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(Chile) Anarchist Comrade Luciano Pitronello, “Tortuga”, is dead.

Comrade Luciano Pitronello, “Tortuga”, has died.

We are making it known that a few hours ago (11/08/2024) the anarchist comrade Luciano Pitronello “Tortuga” died, due to the seriousness of the injuries caused by an electrocution accident while he was working on the afternoon of Friday, August 9th 2024.

Comrade Tortuga participated and contributed actively in different anarchist/anti-authoritarian projects, where he always positioned himself in open confrontation with the world of power. In June 2011, a homemade device that he intended to install in a bank in the centre of Santiago exploded in his hands, causing him serious physical injuries. During the judicial process against him, he refused to give away the other comrade who was with him on a motorbike the night of the failed attack.

Bon voyage Luciano, you will live forever in the conflict, in the knife and the word.

via: informativoanarquista.

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CROYDON SOUTH LONDON,UK : If they fail to show up, why let the moment go to waste?

CROYDON, SOUTH LONDON.

If they fail to show up, why let the moment go to waste?

In the context of increased violence on the part of the cowardly thugs who bow before bosses but go on the hunt for those who appear different from themselves, rumours circulated that just such a group would descend on Croydon on the night of Wednesday 7th August (one of hundreds of locations supposedly floated for that day on various right-wing channels). But a group of youth (the media report around 50) were already out in North End Road in Croydon, on the evening of Wednesday the 7th, by the looks of things, in order to greet the expected fascists with a well deserved warm welcome.

As it so happened, no one showed up. But why let the moment go to waste?
The crowd, who the media report as ‘wearing balaclavas’, began to drag objects into the road, set fires, and greeted the intervening cops on their way with fireworks and projectiles. Regrettably, 10 youth from the group were later arrested and some charged with ‘violent disorder’ and ‘going equipped for arson’. The media were quick to insist on the “anti-social” nature of these events, drawing a distinction between the phenomenon seen in Croydon and the attempted pogroms and “counterprotests” taking place elsewhere recently.

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Montreal,Canada : L’espoir c’est la lutte: Reflections on the Night Demo of July 19th.

On July 19th, under a calm night sky, over 60 people assembled in downtown Montreal to march for Palestine. The demonstration was publicized without using social media, resulting in no police presence visible at the gathering location. The account that follows comes from a couple of participants in the demo. We hope to share an understanding of what went down for those who weren’t there and make some suggestions for next time.

Around 10pm, the march set off, a front banner announcing “L’espoir c’est la lutte” alongside a circle-A, and a banner reading “Liberation to the people, liberation to the land” bringing up the rear. Snaking through streets beneath skyscrapers and chanting, the energy in the crowd gradually rose as we acclimated to the strange reality: no bike cops, no riot cops, no cops in front, in back, or on the sides, just us and our friends and comrades, and their friends and comrades, and theirs, our black bloc and keffiyeh bloc protecting us from the hundred or so surveillance cameras that would inertly record our stroll.

The march lasted sixteen minutes. Fireworks were set off upon reaching Square Victoria, site of the Al-Soumoud camp, dismantled two weeks prior. Demonstrators quickly began breaking bank windows, hitting a CIBC and Scotiabank. Heading against traffic on Saint-Jacques, we were greeted ecstatically by Friday night party-goers, who stepped into the street to cheer, and drivers who rolled down their windows to high-five black-gloved militants. Some supportive passersby began excitedly following the demo as it continued towards the Caisse de Dépot et Placement du Québec (CDPQ). The CDPQ, which had been singled out by the Al-Soumoud camp a block away, has $14 billion invested in companies complicit in the genocide in Palestine. Though its windows appeared challenging to break, several were tagged, several others shattered, and a smoke device was tossed through an opening into an office space, hopefully setting off sprinklers and causing water damage.
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ANARCHIST BOOK FAIR BERLIN-KREUZBERG 2024, 5-8 SEPTEMBER AT NEWYORCK INBETHANIEN (Germany)

It is with great pleasure that we announce that an anarchist book fair will take place from 5 September to 8 September 2024 at NewYorck in Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2 A, 10997 Berlin-Kreuzberg.

The book fair should not only serve to give anarchist books, ergo anarchist ideas, more space. Above all, we want to intensify debates that must lead to practical action. Books and all written products are important vehicles that can connect us all – yet books themselves are nothing, it is the content they carry that is useful – it is the practice that forms a real movement.

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(Chile) Fiery Outings at Manuel Barros Borgoño High School in Memory of Luisa Toledo and in Solidarity with the Prisoners of July 6

July 17, 2024 / informativoanarquista

On both Tuesday the July 9 as well as the Friday the 12th, masked students of Manuel Barros Borgoño High School displayed banners, spread pamphlets and armed barricades while confronting the presence of the COP with molotovs. The first day in memory of Luisa Toledo, and the second in solidarity with the comrades who were detained and imprisoned during the July 6 raids in Villa Francia and other areas, the same day that the 3 year anniversary of the death of comrade Luisa Toledo was being commemorated.

