Erfurt (Germany), June 21: six German army trucks on fire

[Note of Sans Nom: Yesterday, Monday June 23, a dispatch from the German Press Agency (dpa) announced – to the delight of young and old alike – that six German army trucks had gone up in smoke over the weekend in Erfurt (Thuringia region). The trucks were parked in the north of the city, in the parking lot of a maintenance and repair workshop.

This incident comes at a time when the German government is considering compulsory military service, introducing a Veterans’ Day (June 15), boosting the preparation and militarization of the public, and above all spending immeasurable sums for war: the creation of a special €500 billion investment fund earmarked for so-called “security” investments, and an increase in its annual defense budget from €63 billion in 2025 (2% of GDP) to €160 billion by 2030 (3.5% of GDP).

In short, the Erfurt attack was a reminder that not everyone in Germany is prepared to accept this militaristic race to the abyss, whether in Hamburg on June 15, when the director of the Vincorion arms company received an incendiary visit to his home, in Berlin on June 10 when the microchip company Micro Resist Technology was sabotaged, in Berlin on June 17 when thirty-six vans belonging to war collaborators Telekom and Amazon went up in smoke, or on June 6 in Soltau (Lower Saxony) when five army trucks had already been burned: an attack claimed the following day on de. indymedia, which is translated below].
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Fire against the Federal Army! – Arson attack on army vehicles in Soltau (Lower Saxony, Germany)

War and genocide are the most brutal means used in the struggle for control of resources, territories and people. They always go hand in hand with the claim to justify the mass annihilation of human life, forced displacement, collective trauma and unbridled destruction.
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Stopping the heart of the mega-machine
Fire to the microchip producer

Last night, on the site of the Berlin-Wuhlheide Technology Innovation Park, we set fire to electrical cabinets, power cables and a ventilation system at Micro Resist Technology. At a time when Germany is once again mobilizing unashamedly for military power and war-fighting capacity, with special budgets and compulsory military service, we are targeting the heart of the technological mega-machine with our sabotage, and also hitting one of the most sensitive points of civil-military collaboration – the production of microchips. This attack is a contribution to the protests against next Sunday’s National Veterans’ Day [in the context of massive rearmament in the country, Germany inaugurated its first “Veterans’ Day” since the end of the Second World War on June 15, to pay tribute to its veterans]. “Fire and flames“ rather than ”Glory and Honor” for militarism and the fatherland!

Miniscule giants at the crossroads of technology and warfare

The network of capitalist domination weaves ever tighter around us. As it does so, technological progress is the driving force that enables the destructive mega-machine to function and to penetrate ever more deeply into the most intimate aspects of our existence. Inert objects made of plastic and metal, equipped with sensors, microphones, lenses, microchips, etc., are increasingly becoming prostheses for social interaction, replacing genuine relationships and atrophying our cognitive capacities. At the same time, social networks, voice assistants, Artificial Intelligence, so-called “smart” appliances, facial recognition and many other surveillance instruments are tracking us, enabling the capitalist value-creation chain to absorb all our activities to an ever greater extent. Big Data makes Big Money. The implementation of such technologies in our daily lives shapes our very being, and the resulting algorithmic calculations increasingly decide and determine our future. Once we’ve become accustomed to them, these mechanisms operate with such omnipotence that most people can scarcely imagine extricating themselves from the digital grip. For many, the very thought triggers anxiety attacks. All that’s left, then, is a crowd of slaves to the machine, dependent, controlled, alienated and, most of the time, not even aware of this relationship.
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