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EL: [Μετάφραση] Alfredo Maria Bonanno – Αυτόνομοι πυρήνες βάσης
Προκειται για ένα απόσμασμα με τίτλο ‘Nuclei autonomi di base’, από το βιβλίο Teoria e partica dell’insurrezione, Catania, 1984, pp. 112-117, από την αρχική μετάφραση της Jane Weir. Στο τέλος της ανάρτησης μπορείτε να κατεβάσετε το κείμενο σε πιντιέφ αρχείο.
Αυτόνομοι πυρήνες βάσης
Η ανάλυση των μέσων του αγώνα δεν μπορεί να αγνοήσει την αξιολόγηση των συνθηκών κάτω από τις οποίες διεξάγεται ο αγώνας. Η προετοιμασία ενός μέσου που είναι ικανό να επιτεθεί και να νικήσει το σχέδιο των αφεντικών απαιτεί επομένως μια αναλυτική προσπάθεια που υπερβαίνει αυτό που οι απλές τεχνικές λεπτομέρειες του μέσου θα μπορούσαν να οδηγήσουν σε υποθέσεις.
Οι αυτόνομοι πυρήνες βάσης είναι ελάχιστα μέσα παρέμβασης στην πραγματικότητα του αγώνα. Είναι η μικρότερη οργανωτική μορφή, που επιτρέπει την ανασυγκρότηση -στο επίπεδο της επανάστασης- του ατομικού ιστού, ο οποίος κινδυνεύει πάντα να διαρραγεί κατά την επαφή με τις καθημερινές προσκλήσεις.
Ένα παλιό ή ένα νέο μέσο αγώνα; Η απάντηση δεν είναι απλή. Η μακρά ιστορία της εκμετάλλευσης βλέπει την επίμονη επανεμφάνιση μορφών που συχνά έρχονται να απορριφθούν σε ορισμένες φάσεις του αγώνα, για να επανεμφανιστούν και να απορριφθούν ξανά. Μόνο ένας εξωτερικός παρατηρητής θα έβλεπε αυτές τις «επιστροφές» ως απλά αναβαπτισμένα τρόπαια του παρελθόντος. Επί της ουσίας, ένα μέσο αγώνα αποκτά νόημα (όχι απλώς ένα «νέο» νόημα) όταν εγκαθιδρύει μια ουσιαστική σχέση με το επίπεδο της σύγκρουσης στην παρούσα φάση. Σε αντίθετη περίπτωση, όχι μόνο δεν θα είναι ένα «νέο εργαλείο», αλλά δεν είναι καν εργαλείο, θα αποτελεί μονάχα μια εξαρτημένη παλινδρόμηση της ίδιας της εξουσίας.
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Let’s take queer history into our own hands: Ballroom Culture (Greece)
We publish the text “Let’s take queer history into our own hands: Ballroom Culture” in english that was written in 2023 and presented in Antiviosi squat in Ioannina. The text was translated for BAB2025. We take a look at the history and the historical context in which ballroom culture was created and flourished and how we value it as part of the queer experience. We also draw a parallel to the Transvestite pageants that were held in Greece from some available sources. The text in greek can be found here: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1623133/
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Let’s take queer history into our own hands: Ballroom Culture
The beginnings of the drag ball culture can be traced back to the second half of the 19th century in the USA. The first masquerade queer ball was held in 1869 at the Hamilton Lodge Hall in Harlem, New York, where 500 same-sex couples attended to dance. Its format was similar to that of a ball of the elite.
Balls as a form of entertainment were maintained in the following years, and by the beginning of the next century they had taken the form of drag balls, i.e. fashion shows with performances in which drag queens participated. The events were organized by white gay men and were spaces accepting to homosexual and bisexual visibility, and even trans identities. From the late 19th century, with the abolition of slavery, balls were able to be multiracial, which potentially meant the gradual participation of black people in them.
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[GR/EN] Κουίρινγκ του χώρου/ Queering of space (Greece)
We publish the text “Queering of space: Historical and militant structures and communities” which was presented in the context of Antiviosi squat’s 14th Birthday in October 2022, Ioannina and was translated in english for BAB2025.
