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Germany: double sabotage on the Bremen-Hamburg railway line

Was it an anonymous nod to the unexpected delegation that brought much of France’s rail traffic to a standstill a few hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games, or was it a happy coincidence? In any case, a few days later, on the night of Sunday to Monday July 29, a double sabotage attack paralyzed part of Germany’s high-speed rail network.

The first fire occurred at around 4 a.m. in Bremen’s Bürgerpark district, igniting a shaft of cables along the track. The second fire, which occurred the same night, involved cables of a railroad near Hamburg, 150 kilometers away. Conclusion for the two major industrial and commercial cities in northern Germany? ICE high-speed trains between North Rhine-Westphalia and Hamburg were unable to reach Bremen’s main station, while long-distance trains from the southwest to Hamburg were also diverted. The same was true of the regional rail operator metronom, whose trains experienced long delays and partial cancellations throughout the day.
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Berlin: Attack on office of SPD politician Lars Düsterhöft by some Anarchists (Germany)

Attack on the citizen office of the SPD politician Lars Düsterhöft (42) at Siemensstraße in Berlin-Oberschöneweide!

Four holes burst in the window with the photo of the SPD Member of Parliament Lars Dürsterhöft. In addition, “We condemn Germany 4 Genocide” sprayed on the wall.He made the attack with reference to the Middle East war public even on Facebook, was shocked that he was only now being held responsible. He hadn’t been able to sleep quietly for a long time, as his participation as a member of the SPD in the genocide in the Palestinians robs him of sleep.

State security police took over the investigation.At first, he condemned the attack and spoke of shooting at his photo. The police later informed that the damage to the window was probably caused by a sharp tool. Later he came to the conclusion that the damages and the slogans on the wall are attached to the fact that “criminal actions, for example German arms exports for Western imperialism, e.g., originate from the Federal Republic of Germany and deeply hit him and shake him.He asks himself: “What is the next increase that someone with the pistol stands in front of me and shots? He writes on his Facebook page: “will several thousand people be executed in Berlin by AI-controlled drones like in the Gaza Strip?”
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THE GREEK STATE CONTINUES TO TORTURE INSIDE ITS PRISONS (Greece)

A closed prison is also a closed account with Tyrranny. It is neither a sight nor an architectural work of art, but the mass grave of thousands of bodies that were imprisoned, tortured, deprived and burned to death not ever seeing the sun again without the bars or a break. When you look at a prison, think of how many people were subjected to the violence of isolation, how many were buried alive in solitary confinement, how many were deprived of their families, their people, their self- evident right to freedom. How many marched in sections through the wing courtyards, turning into each wall again and again, how many lost what was most

beautiful in themselves and became alienated, emotionally humiliated and cold.

In these cells the Greek state once imprisoned people who fought for the freedom of this country, people who resisted decay and misery, people who could not reconcile themselves to a life of submission and rebelled. In these cells, the Greek state murdered fighters who did not cooperate, who did not repent and whose death became a symbol of resistance and freedom. Today, the Greek state is still murdering people in its prisons because they are claiming, outside of bribes and favours, their self-evident rights. Because they do not bow down to their captors, but they demand better conditions of detention, they demand better lives, and they not sign their death in silence.
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AGAINST THE COALMINE AND ITS WORLD : HAMBI WILL NEVER SURRENDER! [ENG/DEU] (4.8.24) (Germany)

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AGAINST THE COALMINE AND ITS WORLD:
HAMBI WILL NEVER SURRENDER!

Georg Gelhausen is the name of the mayor of Merzenich, a CDU politician foolish enough to think that much of the Hambacher Forest (a.k.a. one of Europe’s biggest autonomous zones, still squatted after more than 12 years) lies within his jurisdiction. He and some environmental minister had invited themselves to the forest for 23.7.24, allegedly to gather information on how to best protect the forest – ironically, a habitat (less than 10% of which still remains) that Georg’s administration green-lit being utterly destroyed by RWE back in 2018.

