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AGAINST THE STATE, CAPITAL, RACISM, WAR AND NATIONALISM (Greece)

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AGAINST THE STATE, CAPITAL, RACISM, WAR AND NATIONALISM
The Greek State, as the border guard of Fortress Europe, has over time followed and expressed in the most emphatic way the anti-immigration policy represented by the European Union. Thus, while at the global level, the political and economic bosses are attempting an unconditional attack against the peoples of the capitalist periphery through wars, military operations, the overthrow of regimes and the imposition of new ones, with the aim of controlling entire regions, the sources of wealth and the exploitation of entire populations, condemning millions of people to misery, poverty, disease and uprooting, at home the far-right neoliberal government of the South-West, from the Evros fence and the concentration camps, to the shipwrecks in the Aegean and illegal repatriations, is expanding its murderous strategy on land and water borders, with the aim of controlling and preventing the flow of refugees and migrants. So as the number of pushbacks from Greece almost doubled in 2021, the number of arrivals on the islands is at its lowest level in recent years, with people being pushed towards other, more deadly routes via the Central and Western Mediterranean and the Atlantic.
Over the past year, the rise in forced returns using violence signals a continuation of the inhuman, degrading and humiliating treatment of refugees and migrants, with theft of personal belongings, stripping, beatings and even abductions in illegal detention centres until their illegal return. The Greek regime, with the assistance of the murderous Frontex mechanism, attempts to obstruct and sink boats and ships carrying refugees and is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of migrants and missing persons in Aegean waters, including children and infants, most recently in the shipwrecks in Paros, Antikythera and Folegandros( Greek islands)

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Italy – Let’s talk about techno-sciences and new the accumulation of capitalisms

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We are publishing an article from last June’s 6th issue of the Bulletin of the Biblioteca Spazio Anarchico [anarchist library]“Lunanera” in Cosenza. The article was discussed in its time with comrades editors of the anarchist paper Vetriolo during the initiative “Science and the State” of 27th July 2021. Concerning the ongoing pandemic, everybody can see that the rapidity of contrasting information and the senseless measures that characterize the current governments’ dramas, are no longer the result of opportunistic choices made by those who exploit us, but they now have the pathetic taste of “repetition compulsion”. It is therefore appropriate to reaffirm some of the fundamental points of our analyses, the result of critical thinking and not cold algorithms.
Politicians, scientists and pharmaceutical entrepreneurs
will be no longer able to leave their homes tranquilly.
There will be another Nuremberg and it will
involve the whole of the system from left to right.
I want a new world and we’ll have it.
(Miguel Bosé, Mexico 20th April 2021)
This paper is intended to be an in-depth analysis of what has already been discussed in previous issues of the Bulletin. The tools we equip ourselves with to analyze what is happening around us are not the result of a specialization in the field or a sectoralization of our struggles, but are built day by day in the exploitation that we suffer on our skin and in the self-determination that distinguishes our experience. The considerations raised by many parties in interpreting the events that have been taking place for more than a year, dwell on the dynamics of screwing up the repressive machine: loss of freedom, autonomy, fundamental rights.

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Limoges (Haute-Vienne), France: pandemic managers under fire

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Limoges : vehicles set on fire in the parking lot of the ARS
France3 Nouvelle-Aquitaine, 18 January 2022
The fire was reported around 2am, this Tuesday, January 18. Neighbours gave the alert. The fire destroyed 3 vehicles before damaging a 4th car. The firefighters then quickly brought it under control.
The cars were parked in the parking lot of the ARS (Agence Régionale de Santé), and had to pass through a gate to access them. The fire also damaged the façade of the building.

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Quebec, Canada : tax, limitation of access to alcohol… The new restrictions against the non-vaccinated

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The province of Quebec (Canada) has taken several restrictive measures against non-vaccinated people. The first is surprising: formal prohibition to buy alcohol in stores that sell only alcoholic beverages. In order to access these shops, the presentation of a vaccination pass is imperative. The measure seems to be well received by some residents. “I understand that they want to encourage as many people as possible to get vaccinated, so much the better if it works. Then there will be fewer people in the hospitals,” said one.
The Quebec government now wants to go further in its restrictions against non-vaccinated people, and plans to introduce a tax for medical care. “Those who refuse to receive their first dose in the next few weeks will have to pay a new health contribution,” said François Légaut, the Premier of Quebec. Some doctors are denouncing a break in equal access to medical care.