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[ΕΝ] Queering of space: Historical and militant structures and communities.
Queer struggles and stories have always been omitted or even subdued from the tellings of history, resulting in both the erasure of the radical past of the queer liberation movement and its connection with self-organization and anti-authority, resulting in the loss of its subversive multidimensional beginnings. We, therefore, consider it important to highlight a part of queer history which is connected to squatting, anti-authority, and direct action as a means of creating (reimagining) a world we want to live in.
Queer identity, like any other sexuality and gender identity, is considered a purely personal matter. Neo-Marxists have disparaged it from political analysis on the pretext that desire is a matter of body politics alone, and thus it hinders our engagement with more “serious” issues. They relegated sexuality to the bodily/local/personal which they considered less worthy of attention than the class/global/political. Ergo, the exploration of sexuality relative to space has been underdeveloped in the discussions concerning globalization and transnational capitalism. As if the division into local and global is natural, and the struggles involved in each are unrelated. At the same time, and perhaps more calamitously, the methods that various(marginalized) communities used to “conquer” a space they could belong and be able to act for themselves (and their communities) were ignored.
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Edizioni Anarchismo, 2025: Verso il nulla creatore” di Renzo Novatore, seconda edizione.
Nuova pubblicazione: “Verso il nulla creatore” di Renzo Novatore, seconda edizione (Edizioni Anarchismo, 2025)
Catalogo completo su www.edizionianarchismo.net
Per contatti e ordini: edizionianarchismo@gmail.com
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Renzo Novatore,
Verso il nulla creatore
Leggere Novatore è un’impresa. I motivi per cui, oggi, si viene respinti dalla lettura di un testo come quello che presentiamo qui di seguito sono parecchi e tutti paralleli ai motivi, altrettanto numerosi, per cui se ne rimane affascinati. Il disgusto deriva dal modo di scrivere, dalle infiorettature stilistiche, dalle assordanti ripetizioni, dalla retorica tratta per i capelli a servire da strame per lo sbocciare di un fiore ormai fuori del tempo. Il fascino viene da quello che il lettore ricorda – il lettore provveduto, non quello accidentale – della vita di questo ribelle, morto con le armi in pugno in un conflitto a fuoco contro i carabinieri che volevano catturarlo. Ma una vita bella, e certamente la sua lo fu, una vita “contro”: contro la guerra, contro i fascisti che della guerra furono gli esecutori testamentari, contro i padroni che mandarono i proletari a morire in un sanguinoso quanto assurdo conflitto e poi gestirono i fantocci fascisti per mettere paura alle giuste rivendicazioni dei sopravvissuti, una vita bella, dicevo, non è detto che possa trovare riscontro in belle pagine scritte. Eppure le parole di Novatore meritano una riflessione, mentre non meritano l’entusiasmo di sprovveduti lettori che trovano in esse esattamente quello che non c’è, che il suo autore, quasi certamente (di questo non si può mai essere sicuri), non voleva che ci fosse. Il fatto è che la madre degli imbecilli purtroppo è sempre gravida.
Aprile 2025, collana “Piccola Biblioteca”, seconda edizione con una nota biografica, 80 pagine, prezzo di copertina euro 7,00
South London (UK) : Announcing the first ★ SOUTH LONDON ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR ★
South London (UK): announcing the first ★ SOUTH LONDON ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR ★
Sunday 27th July 2025
at 56a Infoshop, Crampton Street, SE17 3AE
Starting with an evening discussion: Sat 26th July, 6:30pm
Discussion and Tables: Sun 27th, 11am-7pm
More details and updates: slab.noblogs.org and here:
Contact: slab [at] inventati [dot] org
ANTI-POLITICAL ★ INDIVIDUAL REVOLT ★ INFORMAL ORGANISATION ★ ATTACK
London is a disneyland for the world’s dominators. The scientific and economic elites and their armies of technicians rule here unopposed – without having to fight against any idea which could challenge the foundations of this society. For this reason, they are free to use this city as a stable base to plan, launch, and profit from one-sided slaughters which subdue the lands where ‘critical resources’ are to be found, whether in Congo (cobalt), Yemen (Saudi oil fields) or Gaza and the West Bank (water and land).
