Against the Party of Insurrection: A Look at Appelism in the U.S.

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Appelism is an informal strain of authoritarian communism that has been gaining traction on this continent over the past decade or so. Taking up elements of both the revolutionary party structure and insurrectionary anarchism, this tendency rebrands authoritarian communism as something that looks like informal networks but acts like a party.

Appelists generally do not present themselves as appelists. The term “appelist” refers to The Call (L’Appel in the original French) by the Invisible Committee, written by some of the same authors as the 1999 journal Tiqqun. This is why “appelists” are sometimes also called “tiqqunists.” Both are terms popularized by anarchists to counteract appelists’ claims that they do not have an ideology or established political network.

Appelists’ dishonesty around this is part of a larger strategy of trying to cease being visible as a distinct group or milieu (which they term “opacity”). They then seek to invisibly coordinate various aspects of everyday life towards a form of communism, with an emphasis on building and controlling infrastructure. This is accompanied by a push to intervene decisively in moments of social conflict such that those situations escalate, struggles gain territory, and people are drawn into their infrastructure. Appelists will typically identify themselves as partisans, autonomists, or communists, if at all, though in North America it is more common for them to also selectively call themselves anarchists. Continue reading Against the Party of Insurrection: A Look at Appelism in the U.S.

Italy: Operation Scripta Scelera: Gino Vatteroni has been transferred from the prison of Massa to that of Alessandria (9th October 2023)

Operation Scripta Scelera: Gino Vatteroni has been transferred from the prison of Massa to that of Alessandria (9th October 2023)


The anarchist comrade Gino Vatteroni has been transferred from the prison of Massa to that of Alessandria, in “Alta Sicurezza 2” [High-security 2], where many anarchist comrades have been imprisoned in the past and where some revolutionary communist militants are currently being held. The comrade finds himself in maximum security as the charge of incitement to commit crime (art. 414 c. p.) has been aggravated with that of ‘terrorist aims’ (art. 270 bis 1 c. p.).

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Chignin (Savoie) France : Tesla barbecue

Fire on the parking lot of a Tesla dealership: 14 electric cars burned
Le Dauphiné/Numérama, October 6, 2023 (excerpt)

“I was awakened by the sound of an explosion,” says Michel Ravier, mayor of Chignin. The fire broke out at around 3 a.m. on October 6, 2023, in the parking lot of the Tesla Chambery Center on Route Nationale 1006 in this quiet village of around 1,000 inhabitants. The mayor immediately arrived at the Tesla dealership, shortly after the first sounds of an explosion and just before the firefighters, who quickly worked to extinguish the blaze. Le Dauphiné Libéré reports that 45 firefighters took part in the operation. In all, 14 Tesla cars were destroyed by the flames, before the fire was brought under control by the fire department.

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Seyssinet-Pariset (Isère): fire at the high-voltage power line pylon (France)

Electrical pylon fire in Seyssinet-Pariset: a possible deliberate act

Le Dauphiné/France Bleu/France3,
September 25, 2023

The alarm was sounded at around 3 a.m. on Monday September 25 in the commune of Seyssinet-Pariset (Isère), on the outskirts of Grenoble, when large sparks were visible from afar, particularly from the other side of the Drac river.

The fire department then responded to a blaze on an electricity pylon supporting two high-voltage lines, on the Chemin de la Digue in Seyssinet. The fire raised a number of questions, given the difficult accessibility of the pylon. However, the fire is not thought to have affected the power supply to homes in the area.
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Italy: Update on the ”Scripta Scelera” operation: Gino trasferred to prison in Massa, Veronica under house arrest with full restrictions (4th October 2023)

Update on the Scripta Scelera operation: Gino trasferred to prison in Massa, Veronica under house arrest with full restrictions (4th October 2023)

We inform you that on October 4th an aggravation of the precautionary measures has been notified concerning two of the anarchist comrades accused in the operation Scripta Scelera of the 8th of August against the internationalist anarchist fortnightly “Bezmotivny”. Following some reports by the DIGOS relating to alleged violations of restrictions, the judge for preliminary investigations ordered transfer to prison for Gino Vatteroni (who was under house arrest with full restrictions) and aggravation of the precautionary measure for Veronica (originally placed under obligation to remain with night re-entry from 19:00 to 07:00 and is now under house arrest with all restrictions).