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Lyon, France: Action against the opening of the new CRA in Lyon

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Rebellyon.info / Tuesday 18 January 2022
This Monday, January 17, 2022 is the official opening of the new CRA (administrative detention centre) in Lyon, next to Saint-Exupéry airport, as well as the transfer of prisoners from the old CRA into it. In order not to let the State organize its policy of confinement in silence and in support of the prisoners, we decided to make the opening of the new CRA visible and disrupt the transfer.
For months, the opening of a new CRA is done in the most total media silence, while it is one more element in the repression against people considered undocumented, and in the racist and criminal migration policy of the French State.

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Chile: Anarchist Comrades Luis and Ignacio Avaca are released from prison!

Comrades Luis and Ignacio Avaca are released from prison!
 Publicacion Refractario
In November 2020, an explosive package explodes in the Talca police station, slightly injuring a policeman. The action is claimed by “Entes sin Rostro, nada ni nadie que ustedes conozcan” (Faceless Entities, nothing and no one you know).
In May 2021, in a large operation, the police managed to capture Luis and Ignacio Avaca, after the investigation carried out by OS-9 personnel and the South Prosecutor’s Office. The comrades – twin brothers – were taken to the Talca prison and then transferred to Rancagua while the investigative process was underway.

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Chile: Words from Ignacio and Luis Avaca. We are responsible. About our participation in the fact that we are accused and taking political responsibility

“I deny the right to judge me to all those who do not understand the voice of my longing, the howl of my needs, the veils of my spirit, the pain of my mind, the emotion of my ideas and the anguish of my thought.
But only I understand all this. Do you want to judge me? Well then! But you will never be able to judge my true self.
Instead, you are going to judge the “I” that you yourself have invented. When you think you have me in your hands to crush me, I will be high above, laughing in the distance.”
-Renzo Novatore
We have testified before the old prosecutor…It was not easy at least for us who faced a process like this for the first time. We recognized the authorship of the fact that we are accused and we have expressed our political and ethical motivation.
The act itself we have seen as a step from words to action in demonstration of our destructive criticism of the institutions that exercise violence in the name of the State.

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Lecce, Italy : Blow it  up

Published on 23/01/2022 by disordine
Translated by act for freedom now!

Blow it up
In order to “convince” people to be vaccinated, but above all to loyally follow the imposed rules and be obedient, the State through its Governments with the support of its technicians and the media, has terrorized and blackmailed, taken away rights and freedom, threatened, humiliated, denigrated and ridiculed, censored, suspended work, prevented work, divided society in two, nourished the epidemic, pointed the finger, condemned, criminalized, lied, misled, confused, created anxiety and fear. Still before and even worse, it murdered 14 prisoners in March 2020, prisoners who were demanding not to die like mice in a cage by rebelling along with many others.
The State chose to eradicate the problem by murdering some so that it would be clear to everyone that the so-called emergency phase that was opening up would take on precise connotations. Restrictions on freedom and abundantly spread terror, but with the leitmotif of “everything will be all right”.

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Italy: Measure and process updates for “Operation Bialystok”

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January 2022
As we approach the end of the trial of Operation Bialystok, it seems to us to be the right moment to spread some considerations on its progress. Although we are not interested in following the pace dictated by repression, nor in taking a victimistic or alarmist stance in the face of the activities of police institutions, we believe it is important to share information and impressions about what is happening at the court level. By conscious choice, we will summarize aspects and moments that we consider noteworthy, at the expense of a detailed and chronological description of the trial in which we are involved.
As far as the framework of the investigation is concerned, we refer to the texts “Sull’operazione Bialystok” (On the Bialystok operation) already published and circulated on the web and “Testo e contesto” (Text and context).
At the time of writing all defendants in this proceeding are at large. On January 27th a positive response was received to a request for the end of the precautionary measures to which 4 defendants were still subject (3 obligations to stay and one obligation to present themselves for weekly signatures), so that at the moment only one person remains under obligations to stay. The differences in conditions are mainly due to the different timing in the presentation of the appeals which brought the same before different courts, and to the specificity of the individual positions regarding the crimes charged.

