How to submit an anonymous communiqué and get away with it

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A communiqué, also sometimes called a reportback or hit report, is a report on (typically) illegal direct actions that is shared online via counter-info sites or in print publications. Mainstream media may suppress reporting about certain tactics or the reason for choosing a target may be unclear, so submitting a communiqué is a way to share news, tactics, and political motivations directly.

This guide describes how to securely submit an anonymous communiqué online. It is written for anarchists, but could be useful to other audiences like journalists or dissident groups sharing information while concealing their identities. While some communiqués are signed by a group or individual claiming responsibility, this guide focuses on anonymity.

Nothing you do on computers or the internet is ever totally safe, but you can reduce most technology-based risk by following some simple steps. There are many methods beyond those shared here, but this is a set of instructions that will hopefully help you.

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Meuse: the tradition of the olympic flame’s relay finally recognized (France)

Meuse: the tradition of the olympic flame’s relay finally recognized

Originally published on: manif-est.info (in french)

A lot of bad things have been said about the Olympic Games – and rightly so – for a long time now. They were already crap in London and Rio, in Albertville and Beijing, they were already the place for the exaltation of nationalism in Berlin in 1936, and it’s a safe bet that we would even have been considered them bad in ancient Greece. However, the Olympic Committee is not always devoid of common sense, and knows how to recognize, appreciate and value local customs. Such is the case with the forthcoming arrival of the Olympic Flame in the south of the Meuse département.

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On June 29, 2024, the “Flame Relay” will pass through our verdant countryside. One might legitimately ask why. It’s true that an event lasting less than a day, whose cost (responsibility of the département) exceeds the Department Council’s annual budget for sport, might seem surprising. And then, when you think of the Meuse, you don’t think directly of athletics or javelin throwing, let alone tennis or breakdancing (yes, it’s an Olympic sport now). Of course, the bicycle pedal was invented in Bar-le-Duc, but that’s not enough to label it a “Land of Games”.

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LAMBROS FOUNTAS IS IMMORTAL by Pola Roupa and Nikos Maziotis (Greece)

 

 LAMBROS FOUNTAS IS IMMORTAL

10/03/2024

It has been 14 years since the death in a clash with policemen of our comrade Lambros Fountas on March 10, 2010. All these years, whether in the underground continuing the action of the Revolutionary Struggle when we dedicated to him the attack on the Central Bank-ECB-IMF in 2014, or in prison, we always had him on our minds. And of course he will be in our memory and our heart as long as we are alive.

It is known that when we assumed political responsibility for our participation in the Revolutionary Struggle, we publicly announced with the “Political Letter to the Society”, that Lambros Fountas was killed in a preparatory action of our organization, in an attempt to sabotage the country’s inclusion in the memorandum, i.e. in the program of the IMF, the ECB and the EU, something that had already been decided by the then government of G. Papandreou and we had predicted as an organization since the fall of 2009. He is the first and last dead fighter of the social resistance against the memoranda, against an era that opened with the imposition of the 1st loan agreement in the spring of 2010.

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Greece: Freedom to the revolutionaries Pola Roupa and Nikos Maziotis, honour to the fighter of the Revolutionary Struggle organization Lambros Foundas.

by Dimitris Chatzivasiliadis

The anniversary of the battle of Daphne, where the anarchist rebel Lambros Foundas fell, is a day of revolutionary awakening. Comrade Foundas, as a member of the rebel Revolutionary Struggle Organization, stood at the forefront of the struggle against the state and capital.

With absolute consistency to the end. Taking on the social task of organizing armed counter-attack against the structures of terrorism, tyranny and exploitation, is the moment when the fighter crosses the threshold of established conventions that keep humanity bent and completes his existence in the service of common freedom. Rebel Lambros Foundas is living proof of the invincibility of the revolutionary struggle. The witness Lambros Foundas exposes the reconciliation with the world of power. The common responsibility is evident and will continue to be evident until the fall of the state.

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Grete Chania,Greece : The NATO’s pockets are full of money, they are also the murderers of the local people

The NATO’s pockets are full of money, they are also murderers of the local people

Join the “All eyes on Rafah” call

On Saturday 02 March we participated in the “All eyes on Rafah” call, in the context of the nationwide mobilizations in solidarity with Palestine, against the military operations of the Israeli state.