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so-called United States: Notes on September 26th: Reflections on looting, black liberation and anarchism

Notes on September 26th: Reflections on looting, black liberation and anarchism

Submission

On Monday August 14th 2023, Philadelphia police officer Mark Dial shot and killed Eddie Irizarry as he sat in his car. Police initially lied saying that Eddie attacked the cop with a knife, but video footage showed that Eddie was shot in mere seconds while seated in his car with the window up. Following this Dial was suspended for 30 days pending termination. In early September Dial was charged with a number of crimes including murder but the presiding judge would eventually dismiss his charges. The cops who attended the court date in uniform cheered and celebrated when the charges were dropped. On September 26th, that same day Eddie’s family and the Party for Socialism and Liberation (alongside Black leftist groups like Black Alliance for Peace and the W.E.B. DuBois Movement School) organized a peaceful march through Center City protesting the decision. That demonstration dispersed after a couple hours but was followed by looting, initially in Center City before spreading to West, North, and Northeast Philly as the night went on.

The Black liberation movement is alive! Those who say it’s dead are either racist or not in the street and these revolts are the proof. Although the number of people in the streets was smaller than in 2020, there was widespread revolt across Philadelphia. Police killed Eddie Irizarry, a non-Black Puerto Rican, and Black people responded with revolt. Similarly in 2020 in Kenosha, WI when Kyle Rittenhouse killed two white people in the midst of a riot against police and later had his charges dropped, Black people rioted in the Bay Area. These are both examples of a Black consciousness that recognizes anti-Black systems regardless of if they are targeting Black people in a specific instance.
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Berlin (Germany): two excavators set on fire at a Strabag construction site

Two Strabag excavators go on climate strike – Switch Off

de.indymedia,  23 September  2023

It’s gratifying to see that attacks on the companies and infrastructures that fuel ecological catastrophe are currently multiplying. Even if they’re just a drop in the ocean, they’re an expression of the fact that not everyone is content to make demands of politicians or look on with resignation as the world goes to shit.

On the night of Monday September 18, we added two excavators belonging to the Strabag company to the list of targets attacked under the slogan “Switch Off”. Unfortunately, we were able to extinguished before they definitively disappeared, but it was enough to bring the construction site on Köpenickerstraße in Berlin’s Mitte district to a standstill.

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Athens: Arson Attack in Solidarity with the Prison Struggle in Greece

Claim of Responsibility (Athens)

We claim responsibility for the arson of a vehicle belonging to the municipality of Kaisariani (a town in eastern Athens) at midnight on September 26th in an aggressive display of solidarity with the struggle that prisoners all over Greece have been fighting for the last month against the new law announced by the Minister of Justice Florides and the arbitrary actions of the prosecutor’s office of Lamia.

The government being in a panic, unable to manage the crises that have arisen immediately after its re-election, tries to satisfy its conservative audience by attacking the prisoners once again, knowing that the wider society is permanently apathetic towards them.

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Athens,Greece:Taking responsibility for a vicious inflammatory attack 24/9/23 on Eurobank in Athens by Anarchists

Taking responsibility for a vicious inflammatory attack on Eurobank in Athens by Anarchists

Every day power reveals its true face to us, oppressing and plundering our lives. So, in response, in the early hours of Sunday 24/9/2023 we carried out a simultaneous, disruptive and incendiary attack on a Eurobank branch on Evelpidon Street.

Technological sophistication and the militarization of urban tissues have formed a grid of generalized surveillance and monitoring of our movements. Security systems, continuous patrols, constant forces of ELAS officers, (Greek police)targeting and incessant surveillance are the methods through which power is unleashed.

Another method, which intensifies the regime of technological autocracy, is also the new identity cards which include fingerprints and precise biometric data, thus constituting another arrow in the system’s quiver.
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A week of agitation in solidarity with Mónica Caballero and Francisco Solar, anarchists on trial since 18th July, intransigent in the face of power. Initiatives in Santiago (Chile, 3-6 October 2023)

A week of agitation in solidarity with Mónica Caballero and Francisco Solar, anarchists on trial since 18th July, intransigent in the face of power. Initiatives in Santiago (Chile, 3-6 October 2023)

WE CALL FOR SOLIDARITY AND DISSEMINATION!

On 24th July 2020 the anarchist comrades Mónica Caballero and Francisco Solar were arrested, accused of the explosive attack by parcel bomb against the 54th police station of Huechuraba, at the ex-minister of the interior Rodrigo Hinzpeter and the bomb attack on the Tánica building, symbol of entrepreneurial power located in the neighbourhood of the rich.

After three years in custody, the trial began on 18th of July 2023 with which they intend to sentence them to decades of prison for having faced the powerful with anarchist action, and tried to destroy the monopoly of State violence.

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