Letter of Olivier in jail on remand in Paris since the 14/01

Summarized: "No freedom for the enemies of power," they tell us.
We say "no peace for the enemies of freedom."

Olivier

Prison La Santé

21/01/2010

We are not in jail for graffities

We have been arrested in the street, in the Belleville district, by the BAC (brigade against criminality). Two patrols were turning knowing what they were looking for. In a bag, the cops found a spray and our fingers were a bit too dark for their taste. Our passage to the police station was not long, just enough for the cops to get out all their outfit of old tricks, less to force us to talk than to pressure. In the afternoon of 13, those of the SAT-Criminal Brigade (anti-terrorist section of the criminal brigade) pick us up, smiling. Therefore it is quite clear that the graffities will be only one insignificant detail, a pretext to bring us down
"Too bad, you had subsided, we went away with all that, but now you've relauch everything ." Some attempts to auditions for the form. Before that, houses searches to update their publication archives, to put a little mess. In offices, beamed notes inform us of complaints by the Red Cross. We quickly fixed. Already in the police station of the twentieth district the cops were talking to a special meeting among them after a call from 36 Quai des Orfevres about the degradation of several locals of Red Cross in Paris, the night of January 11 to 12 . Other graffities targeted the house of Justice and Law, in the tenth district. Anti-Terrorist Section on their teeth for graffities? There is something wrong there. The night of our arrest, graffities have benn spraid with messages of solidarity with the revolt these recents weeks in Tunisia, Algeria, against the state, whether democratic or dictatorial. So asked us question about this, but also graffities the night before, claiming that the subject would be the same (it's true that very few people show their hostility to the state ...) and that expressions like "death to the State" have been found in both cases
Beyond these specific facts, they blame us for the continuity of polical activities, our participation in fights, and thus complicity links and friendship forged during these struggles. In this context, the prison to punish a violation of judicial control which forbade , for two of us, to see and communicate clearly intended to destroy all forms of struggle and organization, beyond the informal democratic framework and its social control.
The criminal conspiracy as a charge, even if it's not formally mentioned in our case remains the obsession of those who seize on any fact, even as "trivial" as graffities, smoke bombs, posters to fit them into the mold "anarcho-autonomous" A good building practice, for each separate force, terrorizing the others, taking apart possibly the "leaders" of the "supporters", "theorists" and "Billposters" "pickers" and "performers" writ in authoritarian and hierarchical model is that of society as we're fighting, and that disgusts us in every way. This kind of pressure surges, in time where some struggles against detention centers and all forms of confinement, for example, seems to be marking time, act as a "precautionary principle" to nip in the bud any attempt of conflict against what dominates us. The regular complaints from the Red Cross participate fully in this cops's offensive, not losing an opportunity to collaborate with them. Hand in hand for the management of prisons, hand in hand in the suppression of anti-authoritarian struggles. A little paint for these humanitarian with red hands, it's not a heavy price to pay ...
Beyond the particular practices and means used in the fight (since both are mentioned fires, destruction targeted, degradation simple, collectives occupations...) it's the struggle itself and what it is in terms of desires and perspectives (a world without exploitation, without money, without prisons, without a state) that wants to stifle. This is anything but the consequence of a state, or "emergency laws". Freedom and democracy have nothing to do together. It must be quite a liar for saying the opposite. What piss them of is that our rage, our revolt and our struggles have nothing to claim, to concede nothing, nothing to deny, nothing to beg. We leave all that happy to the professional and opportunistic politics. Similarly, our friendships, our affinities are not negotiable. The freedom we want is unconditional.
A slogan of the revolt in Kabylia said:
"You can not kill us, we're already dead."
The State may also fuck us in jail, but the existing social relations already lock us up.
One thing that we do not forget: we have only one life.
Summarized: "No freedom for the enemies of power," they tell us.
We say "no peace for the enemies of freedom."
Olivier

A communique about the arrests in France and the solidarity to the revolt in Maghreb- a definition of Liberty among different revolts. CLIK TO READ.... polisson.noblogs.org/post/2011/01/25/communique-about-the-arrests/

Leaflet of solidarity with the Tunisian insurgents

Here the English translation of a leaflet published by some comrades in France ("Luttes autonomes" - "Autonomous struggles"). Original in French can be found here: http://juralibertaire.over-blog.com/article-tract-de-solidarite-avec-les-insurges-tunisiens-65241894.html
Leaflet of solidarity with the Tunisian insurgents
Since several weeks, proletarians in the Maghreb revolt against living conditions that become intolerable and against the terror policy of the State. They take to the street, clash with cops, assault all the buildings of the State, warehouses of goods, banks... they block roads and particularly in Algeria they clearly reject any oppositional and/or Islamite political control.
In their real practice these movements of struggle affirm themselves against the State, against private property. In this sense they are an admirable protest against the world of money, they are magnificent examples of struggle against all shapes of submissiveness, they are a foreshadowing of another world to come: the human community finally reconciled with itself and ridded of the State, money, and classes.
Rebels and exploited of the world! This struggle is ours. From the South to the North, from the East to the West its fundamental nature is everywhere the same. Workers, students, unemployed, youth, old people... all these categories dissolve in the heart of the struggle against this abject world to form only one class in struggle, with as only central preoccupation: the destruction of the State.
The answer of the State is in two ways: on one hand governments brutally repress, on the other hand the political, union, religious oppositions (playing the martyrs) propose the democratic alternation: that the clique in power goes away. In one case as in another the purpose is the same: that the revolt stops and the domination goes on, whatever its political shape. However, whatever its shape (parliamentary system, one-party system, authoritative system...) the State always remains the State. Its existence implies that the rich remain rich, that the poor are always poorer, that they work and croak in silence.
Repression means many deaths, imprisonment, torture, brutality... It's a feature of systems where the political, union, religious oppositions are absent or too weak to do their dirty work of hijacking, pacification of the struggles and hopes of a radically other world, which spring up in the struggle. It's said that over there it's the dictatorship whereas here we are in democracy, which means that nothing like this could happen to us. We would live in a finally pacified society, experiencing only some repressive excesses from time to time, some blunders attributable to people "having a problem" and not to the system.
It's false: It's first and foremost the strength of the revolt that pushes the State to slaughter thus and not a lack of rights.
It's untrue: the fact that since the war of Indochina, most of the police in the world are trained by the French police is not mentioned. If the arm is another, the brain is "made in France". As well as weapons, gases, truncheons, tanks sold every year for millions of Euros.
It's an illusion: For the moment the State here doesn't need to resort to open repression. Unions play well their role of Capital's martinet: i.e. to pacify and ward off the proletarian anger in the tricks and traps of negotiation for obtaining some crumbs and pennies. Political parties exist to maintain illusions on the involvement of all to the power. But as soon as these flunkeys will be outflanked, rejected, unable to cope... and useless, the State here will use the same methods of open terror, it will trample on the illusory scraps of paper that are the rights.
Our responsibility here is to clearly distinguish ourselves from "our" State, to show that it's a party to the present repression, and that it's even ready to intervene if the repressive forces over there are prey to doubt. It already did during the revolt in Greece in 2008: the Greek State had appealed the Spanish and Italian States for a help of their police.
Our responsibility here is to take up the torch of the struggle that we have momentarily given up at the end of the autumn. We lost a battle; we came up against the intransigence of the State and the logic of Capital. All the more reason for reacting vigorously against the aggravation of our living conditions, to refuse to continue to thrown in the sponge.
Proletarians in the Maghreb need this class solidarity! And not shy humanist protests! Not whining moaning!
Solidarity_Poster
Autonomous StrugglesContact: luttesautonomes@yahoo.fr

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