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La Tempesta: The unforeseen Palestinian issue in the global war. EN/FR/IT

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“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.”
– Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

The main value of these texts, published in Italy last March, is undoubtedly the commitment of the authors to the fate of the struggle of the colonized, imprisoned and massacred Palestinian population, and, additionally, the fact that their position does not yield to the overwhelming blackmail of those who try to equate any “pro-Palestinian” position with anti-Semitism. Amidst the general indifference to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, there are few who care to act; La Tempesta does.

However, after a first reading of the various texts that make up this publication, we are left with a mixed impression and a certain uneasiness. We are struck by the fact that some of the analyses, proposals and points of view with which we are in deep agreement are juxtaposed with others — sometimes separated by only a period or a comma — that evoke in us only repulsion, nausea and, since the authors are anarchists, dismay. We’re not used to well-argued and coherent words that, on the one hand, win our deepest convictions and, on the other, attract our most vigorous dissent.

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Solidarity to those who resist (Athens,Greece)

On October 31, 2024, the anarchist comrade Kyriakos X. falls dead after a bomb exploded in his hands in an apartment in Ampelokipi. The explosion seriously injured the anarchist comrade Marianna M., who is now under guard at Evangelismos hospital, having escaped the danger.

From the first moment, the state and the media began their well-known operations of mud, scaremongering and putting out various scenarios. As a result of this, the multi-injured M. is being prosecuted with charges of founding and joining a terrorist organization under Article 187a (and other felony and misdemeanor charges). M., the anarchist comrade Dimitra Z., as well as another comrade who has already been remanded, are in custody.

The wretchedness and vindictiveness of the state apparatus was visible from the first moments, with the cops harassing the parents of our dead comrade K. X., telling them it wasn’t him. Also, the cops proceeded to take fingerprints while M.M. was in a critical condition in the ICU.

For our part, we know our comrades very well. We have been with them in many struggles, in assemblies, actions and on the streets. Our solidarity and support for them is unconditional.

As for K. X., his memory will accompany us in our struggles, those now and those which we have ahead of us. The struggles that he dedicated himself and finally gave his life to.

Kyriako forever in our hearts.

Power to Marianna M.

Freedom to Dimitra Z. and the other comrade on remand

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Windows of BwConsulting – strategic consultancy firm of the German army – smashed (Berlin, Germany, November 6th, 2024)

Windows of BwConsulting – strategic consultancy firm of the German army – smashed

Germany is getting “fit for war” again: for the first time in over 30 years, 2% of the GDP will be invested in armaments, thus achieving NATO objectives. Campino says he would join the army¹. The Taz newspaper is encouraging rearmament². «Robert Habeck³ wants to  strengthen the defence industry», reports the Handelsblatt. Germany 2024, Trump is nothing in comparison.

At the same time, federal in-house consultancy company “BwConsulting” is advertising its participation in the  CSD on its website [Christopher Street Day – German equivalent of Gay Pride] in  Cologne. And on instagram it announced that it is now regularly organising internal “Diversity Lunches”. Their gadgets at work fairs are usually characterized by the colours of the rainbow. Only radiant faces appear on the website. We are unable to verify and honestly cannot establish if those smiles are briefly dropped during the optimization of supplies of weapons systems (one of the consultancy company’s tasks).

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Assago (Milan), Italy: Incendiary attack on 23 Enjoy cars and an Eni Plenitude van (Assago, 31 October 2024)

Assago (Milan), Incendiary attack on 23 Enjoy cars and an Eni Plenitude van.

During the night between Wednesday 30th and Thursday 31st October in Assago, province of Milan, 23 electric cars of the above car-sharing company and a van belonging to Eniplenitude, of the Eni group, were set on fire.

While the massacre in Gaza continues a year on, Eni continues to enrich itself doing big business with Israel as is shown by the acquisitions of off-shore natural gas deposits along the coasts of Gaza carried out by the Italian multinational immediately after October 7th 2023.

