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Long live adventure! Long live attack! Long live anarchy!

Long live adventure! Long live attack! Long live anarchy!

We have been told repeatedly for years now that this is ‘the age of communication’. We too are convinced of this.

Communication of the civilisation of screens, of the destruction of language, of the disappearance, or almost, of the ability to show or feel emotion without robotic supports, the civilisation of freeze-dried feelings on silicon supports.

This communication is based on electrified concrete pylons, repeater towers that spread turmoil and leukaemia, server towers that make whole rivers evaporate, and communication increasingly overlaps with the control and domination they allow: global security experiments such as those put into effect with the advent of the Covid-19, or the brain-shredding war propaganda machine in the war between Nato and Russia are the most recent and devastating examples.

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Affinity: In the desert, hell.

Affinity: In the desert, hell

Life can be a parody of itself or simply a choice. When banality creeps into the guts, horror is always at hand, lurking, to make everything seem normal. If we were to think of the world today, in addition to the ongoing massacre of war and the genocide of consciences in the last two and a half years in the age of contagion, we could, without euphemism, think of the desert. In the desert, everything tends towards the identical, and the most distressing thing is that one never sees the end of it, even when thirsty for oases of shelter.

On the night of 3 June, an entire section of the prison of Cremona goes up in revolt. That place catches fire, the cages are one with black smoke. A few days earlier a prisoner attempted to strangle a screw. The revolt is put down in a great hurry also by cops and firefighters who’d rushed to protect authority, i.e., the segregation of those bodies. About eighty prisoners are evacuated. Who knows how long that section will remain unusable.

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Tragic comedy :

Tragicomedy

She is an advisor to the Prince sent across the border, who today claims to be very ‘shaken’. Thanks to her gracious services, she thought she deserved only praise, honours, interviews, applause. She never thought she would be woken up out of the blue in the middle of the night because one of her cars had been set on fire. Never would she have thought of taking such an ‘unexpected’ ‘risk’. After all, she is only a diplomat, the foreign representative of a State. Who could ever blame her just for that?

Clearly there is – in Athens, but not only –, someone who holds every high official of State responsible for the infamies committed by the State they represent. A car engulfed in flames sufficed to irritate and upset the diplomat’s colleagues to the point of making a Greek tragedy of it (without a fatal ending, albeit, for now). Among them, there are those who declare they are ‘astonished’ at the lack of respect for institutions and those who are ‘worried’ after discovering that these are not so unreachable. But is voluntary servitude really not universal? But are the hyper-securitised neighbourhoods built by fascist regimes really not impregnable?

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Some initial notes on the investigation file against Anarchist Ivan Alocco. (France)

From Counter-Surveillance Resource Center

Languages:  French
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The following information comes from an initial quick reading of the investigation file. Therefore, it is necessarily incomplete.

First of all, how did this investigation start?

The Anti-Terrorism Sub-Directorate (SDAT) of the judicial police began an investigation on its own initiative, at the beginning of January 2022, following “confidential information collected by [the] service” (in another document, a judge speaks of “anonymous intelligence”). The police “gathered” the names of two comrades who, according to this information, were likely to be responsible for the incendiary attacks, claimed by anarchists, which had been targeting vehicles in Paris and the surrounding area for years. In the past, different local police stations and the anti-terrorism group of the DPJ 1 (a section of the Parisian Judicial Police) had already carried out investigations, notably for “criminal association”, without success.

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Italy: number 1 of “Soffi e Graffi” [?Whiffs and Scratches] is out – 18 November 2022

Number 1 of “Soffi e Graffi” [?Whiffs and Scratches] is out – 18 November 2022

Blowing on fire. Fuelling fires. Searching for the powder keg in the wind. The spark of anarchist thought has always aimed at this as it strikes in the most unexpected places. Even before it took a name, the tension towards freedom and revolt already sparked off adventures and instilled courage against subjugation and domination. Blowing away voluntary servitude is a way to look at the world with unprecedented perspectives. From everyday misery one can always set off for an elsewhere, arrive at new forms of thinking and living.

Scratching skin. Some from marks left by the tangled brambles of the Dark and Mysterious Forest. Others the claws of the beasts that make themselves known  looking the enemy in the eye. The latent feeling is that there is still a hostile place, intricate and refractory to those who wish to map and explore it. An untamed being in the world with an existential rage that transcends resistance to mutate it into attack, permanent conflict, autonomy. A small fragment of freedom inside each one of us, unknown even to ourselves, which however at times seeks paths of affinity with other sensitivities. But what use are names for something that is unnameable?

