Mapping the Fire

International Words of Solidarity with the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire

Thank you from CCF

The following texts were 29 - Luca “Billy” Bernasconi Editorial by CCF translated and edited by the 31 - Jock Palfreeman How we came up imprisoned members of the 33 - Federico Buono Conspiracy of Cells of Fire and by 36 - Claudio Lavazza with the concept of the comrades of Contra Info. We Black International warmly thank them therefore, as Part Two: well as the comrades A,M and E Solidarity with CCF after some editions who contributed decisively in the members attempted to escape on the handling of this attempt. Finally 12 December 2011. We certainly have a lot more to do we greet the Chilean comrades 37 - Words from Edizioni Cerbero and even more to say. Frequently from Entropia Ediciones for the + Parole Armate requested is the answer to the version in Chile, and the 37 - Words from Mono question of “what do we target?” comrades of Actforfreedomnow, 38 - Words from Sin Banderas Ni boubour(A)s and 325 for the Fronteras From the very first day of the version in English. 40 - Words from 325 imprisonment of each of us we never stopped the production of I - First Part (pg7) Part Three: our speech and our suggestions II - Second Part (pg37) Presentation of self-organized and imperatives. Through texts, III - Third Part (pg41) international internet and communiques, thoughts, publishing projects of counter- IV - Fourth Part (pg53) discussions on other texts, information pamphlets, translations … 41 - Contra Info Contents: 42 - Actforfreedomnow / 1 - How we came up with the Of course, we do not forget nor boubourAs concept of "Black never forgot, that theory is a tool 43 - Entropía Ediciones International" editions which obtains its authentic 44 - Parole Armate 2 - A few words... meaning only when combined 44 - Culmine 4 - International call of the CCF with the underlying action. We 45 - This is our Job never wanted to settle for 46 - Viva la Anarquía Part One: harmless theoretical 47 - War On Society International solidarity of investigations, nor believed that 47 - Conspiratión Acrata imprisoned comrades, the acts speak for themselves 48 - 325 insurrectionary groups, projects and alone. 49 - Black Blocg Collective self-organized counter-publishing 49 - Edizioni Cerbero projects They might have imprisoned our 7 - Gabriel Pombo da Silva bodies but not our ideas, beliefs Part Four: 10 - Juan Carlos Rico Rodríguez and values, which will continue Letters of comrades to whom this 11- Caso Bombas + Chile section to escape through various publication is dedicated 20 - FAI / CCF / FRI / ELF Russia + projects of insubordination. 53 - Eat & Billy blackblocg.info One of these projects is the 54 - Luciano Tortuga 24 - Werner Braeuner creation of “Black International” 63 - Mario “Tripa” Lopez 24 - Davide Delogu editions, which are supported by 65 - Felicity Ryder 25 - Francisco Pancho Moreno us, the imprisoned members of 26 - Marco Camenisch the Anarchist Revolutionary 27 - Zerman Elias Organization Conspiracy of Cells 28 - Thomas Meyer Falk of Fire, and from certain comrades 28 - Braulio González who every day, every moment,

2 embody practically the value of that will have been determined contradiction. On the contrary it SOLIDARITY. by us. As for book stores, the reveals the invisible line which publications may well be useful connects all forms of anarchy and Together with these comrades we as a training exercise for dispute into an international desire to create an anarchist expropriation... revolutionary front which has as publishing experiment that is not its aim to destroy every form of limited only in Greece but tries to authority. Besides, the spread into the international Introduction - disagreements between comrades network of anarchists, into the who honour their words with actual Black International, that A few words about their actions, consist the most now in the year 2012 is a feasible the brochure ideal beginning of an authentic reality. dialogue between the tendencies of the anarchist movement. This pamphlet is a meeting point Besides, through this perspective of comrades from all over the we were inspired with the name What we despise are the world. An imaginary meeting of the editions, desiring that reformist-fake anarchists who since the walls and bars of the “Black International” will not be make comfort and cowardice their prisons where we are temporarily limited to shelves and bookcases, political theory and idealize it. keep our bodies hostage. But our but seeks its authentic meaning in meanings remain free, escape from the streets, where the history of From there on the disagreements the cells of prison and are the Anarchist Insurgency and with comrades of praxis create the expressed with words continuing continuing rebellion is written. fertile ground for the evolution of to provoke authority. all of every one of us. How “Black International” Words that still smell of fire and editions will function Because let us not forget that the gunpowder, words which carry letters of the comrades which are with them all of our hate for the In the development of the editions in this pamphlet are not just system, words unrepentant and we experience some difficulties theories, but choices of action armed, words which transfer which we intend to treat with which they repay with years of stresses and desires, words which sincerity and honesty. Our point prison. break the isolation of prison, of view on self -organized, and words full of passion for the clearly anti-commercialized Thus today which is the time of mutiny we want to continue, projects arefixed and can be easily unstoppable blabbering and words from Chile, Mexico, communicated, within a few harmless revolutionary rhetoric, America, Spain, Germany, words. We do not sell, we share. some write with the pen touching Switzerland, Italy, Bulgaria, the paper, while some with our Indonesia... For us it would be ideal for the soul at the tip of the pen. Reading publications to function by being the letters of the comrades for sure The letters sent to us by the “sponsored” by money we discover a part of their heart hostage comrades, replying thus expropriated from the enemy. In and we thank them for that. to the international call of this way, not only would it be solidarity of the CCF is not just easier to achieve the publication Maybe these letters are a personal mail between prisoners. of a book, but even more account of individual choices, but fundamentally, it would be the their content is not lost in the Our plan for a Black International best way to connect this project sphere of the private. They are an of imprisoned anarchists, is not with Anarchist Struggle. But now open invitation of constant simply “a nice theory” which begins we are faced with the coercive battling against authority, and ends inside printed words. It condition of imprisonment, which proving that the our body even if is the deposit of memory which does not leave us room to still hostage behind the prison exists, in a move forward. “function” exactly as we desire. So bars, has the memory of our we are forced to finance the anarchic life and our heart is full A memory which does not always publishing and distribution of of passion for new attacks, for new count its moments with common these publications by putting an vandalisms, for new conspiracies terms and common reference optional price. of fire which burn the restrictions points. By reading this pamphlet and liberates us. someone can discover an A price which, however anyone international galaxy of points of can intervene in whatever way The second part of the pamphlet views and positions with one wishes. For example, in the contains some texts of imprisoned comrades whose references speak self-organized spaces where the comrades and anarchists who of the class war and the books will be available they will refer to the escape attempt by proletariat and others who speak be accompanied by a box where some of the members of the of nihilism and anti-socialism. everyone can contribute Conspiracy of Cells of Fire from regardless of the proposed price Koridallos prisons. This difference for us is not a 3 It is a greeting to a moment of Two letters which when disobedience experienced through published had great value for us, the hostage world of prison. this is why we chose to re-publish them. They are words written The decision of four comrades of with soul and passion, which the CCF together with anarchist prove that these comrades, despite Theofilos Mavropoulos and one the things which have happened more prisoner to escape, having to them, keep alive and authentic with them a pistol and some self- their values and anarchist made knives supports the conscience. Eat and Billy through International perpetual choice of not the harsh conditions they are Proposal from the surrendering to the enemy. experiencing in the prisons of the It is a signal of continuation of the Indonesian state, usually without Conspiracy of Cells anarchist mutiny even from being able to communicate with within the walls of hostage and an each other, took the responsibility of Fire international proposition and of their participation in FAI and prospect towards our imprisoned are now accused of the arson of a Monday, September 26th, 2011 brothers and sisters. bank. The same moment, a third comrade of theirs, who was To all anarchist prisoners: In the third part of the pamphlet injured during the arson, is there is a self presentation of wanted by the authorities. Prison is the country of prisoners. many anarchist web sites. These Also comrade Luciano Tortuga From here inside, we want to send web sites together with others are having been heavily wounded greetings to our comrades, for us the modern crossroad of the (amputation of an arm, burns etc.) imprisoned around the world, as international meetings of the is hostage of the state of Chile. The well as set a proposal in motion. anarchists of praxis. authorities of Chile show off all their vengeful rage against him, In the country of prisoners, the The translations of communiques seeing in the face of Luciano, their days go by one after the other, of direct action groups, texts and internal enemy, the anarchists of slow and indifferent, while letters of imprisoned anarchists praxis, who never stopped everywhere cement and an transfer the message of war attacking and sabotaging immense boredom prevail. against the system authority. The letter by Luciano as internationally. These web sites well as the unrepentant attitude of Nevertheless, our minds often are invisible meeting points of Eat and Billy spoke to our heart, escape and secretly visit our perceptions, positions, actions and are a compass of fire in our brothers and sisters imprisoned in which spread that this world and chaotic voyage for anarchy. After Chile, Mexico, Italy, Germany, its dominators can be taken down. the recent events in Mexico, which Switzerland, England, Russia, ended up with the arrest and Denmark, and wherever else there They abolish geographical wounding of Mario Lopez and a are cells full of people who haven’t borders, surpass the obstacles of a warrant for his partner Felicity lost the desire for freedom. different language, break the Ryder who now is a fugitive, we silencing of mainstream means of decided to include in this version Comrades, we talk to you even propaganda and spread liberated their letters. though we don’t speak the same moments and situations to language. We see you even though whoever desires to take their life As a small token of friendship and we’ve never met face-to-face. We into their own hands. comradeship we dedicate this smile at you even though we don’t publication to them with all our know one another. They are the messengers of our decision soul. to get off the train of compromises and start the international voyage of anarchy without a return ticket...

Finally in the fourth part of the pamphlet, are published the letters of our imprisoned comrades Eat and Billy (members of the Indonesian FAI – Long Live Luciano Tortuga Cell) and of Luciano Tortuga (Chilean comrade who was heavily wounded from the explosion of a mechanism he was carrying).

4 The enemy believes it can break morally and marginalize We’re not looking for fake our morale by locking us up in its anarchist urban guerrilla warfare. sympathy or support from the cells for months and years. Power Left. Far from it. We seek thus expects to receive a The State wants to wipe the choice accomplices to the same crime: the declaration of remorse, a of anarchist direct action off the fight for anarchy and freedom. renunciation of direct action, a map of values held by subversive revision of our anarchist values. circles. There can be no more appropriate place for our search than the But the only thing it will receive is It wants to portray direct action prisons that constitute an our utter contempt and our most as a futile decision that leads obligatory stop on the path of potent rage. All of us who have directly to prison, changing many anarchist comrades. assumed responsibility for nothing. belonging to the first phase of the Therefore, comrades, we present Conspiracy of Cells of Fire expect However, when you choose direct you with a proposal/invitation. sentences of many years— action, you choose to take your life condemnation by a system we into your own hands. In a few months the second have declared war on because we Conspiracy of Cells of Fire trial will not tolerate it governing our Through direct action, we break will be held. lives. away from stagnant thinking, we negate spineless movements, and Even now we know that they will We want to transform the we sabotage the clocks of sentence us, and not for one upcoming trial of the Conspiracy discipline, creating free time and minute will we take a step back, of Cells of Fire into a trial of the space within the hostile nor will we lower our heads or system. environment of the metropolis. our voices in order to benefit from some “extenuating circumstance.” By way of our discourse and our There, where surveillance cameras attitude, it won’t be us defending record our every move, uniformed Therefore, there can be no better ourselves in front of the judges, police pigs memorize our faces, or stronger argument for our but them defending themselves in and the screens of the spectacle defense that your own voice, front of us - for the crimes fabricate our desires, we once comrades. It’s from your committed by the Power they again don our masks. Our hands expressions of solidarity and the serve. grab hold of stones, Molotovs, attacks carried out by anarchist bombs, pistols, and we pour into direct action groups that we draw At the same time, we want to the streets in search of freedom. the courage to look our draw attention to the fascist persecutors directly in the eye. mechanism constructed to Now, even in prison, we don’t ever Surely you’ve felt the same thing, persecute us via the collaboration forget that feeling, and we’ll do imprisoned in other countries and of the police, the judiciary, and the exactly the same thing again the paying the same price for our mass media. first chance we get. shared passion for freedom.

A mechanism that launched an We therefore don’t want More specifically, what we’re unprecedented anti-anarchist intellectuals, university thinking about and proposing is to campaign whose goal was not just professors, or any of the well- release, ahead of the trial, a our arrest, but also the creation of known hacks from leftist cliques pamphlet containing your a climate of widespread fear in defending us at our trial. international words of solidarity which even the possession of with the Conspiracy of Cells of previously published texts by What do any of them know about Fire case. anarchist prisoners could lead to a the adventure of direct action and date with the prosecutor. its values? At the same time, given that solidarity is a reciprocal concept This was preceded by numerous What can be said by those who to us, we’d like it if those of you detentions, the issuing of arrest spend all day firmly seated in who want to contribute warrants, the publication of their comfortable offices, something—thereby giving us photos of those of us who were at chitchatting against the system strength and support— large, mass media screenplays from the vantage point of their accompany it with an about “connections between all leftist salon culture while that introductory text explaining your the guerrilla organizations,” very system feeds them? own case. reports about the “revolutionary fund” and our participation in No, let them keep their The pamphlet we want to release bank robberies, “specialist” “sensitivity” and the guilt they will thus include summaries of analyses of each of our feel for having sold out to the each of your cases, carrying your “psychological profiles,” and Power that wants to portray us as own experience of struggle to many other methodical schemes “troubled, socially impressionable Greece and the other countries whose objective was to isolate us youths.” 5 where the publication will be among us through letters and There will certainly be many more distributed, creating new shared textual references, to steps to come, but at some point opportunities to instigate international coordination. It’s one must simply begin. hostilities with the system as part about trying to become of international solidarity. accomplices, together forming the In conclusion, we salute and stand Black International of anarchist beside—with our thoughts as well Together we will create an prisoners and supporting—if so as our hearts—the Chilean international experience of desired—our Italian comrades’ comrades charged in the struggle that far exceeds our proposal regarding the Bombings Case and also comrade specific case, since we don’t view strengthening and broadening of Tamara, who is facing State the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire as the Informal Anarchist Federation persecution for sending a letter- the simple calling card of an / International Revolutionary bomb. organization. We view it as a way Front (FAI / FRI). of being that describes and From the prisons of Greece we comprises the features and The potentialities opened by this send anarchist smoke signals to trajectory of the anarchist commitment are enormous, since Mónica Caballero, Andrea Urzúa, struggle we’re all engaged in, it concerns a process of El Viejo Loco, and the rest of the another part of which is our time intensifying hostilities between comrades charged in the spent in prison. revolutionary anarchists and the Bombings Case; Gabriel Pombo da system. Silva; Thomas Meyer-Falk; Marco This is an experience we want to Camenisch; Silvia, Billy, and share with all you comrades who It’s worth imagining the strength Costa; Braulio Arturo; Walter find yourselves prisoners in the gained by something that, for Bond; Villarroel and Fuentevilla; hands of the State, and it’s example, begins in Chilean Thomas Black and the English simultaneously a proposal prisons, crosses borders, and antifascists; the imprisoned Italian through which we can also be winds up in the cells of Greece. An insurrectionists; the Russians and accomplices to your experiences. international solidarity campaign Belarusians; the Danes; and all can thus be initiated from prison, those we’ve forgotten or whose It thus becomes possible to reach, just like in the past when it was a names we simply don’t know but within international anarchist matter of supporting comrade want to know, because all of us circles, a level of unity and Gabriel Pombo da Silva. have together chosen to sail coordination that isn’t vague, but against our epoch, using anarchy essential. At the same time, the formation of as our compass. an autonomous network of Contact between comrade communication among prisoners The following excerpt is dedicated prisoners at an international level creates the appropriate to us all: transforms solidarity into a preconditions for the existence of a revolutionary workshop, permanent flow of information One day of prison. Two days of prison. revealing the different perceptions about what’s going on in each Three days of prison. A month of prison. that shape a joint anarchist action prison, the conditions of front. imprisonment, upcoming trials, The door closes and opens, then closes potential sentences, and and opens again. Three months of The first contact between us will ultimately the preparation of a prison. A year of prison. I need to know be capable of creating the counterattack plan by comrades if others are thinking about me as much preconditions that open up an outside prison. as I’m thinking about them. The days international dialogue among can’t go by fast enough now. Four- prisoners as well as comrades on For each sentenced comrade, for hundred-eighty-two days of prison. the other side of the prison each disciplinary measure, for Four-hundred-eighty-three days of walls—a dialogue in which each each prohibited letter or visit, for prison. Four-hundred-eighty . . . I’ve lost person’s specific perceptions and each vindictive transfer: no guard, count. Fuck. It’s better that way. analyses can be discussed, thereby no embassy, and no police officer Counting is no good in prison. The promoting coordinated attacking should feel safe. When prisoners arithmetic makes no sense whatsoever. actions against the State. Of have the potential to communicate Prison has its own smell. A smell that course, this doesn’t mean the in their hands, there will be gets all over you and follows you fusion or the dismissal of different decisive comrades everywhere around. I’ll never manage to get it off opinions responding with action, sabotage, me. Yesterday marked two calendars in and fire. prison. Two fucking years. I don’t get Additionally, such differences any sleep. I’ve forgotten how to smile cannot and must not be obstacles We consider the proposal to and now I can’t dream. “Clink clink” in to reciprocal support. release the International Words of the night. They wake me up for a search. Solidarity with the Conspiracy of Maybe they’ll find the shanks? Seven- This is about trying to move from Cells of Fire pamphlet to be the hundred-fifty-one days of prison. Are sympathy, which has developed first step in that direction. you satisfied, my dear judges? Pigs. Seven-hundred-fifty-two days of prison, 6 pigs. Seven-hundred-fifty-three pigs. and by conventional mail to: Coming and going and off I go. Coming and going and off I go. My cell is three Post Box 51076 meters by three meters. From the second TK 14510 Nea Kifissia floor window I see 20% of the sky over Athens the top of the fucking prison wall. I Greece walk through the yard like an automaton. I walk kilometers in a yard — Imprisoned Members of the measuring just a few meters. Boredom Conspiracy of Cells of Fire : and boredom again. Today I vomited up my very soul. I vomited bars, walls, Panayiotis Argyrou, solitary confinements, years of prison, Michalis Nikolopoulos, judicial sentences. I vomited three years Giorgos Nikolopoulos, A Contribution from of prison. I don’t want to count Gerasimos Tsakalos, anymore. I completely close my eyes and Christos Tsakalos, Gabriel Pombo da think. I think about my comrades, whom Giorgos Polydoras, Silva for the CCF/ they’re keeping far away from me in Damiano Bolano, Haris other prisons. I think about fires on the Hatzimichelakis, FAI prison roofs. I think about everything Olga Economidou prison has tried to make me forget. I Dear brothers and sisters: think about a smile, a caress, a journey To Michalis and Christos (who that doesn’t end over there where the exuberantly burst into “my” cell, wall ends, a glance that isn’t trapped destroying the ISOLATION I’ve behind the fucking prison bars. I stop lived in for over seven years), their thinking. I open my hand. I look at the brothers and sisters, and all the metal file I have. Now I know. I know other comrades who constitute exactly what I have to do. Let’s go then, the first generation of the once again. This time with feeling. Until Revolutionary Organization the end. Long live Anarchy. Conspiracy of Cells of Fire / Informal Anarchist Federation. —An altered excerpt from the text signed by J. and V. My eyes and my heart have always been very close to you in LONG LIVE THE CONSPIRACY Greece. I still remember Nikos OF CELLS OF FIRE. LONG LIVE Maziotis’ action and his attitude in THE INFORMAL ANARCHIST front of the court. That moved and FEDERATION/ affected us very much, to the point INTERNATIONAL that some of my comrades took REVOLUTIONARY FRONT. their own action by sending a package-bomb to the Greek P.S. The current proposal to embassy in Madrid. release the International Words of Solidarity with the Conspiracy of Those comrades of mine were Cells of Fire pamphlet will be arrested in September 2003, and mailed to all our imprisoned the blow came at the worst comrades around the world. In possible time. Really, it couldn’t order to counteract potential have been worse. Back then I was difficulties (censored regularly “on leave” from prison. correspondence), and due to the Regardless of all the racket lack of information regarding regarding my judicial/prison certain comrade prisoners situation, I had already “served” (unknown prison mailing the maximum sentence allowed at addresses), our proposal will also the time: 20 YEARS. be posted on anarchist Web sites. And out of those 20, 14 were in But what’s crucially needed is that solitary confinement and FIES our comrade prisoners be [Spanish isolation units - “prison within informed. All responses, texts, prison”]. I don’t have to tell you comments, and critiques can be what it meant to me to have to sent by e-mail to lose so many good comrades who, tired of bearing all kinds of [email protected] systematic torture for decades, [new: [email protected] decided to leave “by the back door, .Editor] feet first.”

7 The arrest of my comrades in mean comrades ready to take up We followed the patrol car (my Barcelona left me shaken. I could arms in order to expropriate sister was driving) to a gas have been with them! The “death” funds, hijack a helicopter, break station. At the gas station, one of of Paco Ortiz, the coming to power out other compas, etc. the border police officers of the neo-Francoist People’s approached and asked us for our Party—all these things went My proposal to liberate our compa passports. José had a forged through my head before I decided was supported by José, and later Spanish passport (a very good to make a getaway. My escape on two other anarchists joined the one) and was called Alfonso began by putting one foot in front endeavor. Domínguez Pombo. He could have of the other. The first thing was to been my sister’s cousin. Then Bart get a bit of distance behind me. We decided that the first thing we handed over his Belgian passport, With that done, I crossed the needed was money (we already as he and my sister were “clean.” Pyrenees, destination unknown. had two handguns), and to that end we robbed a bank. If I Obviously, José and I were armed Once abroad, I got in touch with remember correctly, we and ready to save our skins at any some old comrades. I managed to expropriated 40,000 or 50,000 cost. We knew what was waiting buy myself perfect identification euros, which was useful to us at for us. (with which I was even able to the beginning for the acquisition of open a checking account at a bank, cars, electronic gear, etc. The border police officer went off rent an apartment, etc.), and I took with all our passports and didn’t some time to think, meet new Over the course of several months come back for 10 or 20 minutes, comrades, and discuss things. (and to the extent that it was after which time both officers From that moment on I was possible for me), I was able to approached, passports in hand, known as Michele Cataldi, Italian attend a number of meetings with while another BGS car suddenly citizen. internationalist comrades. Those appeared and parked directly meetings between comrades, behind us, sandwiching us I had decided to break out one of where positions and approaches between the two patrol cars. the compas arrested in Barcelona, were clarified through critique and for that task I needed reliable, and analysis, deserve all my The police officers “suggested,” in experienced comrades. respect, yet they left me feeling a “friendly” way, that we get out very uneasy. Perhaps I had poorly of our car. Our papers were fine, Luck was on my side when some “digested” the analyses of the but now they also wanted to Iberian Peninsula compas called to “Italian insurrectionaries.” search the car, since a car with so tell me they were sending Perhaps I hadn’t stopped to think many foreigners in it is viewed as someone over. I thought for sure it about the importance of knowing “suspicious” in Germany. would be an “anarchist” comrade, just how many comrades were We got out of the car and the yet nevertheless I saw Josepi show truly for revolutionary anarchy. police officers immediately began up (he had also escaped while “on And perhaps our “adventure” of searching it. José and I both had leave”), and he knew absolutely freedom and “glory” was doomed our weapons on us. His was in a nothing about anarchy or theory. to “failure” from the start. small backpack and mine was in However, I was almost happier to one of those fanny packs that have a “criminal” on my side than At that time, some communiqués tourists often carry. After more an “anarchist.” At the end of the from the newly-formed Informal than a half-hour of searching, an day, the endeavor and purpose Anarchist Federation fell into my officer approached José and asked motivating me was to break a hands. For someone like me, who him to put his backpack in the compa out of prison, and I needed came out of the Anarchist Black trunk of one of the patrol cars. someone by my side who hated Cross (and was therefore already Since José didn’t understand what the institution of prison with federalist and anarchist), the he was saying, the officer asked absolute intensity, like I did. notion of “informal groups” me. There were no longer any Josepi, with his (in total) 23 years opened up a world of possibility. more “conversational of prison behind him, was an ideal In Northern Europe, alternatives.” The time had come candidate. In addition (and just insurrectionary ideas were for me to simply tell José: “You like me), his “trade” was robbing practically unknown. grab this one and I’ll go for the banks, which is of course always other one.” indispensable. Back then, I didn’t On June 28, 2004, three anarchists know which (or how many, as I and my sister (who is apolitical) Despite all the tension, it was believed/assumed that a large were traveling to Germany in a definitely a relief to finally put an portion of the Libertarian Youth BMW. At noon, upon entering the end to that comedy. Gun in hand, had gone underground) Iberian city of Aachen, a Federal Border taking the initiative, I really Peninsula comrades I could count Guard (BGS) patrol car pulled up believed we would succeed. José’s on. I’m not talking about matters in front of us and signaled for us to police officer took off when José regarding “solidarity funds” or follow it. pointed his Ravachol-era revolver “ideological debates.” Rather, I at him, and that image of José

