Friday, January 14, 2011

Riot 2nd February - Berlin?




The police in the german capital Berlin is expecting heavy riots around february 2. The police will evict one of the last squats in Berlin: Liebig 14.
Officials and newspaper say that this may cause heavy riots.
EVICTION DATE SET FOR LIEBIG 14
Today 10.01.2011 the house project in Liebigstraße 14, Berlin-Friedrichshain
received a written eviction notice for all apartments. It will be enforced the 2nd of February at 8:00 AM.

The lost legal processes and the failure of politics!
The eviction notice for our house project is the outcome of an almost 4 year-long legal struggle over the termination all apartments contracts, a struggle between the inhabitants of the houseproject and the owner Suitbert Beulker (also owner of the houseproject in Rigaerstr. 94) and Edwin Thöne, manager of the child protection association Unna. The pleaded ground for the terminations was the display of banners and Beulker taking offence with the construction of a door in the stairway. (For those interested in juridical farce: http://de.indymedia.org/2008/10/228470.shtml [German])
The attempted negotiations with regional and senate politicians to find a legal solution for the continuation of our house project or to buy the house with the help of a foundation have failed. Firstly politicians claimed to be unable to have influence over our situation. Secondly, responsible senate politicians have been conspicuous by their absence. For example our beloved interior senator Erhard Körting and the senator for city development, Ingeborg Junge-Reyer who for years have been pushing an agressive neo-liberal housing policy, and who, for example, abolished rent benefits for people on unemployment benefits (Hartz IV). Also Holger Lippmann, manager of Liegenschaftsfonds (the Berlin real estate holding company), refused up to the end to negotiate honestly for an alternative space for the project. Accompanying all this were a series of successfull actions, from colorful to black, loud to clandestine.
The houses in which they live!
We are not the only ones threatened by forced relocation, evictions and the whole property valorisation-scandal. Besides the struggle of the few remaining self-governing free spaces (for example Rigaer 94, Köpi around the corner, there are also the squatters struggles in Amsterdam, London and everywere else). More and more people in Berlin are hit by increasing rents and lose their apartments and social
environments. To them we giver our full solidarity and support!
We ask for international solidarity. Come to Berlin around 2nd of february and join us in demonstrations, riots, partys or hit and run! You will find sleepingplaces in other projects and a lot of stones in the street.
If the eviction can not be prevented, this will not be a defeat. It is important for all squats in Europe to demonstrate that an eviction will cause a lot of trouble and that it is expansive for every city to declare war to our movement.
There will come more informations on this site:  http://liebig14.blogsport.de/
liebig14.blogsport.de/

Thursday, January 13, 2011

TUNISIA AND ALGERIA... NO EXCUSES FOR OUR LACK OF SUPPORT!!




Algeria and Tunisia have been going through an insurrection of epic dimensions for more than one week due to the worsening of the economical situation and its impact in the live of millions of people from the lower social strata. In Tunisia the immolation of a fruit vendor in the city of Sidi Bouzid (he literally set himself on fire) was the spark that ignited a whole wave of fresh demos, rioting and brutal police repression with apparently more than 20 people murdered by the bastards in uniform. The rising in the prices of food and other basic goods as well as lack of freedom and rampant unemployment have also caused the riots to expand to the neighbouring country of Algeria.


What really surprises me is that none or at least very few fellow anarchist bloggers (at least among those I check nearly in a daily basis) seem to have bothered in posting something about events of such a magnitude. Neither any action has been planned or carried out in support of the workers, youth and common people bravely fighting their own exploiters and states in the streets of Algiers, Sidi Bouzid, Tunis, and others...

What is going on here?... could it be that the reputation of these 2 countries as "Islamic fundamentalist" dens make anything that may happen in them automatically uninteresting to our ethnocentric westernised mentalities?... can we see that Islamic fundamentalism may well be one of the many ways in which the local elites keep their people alienated and appeased to an extent and that this kind of control could possibly be starting to fade?. Are all Muslims "fundamentalists", "potential terrorists", could they also be rebellious and bear a wish for freedom and anarchy as apparently some grassroot Christians do?... is everything that happen in the territories within the sphere of influence of Islam inevitably biased by religious issues?...Have we already forgotten that the southern bereber region of Algeria (the Kabilia)saw during the whole year of 2001 one of the most inspiring examples of insurrection, anti-police feeling and anti-state self-organisation of the whole decade?...

As far as I can see we are talking about common people whose everyday struggle for sheer survival is meant to worsen to levels we could barely imagine in our "still not that bad" European continent... The fact that so many people literally run to any demonstration in support to the Palestinian struggle while no one seems to give a shit about the Algerian and Tunisian insurrections (comparable at all levels to the Greek riots after the murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos and bearing so far a much higher death toll) strikes me as an utterly disgusting omission if not a pure and simple act of revolting hypocrisy.

Anarchist or not, those people are showing dignity, solidarity with each other,bravery and political consciousness and just for that we should support them in the same way we do with other comrades from different parts of the world. We should begin to build bridges and try to communicate (face to face if possible) with people from different cultural backgrounds and realities regardless the way in which they may be depicted or stereotyped by the mainstream media. Perhaps those about whom we know nothing today turn into the comrades of tomorrow.


I am sure that the people literally fighting for their lives in Tunisia and Algeria would welcome any act of support, any action that could make them see that they are not alone and someone knows what is happening beyond the borders of their countries.

They deserve this and more... the same as we would if we found ourselves in a similar situation. 
 
RANDOM ANARCHISTS LONDON

Assassination in the capital Tunis -bullet in the heart VIDEOS Fire in front of a police station in southern Tunisia



The Danish arms-trafficking ship "Leopard" has been hijacked by pirates.




The Danish freighter Leopard, which is apparently carrying arms or explosives, has been hijacked by pirates in the Bay of Aden.

The company "Shipcraft" - www.shipcraft.dk (from the North Copenhagen suburb of Hoersholm) - which specializes in cargoes like arms or nuclear waste - closed down its home page a couple of hours after the news - apparently in a hush-up attempt.

