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In Defence of Associative Specificity – Concerning (Inherently) Anarchist “Sectarianism” Part I.
[London,] November 23, 1871 “[…] The International was founded in order to replace the Socialist or semi-Socialist sects by a real organisation of the working class for struggle […], the Internationalists could not have maintained themselves if the course of history had not already smashed up the sectarian system […] So long as the sects are (historically) justified, 
the working class is not yet ripe for an independent historic movement. As soon as it has attained this maturity all sects are essentially reactionary. […] And the history of the International was a continual struggle on the part of the General Council against the sects […] At the end of 1868 the Russian, Bakunin, entered the International with the aim of forming inside it a second International called the “Alliance of Social Democracy”. Bakunin – a man devoid of theoretical knowledge – put forward the pretension that this separate body was to represent the scientific propaganda of the International, which was to be made the special function of this second International within the International. His program was a superficially scraped together hash of petty bourgeouis ideas from here and there: […] atheism as a dogma to be dictated to the members of the International, etc., and as the main dogma, (Proudhonist) abstention from the political movement. This children’s fable found favour (and still has a certain hold) in Italy and Spain […] and among a few vain, ambitious and empty doctrinaires in French Switzerland and Belgium […] Resolutions 1(2) and (3) and IX now give the New York committee legal weapons with which to put an end to all sectarian formations and amateur groups and if necessary to expel them […]”
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Marx, Letter to Friedrich Bolte, November 23, 1871 (1).
Since the defeat of Spanish anarcho-syndicalism, reiteration is a frequent occurrence in the babelic context in which the life of the so-called “anarchist movement” painfully takes place.(2) As if it were Groundhog Day,(3) we are condemned to repeat the same experience indefinitely. Again and again, ideological displacements and external conceptualizations gain presence in our shops. Thus – once again -, the notions of “sect”, “sectarianism” and “sectarian” emerge in the debate. We do not have the slightest chance of escaping this vicious circle. Like Phil Connors (Bill Murray) in the famous comedy, every day we are hit with the same song (at six o’clock in the morning!), forced to repeat ourselves in an infinite cycle from which not even suicide can save us.
Santiago, Chile: Show and launch of “Músikarmadxs hasta los dientes Vol IV” (Musikarmed to the teeth Vol IV)
This Saturday, November 13, solidarity activity with the subversive prisoners with long sentences at 14 de la fama and launching of the Compilation Musikarmados hasta los dientes Vol.4 (2021)
Compilation of anticarceral music, bands and voices from Italy, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Germany, Colombia and more.
[Chilean State] Poster in Solidarity With the Struggle of the Mapuche People November 21, 2021
Received 09/11/2021:
FOR THE EXPANSION OF ARMED ACTION IN THE COUNTRYSIDE AND IN THE CITY.
UNRELENTING WAR AGAINST THE STATE AND ITS APPARATUSES OF CONTROL.
FORESTRY, BIG LANDOWNERS, HYDROELECTRIC, YANACONAS [TRAITORS] AND ALL CAPITALIST INVESTMENT OUT OF THE WALLMAPU.
THE CALL IS CLEAR, TO EXTEND VIOLENT ACTION, SABOTAGE AND CONSPIRATORIAL PRACTICES AGAINST THOSE WHO SUSTAIN AND PROMOTE REPRESSION IN THE WALLMAPU AND THROUGHOUT THE LAND.
ARM YOURSELF, CONSPIRE, ATTACK AND SHOW SOLIDARITY (ENCIRCLED A)
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Athens,Greece: Update from the trial of P. Georgiadis, M.T. and E.M. on 6/12/21
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Greece: The new 2022 Diary has been published by the Solidarity Fund for Prisoners and Persecuted Fighters
The Solidarity Fund continues this year the series of diaries / calendars in Greek language that chronologically record some of the most important moments of the social and class war in Greece
After presenting the period 1974-1990 (diary / calendar 2020) and the 1990s (diary / calendar 2021), this year we attempt to record the five-year period 2000-2005. In this way, we hope to contribute our part in preserving the thread of our collective memory, the memory of radical struggles. It is precisely this thread of collective revolutionary memory and tradition that the State and capital are increasingly attempting to sever once and for all.
France, Crest (Drôme): Two nights of tagging
[…] After a first major wave of tagging on the night of Tuesday 23 to Wednesday 24 of November 21 ,it was the same again last night. The taggers struck hard, “bombing” the walls of the cemetery and the Armorin high school, as well as numerous facades. Messages in round letters and written in black paint, with anarchist tendencies, flanked by the acronym of the circled A for some. On the facades or walls of businesses, one could read: “Ecocidal bastards”, “Support for Guadeloupe”, “Let’s free ourselves from slavery” or “If a policeman says papers, if I answer scissors, I’ve won?
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Italy : Better no wages than no freedom: a leaflet distributed during a demonstration in Lecco on 16/10/2021
BETTER NO WAGES THAN NO FREEDOM
What is losing one’s wages compared to losing one’s freedom?
After months of demonstrations in the streets, even if the grip of blackmail has tightened with the introduction of the compulsory green pass for all workers, we need to have the strength to continue to resist. The violence being turned against us all, particularly those who don’t want to comply with the measures that are worsening each day, means we must give responses that go beyond “civil disobedience”. Blocks carried out by dock workers, workers’ strikes, demonstrations in all the streets, boycotts and clashes; the time of being passively subjected to the violence that wants to force an alienated, medicalized, traced life on us, a life devoid of meaning, that wants to reduce us to a condition of mere survival, is over.