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Latest developments and context concerning the 129 trial in Munich or: The persecution of anarchists and cigarette butts in the Bavarian-Christian kingdom 2022

From Counter-Surveillance Resource Center

Languages: German •  French
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The following text is intended to give some background to the ongoing 129 trial [for criminal association] in Munich and to provide information about recent developments as well as to provide a general assessment of the whole situation. The proceedings became known on 26.04.22, when coordinated house searches took place in four apartments, the anarchist library Frevel and a print shop[1].

Before we explain what we know about the chronological course that the investigations took, we’ll repeat the charges: the 129 criminal association case, including the 15 criminal offenses we are charged with (either calling for criminal acts, approving criminal acts, threatening, or both), relates to the accusation of having edited, written, printed, and distributed the anarchist newspaper Zündlumpen, published from May 2019 to September 2021. In short, the accused are alleged to be the Zündlumpen editorial staff, which in turn is alleged to be a criminal organization. Continue reading Latest developments and context concerning the 129 trial in Munich or: The persecution of anarchists and cigarette butts in the Bavarian-Christian kingdom 2022 →

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Between Storms: Anarchist Reflections of Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en Resistance

We have assembled this publication in solidarity with the ongoing Wet’suwet’en resistance to industrial expansion. This struggle for Indigenous self determination and land defence has become a landmark moment of rupture across the colonial nation of Canada and beyond. We felt the need to compile this zine in an effort to take a step back and witness the breadth and fierceness of these last few years – with a particular focus on the year that has just passed since the start of ‘Coyote Camp’ and the specific battle against the attempt to drill under Wedzin Kwa.
Not to produce some stale collection for the history shelves, but to inspire and learn from these events as they continue to unfold. As we go to print, CGL has just begun the drilling under the river that many have fought so hard to prevent. It’s a sad day and this part of their destruction will have devastating effects. But this doesn’t mean that this fight has been in vain, the project is not complete and opportunities for intervention abound.

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Solidarity Brochure: Erhobenen Hauptes, Flammenden Herzens (German, France)

Solidarity Brochure: Erhobenen Hauptes, Flammenden Herzens

In solidarity with Boris, who has been hospitalized for more than a year following the fire in the cell in which he was imprisoned for having set fire to two cell phone antennas, a collection of texts has been circulating since May 2022 on paper throughout France. Titled “From technological chains to prison bars, a whole world to be torn down”, this extensive booklet has inspired comrades from across the Rhine, who have added new texts to their translation, in order to continue to carry the solidarity with Boris across borders, and whose introduction can be found below.

Erhobenen Hauptes, Flammenden Herzens. Textsammlung rund um den Fall von Boris und den Kampf gegen die technologische Infrastruktur in Frankreich, (in German), 76 pages A4, November 2022

Preface to Heads High, Hearts Burning: Collection of texts about the Boris case and the fight against technological infrastructures in France.

More than two years ago, on the night of April 9-10, 2020, an anarchist from the French city of Besançon named Boris went for a little night stroll and left behind two burning antennas, which caused the collapse not only of the regional telecommunication network of the various French cell phone operators, but also of the cops’ radio network. Two pillars of techno-industrial civilization, at least for a while.

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The Guide to Peer-to-Peer, Encryption, and Tor: New Communication Infrastructure for Anarchists

An exhaustive anarchist overview and guide to various apps and tech that utilize peer-to-peer and encryption.

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Secure encryption chat apps are essential infrastructure for anarchists, so they should be closely scrutinized. Signal is the dominant secure encryption tool used by anarchists today. Conspiracy theories notwithstanding, the fundamental architecture and development goals of Signal have potential security implications for anarchists. Signal is a centralized communication service, and centralization results in potential security implications, especially when contextualized within the current threat landscape. Alternative secure chat apps like Briar and Cwtch are Peer-to-peer communication tools that, in addition to being Encrypted like Signal, route all traffic through Tor (PET). This approach to secure communication offers great advantages for security, anonymity and privacy over more common services like Signal, but with caveats. However, anarchists should seriously consider trying and using Briar and/or Cwtch, in the interest of developing more resilient and more secure communication infrastructure.

Despite all that, the best way to communicate anything securely is still face-to-face.

Shhh…

This is a discussion about digital tools for communicating securely and privately. To begin, it must be stressed that a face-to-face meeting, out of sight of cameras and out of earshot from other people and devices, is the most secure way to communicate. Anarchists were going for walks to chat long before encrypted texting existed, and they should still do so now, whenever possible.