More moderate attempts to establish the state’s authority had already been made here, through proposals to clear gravel from the forest paths, to establish official meeting points for the emergency services, or even to kindly remove one of our strongest barricades (an oak tree which fell across one of the main access points to the forest). His insistence on visiting on July 23rd represented an escalation in his strategy, given his threat that, if we would maintain our cheerful legacy of making politicians unwelcome in these woods, he would be required to take “security measures” – in other words to bring the cops.

The night before the occassion, however, dear Georg cancelled his picnic, along with an additional four visits he had scheduled for the next week, having learnt that we would not be rolling out a carpet for him.[1] Instead we had been up late freshly erecting barricades – which neither the cops nor RWE’s security forces made it through that day.
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Perama Athens, Greece: Responsibility claim

Perama Athens, Responsibility claim

On Friday, June 9, in the neighbourhood of Perama, we set fire to polling booths of multiple party choices on the occasion of the European election process, an act of defiance against the party apparatus and the oppressors of our lives. We want to send a message to Yiannis Lagoudakos, New Democracy politician, newly appointed mayor of Perama. When he vents his fascist anger against vulnerable minorities such as the Roma he should not forget the recent incident when the water hose rained down on the mother while he was making threats to kidnap her children, and that in the face of fascist violence nothing will be left unanswered.

From what it seems, the mirror of electoral delusion has been cracked. The mechanism of the elections and the entire Euro-parliamentary mafia is given meaning in the social conflict. The high rates of abstention from the European election process represent the maximum amount of dissatisfaction from society as a whole. At least in the Greek axis, right and left together and their ends have collapsed in the eyes of the youth and not only. What remains is the strengthening of self-organized social forces on the basis of radical formation, the creation of informal direct action groups and the cooperation between persons with the characteristics appropriate to the circumstances. Beyond the difficulty of the times and the hardening of State control over our lives, the anarchist struggle must examine the rebuilding and reconstitution of the insurrectionary process as well as its strategic framework for preparing and restarting new battle structures.

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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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Fenouillet (Haute-Garonne) France : five bullets and counting?

 five bullets and counting?

What’s the life worth of a 28-year-old driver from the “Traveller community”, as the press modestly calls him, when he tries with dignity to escape a police checkpoint behind the wheel of his vehicle? Five bullets were fired by the gendarmes, one of which pierced the headrest and exploded his young skull. It happened in the northern suburbs of Toulouse on Thursday July 25, shortly after 10pm, in Fenouillet. His name was Maïky and he came from the Ginestous camp, just a stone’s throw away.

Before Maïky was pronounced dead during the night, almost 200 people immediately turned out in front of the Purpan hospital, in particular to find out whether he had any chance of survival, and to wait for his partner and their month-old daughter, who were with him in the car, to be discharged. Not content with committing yet another murder, the uniforms gathered in front of the hospital fired tear gas at the family, in an attempt to contain the rising anger once the fatal outcome was known. But vengeance can also be a dish best served hot, and there’s no shortage of targets: on the night of Thursday to Friday July 26, the cement manufacturer Lafarge, whose site is close to the Ginestous camp, was attacked: four mixer trucks were set on fire in a matter of minutes.

All day the following day, the small crowd in front of the hospital refused to give up, demanding that Maïky’s body be returned to them so that he could be laid to rest as soon as possible. This was done after an straight-forward autopsy of a gendarme shooting him in the head, while a reconstruction of the execution was carried out with the two gendarmes-shooters, before they were released from police custody without being referred to an examining magistrate by the public prosecutor’s office, as this would have had the disadvantage of giving relatives access to the case file. The prosecutor hoped that these relatives would eventually calm down ahead of the funeral scheduled for Monday July 29.