8 running after a German border More than dreamed of, actually. theoretical aspects (about which police officer, telling him to You’ve dared to defy political we still have much to discuss), but “surrender” and put his “hands resignation. As my comrades I’m convinced that we will have up,” is something that makes me aptly wrote in their text, we were opportunities to talk/write more crack up even today. the “pioneers of Iberian about that and many other things. insurrectionism.” It doesn’t make What’s important is that we seek a Unfortunately, José sense to ask (yet nevertheless direct relationship between us, the misinterpreted” what I said. that’s what has constantly been prisoners (in that sense, I’m When I told him to “grab” the done since our arrest) if Iberian having serious problems with police officer, I meant exactly that: insurrectionism would have come correspondence), and that we find to grab hold of him. But in any about back then had some of us more like-minded people among case, “my” police officer and the met and had other little things us with whom to exchange ideas, other ones ran from me as well, so been encouraged. information, etc. I was unable to grab them. And what worried me most during the But it is interesting to ask—since We won’t be in prison for our whole situation was my sister. part of our past is becoming entire lives. And as you correctly How was I going to tell my mother known bit by bit, and since our say in some of your writings: “the about all this? My sister remained dream of an Informal Anarchist power of the jailers ends outside very still throughout, and if she Federation/International the walls.” As far as José and I are had wanted to (to save her own Revolutionary Front is gradually concerned, we are awaiting our skin), she could have told the spreading—if our Iberian deportation to the Spanish state. police my name and blamed me Peninsula counterparts will now There (in Spain), according to their for everything. The police remain mired in the anonymous laws, we should be released unfortunately had us surrounded, multitudes or instead join the shortly. and the only thing that occurred revolutionary effort. to us at the time was to “kidnap” For me, Germany is a chapter in two “citizens” in order to shield Just like you, I have always my life that is best forgotten. ourselves. You already know the believed that rebellion is a Never in my life have I seen rest. . . . permanent process that doesn’t prisoners more disgraceful, more stop for courts or jailers. The disposed to snitch and kiss ass, My sister (despite what’s been certainty of our convictions and than those I have had the said) refused to “collaborate” or our love of freedom embolden us. displeasure to meet here. I haven’t give a statement. She was even We may be “naive” for believing lacked desire or idealism. What mistreated at the police station ourselves capable of taking our I’ve lacked is contact with people because of her refusal to let them “destiny” into our own hands, but who have a minimum of dignity— take her fingerprints or her that will always be preferable to oppositional, rebellious people. photograph. Her prints, as well as joining the chorus of naysayers That fact has isolated me more her DNA and her photo, were and complainers. (and of course hurt me more) than taken by force. I was very proud of the institution itself. my sister and the rest of my The courts have been and are sites comrades. of power where anarchists don’t In seven years in this country, I “defend” ourselves with judicial haven’t managed (and/or wanted) I waited (in vain) for our Iberian arguments, but instead base our to create any kind of regular link Peninsula comrades to “avenge” “defense” on the ideas and values or communication with people us, as well as for them to defend that have led us to the defendant’s from the “radical left.” I haven’t direct action as a revolutionary dock. wanted to “tone down” my methodology. discourse in order to be Prisons are the ideal settings in “accepted” by the “radical By one of life’s coincidences, a brief which to spread anarchist ideas community.” Quite often, while analysis by my old comrades and values. They are the reading the “leftist” (including appeared in issue 2 of Inferno universities where we get degrees anarchist) newsletters, fanzines, magazine, more than seven years in all the arts and trades of and magazines that “report” on us after our arrest here. But did that illegality. (the “Aachen four”), I get the article explain why José and I impression that my only “merit” were left alone, “abandoned” by Comrade prisoners, fugitives, etc.: as an “anarchist” is my past of the Iberian movement? I don’t the spread of our ideas, memories, “prison struggle,” which ignores want to “argue” or “settle scores.” and histories is the compass that (consciously or unconsciously) the I just want to write about our guides our footsteps. intensive revolutionary work and experiences in order to record and effort I’ve undertaken while “free.” expand our rebellious, subversive I don’t know if this writing is in Likewise, my political writings memory. keeping with what you expect and texts have been met with from contributions for your either censorship or disinterest. What you have achieved is part of second trial. Perhaps I should what I and others dreamed of. have touched a bit more on 9 But I’m now writing about all that In his first robbery he was the Spain: Juan Carlos in my new book, which is taking driver. For these illegal acts he much more work than I was imprisoned in Spain where Rico Rodríguez previously thought, especially the he became an anarchist. He does political section. Before beginning not identify himself as a expresses solidarity to write about my/our recent past “prisoner” let alone as a “social with the imprisoned as well as its consequences (for prisoner”. He spent so much time each one of us), it was essential to in prison because of his members of the CCF me that my comrades be free to insubordination and his escape send me “signals.” Perhaps attempt with Xose Tario Greetings to all, comrades. communication will be reopened Gonzales, who was his very close My name is JUAN CARLOS RICO by those “signals.” And perhaps friend. In 2004 and after Gabriel RODRÍGUEZ and with these lines I all of us will then have the had served the ¾ of his sentence want to express my support and opportunity to write a new he manages to get permits. In one solidarity with the comrades of chapter in the history of Iberian of these he flees to Germany the CCF, who will be put on trial anarchism—one more stream looking for close companions to soon by the puppet-state of flowing into the wide-open organize an escape to get out of Greece. To them I send all my anarchic sea, now that the ground prison one Spanish comrade of sympathy, first of all because they is fertile and the world is falling to his. During a typical cop control are coherent to their line of action pieces. with two other companions and and thought, and they act his sister they escaped the cops consequently, especially as this We did what we could, and we and opened fire against them. line is part of an anarchist vision. will keep doing what we can. Let’s None was injured but the cops car If we want anarchy and consider hope that each new generation of were damaged. it as THE BEST AND MORE JUST the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire/ FORM OF SOCIAL Iberian Anarchist Federation is Gabriel was convicted for ORGANIZATION IN ALL FIELDS infinitely better, more dynamic, “attempted murder” and OF LIFE, it will only come through and more effective than we have “kidnapping” (because they took violent and direct struggle, been. Regardless of my total of “hostages”, (a couple which they without ambiguities and on all over 27 years imprisoned in the later left ina field, something that levels, against the noose of the Spanish and German states, as obviously was not designed but decrepit Nation-States that well as my being uncertain of the was a spontaneous act during the are gnawing us collectively and day of my release, I am absolutely chase). He was also ordered to pay individually all over the planet; positive that I have nothing to all the damages they caused to the and through revolt against all the apologize for. I only regret not police cars. structures of dominion. being wiser and more adept at the moment of my intersection with Gabriel has served more than 24 The “old powers”, instituted and the course of history. in prison, 14 of which have been established in privilege and in isolation. He is just 40 years domination, will never stop to With these words that break my old. He is currently preparing his exercise their instances unless a isolation, cross borders, and second book, something like an strong awareness of Struggle, arrive in the hearts of all our autobiography. His first one, turned into concrete struggle, people in Greece and throughout “Diaries and thoughts of a effective and direct, opposes them the world, I embrace our brothers Delinquent”, which he wrote more with determination. and sisters in the Conspiracy of to provide incentives for Cells of Fire /Informal Anarchist comrades to mobilize, will be The secular violence we are being Federation. released in Greek in the near inflicted from the base of this future from the Black fraudulent and harmful System on Long live the Informal Anarchist International Editions. a global level by the Nation-States Federation/International Revolutionary must be fought against with Front! Long live the Revolutionary Gabriel Pombo da Silva violence and above all with REAL Organization - Conspiracy of Cells of c/o JVA Aachen solidarty between us: we have no Fire / Informal Anarchist Federation! Krefelderstrasse 251 other road to take. We must Long live anarchy! 52070 Aachen SHOW them that the crime of this Germany State, impunity, no longer exists. Gabriel, They must PAY DEARLY for their Aachen, early October 2011 use of violence, they won’t get away with their aberration. I Gabriel’s background: repeat, my name is JUAN CARLOS From the age of 15 he began to RICO RODRÍGUEZ, I’m 44 and I’ve expropriate banks with his closest been inflicted the violence and companions (anarchists, TORTURE of the State since I was insubordinates, communists etc.). a child. I only spent 7 years of my 10 life in freedom, the rest I spent in “institutes of punishment” (orphanages, juvenile prisons, police stations and jails). At the moment, I’ve been locked up in the “democratic” prisons of the Spanish State for 13 years nonstop.

During all this period and facing this state of things, I’ve seen no reason why this EXISTENCE imposed by pure State violence, has to be rationalized... fire to it!

Solidarity with the comrades of Chile: comrades were lifted, that means the CCF who are in prison: an that the court ordered their action of attack on the “order” CASO BOMBAS unconditional release. that is killing us is worth more than a thousand speeches. The next 5 texts are from our Comrade Diego Morales is one of the 14 partners initially arrested Juan Carlos Rico Rodríguez comrades involved in the ‘bombs case’. and jailed initially for this case September 28 2011, prison of Zuera, but acquitted of the accusations isolation unit. and was not referred to court. On 14 August 2010 the Chilean police directed by prosecutor Alejandro Pena Ceballos, raided Juan Carlos’ background: 17 houses in Santiago and We do not know the exact history Valparaiso. 13 people were of comrade Juan Carlos Rico arrested and accused of being a Rodriguez. Born in 1967, he spent network of terrorists who are only 7 years of his life “free”. He responsible for a series of bomb has spent the rest of his life in attacks in Santiago. Later 2 more penitentiary facilities(psychiatric people were captured with the hospitals, reform schools, police excuse that explosive residue on stations, prisons). We don’t know their clothes was found, and one the categories of his person became a fugitive. After imprisonment. He is a “social months of imprisonment, house prisoner” (like Gabriel Pombo da arrest and 65 days on hunger Silva or Xose Tarrio Gonzalez) strike, 13 of 14 accused of "illegal who was politicalized in prison. terrorist organization" were He is a prisoner in struggle that absolved from lack of evidence. has shown his solidarity in many Chile: Letter from cases (he did it with the anarchist Nevertheless, five of these Tamara, who is incarcerated in individuals were accused not of Diego Morales Spain, with the anarchist illegal terrorist organization but comrade Marco Camenisch of placing explosive devices and Greetings comrades: imprisoned in Switzerland, and financing these actions. Because many more - in this case, he we do not know the identity of Nikolopoulos and Haris indicated his solidarity with the those signed with pseudonyms, a Hatzimichelakis, it made me very imprisoned comrades of the decision which fully respect, we happy to know of the intentions of Conspiracy of Cells of Fire). can only explain the legal status of your letter. I return your greetings For his choices and attitude he is Monica, who had to sign once a with great passion and hope that kept in isolation. month at the police station and the idea comes about in some way was threatened with 10 years in and that distance is not an Juan Carlos Rico Rodríguez prison for an arson attack on a obstacle to good communication C.P. Zuera (Mód. Aislamiento) church that took place on between us. Carretera Nacional 330, km. 539 September 21, 2009. 50800 Zuera, Zaragoza Persecuted and involved in a case Spain In the last hearing of their court that is quite like a show-trial, in on June 1, 2012, all the comrades terms of this country’s media, I were acquitted. All the categories can say that the government’s were dismissed and all the desperate intention to give the restrictions against the five whereabouts of the real comrades 11 that carry out direct action only a short time ago. I hope it is resulted in the truly tragicomic not too late to give you all my political persecution of people support and strength for the trial openly declaring themselves as you have before you. Their anarchist and afterwards of a thousands of years in jail could large and extenuated wait of more never dispel the authentic desire than 8 months – for some in to attain freedom. For me, we prison, others with preventative are already free people, in measures – for the 4th of October, thought, in spirit: but there is still when dismissal was given to the much for us to achieve. 14 accused of terrorist association and the total dismissal of the trial Obviously power will never be for 9, while the other 5 comrades kind to anyone that openly Mónika Caballero (Fráncico, Mónica, Felipe, Omar declares that its disgusting “Once more.” and Carlos) face trial for placing system is rotten in every way. explosive devices and others for They will receive from it neither A letter to the CCF financing. From the legal point of good deals nor light sentences. view and the likely scenario the They will fall on us with all the Once more... possibilities of a good ruling for weight of their fear on seeing that Reach Out to the comrades... all are positive – the lawyers have the possibilities of the destruction A clenched fist to the enemy... high hopes. of their beloved progress are seen in the destabilizing actions of a Comrades of the Conspiracy of I tell you also that there has been mountain of filthy subversives Cells of Fire organization I write to a mobilization of the student and that these disgusting rebels you within hours of starting the movement now for nearly 6 could actually be right in the “bombs case” trial, a bad copy of months, in which no accord has reality they seek – a world the “Cervantes Case.” been reached due to the without authority, property, Power and its minions try to intransigence of the government. judges, police, nor governments. convict for the placing of an As a result of this they’re pushing incendiary device in a church, for through laws intended to severely The strongest embrace from the this reason I risk a sentence of 5 to penalise the struggle on the depth of my stomach for all of 20 years of effective penalty, that streets, looting and occupations, you. I hope that my words help within the framework of the anti- and the sentences for all those you in some way, even if it is to terrorism law. The fire of the standing up to the established lose yourselves for a couple of witch hunt is being prepared. order (police, private property) minutes in these cold cells of have intensified harshly. human extermination. Without Until August 14th 2010, I lived in This results in several people even meeting you, I love you like squat house la Krota, where there locked up awaiting severe all my comrades in Chile and the was an anarchist library (this was judgements for carrying molotovs world that dare to fight against a feast for the police that foul day), or attacking the police. this armed and terrible reality… my beautiful home became one of the “power centers” of the pros- On the 11th of September after I hope that Haris’ health is better ecution, one of the foundations of another anniversary of the each day and that his body resists the failed terrorist conspiracy military coup, and after heavy that which his mind will live thesis … what an insult to whom confrontations between police forever… who spit on the exercises of the and ‘encapuchados’ [street-fighters] , a powerful. The inhabitants of this vegan anarchist comrade HEALTH – PUNK AND LONG place openly propagated anti- (following media persecution) LIVE ANARCHY!!! authoritarian ideas, which the was accused of attacking a cop state fears. My detention (which and imprisoned in the maximum- Diego Morales lasted 9 months in prison and 3 security section of the high- Ex-accused for the “caso bombas” months of house arrest) did not security prison of Santiago – in Santaigo, $hile take me by surprise, the mass which there is the risk of very November 2011 media were laying the foundation high sentences. As for several months before, the you well know, the tension in crudeness of it just amazes me. I Chile as in Greece and many parts expected more from the “police of the world has intensified, we intelligence”, but against me there hope that the declared social war is no direct evidence of my partici- is felt and fought by everyone in pation in this or any attack there the streets… is only an accusation of ideas, this is not to hang on to the legality or Forgive me for the delay in my to defend my innocence, the reply to your letter, it arrived anarchist task cannot be other- wise than illegal. 12 Every hour sitting on the bench of Prisoners of war to the streets! Diego THROUGH THE WALLS the accused I feel dirty from being Rios, Gabriela Curilem flee away from part of this democratic process, I cameras and uniforms! Rarely do the hoods go up, rarely have nothing to prove to any are barricades or confrontations court the only opinion that mat- LONG LIVE ANARCHY!!! seen like in the streets, riots are ters to me is my accomplices in the scarce (perhaps the most common crime of fighting for freedom and Mónika Caballero confrontation is between the anarchy. They want me in jail for Anarchist prisoners themselves, encouraged not kissing the cross, repentance Accused in the bombs case and welcomed by the guards). for not lowering my head before Santiago, Chile them. The outlook is vague, they The confrontation is routine, daily, may achieve imprisoning my Notes: 1.‘Cervantes’ was an Italian minute by minute, the spaces and body or perhaps in the near police operation that was a grotesque fit- positions battle constantly, some- future, dissidents of capital have a up against anarchists in 2003. 2. Diego times symbolically and other booked ticket to jail, those are the Rios and Gabriela Curilem are anarchist times in far too real of a way. To costs of wanting to expropriate fugitives on the run. reject a prohibition, to break some our lives from the executioners of disciplinary code, to keep commu- the lovers of order. nications out of the jailer’s sight, to maintain dignity in social I am a sister to you without ever relations. But this exercise of daily exchanging a word, every day Letter to CCF from revolt, replete with dignity and that capital takes away from you one of the accused rebellion that enriches the spirit, doesn’t go unnoticed, I know what also carries a cost, the arrival of the loneliness of a cold cell is, the in the “Caso repression–threats, delays in rage that dries the mouth to see Bombas” opening the cells, hampering the the door close and to hate every receipt of letters, beatings, isola- tion, transfers, more threats, morning you see that guard. From the distance, words arrive Solidarity to me isn’t a pity or segregation, restrictions, prohibi- translated in the only language we tions, or hardening of discipline– “humanitarian” exercise, its a tool all understand: that of the struggle of anti-authoritarian struggle, I these are a small sample of the for freedom. It does not transform carceral terrorism. can not live anymore in capital’s any fear, person, name or sign into social peace, it hurts me and a fetish; in the anti-authoritarian In the prison, perhaps more makes me restless to see more in language that possibility simply explicitly than in the street, the their cages, wether they speak or does not exist, much less those of attitudes of prisoners and jailers not the same language, whether or leaders, professionals or authori- mark a confrontation of positions not they’re the same species, have ties. within the prison. To not try to tail, feet or feathers. improve them, to not try to obtain Today, for the moment, I no longer benefits, to travel by the road of Comrades you have been a won- see the grey of the cement sur- rebellious dignity wherever we derful contribution to the dissemi- rounding everything in those may be, to strive to be able to look nation of revolutionary nihilist tombs, but that doesn’t mean that in the mirror the next day and not and anarchist ideas, keep it up, forgetting clouds my mind. The see slaves, to not support nor bear your letters are always a pleasure jails, the cells, the jailers and the domestication. to read. Today I can enjoy a sky prisoners remain there… some without bars, the touch of the skin meters or kilometers away. To the comrades who have man- of a comrade, walk the streets of aged to avoid this undesirable this lifeless town, in a couple of Because the prisons here may very fate, to the fugitives who have had weeks… Who knows? much resemble those there, to choose on the basis of the because the sound of the bars and judgments of power and the arrest And finally for you dear persecu- locks must not be very different, warrants issued for them. Even tors who analyze each comma however the internal conditions when not passing through the with a myriad of specialists to and regimens may vary, FIES gloomy halls of the prisons or the build a new process, I hope you (Spain), F-TYPE (Turkey), Maxi- labyrinths of justice, your path is find it, your masters will be mum Security Units (Chile) share not exactly more comfortable, and proud. War against all forms of a common structure and objective. it is to form among the gaze of domination. Sedition and revolt!! Without a doubt the oppressors possible informants, the suspi- learn from each other. cious passage of police patrols and Long live the Conspiracy of Cells of the constant reinvention of one- Solidarity between imprisoned Fire, may they spread across the globe! self. Comrades of different places, comrades–between them through May the jailers, judges, prosecutors and familiar or not, in your path of the the cells, modules, prohibitions, butchers tremble, fire to the prisons and unknown, you are not alone. slaughterhouses! prisons, borders–is the urgency In the struggle for the destruction of unleashed by the daily and per- International solidarity, inter- authority no one is alone! manent repression. prison solidarity and the fluid 13 communication of shouts between Political prisoners, prisoners of Having spent 9 months behind different regions across the length war, revolutionary prisoners… a bars my energy stays in solidarity of the territories cannot wait for strong, sincere and honest em- with the prisoners, knowing that I even one second. brace to each of you–whatever our risk years in prison in high- differences, the affection for security measures only increases Across the distance. Indifference captive revolutionaries remains my contempt for these death will not be precisely the sensation immune. centers and their guardians, the that is felt during the rituals of only alternative for these places is punishment that the judicial With the steadfast memory of all their utter destruction and there- power practices against those who have fallen! Mauricio Mo- fore there must be non-stop work, who oppose them. The trials are rales, Claudia Lopez, Johnny always forward. not mere procedures–in addition Cariqueo, Lambros Foundas to being courts they are spaces All the strength and drive to the where power lets itself be seen One of the accused for the “caso prisoners from the CCF, your with brutality, where it founds bombas” awaiting trial. attitude fills all anarchists and and tries to validate and legiti- anti-authoritarians with pride mate its order, its world. It is in and as you say it is very likely these trials where, in addition to Letter to the CCF that someday we will find our- solidarity with those comrades from another one of selves anyplace in the world to who they seek to stone to death, it share and practice experiences. is possible to disseminate and the “Caso Bombas” project a complete critique of the Another Accused in the Bombs Case fabric of justice, of the legitimacy The daily uncertainty and the In pending Political Trial of their order and the cruel argu- threat of a possible revenge of ments they use to defend their power against our bodies vanish power. The brutality of your when reading the words of anti- special treatment is fertile ground authoritarian solidarity that are Letter to the CCF to expand the total critique of their now captive in the dungeons of world, it is a continual opportu- the Greek state. Words who under from a nihilist nity that we cannot let pass. no point of view whatsoever accused in the encounter themselves subjected, Imprisoned comrades of the CCF, rebels against the jailers and all “Caso Bombas” scattered in the different prisons forms of authority, words that are of the Greek territory, which try transgressive action against Greetings brothers and sisters of the unsuccessfully to submit you to oppression. CCF, and to Theofilos Mavropoulos, I the carceral rhythm: Panagiotis send you a fraternal embrace full of Argyrou, Michalis Nikolopoulos, As has been stated repeatedly, affection and complicity across the Giorgos Nikolopoulos, solidarity is not just words distance… Gerasimos Tsakalo, Christos written between anarchists and Tsakalos, Giorgos Polydoros, you have demonstrated it con- It is certain that we are judged by Damianos Bolano, Haris cretely, understanding that the some for being anarchists, the Hadjimichelakis, Olga struggle for freedom is universal, eternal enemies of power, and that Oikonomidou — indomitable and practicing and supporting the it is our theory made practice for insubordinate spirits will not international revolt steadily, long years that they now intend to appease themselves to a couple of making the enemy see that our severely punish. bars, cameras and guards. Nor dignity is real and represents a can their sacrificial rituals in the permanent threat to this world Your voice has reached my heart, courts counter the struggle for and those who try to perpetuate those sincere words full of freedom–even further, these it. Anti-prison struggle in and solidarity caress my face, that intentions to punish justify once outside prisons is the same strength animates me and your and a thousand times the reason whether in Chile, Greece, Indone- conviction I love; knowing that to oppose their world. To each of sia or Mexico. The enemy and its behind those bars there are not you, a huge embrace full of principles are common so it is groans of sorrow, but rather strength for times to come. necessary to share experiences of screams of hatred, rage, hope — offensive resistance to enable us to this gladdens me and makes me In these lands, November 28th, advance in the construction of reaffirm that we are on the right 2011 will bring the political trial new adversarial relationships to path; it is then that I realize that based on lies and inventions with power, thus creating a fraternal each day new comrades are born the single end of criminalizing and greeting to the FAI / IRF as a body who return to give sense to our imprisoning those who express that promotes the anti-authoritar- new urban guerrilla, which is no our total rupture with their ian thought and practice and, longer merely local but is values and moral codes. permitting us to recognize our international, thanks in great part brothers throughout the world to the FAI and the contribution by without ever having seen the face. 14 you the CCF. Moreover I consider rather has passed also to our dear morals… important the contribution that brother Luciano, to whom our you are making in the circles greatest homage will be to give I take with my two hands, firmly linked to anarchist individualism, him the harvest of actions that we and without hesitation, your knife and our new and beautiful realize with our hands… of nihilism so that together we Nihilism. sink it into the heart of every You have also dedicated words to tyrant, of every cop, of every jailer, We feel the same hatred toward our brother Cristóbal Bravo, who of every bourgeois so that upon the state, the same total disregard was recently beaten by paid their corpses we can dance, laugh, towards the new happy slave, cowards, and it is here that it fuck, enjoy and conquer once and towards the stupid mass that lets becomes important to shout for all our total freedom! itself be led, we feel the same loudly that the attack on property The death of our brother Mauricio impotence of not being able to is not sufficient, which our Morales and the death of comrade demolish the extermination Russian nihilist comrades Lambros Fountas, the loss of centers that hold us captive, we understood very well and showed Luciano‘s hand and the loss of feel multiple orgasms when we us that we must go further, Simos Seisidis‘s wounded leg are deliver ourselves completely to without fear of disaster, it is your an eternal call to fight, no the realization of anarchy… lives or ours or that of some anarchist wounded or killed in comrade in prison, for now the combat will be forgotten, it is the We are far away, but from here the impunity of that deed strikes me hour to thrust our dagger into the distance is nothing, we are sure hard in the heart; they say that heart of the capitalist beast, they that sooner than later we will find revenge is a plate best served cold, are our nourishment. each other whether in Greece, they also say that vengeance kills Italy, Chile or Mexico; our the soul and poisons you, I believe HONOR TO THE COMRADE insurrectionalist-Nihilist strongly that vengeance is the LAMBROS FOUNTAS! international has battle camps in dessert in a meal for a nihilist, HONOR TO THE BANK ROBBER the streets of the entire world and therefore one must not wait for COMRADE HORST FANTAZZINI! there will always be space for facts before acting, and the main individuals who understand that course will be to take the offensive LONG LIVE THE CONSPIRACY anarchy is not a cheap ideology since there are stupid cowards on OF CELLS OF FIRE! but rather an idea that lives and all sides… LONG LIVE THE FAI conceives itself in direct action, LONG LIVE THE IRF! because we know that the damned Comrades, my most heartfelt FOR AN EGOISTS’ powerful will not give up their respect to your organization CCF INTERNATIONAL, privileges and will defend them to and for the revolutionary LONG LIVE NIHILISM! the end of their dirty lives… anarchist Theofilos Mavropoulos, IMMEDIATE FREEDOM TO It is for this reason that we must for all your contribution to the LUCIANO PITRONELLO! communicate the importance of anarchic struggle and all the LONG LIVE ANARCHY!!! the threat of our new nihilism, it is dignity that has been shown for this reason that we have to during your trial and your time in NIHIL, accept that in order to triumph prison, I want to tell you that as an irreducible awaiting trial… with our idea, we must drown the great as those walls may be they enemy in blood, and so with our cannot hide the enormous dignity sharp knives we will continue and the great courage that you advancing toward the encounter have shown to us the anarchists of with chaos, toward the creative the entire world. nothing, and we will throw Chile: Gonzalo ourselves naked into that Today you raise your fist, yelling beautiful abyss where there is “SOLIDARITY” in the Zapata and Cristobal complete individual freedom… international language of anarchy. Bravo And at the same time, with the I endorse the FAI-IRF. other hand you hold firmly the The next two letters correspond to The Informal Anarchist Federation knife of nihilism to sink it into the Gonzalo Zapata (Russio) and – International Revolutionary bowels of this world of Power and Cristobal Bravo (Mono). The two Front that is doubtless the Black submission, well good; I from here companions were arrested on International of the anarchists of send you all strength and energy different dates but have the same action, since it has shown its that you may never wane! And charges: participation in an capacity to respond in the face of know that nothing can separate attack made against José Inostroza the challenges that are emerging us, we have begun an Crisosto, a cop who has the around the world… international anarchist offensive position of sergeant in the second and we will not stop until we get section in Montada during But your call is not only for those to see the total end of all authority, episodes of September 11, 2011, on who are in the bombs case, but of all society, of all gods, of all the 38th anniversary of the 15 military coup that began the books, pamphlets. After all this dictatorship in Chile, which lasted apparatus, I was taken to the 17 years. health centre, which was a short process between the police and Both were recognized by the the doctor. collaboration of a photographic agency called 'Agencia Uno', Soon after I was in the dungeon of which gave the cops the photos a police station in the district of they took from a very privileged Recoleta, where I remained position. During their sequestered only for the dirty and imprisonment they had a common disgusting spectacle of the attitude in prison, the same bourgeois press, which did not complicity and solidarity between hesitate to point me out to be them, each time one of them took a guilty of a direct attack on a blow from jailers. After about 3 repressor - a Carabineros officer months imprisonment on 28 of $hile. November 2011 they came out Letter to the CCF with restrictive conditions, In court, waiting for my audience from Mono, a curfew and impelled to present I suffered constant harassment themselves at the public order and threats from the guards, nihilist prisoner of ministry once a week. But on 5 because they were informed of the January 2012, they returned to reason for my detention. Already war prison because prosecutors made in the audience, was the an appeal. bourgeois press, but I also felt the “This is a war and we are support of family and comrades warriors” * At court both comrades then in the street. sought to prove that the cop hit Words in solidarity with the comrades of was not as bad as claimed At the end of the hearing and I the CCF regarding his injuries, since many remain in custody, because I am a of the injuries were because the danger to society for my clear lack Solidarity, a word often used in idiot fell off his horse. The court of respect for “authority”, that is this society, from the military ruled that both comrades be determined by the public interventions disguised as released with restrictive prosecutor and the judge. humanitarian aid, to the conditions such as not to leave Everything under political donations in supermarket Chile. In legal terms, things are pressure as clear evidence never shopping, to the collaboration very positive and likely that the existed, political pressure, say, of a between good citizens and the comrades will get very low new witch hunt against anarchist police, to those who “struggle” to sentences. comrades, to try everything expand animals’ cages for their possible to stop the days of street well-being. fighting and awareness of the proletarian class. In prison, I saw All expressions where Domination Letter the inhumane treatment of the recuperates and impregnates guards, the mistreatment and every corner with its logic, from torture these bastards cause, the removing words’ value and Gonzalo fit of the dignity to mealtimes and limiting them to miserable sleeping at the time in the cell. campaigns so that citizens can Zapata sleep with their tranquil Continuing to be imprisoned from consciences after taking a couple of October 17, I am kidnapped in the sleeping pills. It is the feelings of My arrest dungeons of the capital, refusing inferiority that Domination was on the injunction by false witness wishes to impose as “solidarity,” Tuesday statements, where it shows either as compassion and pity, or September 27 clearly the intentions of submission and admiration, at 9 am, exemplary punishments, which where in the first case, someone where are to cause a decrease in certain who has more than another gives members of social movements. The only thing some scraps to alleviate for a the DIPOLCAR (Carabineros de achieved is to give greater force to moment their misery. This is $hile) entered my home with a the comrades who are still driven by the pity one feels for the search warrant, the order gave fighting and also to those who are other who has nothing. And in the them the power for 15 policemen deprived of liberty. second case, someone who’s to lay seige to my home, while 5 assumed inferior to another who others searched my room and Gonzalo Zapata holds power and authority– took as evidence anything found, collaborates with the latter’s work such as notebook, cell phone, 16 without having any gain other and their guards, for this reason believe that the struggle against than thanks for helping to the CCF’s proposition or Gabriel animal exploitation is part of the perpetuate order. Pombo da Silva‘s initiative with integrity of the struggle, in order the International Hunger Strike to thus point towards total For me, solidarity is a tool of are gestures that seek to interlace liberation, bringing an end to struggle for expressing in different experiences and relations between every form of domination. ways support and respect comrades, so that together, as a between the oppressed who resist contribution to an informal and Fraternal greetings to Christos, and/or confront the managers of diffuse environment, we advance Gerasimos, Mihalis, Giorgos N., Haris, misery. For me it is a relation towards the destruction of Panagiotis, Olga, Giorgos P. and between known and unknown Domination, where each comrade Damiano. Also to the others accused in individuals who do not see writes their contributions, this case, especially to Panagiotis M. To themselves as superior or inferior critiques, experiences and all, my greetings which cross walls and but as equivalent, where also often proposals, where no imprisoned seas to each one of your cages. gestures are sent and received comrade is alone, because if they anonymously with the sole touch one of us, they touch all of Honor to Mauricio Morales, intention of being present and us, or as they say in these parts: Honor to Lambros Foundas making tangible the fact that no “no aggression without one is alone. retaliation.” Solidarity with all prisoners of war.