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ITALIA: CALIGINE Nº4 (ES/EN/IT)

El cuarto número de Caligine, palabras en negativo entre los matices oscuros de la realidad.
36 páginas A4
Para escribir y recibir copias: caligine@riseup.net
CALIGINE, Sobborgo Valzania 27, 47521 Cesena (FC)
4 euros por ejemplar; 3 euros a partir de 5 ejemplares
ÍNDICE
Editorial
El coro de la unidad nacional
Odas en el zumbido
Kairos
El poder al descubierto
Soledad y autorrealización
Para calmar el viento y el insomnio
Un peine lleno de nudos
Espejos
Contar es dar
Pequeño cuento de hadas. Una cuestión de paradigmas
Al borde del vértice

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Paris,France: Discussion at Libertad anarchist library Storming the shadowed heavens?

Paris ,Discussion at Libertad: Storming the shadowed heavens?

Thursday, November 3, 6:00 pm

Anyone who seeks to understand what conditions exist that give rise to the potential for any revolutionary hypothesis today must, sooner or later, formulate the entire set of problems with clarity, in order to be able to face them. Tracing the thread of radical and revolutionary critique back to the recent past, but also looking at the generalized uprisings and revolts of the last few years here and internationally, could enable us to take a step in this direction. Not with the intention of finding ready-made answers and especially not “solutions”, but to modestly start asking questions, without waiting for the next insurrection.

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Solidarity with all those fighting against the war in Russia and Ukraine. (Greece)

Solidarity with all those fighting against the war in Russia and Ukraine.

In the early hours of Thursday 24/2, the Russian state launched a large-scale attack on the Ukrainian state. A bloody war is developing with thousands of deaths, rapes, killings of civilians and destructions of the natural world.

In the Russian state, against the calls for national unity, transnational massacres and military recruiting, a war against war is unfolding. Mass demonstrations, refusals of military recruiting, armed attacks on military personnel, arson of recruiting offices are being developed. Actions that also take place are sabotage on railway lines that transport military equipment and on factories that produce war material. One of the most hopeful anti-militarism movements of recent decades is underway.

The Russian state is trying in vain to suppress this movement, by arresting and conducting express trials that imprisoned many people opposing those things, with exterminating sentences. The Moscow Anarchist Black Cross makes an international call for solidarity to those imprisoned and in complete isolation. We answer to this call and send strength and solidarity to the comrades in the prisons of Russia.

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EN/DE/ : The anarchist library „Fermento“ closes its doors in Zurich at the end of October 2022

The anarchist library „Fermento“ closes its doors at the Zweierstr. 42 in Zurich at the end of October

After more than 10 years, at three different locations in Zurich, the
anarchist library „Fermento“ with the archive and the distro part will
be put into storage. Stored does not mean that it will no longer be
accessible, but there will be temporarily no more opening times and we leave the current location at Zweierstr. 42 in Zurich by the end of
October 2022.

We look back on countless meetings and discussions with people from near and far. On book presentations and film viewings, on moments where people from different struggles and projects have met to exchange ideas, on publications and a lot more…all of it, to attack the dominion with its diverse facets.

We don’t know at the moment what will happen with the anarchist library „Fermento“. But we know that we will continue to deepen our ideas to fight the authorities.
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Carrara, Italy: The two dragons of my anarchism. Writings of Juan Sorroche

Translated by Anarchists of the anarchist project Act for freedom now!

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The two dragons of my anarchism. Writings of Juan Sorroche

I DUE DRAGONI
DEL MIO ANARCHISMO   [THE TWO DRAGONS OF MY ANARCHISM]

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Writings of Juan Sorroche

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INDICE

Introduction 5
Counterpoints 7
Ecce a male homo!
When will the anti-authoritarian emancipation from the male role be? 12
The cult of hatred!!! 18
Everything changes, everything is in constant motion… 23
My” “individual-existentialism-mystic-anarchism” 27
First statement at the trial for the action at the Lega di Treviso premises 33
Second statement at the trial for the action at the Lega di Treviso premises 37
Appendice 41

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The two dragons of my anarchism

Introduction

Hola comrades,
I am happy to take part in the anarchist book fair in Carrara, 2022, and to intervene through my friends and comrades with this pamphlet, and in the presentation of issue 14 of ‘i giorni e le notti’, an anarchist magazine of which I feel an intrinsic part.
Books, fanzines, anarchist journals…I believe that editorial collaboration, non-commercial book fairs, or collaboration in creating a book or reading it and analysing it together, is for me a process of praxis and realisation, which goes far beyond a purely mechanistic question. The relations, the relationships, the contrasts of the different individualities create a diversified whole of organic and living development in its symbiosis of unrepeatable and unique human relations and relationships.

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