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Greece – anarchist prisoner D. Chatzivasiliadis in solitary confinement because he remained consistent with his registered refusals.

Today 19/3, Dimitris Hatzivasiliadis was transferred to the prison of Diavata, to the manor of chief torturer Valsamis, for the appeal court of the expropriation of the bank in Thessaloniki (2021).

The comrade, as always in the dozens of transfers for courts that have been made in the two and a half years of his captivity, refused to be taken of hes clothes complicity.. This is a refusal won by political prisoners long ago and has been consolidated over the last 15 years. Before the investigation the comrade asked to have access to a payphone like every other prisoner, and a minimum of time in the yard, as provided by the penal code.

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Chile) Appeals Court to Decide Final Sentence Against Comrade Francisco Solar

Appeals Court to Decide Final Sentence Against Comrade Francisco Solar

March 17, 2024 / informativoanarquista

In December of 2023 the judicial power issued an 86 year sentence against comrade Francisco Solar and 12 against comrade Mónica Caballero, who were accused of different explosive attacks. Following the appeal to this sentence, on March 27, 2024 the San Miguel Appeals Court will decide the final sentence of comrade Francisco. Mónica’s sentence was not appealed.

Fight against the masked life sentence given to anarchist comrade Franscisco Solar!
Solidarity and complicity with all who challenge the powerful and repressors!

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From La Zarzamora [https://lazarzamora.cl/?p=12168]

Following the defense’s appeal of the 86 year sentence of anarchist comrade Francisco Solar, this coming March 27, the San Miguel Appeals Court will dictate the definitive sentence.

This past week arguments were made for an annulment action entered by Francisco Solar’s defense before the San Miguel Appeals Court. This action, according to lawyer Nicolás Toro, of Francisco’s legal team, is based in “different infractions to the valuation of the trial, to sane critique and to errors of law in the sentence according to the criteria of the defense”.

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Machines burned at highway construction site in NW Portland (usa)

10/3/2024
On Tuesday morning I burned three large machines at an Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) construction site in Portland. They were destroying the forest hillside on the south side of the st. johns bridge to protect highway infrastructure.

ODOT construction sites, and highway construction in general, often leave expensive (and highly flammable!) specialized equipment unattended and unsecured overnight, making them easy targets. ODOT is planning major highway expansion in the Portland area over the next few years, despite long campaigns by Youth vs ODOT and other environmentalist groups. Acting through the political system is a futile and insufficient response to the current crisis, as capitalism must continue its endless growth no matter how bad things get. The highway system can only expand if we allow it to. With some creativity, courage, and determination, capital is far more vulnerable than it would have you believe.
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Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) France : Fuck concrete and its world!

Two excavators set on fire in Marseille!

During the week of February 12, in the Cayolle district of Marseille, the carcasses of two burnt-out excavators appeared on a building site. They had been eating away at the hillside for several weeks in order to build a new street to extend the city.

So the site was at a standstill for some time!

Fuck concrete and its world!

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Bremen, Germany : Switch Off Tren Maya / disrupt Deutsche Bahn

Bremen: Switch Off Tren Maya / disrupt Deutsche Bahn

We got together last night to set fire to two Deutsche Bahn [DB] vehicles with incendiary devices. This company is not only synonymous with expensive rail links and crumbling infrastructure, but is also deeply involved in the arms industry, exploitation and neo-colonialism. In concrete terms, we attacked the DB to make visible the struggles against the Tren Maya in Mexico.

We light rebel fires for the indigenous populations of Chiapas, Comunidad Indígena Otomí, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatan and Quintana. We say: “Compañer@s! you are not alone, your resistance is with us!”

As part of the huge Tren Maya infrastructure project, two railroad lines have been built through the Mexican jungle, with the main aim of bringing mass tourism to the indigenous provinces. Deutsche Bahn, which also strives to present itself as green and sustainable, is part of the project, making money by destroying the Mexican forest – in cooperation with arms companies, the Mexican army and the USA.
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Italy: Zac (Marco Marino) under house arrest!

