Seattle: Banner Dropped in Solidarity with Anti-State Struggles Everywhere

Remember the 6th of December!


Early this morning, during rush hour traffic, we dropped a banner over highway 99. The banner reads, "POLICE VIOLENCE IS NO ACCIDENT. COPS ARE KILLERS."



We of course recognize that this is a small, symbolic act. We simply wish to demonstrate that the fires that burn today--the two-year anniversary of the murder of Alexis-- in the streets of Greece are fires that burn within us as well. Let's bring fuel to the flames.


Solidarity with the struggle in Greece today and always.
Solidarity with the American comrade viciously attacked by the thugs of the Delta squad.



Solidarity with Roger Clement on the day of his sentencing.



Solidarity with the Asheville 11 on the occasion of their plea hearing.



For John T. Williams and all victims of the police, locally and everywhere. Against the state and its guard dogs. For anarchy!

Letter from French Comrades about the general strike and the riots in France

fromhttp://voidmirror.blogspot.com/2010/10/letter-from-french-comrades-about.html

Here attached and pasted is a communique from 
comrades in Paris translated into english by 
american writer Calamity Barucha. 

Please forward this widely, post onto
your blogs ect . We are trying to get this out there 
because there haven't been many communqies 
until now and hopefully people will
organize some soli-demos.
This same group who wrote this will soon 
come out with another 
communique that will be broader, consolidating 
more info and having a bigger anylisis and 
comrades will translate it.... 

But for now this is all we have so help us 
get it out there.
-sleepless in europe, 

Void Network

The following is a communiqué that appeared 
on Paris Indymedia, written by comrades who breifly 
occupied the Opera in Bastille, Paris on Satruday. 
Since the appearance of this communique,
mainstream media reports rising violent resistance 
across France on Tuesday, as once
again up to three million people took to the 
streets and riots occurred from Lyon to the Paris 
suburbs. As the Guardian reports, the
strikes have “appeared to be pushing France closer 
to crisis today as fuel shortages were felt across the 
country and violence erupted on
the sidelines of protests by children.”  
According to media, if fuel is not made available 
to cargo trucks in the next few days (due to
blockades and strikes), the economy could become 
paralyzed when factories and workplaces 
run out of supplies.

Translated from French:

The state and the bosses only understand one language
Monday, October 18th, 2010


During the last days numerous initiatives have begun to flourish
everywhere: secondary schools, train stations, refineries and 
highwayshave been blockaded, there have been occupations
of public buildings,workplaces, commercial centers, 
directed cuts of electricity, and ransacking of electoral 
institutions and town halls...In each city, these actions are 
intensifying the power struggle and demonstrate that many 
are no longer satisfied with the forms of
actions and words of order imposed by the union
leaderships.
In the Paris region, amongst the blockades of train stations 
and secondary schools, the strikes in the primary schools,
the  workers pickets in front of the factories, people create
inter-professional meetings and collectives of struggle 
are founded to destroy categorical isolation and separation. 
Their starting point:
self-organization to meet the need to take ownership over our
struggles without the mediation of those who claim to speak for
workers. Many of us do not organize ourselves according to the
traditional forms of strikes on work sites, yet provided, we still
find a desire to contribute to the general movement in economic
blockade. 

Thus, we find this movement as also an opportunity to go beyond the single issue of pensions, the question of work, in order to
develop and build together a critique of exploitation.

Starting from these questions we decided Saturday to occupy the Opera Bastille. This was to disturb a presentation that was live on radio, to play the trouble makers in a place where the cultural merchandise circulates and to organize an assembly there. So we met with more than a thousand people at the “place de la nation”, with banners stating “the bosses understand only one language: Strike, blockade, sabotage”
and “against exploitation: block the economy”, with the desire to go beyond the strictly limited framework of the union’s demonstration. We reassembled at the end of the demonstration in the contrary sense and arrived at the place of action, finally finding ourselves in a free demonstration situation surrounded by an impressive police force. Very
quickly more than a hundred police officers in civil dress, helped by the syndicalists service, ordered to split the demo in two and prevented a certain number of people from joining in.

With eggs and fireworks we pushed away the cops as far as possible from our demo, and we left “accidentally” some traces along our way. Note in passing to those who find nothing better to do than speculate on undercover officers from images stolen by journa-cops, there is no question of crying over two windows of banks whose attack is merely a weak response to the violence of capital.

Upon arrival at the Bastille, due police repression and confusion, only about fifty people were able to finally enter the opera while others chose to disperse.

The cops deployed in the square were able to arrest some forty people who were taken into custody in several police stations. Monday night, most were released, but at least 5 others remain in custody and go before the judge this would be Tuesday…they are charged with “armed assembly” and “destruction of goods by an organized gang”. As always, the powers decided to strike fast and hard, hoping to accentuate or create separations (between reasonable sydicalists unionists and simple shop-owners, between students and rioters ...) in order to smash everything that contributes to the
emergence of a genuine power relation against the state and the bosses. Police used “flashbang” grenades and rubber bullets against overly energetic high school students; the refinery workers suffer not only attacks from the police but also direct threats by the “prefect” to pursue them, and of requisition; the pissed off demonstrators who
decided not to just calmly disperse risk prison as in St. Nazaire.
Since the beginning of the movement over a thousand people have been arrested.