Also in the 1980s, such rogue shipping companies - probably with CIA connections - were active in arms smuggling to South Africa and in the Iran-Contra affair - but were protected by the government. 
 
birdseye

Barclays cash machine sabotaged in Solidarity with the victims of EDO/ITT in Brighton U.K.


This week a Barclays cashpoint in Brighton was sabotaged in solidarity with the victims of ITT Corporation. ITT is EDO MBM's parent company. ITT and EDO supply components to Israel for the F16. In the last fortnight Israel has escalated F16 attacks on the Gaza Strip.

Barclays provide market maker services to ITT, without which they could not function on the NYSE. It is also the largest global investor in the arms trade. Target Barclays until they cease providing financial services to ITT.
Dissident

Marseille, France - 1,000 people march shouting "Ben Ali murderer " in solidarity with the movement in Tunisia

Between 700 and 1,000 people, according to police figures and organizers, marched in Marseille, shouting " Ben Ali murderer " in solidarity with the movement in protest against the regime in Tunisia.


Between 700 and 1,000 people, according to police figures and organizers, marched in Marseille, shouting " Ben Ali murderer " in solidarity with the movement in protest against the regime in Tunisia.

Starting off from the Canebiere, the crowd calmly reached the Consulate General of Tunisia late afternoon, under the protection of the riot police, chanting "Ben Ali, get lost", "Ben Ali murderer, Sarkozy accomplice" and waving placards denouncing" 60 dead in four days" and photos of the presumed victims covered with blood.

"We are surprised to see Tunisians demonstrating, they are usually the ones who are terrified. There they are out, they are no longer afraid, something has changed, " said Yahia Bounouar, Algerian opposer and spokesman of the "Solidarity Maghreb" group.

http://sysiphus-angrynewsfromaroundth...eople.html

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Army Called In as Tunisian Protests Hit Capital


Firebombs thrown at Tunisian Embassy in Swiss capital


Swiss police have said several firebombs were thrown at the Tunisian Embassy in Bern early Wednesday.
The firebombs failed to ignite and caused only minimal damage. The attack took place shortly after midnight local time, and the unknown assailants managed to get away. Police said they are studying the motives for the attack and are seeking witnesses.
Tunisia has been rocked by a wave of violence in recent days that officials say has killed at least 23 civilians, the worst public unrest in the rule of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who has been in power for more than two decades.
Protesters in Tunisia say they want jobs and better living conditions. The authorities say protests have been hijacked by a minority of violent extremists armed with petrol bombs and clubs.


Pantin (Seine-Saint-Denis), France - "Small explosion" in front of the Consulate of Tunisia


AFP
January 9, 2011 - Pantin (Seine-Saint-Denis) - The Consulate of Tunisia in Pantin suffered a "small explosion" Sunday morning, which caused "minimal damage" to its steel shutter, it was learned Wednesday, while the Embassy talks about a "bomb" causing a "strong deflagration. Police sources reported "a small explosion shortly before 5:00 which resulted in minimal damage to the metal front of the consulate."
According to the prefecture of Seine-Saint-Denis, "Petroleum which was set fire to" could be the cause of the explosion. In a written statement to AFP, the Tunisian ambassador in France, Raouf Najar, denounced the "terrorist act": "disinformation in recent days on what happens in Tunisia is such that everything becomes possible, even this terrorist act. " "The surveillance
camera recorded the deposit by three people of what appears to be a bomb," the embassy said in a statement. This device provoked "a strong explosion (which) has destroyed the front door of the consulate," she added.
At Pantin, the consulate, an annex of the Consulate General of Tunisia in Paris, was opened Sunday at 10:00. The metal shutter, burned, was almost fully raised, and about twenty people lined up. Some policemen were stationed outside the consulate located on the ground floor and first floor of a building of ten floors at the corner of the Porte de Pantin. The Crime
Branch of the police is in charge of the investigation.

SOLIDARITY: FIELDS OF EXPRESSION, CHARACTERISTICS AND POLITICAL PRISONERS


We live in a chronicle period which is discerned by the intensity of state repression, arrests and prosecutions, and the sharp increase in the number of political prisoners. Furthermore, several trials are starting for cases of armed actions with defendants who either deny the charges or take responsibility for participating in armed groups. As Action for Liberty, we believe that a substantive discussion on solidarity, in the framework of the movement, is extremely necessary nowadays and this text attempts to contribute to this discussion: How the question of solidarity takes effect from an anti-capitalistic / anti-authoritarian perspective? Fromwhomandtowhom? On which point meet the general ideological and political solidarity to persecuted fighters with thespecificneedsoflegaldefense for some of them? Finally, solidarity is a core value of the social movement and why the solidarity to political prisoners particularly isa keycomponentof the revolutionaryproject?


FIELDS OF SOLIDARITY’S EXPRESSION


Generally we express our solidarity a)to those people who are affected by the capitalist / state vampirism, oppression and barbarity (or sides of them) and b)to people who struggle against the Capital and State - regardlessoftheintensityandformsof their struggle. The first category includes workersandunemployed, immigrants, social discriminated and folks who experience the capitalist looting and imperialist terrorism while the second category includes from strikers, protesters and squatters to militant fighters and urban partisans. The broad field of solidarity is not determined by an abstract sensibility, but by all the contradictions of capitalist domination and the multiplicity of the (potential) competitivesubjects that are created by the domination itself - or tendstocreate. In this sense, solidarity, and any social or political practice, hasan ideologicalsign. What defines a revolutionary solidarity from other forms of solidarity is that it confronts with the nucleus of capitalist domination and bourgeois legality, that it links the current "special" issue with the "general" question of the liberation project. Of course, the solidarity topolitical prisoners, because of the profile of the recipients and the centrality of "antiterrorism" in the speech and the strategy of the dominants, condensesanti-regimecriticismand action, as, beside the previous ones, it isdirectly challenging the state monopoly on violence, which together with private ownership are the pillars of the capitalist system.