But London is not spared from the relentless sacrifice of life to the economy. The bosses and their enforcers have us exactly where they want us: our time and life sucked dry in forced pointless activity called work and school, made sick by toxic materials in order to sustain addiction to useless objects. This city of exploitation and control is an endless ‘opportunity’ for anyone with money and power and an upgraded, high-tech hell for the rest of us.
The latest ‘upgrade’ here in south London is the proposal to expand the tube network of hyper-speed exploitation down the Old Kent Road to Lewisham – a dirty deal between TFL and finance capital which is already yielding luxury developments, springing up like a rash. Rent, energy, food-price hikes which sow desperation and abject dependence on charity… The oppression of passing the days in mouldy, pest-ridden, flood-prone, flammable boxes… Limitless police-state controls on the neighbourhoods… These are just a few of the attacks being deployed.
Not everyone wants to accommodate themselves, fit in, bow their heads, conform to all this. And among those who want to fight back, not everyone wants to put their trust in political parties, trade unions, pressure groups, activists, university career-critics, community leaders, official organisations, federations, large social movements.
Some make the choice of individual revolt which can spread. These ideas and acts of rebellion have nothing to say to those in power, but instead speak directly to raging hearts. Each one in struggle to unleash their own freedom, breathing life into a self-organised struggle for the freedom of all.
This is what we want to explore in the South London Anarchist Bookfair – with discussions and publications, delving into ideas which are outside of time, outside of measure and popularity, out of control. We want to share and explore our choices in the struggle against power in all its disguises, here and now.
Portland Hillsboro, Oregon (USA) : FIRE AT HILLSBORO DATA CENTER
On Thursday, May 23rd, a thick cloud of putrid black smoke rose over Hillsboro, OR. The smoke was from an early morning fire at one of the massive data centers based in the city. According to local media, the fire originated from batteries inside the Digital Realty (PDX 11) data center. Unfortunately, the flames did not spread to the rest of the data center and the damage was minimal. Firefighters let the fire burn itself out for five hours. The fire caused major disruptions on the web, including big outages to X/Twitter, which was reportedly one of the companies leasing space at the data center. There is currently no public information about the cause of the fire.
Hillsboro, Portland’s Western neighbor, is home to several major data centers that are the engines of digital control and technological domination. Incentivized by tax breaksand lax regulations, Hillsboro (AKA the Silicon Forest) has become an important international hub for the tech industry. Data centers and chip manufacturer like Intel have expanded their footprint there in recent years, and the AI boom is likely to bring in more new construction. This rapid expansion requires hugely increased power supply; the upgrade of existing transmission infrastructure, the installation of new “green” energy facilities in Eastern Oregon, and even proposals to construct nuclear power plants along the Columbia river. Portland General Electric (PGE) planned on clearcutting several acres in Forest Park to make way for new high-voltage pylons. From Against the Silicon Forest: “These power lines are designed to bring power to the Silicon Forest, most notably given the timing of this expansion, to Intel, whose largest operating hub lies just a short distance west of Forest Park.” The project is currently in limbo, awaiting the next action from PGE (PGE can choose to appeal the land use ruling and win approval from the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals).
Data centers in Hillsboro, Oregon.
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Greece: Casus Rebelli 4 Initiative for total army refusal (athens)
Press here to download the file in pdf format.
