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.
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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.
Continue reading La Tempesta: The unforeseen Palestinian issue in the global war. EN/FR/IT
Kreuzberg 27.9.2024: Spontaneous demonstration with fireworks and actions against the expansion of the Israelian genocidal war
According to reports from several State media and the police, in the night of 27th September, 50 to 100 people caused riots in the Kreuzberg district near the Schlesisches Tor. In one of the videos entitled “Berlin rise up” on Tiktok and Instagram, you see many people spontaneously demonstrating in the streets and shouting slogans against the genocidal war of Israel – supported by the Western accomplices – against the Palestinian population and the recent extension of the killings to Lebanon. The crowd passes by burning materials, including a chemical bath, and spilled construction material. Several fireworks are set off.
According to state media and the cops, during the “riots”, stones and bottles were thrown at the police officers who arrived on the spot to keep away this crowd of German pro-Israeli “state reasons”. For example, the windows of a police vehicle were broken, forcing the policemen to retreat. Continue reading Spontaneous demonstration, riots and clashes against the expansion of the Israelian genocidal war(Berlin, Germany, 27th September 2024)
On the evening of Friday 25/10, a 22-year-old woman prisoner was found hanged in a temporary detention area of Korydallos prisons, with the news announced by the media of the system four days later on the morning of the 29th. On 24/10 she had been transferred to the special health centre of Korydallos prisons and then to a psychiatric hospital, as the prison officials had judged her behaviour “criminal”. She was then returned to her cell with the same pattern repeating itself next morning. Even if forensically this is considered suicide, the distinction is meaningless as a large number of previous incidents prove the uniformed officers’ contribution. This particular case is another state murder, reminding us of the punitive and inhumane nature of the prison system.
A system that not only does not care about them, but annihilates the personality of each prisoner. A system that not only does not respect mental illness, neurodiversity and the experiences of the incarcerated, but that creates countless psychological traumas and not only.
Continue reading Reflective gathering today by Anarchists Tuesday, October 29, in Eleftherias Square of Korydallos at 20:30, for the hanged prisoner in Korydallos prisons. Athens,Greece
At the end of 2010 an individual act of despair in the town of Sidi Bouzid ignited a daring, enraged, and joyful upheaval that travelled through North Africa into the Middle East and beyond. People defied the oppressive systems they had been immersed in for generations and came together in the streets to topple the political elites at their helm. The authorities, at first stunned by this courageous spirit that they couldn’t understand, then unleashed a cynical and brutal response.
This defeat is still being inflicted on the people in the region, and is also felt all over the world by those who stood in solidarity with the uprisings but were mostly unable to overcome their powerlessness as the uprisings were massacred.
The horrors in the region during the last decade are many. To name some that stick most in my mind: Sisi has turned back the clock in Egypt to military dictatorship with the material support of the US. The regimes in the other North-African countries are paving over any sign of freedom while being coaxed by European countries to shut down the immigration routes over the Mediterranean. Without the murderous military campaigns of Hezbollah and the IRGC in Syria, Assad wouldn’t have survived the uprising. The Iranian regime itself brutally oppressed three different uprisings in the country in the last decade. Most people in Lebanon are in a daily struggle for survival because of the greed of its political leaders while mobs at the orders of Hezbollah beat down street protests. Early on in the uprisings, Hamas, who has shot political opponents in broad daylight on the streets of Gaza, culled attempts at an uprising by rounding up protest organizers and threatening them with murder. Leaders in the region understood once again that they can use any means against the populations under their control without real push-back from outside. Indifference, cynicism and opportunism trump moral appeals, and strategic alliances are always in play. The world churns on. For those of us who have not looked away, how can we not see a connection between Assad bombing Syrian cities into obliteration and Netanyahu razing Gaza?
From North Shore
This text is based on a talk given at the 2024 Hamilton Anarchist Bookfair. It is available as a printable zine.
Political violence is a delicate topic—and not only because of how easy it is to find ourselves getting criminalized for conversations among comrades about violence.