Zac under house arrest!

We have received and are spreading the news with joy. Let’s remember that on May 7th Zac has the appeal trial that will decide concerning the special surveillance imposed on him recently:

Fissato appello alla misura di sorveglianza per Zac


A hug and solidarity to Zac!

ZAC UNDER HOUSE ARREST!!

During the trial that sees Zac accused, this morning, a year after his arrest, the college of the assize court of Naples expressed itself positively to the request for house arrest presented by the defence a few days ago. He was granted independent transfer to his home and the possibility to see the co-residents and those who assist him.

lrovescio.info Translated by Act for freedom now!

Open letter-contribution from Toby Shone ( UK – Italy)

We forward a contribution of Toby Shone from Garth prison in UK, for the debate “Thought and Action – Repressive Attacks on the Anarchist Written Word” held in Turin, Italy on the 10th of March 2024.

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THE SUBVERSIVE WRITTEN WORD

Dear comrades,

This is Toby Shone, an anarchist imprisoned in the operation Adream which was an antiterrorist investigation against the counter-information project 325. I am calling from a prison in northwest England, it’s a long term, high security prison, and the fact that we can steal these moments is very important.

As you may already know, Operation A-dream was a repressive attack by the UK state in which 3 collective housing projects, a family home and storage unit were raided by cops. I was accused of being an administrator of 325.nostate, which earned me 4 terrorist charges: section 2 (distribution of terrorist publications), section 15 (funding terrorism) and two counts of section 58 (possession of information which is likely to be useful for terrorist purposes). I was also accused of several direct actions and membership of FAI, ELF and ALF. Hundreds of police were involved in the simultaneous raids and despite this, only one of the comrades were briefly detained and subsequently released for lack of evidence. It’s clear through the conditions of imprisonment I am held under and the constant monitoring that an active investigation continues with tailings and surveillance of comrades on the outside along with observation of anarchist social spaces.

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Athens, Greece: Taking responsibility for liberation by ALF

Taking responsibility for liberation
by ALF

While others exchange recipes, we wear hoods.

In the early hours of Sunday 3/3/23 we invaded the ‘game farms’ of Vassiliadis and Kavouras in Megara (city near Athens). In the first we took down the wild boar fence and in the second we opened the doors of the deer cage.

We deny the role of ‘liberator’ and consider that we have simply done our minimal duty as solidarity towards these captive beings: We have given them a chance to live.
Good luck to all of them and bad luck to those who think of them as food.
Words are nothing, actions are everything and only by them are we judged.

Until next time…
ALF ØΛØ

via: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1629329/
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Butcher shop sabotaged 8th March, by some anarchists (Portland, USA)

Butcher shop sabotaged

Last night we cut off the tiny padlock to the breaker box of a butcher shop “pasture pdx” and shut off their power to make the flesh they butchered unsellable. we also sealed the lock on the door with spray foam insulation. We also shut power to two adjacent stores because it was fun. These things are easily reproduceable and we encourage anarchists to think outside of the box. you can do other things then smash windows.

we dedicate this act to Jack, the Susaron 4 comrades in chile, and all antispeciesists who have been put in cages.

for total freedom!

-some anarchists

submitted anonymously

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Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) France : rail traffic sabotage against the A69

Sabotage of the Toulouse-Narbonne railroad against the A69

Indymedia Lille, February 29, 2024

In support of opponents of the A69, we sabotaged the Toulouse-Narbonne railway line on the night of February 28-29.

The SNCF is following the lead of the neoliberal state, increasingly abandoning the freight system in favor of roads. The aim is always the same: to make money flow into the coffers of private companies (private carriers, private builders and managers). The song is old by now, only the pace has changed a little, and accelerated in recent years. Widespread social misery is just one of the consequences of this song, while the devastation of our land in the name of profit is another.

We’d like to salute the rebels who, in these winter months on the crèm-arbre zad, have tried to resist the steamroller of a mafia-like and childish system with determination. We can only imagine that the few nights spent in these cabins must have been cold and damp. That’s why we’ve tried to pass on a little warmth.

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Solidarity Means Attack!