This is how I understand In the letter that you wrote as a Cristobal "Mono" Bravo Franke solidarity and this is how I have proposition for this pamphlet, you Prisoner of War, Nihilist tendency taken up deeds ever since I chose reference that you rejected your Maximum Security Section – the path of liberation, where it is lawyers for various reasons and High Security Prison necessary to support those who although this also depends on November 2011. struggle in different parts of the more factors that are unanswered world, from within the prisons to due to my distance, it still is PS. I wish to extend my greetings outside of the walls. During these another demonstration of courage to those comrades who contribute months that I have been in in the face of Power and its laws to this dialogue that breaks the captivity I have felt the force of that you will be your own borders, I refer to those who each gesture, of every one, your defenders. Here, for my part and translate letters from and into letters and foods, the banners, that of other comrades, legal various languages, such as for leaflets and fire. defense is driven by the “Popular example the book Dynamiting the Defender,” who is supported by Existent: Reflections on Before having been on the other the “Legal Picket” (law students), Minoritarian Combat which in side of the walls, contributing who offer their support as a form these days of captivity came to my how I could and wished, but now of solidarity, visiting prisoners hands, as well as the internet sites the conviction of which and contributing how they can in (liberaciontotal.lahaine.org, “solidarity” is not a dead word the legal sphere. culmine.noblogs.org, will take more force than ever. It is actforfree.nostate.net) which for this reason that in this letter I To conclude I want to launch two cover the transfers and actions wish to send my greetings to the initiatives: one concerning the that happen in Greece. comrades who have assumed the solidarity campaigns and the political responsibility of other concerning the debate and * this phrase was shouted from the CSO belonging to the Conspiracy of development of ideas. The first is Sacco and Vanzetti after the death of Cells of Fire and now are that the dates of the trials against Mauri and when the police tried to enter. incarcerated in different prisons of comrades around the world be The phrase is clear, in this war we are the territory dominated by the disseminated in advance, to serve not soldiers, we are warriors with Greek State. It is the firm and in this way to call for solidarity autonomy and honor, we do not dignified conviction that you have with each comrade who faces struggle for medals and/or other taken, from the anonymity of your trial. stupidities, but to take back our lives, for attacks and your subsequent total liberation at whatever cost. claims, which are a contribution The second initiative is to debate and impulse of struggle that pass the ideas/practices of Animal through borders and languages, to Liberation, which have been the posture that you have developed by comrades in Mexico, assumed since you were Switzerland, Italy, Russia, and incarcerated. now finally in Bolivia and which on the part of the CCF, only I believe that solidarity between Damiano has made reference to in prisoners, revolutionaries and one of his letters. Themes such as subversives is a potent weapon in ecology and anti-technology have the struggle against the prisons already been established, thus I 17 Words to the CCF Words from Health! While there is misery there will be rebellion! Combative solidarity with from combatants in Juan Aliste those who fight! the High Security The social war is Juan Aliste Vega, Prison, Santiago, an issue of class, it High Security Prison, Santiago, is a question of life Chile. Chile that transcends the obstacles (borders) traced by a common Note: Juan Vega is subversive Words from Esteban Huiniguir, Juan enemy, capital with its system of imprisoned by the Chilean State, accused Aliste, Freddy Fuentevilla and José domination, exploitation, for the expropriation of Banco Segurity, Miguel Sánchez for the prisoners of the repression and misery at the the clash with the police causing the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire. hands of the power of the rich. As death of one of their members and serious hostages of the Chilean State and wounds of another. See here: Note: Comrades of the world!!! its bourgeois government of the freddymarcelojuan.noblogs.org From Chile with joy we can now wealthy, from the carceral jaws of share with you the words of the its society, we escape in the * also ‘to take’ as in to claim or seize – imprisoned comrades José Miguel libertarian complicity of transl. Sánchez, Esteban Huiniguir, Juan vindicating direct action in the Aliste and Freddy Fuentevilla, flesh with the fertile idea of who have responded to the subversion from individuality to Words from Freddy solidarity call issued from Greece real collectivity. by the imprisoned comrades of the Fuentevilla Saa Conspiracy of Cells of Fire. History repeats itself and the long experience of power to submit Esteemed comrades of CCF, a Our comrades today find those who struggle is transversal, fraternal embrace full of rebellion. themselves held in the High their fascist machinery with To tell you that we are joined by a Security Prison (C.A.S.) in sustained methods in repression common reality, whether in Santiago, Chile and almost all are in conjunction with police, judges Greece, Latin America or ex-members of Marxist-Leninist and media of disinformation whatever corner of the world. political-military organizations expand fear and terror to Redeemed in these lines is more who fought the dictatorship and legitimize their prisons, murders than the individual, the collective. of whom some have also fought and tortures. Moreover, the State The causes for which we are later under democracy in the 90s lies to hide the indomitable imprisoned, with more or less against capitalism. These armed heartbeat of our lives, concrete nuances, are the same cause, we organizations were the Manuel and in-the-flesh proof is this are rebels, we are subversives, Rodríguez Patriotic Front (FPMR), complicity of blood that we allow anti-capitalists, anti-imperialists, the United Action Movement – to strengthen ourselves in we are the pueblo-pobre*, we are not Lautaro (MAPU-Lautaro, also adversity, communicating with victims, we are not complicit in a known as MJL, Lautaro Youth each other, knowing each other, history without redemption, we Movement) and the Revolutionary hating together the mornings and are not indolent, we are never Left Movement (MIR). rescuing the tenderness in each their slaves, we are neither guilty gesture of action from our nor innocent. Today, our comrades who write comrades. So the prison, in its do not necessarily still embrace prisons, is no more than the When the State decides to Leninist ideas, but it is better that reaffirmation of all that we abhor, annihilate us, persecute us, and they speak for themselves. from their courtrooms, murderers incarcerate us, it is not mere of children and sowers of misery. coincidence, but because each one From Chile, we send all of you a of us symbolizes danger for any solidarity salute of Dear partners in struggle, with the State. They demonize us with internationalist complicity. uncompromising taste to drink* their language since it not our my life, carrying on my back the own, the prison is part of their Some in solidarity from outside certainty that in the face of misery language, part of the social war the prisons. there is no freedom, I take my and the class war. I must say that bones to light that wick, I salute it has affected us to live November 2011. you with the happiness of being imprisonment, not only in this alive, I clench my hand, I sharpen territory called Chile, but also in my sight and the totality of the Argentina, and in each prison I senses. May the oxygen from your always saw the same subject, my proposal be the unstoppable pueblo-pobre, my class brethren, my inception of coordination. To brethren of the trenches; at the begin, my greetings, your same time, the executioner is thoughts are ours, echos of a always the same, their police. libertarian uproar. 18 In the game of what we are and shackles, here our desire of see, I have nothing left of the what we are not, we make it clear struggle is nourished day by day, sentence, and I will leave to that we are not victims, we are the injustices and abuses continue to struggle against the combatants, and this is not only strengthen our indomitable desire oppressive system together with words, this is what our history of struggle against the exploitative those who know that nothing has and our present tell us. This systems of the world. changed. reality has made us embattled, not by our seeking nor desire, but we Our growing contempt for prisons My name is José Miguel Sánchez make a mission of our dreams, our and their henchmen is innate, Jiménez, I am held in the High choice of conscious struggle, the these bars confirm for us that our Security Prison (C.A.S.) in unrenounceable struggle for struggle is just and necessary, we $antiago, $hile, together with happiness. believe that direct action is an other comrades who have stood effective method for striking the up against the prevailing system Brothers and sisters, I send you system that tries to trample our such as: Juan Aliste, Freddy my strength, my dignity, my rights. We are not immobile, Fuentevilla and Marcelo solidarity. Borders and flags do behind the walls our struggle is Villarroel, having known each not exist between peoples, strengthened and sharpened. other since the anti-dictatorial solidarity and internationalism struggle. I am 52 years of age, are not only words in the wind, Here we are those who do not sell married and father of 4 daughters, they are a weapon. ourselves to power, the carpenter and electrician by intransigents, those who want profession, and I am anti-system. “Here nothing is over and no one yields, nothing to do with the circles of the struggle continues” the left that sell themselves to the I hope to continue receiving your highest bidder, we are those who notices and thus to mutually Freddy Fuentevilla Saa, do not believe in flattering strengthen each other. MIRist prisoner. gestures, nor do we conform High Security Prison, Santiago, ourselves to the crumbs left over To destroy all the prisons and Chile, October 2011 by the powerful. Our goal is capitalist systems! complete freedom and the Note: Freddy Fuentevilla is imprisoned vanquishing of the exploitative With affection, for the same case as Juan Aliste, accused system that sinks and humiliates of participating in the assault on a bank our people. José Miguel Sánchez Jiménez in 2007 that ended with the death of a C.A.S. Module J. Santiago, $hile, police officer. See here: Comrades, receive our solidarity October 19th, 2011 freddymarcelojuan.noblogs.org and support, you are not alone, the entire world will be witness to * Fuentevilla’s phrase “pueblo-pobre” the dignity with which you face means “the people, the poor”; we leave your trial, fortitude and struggle it in Spanish. – transl. is our slogan, strength compañeros.