Alongside the Palestinian people
Free Palestine

[Received by e-mail and published in https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2024/11/06/attacco-incendiario-contro-23-automobili-enjoy-e-un-furgone-di-eni-plenitude-assago-31-ottobre-2024/ | Photographs are from the mass media.]

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As soon as the moment for tears is over, the time for action arrives. en/it

As soon as the moment for tears is over, the time for action arrives

2024/11/04

Life holds surprises it would be wise to take into account. Yet no one is wise enough to do so. That is why we are always unprepared when the unexpected guest pays a visit. His arrival eliminates everyone, righteous and unjust, victims and executioners, in the same way. It makes no difference. We are the difference. It lies deep in our heart.

Alfredo M. Bonanno

The news came out a few days ago, overpowering and out of the blue. In the afternoon of October 31, a massive explosion blew up the third floor apartment of a building in the Ampelokipoi neighbourhood in Athens. Anarchist comrade Marianna was pulled out from the rubble alive and is in a serious condition in the Evangelismos hospital, in the hands of the police.
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Chile: A death in action is an eternal call to struggle. Letter to the comrades of Kyriakos and Marianna. EN/ES

A death in action is an eternal call to struggle.
Letter to the comrades of Kyriakos and Marianna.

Kyriakos has left us, he died in an apartment last Thursday. Marianna is seriously wounded in the Evangelismos hospital. Both anarchist comrades present in different scenarios of the struggle. We receive the news with sadness and closeness because the last breath of her life could have been eventually also the last of several of us. Our feelings cannot be more than immense affection and admiration because we know that those who walk the path of the anarchist offensive are valuable and unique in their qualities, contradictions and contributions to the struggle.

Our era is marked by the naturalization of war and death in the service of conflicts between powers, turning loss into a figure, forgetting names and identities. On the other hand, in this, our war against power, we do not forget any face, we do not forget any name. From now on, every 31st of October will be a day in which we, the anarchists of the world are summoned to take a step forward and take up arms against the states, capital and authority, internationally braiding the horizon of anarchy and freedom through attack. None of our dead will be a reference to an old history, they are the present of action and combat.
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Solidarity Gathering for the persecuted anarchist comrade Dimitra Z. – 7/11, 10am, Evelpidon courts Athens-Greece

We call you to a solidarity gathering for our persecuted anarchist comrade Dimitra Z. on Thursday 7/11 at 10am in Evelpidon courts . The comrade is being persecuted as a result of the bomb explosion on 31/10 in an apartment in Ampelokipis which claimed the life of our anarchist comrade Kyriakos X. and seriously injured our anarchist comrade Marianna M.

We know the comrades through their continuous and consistent participation and action in social struggles. We stand unconditionally next to them, as well as to their family, friendly and social environment. We will not tolerate any anti-terrorist operations on people close to them, such as those that this agency has got accustomed to doing for many years. Against the fear that the cops are trying to spread and the mud of the media, we all stand by them.

Thursday 7/11, 10am Evelpidon courts

SOLIDARITY TO THE ANARCHIST COMRADE DIMITRA Z.

SOLIDARITY TO THOSE DETAINED FOR THE CASE

HANDS OFF THE ANARCHIST COMRADE MARIANNA

HONOUR FOREVER TO THE DEAD ANARCHIST COMRADE KYRIAKOS

Solidarity assembly for imprisoned, fugitive and persecuted fighters.

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Solidarity gatherings with injured anarchist comrade Marianna M. at Evangelismos hospital in Athens -Greece

As an immediate reflexive move, on the afternoon of Saturday 2/11, as on Monday 4/11, numerous gatherings were held in solidarity with our wounded anarchist comrade Marianna M. and those arrested, but also in memory of our anarchist comrade Kyriakos X., outside Evangelismos Hospital in Athens.
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From Berlin to Athens – we stand together in grief, with anger and in revolutionary solidarity.EN/DE/EL/ TURKISH / ES/ IT.


On 3.11 we came together with friends and comrades of Kyriakos Xymitiris, Marianna M., Dimitra Z. and the fourth accused person held imprisoned since the 1st of November, in the aftermath of an explosion that happened on Thursday the 31st of October in Ambelokipi, Athens and the repression that followed.

