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Watch out for Altametris drones! (France)

“An extra eye on the network”: how SNCF is using drones to monitor its railway tracks

Le Figaro, May 3, 2025

The rendezvous is at 11pm in the middle of nowhere, in an undisclosed location. There, on the eve of major departures for the long weekend, the SNCF is organizing a rather special surveillance operation, using a drone at the intersection of several high-speed railway lines. High-quality equipment resembling a small plane, capable of flying more than 100 meters above the ground and more than ten kilometers away from its pilot, making it invisible to even the sharpest eyes. Equipped with a thermal sensor and able to see “as in daylight” despite the advanced darkness, it can spot the slightest intruder as well as confirm that the catenaries and other technical installations are in a good condition. “The advantage of the drone is that it can monitor a large area in a very short time, and possibly detect anything abnormal,” explains SNCF Réseau’s Executive Vice President Projects, Maintenance and Operations Olivier Bancel.

The aim of this operation? To prevent the slightest risk in these tense times, but above all to communicate the SNCF’s ability to take advantage of new technologies to protect its 28,000 kilometers of track. As we watch, the exercise begins shortly before midnight, and the drone takes off. A few meters away, the aircraft spots an unmarked car in the vicinity of an SNCF critical juncture that, on the face of it, has no business being there. On the ground, the telepilot indicated this disturbing presence to the rail safety authorities, who immediately took over and sent a team to check it out. Five minutes later, the verdict was in: “all’s well”. “That’s the end of the exercise for us,” says railway safety officer Sébastien Conseil, team leader for the evening. Although this was just a practical exercise, the SNCF assures us that it carries out “doubt verification almost every time a drone is deployed”.
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Anarchist call: Expropriate commodities, support deserters!


It’s always the same in wars. Those who start and organize wars benefit the most. When there is a war, the bourgeoisie increases the profits, but the proletarians count the graves. It is the working class that suffers most in wars: at the war front, on the home front and in civilian life.

The logic of war is reproduced when proletarians dressed in army uniforms fight inter-bourgeois conflicts and murder their class brothers and sisters on the other side of the war line. But the same people also have the power to stop wars. Every deserter brings us closer to that goal. Desertion is not just an individual form of self-defense. It is a class struggle. The struggle of the working class, against the bourgeoisie and the wars it produces. That’s why the logical step is to expropriate capitalist resources and share them with deserters.
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GR: [Μετάφραση] Alfredo M. Bonanno, Συζητώντας για τον Στίρνερ και τον Κροπότκιν

μια συζήτηση με τον Alfredo Salerni που ανακαλύψαμε σχετικά αργ́ά καθώς είχε ολοκληρωθεί η ανάλυση μας για τις πολιτικές καταβολές του Alfredo M. Bonanno, ωστόσο περιλάβαμε κομμάτια από την συζήτηση στο Α επίμετρο με το εξής σχόλιο:

“Αν και ο ίδιος δεν δήλωσε ποτέ ότι ήταν μηδενιστής, ωστόσο δεν μπορούμε να μην επισημάνουμε τη μηδενιστική προσέγγιση της διαρκούς σύγκρουσης που οδηγεί στον επαναπροσδιορισμό της μεθόδου της οργάνωσης -μέσω της αυτο-συνείδησης του ατόμου- στην πλήρη ανάπτυξή της, από την πρακτική εξάσκηση στην γενικευμένη αυτοδιαχείριση που περιέγραψε προηγουμένως. Η άποψη μας είναι ότι η ολοκληρωτική κοινωνία αποτελείται από ανελεύθερα άτομα ενώ τα ολοκληρωμένα άτομα -οι μηδαμινότητες- αποτελούν μια ελεύθερη κοινωνία που πραγματώνει τον κομμουνισμό της χαριστικότητας.”

Συνάντηση με τον Alfredo Salerni:Συζητώντας για τον Στίρνερ και τον Κροπότκιν.

Alfredo Salerni: Ανακαλύψαμε ότι τις τελευταίες ημέρες οργανώνονται τουλάχιστον τέσσερις πρωτοβουλίες για τον Στίρνερ -αυτό έχει σημάνει συναγερμό, το ερμηνεύσατε με κάποια δυσπιστία. Ας αναρωτηθούμε όμως γιατί μιλάμε τώρα για τον Στίρνερ. Σαφώς αν αυτή η συζήτηση γινόταν στην τηλεόραση θα λέγαμε ότι οφείλεται στην κατάρρευση του πραγματικού κομμουνισμού. Ίσως ο Στίρνερ να είναι επίσης ένα άλλοθι που οι αναρχικοί έχουν φέρει μαζί τους: ένα άλλοθι ενάντια σε ορισμένες παραδοχές προς ουτοπίες που είναι υπερβολικά αρθρωτές και βασίζονται στον κομμουνισμό… μπορεί επίσης να είναι και αυτό… Continue reading GR: [Μετάφραση] Alfredo M. Bonanno, Συζητώντας για τον Στίρνερ και τον Κροπότκιν →

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Chile : Using Arms… They Don’t Resonate, They Explode – A Few Words About the Continuity of Insurrectional Action Against Those Who Oppress Our Lives: Between Universities and Laboratories

June 4, 2025 / informativoanarquista

Using Arms… They Don’t Resonate, They Explode – A Few Words About the Continuity of Insurrectional Action Against Those Who Oppress Our Lives: Between Universities and Laboratories

Self-determination and autonomy over our bodies in this world is a chimera; we know this. Within a system of domination that is spreading to more and more corners and dimensions, it seems not only improbable but actually impossible. Facial recognition machines controlling more and more accesses to buildings, an Artificial “Intelligence” that makes reality more indistinguishable from fiction every minute, genetically engineered foods and a seemingly infinite etcetera are part of the landscape our bodies inhabit.

Complete autonomy over our bodies doesn’t exist, but there have been numerous and repeated battles of some aspects that we could frame as self-determination: reproduction is one of these.
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We Are The Fire That Will Melt ICE (Flier) June 16, 2025 (USA)

anonymous submission –

Double-sided pdf for printing

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.
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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

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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.

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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