My case is like those of many Words from José combatants, I am an ex-political prisoner of Pinochet’s Miguel Sánchez Dictatorship, ex-member of the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front CELLS OF FIRE COMBATANTS (FPMR), I was liberated upon the PRESENTE. assumption of the pseudo- democracy in 1991, and I was From one corner of the world, imprisoned again that same year Words from Esteban receive an affectionate and for having some rifles and not Huiniguir combative embrace, and a believing in that made-up fraternal salute from another democracy. I was condemned to 20 My name is Esteban Huiniguir R., I prisoner of capitalism. years for the rifles and an assault, am 41 years old, I was born in of this sentence I’ve spent 17 years 1970. I was a militant of the From the C.A.S. in $hile we receive and 6 months in prison, when as a MAPU-Lautaro party. During the your communique and we make favor from the prison a break of 2 90s I was condemned to 11 years ourselves part of it. Our thoughts years had me leave, a release I in prison for “Illicit Terrorist travel to each prison of the world broke on not returning to sleep in Association” and the attack on the where they try to annul free the prison. I scorned that “favor” home of the ambassador of Spain thoughts, the enemy will never and now I am completing the 2 on October 10, 1992. I completed 8 quiet nor crush our rebellion, our years and 6 months I had left to years of this sentence from values are not stopped by complete my sentence; as you can October 13, 1992 to May, 2000. 19 In 2008 I was detained during the with closed fists utilizing what we believe that this is the best form Day of the Youth Combatant on they leave us our body exposed to of communication that we have March 29. My home, which I fatigue and hunger. been able to pursue. From attacks shared with other guys, was we have made on police stations to raided, searched as usual but they So then comrades, come what your attacks on embassies and only found 5 plants of Cannabis may, say what they will, you will ministries, we have been given a Sativa. For this illegal growing I remain proud and exemplary. It closeness full of life, projectuality was sentenced to 4 and a half was good to know that you exist, and hatred toward every type of years for trafficking and illegal so far away, with your histories, authority. This closeness has been growing. Presently I serve the your slogans, your bottles and marked also by the complicity in sentence in the CAS, module “J.” black powder for the social war of transgressive action, marked also all peoples. by the innumerable victories that Dear comrades, I write to you we have had… yes!! Victories. from the CAS sending a fraternal Health and rebellion. Every realized attack, that hot greeting to all those who in the adrenaline that crosses our bodies distance share histories of With our fallen in our memory. before liberation in destructive rebellion and insubordination and Not one minute of silence, and a lifetime action, the passion of the same act, who by consequence live in transit of combat. the joy and happiness of knowing in prison. At over 3 years of this that for a moment the exploiter saw my second sentence, which is 4 Esteban Huiniguir R. his world fall, these constitute our and a half years, what has been triumphs. People like you know of the most ignominious for me was what we speak. when I had to face the incomprehension, the social There also are victories in seeing the prejudice of those who do not Letter for the CCF / attacks multiply all over the world, want to hear and are driven by FAI from three anti-authoritarian attacks that the media’s communication despite the repressive blows campaign. Despite this, I am insurrectionalist remain unscathed, irreducibles together with my friends and groups in Latin being able to fool and continue companions… I also receive with fooling the enemy; for this and great gratitude the solidarity of America many more reasons we say: LONG other accomplices who manifest in LIVE THE FAI/FRI the street in this combat against LONG LIVE THE CONSPIRACY capital. Then there are my little OF CELLS OF FIRE! We expect that this call for siblings who gave their youth, solidarity will materialize in their commitment and their life. Brothers and sisters, a strong concrete actions, and we will do our Norma Vergara, José Luis insurrectionalist embrace from across the part, at any moment we will Oyarzun, Andrés Soto (Papi), big distance. harden the surface against the Pablo Muñoz… and so many powerful in your name, brothers others: although you are no longer We grow… undoubtedly we grow and sisters, for you know that any here and they do not want to in each moment when we confront imprisoned anarchist will be listen, we are still us and you; for the enemies face to face, instances vindicated and avenged wherever that, thanks. that are daily marked by the they may be found. We continue to liberatory violence that strikes move without problems, the I know little about you in the fear into the oppressor. Violence repressive blows still fall very far personal sense, your lives and that you have vindicated as a from us. Our solidarity also goes to histories, but your present generator of novel moments the warrior Luciano Pitronello and condition, your conviction and capable of jeopardizing the to the 5 accused in the media- how you wanted to confront your security and intelligence systems judicial-policial frame-up “caso trial speak very well of of power. Today you confront bombas.” The landslide of this yourselves. Walk with all my captivity with dignity, always at stupid case will be as loud as the support, since it is true that the war with the jailer, betting on the collapse of this world. street, the trial and the prison are generalization of the insurrection trenches where one must continue in every corner of the world. We LONG LIVE INSURRECTIONALIST fighting. from here, from damned Chile, INTERNATIONALISM! make ourselves part of the I do not have much more to say solidarity call, perceiving it as one FOR THE MULTIPLICATION AND right now nor will I pretend a of the cornerstones of our QUALIFICATION OF ATTACKS grandiloquent discourse since for revolutionary project. AGAINST THE POWERFUL! me the practice of direct action is The recognition from your not made with words but by Conspiracy is not the result of this LONG LIVE ANARCHY! lighting a wick that smells of situation, since for years we have benzine, with black powder, and if come to recognize, really and truly ICONOCLASTIC CARAVANS FOR the moment requires (the prison), recognize, by means of action — THE FREE WILL 20 ANTIPATRIOTIC GANG – Words of Solidarity easy ways towards world of SEVERINO DI GIOVANNI freedom and equality. We looked with CCF from some deeper. Your daring attacks stroke EXPLOSIVE GANG – EFRAÍN us as the most appropriate and PLAZA OLMEDO members of Russian meaningful way to react to police Earth Liberation brutality, economical and social Note: injustices, ignorance of “law- The “Caravanas Iconoclastas por el Front / FAI-IRF abiding citizens” and political Libre Albedrio” bombed the Police farce. And although most our Investigations Department of Chile in So many of us captured, thrown communiques are frequently June 2009 and two bourgeois gyms in into prisons, tortured, wounded written in light-hearted and August of the same year. or even dead. It’s getting more and elated tones, we know full well The “Banda Antipatriota Severino Di more difficult to mention every that this joy and feeling of close- Giovanni” bombed the Ministry of comrade in each communique. Yet ness with other anarchists around Labour in 2007, the accounting they are all worth mentioning, the world doesn’t come easy. That department of the police in 2008 and an they shouldn’t fade into obscurity every direct action activist pays urban restaurant in 2010. of silence of prison cells. Names with her nerves, tears and blood The “Banda dinamitera Efraín Plaza whirl in the head… People we’ve for every letter in every claim of Olmedo” put a bomb in a bourgeois never known, but their dedication responsibility. And that to put hotel in November 2009. and sacrifice for the cause reso- such words on paper it really nates with our worldview, with takes some character and very our own cause. And faces of strong feeling of doing the right friends we’ll never see again. Dead, thing, of actually getting closer to murdered by the System. Is it victory. And we thank you for everywhere like this? Are we all sincerity and straight-forward- alone in this hostile world? Are ness. there other mutineers, saboteurs, discontent? How do we get in With our words and deeds we touch with all this censorship? express our support for Greek comrades and their cause, but we How do we let them know with all feel its important for anarchists to this conspiracy of silence in media fight in their own local battles and and society, even among political undermine authorities where they left? How do we communicate? We live, not to travel around hotbeds don’t know their language even. of successful anarchist resistance This FAI logo was designed by a How do we write? Can they and “savour” this riot here or that Russian painter and sent to the CCF translate from Russian? OK, let’s march there. Much less to sit idly email address. just give it a try, we’ll see where and wait till social war in Greece this’ll go soon enough… ends with a victory. Our subver- sive anarchist struggle should Solidarity to CCF As soon as we learned of existence start right here, right now, not of others like us, we started from Russia when people in yet another reading their texts and established country finally decide to show rapport through claims of respon- Anarchy is a mosaic of denial in their own government they’ve sibility and mutual expressions of which we recognize our common had enough. solidarity. It’s a wonderful feeling, places but also our different when one reads a text from an- references. Inside anarchy our That’s another point of reference other part of the world and yet its thoughts and practices are in that endeared you to us, friends clear that people have same constant evolution, and we from Conspiracy of Cells of Fire: concerns, share same ideals and listen to the characteristics of your sharp and precise, brave have same passion for freedom different components of which it (and brash even) voices calling for and social change, same rage is composed. total break-away from modern against the status quo. And think This is the beauty of revolution, society on all levels, everywhere. about you. Conspiracy of Cells of there is not one unequivocal truth, Your disagreement to follow “cafe Fire were first group that neither one orthodox tradition professors of revolution”, voiced a breached the blank wall of igno- which dictates the right and the refusal to wait for “revolutionized rance for us. wrong. So we, the imprisoned masses” to rise up. A call for decentralized network of direct members of CCF, translated the We believe today’s Greece could be action. A motto “Think globally – text of the Russians comrades, as thought of as a lighthouse for act locally” put into the most we believe it is another thousands of anarchists around revolutionary practice possible. contribution in the international the world who look upon it with dialogue of the anarchists of hope that somehow people of this We have experienced first-hand praxis. country can demonstrate new and Long live the FAI/IRF the negative reaction and derisive 21 laughter of so-called “anarchist rades around the world, words into the darkness of our forests comrades” right after publishing full of dignity and calm sureness and glades. We keep in touch, we our only lengthy communique so in our cause being right. These carry on fighting side by side with far, where we tried to explain who words inspire us. By your acts of our comrades-in-arms from IRF/ we were and where did we stand. defiance you set a new level of FAI for another world we know is Today we see and hear more and revolutionary consciousness we possible. Our participation in IRF/ more anarchists in our region believe every anarchist should FAI was made possible in large turning towards anarcho-nihilism strive to achieve. And knowledge part because of your efforts, and moving in the direction of of your refusal to repent and bow friends, your dedication and total rejection of the bourgeois-left down gives strength to every new courage. This project gave us new lifestyle. This happens on all levels wave of anarchist prisoners, you and dear companions and co- in the community: music, publica- should know that. Big thanks for conspirators, opened our minds to tions, statements of responsibility, this very difficult, dangerous and new possibilities of struggle and face-to-face talks, discussions taxing war you’re waging inside provided us with a lot to think during assemblies. But we know prison walls! about. full well how hard and ungrateful it is to voice these ideas for the Our own liberatory project lies a And for this also we give you our first time. And this is another bit away from the cities and eternal smiles, hugs, kisses, winks and reason we feel so much love and urban guerrilla, however. We’ve solidarity! tenderness towards you. made a conscious and dangerous move of bringing our actions to Let the fires of Anarchy be the beacons Greece is so close in every anar- light and kept constant the flow of of hope and encouragement for all chist heart today, it seems. Some- news of our attacks. Our many- excluded and dispossessed worldwide! times people in Russia joke that fold aim was to establish com- close friends meet on two occa- munion with other eco-anarchist After dead cold of winter spring will sions: weddings and funerals. For and insurrectionary groups come! Russian anarchists this closeness around the world (which we did), with Greek comrades came after to help our comrades from Earth Liberation Front (Russia) / police murder of Alexis “blackblocg” project in promoting Informal Anarchist Federation – Grigoropoulos. And yet Greece is the new urban guerrilla warfare International Revolutionary Front so far away in terms of language (which by now is a rage in our and events. lands), to encourage other eco- activists and anarchists on the Letter from FAI-IRF By the time information of your path of ecological sabotage (which activity and your texts reached us, was a success) and to provide CCF : Russian Cell some of you were already cap- intelligence, cover and support for While reading letters written by tured, others in hiding. subversive actions of our com- imprisoned comrades and their rades in the region (a constant in communiques, we can feel with all So it was painful indeed to read our minds, and a roaring success our hearts their hatred towards your thoughts and ideas and at by the looks of it). It is fall of 2011, status quo, their anxiety to create the same time know the fate that and autonomous nazi groups in another world by destroying this awaited some of you and feeling Russia are either destroyed or one. Each line of such texts flows uncertain and anxious for those went into hiding. Huge repressive like a stream through your veins. who managed to go underground. apparatus of Russian State, its It gets right to the core and stays With similar feelings we read mechanisms grinding and moan- forever in your soul. scarce words of Ted Kaczynski, ing, slowly turns its attention Walter Bond and Tortuga, close towards anarchist movement. ones that reach us. With similar While walking down cold and First lightning has already lit the dark streets of the metropolises, cold understanding of inevitabil- horizon – the recent arrests and ity we read recent news of our we never forget about hundreds of detentions in Moscow. What imprisoned comrades and thou- Indonesian comrades captured storm will come we’ve yet to see. after an attack. sands who have died. Sorrow But what keeps us warm in these mixed with anger channeled cold and rainy nights is the But life continues even after through a prism of revolutionary thought that finally fledgeling capture, and for people of strong consciousness give us a huge pulse anarchist movement in Russia has character even further struggle for to make revolution a reality. managed to become an inner Anarchy is possible, as so many threat dangerous enough for the our comrades in Russia have When void and terror of this government to seriously consider personally learned throughout all world suddenly close in, it’s putting a yoke on us prior to these years. sometimes difficult to keep your elections. Guess this means we’re stance and not to fall into pits of Your words fly out from behind doing everything right. apathy and depression. And only prison bars, get carried away by bright rays of ever-shining star- Now we believe it’s time for next winds of Anarchy and translated light pierce darkness and give part of our plan, and so we salute by numerous anonymous com- hope. Every day they keep our with raised fists and step back 22 intent to act warm, each day they Russia : Solidarity We want to underline that at all breath new life into our willing- imperfection of tactics (as though ness to change this world for with CCF from Black there are perfect tactics!) and all better, to become better ourselves. the mistakes that unavoidable on The star is called Solidarity. Blocg our way, an insurrectionary current has a great meaning for Fiery words from flaming Greece A society, which you find around modern anarchism. This sense is drive the chill away during cold yourself when you became a kind not in “violence” about which Russian winters. We’ve never seen of conscious individual, should preach police, media and toy you, and, chances are, we’ll never damage you by a great multitude “revolutionaries”. This sense is in see you, comrades. But you are of disgusting injustice which the rupture with stinking ruling closer to us than thousands of inherent in its very structure. It order. In fighting enthusiasm of people we’ve got to know during appears in everything: social immediate revolution, when our short lives. institutions, interpersonal mutual attack on the system and creating relations, imposed pseudo-values of the new are merging in the one Our warm words will be making and even in patterns of thinking whirlwind. No more we want to a long and twisted journey. They and feeling. All these yawning put off our struggle and life. We are running wild through Russian sores are poisoning every day of live and fight today. And this is woods, immolating construction our existence. It seems, these the only approach which makes a vehicles, they soar high above hidden bitterness and disappoint- chance for victory. The breath of grey streets of Athens, igniting ment are the main reasons why fresh air for the great idea which them with flames of burning individual comes to an anarchist seemed was ready to fade away – police stations. And finally belief. Anarchist world-view is an that is the very meaning and through prison bars they’ll get attempt to abolish all the con- merit of insurrectionary anar- into Your cells, mocking all secu- structs, which built in a human chism. rity measures. While making our world but hostile to a very human most sincere dreams come true on nature. To abolish – and to create And it is completely not casual; the concrete streets of the me- on the ruins new society of free- world powers have put anarchists tropolises, we came to call each dom. Anarchist movement is a from Conspiracy of Cells of Fire other friends. We found people community of people which aim (CCF) in the same row with who we can count upon in any their thoughts and actions on Islamites in their lists of terrorists. situation. People so close, we can realization of a liberation idea. Terrorism is a favorite bugbear of share everything we have with all bloody dollar dictators. It is each other. So it has turned out, in last de- most likely, that soon we will see anarchists as “public enemy Power tries to isolate us and crush cades anarchist movement, number one”, because unlike our resistance, to pick us off one- despite all declarations, seems to religious fanatics, we have dared by-one. They want to instill abandon its main goal. Decadence, to challenge the root of present feelings of paranoia and mistrust. cynicism, passivity, doom and order – private property and But they will fail. In spite of their squabbles has been enthroned in social hierarchy. expectations, we became even our ranks. But the fresh wind has more closer to each other. And suddenly blown. Hearts, that The actions of Conspiracy of Cells while our activity puts us in grave disobedient to the mainstream, of Fire, as well as of many other danger, we still dream of a day, has refused to accept the despair comrades from Greece and world- when we shall gather again as of modern world and of that wide, always have inspirited us family. We will be drinking herbal “movement”, which was sup- and fulfilled us with feeling of tea that we’ve gathered with our posed to change it. And that was unity and hope on victory. So in own hands and sharing our plans the moment, when there were spite of certain ideological differ- with smiles and laughter. And born a mixed current, which is ences (we don’t share “nihilism” of exchanging tales of our exploits. marked as an insurrectionary CCF and, being insurrectionary And this day is not far off. We anarchism. anarcho-communists, we aspire to hope that soon enough you’ll be rise a people to rebellion) we able to give hugs to all your In Russia insurrectionary anar- express our solidarity with friends as well. chist tendency for the first time has declared itself a few years ago. imprisoned comrades and send And to get back on the road of adven- Understanding of the hopelessness them our warm revolutionary ture. We throw our fists up for you and of previous anarchist tactics in greetings. wish you freedom. Flaming salutes and social movements, murders of our fiery hugs. And remember, you are not comrades by fascists with the Freedom for all immediately! alone in this struggle! connivance of the state and, of course, fires of December uprising We will win! Informal Anarchist Federation \ in Greece – that was the coinci- Long live anarchy! International Revolutionary dence of circumstances that has Front, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire: enlightened the path of struggle BlackBlocg Collective, Russia Russian Cell which we confidently trail today. 23 Germany: Werner I had to comply with this fractions in the battles yet to attorney’s line of defense — he is come! Braeuner’s response nephew of a social democrat deputy of the Berlin parliament — Twelve gunshots fired into the air to the international who recited a freely invented as a salute to the brothers and call by the CCF/FAI version of the deed before the sisters of the Conspiracy of Cells of court; he told a sob story about a Fire! From: Werner Braeuner, JVA Sehnde, desperate unemployed man, Schnedebruch 8, D-31319 Sehnde, whose nerves were on edge since Five arrows and a black star for Germany/Deutschland the Arbeitsamt director dismissed the Informal Anarchist Federation Text for: International brochure in him and didn’t want to deal with / International Revolutionary solidarity with the CCF his begs for mercy. Thus, overt Front! resistance was recast as man- When the rulers commit overt slaughter, and I got 12 years’ Werner ex nihilo plentitudines crimes, the class-warrior prole- imprisonment. They had won the (plentitude out of nothing) tariat resists overtly through first round. But later I claimed November 1st, 2011 direct action. To force people into responsibility for my deed slave labour is an overt crime. If through radio interviews and the * Sicherungsverwahrung. it’s committed by Germans, let Internet, loudly and publicly, as Indefinite prolongation of prison alone social democrats, an overt overt resistance and direct action term, a regime based on a 1933 and direct attack becomes an against slave labour. Men and Nazi law, which allows the irresistibly lustful temptation. women class-warrior proletarians German authorities to keep I succumbed to this temptation covered me against the danger of individuals incarcerated after and sent to the eternal gutter a psychiatrization, and thus the serving their overall sentence, as German social democrat director rulers and their minions were long as the latter are considered a of the Arbeitsamt (unemployment ultimately defeated. ‘danger to public safety’. This type office); he will not return from of ‘preventive detention’ is actu- there, this formerly convicted Had I remained silent and ac- ally an indeterminate life sentence child abuser. cepted the blackmail, I would have that follows a ‘regular sentence’. been released earlier from prison, In May 2011, the Federal Constitu- That’s why I’m in prison since in February 2009. But I’d much tional Court of Germany issued a February 2001, sleep like a baby rather continue to struggle against verdict on Sicherungsverwahrung and look forward each day anew the class enemy, even if the State deeming it “unconstitutional”, yet to be part of the worldwide army and the Justice should designate this decision does not annul its of anarchy. We like to laugh in this for this reason that I am a ‘sub- implementation in practice. army, and we gladly talk about sisting danger’, in order to put me our struggles. So, hear me out after the prison term, in February now: 2013, under an indefinite ‘preven- tive detention’.* On the day of the deed — I was 46- Sardinia: Letter from years-old — I was arrested. I And even if they were to do that, Davide Delogu turned myself in, and let them do they will lose. It causes them much more harm when they show the guesswork. It took them a few I send my heartfelt greetings and days to comprehend: overt resis- their fear. Those who will win are US. Little by little the superpow- strong solidarity to the comrades tance against slave labour! The of the Conspiracy of the Cells of rulers and their minions know ers will disappear from this planet, until only one superpower Fire, who are tackling and that they themselves are a few, developing the clash in the while the proletariats are many. is left that needs no masters, kings, states or gods: the proletariat, US! ongoing social war with force and (Only 4 percent of the residents in determination. The revolutionary the capitalist metropolis are Therefore, the ruling class along with their social-democratic practice that the comrades are psychopaths, according to psy- carrying out is an essential chiatrists.) Evidently they saw hounds and their minions ought not to open their mouths wide; contribution for the constant themselves threatened, because reaffirmation of what prosecutors and judges notified they ought not to charge the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire with characterizes the trajectory to be me through a court-appointed taken. attorney that they would seek to terrorism. The CCF attacks were not directed against the prole- psychiatrize and destroy me if I I totally agree with the analysis tariat. Everyone knows that; claimed responsibility in court by and action for the continuation of whoever says otherwise is a liar. naming my deed as overt resis- the revolutionary growth of the tance against slave labour. They international coordination so that Long live the revolutionary openly threatened me with forced this ability can be placed in front fractions of the worldwide prole- medication. of the existent with shattering tariat, and those due to join these strategies, perpetually in 24 movement everywhere. For the For all comrades, the address of revolt is present throughout the revolutionary international front! the prison where I’m currently Nazi-onal territory. detained is: There is widespread discontent, Each one with their own the repudiation of the ruling class specificity, which can only Davide Delogu, Carcere di is growing every day. strengthen the relations and Buoncammino, Viale The powerful profit from projectuality to be carried out. Buoncammino19, 03123 everything possible ... with our May the call of the CCF stimulate CAGLIARI (SARDINIA), ITALY lands. the impetus of the insurrectional Our sweat. fire, the lead of vengeance, the Our blood. dynamite of the damned in the Chile: Letter from On July 14, I actively participated brotherhood of the struggle and in combat action and street its destructive capacity! Francisco Moreno agitation. Hooded, I defended myself against the terrorist state The practice that belongs to us Comrades: in the form of violent oppression manifests itself in our very I send these words from a jail in by police bastards. existence and direct action, and no $hile. Before informing you of my The next day I was formalized on court, no repressive methodology, dehumanizing prison situation, I three counts: no matter how subtle it becomes express my full support and in time, can ever stop the solidarity to you, free minds and - Transport of an incendiary anarchist fire of freedom, which rebels. It is imperative that we weapon (Molotov). keeps on flaring up endlessly. stay united in this fight, and - “Serious” injuries to a bastard in Strengthened by all this, let’s make break the isolation by dealing uniform. it possible for the noise of the with the powerful street agitation -Minor injuries to another prison walls being blown to pieces invisibly raising their uniformed bastard. to be heard, for the real liberation insurrectionary flames world- of the comrades kidnapped in the wide. I was released in “freedom” cells of the enemy, as one of the because of little evidence and main goals of existential explosion I hope these words will be of great contradiction in the statements with which the revolutionary help to stand firm and feed their against me (the same pigs were project is being put in action! indomitable souls that have had police witnesses). Now began the machinations of power, there was To the daring warriors of the CCF the courage to confront State / an entire TV show by the who don’t give up and continue to Capital and all its prevailing bourgeois press, using their guns, attack the real instruments of “order”. criminalization of social revolt dominion, who demonstrate the and everybody who participated combatant passion for freedom by We are prone to incarceration was proud of it. Obviously the inflaming the cells where they are because we choose to be political class wanted to be part of being kept: I express and support ourselves, to live a life without the TV show. The president and in constant revolt the indefeasible chains and not being ruled by their puppets appeared before the solidarity bond! A fraternal and authoritarian power. We are not cameras to be part of the subversive hug to you, comrades, afraid to be different, being aware manipulation. They showed their together in the assaults on those and proud individuals who do displeasure for leaving me in the Matrix who lock us up. Let’s not hesitate to declare war on the street and not behind bars, as consolidate what was started! oppressors. they want. ... So the days passed CCF free now! With my and I was again subjected to a insurrectional anger on fire, I Institutional brutality does not flawed judicial process, where salute you with passion! weaken us, oppression creates resistance. They can lock us in they decide to “surprise” me in Davide Dalogu these tombs for the living, the prison since July 22. Besides, the jailers can try unsuccessfully to charges against me were 30th October 2011 humiliate us, the bourgeois press reclassified, now I’m accused of may use their weapons to weaken attempted murder, which P.S. According to the calculations us, to create “public opinion”, the obviously increases the years of of the judiciary, I’ll be released in flawed prosecution tries to confinement. 2027. The main charge against me intimidate us with their is attempted murder, a 12-year “exemplifying sentences”. I have been met with hostility in sentence. During this time of death But they can never satisfy this these dungeons, jailers (vile imposed by the State and its hunger for freedom that is parasites) earn their dirty money servants it is necessary to be an DEMONSTRATED BY OUR trying to humiliate us, but we active and integral part of the REVIDICATIONS. have not given up our comrades struggle, trying to shoot at the and our gaze is higher than ever, current situation of imprisonment DETENTION: no blow eliminates our identity, with all the resistance fighters in a $hile today is convulsing, street our anti-authoritarian thinking. projectual way. 25 We’ve been hit, trying to create in I respond with warmth and and all together, demonstrate that us a daily routine that is revolutionary love, within the they don’t support their disgusting, believing they can timeless time of our revolutionary government, their terror, their lies make us “brainwashed” to come path without history, beyond any and divisions that for out obedient to authority. Morons, false story of the rulers, where our millenniums they had to use all they do is to increase our generations in struggle are the continuously to continue their hatred with more force and give only present always alive. exploitation and domination, to our struggle more and more continue their crazy way of global conviction. I do not believe in the I salute and embrace you as I destruction. laws made by humans to enslave embraced the signs, the many humanity! brave signs of your actions and Solidarity, love and courage to you “Faced with deaf ears, new ideas will words and those of others, and comrades of the Conspiracy of sail through with acts of rebellion.” others like us, that reach into at Cells of Fire, to you that already DOWN WITH THE WALLS OF about 7.000 days of prison have a name, that they want THE PRISON - LONG LIVE without ever being boring, ridiculously process because of the INSURRECTION desperate, regretful. They are revolutionary struggle cannot be signs of presence, continuity and processed! A fraternal hug to all of you. diffusion of struggle for freedom, Indomitable minds. where 0 or 7.000 days of prison Solidarity, love and courage to you don’t matter, because they are comrades of the Conspiracy of Francisco Moreno signs of the same struggle, because Cells of Fire without name, of the Freedom-hungry political what matters is the struggle for second phase, that, carrying the prisoner. life, for freedom. The years, revolutionary offensive and 24-July-2011 from prison centuries of prison or our deaths retaliation that makes masters Santiasko 1. in combat don’t matter. They are tremble and so their servants, you heavy as mountains, but don’t are the living demonstration that (translator: “Santiasko” pun between matter because, if the struggle the revolutionary struggle cannot Santiago and disgust.) lives, we continue to live; we be processed! continue to live because dead or with centuries of prison, we fell as Solidarity, love and courage to you free women and men and these we comrades all over the world, who remain. Because who has lived are the rampant insurrection and and who lives truly - the struggle organization that will defeat has lived - and we live the every authority, every State, every freedom that brings us together. master, giving back life, giving So, our rebel spirit can never go back the future, giving back the back to the vile and annihilating freedom to this world. slavery of this civilization of masters and murderous thieves, For permanent insurrection, until total with their history and their time Liberation, Anarchy! of destruction and exploitation. Marco Camenisch, A rebel and insurgent spirit is a November 2011, from the Swiss serene spirit, spirit without time jail. because it lives in a continuous present made of solidarity. Note: Solidarity that by definition joins In 1980 Marco was sentenced to 10 generations, joins the efforts, joins years for damaging electricity pylons the act, joins our life, joins our and transformers, once against the NOK Switzerland: Letter hearts, as much as they may be company (which ran nuclear power different and materially far away of Marco Camenisch plants in Switzerland) and once against are and lived, live and will live! their distributors, the Sarelli company. to the CCF / FAI The sentence was very harsh: 10 years. They may do their trials, they are Marco was well aware this reflected the just the signs of their cowardice, of Companion, dear comrades of the seriousness of what was at stake: the their fear, of their decline. They Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, first phase: ecocide perpetrated by the power may call us terrorists, it is just the industry as part of the wider system of sign that we hit our target, it is Maybe too late, surely too short I destruction, which formed the target of just the sign of their defeat in front respond to your call, to your his own struggle. In December 1981 of every sign of the rampant proposal. But I respond with a Marco escaped from Regensdorf prison insurrection. Insurrectional solid heart, within the timeless with other 5 inmates and went into rumblings and insurgent moment of the struggle for hiding for 10 years. In November 1991 individualities that, one by one freedom. he was arrested again following a 26 routine ID check in the town of Massa, suddenly appeared; 23rd of the the upcoming elections for re- Tuscany. There was a shooting after one same month I am brought to court election (which is a disgusting carabiniere (Italian paramilitary olice) which decides to give me 60 days show, a montage of television, a saw that Marco had a gun and remand for being considering a useless government and media panicked; Marco and one carabiniere public danger, along with being spectacle making itself available were injured. This time Marco got a 12- charged with - transport and use to corruption and stench). There year sentence for injuring the carabiniere of incendiary weapons - property are many spots advertising and for another attack against the power damage - public disorder charges political parties: lines between La Spezia and Acciaiolo, which were prolonged (or so I which transported energy produced by believe) due to public opinion and “Tough on criminals” French nuclear plants. He did 11 of the government pressure on judges. “Criminals, the party’s over” 12 years in Italy, waiting to be The government aims to keep all “Stop the revolving door of extradited to Switzerland. In May 2002 activists in prison, so that to the prisons” ... and many more. Marco was subjected to a show-trial people we represent “exemplary designed to politically damage the wider punishment “ a totally cowardly Other terms that are no less struggle against ecocide, and to punish despotic example by the Chilean important than ‘company’, that Marco for his defiance in showing no government against all existing describe this prison are, ‘abuse of remorse for his actions. In flagrant activists. power’, ‘corruption’, ‘routine’, disregard for the state’s own legal ‘constant beatings’, ‘psychological process, Marco got charged and The fear of the bourgeois class is abuse’, ‘overcrowding’, ‘brutal’ convicted for the murder of a completely evident, its witch hunt is nothing and ‘inhuman punishments’. different Customs policeman in 1989 in more than a desperate measure to These are among the many terms Brusio, and sentenced for 17 years. With a reality that its trying to hide, that may reflect an inhuman this sentencing the Lords of the Atom discontent and contempt for all reality in which “live” (if you can and their accomplices “settled the score” kinds of figures and hierarchies is call this living) thousands of with Marco – including the previous 10 increasingly. You can smell fear in inmates in Santiago 1. and 11-year sentences – a total of 39 every street, you can smell and years of imprisonment. Longer than a life see it in the bourgeois press, the In this prison the daily business is sentence. In May 2007 the sentence government is afraid of our seen as the brutal beatings a jailer was reduced to a maximum of 8 years, struggle, those who will never may tip to any gesture of with release scheduled to be in May rest until we see this imposed rebellion, individuality or 2018. He is currently under “order” break down. So that we strength. investigation in ‘Operation Ardire’. can build a new society free from the clutches of the oppressive This was forged to introduce into despots. prison inmates a “discipline” that is nothing more than “teaching” Chile: Letter from LIVING IN A DUNGEON made up of batons and kicks to make submission “re-enable” and Zerman Elias Vallej ‘Company’, is the only word that “reintegrate” you into society ... can describe the filthy jail called really pure SHIT. The damn jailer My arrest: “Santiago 1” in which I find aims to have the power over your September 22, 2011, Santiago de myself prisoner, from the life, to be master of your will and Chile, 14:00 Hrs. Park Almagro, I perspective of these months, desires, with power backed by am at a demonstration when my seeing it as a dirty business that government institutions and the arrest comes after throwing a profits from the freedom of submission of the prison Molotov cocktail at a police car individuals, whose main population from a beating of the trying to disperse the activists beneficiaries are the dealership jailer bastards, they bow their with tear gas. After having building the estate, which heads and think it is “normal” to thrown the petrol bomb, I noticed receives money for the defendant, be trampled by one of these some plainclothes policemen the complainant tax gross earning bastards. (infiltrators in the crowd) that extra money for each prisoner and mingled among activists with the person who benefits from Due to this, my constant stance of their faces covered, that’s why I state public opinion. Of the show defiance got me into conflict with decided to get rid of any possible of “criminals and useless savages” a jailer, who remained stupefied evidence that I had in my being punished by the great and to see that I was defending myself backpack (3 Molotov cocktails proper government, at this point against this infamy. This is one of more and 2 liters of petrol), when I we can not ignore the corrupt hundreds of examples; an inmate went to a hidden place to get rid bourgeois press that supports the once told me that after being of clothing and change clothing. state position and plays a beaten by six officers, was taken That is when two plainclothes fundamental role when shaping to a “punishment cell” which he police forcibly grabbed me and public opinion which benefits the described as a cell of about 4x4 took me to a police car in the state government approval polls. meters, with wet floor, no seats or company of a soldier who This greatly influences voting in table, a mattress on the floor 27 (obviously wet), the walls covered and there still exist prisons in so sabotaging a banking institution in shit, an incredible stench many countries which we should (specifically accused of causing and a small plastic pot for call “hell”, but the servants of the damage with fire against to cash prisoners to do their basic needs. states will never break our machines) in the city of León, To that nasty place, he was put dreams. And it is our turn to fight Guanajuato, México… naked and wet, beaten and to make the dreams living, to bloodied; Upon entering the cell, bring them to reality. On the 24th of September 2010 I beaten again and pepper sprayed C. C. F. are an inspiration for was intercepted by two agents of in the eyes, and then abandoned comrades and movements in the ministerial police while I was in there for about 2 days without many countries, even they are heading out to buy some food. I food or water, in that filthy place. outside or behind the bars. was detained exactly one year I fully agree with the strategic of after the event, as the action in Despite the in-human condition, C. C. F. called “to take its life in its question took place in 2009. After the strength is something that hands”. We have to stand up and a year of investigations an order abounds, convictions grow every fight back. No time to wait for of arrest was requested for me second, the desire to fight against whatever. apparently by the CIE (Special all authority are enhanced more Investigations Office), which was and more. Wanting to break the Clenched fist salute! denied due to supposed lack of prisons that enslave us, the prison In the struggle… evidence, to which they appealed is one of the things we have in Thomas Meyer - Falk to a magisterial judge where it common, so we will fight for our was finally accepted. freedom until our last breath. Note: Thomas Meyer-Falk is a long- term anarchist prisoner held hostage for After my arrest I was pressured “While my body is imprisoned, a bank robbery in Germany, which was to admit to innumerable actions, my mind is more free than ever, it intended to fund radical left projects. to which I refused and only the will not ever change! bank sabotage was left… as I have already said, right now I find Zerman Elias Vallej myself in the Centre for Social Reintegration in León Guanajuato. They have sentenced me to three years, ten months and fifteen days in prison receiving the benefit of community work and the ability to obtain my “liberty” if I was to pay the reparation for the damage that reaches hundreds of thousands of pesos, which will not be paid because as is well known, we simply want the money to burn (in the words of a great comrade), so that we will keep on fighting Mexico: Letter from until we can get out of this place. Braulio Arturo As I have already said I am again Germany: Letter awaiting sentencing because after Duran González my appeal my trial was restarted from Thomas Meyer- (supposedly due to problems with Technology, dogmas, my defence) and they put Falk to the CCF dependency injected into the everything on me again, so at this minds of the weak. Plastic status moment I am without sentence. Solidarity to all the comrades of cemented by the established Hopefully things will turn out CCF order under the warning ‘do not favourably and I can continue break’ with the oh-so-precious fighting. I firmly believe that Dear friends and comrades over “social peace”… the undermining direct action is and will always be there, I want to send all the im- of the insurrection with the threat something extremely prisoned comrades of C. C. F. my of death and imprisonment in transcendental. We know well best, warmest and deepest soli- sewers full of supposed now that the main factor darity greetings. reintegration, so that we can live sustaining the corporations is in the margins of “happiness”. money, through self-perpetuation Like always before, prisons are and self-reproduction creating a still places of so many dreams; the Hello, my name is Braulio Arturo consumer society and in turn a authorities try to make it to a hell, Duran González, vegan eco- dominant empire, which will end anarchist prisoner accused of up making us dependent on them. 28 They’ve made us believe that life we were before but even so we Switzerland: Letter cannot be life without them. They break our own preconceptions simply manipulate us by saying and for the moment we have to from Billy that life will be more difficult put up with it. I know that one unless we acquire their day (I do not know when), I know “The interpretation we want to give to unnecessary technology and that things will change. This is the term ‘detrimental’ exceeds by far the almost all the time we believe that something very strong in my ability to intervene with the consent of an this is how it is and we’re not heart and when this day arrives organism. We have before our eyes the capable of questioning or rejecting things will change and the detriment of culture, political and social. it. moment will arrive to collect for But what we want to show in this every deception, every upset, difficult and painful situation for us is the Direct action will end their every tear from those bastards method which characterizes the bonds of hierarchy bit by bit, and that took me hostage… remember authority. Technology and its handling, consequently wear out their there is no justice, there is revenge the destruction of life, the intervention in support (although it might not and so the page will turn. inheritance, the researches of scientific seem so, it will) and so sabotage is industries, a result of thousands years of a part of our own methods of Take heart comrades, you that are dominating and human-centric thought. autonomy. in the same situation that I find Partly ‘everything will be ok’, despite the myself, do not falter, fight day health problem which accompanies the Many people talk of “freedom” after day and do not let them rob basic values of a technological and revolution, others mention you of your freedom that is in civilization, which feeds from the time and direct action from a merely your mind because perhaps we the lives of thousands of human reformist position, which is are imprisoned physically but individualities and non-human ones. totally incongruent because direct they cannot imprison our minds Which sieves and divides living creatures action means what it says. (even though at times it seems as into races, species, into standard categories though they can), strength! Do not on a hierarchically classified ladder based Others are not even ready to let them turn you into what they on the needs of civilization. In a web of question whether they are truly want you to be… LOVE AND DO global crisis it is basic to observe that this ready to run the risk. There are AS YOU WISH, BUT LOVE! system resorts to technology in order to very few that are truly ready and extend its own life. After ‘spending’ the break with their own passivity I have always said that: “I prefer to planet, transforming it into a refuge of and decide to put words into die believing that I fought for resources for the greedy appetites of the action, leaving behind the fear something than die of an overdose; I human elite, after digging it, wiping it out that usually arises from their prefer to die believing that I can change and poisoning it, now it continues to run bodies, acting anonymously, the world than believe that the to science, primary virtue of the destroying their authoritarian everything is all rosy; I prefer to die at conservation of the present correlations of civilization. But there is always the barricades than die in a filthy prison dominance, coming to the point of offering something that remains – like the one I find myself in now – a to sacrifice – research even the profound consequences. Consequences are dignified death is the one of the depths which make life biologically not easy, they are hard, bitter and revolutionary.” possible. The struggle against detriment painful; consequences are death or cannot be separated from the social web fucking prison… prison is cold, it Strength to all my comrades held which reproduces them and makes them destroys your memories and your hostage in the struggle, take necessary. This means to bring a feelings or it turns you into an courage and do not let this spirit fundamental critique to the economic insensitive robot. nor the struggle waver! ... all the humiliation and the techno-scientific poems and great texts that you evolution in their totality, without The jail distances you and wish to share can be made stopping at limited matters of technology. envelops you, putting rubbish available to this simple comrade. Starting from the production of a product into your mind bit by bit; jail as a production of detriment, going onto takes you away from those close MUCH STRENGTH COMRADES, the production (fake) needs , in an always to you and hurts them; jail makes THE STRUGGLE IS GROWING increasing commercialization of the you dependent on so many things EVERY NIGHT… human, to come to the system itself where and sometimes not even you FREEDOM TO POLITICAL absolute detriment controls such yourself realize it – the truth is PRISONERS! HEALTH. productions, programming the limits of that there are so many things you tolerance and configuring their perception could never imagine in these and acceptance” places. Nobody has ever said it Braulio Arturo Duran González. would be easy, but despite this Centro de Reinserción Social León, Excerpt from the “Manifesto of you fight to change it, you run the Guanajuato. Collaboration against every detriment” risk of everything for nothing, in Carretera Leon- which is included in spite of knowing that nothing will Cueramaro Km 7.5 “Nanotechnology – the philosophical be the same again. No-one said León Guanajuato, México stone of dominance”, Il Silvestre 2011. that we would be the same people C.p. 36700

