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To the International Anarchist Movement: Three Security Proposals. EN/FR/EL/IT/PT/RU/ES/TL
This text is addressed to the international anarchist movement, which we’ll define as the sum of individuals fighting for anarchist ideas around the world. This movement is in conflict with its natural enemies — the State, fascist groups, and so on — and must protect itself if it is to survive in this conflict. In this text, we make three proposals for the international anarchist movement to consider in the coming years in order to allow anarchists to continue attacking while limiting their chances of getting caught.
1. Share knowledge internationally
Our enemies organize internationally through cooperation between police and intelligence agencies and new developments in science and technology — the increasing precision of DNA forensics and the proliferation of drones being just two examples. This means that a repressive technique used in one country may soon appear in another where it is not yet being used. It also means that an effective countermeasure used by anarchists in one country may be effective in another. We should therefore share knowledge of repressive techniques and countermeasures on an international level.
Ideally, any experience of repression or experimentation with countermeasures that might be of interest to other anarchists should be written up, translated into several languages, and made public. When anarchists are arrested and brought to trial, we can often obtain court documents that reveal how they were caught: we should exploit this and publish analyses of such documents, bearing in mind that information obtained in this way may be partial or distorted. We should experiment with new countermeasures and write and publish reports on these experiments (except in cases where the State might adapt and weaken the countermeasure by reading the report). We should try to collect information at the source: read police training manuals, steal police files, analyze data leaks from police servers.
urgent 15/11/2024 ,Transfer of comrade Marianna to Korydallos prison – Call for gathering in Korydallos (Athens,Greece)
The anarchist comrade Marianna, just one day after the second operation in a row that she underwent and while she had been a multi-injured patient for 15 days in the hospital of Evangelismos, was transferred to Korydallos this Friday morning.
The pressures of the anti-terrorist garbage, which work in close cooperation with the investigator who has taken over the case, resulted in the discharge of the comrade and her being taken to the women’s prison of Korydallos, where there is not even a hospital and therefore any possibility to provide her with proper care for her injuries.
We are making it clear in all directions, whatever happens to our comrade will have consequences and will not be left unanswered.
We call for a solidarity gathering for our imprisoned comrades Marianna M. D.Z. and D., on Monday November 18 at 18:30, at Korydallos prisons, with a gathering at Korydallos town hall.
SOLIDARITY TO THE PRISONERS MARIANNA, DIMITRA AND DIMITRIS
HANDS OFF OF THE WOUNDED ANARCHIST COMRADE MARIANNA
KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS IS ONE OF US COMRADE FOREVER ON THE PATHS OF FIRE
Assembly of Solidarity for the imprisoned, fugitive
and persecuted fighters
Translated by Act for freedom now!
For Kyriakos For Anarchy Fire to the world of power. en/es/el
For Kyriakos
How many conversations about the rebellion did we not have time to finish, how many friendly glances did we lose but also how many disagreements did we leave half way? Look, something happened that I never expected, you probably got tired of talking sitting on that step and decided to get up and never sit down again. It seems you heard the footsteps of the rebels and decided to follow them into the fire. You too took the step into History, along with all those romantic souls who chose to attack the horrible world of bosses, without fear of death, only with the beauty of violence.
And now all those frightened petit bourgeois, with their awful morals, will start talking hatefully about you because you escaped the future that awaits anyone who doesn’t break the chains of their lot. From now on, however, you will make them tremble because from a room there in Ampelokipoi a noise was heard so loud that it was able to break forever the quiet of social peace. They will try to bury you under the rubble of social oblivion but you will escape them once again on the paths of freedom.
The void of your loss seems huge right now, but whatever it is, it will be filled by all those moments you gave to those who knew you. It will be filled with all the words we wrote together for some text. It will be filled with all those moments when you came late to some of the meetings that we probably set early. It will be filled with all those times you bridged our differences so we could go down the road together. It will be filled with all those moments when we were side by side on some demo and you calmed our fears.
So we close our eyes to remember your face and then we see your smile, and we realize that it looks like all those rebels who looked death in the face because they were sure of the life they lived. And it is strange how much your look is similar, it will probably be because you know that this world does not work for us and you are smiling at us because you made the decision to change it. That’s probably how Ravachol must have been smiling as he walked towards the guillotine singing. That is probably why the smile of all those who cannot and will never be able to live a life like slaves should look like this.
But remember that one day we will destroy this rotten world of power and those who hear the sound of its crash will know that you also participated in its destruction.
Goodbye comrade, goodbye friend, we will miss your smile, but we will carry it with us forever on the roads of fire…
For Anarchy
Fire to the world of power
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The passion for destruction is the passion for creation
Athens : Claim for the arson attack on Friday 08/11/2024 at the rectorship of ΕΜΠ (polytechnic university) in Zografou.