“It’s a job well done”, he might even have thought from the comfort of his armchair, before heading home to watch the day’s Olympic results, such as the mixed team rifle shooting. The next morning, however, he was faced with the terse headline of a major regional daily: “Deadly refusal to comply: fires and urban violence in Toulouse, millions of euros worth of damage”. For the Lafarge trucks were just a foretaste of a vengeance that had no reason to run out so quickly.

Fenouillet, night of July 26 to 27: fire on the premises of electronic components manufacturer CSI (Cimulec group)

On the night of July 26 to Saturday July 27, while TGV traffic was still largely disrupted across much of France, a boss and his 60 employees were left with nothing but tears in their eyes. Shortly after midnight, the 1,800 m² warehouse of CSI Sud-Ouest became a vast inferno, which is no small feat when you consider that the company’s activity was more harmful than anything else: the production of electronic components for the Cimulec group, which describes itself as “one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of highly reliable printed circuits for harsh environments (defense, space, aeronautics, nuclear, rail, etc.)”.

And given that this charming company was located precisely in Fenouillet, in the area of Maïky’s police murder and not far from the Ginestous camp, the public prosecutor had no hesitation in entrusting the investigation to the Division de la criminalité organisée et spécialisée (DCOS). Especially as the firefighters had their work cut out trying to extinguish the blaze, since a hundred people with masked faces were waiting for them behind barricades, and the cops who came to reinforce them were subjected to a barrage of stones and mortar fire. Having reached the end of their tether, the firefighters found that the fire was now “generalized”, and the damage to CSI Sud-Ouest is now estimated at several million euros.

Fenouillet, night of July 26-27: fire on Toulouse-Métropole premises and eight vehicles

But why stop there, once the first reflex is not to seek justice from those responsible for the death of a loved one, but to let loose all one’s rage against a world that generates gendarmes and prosecutors? Right next door to the now-defunct CSI Sud-Ouest is a Toulouse Métropole building, which logically met the same fate: a hundred-square-meter building belonging to the agglomeration and eight of its utility vehicles were consumed by flames in the course of the same night. The mayor of Toulouse (and president of the Métropole) was more moved by the arson than by the five gendarmerie bullets fired at the recalcitrant driver, with Jean-Luc Moudenc immediately calling on “the State to take all necessary measures to find those responsible and severely punish these acts.”

Three days after Maïky’s death, no one can speak for the unidentified individuals who set fire to Fenouillet. But everyone can learn something from it: in the face of police murders, a whole world remains to be demolished, and it’s often closer than we think…

[Synthesis of the regional press (La Dépêche & France3), July 29, 2024]

via: sansnom

Translated by Act for freedom now!

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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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From: Domokos prison, Anarchist Nikos Maziotis: On the Latest Rejection of My Parole (Greece)

Nikos Maziotis: On the Latest Rejection of My Parole

For the 5th time, the Lamia Criminal Court has recently rejected my request for conditional release despite the 3rd consecutive positive prosecution. During the last 2.5 years since I have reached the law of suspension by law, Lamia’s judicial councils, including the Lamia Council I had once appealed, have rejected a total of 6 times my request for conditional release. It is now very likely that I will be one of the few prisoners nationwide – if not the only one – with a temporary prison sentence with the maximum sentence of 20 years under the 2019 Presidential Code that will get the entire sentence without parole. And I will probably be the only one of dozens of political (anarchist and other) prisoners who have spent the last 20 years in prison with a sentence of temporary imprisonment, who is exempt from parole. Of course, the reasons for rejection are still political-opinional: that I refuse to recognize as criminal the acts for which I have been convicted, namely the action of the Revolutionary Struggle, as mentioned in the recent rejection decree, but also the precedent of September 2023.

The issue of repentance for the political opponents of the political-economic regime has now been historically established as a necessary criterion and condition for the granting of conditional release, thus continuing the historical tradition of the Greek state in other eras, from the years of the Metaxas dictatorship, the years of the civil war and the post-civil war period to the junta of the colonels.
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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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