29 The afternoon of April 15th 2010 I poverty in the world and democracy: it produces illusions was arrested together with Silvia organizes campaigns against these in order to guarantee that nothing Guerini and Constantino Ragusa ‘collateral losses’ of our western changes. To guarantee through a because at a police check they society, which it allegedly ‘fights game of politicians-supporters, found on us a small quantity of for’ (considering though that who are all the same, outside the explosives, flammable materials undisputable profit which it offers ballot on which they place their and communiques for a sabotage conserves them rather than cross the moment they vote, that against the European centre of fighting them in reality). Thus are all intentions for a change return nanotechnology research (still followed faithfully the limits of to legality. In this magic little under construction), a cooperation exploitation and property of the word which between their fans between the multinational IBM industries and their co-operators can transform all the loathing that and the federal polytechnic within an economic delirium and surrounds us and has turned university of Zurich. After 15 the legalization of governments every live existence and element of months of investigation and and their accomplice authorities of this earth, into an exploitative ‘smart findings’ from the side of looting and annihilation, as much source by the capitalist system, the federal prosecutors, on July in the north as well as the south of into work, good and right. 23rd 2011 the court took place the whole equator. Other times against us, from which we were authority ‘celebrates’ the memory We know the level of illusions sentenced to 3 years and 4 of struggles of the past, such as the produced by democracy: it gives months, and 3 years and 8 months one of the feminists with women out deportations to the foreigners respectively, while still in Italy an today having tones of texts full who moved into ‘welcome centres’ interrogative investigation of the with rights with contribution inside the ring of bombings prosecutors of Turin investigates choir of the church. At the same carried out during ‘peaceful also some other incidents. During moment neither patriarchy operations’. It shares out the investigations as well as neither male sexism have made a destructions, the fruit of urbanism during the trial we refused to step back, on the contrary have a and of land exploitation, resulting participate in the game of the foundational role in society. To in ‘natural destructions’, in the predictable usual roles: the role of provide smiles, breasts and heart name of surveillance, patrols in the guilty who search for to encourage the trade. Similarly the neighbourhoods, the mitigations, excuses and accepts we can also speak about the militarization in sequence with their guilt or the role of the animals who in the western the states of emergency, naming innocent, who despair for the countries receive more ‘care’ from them ‘security measures’, bending charges, who ask for an alleged so many foreign ‘illegals’, with a the etymological significance of significance of the justice of the nonsense of laws, the attempt to the term which should have been judges and protests within confirm legal justice. But in reality indicated through the exact legitimacy. Within its expression the possibility of animals to opposite. Without the need of such “justice is made up!” There is no survive remains always tied to a circus... However when they role for those who deny all roles them being transformed into import to the people, the suspicion neither is there a capable objects of a circus or a zoo, that they are cheating us, that authority which despises all the adventures inside the parks or behind all these lights, other authorities. into food as sub-products. advertisements, pompous Struggles which through legality, celebrations of democracy, there’s Legality, the wretched god, the system oppressed them, only a frantic emptiness of protector of industrialist religions, absorbed them and changed them everything because we are looted is an emergence of authority. It is a into a support for itself. inside and in our interpersonal bond of light nailed on the eyes in relations, with the emptiness of order to preserve blurry the Authority means first of all to the (non) lands we ended up living vision of all those who made the become arrogant of your in, with the culture of acceptance of the existing state of privileges in front of others and merchandise, with our lives at the things their faith and resignation there is a naivety in the thought service of economy… Even then in their first trial. Through legality that those who are allegedly the mind of the people the reaction authority absorbs all objections above privileges, who on those is another motive for them to and outbreaks for a deep change. It have built and based all of their surrender again one more time in de-activates every possible and being, they spontaneously their hands, the dominators in probable revolutionary or radical disclaim them because they are their own ‘rights’, always looking carrier in order to replace it with covered by the ‘beautiful’ protests for new settings: more the form of a ‘right’ or a ‘must’. A into moulds and poorer social responsibility in the production concession or an obligation which conventions. We have it in front of and consumption of the does not threaten authority. our eyes constantly. Whoever has merchandise-garbage, more a privilege does everything to humane metropolises, more In order to remind this every day preserve it beginning from making economic development,… there is it confers about the ‘major us believe that it has mysteriously no limit to the deceiving. matters’ of the planet such as disowned reality. This is a role of