Let’s give back meaning to the idea of resistance, i.e. that of the partisan struggles and today’s rebels who everywhere and with all means decide to clash against an oppressive power, which now as in the past doesn’t stop at intimidation, but has no scruples in using every kind of violence, physical and psychological, in order to reach its aims.
Martinique : looting of ATM, police station, supermarkets, high school and shooting at cops [MaJ]
Godissard district, Fort-de-France (Martinique), 27 November. Ripping out the Post Office ATM with a stolen digger, looting and then setting it on fire
New night of violence in Martinique
martinique la 1ere, 27 November 2021
5th night of violence in Martinique. The events were concentrated in Fort-de-France and in the north of the territory, from Friday 26 to Saturday 27 November 2021.
The most serious incidents concerned the city of Fort-de-France. During the night of Friday 26 to Saturday 27 November 2021, rioters attacked and destroyed the Godissard post office with a digger. “They took the cash dispenser of course. They broke it, took the money and set it on fire”, said a shocked resident.
Further on, the thugs attacked a petrol station to rob the shop…before setting it on fire.
Godissard (Martinique), 27 November. Looting of the Vito service station, before setting it on fire
The reaction in Italy: Message in the barrel about operation Sibilla and much more by Anarchist Michele Fabiani
via: fuoridallariservaTranslated by Act for freedom now!
Message in the barrel about operation Sibilla and much more
The passion for destruction is also a creative passion
— M. Bakunin, The Reaction in Germany
The story goes that one day Alexander the Great went to the barrel in which Diogenes of Sinope lived. Diogenes was the only philosopher who had not gone to pay homage to the great king. So Alexander went to him. Alexander asked him: “Tell me what I can do for you”. And Diogenes answered: “Yes, move away, stand out of my light.”.
Reflecting on conditions of incommunicability, autonomy and refractoriness towards power is far more complicated today than it was in the 4th century BC.
Today power does not move, there is no longer a barrel inside which the shadow of the State does not reach. The only possible relationship with this global organism is violence. One hears all too often, like a plaint of bigots at evensong, that revolutionary violence is out of date. It is said that “times have changed” when, if anything, it is the possibility of escape that has changed.
The last two years have been a sad confirmation of this old story. A new era was heralded in with the massacre in the Italian prisons, the people locked in their homes while production continued to go ahead, the attacks and killings during the transport strikes, the countless repressive manoeuvres against anarchists, and finally through the green pass, the final (?) destination of the new society of control.
AT BLOWS WITH THE STATE: Shaping Territory and Affinity During the Revolt
Article text taken from Kalinov Most #6. Publicación Anarquista Internacional /Abril 2020 and Translated by Act for freedom now!
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AT BLOWS WITH THE STATE: Shaping Territory and Affinity During the Revolt ( A martillazos con el Estado: Conjugando el territorio y la afinidad durante la revuelta)
The scuffles with normality advanced one after the other until they became so complex that it was impossible not to realize that we were facing a revolt. It was not only the structures of capital that were burning, nor was it just windows or cop cars that were shattering all at once. Something else was cracking, a crack that allowed the dying order of authority to literally fall apart at our feet.
It is into precisely this crack and its first bits of rubble that we want to delve more deeply–opening up questions that aren’t necessarily new and might not even have answers so that we ourselves, comrades from other territories, and comrades in other historical moments may discover some hints to confront our own contexts. We do not fear questions without answers, but rather failing to ask enough questions or abandoning the correct ones.
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BARCELONA,SPAIN: WORKSHOPS AGAINST EXTRACTIVISM AND ITS WORLD.
Interview with Subversive Comrade Marcelo Villarroel Sepúlveda (Chile)
via: anarquistasanticarcelarixsTranslated by Act for freedom now!
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Athens Greece : Attack against Municipal Police Station in Pagkrati area
We live in a period where it is not so easy to make demonstrations without being attacked by the cops. The reason is not to close the streets for the flow of commercial interests but it is also to spread fear in the society, the breaking of the solidarity that might grow out of collective moments of struggle and make us to helpless targets of their thirst of power. It does not matter the reason of the demonstration. It could be teachers, firefighters, anarchists. We live in a period where it could be dangerous to make a demonstration. Because we are few and the squads of the uniformed death regime are many.
In Exarchia the constant attacks on MAT stopped when we lost Polytechnio and Delta came back to the streets. The city of Athens seems full of cops and cameras. But our desire to watch the democratic facade breaking down is still alive.
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Athens, Greece: POLITICAL KAFENIO STRUCTURE AND FIRST DISCUSSIONS AT ZIZANIA SQUAT
The Zizania political kafeneio is an open autonomous structure that aims to create inside of the squat a favourable space for in-depth political discussions – understanding that the assembly format is often not the most accessible neither the most suitable for such purpose. We envision an open space where diverse groups and individuals will come to meet, exchange and share ideas, questions, experiences, political thoughts, and debate topics relevant to them, to the space and the wider political context in a respectful and inclusive environment.
We will start with a first event on Tuesday 14/12 and then intend to hold similar events on a regular basis throughout the next months. Regarding the format, we aim for loosely moderated discussions impulsed whether with short introductions by groups or individuals, open questions, documentary screenings, brochure presentations, workshops and whatever other format people think could lead to fruitful discussions. As we want to give space for continuity from one event to the next, we are proposing umbrella topics that would cover a few events in a row, with suggested sub-thematics for each.
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