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Italy – When they come knocking…

«When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun…»
At the beginning of December one of the tele-virologists most loved by journalists affirmed that freedom of choice constitutes a problem which should be solved by those in power. That anyone who insists on not obeying voluntarily should be compelled to do so by force. That the freedom to not get vaccinated, for example, can only exist for a hermit who lives alone in the middle of the desert. As for the others, the citizens of society, “evidently there is no alternative for these people than obligation, but serious obligation, that which sends the carabinieri to your home to get you”. The peremptory affirmation made the on-duty journalist hosting him chuckle (and certainly not because of his faltering Italian). A week later, the army general entrusted by the government with leading the war against the terrible virus declared that he and his troops were ready: along with Santa Claus, «he will deliver vaccinations door to door». In addition to the elderly isolated in the most remote villages, the military are “ready to vaccinate the whole lot” — of children…

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Mériel (Val-d’Oise), France : The village loses its electronic leashes

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Arson, outage… Internet and telephone are missing
The gazette of Val d’Oise, January 17, 2022
In Meriel, telecommunication rhymes with curse. First episode of this sad law: the outage occurred at the beginning of January on a Sfr cell phone antenna, rue de l’Abbaye-du-Val, and which is still depriving Mériellois of calls.
A new misfortune has befallen, Wednesday, January 12, 2022, this time on the Internet users of the town subscribed to the fiber optic. During the night, two connection cabinets located near the town hall were destroyed by a fire, probably of criminal origin.

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Greece: Panhellenic day of actions on 4th February 22, for anarchist comrades Vangelis Stathopoulos and Dimitris Chatzivasiliadis

Panhellenic day of actions on 4th February 22, for anarchist comrades Vanggelis Stathopoulos and Dimitris Chatzivasiliadis
In the case of the anarchists V.Stathopoulos and D. Chatzivasiliadis, we see both solidarity and consistent revolutionary action being struck. For our part, we categorically state that we defend both. That we will stand up to the criminal extermination of the two militants and that we will not give in to the new normality that they want to impose on us.
We support the call for a microphone gathering meeting at the Propylaia center of Athens , on Friday 4 February at 17:00, as part of the nationwide day of action for the anarchists V.Stathopoulos and D.Chatzivasiliadis, as well as at the Court of Appeal in Loukareos Street, on Wednesday 9 February at 9:00, where they will be tried in the second instance.
Solidarity with anarchist Vanggelis Stathopoulos
Solidarity with anarchist Dimitris Chatzivasiliadis
No one alone in the hands of the state!
Solidarity call poster  by  Solidarity Assembly for imprisoned, fugitive and persecuted militants and by General Solidarity assembly for Vagelis Stathopoulos

Rome, Italy: Incendiary attack on two Sirti vehicles by Some dedicated to the cult of fire

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We receive by anonymous mail and publish:
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Inspired by the attack of 28th August 2021, that took place in this city, we acted to set fire to two vehicles of the Sirti company during the night of December 16 .
Sirti S.p.A. is a company specialising in the design, implementation and maintenance of large telecommunications networks.
At the moment it is actively collaborating with Openfiber, the company set up by Enel and shared by Cassa Depositi and Prestiti whose purpose is the installation and management of the fibre optic network in Italy. This infrastructure is of fundamental importance for the technological implementation towards which society as a whole is racing under the impetus of the demands of growth of the capitalist economic system. This will affect the private lives of millions of individuals as well as public administrations, which will be ‘forced’ to adapt to the new European standards, and will also influence the competitiveness of companies as the Fourth Industrial Revolution approaches.
For us therefore attacking this company means to contrast the direct interests of capitalism at the dawn of its restructuring of production and consumption.
If we are writing these words it is to strengthen communication through anarchist action and the struggle against all power and specifically against the current phase of capitalist expansion consisting of the virtualisation of social interactions, ever more pervasive control, ever greater exploitation of workplaces and natural resources and the repression of anyone who publicly organises their opposition to all this.

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