30 Today, the mother of all illusions is the present fake life and their own reasons of this present detriment, the techno-scientific development. detriments. They intend maybe to the destruction of every aspect of If the trust in this indoctrination realize the promises with which dominance, total liberation. of ‘progress’ and ‘development’ is they govern today: maybe they almost totalitarian, totalitarian is limited the levels of CO2, saved Solidarity is a weapon sharpened better the deterioration which it has some specific animals from the than oppression. Greeting and solidarity established on us. A deterioration labs and slaughterhouses; they to all hostages of war who we call through a ‘freedom of choice’ allow us to intervene and act in comrades. which is however changed into the discussions of authority with marginalization and isolation the Social Network, but the Billy (Luca Bernasconi) when the choice is not the foundations of the system will From a prison of social peace, proposed one and is applied never be altered: the privilege of a December 2011 independently of terms. The minority to exploit everything dynamics are established with and all the rest. Billy was released 19 August 2012. defined technological gadgets; very much stabilizing the This is why even more, the duty of dynamics which move in the total whoever does not want to throw of ‘free’ society. Where oil on the mechanisms of the spontaneous conformism does not system, but wants to stop them, reach, it comes in with small steps whoever has rage in their soul for of the obligations for the creation every time that they look around of false needs, fantasy and the they see numerous forms of removal of every alternative exploitation, oppression and solution so nothing will remain humiliation, and do not want to except to condemn the fact that contain this rage, is to not let their you can make an autonomous and spirit soften through the limits of significant choice therefore better a peaceful protest and one allowed and righter. by the strong ones. It cannot comply to the values, ethic and a Behind the techno-scientific virtuous dominant hypocrisy of evolution there is nothing more society and all those alleged than the almost romantic dream thinkers who disown the violent of the modern ‘pioneers’ and and violence on the basis of their ‘visionaries’ of future society (or calm lives. The violence of plenty Bulgaria: Letter of even better the egotistical version they call ‘prosperity’, those who Jock Palfreeman to of researchers and scientists in the produce it, consume it and search for glory, career, and through the urban habits, defend the CCF / FAI civilization). It is in practise a its power. The rage cannot make procedure for which these people its characteristic that which To all the prisoners of war we call work in the service of claims a simple piece of the pie, comrades: transforming the present, which which are the basic ingredients of touches all and everyone without our lives, alienated and passive, My name is Jock Palfreeman, I’ve exclusion. It is not only an based on the looting of the people, served almost 4 years of a 20 year ‘improvement’ of the present the seas and the land of this earth. sentence for defending 2 Roma existence, but a deep changing of The fact that the ‘protectors’ of against a nationalist attack of 15. I the characteristics, creating this world, condemn us and was charged with the murder of 1 something new, upcoming to be persecute us must be interpreted and the attempted murder of transformed into something else. as a seal of their loss. another. My case is documented From this change which functions further at freejock.com and I don’t as an incentive for the hunger of I conclude by giving a greeting want to wish to waste words on it the fantasist manufacturers, only and lots of strength to you, here. some sci-fi scenarios come to our comrades in Greece, beyond the ears. When at the first stage of walls and bars that divide us, For almost 4 years now I’ve been production, the progress of beyond the mountains and sea officially kidnapped in Sofia research fields of nano and that separate us and beyond the central prison - State of Bulgaria. biotechnology, neuroscience and particularities which distinguish The realities of my case censored IT, are not made known to us. us (and which must not be lapsing from the Bulgarian public by a Probably not even their own through categorizations). Beyond state sponsoring media. I stay inspirers realize what they are the courses, the strategies and the strong and look forward to the putting into motion. But it is of different paths of struggle we have next 16 years as I know with all course the direction to which they taken between us, but which the essence of my being that what are pushing us, which means climb on the same hills and show I did was right. Prisoners of war towards a further desperation of the same peak, the attack on the (P.O.W) are not victims of injustice 31 like the “liberals” speak about in as the comrade outside still are. European solidarity has been their self-justifying wank. We are The cameras recording our lives, shown (including direct action) willing enemies of the capitalist police attacks and murders, there still remains a total lack of states and their organs. Prison censorship and brainwashing. The solidarity or direct action within should never be glorified as a only difference between the state the state of Bulgaria. Not a single prisoner knows there is nothing inside the prison walls and murmur of solidarity from where glorious about prison. We are cut- outside them is quantity. The it should be expected the most. My off, deaf, dumb and blind. But this crimes of the capitalist state that proposal or idea is to export is an admittance of success are committed against the resistance from where it is imparted by the state. Protests are outsiders are the same committed plentiful to where it is lacking. All sanctified by the capitalist state as against us insiders. And the too often I read about solidarity the state knows that all protests crimes committed by the state actions being committed in have parameters and within these within the prison walls you can different states to where the issue parameters the demands of the be certain are committed against is located. But Bugaria seems to be people are annulled. I would be so the outsiders. The only difference a complete black hole on the arrogant as to presume that many is the quality of the same European map of resistance. With incarcerated comrades who took oppression. the cross workings of European up means of direct action did so states, including Europol, N.A.T.O after several wasted years of Specifically I’m speaking to the and businesses, we too must be shouting in endless marches to the comrades who have never been more prepared to seek out the bemusement of the petty incarcerated. Every attack or set enemy behind any borders s/he is bourgeois shop owners. Indeed the up you’ve experienced at the hiding behind, despite cultural, only benefit of this wasted time in hands of the state agents, we lingual or national difference. our lives is that we now experience it everyday. Every understand that it was wasted. beating you’ve ever experienced, How is it possible that Greece is we experience it everyday. Every on the brink of revolution, yet in Protesters are not jailed as they time you’ve felt hungry, we bulgaria hordes of fascists burn pose no threat to the status quo of experience hunger everyday. the houses of Roma unopposed? the capitalist elite. In this regard Every time you’ve experienced a we must ask ourselves “why are cold night, we experience it every I stopped asking the question we in prison?”. Exactly as we do night of winter. We share the exact “where are the Bulgarian pose a threat to the status quo. same problems inside and outside comrades in Bulgaria?” many Incarceration is the state’s of prison, but the state uses the years ago. Now I ask “where are acknowledgment that we separation in prison to focus its the Greek comrades in Bulgaria?” challenge theory legitimacy to tyranny. In prison its purified and How can such a thing as a state control our lives. Due to this concentrated. border be such a separator of a knowledge I wake up (almost) movement that claims it holds no every morning with a smile. As we share the same tyranny as value for borders? Although our enemies still sit on our comrades outside we also Our comrades in eastern Europe the throne of oppression, that share the same hopes and dreams. are greatly outnumbered. In throne has been shaken. I remember EVERY act of Bulgaria there is no resistance to solidarity with my case. My heart fascism, only the empty words of We as P.O.Ws should draw further jumps with joy every blow the ‘liberals’ who have the nerve strength from those who came against capitalism. When I think to call themselves anarchists. As and went before us. From the of the comrades from the far as I know, I’m the ONLY anti- Greek students who stared down Conspiracy of Cells of Fire who fascist in prison in Sofia, you the guns of the state as they showed such extraordinary might think that a good thing, but invaded the universities to the solidarity I feel a pain of guilt in it can’t be forgotten that we are miners of Australia at the Eureka my heart that comrades were their enemies; the lack of anti- Stokade. What we share with sentenced so harshly for their acts fascists in Bulgarian prisons is these people spanning through of solidarity. Yet instantly my reflective of the lack of resistance. history as well as national or heart rejoices as I know why they cultural bounds is that we’ve all did what they did. I know they Although I have no contact with declared “enough is enough” knew the repercussions of their the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire despite the real potential of death actions before committing them. It (C.C.F) or the Informal Anarchist or capture we’ve all followed our was wholeheartedly and Federation (FAI), I recognise that conscience first. consciously that they decided to they are part of an effective solidarity in the only meaningful minority. While the ‘liberals’ try We became enemies of the way possible to so many to negotiate with the non- capitalistic state as we refused to Prisoners Of War. negotiable, the organisations like live under their submission the C.C.F and the F.A.I are the only without resistance. Although we Relatively out of context, i’d like to ones who scare the plump are in “prison”, we always were, highlight my problems that affect politicians. The C.C.F and the F.A.I me in prison. Although pan 32 are the physical manifestations of There exists no quiet acquiescence law and which always place the desires of many who are too towards the respect of the rules of themselves only on a position of scared to realise them. The honour that sound human life, in a reactive defence. obvious evolution is the Black continuous repetition of mechanic To take back one’s life has a deep International, whereby the states gestures, artifacts in their essence, significance in the reality we face that hold our Prisoners Of War and which stop their ‘way of every day: it is the will know that we will not be being’ in a limbo of frustrations. experimentation of forms of attack forgotten as numbers on files in a Theory is put in practice and that free the individual from the prison archive. As we pay our practice is put in theory without morals inside us, by totally lives, the state should not be held being stopped by neither a annihilating the authority, which any less accountable for their ‘collective no’, which determines is no abstract principle but which crimes then they hold us the silence imposed in order no to is made of ‘flesh and bones’. In accountable. lose the ‘certitudes of life’, nor by order to destroy this authority, compromise. one must ‘renounce’ any LONG LIVE THE C.C.F, UNTIL THE compliance towards what we feel WORLD STOPS SPINNING When one’s hands and mind shake belongs to us. ‘Renouncing’ breaks RAGE FROM THE CAGE in unison in an exasperating rift of a wall made of social acceptation, free conscience and free will, it discipline, sacred respect for Jock Palfreeman means that from inside our friendship and life, for refusal of awareness a dream bursts out, a material and dialectic clash, and it dream transformed into real creates the basis for refusing necessity to change the air that Authority and all its acolytes! one breathes, in a destructive fire and for the destruction of the With their revolutionary outcome Italy: A Trajectory order which has been reigning so of negation of dominant values, far – cutting off all ties. the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, with their actions as well as From Sparks to Fire: The experience of ‘constant attack’ communiqués, brings about a new of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire – Federico Buono’s way of understanding the method which are far away from the of action, no longer based on the communiqué in world of ‘bourgeois laws’ – difference among classes but on without any certitude, annihilates solidarity with the the opposition to the ‘classes’. all that ‘allow’ the citizen to live members of the CCF an existence of claustrophobic The actions and communiqués normality. that arrive at destination give ‘propulsive destruction’ to the Concentrating oneself on the Dear comrades, world in revolt, and every time concept of normal and abnormal I want to give my little contribution of they turn over the stillness that sounds the way of life of those solidarity to the members of the CCF creates fear of reaction, and in a who demand from themselves and through this piece of writing. perpetual movement, the reaction what surrounds them a sharp and Federico Buono of ideas, in a leading abandonment opposing refusal of a life which of the revolutionary aspect! - means ‘no life’. ‘We have never acted within the “Revolution is existential struggle” Concentrating oneself on boundaries marked by orthodox social Panagiotis Argirou, member of the necessary destruction and carry it struggle that only speak the language Conspiracy of Cells of Fire out requires an effort which is of class struggle and economic analysis, bigger than one’s expectations. A Trajectory From Sparks to obviously ignoring the individual Expectations determine the state Fire… responsibility of the representatives of of permanent immobility and authority. We are enemies of both the From the darkness of social reduce one’s desires of revolt, in a hand that holds the whip and the back pacification a new propulsive mere representation of one’s daily that accept it passively. That’s why we force is emerging, which destroys life. speak of revolution in daily life, reversal and annihilates everything - The intensity of choices that refuse of compromises and uniqueness of the regardless of anything else: all compromises and attack the individual.’ (CCF) normal daily life is being legitimate society, with its codes shattered and overturned like It destabilizes the way with and values, its uniforms and cops, advancing darkness that refuses which the members of the sets us in conflict with our the drowsiness induced by the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire give enemies, in a refusal of the ‘artificial’ lights of stable strength to what they experienced imposed rules of a civilized living certitudes. without being subordinated to the together. assumption of democratic laws Abandoning an insignificant This is total rupture with those and to the respect for those who, world and the immovable reality instances of pacification, which born poor, want to stay ‘poor’ in of a life regulated by artificial want us to adapt to the current their lives, in a constant trajectory mechanisms. 33 made of superficiality and the guerrilla a ‘right’ to hit the into their negation, and then, in submissiveness: the uniformed enemy, denying any requisite or mass-dominion society, he accepts mass-appearance is advancing class belonging. and executes the imposed precepts like a sea of mud, ready to sweep as if they were part of his life. While the courts of the constituted away all that does not ‘resists’ to order attack and carry away If you don’t exasperate the it in its viscous vortex. without flinching, the members of contradictions you live in, you Albert Caraco wrote: “The world we the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire create asphyxiating normality. live in is the Inferno tempered by experiment their action and Then this affects your choices, and nothingness, where the man who totality, their ‘I want’, and slowly but inevitably it degrades refuses to recognize himself prefers to overturn the concept of authority. to a sterile defence of your social immolate himself.” This concept creates regression space, and at the first sign of When we face the reality we live because it uniforms all that was repression you just intensify this in, we have to cope with main lived, and immobilizes any defence. obstacles that are more complex ‘individual’ in a penetrating way, Dominant normality penetrates than we think. the individual who had grown in deeply in the choices and positions a critical way by interiorizing his Each one makes choices with their that are taken for the most part. experiences. free will made of obstacles to pull Mental and material borders are down or compromises to accept. Like corrosive acid authority created, which reproduce what ‘dissolves’ all solidarity, and puts dominion imposes and Without being stopped by any everyone on the side of ‘imposed circumscribes in reality as official ‘social container’ whatsoever, the knowledge’. culture. Conspiracy of Cells of Fire break and destabilize the existent of The essential element increasing These ‘borders’ come out in reactionary calmness. the gap between those who repressive situations, where impose themselves and those who reality sink in a sort of empty And they do so also in the so- are inflicted imposition is a refusal memory of a trajectory totally called anarchist movement of ‘personal responsibility’ by the opposed with what is normality. everywhere, showing the ‘way’ dominated individual. Radicalism abates and you feel but not teaching anything, like you are the master of your because they ‘do not want If you don’t take your own ‘little space’, which you protect anything’… responsibilities because you want with formal ‘fences’ in order to to get quiet sleep, you go back to a In this way a new form of carry on your social life. Your ‘life’ vision of sterile defence. Thinking antisocial and nihilist guerrilla made of experiences is annihilated subjects become silent subjects. bursts out, which does not accept in favour of uniformity of ideas, They realize they are not acting to be inscribed in a stereotype of which creates a vicious circle. and assimilate their thoughts to fake revolutionary feeling by the those of people with more In these conditions everything pedantic university professors of experience, vitality, character (but becomes a ‘justification’. The need official anarchism and by the according to some kind of to adapt to what the historical enthusiasts of the militancy for hierarchy), thus determining their period requires comes out slowly, militancy’s sake. A guerrilla that line of conduct with rules that suit and there is no longer a clear determines its propulsive them. perspective of this ‘justification’. destruction in the revolutionary field, and which destroys any On the contrary the Conspiracy of As we choose a trajectory of social concept. the Cells of Fire determine vehement radicalism we establish themselves and overturn the role who our real enemies are. Informality transforms its ‘being’ of specialization and leadership into a nihilist attack refusing all If you say to me ‘you are a because “Power belongs to man, the universal values that sound the vanguardist’ because I choose world belongs to man, I belong to man.” surrounding world, and it action and refuse to die slowly in (Max Stirner) overturns the logic of the an inanition of desires, you are not mass-stereotype that justifies the The unbridled action against the saying anything. law. universe made of forced relations Those who express their free will without a spark of free will is the in a destructive act decide for “The law is the spirit of society. If base on which all the values of a themselves, and when they ‘fall’ society has a will, this is the law: mankind of ‘sleepwalkers’ must be they go ahead with their head society only exists thanks to the law.” destroyed. held high! Max Stirner It is imperative not to give in to ‘We are not enrolled soldiers whose In this, the enemy facing you has those who believe in the order of duty is revolution. We are warriors of the same appearance: be it the dominion,to knock down the satisfaction and we see the link between policeman who has a right to barriers of common morals, which rebellion and life as a requirement for arrest you or the democratic see the ‘exploited’ as a thinking action. We don’t believe in any ‘right citizen who wants to report you subject who changes his values line’ to be followed.’ (as he has such a right), they give 34 (Conspiracy of Cells of Fire from So any group or individual, in the life and choose the field of action “The Sun Still Rises”) wake of the first phase of the and urban guerrilla. Conspiracy, can use the name thus Another aspect that emerges in Each one with their ways and stopping the assumptions of any opposition to the world methods but with a base of authoritative seed. surrounding us (and to what informal and existential Instruments are put at everyone’s surrounds the anarchist peculiarity. disposal, without any kind of movement) is the refusal to professionalism or moral ‘It’s a wonderful moment when the support the authority not only dictatorship: any cell or attack on order is being carried out. Even through ‘silence’ (which should be individual can use the ‘passion’ at the beginning – when we knew it part of the DNA of all anarchists unleashed by the Conspiracy of was rather imperceptible – we knew that and revolutionaries) but also Cells of Fire, take in its very soon nothing would be as before, through the refusal of being filed revolutionary ‘experience’ and no matter what was to happen. It’s a or photographed. attack! force that begins slowly, speeds up its The strength emerging from the rhythm, goes beyond the no return point Attack in all its forms can be letters of the members captured and inevitably causes what seems expressed with stones or explosive and now in the hands of the impregnable to explode – so firm and in a flowing up of events! enemy is something that bursts protected but already prone to fall down, out in magma of indescribable ‘For us, the revolutionary subject is the demolished by conflict and disorder.’ sensations: the Conspiracy one who liberates himself from the (Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, ‘The members refuse to go back one obligations of the present, put the status Sun Still Rises’) millimetre as for their quo into question and takes part in the A post-scriptum must be written individuality, and this is no criminal search for freedom.’ so that everyone makes their formal refusal. (Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, evaluations on what making Once again there’s no intention to from ‘The Sun Still Rises’) choices means in a revolutionary give in to the respect for the To liberate oneself from the and solidarity context. imposed rules and turn one’s obsession of ‘keeping’ something refusal and unfortunate ‘fall’ into As I’m writing this, I want to say and to live the present and to material for victimising, which that I am directly responsible for pursue and carry on a trajectory would only help dominion to what I am writing, and I take my that ‘attacks’ and does not totter, establish what is ‘right’ and what responsibilities so that any in front of a life consumed and ‘wrong’ in a relation of individual can be free of agreeing made of empty existence, all this submission. or not, developing its content and gives effective value to the making it their own. Coherent with their existence and destructive attacks carried out by without any authoritarian the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire. This piece of writing talks about scheme, the imprisoned members the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire S.G. Necaev wrote: ‘The ruthless of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire because in their choices, attacks logic of those who really work for the issued the pamphlet ‘The Sun Still and communiqués they set a new cause must not stop in front of any fact Rises’: way of understanding the that leads to the success of this very ‘guerrilla’. But I want to “We love what we did because it cause, and especially in front of the facts remember hundreds of informal contains our whole essence, so that are such that they save it and avoid groups and single individuals the ‘Conspiracy’ is not only all of its ruin.’ which destroy the ‘certitude’ of us but also each one of us.” ‘Not to stop’ in front of vague the bourgeois thought and that of The second phase of the certitudes, not to establish the social pacification! Conspiracy of Cells of Fire begins: attenuation of one’s experience, Revolutionary solidarity with the The instruments of knowledge are refuse to play the role of victim of members of the Conspiracy of the Cells put in action, instruments that the ‘system’. of Fire! refuse vertically structures Here the members of the organizations and turn to the free Federico Buono Conspiracy of Cells of Fire bring choice to take one’s responsibilities their experience. at the time of action and of a Note: possible ‘fall’ in the hands of the The field of ‘if’ and ‘but’ is swept In the night of 14th to 15th of June enemy. away by destructive acts carried 2011, following a wave of harsh out by revolutionary strength Informality stays there and repression in several Italian cities, that make any logic of social develops itself through theoretical Federico (Fede) Buono was adaptation sterile. basis without imposition or arrested with Mattia Petit in the formal setting. The Conspiracy of Cells of Fire district of Lambrate in Milan. The destructive and propulsive emerges, bursts in, attacks and Cops detected two home-made force against any democratic show its ‘way of being’ to those incendiary devices in their instance also emerges in the who liberate themselves from the backpacks. The two comrades second phase of the Conspiracy of chains of normal and stereotyped didn’t carry documents with them Cells of Fire. 35 during the search, and were taken publish all the autobiography of The Cordoba Four to the police headquarters for the comrade in Greek! It’s a interrogation. Later, when their lengthy project that some The Malaga court of appeal houses were invaded and companions are working on, and sentenced the anarchists Giovani searched, cops made sure to come we look forward to its release. Barcia, Michele Pontolillo and up with more incriminating Claudio Lavazza, already evidence. Charged with sentenced to 11 years on possession and transportation of September 1999, for an incident in explosives, on June 15th they were Claudio Lavazza the Italian vice-consulate in incarcerated in San Vittore prison. biography December 1996. Three persons They were released from pretrial wearing balaclavas imprisoned detention on July 8th, 2011. On his Claudio Lavazza was born on the consul and an employee, part, Fede, maintaining the stance October 4, 1954 in the village of sending a message of solidarity to of anti-judicialism, denied any legal Cerro Maggiore near Milan. From the Italian prisoners jailed by the defense in the trial of October the age of 15 he started working as Judge Marini (the judge who 10th, 2011. In court, both a laborer in the industries of built a false accusation against comrades were acquitted of all Milan while participating more Italian anarchists), then they charges. Fede, egoist-nihilist, and more in the Autonomia Operaia escaped with passports and some engages himself in the project of movement, actively taking part in money. These three Italians were Edizioni Cerbero together with demonstrations, marches and convicted of this, as well as a Maurizio De Simone (or massive fighting clashes with previous bank robbery with abbreviated De mone). The cops. At the beginning of 1978 he sentences of 49 years for Claudio, editors of Edizioni Cerbero are co-founded with his closest 48 years for Giorgio and Giovani, among the prosecuted under comrades the Marxist-Leninist 3 years for Michele (who has since operation ‘boldness’ (Ardire), organization Proletari Armati per il been released). launched by the Italian authorities Comunismo-PAC (Armed on June 13th, 2012. On September Proletarians for Communism), Being accused for the robbery in 1st, 2012, Federico Buono which had as a priority the Cordoba and 8 others which took announced that he is threatened destruction of prisons and place in southern Spain he was with further prosecution for solidarity with imprisoned sentenced to 50 years of ‘subversive association’ (Article comrades. imprisonment (with the total 270bis of the Italian Criminal penalty of the 4 comrades being Code) under a new repressive The group will perform several 134 years) and has been detained operation called Thor regarding actions against prison guards, at the special solitary FIES direct actions that took place in prison doctors, etc., culminating (isolation units) of Spain, while 27 the city of Ravenna. in the release of 2 comrades from years in Italy and 30 more in prison Frosinone (southern Italy). France are waiting for him to be Later he will join the Communisti served. Organizzati per Liberazione Proletaria- COLP (Organized Communists for At the trial of his case he stated: Claudio Proletarian Liberation). Claudio “... I have no intention to justify my will face many arrests, detentions actions in this room, your opinions do Lavazza and convictions for robbery, for not interest me at all, nor your decision, releasing prisoners, abetting in I do not want any contract (or Claudio murders (of a cop and a jeweller), compromises, your choice) with my responded via the murder of the prison governor enemies, nor do I want to apologize to personal letter to of Udine prison etc., with the the “public opinion”, the same that the international latest court appearances taking watches and tolerates the daily misery call of solidarity place with Claudio being absent, and the annihilation of thousands of of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, as from the early 1980s he was on people, but resents the death of two welcoming and supporting the the run. He continued his struggle police women and when we shoot it imprisoned comrades. While in France with new convictions thinks we are killers and when the being imprisoned he has written and arrests following robberies police kills it says that “justice is taking his autobiography, which is his and a kidnapping until 18 place....” contribution to international December 1996, when he was solidarity projects/movements arrested in Cordoba (Spain) with Calling himself an insurrectional like this one, and is already 3 other comrades (2 Italian and an anarchist now, Claudio keeps published in Spanish. For this Argentine), after a bank robbery having all these years a booklet Claudio wrote to us that which failed after a shoot out with combative attitude which costs we could use any piece of our cops, ending up with 2 dead cops, him months of isolation, choice selected from his book. We a security guard in a wheelchair, disciplinary transfers, etc., but he believe that the best way to whilst the comrades were heavily also contributes with his writings promote international solidarity wounded. to the development of the and anarchist insurrection is to anarcho-insurrectionary 36 tendency in Spain and Italy. to escape, they have once again ANNIHILATION OF THE demonstrated their radical and PRISON! During an international anarchist deep-rooted self-determination, campaign of solidarity with the aware of their skills and positions, SOLIDARITY TO ALL DIGNI- struggles of the prisoners against showing once again their incom- FIED PRISONERS! the FIES regime, which took place patibility with the normality of in 2000 with several incendiary prison. NOTHING LESS THAN EVERY- and explosive attacks (eg. Failed THING! bomb explosion at the cathedral Perhaps now the jailers who were And we wish of course for the of Milan), but mainly with parcels held hostage for hours have been next escape attempts to be suc- bombs sent to judges and given an idea of what it can mean cessful reporters, Claudio was targeted to be deprived of freedom, sharing a fate that is addressed by dozens for repression as the “instigator” Maurizio De Simone and Federico of decent prisoners, daily kid- and the “mind” of the actions. Buono – Edizioni Cerbero napped in the prison cells of Korydallos. Direct action instead Cenere and Tomo – ParoleArmate of reeducation and reinsertion, the boldness and the will for counter- Italy: Letter from attacking instead of compromise. Edizioni Cerbero & Reject, then, every compromise, Chile: Letter from Parole Armate every attempt of re-positioning inside society, and act by all Mono means for its total downfall. To In solidarity with the authors of deny total perquisitions and the This text was written days after the attempted escape from humiliations perpetrated by Mono found out about the escape Korydallos prison jailers, to react to the constant attempt by some comrades of the attack of the penitentiary system CCF. At that moment he was “Today we tried to do something. To and its agents, to spurn the whole himself in the streets. gain our freedom and the continuation of judicial apparatus, to organize urban warfare. We lost a battle, but we To everyone who continues to and to effect an escape, arming have not lost the war and continue to fight for liberation in spite of all oneself and holding hostages. To fight to win. We are an organization adversity sow Terror in the assuredness of that fights for the ideals of a free life those who, like the jailers, thought without any authority.” Tuesday December 31, 1996 – The they could continue to Christos Tsakalos assault approached from the sky, undisturbedly torture free indi- the propellers resounding and viduals even though locked-up in What better approach to an stronger than usual. Yes, there is the cages of society, and more upcoming trial than the attempt no doubt that they’re coming to generally in the assuredness of to regain a freedom taken away by the rescue, the sound of the rifle those who bow their heads, glad the state, without regard for the shots makes one forget that of the to be and to remain willing slaves established times of the judicial propellers. The bullets hit against in the service of the Capital and its routine? Why not reaffirm once the structure of the cold walls, metropolises. again, in an effort to escape from against the executioners in the towers. The ones who will shoot prison, one’s own irreducible Here is the demonstration that to kill anyone trying achieve their individuality, betraying the role of even prison cannot eradicate the freedom. Because it is better to die the automaton prisoner? The deeply illegalist attitude of an than to lose. It descends in smooth passion for freedom burns in individual who doesn’t meet flight with the bulletproof weave every rebel heart as a fire that halfway with anyone, aware of basket below. Kevlar, an easy-to- rages strong and proudly. her own actions and of the handle fabric that can slow the Impossible to stop, it grows more thoughts behind them. Conscious impact of the bullets. Quickly and and more. Unarrestable. of the fact that he doesn’t have to attentive to the crossfire aimed at wait for permission to take what Inside, as outside in the past, some the basket, it doesn’t matter how he wants, knowing that she has to of the comrades of the Conspiracy they fall. The flight is fast since the do it alone, with violence and of Cells of Fire, protagonists of the alarm has already alerted the nihilism. escape attempt of 13 December hunters. The hijacked helicopter from the high-security prison of was abandoned in a field in the Korydallos, reiterated their TOTAL COMPLICITY WITH THE IMPRISONED MEMBERS OF area south of Santiago. Four indomitable will to face in person comrades of the FPMR were their torturers. Acting in this way, CONSPIRACY OF CELLS OF FIRE! rescued from the High Security this time with the valuable and Prison. Four rebel spirits, who timely support of the prisoner P. HONOUR TO P. VLASTOS, without repentance chose to Vlastos, who was apparently PRISONER HOSTILE TO THE recover their lives. Denying decided to make good on his need 37 Power’s justice, making justice by of you raises his voice to say “they Chile: Greetings their own hands. Among these will rush to speak of failure. Our escape four comrades there was one has been successful. We have escaped from Sin Banderas comrade of anti-authoritarian from the defeatism of accepting our role essence. One who his own com- as prisoners.” Ni Fronteras to CCF rades recognized as “anarchist.” Ricardo Palma Salamanca - “The The CCF continues, more alive A salute to the indomitable beasts Black,” who recognized the brav- than ever. A fact that leaves no one of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire ery of Severino Di Giovanni, who indifferent. Receiving the news on always disdained the tricolor flag. a visiting day dislocated me, it By means of this brief text we But in spite of this he joined the was an inexplicable feeling. Many wish to give a greeting of solidar- FPMR. He wanted to be part of the questions, few answers, there was ity to the prisoners of the Con- war against the tyranny of only what the press said. Even my spiracy of Cells of Fire, especially Pinochet and being a youth mother regrets that they do not to those who tried to escape from without weapons nor means, he allow me to leave, for her it’s the the Korydallos prison in Greece. decided to join the only option he most horrible place that she never We also want to reflect on some had. It was what there was at that wants to visit again. themes and remind about other time, and he did not think twice in beautiful escapes. taking to the armed struggle. “The After a year full of offensive against Dominion, from $hile to Black” is still on the run, like many The lawyer or the escape? comrades who due to their deci- Greece, we cannot forget any sion to struggle have orders of comrade in prison, we must let An individual decision that we search and capture over them. them know that they are not should respect. alone, the same must happen with Monday December 12, 2011 - those who go without leaving In spite of the impositions of the Korydallos prison, visiting hour. traces being more astute than powerful, life continues to be a That space of meeting with your their hunters, those who in spite terrain of action in which we can loved ones, with the “outside,” of being far from the cages live in a choose the means to liberate with the life that you decided to captivity that is mental, imposed ourselves, whether in the streets carry out. That life that they seek by not being able to live their lives or behind bars. Whether to choose to annihilate, because it is not as they would have forged them, a lawyer in order to get out of the what the TV sells, but it’s instead not in the same way nor with the clutches of the State or to seek a threat to order, a threat against same people or animals. For each other means to do it is a choice the existent. A pistol and some prisoner and fugitive who fights that each comrade can evaluate knives, but the strongest weapon for total liberation, in whatever and decide individually. is the conviction that the “crimes” part of the world, know that you for which you ended up in prison are not alone. We begin from the basis that the were necessary. struggle against power exceeds all Nothing is over, everything legality and, as such, we are Acts of war launched from the continues! enemies of all laws, these being anonymity of the CCF; acts of war impositions of authority, an from the prison with your names Nothing and no one is forgotten! attempt against our individual and faces in plain view. The self-determination. Nevertheless, Prisoners and fugitives of war, relatives did not collaborate with we believe that a comrade who present in every act of revolt! the executioners. chooses the “legal way” of a Cristobal "Mono" Bravo Franke, lawyer does not become a reform- You advance firmly ahead with Prisoner of War. ist nor sells herself to the enemy. the jailers as hostages, how ironic SMS-UEAS. Neither does the comrade who that the hunted are the hunters. 2nd week of December [2011]. goes to the market to buy a pair of Santiago, $hile. shoes, even though consumption You overcome several doors, and money are one of the pillars of there’s only one left, but a jailer capitalism. It is a complex theme, presses the emergency button and Note: Ricardo Palma Salamanca has but it is necessary to understand the doors close. Now the release of written several books from clandestinity, that we live in a society that we the hostages is negotiated. The one of them being “The Great Rescue,” yearn to destroy but that we shouts go from one side to the which narrates in detail the project of interact with it in different aspects other. The rebels do not trade, the escaping from the High Security Prison of our life every moment. With oppressors don’t budge. from how it was planned up to his respect to the incarceration of comrades, we believe that they The battle is lost, but not the war. flight. have the ability to decide how There will be another chance. You they want to get out of prison, as hand over the hostages but you do long as they don’t betray other not surrender. Days later and comrades nor become servants of without respect for the judge, one the enemy, it is always better for 38 comrades to be fighting in the Prison, the most secure prison in tunnel, the comrades who exca- street and not be kept under lock Chile built during the democracy vated it had also left a placard and key. in order to cage subversive pris- which read “Solidarity between oners. One of them, Mauricio anarchists is not a mere written In the same manner, the choice of Hernández Norambuena, known word.” The imprisoned comrades other comrades who decide to not as “Comandante Ramiro,” contin- and five “common” prisoners make deals with legality merits ued to fight after his escape and is managed to escape through that our deepest respect and solidarity, currently held in Brazil after tunnel. Decades later, in 1971, that refusing to testify before the kidnapping in 2002 a businessman same tunnel allowed more than judges or trying to escape from the with an “Internationalist Com- one hundred Uruguayan Leninist enemy’s cages. Their choice is also mand,” an action in which, among guerrillas of the Tupamaros valid, though tremendously other combatants, Karino National Liberation Army to difficult to carry out. Germano, known as “la Galle” escape from the same prison, in was captured; she is today pris- what apparently has been the Therefore we especially value the oner of the Argentine State as most numerous escape recorded courage of the comrades who by consequence of that action. Of up to the present. means of cunning or force try to course, we do not share their escape from prison or have es- Marxist-Leninist ideas, but we A salute to those who have flown caped from the clutches of the respect them for being combatants away… enemy. It is for this reason that consistent with their conception of today we salute the Greek prison- revolution. To conclude, we salute all the ers belonging to the Revolutionary comrades around the world who Organization Conspiracy of Cells Ten years after the helicopter are evading the clutches of power, of Fire, especially the brothers escape in Chile, but in Greece, the leaving behind empty cells and Mihalis and Giorgos Nikolopolus, anarchist prisoner Vassilis unrealized trials. We especially Christos Tsakalos and Giorgios Paleokostas escaped in June 2006 send a strong embrace to the Polydoros who tried to escape by means of a helicopter, helped comrade Diego Ríos and to the from prison on December 12th by comrades. Vassilis Paleokostas comrade Gabriela Curilem, who with the prisoner Panagiotis and his brother Nikkos are two have made public their decision to Vlastos during visiting hours. We rebels with a great career in go underground as a consequence also value the attitude of the Greece, who since the 1980’s have of the arrest orders leveled against family members who visited their carried out successful expropria- them. They are warriors, and in other prisoners and who refused tions of banks and numerous spite of whether have met them or to speak against the comrades. escapes from danger, making a fool not, the ideas they have expressed of the enemy on numerous occa- in their communiques made us This time they did not escape, but sions. Captured in 2008, Vassilis comrades and call us not to their indomitable attitude and escaped again in February 2009 abandon them, to make them feel their anarchist ideas are what once again by helicopter, mocking present in the struggle that unites familiarize us in spite of the bars, the security of the same prison us. the distance and the language, and that he had escaped in 2006. are what call us to not stay silent. Greetings to all the comrades who They have acted in solidarity with Finally, we also want to remember fight in the street, in the prison or the anti-authoritarian offensive in the successful escape from the out of the shadows. Against Chile and also with prisoners in Punta Carretas prison in Uruguay, isolation, forgetting and silence. other countries. And since anar- when in March of 1931, the com- chist solidarity is mutual aid and rades Miguel Arcángel Roscigna, Active and international solidarity reciprocity, we do not leave them Gino Gatti, Andrés Vázquez with the comrades imprisoned alone either. Paredes, José Manuel Paz, and and persecuted by power. Fernando Malvicini (comrade of Sin Banderas Ni Fronteras Against forgetting and silencing: Severino Di Giovanni) carried out No Flags No Borders some escapes to remember. the final phase of the escape that Anti-authoritarian cell of written had been thought up to liberate Each empty cell is reason for joy, agitation and propaganda. the comrade Vicente Moretti and above all if it is the cell that caged Chile, December 2011 three Catalan anarchists (Jaime a revolutionary. Here in Chile, Tadeo Peña, Agustín Garcia [email protected] December 30 marks 15 years since Capdevilla, Pedro Boadas Rivas, the spectacular escape of four accused of being responsible for prisoners of the Marxist-Leninist more than 100 bombing attempts urban guerrilla organization in Barcelona). In August of 1929 Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front, the comrades set up a coal yard in who helped by some comrades front of the prison in order to escaped in 1996 in a helicopter justify the tools they used and the that fired barrages of bullets at the earth they extracted to create a gendarmes of the High Security tunnel into the prison. Along the 39 UK: Solidarity letter elites, their servants and the arson attack against a vehicle of reproductive aspects and values of the prison guards at the local for CCF and servility. It is not only in the prison. In Bristol, the personal dreams of the few, it’s in the daily cars of the mayor and of a ruling Theofilos thoughts of the used and deni- party politician are set on fire Mavropoulos grated, all those who didn’t yet outside their homes and claimed learn to love work and authority. by Class Terror / FAI. In London, “A stone will be thrown at the State, the Sony Warehouse covering and a stone will be thrown at the The only intelligent way to react hundreds of square metres is churches” Kode9 – 9 Samurai to the prison-world is to try to looted and reduced to ashes. These escape, and in this time of repres- are some incidents/moments From the burning streets of sion and war, the only real way is where anti-political people ex- London, Bristol, Nottingham, to take weapons and fight for your claimed they had “the best days of Manchester, Birmingham and freedom. their life” and seek future chances, dozens of other places, urban rage co-conspirators and more. explodes with action and speech. The rebels in UK have come into a Social peace is shattered by the nihilistic fervour, with almost no Not guessing when there will be repressed anger of thousands of participation in, or intervention another uprising, we don’t wait, individuals, united by anti-police from, the progressive-left activist/ but the certainty of another is and anti-system violence. The anarchist racket. There is zero clear. An entire section of the modern British project of the anticipation that there will be any population cannot be pushed perfectly ordered prison-society “social change” from the estab- much further and the divisions run by the police and the politi- lished regime, only unending are deep. The plunder and injus- cians is shattered, no-one cares economic misery and urban tice is too blatant, unapologetic, about the CCTV anymore and the prison; but without the trappings without even the pretence of pigs are being beaten, attacked of ideology, revolutionary and ‘social conscience’ and it is intoler- and running away. This is a war, anarchistic principles are the first able. and only the start of it, let their spoken from many lips when ranks and divisions of police and given time to express their ideas August was unimaginable a few intelligence teams come, the and question the existent order. years ago and now anything can collapse of society has begun and happen. The best days of our lives the choice is resignation to mod- The antagonistic trends here are are to be had. With knives and ern fascism or insurrection. those most at risk of exploitation, dreams, pistols and pens, we imprisonment and police brutal- reload our magazine and prepare The imprisoned members of the ity: young people/teens, migrants/ to return fire… Revolutionary Organisation – the different, the “anti-social”, the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire and excluded and rebellious. 325 is FOREVER ANARCHISTS – FOR- Theofilos Mavropoulos have our proud to be some of the “scum” on EVER DANGEROUS – FOREVER irreducible solidarity and anar- those streets during August, IN CHAOS chist friendship. They are some of despite the repression and the the courageous and resolute acceleration of fascism this coun- SOLIDARITY TO THE IMPRIS- individuals who have acted try was ripped into. We, the ONED MEMBERS OF THE CCF, against the capitalist and govern- rioters, ruined the facade of social THEOFILOS MAVROPOULOS & mental parasites and their func- peace. As the world of the old ALL REBELS tionaries, helping create the bigots crumbles, the British dream 325 / Anti-Copyright Network formation of an international of an imperial paradise descends insurrectional network of which into the urban estate reality of a they are an integral part. vast chaotic mess. The insurrec- tion, which of course was not a The fire they have started is the ‘utopia’, did not finish in August. same fury as the blaze of August, Even in the shithole deadzone and exists around the world places, such as Cambridge, you regardless of any anti-terrorist could find unexpected incidents of operations and secret service anti-social arson, such as a car maneuvers to dampen it, because dealership going up in flames in a this is the beginning of the end for wealthy area claimed by Fire Cell the capitalist-dominator social / FAI. In Birmingham, a police model. It doesn’t matter if we, the station is burnt down and 40-50 insurgents, are in prison, maimed, people attack the police with dead – our ideas and our actions molotovs, stones and handguns. In live in the inferno of freedom Nottingham, four police stations where new generations of con- are attacked with stones and one scious individuals ignite them- with molotovs, and later Cell of selves to attack the dominating Joy / FAI take responsibility for an 40 Presentation of self- ceases to be an obstacle and serve the global Power. borders are abolished in practise. organized We therefore could not but Contra Info network never in- consider it substantial, the tended to compete existing multi- international contribution of these attempts in lingual projects that act with an internet and the spreading and promotion of anarchist/ anti-authoritarian/ international insubordination libertarian perspective, but rather publishing projects and mutiny. to complement active radical and of counter- militant counter-information Without their help the means by offering its multilingual information publication of this brochure infrastructure to social struggles would be much more difficult, and standing in solidarity with If today anarchists from around since thanks to their valuable any rebellious person. the world can connect, share contributions all the texts were matters, spread imperatives, translated and edited in Greek. In this context, we perceive the create informal networks of consistent support to the network action, is surely because of the A big thank you therefore to by our comrades of the Con- work of many comrades who ContraInfo, Actforfreedomnow/ spiracy of Cells of Fire not only as through many self-organized boubourAs, Entropia Ediciones, a contribution to the revolution- international internet and Parole Armate, Culmine, This is ary cause of the Informal Anar- publishing projects have Our Job, Viva La Anarquia, War chist Federation and the Interna- managed to create channels of on Society, Conspiration Acrata, tional Revolutionary Front, but communication between 325, Black Blog Collective and also as factual solidarity with the prisoners of different countries, Edizioni Cerbero for their help diffusion of the polymorphous between direct action groups, and contribution with texts in struggle of the oppressed and while at the same time they this publication. insurgents in the world, without provide information for the restrictions, sectarianisms or developments happening in the exclusions. international circles of anarchists. Solidarity. Reciprocal solidarity In the general atmosphere of amongst dignified fighters obvi- lethargy caused by the overload ously neither ends with this of information on the internet, brochure, nor with existing these projects have managed to undertakings. For every wireless raise bridges between anarchists operator who tries to contribute of praxis from around the world, Letter from to the ceaseless fight for individual who might have never met or and social liberation, this publish- who will never meet. Something Contra-Info ing initiative of the R.O. CCF goes which has contributed to the one step further into the complic- diffusion of so much of the Towards an informational ity with revolutionary causes. It anarchist perception as well as guerrilla; till all prisons are marks a break with the world of the anarchist direct action. The demolished; till freedom and Power, a rupture which echoes development and expansion of the anarchy beyond walls and borders, inspir- Informal Anarchist Federation ing praxis of counterattack, and the International Contra Info, a translation counter- generating revolutionary dis- Revolutionary Front is also to a information network, addresses course in all untamed hearts. great degree because of the an open invitation to comrades work of comrades who by wishing to coordinate the As for the persecutors, the human- translating and publishing texts multidisciplinary project of guards, the terror-addicts and all and communiques of prisoners translations, networking and kinds of lackeys of the Dominance: and groups, contributed to the dissemination of news from promotion of this informally movements across the world, “No challenge made by the Power and organized model of action. from/in various languages. the judges will go unanswered. Things come around…” At this moment a large dynamic The fires of resistance in the - Imprisoned members of the R.O. is being developed through the centres and peripheries of the CCF and Theofilos Mavropoulos internet. Groups are in a position capitalist world continue to grow; to open topics for dialogue, thus, all counter-information Contrainfo.espiv.net prisoners can share experiences means must be strengthened January 2012 and perceptions, all this while worldwide to meet the needs of they happen to be thousands of local movements, standing an- kilometres away from each other. tagonistically against the propa- The distance evaporates, language ganda of the regime’s media that 41 We are now one more aspect of the anarchists of praxis, which has asymmetric threat. already proven its ability to The war until the end has already respond to the challenges which begun. emerge around the world…

