ASML may be the most important company you’ve never heard of. The $220B Dutch firm makes the machines that make semiconductors. Each one costs $150m and access to them are a huge geopolitical flashpoint. Its key product is an extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) machine, which “prints” tiny circuits onto Silicon wafers. Continue reading ASML: semiconductor dependency→
Your New South London Local; Touchpaper Anarchist Library!
“…From under the glitter and glare of London, the prison city, this
anarchist library now humbly stands. Not a shop, nor a radical ‘space’, nor the organ of some organisation or other, Touchpaper is a small contribution towards a place for the encounter, for eye-to-eye
discussion and for pushing outwards against the grain…”
A new anarchist library in south london, home to subversive publications from around the world including a distro, a library (where publications can be borrowed for a small deposit) and a forthcoming archive of anarchist ideas put onto paper.
ADDRESS:
385 Queens Road
New Cross
London SE14 5HD
EVENT:
Tuesday 13th September, 6PM
Against 5G and the World that Needs it!
An anti-authoritarian discussion on digital control and the struggle for freedom.
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!
INCENDIARY OUTBURST AT THE APLICACIÓN HIGH SCHOOL.
On the morning of June 15, in Santiago, a large group of masked people decided to act in the streets against the current order and to show solidarity with their comrade Kuyi, who is detained in the National Service for Minors (Sename).
Kuyi is a 16 year old student of the Aplicación High School. On May 23 he was arrested at Cumming con Alameda when he participated in a demonstration in memory of Punki Mauri. On May 24, the youth was placed under “detention control”, where the authorities decreed that he must remain in the National Service for Minors (Sename) for 90 days, or as long as the investigation lasts. Kuyi could be sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Complicity and solidarity with the prisoners of the social war!
Long live los overoles blancos and the new generation of encapuchados students!
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?
Exarchia, Saturday night, around 20:30, 25 June 2022. People are starting to gather in Exarchia Square for the march against gentrification, evictions, political denaturalization and state repression in Exarchia. In front of the astonished eyes of the assembled people 5-6 motorbikes of the police group DRASI are defiantly passing by Exarchia Square. Apart from voices denouncing this provocative move by the police and warning of the response they will get the next time they provoke, there is no aggressive move against the police.
What are the police officers going and doing on their part? They leave and come back with more reinforcements to provoke incidents, about 15-20 motorcycles. The result of this is what is recorded in the video.
During their panicked retreat and after once again suffocating the area with asphyxiating gas, they even left behind radios, according to witnesses.
The march through Exarchia moved dynamically with the participation of hundreds.
Below is the text calling for the march:
“25 JUNE – DAY OF NATIONWIDE AND INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR THE DEPENDENCIES
To defend the neighbourhood of the world that holds many worlds.
A neighbourhood where people of all genders, ages and backgrounds can co-exist with respect. Where the militant history of yesterday meets the struggles and resistances of today.
Against gentrification, evictions, political denationalization, state repression. To fight for the Exarchia of social self-organization, class solidarity, revolt
– NO Metro in Exarchia Square
– No surrender of the Strefi Hill to private interests
– Let the Polytechnic remain a place of meeting and struggle
– Reduction in rent prices / No eviction
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→
Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis): imprisonment of an anarchist accused of arson
Ultra-left: an activist arrested after the burning of diplomatic vehicles in the upscale districts of Paris
Le Parisien, June 16, 2022 (excerpts only)
An Italian man in his forties was arrested by police officers from the Sub-Directorate of the Anti-Terrorist Section (SDAT) of the Central Directorate of the Judicial Police (DCPJ) last Friday night [June 11] when he set fire to the vehicle registered to the Guatemalan ambassador’s diplomatic service in the 17th district of Paris.
The arsonist, dressed in black to blend in with the night, was arrested at 3:25 a.m. in Val-d’Oise when he had just packed his bicycle inside his car to return home. A pattern repeated dozens of times, always on weekends and often on Saturday nights. To avoid detection, the Italian resident, very careful and discreet, always acted alone, left his cell phones on at home, used protective gloves and frequented streets that were not accessible by car and that avoided surveillance cameras. These are techniques to escape the police that are well known to the ultra-left, whose activists are often difficult to identify and arrest.
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→
On the night of May 13, we set fire to the car of the son of Christopher Gröner, billionaire and boss of the real estate company CG-Gruppe. We don’t need to write more about Christopher Gröner. He is a disgusting millionaire who makes his profits from real estate and speculation and shamelessly exposes his wealth, which is based on the exploitation of others (see hXXps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y2WxM2Srlc). In Berlin, his lobbying work consists, among other things, of installing the Christmas lights on the Ku’damm every year, where all his buddies have their offices.
CG-Junior’s profession is to be a daddy’s boy and to live in the Berlin district of Moabit, at the expense and with the help of his ugly father. The CG group had first woven its plots in Leipzig and was now trying to do it again in Berlin. The son’s car was recognizable among other things by its Leipzig license plate, followed by the personalized code of the CG company. We don’t want the CG group in Berlin either.
So concretely, we used fire to expropriate his private car and joined the “expropriate Deutsche Wohnen” conference which took place shortly afterwards. We know that the expropriation of housing from below can only happen if we no longer pay rent. We are part of this “bottom”, of this tenants’ movement, of these social struggles. But until a rent strike takes place, we can burn, break and destroy the beautiful things that all the rich landlords buy with our money. With our action we want to show concrete possibilities to fuel the conflict, as well as to show our common strength.
At the same time, we are very sorry that other cars have been affected. Our goal is that this does not happen.
Let’s confront the real estate speculators openly and drive them out of this city.
