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An Anarchist Journal of Living Dangerously Rolling Thunder Issue Number Eleven / Spring 2014 Revolutionary Strategy An Anarchist Journal of Living Dangerously Rolling Thunder Issue Number Eleven / Spring 2014 revolutionary strategy . the life cycles of movements . prisoner revolt . beyond ally politics the rise and fall of the Oakland Commune . uprising in Istanbul . student strike in Montréal anarchism in Israel . fighting gentrification . deserting the digital utopia . eternity by the stars In Seattle, we wrote the legal number on our arms in marker To call a lawyer if we were arrested. In Istanbul, people wrote their blood types on their arms. I hear in Egypt, They just write their names. Table of Contents “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Kicking It Off 2 Introduction: This One Goes to 11 4 Glossary of Terms, Featuring Victor Hugo and Charles Baudelaire Letters from the Other Side 8 Days of Teargas, Blood, and Vomit— A Dispatch from Prisoner Sean Swain After the Crest: The Life Cycles of Movements 13 What to Do when the Dust Is Settling 19 The Rise and Fall of the Oakland Commune 34 Montréal: Peaks and Precipices— Student Strike and Social Revolt in Québec Eyewitness Report 52 Addicted to Tear Gas: The Gezi Resistance, June 2013 Critique 69 Ain’t No PC Gonna Fix It, Baby: A Critique of Ally Politics Investigation 78 How Do We Fight Gentrification? Analysis 98 Deserting the Digital Utopia: Computers against Computing Interviews 104 Israeli Anarchism: A Recent History Reviews 121 EtErnity by thE StarS, Louis-Auguste Blanqui 125 Interview with Frank Chouraqui, translator of EtErnity by thE StarS The End 128 Prognosis Going all the way means defending parks and neighborhoods, bankrupting developers, bringing capitalism to a halt with a general strike. Taking it to eleven means local struggles metastasizing into nationwide uprisings, defeated enemies joining you on the barricades, surviving one revolutionary cataclysm to set off another. T A K I N G I T T O 1 1 The history of numbers is not just the history of but anarchists can only pursue eleven by throwing quantification, but also a history of mysticism. For out all scripts and scripture. Freedom means casting millennia, people have sought meaning in numbers, ourselves into the unknown with no guarantees, or sometimes in a single number. Christians have relishing the uselessness of blueprints, relinquishing focused on the number 3, Masons the number 13, control. This is where anarchists thrive. Eleven is our Jewish mystics the number 10, Douglas Adams the hidden guide and ethos. number 42. Each of these held the key to a secret. Eleven also means new beginnings—the moment For us, the really powerful number, the one that when, having traversed a long and arduous road, we occasions a certain gleam in the eye, is the number suddenly behold a landscape of unfamiliar possibil- eleven. Eleven is one beyond. It’s the next level, the ity. It means starting again. unexpected escalation, the thing that comes out This journal began a decade ago in the waning of nowhere to exceed what everyone believed to days of the anti-globalization and anti-war move- be the full maximum of ten. It’s the line between ments, when the momentum that had brought us workplace grumblings and wildcat strike, the differ- together was fading and it was time to chart a fresh ence between atomized individuals and a cohesive course. Since then, we’ve seen friends stand trial crowd, the threshold between protest and riot. It is as terrorists, enduring prison to return to our arms the unspoken element that can transform a prosaic against all odds; we’ve seen new upheavals transform conversation into a daring point of departure. It’s the our cities into playgrounds, then battlefields. We’ve frontier between achieving and superseding. staked our freedom repeatedly and received it back Eleven doesn’t lend itself to formulas. Unlike the with interest. We edit these pages today with the numbers of the Christians or the Vedics, there is tools of our trade close at hand and the possibility no set equation to bring out the eleven around us. of a new global wave of revolt in the wind. After the If you stumble across eleven by chance and try to crest of every movement, after climax of every clash, find it in the same place later, you will find that it we will pick up the pieces, take what we learned, has moved on. Mystics have propagated various and arm ourselves for the next adventure. We still incantations for harnessing the power of numbers, hunt for eleven. ROLLING THUNDER: A JOURNAL OF DANGEROUS LIVING Issue Eleven, Spring 2014 Body text set in Whitman, titles and captions set in Flama, Rolling Thunder [email protected] combined with images by the Paul F. Maul Artists Group. Inside back cover art: www.nickbaxter.com P.O. Box 