The actions and speech of the Actforfreedomnow!-boubourAs Letter from Conspiracy Cells of Fire, as well as February 2012 many other comrades from greece Actforfreedomnow! and around the world, always actforfree.nostate.net filled our soul and filled us with BoubourAs emotions.

In the chaos of our own existence We send our solidarity and we are a piece of the indefinite respect to all those who fight factor which organizes against this rotten system subversions and plans mutinies anywhere in the world. Every that leave even us dizzy. translated word, paragraph and page expresses our love and desire Letter from Entropia The translation of texts, letters, to give a powerful flaming Edicions communiques etc. so that embrace to the imprisoned comrades around the world can members of the CCF, the confined [entropía] read about the desires, ideas and comrades, and all dignified 1. function that determines the disorder projects of the comrades in Greece, prisoners. of a system which increases when it is one more weapon at our evolves to another condition/state of disposal. What began as a simple We would like close our increased disorder. desire and challenge brought us introduction with a part of a 2. (in information theory) the number into a new field of experiences, political statement of the that expresses the competition level of acquaintances and comrades-imprisoned members of possible responses to a single incentive. responsibilities. Now that we are the Revolutionary Organization here, they won’t get rid of us CCF in the frame of the court for Not to be complicated. We do easily. the case of the arrests in Halandri. not advocate to introduce us to be so extensive as intellectuals. We The spreading of the Informal “Slimy judges who hide inside your want to be simple to make things Anarchist Federation - creaseless suits, we see clearly who you as clear as possible. International Revolutionary Front are. You timid, miserable little people (FAI-IRF), insurrectional attack who your mouths puke out years of Why Publish? and stubborn solidarity continues prison time. But, the same time you The need to read is more than safe in the heart and mind of the announce the charges, our mind travels in all of us, but often it is difficult revolted around the world. free and rebellious. It travels to secret to read from a computer. The texts Oppression will not lead to meetings, the planning of attacks, to have the advantage of lasting in anything but escalation. weapon hideouts, pages of books, all circumstances that we can laughs, disappointments, pleasures and read on public transport, in Counter-insurrection will only sorrows. college, at work or in the field next feed the insurrection; polarize the to a campfire, without need for people, making social war clear. It travels, reminisces and awaits, a look, electricity or internet access. It is a thought, a sound, a moment. not our aim to publish classical Chaos is inevitable! The moment where everything collapses texts already disseminated And solidarity always possible! from the intensity of continuous enough. To give just one example, explosions and the terms are reversed. It the texts of Alfredo Maria This is why, as revolutionary is that moment when the judges will be Bonanno, especially “The Armed insurrectionists, with our action judged and the guards will have to be Joy”, are in our view, the writings and solidarity, we will continue guarded. that are fairly widespread and with all means possible, to express unnecessary we believe to reissue. the thoughts and desires of the Moments like this you should know The same applies to “At Daggers comrades, whether it is through will always be between our two Drawn”. By the same token, there the letters-texts of the comrades hands…” are still worth reading texts by who are hostages in the hellholes many comrades who may have of Greek democracy or through Finally, we greet our brother no idea of its existence. Read it to the actions of comrades who are revolutionary Theofilos understand and acquire / reject out on the streets day and night Mavropoulos and the Informal positions, and to overcome the and fight with all means until Anarchist Federation - contradictions at the moment to social liberation for International Revolutionary Front act. Mauricio Morales, our dear Anarchy. part of the Black International of brother killed when installing a 42 bomb at the school of the prison- do not believe we fight for a future “Through human communication and guards on May 22, 2009, was an revolution. Understanding that cooperation everyone finds out more individualist anarchist. However any action itself generates the fall about themself and at the same time when it came to showing of Capital, or gives life to a library, about those around them.” CCF solidarity and actions or carries an explosive charge in coordinated with prisoners in the backpack, but that is not the We start from here, from the firm communities, he exceeded question. It is the sense that what conviction that the sharing of ideological contradictions to take motivates the actions generates a experiences and reflections of action. To us, solidarity is not a break with society based on affinity is an unavoidable moment slogan printed on a pamphlet, nor exploitation and Power. No of the continuous attack against is it an action that should be waiting to live an ideal future in the existent. It is exactly this undertaken only in defence. which to realize our dreams and moment, and not an empty inter- Propaganda is not just ink on a aspirations. Here and now, in nationalism of mere facade, that sheet. every little act of rebellion or breaks down the tyranny of space spectacular recovery of our lives. and time, allowing the spread of Why “Entropy”? The irony is that even when we actions, thoughts and suggestions, In chemistry, entropy is a recover, life goes on. in spite of geographic and linguis- property that lets you know how tic obstacles. We don’t hesitate to much energy can not be used due We are against civilization and express the wonder that struck us to scattering by the chaos. The technological tools that we use. during the last year, seeing the entropy increases if disorder Why? Because we believe in the formation of a constellation, increases. This project, this use of all weapons against power. whose genesis is autonomous and editorial, this game, this mess, And that’s why we publish. self-determined, of individualities, this chaos, this entropy, is Because our sense is to break with sometimes united in groups with allowing us to divert the energy the existing logic. We do not sell, or without a name, conscious of that we waste every day in our but barter want we do not want the power of their own inner classrooms and in our offices, to to profit from. We want to share, chaos. With a growing frequency, redirect it into something that we do not want charity. We want we are approached with invita- gives us more pleasure. solidarity, we do not want tions to reflexion, technical sug- Generating chaos is our routine to ownership. We want to gestions to act, theoretical and reclaim our lives, if only for a broadcast, but we understand practical speculations, but above moment. We did not consider that things are not always the all with a tangible will of coopera- anything serious, no major long- way we would like. tion, without any dogmatism or a term goal or chains that we end Expect us to express ourselves as pre-determined direction, with up feeling like we do in our jobs or clearly as possible. the end of weaving a really poly- houses of study. While we phonic discourse. recognize no dates or times, that A new spring 2011 ... does not mean that we have no Entropy Editions “Every meaning we print on paper, we commitment or not do our part want to find a way for it to escape from when we address new projects. [email protected] theory and transform into practice. Only We have no ties to this new entropiaediciones.noblogs.org in practise are all theoretical values instance of creation, destruction, tested.” CCF deconstruction and construction, Why ParoleArmate? For the what do we do when the need simple fact that every written or arises and when you set the spoken subversive word becomes affinity as the norm. We are free, a bullet, exploded in the back of spontaneous and wild. authority, riddled without pity by the verbal and practical shots of What sense does it make texts to Letter from Parole rebels around the world; because be read, if most of the time they every text, every conspiratorial are not to be stored or distributed Armate consideration becomes lead that ever, or reread? This is perhaps “Screech, graze o my coarse pen of fire lodges into the battered body of the most raw and necessary and of energy upon the white candor of Power, which does not hesitate to question that today we must ask this sheet, as a viper tongue grazes upon unleash its watchdogs against us who declare ourselves nihilists, the tender throat of an innocent child to as punishment in order to deter anarchists, anti-authoritarians, give him, with venom, death. Away, get us, but uselessly; because every subversives, rebels and away from me me all the ideology, the letter is ablaze with the blood and revolutionaries in general. And theosophy, the philosophy dogmatic and the revolt of thousands of indi- not in the literal sense of the political; distance from me every vidualities who don’t accept their question. Is an example: What is preestablished system: it has all fallen submission and who pass to the point to rebel against the incinerated under the corroding flames of action without delegation, in the system? Do you think you can my negating spirit.” Renzo Novatore first person: shadows in the night destroy this mega-machine? We who slip through dark alleys in 43 order to let dominion taste their (Renzo Novatore), and that return revenge. Above all, it is the words to the individual her or his entire which find confirmation in action offensive range. that arouse our greatest interest, those words that, equipped “The State cannot forbear the claim to sometimes with an imaginative determine the individual’s will, to character, are able to escape from speculate and count on this. For the the ordinariness of everyday life, State it is indispensable that nobody opening in this way unexpected have an own will; if one had, the State (Non)presentation of apertures and causing irremedi- would have to exclude (lock up, banish, able breaches in the lives of those etc.) this one; if all had, they would do Culmine who have the will to make them away with the State.” Max Stirner their own. It is these words that Culmine, as the publication in ParoleArmate aims to be a space we translate with enthusiasm, which the anarchist Severino Di of discussion, translation and that we try to spread through Giovanni gave words of revolt, propagation of texts of considered channels we feel affinity with, without sacrificing their practices, affinity. The primary aim is to considering these as fundamental wants to be a sounding board for share publications, of any form, experiences in the spreading of the those who, now as then, combine which we believe are necessary to above-mentioned texts. We took theory and action. It is not easy to add to the already-existing collec- the initiative once again, naturally find the ideal linguistic formula tion of reflections. We will con- with different times and methods, for presenting something that tinue the activity of translating ready to advance in our path, presents itself every time you are claims, letters and insights firmer than before in not waiting looking for the effects of black through the consolidated channels for someone else to realize what powder; whereas everyone really of affinity and those that we hope we believe useful, but realizing loves freedom and genuinely hates will be born and that will prove now what we want to do. all authority choose it as a more themselves. With the aim of consistent companion of struggle. translating not only text, but also “We must be disciplined with ourselves May our rebel greetings come deep theory in practise, being aware of because technology and information are in your untamed hearts! also viruses that can ensnare us and the dangerousness of our decision and of using it to strike with all threaten to absorb us into their own culmine.noblogs.org our strength what oppresses us, stratagem in which we end up replicat- e-mail: [email protected] ing a cybernetic version of reality.” crushing every logic of power over 325 / Anti-Copyright Network the individual and locating our- selves in fierce conflict with the We subscribe completely to what existent. This project is the result Operation Ardire the few lines quoted above say, of the will of some anarchist At 4 o’clock in the morning of June aware of what risks we take, but individualities who refuse the 13th, 2012, the paramilitary police yet with serious conviction to give concept of a formal editorial of the Special Operations Group space to words that, through time, group, and instead invite to the (Raggruppamento Operativo have become weapons, armed most total and informal collabora- Speciale, ROS) raided around words, and that therefore are tion all who are interested in this forty homes, implementing the so- undoubtedly part of the arsenal of project and offer their own contri- called ‘Operazione Ardire’ every sincere destroyer of the bution to the realization of even- (Operation Boldness), a crack- present world. Words that have tual editorial project affinities that down against people from the sublimated their we fiercely hope are materialized anarchist movement ordered by condition, irreversibly fusing outside of the virtual context. Manuela Comodi, public themselves with action, escaping prosecutor of Perugia. A total of 10 from a content that is merely Also we take this opportunity to arrest warrants were issued - informative and sterilely propose a reading that escapes eight within Italy, one sent to aggregative. Those words that from its normal conception, fleeing Germany and one sent to with scorn and anger distance from the perspective of the passive Switzerland (to comrades themselves from the consensus reader through the interpretation Gabriel Pombo da Silva and inherent in the society that im- and use of the texts how, when Marco Camenisch) - while 24 prisons us, words that with and to whatever extent one suspects have been placed under dignity and pride convey mes- wishes, giving to the proper Self judicial investigation. (among sages of total war, that maximize the task of decoding, so that it them are the imprisoned the destructive character of the branches in the preferred direc- comrades of CCF in Greece). action of the one “who after a long, tion, thus taking the material The investigations included the gasping and desperate search has considered necessary for the homes of the comrades that retrieved his own self and has construction of one’s own arsenal “functioned” the blog Culmine placed it, haughty and proud ‘on of war. who are arrested and imprisoned the margins of the society’, deny- Parole parolearmate.noblogs.org and as well those of ing anything the right to judge it” Armate, one of whom is arrested 44 and another one under English. Apart from Act for investigation. Cops raided more Freedom Now!, no one else was “administrators” of the counter really bothering to translate information blogs - Inform– primary Greek insurrectionary Azione, making clear that the source material into English, and I operation targeted the means of was excited to be able to apply counter information used by myself to the task. anarchists in Italy and worldwide. Letter from This Is Now, with the emergence of other Our Job counterinformational websites These arrests had a result (for that are picking up much of the now) of culmine.noblogs.org and slack regarding the translation of This Is Our Job actually derives its iconoclasta.noblogs.org not insurrectionary texts from Spain name from an open letter being updated, as the and Latin America, This Is Our Job circulated at Alexandros “administrators” are in custody has been freed up to focus almost Grigoropoulos’ funeral. In that ever since. Italian media linked exclusively on Greece, specifically letter, a young insurgent was the arrests with FAI / FRI. on the Fire Cells Conspiracy. At attempting to explain to her The 8 comrades arrested in Italy present, this involves translating parents why she had thrown in cities Pisa, Perugia, Roma, many of the letters and herself so vigorously into the Genoa and Terni are still in communiqués written by street clashes fueling the custody. To contact them: imprisoned members, and well as December 2008 uprising. I’m keeping up-to-date with trial paraphrasing here, since no longer Settepani Alessandro news and the ever-changing have a copy of the letter, but the Stefano Gabriele Fosco prison addresses of the different main thrust was something to the Giuseppe Lo Turco comrades. As a parallel project to effect of: “I love you and I understand Sergio Maria Stefani the website, I’ve also been why you do your jobs. But this is my CC San Michele, translating the complete Fire Cells job.” Strada Casale 50/A Conspiracy communiqués into 15040 – Alessandria San Michele English to be released—fully It was an elegant, subversive, (AL) annotated—in book form at some deeply moving idea: attacking the Italia point, and that project is slowly brutal infrastructure of but surely nearing completion. domination was no less valid a Giulia Marziale “job” than working in an office, a Paola Francesca Iozzi The Fire Cells Conspiracy store, a restaurant, or wherever. Katia Di Stefano ultimately fascinated me because At the time, I was an anarchist in Elisa Di Bernardo of the cogent, earnest quality of search of an outlet through which CC Rebibbia Femminile their rhetoric. They were to apply my own anarchism, and Via Bartolo Longo 92 advancing anarchism the Greek uprising opened my 00156 Roma theoretically, but in a dynamically eyes to the decentralized, Italia exciting way, and their theory antiauthoritarian, highly ethical was alloyed to the insurgency rearing its head not authoritativeness of their just in Greece, but also in Spain, attacking practice. Additionally, Chile, Mexico, and elsewhere. I they furthered a notion of began to translate reports of urbanism that posited the modern various attacks, as well as the metropolis—massified, alienating, accompanying communiqués vapid, consumptive—as the most written by the insurgents appropriate locus point of themselves, and that’s how This Is destruction. Our Job was born. While it’s true that one could I have no knowledge of the Greek easily criticize certain Fire Cells language, so at the outset I was Conspiracy attacks as being mainly translating communiqués questionable regarding target and letters from insurrectionists selection, and others as being too and prisoners in Spain and Latin concerned with spectacle and ego- America. It wasn’t until Spanish gratification, those criticisms translations of certain Fire Cells nevertheless gel with a key Conspiracy communiqués and theoretical concept contributed by other Greek insurrectionary news the Fire Cells Conspiracy itself— began to appear online that I was that of contradiction. To demand able to devote more attention to absolute perfection of praxis from the Greek milieu by translating revolutionaries is to demand those Spanish translations into 45 something inhuman, because it is very least we can do to support Prison was not the end for those our individual human perhaps the most vital and who did not give up, their imperfections that will always misunderstood current within writings and their contribution to reveal themselves when we contemporary anarchism, so we the war against domination endeavor to be truly keep at it. This is our job, after all. continue; this way they address a revolutionary in our choices. call towards the prisoners with What counts is the praxis itself, thisisourjob.org conviction globally, and the the consistency and continuity of imprisoned comrades in different theory and practice that satisfies prisons did not hesitate to answer, two other key concepts brought publically stating their support to back into the theoretical fold by the comrades of the CCF and to the the Fire Cells Conspiracy—dignity initiative they promote through and conscience. this call. Some of these texts were published on our page, but this It is through the accent on dignity was not our final intention, since and conscience that we leave we wanted to keep the best for behind the notion that revolution this collection. is somehow about others, Letter from Viva La something that takes place outside Throwing wood into the fire! ourselves. The discourse of the Fire Anarquia Cells Conspiracy repeatedly From this internet space we demonstrates that in fact the A very powerful flame was born support the spreading of anarchist opposite is true. As expressed so in Greece: attempts, actions, ideas and their application in succinctly by Panayiotis Argyrou: attacks, communiques, reflections, practice. Using therefore a tool “Revolution is an existential struggle.” analyses… A flame which such as the Internet, we set up To antiauthoritarians, revolution produces arsons all around the what you know as Viva La is that part of our individual lives world. There where sovereign Anarquia. About two years ago that fortifies our sense of dignity democracy continues to steal and we started to translate actions and allows us to live more in exploit our lives, where the which took place in the territory keeping with our conscience. For civilization devalues more and called Greece, echoing thus in this some, that may involve becoming more the non-human animals and corner of the world the actions full-on urban guerrillas. For the land into a simple product, carried out by the insurrectionists others, it may involve something where repulsive and autarchic of this land, that’s why we were else entirely. But the overall people want to fill their pockets pleased and moved by the fact concept holds regardless of the with money and want to be the that the comrades mentioned us in way it is manifested, and that is owners of the world, the some of their communiques-we precisely why the insurrectionary Conspiracy Cells of Fire, an urban knew that they were vigilant over current is indeed so refreshingly guerrilla group in Greece, with a there, since we had read an polymorphic, as the jargon spark lights up the dark parts of analysis in their first maintains. our path towards freedom. communiques concerning the situation in Argentina and the This Is Our Job is now one of the A spark which is not only citizen insurrection in 2001. handful of counterinformational contagious! Our aim is to continue to share resources through which cells of things with those who want to the Informal Anarchist The comrades of the revolutionary read, write, laugh, cry, think, Federation/International organization C.C.F. were translate and interpret, Revolutionary Front can imprisoned after the first contribute, re-enforce, dream, communicate openly with one repressive operation in 2009, some imagine and act. This idea results another and with anyone else who after the mass sending of parcel from the eagerness we feel to happens to be paying attention. bombs to different embassies, an materialize one of the many ideas While that certainly wasn’t the incident of global impact through we have, and we do not intent from the outset, I must the mass media, while months sympathize with the opinion of admit that it is a happy by- later the other members were some fake critics who have product of the project. As the arrested, but not before characterized us as internet global antiauthoritarian detonating a trapped motorbike in activists. Anyway, they are few insurgency spreads and front of the administrative court compared to the many that intensifies, those of us trying to of Athens, where dozens of cars support us and prompt us to keep the lines of communication and the front of the building were continue in every way these open may one day find ourselves shattered in an explosion worthy difficult times. in the crosshairs of repression, of the comrades. just like our comrades carrying The temperature rises; the sun No one is alone in this war, out actions in the streets. But our continues to heat up! against authority in all of its chronicling is in many ways the 46 phases, stages and sizes, this is why it is vital to support and not abandon our comrades who have been abducted and beaten by the state. Our aim is not only to support them economically or write a letter to them every now and then, but to also continue the Letter from struggle they developed or the struggle for which they put them Conspiración Acrata in captivity. Let’s strengthen the bonds of solidarity and Conspiración Acrata is an insur- compliance! Letter from War on rectional anarchist publication of affinity, of the Insurrectional We must not wait for Society Anarchist Tendency. This publica- international calls or calls of tion, an anarchist project that was coordination to write and/or to War On Society is a project of born about three years ago, was communicate amongst each other: translation and counter-informa- the result of an analysis that this practice must also be tion whose name comes from a culminated with the necessity to continuous, and if it is declaration by Joseph Dejaque: create and maintain a printed and materialized outside of the “Forward everyone! And with arms and electronic media for the diffusion Internet even better. This is the heart, word and pen, dagger and gun, of the theoretical/ideological part aim of the publication of the irony and curse, theft, poisoning and of insurrectional anarchism and addresses of imprisoned comrades arson, let’s make… war on society!” anarchism of action, which in or the email of a comrade who For us, as for Dejaque, words are those moments and in these lands wrote a text and shares it out. one type of weapon in the rebel’s was little available. And above all, arsenal, no more or less important very little understood by the A strong greeting to the relative than the others, since they all anarchist majority, even when means around the world, who mutually strengthen a project of there were already insurrectional promote the structure of the life in rebellion against society. and animal liberation actions destruction of authority: Culmine, being carried out. Contrainfo, 325, Act For Freedom This project was initiated from a Now, War On Society, Black desire to add another bridge for Another of the necessities for Blocg, Sabotagemedia and many communication across borders starting this publication was the others. and languages on an international diffusion of the many actions scale between others with whom against the State/Capital that Much strength to our imprisoned we can feel affinity in spite of all were happening in Mexico and the comrades, in the prisons built by the distances and walls between world. And that was one of our the states who govern the world. us. In particular, one of our aims goals, to compile the actions of Their conviction is contagious! has been to strengthen interna- sabotage that anarchist groups Much strength also to those who tional initiatives of action and were carrying out in those mo- are not intimidated and continue solidarity. It is a joy to participate ments. to support them every day. in allowing words from Chile reach the shores of the Mediterra- Little by little we have been Greetings, and look for the slogan nean, to see the multiplication of sorting through the history that is solidarity actions from Seattle to LONG LIVE ANARCHY! at our reach, investigating our- Athens, from San Francisco to selves and with support of VLA Santiago and back, to feel (in the compañer@s we have tried to better moments) the strengthen- reconstruct parts of our past, vivalaanarquia.espivblogs.net ing of an international conspiracy forgotten and often buried by our for revenge against the wretched detractors, this is important to us order that has tried and tries at because the actions directed every turn to force us back into towards the destruction of the the daily rituals of slavery and State/Capital are not just a pass- submission. ing fashion. Individual-collective sabotage, and moments of collec- waronsociety.noblogs.org tive revolutionary violence which endin the destruction of the State- generalised insurrection- is a tendency that always has been and always will be present in Anarchism, as much as the wide sectors of the “revolutionary” left want to democratize it, pacify it, 47 and incite dialogue and “institu- supports for the struggle that we counter-information structures tional” participation, because this fight day by day. that contextualise their resistance. insurrection is the only real form For these reasons and many more This actively spreads the of struggle