Contents:
- Editorial
- For solidarity to army refuser Ella Keidar Greenberg (Israel)
- Refusal Statement: The imperative is Refusal
- Against military service and for the rejection of all militarism (Hamburg)
- Toulouse, au centre des guerres
- Militarism and “anti-militarism” in Bristol and beyond
- The Local Face of Militarism (Slovenia)
- Solidarity to the regions of Palestine – Insubordinates to the slaughters of state and bosses
- Burnt flags look beautiful
- Nations are not vegeterians…
EDITORIAL
We have entered a condition in which the war rhetorics, actions and policies are proliferating and presented by the dominant groups as a ‘natural’ outcome – for some of its actors inevitable and for others legitimate – of the immediately preceding era, that of fear and imperilment. Now, the economic plunder, the strategies of customs tariffs and inflation, with all the techno-scientific controls at their side, are expressed in warlike terms.
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Number of the day: a 50% increase of physical attacks on the war economy
The news came to us from a specialist journal that not many read, other than those interested, and from someone who is usually more discreet, but who felt that the time was serious enough to sound the alarm.
In the April 14, 2025 issue of the monthly magazine L’Usine Nouvelle, an interview with General Philippe Susnjara, head of the French Defense Intelligence and Security Directorate (DRSD) we learn about the “radicalization of certain anti-militarist groups”, with the very interesting consequence of “potentially curbing increases in the rate of production driven by prime contractors in the midst of a war economy”. And just to give a few tips to enthusiasts of the topic, another business journalist added the next day on a state radio station that “it’s the SMEs in the sector that are most exposed. They are more numerous, less protected than the major companies, and often ill-prepared.”
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The Anarchist library is closing permanently due to the closure of The Field which has kindly hosted us since August 2023. (South London,UK)
The last normal Touchpaper opening will be Tuesday 22nd April. After this we will not have a permanent place for the library or discussions (for the foreseeable future).
But TOUCHPAPER DISTRO will continue! And TOUCHPAPER ‘SOCIAL STUDY CIRCLE’ will start meeting soon, in whatever places we can find to gather in.
For anyone interested in circulating, reading and discussing anarchist texts and ideas, please join our mailing list by emailing touchpaper@riseup.net
Threat Library: Case against Louna, France
From Threat Library – Repressive Operations
On the night of May 4 to May 5, 2024, an excavator was set on fire at the construction site of a highway project.[1] On October 12, 2024, Louna was arrested and accused of setting the excavator on fire. Several other people were arrested and released soon after.
CCTV footage from the arson site showed two people setting fire to the excavator, and one of them burning themselves accidentally. In the hours following the arson, Louna was brought by car to a nearby hospital, where she was admitted for burns allegedly compatible with those visibly suffered by the person who burned themselves in the footage.
After her arrest, Louna was detained in isolation for four months — she was in isolation because she was in a men’s prison despite being a (trans) woman.[2] After her arrest, she claimed responsibility for the degradations against the excavator. She is currently under judicial supervision pending trial.
Techniques used
Zine: The Struggle Against Ghost Robotics
It is unclear what the struggle for Palestinian liberation will look like in the coming days. At the time of this writing a ceasefire has just been reached between Hamas and the Zionist entity, at the same time the Zionist entity continues to devastate Gaza and the West Bank.
Last year a specific struggle against a local technology company connected the dots between Palestinian liberation, local gentrification, education, militarism, and borders. The company in question, Ghost Robotics, has come under fire for creating robot dogs used by the Israeli Defense Forces.
The most beautiful days are when it rains…stones on the streets (Athens,Greece)
THE BEST DAYS ARE WHEN IT RAINS…
The rallies of February 28th have left a resounding impression behind them. Everyone (government, think tanks, parties, media) sees the crowd gathered in terms of statistics and votes, “national mourning”, “indignation” and “expectation of a better state”. It is a convenient reading: it is wise to homogenize the widespread social dissatisfaction and anger – not only for the Tempi – under pandemic “national needs” because it is dangerous. To fit it into molds of loyalty and “peaceful protest” . To give “presence” to the Constitution – as if it were not a strike – but a social media event. To make the Tempi case a riddle to be solved by “experts” and “uneducated judges”. The people who took to the streets had somehow to conform to a savoir vivre defined by some abstract “common mourning”, to define themselves permanent victims (a favorite role of the left) who are only seeking a little state care and affection and not to express their anger at the oppression they receive on many fronts. To be indignant about the “cover-up” while forgetting something basic, that there is a permanent and concrete “cover-up”: in the world of the state, the bosses and the patriarchy, “accidents” happen to disposable lives. So it’s not just trains, but all of everyday life: from accidents in the workplace (45 dead already in 2025), the “deflected” police bullets on the bodies of “undesirables”, to the murders of immigrants at the borders…
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Cops and robbers? A history of investigative techniques 2025
Imprisoned for publishing an anarchist newspaper
In what follows, we’re going to tell you about the miserable endeavor that kept the Munich State Protection busy for two years: how the hell they managed to steal the blood of anarchist N. for a DNA sample. The Bavarian cops spared no expense or effort to carry out this operation, and some of the methods they employed may well be of interest to you. At the end of the text, you’ll also find a list of other investigative measures used by the Munich police during this investigation.
