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Autonomous Chaos-Strategy CONTENTS: (4) International Resistance News (11) The Bombs (1915) from ‘Carteles I’ (13) Report from the Autonomous Spaces Gathering, Dijon, France (19) Towards a Warm 2008 (19) Anti-G8 2007 : Report (28) Letter of Gabriel Pombo da Silva (29) Prison Revolt in Belgium (32) Against the Leaders from ‘Carteles I’ (33) Interview with Christian S, Anti-Fascist in Prison "Things have changed since 2005, we have (34) Running away from the Prison Society from ‘Incognito’ crossed a red line. When these kids aim their (36) Letter of Christina Tonidou guns at police officers, they want to kill them. They are no longer afraid to shoot a (37) Interview with Anonymous Anarchist from Bialystok, Poland policeman. We are only on the second day (42) Perspective of a Black Bloc Participant: “Atlantica” Riot since the accident and already they are shooting guns at the police." (43) Letter from Giorgos Voutsis-Vogiatzis Joachim Masanet, secretary general of the French (45) Anti-Colonial Struggle in Kanada UNSA police trade union. (50) Letter from Artur Konowalik (52) Stunning Like Marrasi in Flames (54) 10 Years in Jail - or in a Cave by Thomas Meyer-Falk ISSUE #5 > > (55) MG (Militant Group) : A Chronology Printed by the Anti-Copyright Network (57) Repression & Reports (64) Distro [email protected] #5 / 325collective.com laid to rest. Anarchism has always been antagonistic to organised exploitation and will remain so This magazine is an infrequent DIY printed inclined. It is not for nothing that project of incendiary texts & images, Copenhagen’s Chief of Police involving the collaboration of a small network of anarchists and anti-capitalists spread despaired of the ‘autonomous chaos- across Europe and the World. Most of the strategy’ used by black bloc militants information about current legal situations of defending not only the notorious prisoners and anti-political struggles changes ‘Ungdomshuset’ squat in Denmark frequently, check out our web pages for but their existence as an anti-political more information and links. Consider reality, at war with all governments becoming a contributor / distributor. everywhere. When this magazine began in 2003, it was initially imagined as a project Editorial. Feb 2008 to communicate more information about insurgent european Welcome to the 5th issue of 325, an anarchist/anti-capitalist struggle irregular anarchist magazine dedicated to the into the UK, through publishing free society and open minds. Featured in previously untranslated and marginal people who wanted this publication to these pages are reports, news and images news and reports which were barely continue. Many thanks for your rage and from the struggle against hierarchy and covered by the alternative media here. friendship. [email protected] capitalism, and the words and ideas of Internet standards of newscasting prisoners, who are locked down resisting the appear to be challenging the circulation 325 is about finding out who our enemies system. of DIY printed publications as more and and our allies are. Solidarity and affinity more people receive information and are not just abstract ideals but the Industrial capitalism has made mass news electronically. essence of meaningful lived human surveillance and imprisonment a reality, experience. Face-to-face relationships advancing technologies have far surpassed Radical magazines and books, already strengthen and maintain our insurrection anything historical tyrants could have marginal, seem to be getting pushed and this is what needs to be insisted upon dreamed of implementing, and our societies deeper into obscurity, as people are - the end of the political racket. Between are becoming more and more prison like, with conditioned into receiving very heavily us we aim to write what is on everyones the wall between ‘outside’ and ‘inside’ jail filtered and packaged information. Why lips but fears to say, - that this system is blurring significantly. Neo-Liberalism is passive are we making a publication that we coming down, and it would rather bring to genocide and ecological collapse, simply think very few people, even radicals, will everyone in it down as well, into dismissed as the brutal outcome to the crisis read? Well, for us, the Internet is a annihilation, rather than relinquish its at hand - The survival of capitalist rule during demanding media that seems to have a authority. a time of social and environmental turbulence. flimsy permanence. It often carries It is time this system was dismantled - ideas which have very little relation to The problem for the system is that the Immediately. what is happening at the ground level, more it attempts to produce hierarchic despite the ‘mirror world’ rhetoric, order, the more situations spread, Prison is the feature which unites all aspects although not only in the confused develop and breakout into the of modern society; from airports, shadows of ‘online communities’ is uncontrollable. The