Each of them is one of us and they are loved and respected for who they are. In all the moments that we have shared with them, they inspired our daily struggles, made us stronger in the face of repression, made us laugh and gave us the power to believe in our strength and ideas. This is why we come together, grieve and cry collectively, and also show our solidarity and complicity in the streets of Berlin.
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GREECE: Interventions at the medical associations in Thessaloniki, in Patras, and in Athens in solidarity with the Anarchist comrade Marianna M.

On the morning of Tuesday, November 5, at an initiative of comrades, we carried out an intervention with banners and flyers at the Medical Association of Thessaloniki, at Aristotelous 4. Texts were read and information was given about the case to the members of the association as well as making clear to them that the medical community is invited to take a stand and bear responsibility in the case of interrogation during the hospitalisation of the comrade Marianna M.

Here is the text we shared:
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Those lost in the fire of the struggle never die by anarchists – communists EN/FR/DE/ IT (Athens,Greece)

Those lost in the fire of the struggle never die

On the 31st of October, anarchist Kyriakos Ksimitiris was killed by an explosion in an apartment in Ampelokipoi area in Athens, Greece.
The only ones who can talk about our comrade are all of us who stood beside him in assemblies, actions, demos, and clashes.

For many years, Kyriakos had been incessantly present in groups of
solidarity to prisoners; in the antiwar-internationalist movement; in
actions to defend the neighbourhood of Exarchia; in struggles in the
universities; in the defence of squats and in every social and class
struggle. He was dedicated to it, always willing to explore together its most rebellious aspects. He wasn’t simply defending the struggle by all means for social liberation from a theoretical perspective, he truly incarnated it.

Comrade Kyriakos chose to fight until the end, by all means, against the world of power, state, capital, racism, patriarchy. He chose to fight on the side of the oppressed and the revolted, for a better world; for a world of solidarity, equality, freedom.
His loss creates a huge void for his family and friends, his comrades
who stood beside him; a void also for the struggle, to which he left his mark by his attitude and words.

Anarchist Kyriakos Ksimitiris was one of us. We will defend and
keep his memory forever in our hearts and in every moment of our
struggle.

“I know you despise them because the Court is so well armed, but let me tell you that they are so confident of their power that they feel their importance. They are come to that pass that they do not value your forces, and though the evil is that at present their strength consists only in their imagination, yet a time may come when they may be able to do whatever they now think it in their power to do.”

Comrade, we will meet again in the streets of fire where you will live forever…

Strength to our injured comrade Marianna until liberation
Honour to the anarchist comrade Kyriakos Ksimitiris
Solidarity with all those persecuted for the same case

anarchists – communists

Solidarity Assembly for imprisoned, fugitives and persecuted fighters

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Ceux qu’on perd dans le feu de la lutte ne meurent jamais

Le 31 octobre 2024, l’anarchiste Kyriakos Ksimitiris est tué suite à uneexplosion dans un appartement dans la région d’Ampelokipi, à Athènes,Grèce.Les seul.e.s qui peuvent parler de notre compagnon, c’est nous ;tout.e.s ceux et celles qui ont partagé avec lui des assemblés, desactions, des manifs, des affrontements.Kyriakos a été incessamment présent, pendant des années, dans desgroupes de solidarité aux prisonniers ; dans le mouvement anti-guerre –internationaliste ; à des actions pour la défense de la régiond’Exarchia ; aux luttes dans les universités ; à la défense des squatset dans toutes les luttes sociales et de classe.