Translated by Act for freedom now!

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Every Heart is a Timembomb – Screening and Discussion Tuesday 6th August at Touchpaper Anarchist Library South (London, UK)

Every Heart is a Timembomb – Screening and Discussion

Tuesday 6th August 7PM
Touchpaper Anarchist Library SE145HD

Rote Zora was a women’s armed struggle group agitating in Germany in the 1970s through to the 1990s. The group originated as a feminist breakaway from the Revolutionary Cells, inspiring an entire generation to fight against patriarchy in all its expressions: (gene) technology, medical, domestic and systemic violence, rape culture, religious power, the medical industry, the war industry – exploitation and oppression at work, in the streets, and at home.

With glue, spraypaint, arson, poetry and bombs, they fought against the old world they lived in, with a burning desire for a new world without oppression, exploitation or war. Together, we will watch the documentary “Frauen bildet Banden!” (women, form gangs!) from 2019, made by FrauenLesbenFilmCollectif Las Otras, in which a number of Rote Zoras share with us their experiences about the struggle against patriarchy, connecting the struggles of the past with the opportunities that lie ahead of us today.

Starting from a few of their communiques, we will go deeper in a few
topics they have brought to the table back then and that might inspire us today.

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Fiery Outing at Playa Ancha University for the Land and Against Capital ( Chile)


July 8, 2024 / informativoanarquista

On Thursday June 27 at the UPLA, barricades were erected, pamphlets were spread, banners were raised, and confrontations took place against the presence of the COP (gendarmes) in the context of the commemoration for the defense of the land against ecocidal extractivism. In this direct action at the port, attention was drawn to Felipe Ríos, currently facing repression and held hostage by the social democratic police state.

Pamphlets and banners read: “Felipe Ríos is with us. Freedom to prisoners”. “Dealers and cops, the same bullshit. Take up your weapon, let them know that their faces are the targets of our bullets”, “freedom for subversive prisoners” and “the promised land is nothing but subdued land. Autonomy and freedom”.

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Final Statement of the Balkan Anarchist Bookfair 2024

From the 5th to the 7th of July, Prishtina, Kosova, transformed into a hub of anarchist thought, coordination, and solidarity as it hosted the 16th edition of the Balkan Anarchist Bookfair (BAB). This first-ever anarchist gathering in an Albanian-speaking locality brought together over 250 participants from 29 countries, spanning from Chile to Azerbaijan. A total of 32 collectives and initiatives exhibited books and zines, and 18 discussions and events were organized, showcasing the movement’s all-encompassing diversity. In the true spirit of collectivism and mutual aid, participants got engaged in the organization, making this event a remarkable demonstration of what can be achieved through collective effort.

Having such an event in Prishtina is of particular importance. Since the end of the war, Kosova has remained ensnared in a perpetual state of conflict, leading to an enduring atmosphere of tension between the state of Kosova and Serbia. The elites on both sides have highly capitalized on this situation, ensuring and thriving on division among the societies. The mere fact that comrades from all over the Balkans, including Kosova and Serbia, stood side by side, denouncing nationalism and state politics, is a powerful testament to our collective commitment to solidarity, resistance, and collaboration across the artificial borders and state politics that aim to divide us.

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Intervention at the consulate of Kenya | Solidarity with the rebels (Athens,Greece)

On Friday, 12th July, an intervention with banner and flyers took place at the consulate of Kenya in solidarity with the rebels.

During the last weeks, there have been ongoing and massive protests in Kenya against a new tax bill, which will hit the poorest classes of society even harder. The increase in taxes, voted as part of the approval of the draft state budget, have sparked an intense political confrontation. The peak of the mobilizations and demonstrations against the bill, were the mass demonstrations in the capital of Kenya, in Nairobi on June 25th (the day the bill was passed), where groups of protesters managed to break the police stranglehold and set fire to the parliament, from which MPs (members of parliament) and ministers fled through a tunnel. That day, at least 30 protesters were killed by the murderous state supression. The ferocity of the protests even forced the government to back down and withdraw the budget.
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(Uruguay) Agitation Against the Isolation of Comrade Francisco Solar

Agitation Against the Isolation of Comrade Francisco Solar
July 13, 2024 / informativoanarquista Translated by Act for freedom now!

From the territory in conflict with the uruguayan State, we join the campaign against the isolation that the gendarmerie and the legal power in Chile wish to impose on the comrade Francisco Solar.

The exceptional intensification of prison conditions is a clear example that their “law” is a falsehood, that it’s not equal for everyone, that it’s valid up until it touches their privileges, which they’ve definitely felt with the direct attacks that they’ve received!

