“It’s unavoidable: sooner or later, every individual committed to revolt and every autonomous struggles will face repression, whether directly or its threat. It’s crucial to always keep repression (in the broadest possible sense) at mind, exploring possible ways of resisting it, and even logistically preparing for it before it strikes, but we must always connect it back to repressive social relations as a whole and their underlying tensions and conflicts. There’s no doubt that we need to organize material support for arrested or imprisoned comrades, but this is not solely a logistical issue.
Understanding repression as merely one obstacle to our struggle and not an insurmountable barrier is not an easy task. We’re not just talking about possibly spending years behind bars but also everything related to “preventive” repression, surveillance, and prosecution in the broadest sense. Today, and probably even more so tomorrow, we must appeal to our creativity and imagination to break free from repression’s stranglehold, but this, as we’ve already said, is less of a logistical question of capacity and more of a matter of perspectives, ideas, and projects forged in the struggles we fight every day.”
On Trial — “Sur le banc des accusés,” originally published in Salto: subversion & anarchie, #2, 2012
Repression & Its World — “La répression et son petit monde,” originally published in Subversions: revue anarchiste de critique sociale, #1, 2012