494 www.crimethinc.com Printed in Canada on 100% post-consumer recycled paper Chapel Hill, NC 27514 ROLLING THUNDER SUBSCRIPTIONS: Four issues for $25 U.S. / $30 Global Get more info and order online at www.crimethinc.com/rt Rolling Thunder Issue Eleven, Spring 2014 Kicking It Off 3 “The problem of language is at the heart of all the struggles between the forces striving to abolish the present alienation and those striving to maintain it. It is inseparable from the very terrain of those struggles. We live within language as within polluted air.” – Situationist International, “All the King’s Men” Glossary of Terms For further disambiguation and elucidation, consult our Contradictionary: crimethinc.com/contradictionary Benefactor – Like reactionaries, do-gooders fear Yezhov’s singular gifts as an administrator had car- radical social change. If they lost their assets, who ried him to the apex of the Soviet security apparatus. would help the needy? Rooting out the ubiquitous “thugs” and “spies” from the ranks of the Party in what came to be known “‘How could he who improves us, help being bet- as the Great Terror, he earned a place at the side of ter than we?’ Man has ever thought thus. Let us Stalin himself. Wherever Stalin feared there might therefore improve mankind!—in this way we shall be a plot, Yezhov was quick to discover one. become good.” –Nietzsche, The Case of Wagner The ensuing purges overshadowed anything that had come before. In only two years, over a million Blowback – For every action there is an equal and people were arrested, and half that number shot for opposite reaction crimes against the state. The population of the Gulags tripled; countless thousands died of malnutrition and Capital – Lethal (see Capital Punishment, Capitalism) exposure. Yezhov arrested the previous head of the secret police, his own former superior, and oversaw Damnatio Memoriae – I can’t recall that ever hap- his torture, interrogation, trial, and execution. pening to anyone The nation’s poets filled its newspapers with pae- ans to the new hero: “Great Stalin’s ardent call was Damnation – On December 20, 1937, Nikolai Yezhov heard by Yezhov with all his heart, all his blood…” stood at the peak of his career. Tremendous banners Posters adorned the streets depicting him crushing emblazoned with his face adorned the walls of the the enemies of the people in his gauntleted fist. Bolshoi Theater in Moscow alongside portraits of His wife hosted a literary salon featuring the best his mentor, Joseph Stalin. It was the twenty-year an- writers of the day; she and Yezhov could have sex niversary of the founding of the Soviet secret police, with anyone they chose. He kept a file on her, too, and the Bolshevik elite had gathered to celebrate. just in case. figure i. 4 ¬ Kicking It Off ¬ Issue Eleven, Spring 2014 ¬ Rolling Thunder Yes, things were going well for Yezhov! He had installed men he trusted in all the important posi- tions below him. In the course of the shakeup, he had positioned himself quite advantageously. Indeed, should the Great Leader ever need replacing… At that moment, Yezhov looked up at the walls of the Bolshoi Theater and saw the towering, impas- sive face of Joseph Stalin gazing down at him—and realized he was doomed. After that night, he began to drink harder. He would drink heavily, then go to the prison to inter- rogate detainees. He had been an assiduous worker— the most assiduous in the country—but now he sometimes neglected even to show up. Yet nothing happened at first. Stalin was toying with him. His wife sent increasingly desperate letters to Stalin as her lovers were arrested one after another. “Dear, beloved comrade Stalin… Let them take away figure ii. my freedom, my life, I will accept it all, but I will not give up the right to love you, as everybody does who loves the country and the Party… Forgive me Electorate – The silenced majority for my letter, written in bed…” Stalin left her letters unanswered. A few days after sending the last one, Encyclopedia – All that professes to be compre- she committed suicide. hensive functions by exclusion Finally, Yezhov was removed from his post. He was arrested, tortured, and interrogated by his suc- Greater Good – Better a lesser evil! cessor in the secret police. Condemned to death in a secret trial, he was dragged screaming and crying Judgment – Standards are overrated into an execution chamber that had been built ac- cording to his specifications, with a drainage trough Malarkey – From mal-, the Latin prefix for “bad,” and for the blood. His name suddenly disappeared from the Greek arkh(e)ia, denoting government; hence, the papers (see Damnatio Memoriae) and his face redundantly, the opposite of anarchy vanished from the photographs that had showed him in Stalin’s company (see figure i.).
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