Violence is something to take very seriously, since how we choose to use or respond to it shapes our struggles and ourselves. I do believe violence changes us, for better or for worse. We can’t choose to escape the violence of capitalism, and likewise the violence of colonization, racism, and patriarchy is inescapable for many. We can, however, choose how to use violence in our struggles against those forces.
Continue reading Hostages of the Gun: On Militancy and Militarism
Athens, September 26, 2024, reflective march on the same day by hundreds for the dead immigrant from Pakistan, Mohammed Kamran Asik after a brutal beating at the Agios Panteleimonas Cop Station.
The march for the state assassination of Mohamed Kamran Asik moved around the square of Agios Panteleimonas. At the end of the march after clashes, the cops arrest 4 people, 2 of which turned into arrests with heavy charges .
Last Saturday morning, an immigrant from Pakistan, who had been missing for about a week, was found dead inside the Agios Panteleimonas Cop Station. 37-year-old Mohammad Kamran Ashiq, who worked as a delivery man, was found with multiple injuries on his body, which is also reflected in shocking photos.
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THE STATE MURDERED MOHAMMED KAMRAN.
CALL TODAY 19:30 PLATEIA VIKTORIA Muhammad Kamran Ashiq was murdered by cops, beaten to death in the infamous Agios Panteleimonas police station. We all know that beatings like this one happen regularly, even if they don’t reach the MME. Every day in AT like Agios Panteleimonas and Omonia people are taken out of view of cameras and tortured, beaten, raped, by cops who believe that they have absolute power.
Every day migrants and non-white people are targeted, tortured, and murdered by cops and in complicity with every other cog in the racist state machine. From the pushbacks on the borders, to the exploitation in workplaces, to the suffocating bureaucracy — the racism is created and maintained by the batons of the cops but also the indifference and silence of the society. Continue reading Muhammad Kamran Ashiq was murdered by cops, beaten to death .. Athens,Greece
From No Trace Project
The No Trace Project is launching a new initiative, the Anti-Repression Talks, to encourage discussion of surveillance and security issues within and between informal anarchist networks, on an international level. We believe that many anti-repression practices are more powerful when they are carried out across a network, rather than only by specific affinity groups.
The Anti-Repression Talks will be a series of sessions, each on a different topic, and each lasting three months. During a session, participants are encouraged to form local study groups with people they trust to discuss the topic of the session — we provide resources and discussion points to help kickstart those discussions. At the end of a session, an international online chat takes place, where participants can anonymously meet to discuss their thoughts and findings. After a session, its findings are published on the No Trace Project website, including any materials contributed by study groups and a summary of the online chat.
The first session, Anti-Repression Talks #1, will address the topic of preparing for physical surveillance and will take place in October, November, and December 2024, with the online chat taking place on January 4, 2025. The findings will be published here.
In the past decades, the surveillance capabilities of State actors have greatly diversified, thanks in part to new technological developments such as video surveillance, mobile phones and DNA sampling. Despite this, physical surveillance — the direct observation of people or activities for the purpose of gathering information — is still widely used by State actors, in particular in cases where other surveillance techniques are not effective. Our Threat Library references examples of the use of physical surveillance against anarchists.
Continue reading Anti-Repression Talks #1: Preparing for Physical Surveillance
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call solidarity for marcelo villaroel
FREEDOM FOR MARCELO VILLARROEL!
Comrade Marcelo has been in prison for more than 16 years straight, and they haven’t managed to break his will nor defeat his indomitable spirit.
Shot, tortured, isolated- but whole and dignified, unredeemed. Detained for the first time at 14 years old, subsequently passing nine months in prison, being the youngest political prisoner on the continent, after he would suffer another long imprisonment, from 1992 until 2005. Of his 51 years, he has spent thirty incarcerated.
A revolutionary given that, among many other daring actions, he robbed banks to finance the struggle, which he risked, and is paying dearly for his commitment and courage.
Continue reading A call of solidarity for Anarchist prisoner marcelo villarroel in Chile.
