Wolf for Howling at the Moon
(countering revisionism in anti-authoritarian spiritualities)
…and more!
In coming days, the six supplement zines to this double-chapter will be uploaded and announced, along with other website additions and news.
For a March 8th of memory and struggle,
R.F.
After the hard won battle of getting Marius Mason transferred to a men’s prison the increasingly transphobic state in the so called USA have decided to return him to a woman’s prison.
Marius still has just under two years to serve. An eco, animal lib minded anarchist sentenced with terrorist changes for his involvement in property damage against ecocidal companies. His arrest was part of what’s now known as the ‘green scare’.
Continue reading MARIUS MASON SENT BACK TO A WOMEN’S PRISON AFTER TRUMP’S ANTI TRANSGENDER RULINGS. (USA)
The following dossier contains descriptions of all Joint Munitions Command production, storage, and distribution facilities from the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant to the east coast. It does not include dedicated JMC demilitarization facilities.
Each document is a guide to the facility location, its purpose, its function and known links within military and civilian arms manufacture, and its connection to this wider network via military-designated strategic rail (STRACNET). These facilities are not wholly dependent on rail for shipping, but the nature of the military equipment they produce guarantees that much of it must move by rail between manufacturing locations and to east coast ports for transport to Israel or supporting US installations and vessels in the region.
These facilities covered here are, from west to east:
Continue reading Joint Munitions Command production, storage, and distribution facilities across the USA
Sarantapicho : Taking responsibility for releasing animals
When the country was in the throes of the annual festival of March 25th, we invaded the “game” farm in Sarantapicho and released approximately 200 partridges.
“Prey” is a vile word that reduces beings who came into the world for their own reasons to objects over which man has the right of life and death. We declare that we are fighting this vile normality in practice, which is why we decided to take these beings out of their prison. As we have found, these animals are completely accustomed to human presence and are not afraid. This shows the extent of the perversion of hunters, who kill animals that do not even try to avoid them. We hope that in the time that follows until the next period when the killers will again invade the mountains, these animals will acquire the necessary reflexes for their own protection. These birds also lived in tons of filth along with the carcasses of other dead birds.
“Game farms” are a vile institution that operates to serve the needs of the far-right invertebrate killers called hunters. This particular farm is public, which indicates the full integration of animal killing into state policy.
Continue reading Sarantapicho – mountainous Corinthian village of Peloponnese: Taking responsibility for releasing animals by ALF. (Greece)
State police were called to a storage lot on State Route 370 in the Town of Victory on Feb. 19. They found that two DOCCS buses had been vandalized, with one of them being lit on fire.
The bus that was lit on fire suffered heavy fire damage in its rear portion, state police said.
Another bus was spray-painted with the message, “Can you hear us now.”
Photos of the buses can be seen below:
THAT WHICH GIVES MEANING TO LIFE GIVES MEANING TO DEATH
On 31/10 on the third floor of an apartment in Arcadia Street, during the processing of explosives by my comrade and insurgent Kyriakos Xymitiris, an explosion took place with tragic consequence of his death. Within a few minutes and while I happened to be in the next room, time froze, everything went black and I was unable to move. The condition incomprehensible, the development incomprehensible. Buried in the wreckage trying to figure out what happened.
Asking for help, looking for my partner with my eyes. Slowly realizing that while the thread of my comrade’s action would be abruptly cut, his life and his choices of struggle would be a historic flash of determined resistance, consistency and dedication, a springboard and inspiration for struggle. Two figures appeared offering help while I showed them the spot where I last saw my comrade, the spot where our guilty gazes met, gazes full of anger at the world we live in, full of faith and appetite for moments of true freedom.
Continue reading ‘THAT WHICH GIVES MEANING TO LIFE GIVES MEANING TO DEATH’ – Marianna M. (Greece,Athens)
Seeing the wave of tesla arsons has made us incredibly happy. But we are worried to see that many of these attacks have used molotov’s
-Molotov’s aren’t guaranteed to ignite/explode. There have been many cases where police have recovered intact molotov cocktails from attacks. that is a shitton of forensic evidence that detectives WILL exploit.
Continue reading DONT USE MOLOTOVS: Some notes on safely burning teslas (or other cars)
Warlike, Howling, Pure: book presentation & discussion
Wednesday 9th April, 7pm
Touchpaper Anarchist Library
“From the day when battery-run voices began broadcasting old speeches to battery-run listeners, the beast has been talking to itself. Having swallowed everyone and everything outside itself, the beast becomes its own sole frame of reference. It entertains itself, exploits itself and wars on itself. It has reached the end of its Progress, for there is nothing left for it to progress against except itself.
Leviathan is turning into Narcissus, admiring its own synthetic image in its own synthetic pond, enraptured by its spectacle of itself.
It is a good time for people to let go of its sanity, its masks and armors, and go mad, for they are already being ejected from its pretty polis.”
– Fredy Perlman, Against His-story, Against Leviathan
Anarchists fight against poverty and enslavement, in spiritual as well as material form. Our struggle – which takes freedom and self-responsibility as both means and ends – has been expressed as an ecstatic “Yea to life”, as an unleashing of the “creative nothing” of individual uniqueness, and as “the conquest of life and the realization of our dreams.” Therefore anarchists have always been heretics and blasphemers, deserters of all orthodoxies, enemies of clerics, and sometimes burners of shrines and temples.
But anyone who loves freedom and dignity can find no complicity among atheists who replace religion with the worship of scientific and technological progress – which has colonised and devastated the whole planet to feed its ghostly meat-grinder, the economy.
The author of a new book, “Warlike, Howling, Pure” (Contagion Press, 2024), will present some stories of rebels who have fought against domination, with looted weapons or bare hands, armed also with spiritual convictions that animated their fight against colonisation and domestication.
Touchpaper Anarchist Library
385 Queens Road, London, SE14 5HD
Claim of responsibility for the attack on the Hungarian ambassador’s vehicle outside the Hungarian embassy
The trial of Maja T., a non-binary activist, begins in Budapest on March 6. It is a trial that takes place in the shadow of the
fascism-antifascism conflict in Hungary going on for over a century.
The waves of the Russian Revolution of 1917, which swept through almost all of Europe, manifested themselves in Hungary with the creation of the socialist council democracy that overthrew the bourgeois regime in 1919.
It took the intervention of foreign powers to suppress the revolution
and hand over power to the reactionary General Horthy, who established an authoritarian regime. World War II found Hungary siding with the fascist axis powers.
The looming defeat of fascism led the Horthy regime to secret
negotiations with the Western Allies. Germany anticipated this
development by occupying Hungary in 1944 and establishing a purely Nazi regime of the Crossed Arrows party.
Continue reading Claim of responsibility for the attack on the Hungarian ambassador’s vehicle outside the Hungarian embassy (Athens,Greece)
