Category Archives: General

General

Santiago (Chile): Clashes with police and arson attack on a bus

Contra Info / Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Clashes with police on the JGM* campus and arson attack on a Transantiago bus
On the eve of a new commemoration of May Day, when the left of capital celebrates work as if it were something good, natural and desirable, we took to the streets to confront the police, because we refuse to remain indifferent to the criminal peace that they want to impose on us in order to maintain this order of misery, isolation and crisis.
The insurgent and incendiary youth shows us that there is an intuitive refusal and hostility towards the world of adults and work, where time is consumed in a death machine which tends towards the annihilation of human beings, the earth and all the species that inhabit it, and where the future is presented as an immense accumulation of catastrophes.
With this new commemoration of May 1st, we join the days of struggle, remembering the memory and the history of those who have fallen in the struggle and prefiguring with their actions a world beyond the state and capital. We join with the most radical expressions of our time, which continue to fan the flames of conflict, as well as with resistance and organization, wherever they may be found.
OUR LIVES BEFORE THEIR PROFITS
FOR THE COMPLETE AND TOTAL RECOVERY OF OUR LIFE AND TIME
ABOLITION OF LABOR AND CLASS SOCIETY
SOCIAL WAR AGAINST THE STATE, PATRIARCHY AND CAPITAL
SOLIDARITY WITH THE FALLEN COMPAS IN THE RECENT DAYS OF DEMONSTRATION
FREEDOM FOR THE PRISONERS OF THE REVOLT, SUBVERSIVES, THE MAPUCHE AND ANARCHISTS
Note from Attaque: The Juan Gómez Millas campus is one of the five campuses of the Universidad de Chile, in the municipality of Ñuñoa, in the suburbs of Santiago.
General, Sabotage, Arsons Attacks

Russia: incendiary attacks continue on registration offices

Shchelkovsky (Moscow)
On May 18, two molotovs flew inside the military commissariat in Shchelkovsky, near Moscow. Both offices were damaged by the flames, including the archives of the military registration and enlistment office
Volgograd
On May 15, unknown individuals targeted the military registration office in Volgograd. At least one “molotov” flew into the basement of a recruitment center, where a fire broke out consuming the 20 square meter room. No one was arrested.
Pronsk (Ryazan)
Barely an hour later, a message arrived about a fire in the door and window frame of the military registration and enlistment office in the village of Pronsk, Ryazan region. No one was arrested.
Gukovo (Rostov)
On May 13, at about 2:00 a.m., an attempt was made to set fire to the military registration and enlistment office in Gukovo, near Rostov. A flaming molotov hit the wall of the building. According to the state media, the perpetrator “disappeared in an unknown direction”.
Military registration offices in the northern Khanty-Mansi region and in the southern Volgodonsk region were also attacked. (Moscow Times)
[From the Russian anarchist site a2day, May 15 and 18]
General

Hamburg (Germany): chance has found the right cable

An embankment fire hit the right cable in the middle of the city: since Thursday evening, May 12, long-distance train traffic, and more precisely that of several lines of the German high-speed train (called ICE), has been disrupted, especially between Hamburg and Berlin, where almost nothing works. Disruptions are expected at least until Sunday, May 15 included.
The cable fire occurred near the Sternschanze station in Hamburg, on the connecting line that runs from Altona to the central station via Diebsteich, Sternschanze and Dammtor. It is one of the busiest lines in Germany. The cause of the fire is still unknown, but the police do not assume at this time that it was an external intervention. The company explained that all communication between the signal boxes passed through the affected cable, since it is through it that all signals of the switches are controlled. According to the railroad spokeswoman, it is a 1,000-conductor copper cable that would be very difficult to repair. The extensive repair work is still going on.
From Zuendlappen, 13th may 2022
General

Omsk & Cherepovets (Russia): two new recruitement offices hit with molotovs

After the offices in Nizhnevartovsk, Zubova Polyana, Voronezh, Sverdlovsk, Ivanovo and Lukhovitsy (Moscow), two new military recruitment offices have been burned with molotovs in Omsk and Cherepovets. These are the seventh and eighth of their kind to suffer the same fate in Russia since the invasion of Ukraine.

