Rural Catalunya: Banner for Michailidis

We hung a banner on the motorway in central Catalunya calling for the immediate release of Giannis Michailidis. Giannis is now into over 60 days of hunger strike and in a severe health condition.

Solidarity and freedom for Giannis!
Solidarity with the comrades fighting the goons of the Greek mafia state!

– Anarchists

From Soleil noir n°3, irregular anarchist newsletter – March 2022 Caen, France

YOUSSEF WILL NOT DIE IN INDIFFERENCE.

This letter from prisoners of the Caen prison was sent to our comrades from the anti-prison journal and radio show L’envolée last October. In it, they explain how Youssef, an undocumented immigrant imprisoned there, died within these walls. Knowing no connections, no family, they didn’t know who to call, but refused to let this death go unnoticed.

Prison kills, and this letter from his fellow prisoners reminds us of this: although the death penalty has been legally abolished, detention creates conditions of slow death for many prisoners. Assaults, suicides, accidents and illness are even more common there than outside, subject to the reign of the absurd and the arbitrary; prison crushes as it serves as a deterrent, maintaining the existing order to keep this world founded on exploitation and domination. These are even its essential functions.

This letter was sent to local newspapers, which unsurprisingly did not report it. Far from the eyes of the media, it is only thanks to the prisoners and their relatives that the memory of these prisoners is maintained and that the full responsibility of the State, the justice system and the prison administration in this invisible killing is denounced.

A few posters publishing this legal murder seem to have spread to the walls of the city of Caen and the surroundings of the prison in recent weeks. The least to be done in the face of the deafening silence •

Hello Envolée,

Our fellow prisoner Youssef hanged himself in his cell on Tuesday 11 October. He was 28 years old. This is the third suicide since April. We should rather call it death by imprisonment, but what’s new since the abolition of the death penalty?

Continue reading France: YOUSSEF WILL NOT DIE IN INDIFFERENCE. →

15.6.21

After raiding several anarchists’ apartments in Munich in a §129 case a little over a month ago [Note of Sans Nom:”creation of a criminal organization”], as well as the Frevel anarchist library and a print shop*, the cops are continuing their repressive efforts.

Obviously, the theft of an entire print shop was not enough for them, since they also put pressure on the landlord of the Frevel library and succeeded in intimidating him into terminating the lease, so that the library will lose its premises at the end of the notice period, i.e. in early December. Continue reading Germany: After the raids on anarchists in Munich – the repression continues →

Continue reading Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) France : imprisonment of an anarchist accused of arson →

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What is the need for a careful analysis of the arms industry with all its suppliers, logistics, financiers, researchers and lobbyists? Is it not sufficient to know where the major manufacturers of weapons and war equipment are located in order to be able to attack them? Just as the Disarm Rheinmetall campaign, for example, has decided, at least in principle, to focus its opposition to the arms industry primarily via one of Germany’s largest arms companies, the Rheinmetall Group? Of course, it would be a great victory to successfully shatter the major arms corporations whose core business revolves around weapons and war materiel, but if one remains realistic for a moment, the barbed-wire-armored, camera-surveilled and security patrolled factory premises of companies like Rheinmetall, Krauss-Maffai Wegmann, Heckler & Koch, DIEHL Defence, Airbus and Co. offer only a marginal scope for (precise) sabotage and attacks. Certainly, it is the producers of tanks, fighter planes, machine guns, missiles and bombs who are a particular thorn in the side of all of us, who most visibly produce the equipment used for murders, genocides and slaughters perpetrated elsewhere in the world, which always stirs up social protest, but only because the arms industry has halfway succeeded in hiding the rest of its structure, its logistics and its profiteers. We, as anti-militarists and anarchists, do not have to fall for this deception as well.

A careful analysis of the arms industry, revealing its networks, entanglements, suppliers, logistics, its research and lobbyists, and last but not least its financiers, can on the one hand show how closely intertwined technology and production are with war, and counter the myth that any (arms) corporation can simply be „disarmed“ and go on to produce civilian goods for general prosperity. On the other hand, such an analysis can also point out those weak points where sabotage and attacks are possible in a much more low-threshold way, where there is no need for barbed-wire fences to be climbed, cameras to be tricked and, finally, security personnel to be messed with before even standing on the spacious premises of one of the production sites of organized murder. And yet, other attacks can cause exactly the same impact, namely idle production facilities and/or the destruction of manufactured war materiel before it even reaches one of the battlefields of this world. Continue reading An Introduction to Mapping the Local Arms Industry and its Vulnerable Points →