Power means the total denial of freedom. Coercion is the ultimate measure used by who decides to rule. So we are talking about a world that was built on this fundamental choice. This choice of the ruling class invites its slaves to implement it. The rectorship of ΕΜΠ is one more cog in the machine, one of the threads of the institutional fabric of the state, whose role, on an ideological level, is to sterilize, increase productivity, create an “excellent” skilled worker who does not look any further when it comes to a better career choice. In short, the ideological role of the university in the neoliberal bourgeois state is to present the “governance of science” as the only way societies have to organize themselves.
The means that the university has to carry out this role is the monopoly on knowledge, or rather the cultivation of the illusion that it really monopolizes knowledge.
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Update from the gathering in Korydallos prisons for our arrested comrades D.Z. and D. Athens,Greece
Update from the gathering in Korydallos prisons for our arrested comrades D.Z. and D.
On Monday, November 11, a solidarity gathering was held for our imprisoned comrades Dimitra Z. and Dimitris. Dozens of comrades gathered at Korydallos town hall and moved first towards the men’s and then towards the women’s prisons, shouting powerful slogans.
SOLIDARITY WITH THE IMPRISONED COMRADES DIMITRA AND DIMITRIS
HANDS OFF THE WOUNDED ANARCHIST COMRADE MARIANNA
KYRIAKO S XYMITIRIS IS ONE OF US, COMRADE FOREVER ON THE PATHS OF FIRE
Assembly of Solidarity for the imprisoned, fugitive and persecuted fighters
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A minimal signs of Solidarity in Spain, Basque country and Barcelona,for Kyriakos and with the wounded comrade Marianna in Greece.
A banner of honour and solidarity in Southern Spain
It is with great sadness and anger that we say goodbye to our friend Kyriakos. We will miss him dearly but his memory will always be with us. We wish a speedy recovery and freedom to our comrade Marianna.
As a minimal sign of honour to the dead comrade Kyriakos and solidarity with the wounded comrade Marianna and the other people detained for this case we raised a banner in a central part of the city.
COMRADELY GREETINGS FROM SOUTHERN SPAIN TO ALL OUR FRIENDS IN GREECE
MARIANNA STRONG UNTIL FREEDOM
KYRIAKOS YOU WILL LIVE FOREVER IN OUR STRUGGLES
Comrades in southern Spain
https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1632680/
Banner in the Basque country – Honour forever to the anarchist comrade Kyriakos – Solidarity to the anarchist comrade Marianna
Basque country banner
Honour forever to the anarchist comrade Kyriakos
Solidarity to the anarchist comrade Marianna
Anarchists from the Basque Country
https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1632629/
Kyriakos forever present, solidarity with the arrested comrades [ Barcelona ]
As a small gesture of solidarity with what has been happening in Greece in the last few days, we put up a banner in a central part of Barcelona.
May our solidarity break the chains of isolation, become a fist against our oppressors.
ΚIRIAKOS SEMPRE AMB NOSALTRES
LLIBERTAT MARRIANA I DIMITRA
ΚΙRIAKOS ALWAYS WITH US
FREEDOM TO MARIANNA AND DIMITRA
KYRIAKOS FOR EVER PRESENT
FREEDOM TO THE IMPRISONED COMRADES
Comrades from the other side of the Mediterranean
https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1632610/
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Anarchist Toby Shone is Free! (UK)
Anarchist Toby Shone Free in the Forest!
Toby Shone walked free from HMP Garth on Monday 11th November after serving his entire sentence. He was released at 830am and picked up by friends and comrades. He has no licence conditions or restrictions.
The State made a few last desperate attempts to exercise their spite and misery at losing Toby, including removing another close comrade from his phone list four days before his release, but it was to no avail.
Nothing is over, everything continues.
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Bremen (Germany) September 2024
A camera was found in a car parked near the venue of an event. It was installed in a box, behind a tinted panel. It had a good view on the venue’s entrance. A flashlight pointed at the box revealed the camera, despite the tinted panel.
Sources: (de) de.indymedia.org / translations: (fr) attaque.noblogs.org
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Colorado Broadband Outages Being Blamed on Vandalism, Fires (USA)
On Sunday, Denver-area broadband customers from multiple companies experienced outages that the companies are blaming on fires and vandalism.
Chris Schroll lives in Parker and was impacted. His service is back but he received an email from BAM Broadband that said in part:
“We have been given more information from our upstream carrier regarding the damage and we wanted to share this with you. It has been reported that the cause of the outage was vandalism. Handholds/Manholes have been lit on fire randomly across the state for a few days and happened again last night along I-225.”