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9/7 Update. Raids for Investigation About Explosive Artefacts (Chile)

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9/07/2024 Update.

At last the democractic inquisition decided on the freedom of the arrested comrades and sentenced 9 comrades to pre-trial detention who stand accused of gun possession through the descovery of a bag inside a building.

Additionally, the authorities decided on pre-trial detention through the appeal of the Southern Prosector’s Office against the comrade accused of possession of explosives, and she is being transfeered to San Miguel Prison.

May multiform and combative solidarity annihilate the walls of the prisons!

As Informativo Anarquista we’d like to be concise about the situations that have taken place since the morning of July 6, on the eve of the commemoration of the death of dear comrade Luisa Toledo.

In sum, the events were as follows:

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(Chile)To Stand Tall Faced with the Events of July 6

July 8, 2024 / informativoanarquista

At dawn on Saturday July 6, various raids were carried out in the context of an investigation for the placement of explosive artifacts. 14 people were detained, various households raided, among these the Radio Villa Francia and the Pablo Vergara Toledo Communitarian Space, where the Luisa Toledo Popular Cafe takes place.

Desperate, the Prosecutor’s Office dusts off old tactics, the massive raids have returned, the mediatic shows and the premise of raid and arrest, in order to investigate. We don’t ask them to improve the protocals of justice, we only unveil the hypocracy and absurdity of the legal labyrinth. We despise the world of power, its logic, mazes and tactics.
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Raids in Villa Francia: Tohá Praises “Blow” to Social Organizations (Chile)

July 8, 2024 / informativoanarquista

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In a time when people who were once “feminists” and/or defenders of “gender” quotas herald the fight against “organized crime” (designation for everything and nothing, directed – often – at migration), the minister of the interior CAROLINA TOHÁ, dressed in the colors of the chilean gendarmerie, very happy and surrounded by uniforms, praises the police “blow” and warns that they are being “strongly persecuted”… Who?: In the words of Tohá, “those who want to demonstrate points of views or critical postures in an emphatic manner in Chile”, will be “welcome”, but not those with “violent practices and methods”… Tohá makes this kind of “clarification” in order to make the raids ordered by her government in five neighborhoods of the metropolitan Region this Saturday July 6 appear as “an arsenal”. The guarantee judge declared – after the fact – that nine of the arrests were illegal, the supposed evidence is weak. The discourse of the government links those detained with the “placement of a bomb in an automobile in the metropolitan region in late 2023”, but after trying to assert that they had found “bombs ready for use in the future”, Tohá corrects: “we don’t know exactly”. Their objective appears to be to counteract “the agenda” as she calls it, of people to whom she attributes “connections in activities” to “influence in various spaces of society…” (Channel 24 live from Talagante 12:20 Saturday July 6, 2024).

For many activists, this will be a “first repressive action of Boric and his FA-PC-Agreement government”. Even if it were – we’re not aware of it being “the first” -, nothing about this is new in the postdictatorship of which Boric is a simple continuation (albeit with faces that were once youthful). It’s possible that there are those who imagine that with his “peace accord” (or pacification), the performative Constitutional Convention and an ex-student-leader president, the repressive stamp of the postdictatorship would change, but no.

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A Call to action against the North Bothnia Line – Northern Sweden

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CALL TO ACTION

AUGUST 11th – 17th 2024

WORLDWIDE WEEK OF ACTION

AGAINST THE NORTH BOTHNIA LINE IN SÁPMI

Why aiming at this beast?

This is a call to action against the North Bothnia Line, a railway just beginning to be built along the coast of Swedish-occupied Sápmi. This project is a continuation of several hundred years of brutal colonization of the peoples and lands in Sápmi. Extractive industries are thriving on the increased demand for raw materials following the so-called “green transition”. This makes them continually stress the importance and urgency of the train line. So do the Swedish State and the European Union.

The track will be used for both passenger and freight trains. But the true reasons behind the project becomes quite obvious when reading the list of financiers, and also by reading the North Bothnia Line Group’s project leader Elisabeth Sinclair’s statement that “[a]lthough the passenger traffic between the coastal cities is important, it is the goods that are the basis of the North Bothnia Line”.
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Athens, Greece: Anti info solidarity event for comrades imprisoned for the Susaron case in Chile

Anti info solidarity event for comrades imprisoned for the Susaron case in Chile

from Open Antispeciesist Assembly

MONDAY 08/7 at 18:00 -open squat OutsideHill at the streffi hill in Exarxeia area

In September 2022 an arson attack on a meat packing plant takes place in Chile. The refrigeration system and transport trucks are engulfed in flames.

In November of the same year, four people are arrested and charged with the attack, remanded in custody and are now awaiting trial, with the initial proposal of the prosecutor referring to a sentence of ten years. Ita was released from prison in March this year with restrictive conditions for the next five years but her comrades remain incarcerated.

https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1631059/