Il a été dédié à cesluttes, toujours motivé d’explorer en commun leur aspects les plussubversifs. Il ne défendait pas simplement au niveau théorique la luttepar tous les moyens pour la libération sociale, il en était sa véritableincarnation. Notre compagnon Kyriakos a choisi de se battre jusqu’au but, luttant partous les moyens contre le monde du pouvoir, l’État, le capital, leracisme, le patriarcat. Il a choisi de lutter aux côtés des oppressés etdes révoltés pour un meilleur monde, pour un monde de solidarité,d’égalité, de liberté.Sa perte laisse un vide énorme pour sa famille et ses ami.e.s, pour sescompagnon.ne.s qui l’ont croisé, mais aussi pour la lutte elle-même,qu’il a marqué tant avec son attitude qu’avec ses mots.L’anarchiste Kyriakos Ksimitiris était un parmi nous. Nous allonsdéfendre et sauvegarder sa mémoire dans nos cœurs et dans tous lesmoments de notre lutte.
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Hamburg/Germany: From Hamburg to Berlin to Greece – we are with you.

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From Hamburg to Berlin to Greece – we are with you. In shock and with anger we heard the terrible news from Athens. So we had a very brief assembly in our Anarchist Library on Sunday morning, printed a few flyers and hung two banners – one in a busy park in the St Pauli Area, another one at the Bookfair of the anarchist Re/Fuse congress, which is taking place this weekend.

In deep grief, anger, revolutionary solidarity and complicity we are on your side.

Anarchists from Hamburg

Germany: LEGALIZATION IS A TRAP!!! 3 DAYS OF DISCUSSION ABOUT SQUATTING AS RESISTANCE (8-10 of November)

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And a call out for four open days of skillsharing around the practical
aspects of occuping and inhabiting free spaces.

(4-7 of November)

We are having a gathering in the occupied Hambacher Forest to discuss the possibilities for squatting as a way of fighting now and in the future, and how to answer attempts of legalisation and pacification in general.

The squatting movement in so-called Germany lies in ruins. Most of the once squatted houses in this territory are now either evicted or turned into house projects with a legal status. In a lot of cases this has severed their connections with conflictual political struggles, creating a process of pacification.

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On SNCF’s post-sabotage surveillance systems (France)

Sabotage: SNCF takes action to prevent further attacks on the rail network

Le Figaro, September 9, 2024

The sabotage against the railroad tracks on the night before the Olympic Games opening ceremony on July 26 has left its mark on the SNCF. Officially, the rail company prefers to highlight its handling of this XXL attack: within three days, all train traffic had been restored. “435 agents worked 3×8 for three days. The speed with which we were able to return to normal shows the resilience of our network in the face of a very large-scale attack”, says Damien Pallant, Deputy Director General of Safety at SNCF Réseau, which is responsible for France’s railroads. The general public has discovered the fragility of the French network. And, away from the microphones, tongues are wagging within the state-owned company: “We were stunned that several axes of our network were under attack at the same time,” says one of its executives.

A fortnight earlier, the group’s CEO Jean-Pierre Farandou had seemed confident during his visit to the SNCF Réseau Île-de-France supervision center. The head of this operations center, nestled somewhere in the Gare du Nord, had presented him with a reassuring system where 25 people working in 3×8 shifts, 7 days a week, monitored the state of the network on computer screens. With 50% of equipment fitted with sensors (rails, catenaries, etc.), they were immediately informed of any faults. And that’s not even mentioning the measures intended to thwart malicious acts on these installations. For this, SNCF Réseau felt it was already doing a great deal: anti-intrusion devices on signal boxes, protected electrical transformers…
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About the raid against squatted Prosfygika in the 22nd of November, 2022 (Athens, Greece)

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The Community of Squatted Prosfygika* was violently raided twice by armed police forces in the 22nd of November, 2022. The first raid took place in the early morning hours and the goal was to capture fellow comrade and member of the community Kostas Dimalexis, whom the state accused of commiting arson attacks on state and capital targets. The case could not stand in court, where, after a year and a half of imprisonment he was deemed non-guilty, since most if not all the evidence was either fabricated or just lacking.

Afterwards, in the evening of the 22nd, the second raid occurred, where a counter-terrorist unit backed up by other militarised police squads broke into one of the buildings of the community, a building that houses a social kitchen, an open political space and families, and arrested 79 people. Among them were comrades who came to express their solidarity to the community after the first raid and families with children. This group stood united and fought valiantly against the police forces in order to protect one another and the liberated grounds of the community.
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