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[16/11] CALL FOR AN INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION AND IN MEMORY OF ANARCHIST COMRADE KYRIAKOS XIMITIRIS
We call all comrades around the world for an international day of action and in memory of the dead anarchist fighter and dear comrade Kyriakos Ximitiris (16 November).
We invite comrades from abroad to send texts that they would like for us to read at the political event in memory of comrade Kyriakos that will take place on the same day, in Athens.
October 31 forever engraved in the hearts of every fighter. With anger and determination we stand next to our comrades
On 31/10/24, after a device explosion in an apartment in Ampelokipoi, our anarchist comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris fell in the battle for social and class liberation, while our anarchist comrade Marianna M., who was also in the apartment, ended up with multiple injuries and until now she is currently being treated and guarded at the Evangelismos Hospital. At the same time, two more people are arrested and taken to the investigator, with the comrade Dimitris and the anarchist comrade Dimitra being detained.
Berg (Germany): incendiary attack on a wind turbine
On Sunday night, September 9, the waxing moon had just formed its first quarter over Lake Starnberg, some twenty kilometers southwest of Munich. Was this enough for the fish to discern the thick smoke coming from the wind farm that has been standing for ten years in the forest above the village of Berg, on the right bank of the lake? In any case, they won’t breathe a word to the investigators from the Upper Bavarian Criminal Investigation Department, tasked with solving the arson attack on one of the giants planted there at around 3am. Firstly, as a matter of dignity. Secondly, as a matter of principle, the limpid waters of the Ice Age have seen many others, such as the lifeless body of King Ludwig II, or the first summers of his cousin “Sissi”, before she was lightened of her burden on the shores of another lake by the sharpened blade of an anarchist.
What happened on that cold autumn night in the forest between a freeway and the eastern shore of Lake Starnberg? According to Bürgerwind Berg GmbH, the engineering office in charge of technical support for the Alpine wind farm operator, a first warning message was sent to them by the safety sensors on a wind turbine, followed by a second at around 3:59 a.m., which recited in code: “smoke in the nacelle”. In other words, in the machine room, some 150 meters up on the rotor side. The facts became much simpler as soon as the sleuths were able to get to the scene. According to the police report, unknown persons attacked the massive door of the wind tower with an angle grinder, cutting an opening of “40 by 60 centimetres”, before introducing “previously ignited objects” inside the structure.
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Poster for Kyriakos, Marianna, Dimitra and all comrades affected by the explosion in Athens 31.10.24
“…for I obeyed only my heart, which was torn by the suffering of all
proletarians, the unfortunate, the hunted and the enslaved outcasts ”
Germaine Berton
These are the moments when big words seem inappropriate and presumptuous, when life in all its intensity makes us realize how short our path can be. When we speak up at such a moment, we hope to offer empathy, solidarity, perhaps a little solace to those who want it.
It is these moments that make us painfully aware that the life we have chosen is not only intense, exhausting, dangerous and at the same time beautiful, but also very fleeting. When a person with revolutionary ideas dies fighting for them, it is important to take a moment.
Munich (Germany): sabotaging the concrete industry…
Around 3 a.m. on Sunday night, September 2, employees of a small company called the fire department to report a fire at their neighbor’s premises. Their neighbor, in the Detmoldstraße industrial park to the north of Munich, is none other than a huge factory: the Max Bögl Concrete Plant, which has been covering the world in its filth since 1929 and, according to its own figures, employs 6,500 people at 40 sites worldwide.
On site, the firefighters were quickly dismayed. The flames were engulfing the production site in various places. On one side, six concrete transport trucks were ablaze, on the other an excavator, and finally, high in the sky, the company’s conveyor belt lit up the night. Despite the general alarm sounded by the first firefighters, who were joined by some fifty colleagues, the fire continued to spread, and the conveyor belt fire eventually reached the top of the mixing silo, starting to eat away at it, at the same time as several blocks of compressed cardboard from a nearby waste disposal site began to smell a bit scorched. It wasn’t until 6.30 a.m. that the sabotage against the concrete plant, which caused millions of euros worth of damage, was finally extinguished.
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In Grief, Anger and Revolutionary Solidarity – We Bid Farewell to our Fallen Friend and Comrade Kyriakos EN/EL/DE/ (Berlin,Germany)
Kyriakos lived for the struggle and died struggling.
Our friend and comrade lost his life in an explosion in an apartment in Athens on October 31st 2024.
We want to remember him as a beloved part of all of our lives, which he enriched in so many ways.
Kyriakos took part in struggles around the world and stood up against all oppression with all his being. We have stood shoulder to shoulder in the streets, in houses and gatherings, to wage a common struggle against state and capital.
Together we have stood against racism, fascism, prisons and patriarchy, covering each other’s backs and giving each other strength to fight this exploitative system.
His solidarity had no limits and we can proudly say that we were able to fight for a better world alongside such a wonderful person.
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