Omsk (Siberia), May 13, 2022

On the night of May 13, 2022 in Omsk, Siberia, unknown individuals threw several molotovs through the windows of the Central District military registration and enlistment office at 74 Pushkin Street. At least two windows were broken. One of the premises of the military registration and enlistment office caught fire and an area of 30 square meters burned. It is also reported that “some archive documents were damaged”.
Cherepovets (Vologda), May 8, 2022
On the night of May 8, 2022 in Cherepovets (Vologda), two unknown individuals set fire to and threw several Molotov bottles against the windows of the military registration and enrollment office. The office is located on the first floor of an administrative building at 118 Krasnodontsev Street. In the video that is circulating, one person throws the molotovs, while the second keeps watch. The fire damaged two window frames and blackened the facade of the building.
Let’s hope that the partisans remain free and that all military registration and enlistment offices are burned to the ground!
[From the Russian anarchist site a2day, May 9 & 14, 2022]
General

Turin, Italy – Cassation for operation Scripta Manent: solidarity initiative in Turin

On 25th May the Court of Cassation will decide concerning the trial related to the “Scripta Manent” investigation at which one comrade, Anna, was sentenced to 16 years and 6 months, and three comrades, Nicola, Marco and Alfredo to 13 months, 21 months and 20 years respectively. 

Among the charges they were sentenced for, as well as that of subversive association and related crimes, for some there is the charge of massacre. As always the State is implementing a policy of reversal of responsibilities given that it is the State itself that commits massacres unpunished in wars, prisons, seas, workplaces, streets, every day in its constant affirmed practice of the monopoly of violence. Continue reading Turin, Italy – Cassation for operation Scripta Manent: solidarity initiative in Turin →

General, Italy - General news ,sabotage, actions and Solidarity with anarchists arrested and all those under investigation

Italy – War a piece at a time

War a piece at a time

On 5th April an outrageous meeting was held at the university of sociology in Trento, a meeting on “participatory processes” centred on the TAV project in Trentino, where the main guest was the mayor of Trento, Franco Ianeselli. In actual fact, a lesson in propaganda on behalf of RFI [Rete Ferroviaria Italiana, Italian Railway Network]. Not long afterwards, in the morning, the university of Sociology made one of its lecture rooms available for a conference entitled “The war in Ukraine and politics in Italy”, organized by the “Jean Monnet” research centre. An initiative in the streets in protest against the presence of the mayor awaited him at the exit (who complains about a “non democratic” confrontation), but also pointing out the role of the university in its collaboration with the war industry. Here we report a speech made by a comrade on the occasion.

A few years ago we wrote a small pamphlet, which ended up on the desks of prosecutors in the anti-anarchist operation denominated “Renata”, saying that in order to be against war it is necessary to attack the health of the State, because to attack the State means to strike the essence of war.

Continue reading Italy – War a piece at a time →

General, Library

Flyer: Caen, The battle is played out in the streets ! (France)

The battle is in the streets!

“There are no supreme saviours.
Neither god, nor Caesar, nor tribune”,
An old song

The results of the first round of the presidential elections, which in any case had nothing cheerful to offer except the funeral oration of the old parties of the PS and the Republicans, have arrived. In a pale replay of 2017, we should delegate our power and march in step behind the ideal gendarme and, above all, the State and Capital, or abandon ourselves to the throes of racism and an ”anti-system” complicit in the reign of hierarchy and money. Another possibility is to express our revolt without waiting.

The electoral system and their democracy are illusions, where we are urged to identify with the concerns of the power, to accept the language and the agenda. All this reveals what elections have never ceased to be: a moment synonymous with passivity where the appetite for delegation and resignation is stimulated. We should, with sorrow or enthusiasm, confuse our interests with those of the established order and empathize with representatives vying for an extra share of wealth and power. Continue reading Flyer: Caen, The battle is played out in the streets ! (France) →

General

In der Tat – English Version – Issue 01

In der Tat is an anarchist journal that is spread quarterly, and mostly in German-speaking territories. An English version was already published in autumn 2020, featuring translations from issue 1 to 8. Now the interested reader can also order copies in so-called Canada and the US.
Order copies in so-called Canada/US: intheact@riseup.net
Order copies in Europe: indertat@riseup.net
Editorial of the 1st issue:
To question all authority, to reject all kinds of power and to enter into conflict with them is a continuous fight. A fight in which we‘re trying to develop free relationships, beyond the existing order. But to create something new also always means to be drawn into the unknown and to dare new relationships, new projects, new steps, and experiments.