The multiplication of initiatives that escape the traditional
gravediggers of struggles belies clear to all those who would like to isolate the black sheep and prevent protesting that which is largely accepted, beyond the numbers of years of contribution. These actions allow us to glimpse the possibility of a movement where the corporatist struggles are left behind, where the bureaucrats loose foot, where struggles are not limited to what is allegedly acquired.

There is way more to take than they want us to believe!

Stop the pursuits. Freedom for everyone...

Assailants attack Russian embassy in Minsk with fire bombs

Assailants attack Russian embassy in Minsk with fire bombs

08:54 31/08/2010

© Photo Website of the Russian Embassy in Belarus

Unknown assailants attacked the Russian Embassy in the Belarusian capital of Minsk with fire bombs late on Monday, a local emergencies spokesman said.
"At around 10:50 p.m. local time (19:50 GMT), two fire bombs were thrown onto the territory of the Russian Embassy," the spokesman said. "One of them hit a car parked on the premises."
There were no casualties, he added.

The Russian Embassy in Minsk attacked anarchists

Thu, 02/09/2010 - 21:19 — editor

Responsibility for the recent attack on the Russian embassy, caused a stir in the press, claimed a group of Belarusian anarchists. Quote the statement posted on the website of Indymedia: In the evening on August 30 a group of anarchists was conducted attack with Molotov cocktails at Russian embassy in Minsk. Was damaged one of the official cars. By this action, we express our anger and protest against the arrests and repression against social activists, who defended forests Khimki Moscow. Our friends are beaten by mercenaries from among the fascists, riot police chases and screws all in a row, threats, detentions and arrests have become the norm.Our friends are forced to endure the hardships in the dungeons and live in fear of being planted, because it stood for truth, for the people, for the right to a normal environment. But bureaucrats and capitalists concerned only kickbacks and profits, they do not care what will happen tomorrow and they are ready to virulent measures to suppress any protest, any dissatisfaction. What's next, death squads? We stand in solidarity with our comrades, and support only direct methods of struggle, because they are afraid only of force on the rest of them do not care. It's funny to read reviews and discussions about the campaign on Internet forums.We are equally repugnant to all the mafia clans under the names "the rulers of Belarus" and "the rulers of Russia." A simple working people of both countries does not shine anything good from this political bickering for power, should not behave like this mendacious politicians. People, wake up! Can not do without conspiracy theories to justify any act of protest and discontent? Every day we see theft and lawlessness, but around only downcast glances and timid kitchen conversations.It's time to gather their strength and to believe that we deserve a better life. Freedom for all prisoners! No political repression! Down with the officials, gangsters and cops! Human rights and social justice!

http://belarus.avtonom.org/?p=15171

MPATSOI GOYROYNIA DOLOFONOI!

Rammstein à Athènes (live)

Letter from Polykarpos Georgiadis to the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire

english translation

O most Serene Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire,

Navel of the earth and centre of the universe, I kneel before thee and I ask from you to bow from the throne of your Sacred, Immaculate and Overgrown Ego to hearken your humble servant.

O guardian and unique initiate of the revolution, restless enemy of the ox-eyed petit-bourgeois plebeians (since we, the ultra-revolutionaries, have the eye of the lynx, full of grace, scherzo and nechayevian sauciness).

O indefatigable dark knight of the court of the negative, listen to your humble servant.

I request that you will not mention again my name in the delirious texts that you call political proclamations.

I wish you a long-life of revolutionary militarist illegalist amoralist anarcho-individualist nihilist terrorism and of other sonorous –isms (and cerebral seisms)

Your humble servant for now and forever and ever and ever,

POLYKARPOS GEORGIADIS,

CORFU (KERKYRA) PRISON

15-06-2010

Village Burned by Upper Caste and Police: Two Dead

"Do the poor have no right to live?" exclaimed Jaswant, a local Indian of the village Mirjpur. Mirjpur recently had 20 houses burnt to the ground by the Jat Community and experienced zero support from local officers.

In fact, local officers were seen that night lounging in the houses of the Jats. Some even stood aside as the houses were burned before their eyes. There is great speculation that the police might have actually deployed several of the groups responsible for the carnage.

Having said that, the Jats have been increasingly more violent in the Hissar district of India. As of late, they burned houses in Dulina, Salvan, and now Mirjpur village. Of the three burnings only Mirjpur has experienced fatalities.

Two people died in the last carnage. A man and his disabled daughter were burned alive in their home. A survivor of the incident, the deceased man's son, was interviewed by IndiaUnheard correspondent, Amit Kumar.

The man describes the means by which the Jats burned the houses, and his despair is felt through the screen as he shows the wreckage of his old home.

Jaswant explains that the Jats have been acting increasingly violent to try and prevent the Dalit and Valmiki communities (lower castes) from gaining equal rights. "They want us to be their slaves. This is the only reason for this carnage."

The Dalit and Valmiki communities aren't experiencing relief from the government, who makes false promises of justice to silence their cries for help.

Standing tall to the camera, Jaswant speaks, "We want the government to punish the culprits, and book the officers under section 302-SC/ST."

Knowing your rights is a first step, but in a society that depends on the authority of a lackadaisical government, it is hard to imagine Jaswant or Mirjpur village will ever see proper justice for this incident.

To learn more about this story and to explore the hidden truth's behind India's caste system, watch this short video.