CHARACTERISTICS OF SOLIDARITY

Solidarity is not one more form of anti-regime propaganda and action, although itcontainselementsof both. It isprimarily a definite political intervention, obviously with different targeting, characterandform dependingontherecipient, but with an overall aim to change with practical and material way the social and political relations benefitforthe personitis expressed to. Namely, solidarity does not get limited in condemning the situation of the recipient, slipping to sketch her/his profile as a victim, nor takes off in a general and abstract revelation of regime barbarity inspired by how the State treats to the person who receives the solidarity, ignoring the real needs of them in the particular time and space. Solidarity also does not require the identification of the overall route and figure of those people for whose it is expressed. So, solidarity does not consider about the political opinions of any discharged worker, for example, and generally respects the framework of struggle that is chosen by the defendant, neither considers if the persecuted person is a leftist, anarchist or urban partisan or if she/he has used forms of struggle which the solidarists disagree with. The relationship between the solidarists and those who express their solidarity is “exoteric” and in the same time “esoteric”. It is “exoteric” because the carriers and therecipientsofsolidarity do not share in that same time the same degrees of repression and barbarity; but meanwhile, it is “esoteric” because the two sides share experiences and knowledge of repression and barbarity, but mainly share the project of overturning the status quo which gives birth to repression and barbarity. It is a dynamicbut alsofragilerelationship, whichrequires, besides co-communication and co-respect, to identify the roles both of the solidarists and the persecuted asequalsof the"community ofstruggle”.

SOLIDARITY AND POLITICAL PRISONERS

The solidarity with political prisoners has the advantage thatbothcarriersandrecipientsof it agree from the beginning with the project of social subversion while the political prisoners (can) operate as a collective subject, which is extremely encouraging their own struggle but also the solidarists. Of course, all political prisoners (as, respectively, all the solidarists) do not have the same understandings on all issues of the social competition and the revolutionary overthrown of the status quo. However, we believe that the political prisoners are implicitly a political subject when are met the way and views of them as fighters before entering the prison with their attitude and aims after they were captured. By this logic, the "subject political prisoners” (may) includes fighters who have been found for different reasons in prison in the frame of the anti-capitalist / anti-authoritarian struggle, so as prisoners with different defending lines, under the precondition, one, that everyone respects the way and attitude of the other and, second, that all together are self-recognized as political prisoners. Moreover, it is the State itself which, while doing everything to erase any ideological perspectives from armed actions, “gives” to someone the attribute of political prisoner definitely from the “special” way that confronts her/him. We firmly believe that in non way the attitude to the accusation (the ascension of responsibility or the refusal of accuses, the statement of participation in an armed organization or the statement of participation in anarchist / antiauthoritarian scene etc.), of course if accompanied by the corresponding decent struggling attitude in the court, can be a criterion for the status of political prisoner and, following, todeterminethe degree ofsolidarity – the principle “no hostage in the hands of the State” is now more valuable than ever. From the facts above follows that the carriers of solidarity respect the general political stance and the specificdefensive lineof the politicalprisoners, specifyingwhen it is needed in anycase, but never evaluating and prioritizing based on ideological sympathies, genealogyproximities orpolitical considerations. At the same time, the recipients of solidarity, namely the political prisoners, respect the solidarists, without requiring them either to identify with all their concepts and action or select specific political prisoners excluding others. As Action for Liberty (and Solidarity Movements in the past), we have expressed and we are still expressing, from view against the status quo, our full solidaritytopoliticalprisoners, both on thestreetsand inside the courts, both to those who have no connection with the accusation and to those who accept their participation in activities or organizations. The inclusion of many of us, already from the '70s and '80s, in the movement of solidarity to political prisoners (of course, under other socio-political conditions and with very different approaches) has taught us that the strength of solidarity is counted by the specific victories against the State (among them are included the release of political prisoners and halting back the terror-lechery and the "criminalization" of the armed organizations), but above all by this “kind” of struggle which, without holding back force and emotions, describes and creates the world for which’s realization the political prisoners are behind the bars and we are on the streets.  

ACTION FOR LIBERTY

TUNISIA AND ALGERIA... NO EXCUSES FOR OUR LACK OF SUPPORT!!

Algeria and Tunisia have been going through an insurrection of epic dimensions for more than one week due to the worsening of the economical situation and its impact in the live of millions of people from the lower social strata.

Algeria and Tunisia have been going through an insurrection of epic dimensions for more than one week due to the worsening of the economical situation and its impact in the live of millions of people from the lower social strata. In Tunisia the immolation of a fruit vendor in the city of Sidi Bouzid (he literally set himself on fire) was the spark that ignited a whole wave of fresh demos, rioting and brutal police repression with apparently more than 20 people murdered by the bastards in uniform. The rising in the prices of food and other basic goods as well as lack of freedom and rampant unemployment have also caused the riots to expand to the neighbouring country of Algeria.


What really surprises me is that none or at least very few fellow anarchist bloggers (at least among those I check nearly in a daily basis) seem to have bothered in posting something about events of such a magnitude. Neither any action has been planned or carried out in support of the workers, youth and common people bravely fighting their own exploiters and states in the streets of Algiers, Sidi Bouzid, Tunis, and others...

What is going on here?... could it be that the reputation of these 2 countries as "Islamic fundamentalist" dens make anything that may happen in them automatically uninteresting to our ethnocentric westernised mentalities?... can we see that Islamic fundamentalism may well be one of the many ways in which the local elites keep their people alienated and appeased to an extent and that this kind of control could possibly be starting to fade?. Are all Muslims "fundamentalists", "potential terrorists", could they also be rebellious and bear a wish for freedom and anarchy as apparently some grassroot Christians do?... is everything that happen in the territories within the sphere of influence of Islam inevitably biased by religious issues?...Have we already forgotten that the southern bereber region of Algeria (the Kabilia)saw during the whole year of 2001 one of the most inspiring examples of insurrection, anti-police feeling and anti-state self-organisation of the whole decade?...