Continue reading In der Tat – English Version – Issue 01 →

General

Paris,France: Text by Some of the participants at the Libertad anarchist library

Police bug found at Libertad anarchist library
Hi everyone,
Although my designers pompously christened me “RISO comcolor 7050” when I left the factory, I am better known as the Libertad Anarchist Library’s printer-copier. My move away from the filthy mouth of the real estate speculators who initially employed me gave me a bit of a thrill two years ago: goodbye invoices, rent receipts and other advertising leaflets to be reproduced… and long live subversive ideas! Just imagine if I had had to end my days in yet another branch of domination, printing indigestible university dissertations or insipid democratic petitions addressed to the authorities. In short, in this Belleville library, it was rather posters, leaflets, newspapers, brochures and other anti-authoritarian gems that began to parade before my eyes at a jerky rhythm, when I wasn’t snoozing in my corner in the middle of books and heated discussions against the old world. Continue reading Paris,France: Text by Some of the participants at the Libertad anarchist library →
General

Avtonom.org is now officially blocked in Russia

“Autonomous Action” (Avtonom) has always been a group that spreads anarchism in the Russian-speaking world. We don’t care about national borders. But no matter which states our activists are based, social change in Russia is very important to us.
In this regard, for many years we have tried to comply with Russian law as much as possible to avoid a full-scale blocking of avtonom.org and our social networks. Every year this became more difficult, the bans became more absurd, but we tried to remain unblocked. Now, when you can’t call a war a war, and you can’t be against it, these tactics don’t work anymore.

Continue reading Avtonom.org is now officially blocked in Russia →

General

Russia/Ukraine: A Brief Overview of the Resistance to War

Brief overview of the Resistance to war in Russia and Ukraine
nowarsolidarite, April 2, 2022
(Article written by Russian anarchosyndicalists)
The current Russian-Ukrainian military conflict has led to a wild explosion of the most disgusting and cavernous nationalism on both sides of the front. In Russia, Power calls to “crush” the enemy, in Ukraine – to fight for the “motherland” to the last man. In both states, propaganda seeks to “dehumanize” the enemy as much as possible, and unfortunately, many ordinary citizens fall into this trap set by the leadership. Even many “leftists” and “anarchists” eagerly rush to support the bloodshed, intoxicated by the patriotic poison. Unfortunately, this is always the case at the beginning of wars waged by states. One need only recall the hysterical processions of the masses marching [shouting “To Berlin” or “To Paris”] on the eve and in the first weeks of World War I. Then several years of war passed – and [in 1917] the masses, exasperated by hardship, deceit and suffering – almost suppressed the world of the States and the Capital, which had given rise to that war … Now, alas, we are infinitely far from all that. Certainly, it also seemed very far in August 1914…
The actions of the people of Russia and Ukraine against “military operations”, hostilities, destruction and bloodshed, deserve all the more attention and respect. The month since the invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops already allows a brief overview of the main forms and methods of anti-war protests.

Continue reading Russia/Ukraine: A Brief Overview of the Resistance to War →

General

March 15th, 2022 – 26th Annual International Day Against Police Brutality ( Canada)

From the Collective Opposed to Police Brutality
The evening of March 15th, was the 26th annual protest against police brutality. 26 years of marching, 26 years of systematic repression by police brutality, like an annual tradition that leaves a bad taste in everyone’s mouth. The demonstrators decided to keep control of the sidewalks rather than be chased off the streets by violent and insulting police officers, and attacked the neighborhood’s worst businesses: Dollarama and the National Bank. Let’s remember that if Dollarama is a grocery store of last resort for the poor, it still sells unhealthy crap and is one of the worst companies in Quebec for abusing its workers. And on the other side, the National Bank is investing billions in several important oil projects. In the face of this self-defense of the poor against their oppressors, the police violently attacked the demonstration: truncheons, gas and beatings were the order of the day.

Continue reading March 15th, 2022 – 26th Annual International Day Against Police Brutality ( Canada) →

General

Ukraine: a technological war profiteer

Ukraine is using ClearView AI’s notorious facial recognition software
Le Temps (Switzerland), March 15, 2022
This is a surprise. Strongly criticized for its facial recognition system, the American company ClearView AI has recently started collaborating with the Ukrainian authorities. Its software should make it possible to identify Russians present on its territory, whether they are alive or dead. This rapprochement between the Ukrainian authorities and the New York firm was initiated by the latter which, according to revelations of the Reuters agency, offered its services for free to the country attacked by Russia.
Ukraine began Saturday to use the software ClearView AI, including to identify people at checkpoints. The goal is to identify Russians, presumably to unmask fighters infiltrating among civilians and wanting to engage in acts of sabotage. The director of ClearView AI, Hoan Ton-That, said that he will not offer his services to the Russian authorities. Continue reading Ukraine: a technological war profiteer →