system wants a finely supermarkets and department stores, to misdirection to be found. We can see tuned mechanism, turning on the factories, schools and beyond. In the prison that a large amount of information is compliance of the base population but we find the clearest aspects of capitalist circulating and proliferating, but very compliance is difficult to achieve, despite exploitation, as the prison is the logical little returns off-line to the streets. the methods of neo-liberal political control, conclusion of government and the free- all-encompassing data surveillance and market - a place where everyone and It was hoped we could add to the drive paramilitary policing. Rogue elements the everything is controlled, catalogued and to communicate and ignite more system can not turn into commodity coerced as a cold statistic. The cells neither resistance in the UK, but 325 has markets it attempts to repress and reform nor rehabilitate, they hide behind grown much further than that, through destroy. For something unprecedented to closed doors the tragic contradictions of the the energy of comrades overseas, begin, it’s time for all of this to come down promises of consumer society. across Europe, Asia and the Americas, without reservation. who appreciate and find common 325 was created because the type of cause in the militant direction we are Industrial capitalism is causing the magazine that we wanted to read did not travelling in. The secondary aim was ecology to collapse dramatically and along exist. We had a feeling from more than 15 this, to create more links and with it will go most of our entire social and years of being involved in anarchist activity, consciousness between people fighting industrial systems. It is no longer in the that most of the time, the only people who are back, at the grass-roots level, and help mouths of the ‘extremists’ that civilisation radicalized after doing some ‘revolutionary’ create and reinforce informal networks and technology is out of control, how activities, are you, yourselves... capable of taking direct action and/or many people now know that interesting producing/distributing propaganda, times for all of us are ahead? It might not be a time for idealistic theories, but a We don’t see producing this publication as a based around an insurrectionary anti- political or financial project. Clearly our activity state, anti-market perspective. starting place to think practically about doesn’t place itself into the realm of making how we are going to respond to money or creating new ideologies to blind So 325 has been more successful than increasing turmoil and what it is going to people with. We want to leave all that behind we expected and the last 4 issues take to fulfill our aims of free exchange with the rest of the political left-wing, which would not have happened without the and co-operation. has sparse treasures left to loot, and is best solidarity and comradeship of many mp . a data network for direct action . a media framework for social war . the refusal of fixed territory . This is a list of incidents, neglected cars that form prestigious symbols of Epithesis) claimed responsibility for the arsons news that rarely makes the headlines. authority inside the commodity - “On Dec. 24 we attacked the private security As an overview of social conflict, class fetishist frenzy that has taken over the company “Group 4 - Wackenhut” headquar- struggle, self-organisation, etc. it could metropolis. We do not respect the ters destroying around 15 vehicles used in never be anything but a partial listing, law-abiding citizens’ wet dreams for a money transfers. This company, apart from but it is merely a collection of moments fast car in expense of the slow suicide owning private prisons in America and defined by their participants. offered by the modern life style. The England, in our country constitutes the most revolutionary character of an arson of important piece of the growing police-like corp a economic-capitalist target isn’t of security professionals that floods the February 5, London, UK - 40 anarchists found only in its physical destruction streets, breeding the big brother shoving and anti-fascists picketed the Greek but also in the illegality of the action cameras, circulating the banks’ wealth and National Tourist Office in London, burning a itself. In the decision to attack. In this guarding diverse capitalist targets contributing Greek flag and causing a scene outside the combatant situation, there are also to the increasing social control and repres- building, in protest at police collusion with losses. Accordingly, we dedicate last sion.” They also mentioned: “The message a fascist organisation during a nationalist night’s attacks in Thessaloniki and here is clear. When dealing with the rage of demonstration in Athens on the 2nd Feb. Athens to the imprisoned anarchist V. insurgents they cannot be safe, even in their Riot police were seen arming fascist Botzatzis who is accused for 3 arson headquarters.