As far as I can see we are talking about common people whose everyday struggle for sheer survival is meant to worsen to levels we could barely imagine in our "still not that bad" European continent... The fact that so many people literally run to any demonstration in support to the Palestinian struggle while no one seems to give a shit about the Algerian and Tunisian insurrections (comparable at all levels to the Greek riots after the murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos and bearing so far a much higher death toll) strikes me as an utterly disgusting omission if not a pure and simple act of revolting hypocrisy.

Anarchist or not, those people are showing dignity, solidarity with each other,bravery and political consciousness and just for that we should support them in the same way we do with other comrades from different parts of the world. We should begin to build bridges and try to communicate (face to face if possible) with people from different cultural backgrounds and realities regardless the way in which they may be depicted or stereotyped by the mainstream media. Perhaps those about whom we know nothing today turn into the comrades of tomorrow.

And just to finish let me make a humble suggestion. A demo in support for those comrades in the Thessaloniki trial has been called for the 14 of January at 14:00 h in front of the Greek Embassy in London. For those who might not know this, the Algerian Embassy is also located in the Holland Park area (54, Holland Park), that is relatively close to the Greek one. Why not walking to this other embassy as well a little bit later with a banner or something?. Why not trying to increase the scope of our international solidarity by also rallying to the Tunisian embassy, located in Knightsbridge, close to the Albert Memorial (29 Princes Gate)?. Actually the 3 embassies are relatively close to each other so distance or transport is not a problem. See map here:


 http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&rlz=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=algerian+embassy&fb=1&gl=uk&hq=algerian+embassy&hnear=Islington&ei=FictTazaGeOAhAf5wf3FCQ&sa=X&oi=local_group&ct=image&resnum=2&ved=0CAcQtgMwAQ&iwloc=16297122620476754988

I am sure that the people literally fighting for their lives in Tunisia and Algeria would welcome any act of support, any action that could make them see that they are not alone and someone knows what is happening beyond the borders of their countries.

They deserve this and more... the same as we would if we found ourselves in a similar situation.


SOURCE: BLOG AIMING FURTHER STRIKING BETTER;

 http://aimingfurtherstrikingbetter.blogspot.com/2011/01/tunisia-and-algeria-no-excuses-for-our.html

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

night of sabotage in bristol U.K.



we are warming up...


early on January 10th, as anarchists with revolutionary intent we continued in the trajectory that our horror and disgust at the society we find ourselves engulfed by demands.
as a result - bailiff and debt collecting firm Revenue on Bonnville Road, windows all down one side of the building smashed (despite regular security patrol close by).
- O2 repeater tower secluded behind a nearby industrial estate, lock cut from the gate with boltcroppers then a tyre filled with rags wedged through the biggest bunch of cables(rags also tied around the cables) and doused with paraffin and ignited with a birthday candle wick to torch the whole thing.
- Brislington police station, paintstripper used to damage the bodywork of three squadcars and one mobile c.c.t.v unit and windows put out (inside their fenced vehicle compound).
- HSBC bank on the main Bath Road, front windows shot out.


as the country lurches further into the certainty of even more clearcut class attacks on the poor by the rich, we would predict a certain rise in the use of a variety of tools and tactics by the exploited and excluded in return in this social war that some still desperately try to bury their heads from as it rages before their eyes. for us, while we respect a diversity of tactics based on participants ability and on results not dogma, a meaningful struggle against the state, capitalism and the prison-based society it produces and represents must be defined by complete and permenant conflict with the ruling order rather than demands or dialogue. now is not the time and never has been for us to waste time and breath caught up in the politics of representitives or leftists/activists wishing us to wittle away our time in petty politics rather than seeking to expand our relationships of utter revolt with each other. we seek only to find those who wish to conspire with us for a fight that will take us beyond everything we know of this world, to realise a libertarian autonomous society through collective destruction of the present one.


these actions of sabotage are simple and achieve these aims directly. in many areas there are targets, it is simply impossible for them to be all defended at once by our enemies so we take our time and strike at will. the allseeing eye still has blindspots it would seem. when struggling against the network of technological repression, police - communications infastructure - bailiffs - banks all pose very real and attackable faces to the not so invisible machine.


the fight continues.

Torture in Korinthos jail - Letters from Prisoners" (south-Greece)


"Over the past week situations of extremely fascistic behaviour have taken place in the "dukedom" of Korinthos' jails. We use the word Dukedom, because chairmen, sergeants, step-sergeants, employees are nearly all residents in the Corinthian area, some of them with the same surname, who obviously consider the jail their "privately-owned family manor". On 3rd January 2011 one of the persons who lives in our cell came back from outside (after the jail authorities' permission to meet his family for the Christmas vacation) and instead of coming back to our cell, - as always happens after permits -, where all his personal belongings are, the guards lock him in another cell where he sleeps on the floor. In his place (and bed) they bring a prisoner who has just arrived from another jail. We reacted intensely, demanding that they bring our cellmate back into our cell. Then, the chief-sergeant Mr. Sotirios Tziavikos (a member of the famous Tziavikos' people-guards Family) - in order to "show who is boss" and that he does not stand any protests or "demands" from the prisoners' side – also ordered that the other two of us leave the cell and be removed to the block. Of course we refused to move, saying that the only way to remove us is to take us to the punishment cells ... The chief- sear gent ordered us to pick up our personal stuff, while informing us that "he is boss". Because of Dignity - which the people-guards do not have and that's why they do not understand it - we refused to obey his orders again, contesting the self evident and basic: namely, the capacity to chose (as much as someone can talk about "choice" inside the wretched conditions of imprisonment) the people with whom we live, refusing to be treated like objects that are put on shelves anyway and whenever the people-guards want it. Two days later, on Wednesday 5th, during the afternoon, when the jail shuts down, the people-guards, after locking up the cells, took one of our cellmates into the corridor, put handcuffs on him and started beating him up then threw him into the punishment block. Of course, we all understood how different the results and situation would have been if the opposite had happened ... The report of these events is the result of what our dignity orders us to do because we do not expect anything, nor beg anything from any official "authority on duty". Moreover, the authorities have proved in action ... how "emotional" they are against prisoners - outcasts, poor devils, immigrants and those who doubt their authority."

