via: sansnom Translated by Act for freedom now!
Toulouse: “They refused to be cannon fodder, we will refuse to be drone fodder”.
Communique claiming responsibility for the attack on three electrical transformers in Toulouse on the night of December 2 to 3, 
2024
That night, with light hearts, we wandered around the city in search of a breath of fresh air, a nice encounter, an adventure like only the night knows how to welcome. And as it’s impossible to walk 500 meters in this sad city without coming across one of these industrial horrors at the service of the generalized massacre underway, the adventure quickly presented itself to us. Light-hearted, but never insensitive or resigned, we went looking for a few treasures of our own, which we scattered here and there, so that, with one great BANG, these industries of death would finally power off.
France’s aerospace industry, the largest in Europe (civil and military combined), is home to the majority of the management bodies and operational headquarters of European companies and programs, and covers the entire aerospace technology spectrum (including nuclear ballistics). On a national level, the most important cluster in this sector (educational institutes, research laboratories, production plants, etc.) is located in Toulouse.
We acted on three sites, two in the south and one in the north. We lifted some trap doors, and set fire to the cables they were hiding. In one of the enclosures, we attacked a high-voltage power line where the sheath went underground. No mention of these acts in the media, yet the flames were dancing high when we left the scene, leaving little doubt as to the success of our operation…
We acted on the eve of the annual aerospace and aeronautics show, one of the world’s most important in this field. We hoped to spoil their party. Let them know that the rebels haven’t had their last word! This city is infamous for the proliferation of its death industries, but it has also seen a resurgence of anti-militarist agitation in recent years: demonstrations and rallies, public screenings and discussions, tagging of recruitment offices, disruption of events, unfurling of banners and sticking of anti-war posters on 150 JC Decaux bicycles, towing against the SNU, blocking of high schools against the massacre in Gaza, actions against Thalès, Apside, Carrefour, Latécoère, sabotage of SNCF lines…
With our action, we tried to cut off the juice to part of this “industrial flagship” (aeronautics, armaments, technologies) owned by the French state.
We could just as easily have cut off the electricity to the former SNPE (Héraclès – Ariane) chemical site in the heart of the city, but for fear of recreating the AZF explosion – or reviving the memory of it – we decided against it. What can we say about a world that builds these ticking time bombs, just waiting for a spark to ignite a new industrial catastrophe? Is it in the name of progress, of the promise of a world free of disease, that we see the earth being poisoned a little more every day? What irony!
On the other hand, we didn’t particularly want to impact the residents of the neighboring districts. But the way things are organized leaves us little choice. Faced with their wars of conquest and colonization, of inter-state rivalry and control over the raw materials essential to the mutation of capitalism, we’ve chosen our side. Faced with their industrial wars against rivers and oceans, against mountains and ice caps, from the subsoil to the stars, we have chosen our side. Faced with their social wars against the exploited, against women, against the marginalized, against the deserters of gender and race, against the indigenous, we have chosen our side. Faced with their technological wars against what grows and what resists the machine, we have chosen our side. Against their wars: our side is that of solidarity, of struggle, of mutual aid, of the offensive and of rebellious love against all states, all industries, all massacres of the living… and of freedom.
Conflict is spreading, with Russia and NATO promising a third world war. So, faced with this unstable world, don’t we want to ask ourselves a few questions? How much longer can we afford to look the other way, or be content with a meagre humanitarian contribution? How do we intend to react if the conflict gets closer? If, as the state plans, military service is reinstated, and a whole category of people is sent off to war? That the factories and offices where you work are requisitioned and put at the service of this same war? Do we know where military supply convoys pass through? Do we know how to heal people? Do we want to rely on the state to guarantee our well-being, when it has proved time and again that this is not its primary concern? After all, if it doesn’t hesitate to expose us to industrial risks, why would it be more concerned about our well-being in the event of war?
There are still old-timers who remember the times when the word war was not a distant abstraction. People have always had to resist their rulers’ desire to go to war. We cannot escape this. They refused to be cannon fodder, we will refuse to be drone fodder. Far from wishing to sound alarmist, this is an invitation to reflect, to discuss, to refuse passivity. Talk to your neighbor, in line at the bakery, after the next war movie you see. Talk away from eavesdroppers (telephones are ears!). Ask yourself who you can count on, and how you can defend yourself against those who might do you harm. We may not be able to “change the world”, but we can still control our own lives.
We couldn’t end this communique without sending all the warmth of our incendiary night to the compas in Greece and elsewhere who are suffering the hard loss of Kyriakos, an anarchist who recently died in an apartment explosion, and the repression that follows. You are in our thoughts. Take heart.
Thanks to the indomitable of the zad against the A69, whose courage and determination reinforce our own. One occupation may be over (and long live sabotage against construction companies!), but others will be born, because we’ll never give up. And what these pieces of freedom torn from reality bring us, they can never take away from us! Take heart, and solidarity with those who are suffering the state’s counter-offensive as a result of this struggle.
Solidarity with all those resisting the genocidal war unleashed by the State of Israel (which, among other things, buys its supplies here in Toulouse to equip the IDF).
Solidarity with activists, anarchists, ecologists and indigenous peoples resisting state and paramilitary military aggression. We’re thinking of Kanaky, Martinique, Mayotte, Kurdistan, etc.
Thanks also to all the compas who are taking action against war, and more generally, to all those who are trying to resist it, in whatever way they see fit. Strength to you!
Signed: the new aeronautical CNT
PS: For an idea of the sheer number of these companies, here is a non-exhaustive list of the ones we were able to touch:
• To the north: Airbus plants in Colomiers & Blagnac, Eads ATR, Safran, Dassault, Stelia Aerospace, Latécoère, British Aerospace, Daher, SopraSteria, Atos, Bolloré Logistics, Collins Aerospace, Alyotech, Groupe Mecachrome, Actia Automotive, …
• To the south: Airbus Defence & Space, Cassidian, the cluster of SMEs and start-ups developing UAVs based at Labège Innopôle, Diodon Drone Technology, Centre Spatial de Toulouse, Ansys, Delair, EADS Defense & Security Systems, Magellium, Nexeya, Soditech, Millinav, …