Recently, on February 26, 2025, anarchist comrades N. and M. were arrested. The initial arrest warrant was issued with the charge of criminal conspiracy, for publishing (together with another person) the anarchist periodical Zündlumpen.
More details on these charges can be found here.
What is policing?
One could say that the police are nothing more than a permanent military occupying force on a particular territory, attempting to project its power across space (and time) by means of technological tools. Our dear detectives Obermaiers, Findeisens, Unglaubs, and Rinds understood this perfectly, participating in a reading group called “EG Schrift” [“Special Writing Investigation Group”], which was certainly informative for them. But nobody understands this better, to the point of having managed to fool entire squads of cops for years, than the famous Bavarian “folk heroes”. All of them thieves and poachers, like the Bavarian Hiasl or the brigand Kneißl, and not forgetting all the peasant deserters during the first revolutionary uprisings against the (Bavarian) authorities. However, it’s not just these famous figures from a long-forgotten era, but also countless present-day individuals who still manage to escape the clutches of the henchmen of the (renewed) Bavarian dynasty, exposing them more or less mercilessly to public ridicule.
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Return Fire vol.6 chap.8 – winter 2024-2025 releases, part ii
We present the second part of this winter’s double-issue (part i here), and a separate version of the covers if you’re printing yourself. Contents follow:
Green Anarchy in the UK
(posing the old question anew)
L’Espoir C’est La Lutte
(strategy for subversive encounters)
‘The Position of the Excluded’
& ‘Thrown Out of the Troika of History to the Wolves of Memory’
The Kanak Insurrection and the Nickel Industry
(anti-colonial uprising in the age of “green” energy)
Calling It Terror
& ‘A Lose-Lose Situation’
Avoiding the ‘Peaceful Protest’ Trap
(getting street-wise for the coming round of confrontations)
Follow the Fires
& ‘Identity Precedes Ideology’
Beyond the Screen, the Stars
& We Close the Door
Poems for Love, Loss and War
Memory as a Weapon
(a window into mind-sets of revenge and pleasure in (pre-)revolutionary times)
Rebels Behind Bars
(text by prisoners & repression news)
Wounded Healers
(review: Derrick Jensen’s ‘Anarchism & the Politics of Violation’)
The Darkness Criticizes the Wolf for Howling at the Moon
(countering revisionism in anti-authoritarian spiritualities)
…and more!
In coming days, the six supplement zines to this double-chapter will be uploaded and announced, along with other website additions and news.
For a March 8th of memory and struggle,
R.F.
All across the country a combative movement has directly stood up against ICE, DHS and the broader
machinery of deportation and border enforcement. We are not just LA, but we are MPLS, NYC, Phoenix, Atlanta, and many more cities.
As ICE continues to invade, as police continue to protect them and the supposed opposition can only manage nice words we see clearly that “sanctuary” is paper thin and if it’s ever to be it’s up to us to make it. And look how we’ve done it, all over the country putting state security forces on the run. In Newark an uprising in a detention center joined with combative action on the outside enabled 9 people to flee captivity, with 4 still on the run.
Continue reading We Are The Fire That Will Melt ICE (Flier) June 16, 2025 (USA) →