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Bremen (Germany): incendiary devices against a Frontex collaborator

Attack on the arms company and Frontex OHB supplier in Bremen
Last night 24/11/21, we attacked the arms company OHB SE on the Manfred-Fuchs square in the industrial park of the university of Bremen and set several cars on fire.
OHB SE is one of the biggest players in the field of aeronautics and aerospace with its headquarters in Bremen, but it makes its money on the deaths with which the federal army and Frontex pave their way. In 2001, OHB became one of the biggest players in the satellite and aerospace sector when it won a contract worth more than 320 million euros with the German army ‘for the development, construction, launch and operation of the SAR-Lupe radar reconnaissance system’. This was to enable the German army to obtain information through autonomous military espionage, independent of weather conditions.
In 2008, the Federal Army officially received the satellite system. OHB itself stated: ‘With SAR-Lupe, OHB has succeeded for the first time in running a satellite program as the main contractor. In doing so, the company developed and built the satellite system and is jointly responsible with the Federal Armed Forces for its operation. OHB is thus not only a supplier to the Federal Army, but also actively participates in the German warfare and surveillance machine. In 2013, the German Army again placed an order with OHB for the development and construction of the SARah tracking system. This was and is to be used by the German army exclusively for military purposes.

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Santiago, Chile: Saturday, December 18th. 21, ANTIPRISON AND KOUNTERCULTURAL DAY FOR SUBVERSIVE AND ANARCHIST PRISONERS

Saturday, December 18th. ANTIPRISON AND KOUNTERCULTURAL DAY FOR SUBVERSIVE AND ANARCHIST PRISONERS
“To advance in an uncompromising way and against all the odds has been our life choice, betting precisely on the confrontation of the struggle through ant-like work, taking tangible millimetric steps, in which each free, solidaristic and conscious individual manages to propagate and spread the message of total liberation”. -Pablo Bahamondes Ortiz
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From the historic Simón Bolívar community we extend the invitation to every individuality, group, network and anti-authoritarian collective to participate in this day that intends to agitate and show solidarity with our captive comrades who today are condemned to decades of political imprisonment for having dealt multiple blows to power and its infrastructures from an autonomous subversive position.

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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 […]”
  1. 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.

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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.

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[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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Revolutionary Prisoners News

Athens,Greece: Update from the trial of P. Georgiadis, M.T. and E.M. on 6/12/21

The trial of comrades P. Georgiadis, M.T. and comrade E.M. went ahead as scheduled on Monday 6/12. Dozens of comrades responded to the calls for solidarity, hanging banners outside the court of appeal and shouting slogans inside the courtroom.
The trial was postponed and comrade P. Georgiadis remains in custody. A possible scenario is to set a new trial date in the first months of 2022, as the 18-month term expires in March.
Freedom for the fighter P. Georgiadis!
Solidarity to comrades E.M. and M.T.!
No one alone in the hands of the State!
fire to the prisons!
AFFN
Revolutionary Prisoners News

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.

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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 - General news ,sabotage, actions and Solidarity with anarchists arrested and all those under investigation

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.

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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

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Italy - General news ,sabotage, actions and Solidarity with anarchists arrested and all those under investigation

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.

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AT BLOWS WITH THE STATE: Shaping Territory and Affinity During the Revolt

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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.

Extractivism is the process of devastating nature in order to transform it into a commodity. Extractivist projects are multiplying all over the world, especially outside the centers of power, to sustain the way of life and the functioning of capital.
Extractivism is not a way of managing capital, but is capital itself with its death machine spreading like a disease. In this sense, its infrastructure, its material dimension, is inherent to its logic of devastation. There is no capital without extractivism, just as there is no production or consumption without the devastation of nature, without the oppression of all living things, including humans…
The world that sustains it expands misery, exploitation, servitude and control. What they call the imbalance of ecosystems is nothing more than the invasion of power transforming nature into merchandise, where the management of capital sacrifices territories, habitats and communities for its anthropocentric benefit.

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Interview with Subversive Comrade Marcelo Villarroel Sepúlveda (Chile)

via: anarquistasanticarcelarixsTranslated by Act for freedom now!
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Understanding this instrument of communication as a tool to give voice to the prisoners in struggle, we publish this interview with comrade Marcelo Villarroel from the prison of Rancagua (territory dominated by the Chilean state). Months after having ended a hunger strike with other anarchist and subversive prisoners, Marcelo, a long-term prisoner with a long history of struggle, tells us about his experience in the strike and the reasons for his transfer to the prison of Rancagua, among other things. We thank Marcelo for his willingness and contributions and the comrades who made the interview possible.
THEY CAN IMPRISON THE BODY, BUT NOT THE IDEAS. FREE MARCELO!
  • We would like to know about your current situation in the Rancagua prison and the relationship between the prisoners there. 
The transfer that took place in the first days of June this year, 5 months ago, corresponds with the repair, maintenance and re-foundation of the high and maximum–security system in the high and maximum–security prison in Santiago de Chile. In this place where the anti-capitalist fighters, the anarchic subversives of the last 25 years in the history of the Chilean prison structure have historically been housed.

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General News Action Sabotage, solidarity in Greece

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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