de.indymedia,21 January 2024

[Switch off] Rail strike extended

We took advantage of the back-to-back strikes and protests to paralyze the rail tracks near Düsseldorf in the Eller district again two weeks ago, using an incendiary device. They could not be repaired before the start of the freight strike. The fact that the State Protection Service (Staatsschutz) is now leading the investigation shows us the potential that such simple means can develop with the right timing.

We believe that a state that destroys our means of subsistence and profits from imperialist wars is not worth protecting at all. On the contrary, we must protect ourselves from it.

While some confuse politics with accounting and have set up their CO2 calculator as the only moral compass, and others are still wondering whether we’re asking too much of the good citizen with hot glue and mashed potatoes, we’re hurtling unchecked towards the sixth mass extinction. Meanwhile, over a hundred species are disappearing every day. Every single day.

For us, the needs of the natural world are no longer negotiable. To defend them, we need coordinated resistance through underground networks.

At the same time, we need to develop or rediscover alternative ways of producing and living that can mitigate the growing failures of the system over the coming decades. But alternatives are no substitute for opposition. Anyone who, after millennia of expulsion and genocide of indigenous societies, still believes that the system will tolerate any alternative alongside it, is naive.

It’s equally naive to think, after millennia of technological escalation and resource extraction, that we can draw a line somewhere and say, “Up to here and no further! Let’s keep it that way!” Containing certain destructive techniques or defending certain places is useful of course, but defensiveness is no substitute for offense.

The world will only be able to breathe when more than a hundred companies and groups go bankrupt every day. Every single day.

The Angry Birds Commando salutes all revolutionary forces.

Angry Birds Commando

Note: in May 2023, this same group had already claimed responsibility for five incendiary attacks on railroad signal cables in the Düsseldorf region.

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via: sansnom
Translated by Act for freedom now!