The  prisoners from cell 2
in Corinthos' jails
Charalambos Avramidis
Petrov
Demetres Tsikrikis
Christoforos Kortesis

Letter from the prisoner Charalambos Avramidis
From the moment I stepped out of the cell, I was attacked without any reason by the people-guards Mr. Georgios Michos, Mr. Vasilios Kotsis and Mr. Marinos Stavrou. While they were beating me up and I saw the handcuffs they were holding, I understood at once what was to follow for me while I was in their hands. Because in the eyes of a people-guard prisoners are just body-sacks. While I was being attacked by the three people-guards, it was reasonable to resist to them. I know very well that other prisoners have also passed from here and been tortured on a higher level than me. Then they tied me up and beat me "carefully", namely on the body and legs and not on the face. After they put the handcuffs on me they trailed me along the floor for 3 - 4 metres like a sack of muck. Sometime I made it to sit up and then the second round started. Mr. Michos grasped me with a headlock and started punching me on my left ear - which is still humming and I have intense pain - and on my sides. They threw me in a punishment-cell-barrack full of dirt and waste water, with a wretched mattress on the dirty floor. The humidity was making my injuries more painful. During the night I did not sleep because I know, from other prisoners who have been in the same position, what can happen during the night ... The people-guards started laughing at me, saying "oh, come on Charalambos, what else could Michos do, he was only following orders" - orders obviously coming from the chief-torturer - chief-sergeant -, or "I should have been on duty that night, then you’d have seen what could happen to you", or they also told me "ehhhh, it's ok, you only got a few, you should have got more". The immediate reaction and solidarity from my cellmates and because the people-guards wanted "the event to remain inside the jail", made them start behaving "sweet" to the prisoners. But, no matter how much perfume they put on, they will always stink like pigs! After three days in the punishment cell they transferred me to a dormitory, where instead of 10, there are 26 persons, some of them sleeping two to a bed, telling me that in ten days I will be back in my cell ...

Yesterday it was the time of my brother
Today it's mine Tomorrow the time of us all.


STOP THE TORTURING OF PRISONERS INSIDE THE PLACES OF TORMENT CALLED JAILS

Charalambos Avramidis
Korinthos'
Jails
 7th January 2011
On Sunday, January 9 a solidarity demo was held outside the Corinth prison for Charalambos Avramidis, who was beaten by guards and for the Christoforos  Cortesis, his cell mates Petrov and D. Tsikrikas. Slogans were shouted from inside and outside the prison and written on the walls. The director and the guards got a strong message that bullying and beating does not pass and that we never leave our comrades alone. !!

Here are some photos of the slogans at the entrance of the prison.
(Note: Tziavikos is the
chief-sergeant)


Letter from imprisoned comrade Christos Politis, one of the 6 arrested on the 4th of December during a widespread anti-terrorist operation.


Some very first thoughts on my detention 

1. This letter does not constitute an overall political analysis of the anti-terrorist operation which began on December 4th, but rather a first political reading of my detention; of its meanings and wider aims.

2. It is a fact that I find myself in prison exactly because I am an anarchist; because for 15 years now I am continuously active through this radical political element. A reading of the legal documents of my case, together with the cynical statement by the chief of the greek police – that I was arrested because I was released in the High-court case*- are indisputable proof of this. I find myself locked up here, and I am deeply convinced of this, for our reactions to the murder of Christoforos Marinos in ’96, for the barricades outside the examination centres in ’98, for the anti-war demonstrations in ’99, for the demonstrations against the european leaders’ summit in Thessaloniki in 2003, for the student protests in ’06-’07, for our solidarity to the prisoners’ struggles and to all those prisoners who refuse to bow their head, for the December insurrection, for…, for… For being everywhere, with our smaller or larger forces, where nothing seemed certain and social entropy gave again a meaning to our lives and strength to our struggles.

3. On the 4th of December we were taken to police headquarters together with my friend and comrade Kostas Barlis, from outside a café in Exarchia by police officers from the Delta force and the antiterrorist unit. My friend is released approximately 16 hours later. I am handed the report of my arrest 26 hours after I was taken in. And then the madness begins. Because if during the last period we can see in a series of cases the criminalization of relationships of friendship and comradeship, in my case they can’t even “invoke” that. I am in prison for a case in which I do not even know my fellow accused. No witnesses recognize me, no police officers are claiming that I met with anyone of my fellow accused, none of the phone taps have a mention of my name and as far as the search carried out in my house the only thing worth mentioning is that they stole my shaving machine, so also my DNA (I will note that this is not even mentioned in the confiscation report). However, according to the antiterrorist unit the first “incriminating” evidence was that on the night of November 24th they saw me moving parallel to Praxitelous street in Piraeus. So what if on Iroon Politehniou street, three side-streets down the road, is were my attorney’s office is situated. So what if I paid him a visit that night as in a few days I had to present myself to the interrogator in regards to the High-court case. The second “indisputable” piece of evidence is that I had a drink in Exarchia, the area in which I socialize with dozens of people everyday, with an “unknown person” who according to the antiterrorist unit had eaten earlier a souvlaki with one of my fellow accused. Each can come to their own conclusion. Of course, for that whole week that I was kept in the antiterrorist division I remained isolated in a 1by3 cell, without a window and with the light constantly switched on. And then came the pre-determined decision for my detention and not only that but in Grevena. Grevena is a high-security prison where only long-term convicts are held and not those accused pending trial, plus it is situated 500km away from Athens, making any communication with friends, comrades, family and lawyers almost impossible.

4. The two very serious prosecutions against me within the space of two weeks and my detention should not spread confusion and be considered only as a continuous effort for me personally to be placed in a regime of suffocative control. On the contrary, this whole setting of extermination lies in the heart of modern repressive policy; in the heart of a multilevel plan aiming at the intimidation and the imposing of discipline on the new “dangerous classes” and the neutralization of the regimes’ political rivals. Aiming at the stultification, in other words, of the projects of self-activity, direct action, solidarity and the struggle for the re-appropriation of life; at the undermining of the anarchist and anti-authoritarian dynamic inside social fermentations. So that the recent general strike and the dynamic demonstrations of December 15th last for only a day, so that resistance is devalued, those in struggle are scorned, Keratea becomes simply an area a little outside of Athens, December is forgotten and celebrated like the 17th of November. And for the kingdom of death and order to be established, for the victorious attack of the capitalist world to triumph, it is necessary to multiply all those that find themselves targeted. The penal spectrum must be widened and legal concepts must be expanded with a permanent character of intentional vagueness; to lose every meaning or rather, even better, to acquire their full meaning with the enforcement of a state of emergency. Without any reserve, the interrogators and the prosecutors keep proving that their only preoccupation is how to crush the enemy within. And after, it’s the turn of the monotony of the correctional facilities and the pure, raw violence of incarceration.

5. The fabricated and canalized prosecutions based on the scenarios and fixations of the antiterrorist unit resemble cluster bombs. They aim somewhere in order to strike in a large radius around them, to destroy a wider area. This prosecution is not about me personally. This prosecution wants to instill fear in everyone. To make us cautious with who we talk. With who we go fly-posting. With whom we bring out a pamphlet. With whom we walk side by side in demonstrations. With who we exchange points of view at different events. And of course where we go. To infuse our everyday life with suspicion and fear. The clerks of the troika offer us generously the permanent “alibi” of obedience, a transient security and the false certainty of submission. Because who will dispute, without making a complete fool of themselves, that if we wanted nothing, if we were anarchists until we finished high-school, if we were “relieved” with the signing of the memorandum, if we hated immigrants, if we were fuming against the koukouloforoi (hooded-ones), if we were in fear of the “terrorists” neither myself nor many others who resist would have suffered the consequences of repression


6. The struggle, however, will not retreat. The regime and its various officials will never feel neither joy nor relief. We stand by the imprisoned anarchists, the prisoners in struggle. Until their liberation. We continuously contribute to the –theoretical and organizational- composition of our class and we develop the necessary strategic planning for achieving its victory. Let’s stand up. And let us take the next step. For the social/class counterattack. For the proletarian storming of the heavens.  P.S. As a good comrade once said to me: “Patience. Strength. Faith in the cause. We are right. Final.” These words will be my guide in these truly difficult moments.

Christos Politis
Grevena Prison
16/12/2010 


* On May 22nd , 2008 and around noon on the way to get my motorbike which I had left near Panormou metro station I was taken to Police Headquarters where I was asked various questions on my whereabouts the previous night. After some hours I was released. On the previous night an arson attack on vehicles had taken place within the perimeter of the high court of Athens. From this moment in time and onwards published articles start to appear based on police scenarios, which link me in the beginning with the arson attack against vehicles at the high court and later on present me as participating in various organizations and attacks, many times as being a leading figure. Last November they actually reached the point of announcing through the television an arrest warrant against me, which in reality did not even exist. At the same time, for long periods I had visible police surveillance. And the highlight, 2,5 years later I was summoned to defend myself as I was accused for the High court case. Indeed I presented myself to the interrogator on December 2nd and was released (for 2 days!).

Sunday, January 9, 2011


anonymous communique (click here to view photos from the rescue):
"In a warm august night five gorgeous beagle dogs have been saved from
vivisection, took in an embrace and brought to a new life.
These dogs were born in Green Hill breeding farm of Montichiari (BS) and
after passing years in the labs of Recordati pharmaceuticals of Milano,
are now finally far from the imprisonment and tortures of vivisectors.
To free them from the cold world of research it was not necessary to get
into the alarmed kennels of the labs, but we just had to make them
disappear from "Casina Croce" dog pension in Cornaredo (Milano), where we
knew we could find them during the summer closure of the lab. A wall to
jump, some cages to open, and in a few minutes five new friends have been
saved.
Now they are no more victims of experiments, they are not numbers anymore,
but individuals with a personality, able to give and receive love and live
far away from torturers. The only memory of that terrible past is the
tattoo in the hear, with the letters GH easy to read.
Now that they are safe in their new houses we can spread the video and
pictures, but also news on this action that has been kept secret both by
the media and Recordati themselves.
Animals like these ones are created to serve the purposes of
pharmaceutical corporations and of a socalled "research" that sees in
every living being (human or not-human that be) a way to make money.
Millions of animals are used annually to test chemicals, cosmetics,
pesticides, erbicides, drugs, weapons and so on. They are subjected to
surgical operations, fractures, forced to inhale or swallow substances and
suffer violations of their bodies and their minds, 'till death and then
autopsy and then burning chambers.
With the excuse of social and scientific progress, abusers in suit and tie
or in white coats, are allowed all these atrocities. A growing number of
people is opposing vivisection and animal abuse. Our voices and protests
are unfortunately too often not heard.
In a world where vivisection is legal and financed by governments, direct
action is a necessary answer to immediately save lives and give voice to
the pain that millions animals are enduring.

ANIMAL LIBERATION FRONT”

CONSPIRACY CELLS OF FIRE – COMMANDO HORST - INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF ACTION AND SOLIDARITY - INFORMAL ANARCHIST FEDERATION

INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF ACTION AND SOLIDARITY - INFORMAL ANARCHIST  FEDERATION

“Solidarity is a constant attack against the system and society, an act where the words fabrication, innocent, guilty, do not fit. Because as revolutionaries it is our duty to always be guilty for this system, always dangerous and always proud of our choices. We are not persecuted for our ideas, but because it seemed poor to us to not transubstantiate them into actions.” (Gerasimos Tsakalos member of the prisoners cell of C.C.F.).

Real solidarity between revolutionary consciences and groups of comrades is what the dominators fear most, it is the idea of a prospect that makes the ground tremble under the feet of the scum that call us terrorists.
Today we express our absolute solidarity to the comrades all over the world that have passed the threshold of prison without bowing their head, without kneeling, without regretting even one moment.
Tomorrow we will be together with them in the struggle.
This era suits Caesar since the masses are calling out “those who are about to die salute you.” However while the majority of the drowsing society watches the spectacle of its own death, mental and physical, there are still People, there are still situations of disobedience and revolt.
It is one of the few times where almost simultaneously in most of the metropoli of Europe and not only, widespread mutinies are being expressed in London, Paris, Rome, Athens.
In the face of the new challenges of our era with society being one endless correctional facility and fortress-Europe setting the foundations of the new European class that marginalizes and removes as unnecessary those who are not absorbed harmoniously into the productive machine (immigrant minorities, e.g. the Roma in France, unemployed, poor), we wish for our insubordination to go beyond the narrow geographic limits of Greece in order to meet and act jointly with groups of comrades from all over Europe and the entire world so we can join our fists against the wardens of our life.

A while ago we published an international call of solidarity for the upcoming trial on January 17th of members and comrades of our organisation as well as other individuals. In a very short time signals and gestures of solidarity arrived from all areas of insubordination strengthening the wild joy to live and feel the authentic side of the revolution. In Greece the comrades of the incendiary group “warriors of revolutionary conscience” set fire to a car dealership calling for a solidarity campaign for the upcoming trial on January 17th and passing the baton to the Thessaloniki comrades that preformed a barrage of incendiary attacks. Simultaneously comrades from abroad responded immediately to the call out, from the statement of the group “the autonomous cells of the immediate revolution-Praxedis G.Guerero”, the placing of an explosive devise by ELF in Renaut in Mexico against the summit for climate change, the placing of a smoke bomb in Portland in a private bar for cops, the bomb attack of the Argentinian comrades on the Greek embassy, the stoning of the police station in Bristol, up to the well-targeted sending of explosive parcels from the brothers of Italian FAI- Revolutionary Cell Lambros Foundas.

 For the all reasons in the world and those that have already been mentioned, we consider that today more than ever it is desirable, but also feasible, to put together an international network of anarchist individuals and groups of comrades.

 We do not want to speak at great length on theoretical acrobatics and hypothetical estimates. A few years ago on 21/12/2003 the comrades of FAI published an open letter to the anarchist antiauthoritarian movement in the prospect of creating an international Informal Anarchist Federation. A gew years later, we as Conspiracy Cells of Fire consider that the basic values of the “letter” continue to be a constant wager in force and we are willing with all our strength to contribute to this direction. Using therefore the basic characteristics of the text of the comrades of FAI we are also putting in motion the proposal for an international anarchist network.
What we propose is to compose an international network of groups of comrades, antiauthoritarian and chaotic, with horizontal structure, open to everyone that wants to act, individually or collectively, without politicianism so he can satisfy the desire for life here and now.

Each one can with his comrades and friends create an autonomous cell of action, in which theoretical research coexists harmoniously with their corresponding practical application. Through the execution of actions, regardless of the material damage (from slogan writing and smashing of banks and luxury shops up to incendiary-explosive attacks and executions of representatives of the system) each cell with its proclamation will participate in a open dialogue within the network but also with the wider radical circle. The communication will be based on responsibility claims and the distribution of theories by the tools of counter-information that the anarchist movement possesses (publications, flyers, internet web pages, stickers, pamphlets, etc.). In this way all those situations (supposedly conspiratorial clusters in the amphitheatres, the oratories in the assemblies, the gossips in the cafes) that are “vulnerable” to the dominance of informal leaders or can be affected by a police snitch or traitor that through his leaks can make the whole organization or part of it fall like a paper castle, will be abolished.

Through every responsibility claim it is possible to open a thematic for discussion (e.g. for the immigration issue), to organize an expedition of solidarity (e.g. for the trial of certain comrades) to publicize a situation (e.g. the conditions of confinement in the prisons) or even to simply declare the existence of hotbeds of mutiny against the system. As had been mentioned in the past by the comrades of F.A.I. “an expedition of struggle via actions and the following proclamations, will also be followed by the rest of the individuals or groups according to their times and their methods”. The actions of each group will be accompanied by their signature. Particularly in the international callouts the appropriate time frame should be given in order that the comrades from each country can assemble those elements necessary to help them act on the plan. Let;s not we forget that the kilometric distance will be covered, beyond certain personal contacts where and if it is judged necessary, through proclamations and texts of reflection, which must be especially instructive and informative. In this sector immediate translations by the groups themselves and other comrades certainly helps.

Also in order to clarify things in our contribution to the creation-support of the Informal Anarchist Federation - International Network we want to stress that our proposal, also supporting the plan of the cells of F.A.I., is a proposal of practical theory. We are speaking of a network of direct action where our positions and values will be propagated simultaneously and will be judged through the actions of direct attack on the regime. By putting on the central axis of the Network - Federation revolutionary solidarity, we mean all those aggressive forms of action (posters, demos, slogans, events) as well as armed actions against the structures and individuals responsible for the confinement of the comrades. Surely our solidarity does not have any relation with technical - legal support. “Urban society offers enough lawyers, social-workers, priests so the revolutionaries have something else to deal with” (F.A.I - open letter to the anarchist – anti authoritarian movement)
Finally we never forget who our enemy is in this war. We know that the official state will turn all its forces against the internal enemy. As we also know that the majority of society often conceals within it an informal, more conservative, more fascist, more inhuman state than the state itself. It is also a fact that certain social minorities are more anarchist than the official anarchist and more revolutionary than the professional revolutionaries.

We declare our war with authority today calling friends and enemies to take sides “and we should know that it will not be a minority that will make the revolution, however well armed it might be, but on the other hand, we are determined not to put off our revolt to when everyone will be ready.”

We therefore call again the comrades, friends and groups in Italy, Argentina, Mexico, U.S.A, England, Chile, Brazil, Spain, Germany, France, Belgium and anywhere mutiny bursts out to contribute with their moves so that we turn the trial of January 17th for the case of Revolutionary Organization Conspiracy Cells of Fire into a vaulting horse of attack against the structures of the system. Because we know that the trial will last a long time, let it be considered that all this period is a belligerent period and a good opportunity for new attacks...

At the same time we send our revolutionary greetings causing noise and chaos in the concentration camps of the metropolises to the imprisoned hostages all over the world.

Gabriel Pombo da Silva, Thomas Meyer Falk in Germany, Marco Camenisch, Luca Bernasconi, Constantino Ragusa, and Silvia Guerini in Switzerland, Jock Palfreeman in Bulgaria, Abraham Lopez, Adrian Magdaleno Gonzales, Braulio Arturo Duran Gonzales in Mexico, Marcelo Villaroel, Freddy Fuentevilla and in jailed for the “bomb case” in Chile, Jean Marc Rouillan in France.
We know that behind the imprisonment of each one of our comrades a clear choice is being hit. For this we consider it important that individual calls and expeditions of solidarity promoting each case separately be organized by groups. It is necessary that we resist the counterfeiting of the Media that twists the cases of imprisoned comrades, they isolate them and finally conceal them so that they can pass into oblivion. The only way to break the wall of silence is through our actions to give words to the hostages whose possibility of being “free” has been taken away from them. We want to sabotage isolation, to propagate the separate case of each one, his thoughts, his choices, his struggles. These people are not names in a phonebook, they are COMRADES and they are not alone. We call the prisoners themselves and their close action groups to give the spark for new international hostilities through their speech and their actions. We as Conspiracy will be next to them in the common battle in order to stop the exploitation of person by person once and for all.

The struggle needs consistency, needs devotion. The struggle for individual freedom should be considered equal to the fight for collective freedom. But the mistake that many make is that they misunderstand these significances confusing consistency with boredom and (self) discipline with authority. The struggle however does not need dogmatic people ready to die for the “cause” without living fighting, without living with passion.”
(The autonomous Cells of the Immediate Revolution - Praxedis G. Guerrerro)

CONSPIRACY CELLS OF FIRE – COMMANDO HORST FANTAZZINI

P.S. Horst Fantazzini was a bank robber in Italy who was “politicised” in prison and gave hard battles for his freedom and for the collective struggles of the prisoners. In his modest personality the political and the penal abolished segregation of words and they were transformed into substance. Horst was a revolutionary Person that fought the system and its wardens. He robbed banks, flirted with freedom between his escapes and never bowed his head to his executioners.
In July 1973 in an escape attempt he “arrested” as hostages his two wardens and wounded another by shooting him with a pistol that he had managed to smuggle into the prison. He asked for his freedom and the snipers of the police gave him bullets, seriously injuring him. A while later the undisciplined Horst tries the leap for freedom again, but his fall wounding him in the legs, leads him to high security imprisonment. Horst wrote and his words were bullets against system. He wrote about freedom, unfairness, the struggle, the revolution. After a period of semi-freedom (worked as a warehouse worker and returned to prison at 10.00pm) he was arrested on December 19th 2001 with anarchist comrade Carlo Tesseri outside a bank, and charged with attempted robbery. On December 24th 2001 he is found dead in the baths of the prison from natural causes. Now the system cannot arrest him again. Because Horst Fantazzini is alive in our memory, in our conspiracies, in the difficult but beautiful struggle that we give in order to take back the authentic side of life. Horst is one of us.
 Honour forever to anarchist – bank robber Horst Fantazzini.


boubourAs translation actforfreedomnow!

1) ECOTAGE AT ELITE HOUSING CONSTRUCTION SITE
“A tracked dozer was torched by a group of ELF activists during the night of the full moon (22-23 of december). The vehicle was used as part of a gentrification project in a Moscow region, where local authorities decided to build an elite housing on the shores of a picturesque forest lake. As usual, the rich should pay a little more for their arrogance and disdain for common people (who were robbed of a place to walk and swim at), but most of all – for their raping of nature. Merry crisis and a happy new fear from russia!
ELF-Russia
2)ELF torch highway construction vehicles during New Year festivities
A new industrial development program kicks off in Russia for Moscow region starting from 01.01.2011.
It implies 90% deforestation works that will hit what’s left of local nature and wildlife, with numerous problems in tow like draughts, fires, polluted air and further deterioration of city ecology.
So in a gesture of contempt and defiance of these plans we set 2 excavators and an asphalt-laying contraption. Vehicles went up in flames soon after the clock hit 12 am, to the sound and light of various fireworks. It was a sight to behold.”

*directaction.info

Solidarity Poster for Polykarpos Georgiadis and Vaggelis Chrisohoidis (greece)



POSTER SAYS:
did anyone speak of a
KIDNAPPING?
“…A handful of capitalists
have organized a criminal gang
and have kidnapped the proletarians,
demanding for ransom
their labor force,
merchandising their human activity,
their time (which is turned into money),
their own being itself…”
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
to vaggelis Chrisohoidis and Polykarpos Georgiadis
who the persecuting authorities, exactly because they denied to betray values and people,
accuse them as participators in the kidnapping of industrialist Milonas
anarchists from Serres from north-greece


Anarchists solidarity protest outside Korydallos prison, the main prison in Athens, at the time of the change of the year. This protest happens every New Year's Eve for the past six years. This year more than 400 people took part in the protest that interacted with the prisoners inside through shouting mutual slogans and fireworks. The main slogan was "The passion for freedom is stronger that your prisons".
NEW YEAR OUTSIDE IN KORRIDALOS PRISON 2011
Watch live streaming video from agitprop at livestream.com
FIRE TO ALL PRISONS

A society that punishes/the condition of incarceration/the prison of the mind/the prison as punishment/the rage of the damned will sound on the ruins of prisons/those denying obedience and misery of our era even within its hellholes/will dance together on the ruins of every last prison/with the flame of rebellion avenging whatever creates prisons.

To the prisoners struggle already counting one dead and thousands in hunger strike across greece, we stand in solidarity and anger until the destruction of every last prison.


ARSON AND WILDFIRE FOR EVERY PRISON

SOLIDARITY TO ALL PRISONERS IN GREECE


Keny Arkana - La Rage English Subtitles

1976 - 2000 Greek Anarchists Fight for Freedom

(December Riots in Greece)