that could destroy the we decided to use the names revolutionary ideas/practice existence of Power. This real form “Conspiración Ácrata” (Anarchic which underpins why the fighters of struggle is complemented with Conspiracy) and “Conflicto are held by the State, and has a other parts, like for example those Cotidiano” (Every-day Conflict) propulsive momentum which which work to spread the Anar- because they are two of the av- widens the struggle. As we chist idea or other types of more enues that mark the international understand it, the proposal of the “public” activities for the diffusion and local anarchist struggle. To ‘Black International’ from the and anarchist action. For us, it is maintain ourselves in conflict in imprisoned members of the clear that the false difference our daily lives, this does not Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, is an between “legal” and “illegal necessarily mean to hit out and international informal anarchism” does not exist- what- create chaos everywhere we go, organisation of many individuals ever action, publication, book, but to maintain ourselves conflic- and groups exchanging infos and distro, anarchist centre that tive and maintain a permanent ideas whilst aiming at the strongly questions the values of tension in our acts and in our continuation of action inside and the system and that is directed minds. An individual war to outside the prison walls. This is a towards the destruction of the confront moment by moment the worthwhile and needed proposal, State/ Capital and, if you want to social norms and normalised providing a welcome direction see it as such, the construction of behaviours of the social peace and input of vital energy in the an anarchist and natural world, imposed on us by the State/ many-sided struggle against the will consequently be illegal. Capital. Every day conflict are also forces of State and Capital. the attacks that are perpetrated We want to point out, without against power, because it is much Firstly, in this way, if an going on too much, that we don´t better to maintain ourselves individual is detained, other see direct action or anarchist conflictive than passive, delegat- individuals/groups can continue attack against the State/Capital as ing responsibility and speaking of their efforts and activities a “tradition to follow”, we see it as revolution when in the every day unhindered, as there are no a necessity. In comparison with we follow their norms and values. membership lists to be easily years and centuries behind us, the found by the police, there being no motives and discourses have We invite anyone who would like central organ or bureau - affinity changed, even when the reality to write, comment, critique, send and aim being the unifying seems the same, the conditions communiqués, analysis or texts to feature. Secondly, when that generate exploitation are the following email: radicalised individuals and different. Concretely we say that [email protected]. groups enter the prison there is an currently the vision has to be immediate global informal widened and we now know that Anarchy and Social War on all structure open to their even if we collectivise the facto- fronts!!! participation and in which they ries, nothing will change as are still active combatants, not domination is in every aspect of “victims” of repression, and their this “life” and capitalised world, voices can continue to be heard as that for necessity needs to be unmediated as possible. In this destroyed in its totality. way, it’s ensured that no dignified fighter is left stranded behind the As Conspiración Ácrata so far we walls, and the capture of the have published 15 editions. We radicals is not enough to have always maintained an sufficiently disrupt or neutralise insurrectional and anti-prison their activity and speech through line, although we recognise that Letter from 325 detention. on saying anti-prison we need to have a wide conception of what Towards a Black International of Since before their incarceration in prisons are. Our principal contri- Anarchists of Praxis the dungeons of Capital early in bution is to try as best as we can 2010, the words, actions and to give space for letters, support or Every time a revolutionary sector attitude of the steadfast comrades words from our compañer@s of people actually becomes of the CCF have rung out prisoners of war. For us, these dangerous to the capitalist system forcefully from both outside and compañer@s, while remaining and its minions through inside the prison walls, calling us inside the prison walls, are active insurrectional activity, especially all not only to arms and to attack, participants in the “movement” during a time of economic “crisis”, but reminding us proudly of our and part of our affinity groups. it is of total necessity to place in the world as rebels, as Even given the distance their strengthen the autonomous anarchists, as freedom fighters. words or analysis are strong communication networks and The individuals of CCF challenged 48 everyone to live with integrity Black Cross -with its existing guerilla and sabotage in Russia and with a total contempt for the federative approach to the and also contains some practical system and also for the question of anarchist skills of resistance and expresses submissive herd mentality, which organisation- reveals to us a big our anarchist position. is one of the facets of domination potential, when the concept of that stands between us and informal groups of theory-in- We keep solidarity with all freedom. action -praxis- is considered. As fighting and imprisoned comrades the prisons are aimed squarely at worldwide. Together, strong, to A fundamental step towards total us, the anarchist and chaotic, we victory and anarchy! liberation might not be to call on have no problems organising for the stereotypical forms of the destruction of prisons and the blackblocg.info democracy - but instead to system which requires them. So, disengage oneself from easy and we agree to the proposal of the comfortable representations in all CCF to concentrate efforts on their forms, wherever they are communication, exchange, found and create our new values translation, and also of course, and structures of emancipation. actions based around the topic of As we make every attempt to the “prison” (which is as well liberate ourselves, both from the another chamber of society and industrial-technological system vice versa). This is a new opening and the human machines that seek for co-ordinations and exchanges to enslave us, we are faced with of international solidarity through the constant task of undoing our practical theory and continuity. conditions and our conditioning, of identifying and eradicating the For an International Network of traps that are everywhere set for Counter-Information and Translation. us. One of these is the trap of left/ For a Black International of Anarchists right politics, when in fact all of Praxis. political systems and cliques are redundant. Another is the trap of 325 is an anarchist / anti-capitalist From guilt and innocence which information clearing house and DIY Edizioni Cerbero entangles us in the detail of this or media network for social war. that ‘crime’ when really we are being prosecuted for our ideas, 325.nostate.net making us the subject of a trial BAD PASSIONS when it is the system itself which we have already judged and found The seasons of the Inferno wanting. In eighteenth century London during the brutal days of Illegalism – Nihilism – the hangings and the Individualism - transportations, many who were Anti-Christianism dragged before the courts simply refused to speak English to the judges, preferring to insult the Letter from Black A text presented on 4th September 2010 wigged barons and their The reasons and necessity for executioners in “Thieves Cant” (a Blog Collective publishing and re-editing with language known only to the poor practical commitment, texts of and excluded) rather than answer We are a group of anarcho- theory under the name of Edizioni the charges made against them. communists from Russia. Cerbero [1] is based on the Today’s “Thieves Cant” is again We prefer the method of principle of the free and the refusal of the opinion of the revolutionary struggle by direct individual liberation of bad judiciary. The CCF members and action as a way to achieve our passions [2], those unique, the other irreducible individuals social ideal and liberation. We use personal and egoistic passions who have echoed their call from Molotovs, sometimes, explosives which are the pivot of free will within and without the prison and other sabotage actions to and relativism, chased back by walls, have reminded people strictly attack the oppressors society as the ruin of the ideal of clearly that beginning a refusal to only. This makes us very close to living-together humanity. submit to this regime-game is a insurrectionary anarchism. Starting from this amoral incipit, revolutionary imperative, as Besides direct actions, we we tighten and carry on important as anything else that maintain Black Blog site, active for anarchist-nihilist proposals in we decide to do. We understand almost 2 years now. It appears as order to hit the constituted ‘altar that our comradeship within/ a news resource of radical social of good and evil’, the gene of alongside groups of the Anarchist struggle expressed in the acts of prisons and of the applauses in 49 the theatres of the state, of people would not allow their wellbeing must take in respect of the infernos and heavens, of awards and their freedom to be attacked with analysis that want him to be and privileges, up to the impunity, and if the necessity arose, placed in a parochial- punishment perpetrated by the they would take measures to defend revolutionary march. Novatore dogs of the law that feed on the themselves against the anti-social warns us about social preachers, edification of ideal States or tendencies of a few.’ the thieves of the ego. Societies. Our first intention is exactly to re-conquer the ego [3] Apart from some definitions, the ‘Only the one who can appreciate with and the boundless freedom of our above piece of writing reminds us impetuous violence the rusty gates passions. of any speech of any pro Catholic closing the house of the big lie where and democratic politician or the lubricious thieves of the Ego have We choose pamphlets, ‘enlightened’ socialist, a Capuchin gathered (god, state, society and communiqués and old and recent friar, a social worker, a possible humanity), can be master of himself and claims of anarcho-terrorist merciful jailer, a psychiatrist... but call himself anarchist, and take back his attacks [4] against the state, as in it is Errico Malatesta, who, in biggest treasure form the viscid and the case of the ‘Conspiracy of the order to solve the problem of rapacious hands – ringed with the fake Cells of Fire – Group of nihilist ‘anti-social trends’ would make gold of love for mercy and civilization – guerrilla– Nihilist Fraction’, on recourse to coercive means such of awry predators.’ [7] the methods of struggle and as a ‘criminal mental hospital’ in physical and moral means, opposition to the point 2 of his And he continues: whereas the so-called anarchist program. [5] ‘The first man who said: “There’s no movement with its remote and god” was unquestionably an athlete of contrasting trends imbued with ‘Resistance to the oppression of political human thought. But the one who sickly Christian-communist- power won’t make legitimate recourse to limited himself to say: “The priest’s god democratic hypocrisy, under the weapons, except when all the following is not there” cheated with a revolutionary flag, gathers the conditions are present: misunderstanding and revealed himself opportunistic vision of unity is 1) in case of certain, serious and as being a shady partisan who already strength, everything and its prolonged violations of fundamental planned to kill men perhaps with a new opposite, friends today and rights; lie. Be well aware of those who limit enemies tomorrow. Here is an 2) after all other possibilities have been themselves with the sole negation of example: attempted; god.’ [8] 3) without provoking greater disorders; ‘But supposing that as a result of the 4) when there is well-founded hope of Therefore the ego is everything, kind of education received from present success; the Nothing that creates from the society, or for physical misfortune or for 5) if it is possible to reasonably Nothing as Max Stirner explained any other reason, someone were to want individuate better solutions.’ in The Ego and Its Own [9] and to do harm to us and to others, one can Novatore brilliantly summed up: be sure that we would exert ourselves to prevent him from so doing with all ‘If one uses more violence than necessary in order to defend his life, his the means at our disposal. Of course, ‘The war against the human-individual action is illicit. On the contrary, if he because we know that man is the was begun by Christ in the name of god, reacts with moderation, then defence is consequence of his own organism as was developed by democracy in the licit [...]’ [6] well as of the cosmic and social name of society and threatens to environment in which he lives; because complete itself in socialism in the name we do not confuse the inviolate right of In order to defend oneself from the of humanity. defence with the claimed ridiculous danger of the Unique, as it can be right to punish; and since with the see, all social doctrines which by If we do not know in time how to delinquent, that is with he who commits nature tend to their conservation destroy these three absurd as well as anti-social acts, we would not, to be hit ‘adequately’ any perversion dangerous phantoms, the individual will sure, see the rebel slave, as happens that does not want to adapt and be inexorably lost. with judges today, but the sick brother to place its wicked passions in needing treatment, so would we not collective containers, holders of It is necessary that the revolt of the “I” introduce hatred in the repression, and inviolable truths: in God with the expands itself, broadens itself, would make every effort not to go Baptism, in Humanity with generalizes itself! beyond the needs of defence, and would morals (of Socialism). not think of avenging ourselves but of We — the forerunners of the time — seeking to cure, redeem the unhappy I Am My Own Cause have already lit the beacons! person with all the means that science We have lit the torches of thought. offered us. In any case, irrespective of Novatore is another editorial the anarchists’ interpretation (who choice of Edizioni Cerbero. He hits We have brandished the ax of action. could, as happens with all theorists, at the core of this point, an lose sight of reality in pursuing a important point on the present And we have smashed. semblance of logic), it is certain that the perspectives that an individual 50 And we have unhinged. thoughts before people: some sort humanity that wants what others want. of preventive psycho-police. My own isolated affirmation is the But our individual “crimes” must be the gravest offense.’[10] fatal announcement of a great social storm. But other comrades don’t just put a limit to their thoughts and wills. To affirm oneself is a crime against The great and dreadful storm that will They want this limit to be applied humanity. smash all the structures of the in a collective and democratic conventional lies, that will unhinge the manner, and with this they want walls of all hypocrisy, that will reduce the The biggest crime society is guilty to draw up a plan to build the of is having taken away from the old world to a heap of ruins and smoking prisons of action without rubble! individuals the possibility and mistakes. You can’t imagine how means to understand and many recruits the prison of these Because it is from these ruins of god, of recognize themselves: self-proclaiming comrades have! society, of family and of humanity that the new human mind could be born ‘It’s all in vain, I’m bad. Society won flourishing and festive, that new human Unfortunately the term ‘comrade’ over me. And I hate. I furiously hate this mind which — on the rubble of all the past adds to the confusion. Is solidarity brute humanity that killed me, that made a point of strength of the — will sing the birth of the liberated man: an orange peel out of me.’ [11] the free and great “I”.’ anarchist movement? We could fill entire pages with We think it is, ideally, but it I come to a conclusion... through Novatore’s quotations and remains as such: an idea, an pamphlets, books and action it is warnings on these subjects. He abstraction. our intention to spread the deserves more attention as concerns message of the here and now as a the main points of his thought but method of struggle for total, we don’t have much space here. This is not the right place to individual and definite liberation develop all the meaning of from any ethical-moral and solidarity. Now solidarity (luckily ‘Mine is not a thought or a theory, but a repressive structure: The State as this is not the case for all state of mind, a particular way of feeling. much as The Religions. comrades) is an instrument that When I feel the urge to definitely liberate only serves to build a consensus all my Centaurs and furious stallions, it of ethical force for those who We are not looking for the will an orgy around me, an orgy mad receive it. It is not an active force; consensus of armless masses; no with love and blood; for I am – I feel this it only serves as a motive and not speculative propaganda in this – what the inhabitants of the moral as a resolute formula of the sense is our business. swamps of society call ‘common problem. A rosary and a prayer delinquent.’ have the same effect. All this said, we published our pamphlets following a precise line, Ah! Novatore is touching a raw which tried to give the single Now a political prisoner can rely nerve. Few people can read and individual the theoretical means to on an armless mass canalized in sustain the message of uniqueness reflect and deepen on his/her self- his ethic, and only on these exposed in both concrete and poetic liberation – always starting from conditions he moves on. This manner without having a thrill of the assumption that each one has doesn’t pull you out of jail but it terror and hypocritical horror. Very these means anyway. They must turns you into a martyr of the few are those who can agree that a not be seen as suggestions or as cause, if you have the right cards. ‘common delinquent’ can be charitable work for those who considered an anarchist. don’t know about these means, but In practice they observe you as a method of dialogue to make while you are dying and once you The political prisoner has the one’s struggle as radical as are dead some will say mass in solidarity of comrades (here we possible. order to get even with their should indulge in a brief aside on conscience. what one means for solidarity, but However, some of our pamphlets for the moment we prefer to stay already published or about to be sane). There are comrades who, The common delinquent is the one published don’t focus on theory even if they wave the flag of the who got out. only. They also focus on practical destruction of the prison system, action, where real and violent incubate a little builder who, brick The delinquent of thought and confrontation is at stake and any by brick, is already putting up a action was capable to dare, to illegal and amoral method will be a building similar to that that has overshoot! constant and indispensable point been just demolished – in the best of reference. scenario; some other comrades, by In this respect Bruno Filippi contrast, have already put up walls writes: Maurizio de Mone for a long time – in the worst ‘I know I’m living and that I want to Federico Buono scenario – walls containing live. It is very difficult to put this will Editors of Edizioni Cerbero into action. We are surrounded by a 51 Notes on Bad Passions: dress. Some, the most astute ones contribute to correcting the guilty. [1] Not by chance, Cerberus who knows how to conceal it, In the presence of a complete watches the doors of our personal brood over conservative instincts, assessment of the identity and inferno where nobody can enter and such as fear of destroying secular, responsibility of the guilty, the nothing comes out – see the Edizioni moral and architectural traditional teaching of the church Cerbero bookmark. traditions, habits and roots: does not exclude the recourse to http://325.nostate.net/ ‘works of art, monuments, death penalty, whenever the ?tag=edizioni-cerbero/ relations, respect, charity, latter is the only way to sociality, humanity, religion, effectively protect humans’ lives education...’ Horrified by from an unjust aggressor. On the [2] ‘It is not great feelings that decide on amorality they keep everything as contrary, if bloodless methods are the morals and holiness of people; they are it is – moreover, sometimes they sufficient to defend people from an the inexhaustible reservation of the renovate it with verbal baptisms aggressor and protect security, images and affections that express moral and dresses of first Communion in the authority will limit itself to life. Passions are morally good when they order to make it appear more these means, as the latter are contribute to a good action; they are bad in beautiful. They call conservative better suited to the concrete the opposite case. Right will leads the practices with revolutionary conditions of the common good sensitive movements it assumes to names, a skilful virtuosity of and are more accordant with the goodness and beatitude; bad will gives in grammar lexicon that changes on dignity of human beings. As a to wild passion and exacerbates them. an aesthetical level but doesn’t matter of fact, today the State has Emotions and feelings can be assumed in take the stench of old things away. many possibilities to effectively virtue or perverted by vice.’ See They champion the Whole, even repress crime by making the one ‘Catechism of the Catholic Church’. to the detriment of the individual, who committed it inoffensive the Ego, which is everyone’s without completely denying him [3] ‘The Anarchist is only the one who, reason, one’s own cause the chance to redeem himself. The after a long, breathless and desperate regardless of what the latter is, cases of absolute necessity of search, has found in themself and has unique and not for all. To find a suppression of the culprit ‘are by placed themselves, defiant and proud, “on response to social conservatives now very rare if not non-existent’. the fringes of society”, denying anyone read Max Stirner. the right to judge them.’ Renzo See ‘Catechism of the Catholic Church’ Novatore, ‘I Am My Own Cause’, [6] Besides being a right, self- – Saint Tommaso D’Aquino, ‘Summa Edizioni Cerbero. defence can also be serious duty Theologiae’. for those who are responsible for [4] ‘Let’s give free rein to our destructive others’ lives. The defence of the [7] See Renzo Novatore, ‘Wild instincts. A new guerrilla cycle can begin, common good requires that the Flowers’. Now edited by Edizioni stronger and even more destructive. unjust aggressor be put in a Cerbero as ‘I Am My Own Cause’. Any house can become a hideout, and position where he can’t do any from all hideouts the fire will come out to arm. In this respect, the holders of [8] Ibid. burn them all alive. For we know that the authority have the right to use new guerrilla is not a soap bubble or an even weapons in order to reject adolescence impulse or an explosion of the aggressors of the civil [9] ‘God and humanity founded their artistic anxiety. The realization and community entrusted to their cause on nothing, on nothing than revitalization of our aggressive desires, responsibility. The effort of the themselves. Similarly then, I found my negations and existence manifest state aiming at protecting the cause on myself. I, like God, am the themselves in the attack on the existent. common good and containing the nothing of everything else, I am the You’ll be always straight in front of us... spread of offensive behaviours unique. If god and humanity have, as and we’ll see who will have their back against the rights of men and the you will assure me, sufficient substance against the wall.’ fundamental rules of civil living- in themselves to be themselves in CCF - Nihilist Fraction together corresponds to a need of everything, then I fell I’ll miss even protection of the common good. less and won’t have to complain of my The legitimate public authority ‘emptiness’. I am not nothing in the [5] See Errico Malatesta, ‘Anarchy’. has the right and duty to inflict sense of emptiness but the creative ‘Abolition of the government and punishments according to the nothing, the nothing from which I any power that make laws and seriousness of the crime. myself, as a creator, create everything.’ impose them on others: therefore Punishment has the main goal to See Max Stirner, ‘The Ego and its abolition of monarchies, republics, repair the disorder introduced by Own’. parliaments, armies, police, the guilt. When it is voluntarily judiciary, and all institutions armed accepted by the guilty, it becomes [10] Bruno Filippi, ‘Il me faut vivre with coercive means.’ atonement. Moreover, besides ma vie’, edited by Edizioni Cerbero defending public order and as ‘Dynamite speaks’. More often anarchists fight against protecting the security of people, a world, today’s world, which suits punishment has a therapeutic [11] Ibid. them very well... like a tailor-made goal: when possible it must

52 to retreat from the front line but I must say that I’m still fortunate let’s put this aside, as we are still that they kept me inside a cage in convinced that they still have the this ‘Non’ maximum security ideas in their heart of resistance… prison. But my purpose here is that would light the darkness once not to tell ‘boring’ stories about more in the glimmering light of the prison conditions I am in, for I passion for rebellion. know it only too well, it is merely a physical prison, a miniature of Warm hugs and salute to all our modern society. But one combatants in Chile, Greece, cannot say that there’s no Letter from Eat & Portugal, Italy, Spain, Germany, difference between here and and all of the revolutionary outside. A physical prison is still Billy, imprisoned anarchists who never back down the most worst place for a free comrades of the in the face of repression. person to be in. No one—no Revolutionary Greetings and matter what crime they done — Long-Live Luciano Hugs to all of you. should be kept in prison. Tortuga Cell - Members of Long-Live Luciano Tortuga Dreams of Fire continue to haunt Indonesian FAI Cell – Indonesian FAI my dreams, all the solidarity actions by comrades abroad gives Dear comrades, with respect, love EAT and BILLY me a mixed feelings of joy and and rage, sadness. I’m still waiting for all Note: Comrades Eat (Reyhard those [Indonesian] informal cells It’s been 35 days since we were Rumbayan) and Billy (Billy Augustan) and individuals to really start caught and we are sorry for are in prison from October 7, 2011 after again to storm the gates of writing this letter too long as our being arrested for arson on an ATM of a heaven. “Our imprisoned only possible communication bank. Both comradestook condition” is not an excuse to halt comes only from our friends and responsibilityfor their participation in the a revolt. For we all know that lovers who still have the courage Long Live LucianoTortuga Cell / FAI machines never sleep, and all the to meet us here. Direct letters are Indonesia. For this case the comrades stars during the night, their impossible. were sentenced to 1 year and 8 months magnificent magical existence, are each. enough reason to steal the Fire of We’ve been waiting to hear some Prometheus — bring a continuous news from you all and like a and rhyming fire across the globe, strong warm breeze in this Letter from Eat a resonance of wild fires to every climate of repression, we once office of bankers, politicians, more regain back our energy and June 2012 police-stations, industrialists, strength to hear the sound of those nuclear saints etc. revolutionary solidarity and a Dear comrades, proud ‘members’ warm feeling of comradeship from of FAI/IRF Global, our imprisoned Let’s throw all those post- all combatants and prisoners of friends of the Conspiracy of Cells modernists and cultural studies freedom around the world – of Fire, and all the groups, on the garbage, as they are only especially when we have the individuals, who dedicate their contributing bourgeois chance to read a newspaper about lives to end the mega-machine of scepticism, those useless some recent insurrection in Rome, control and domination and to all theoretical debates and the dead- Italy, it gave us both a warm the anarcho-heretics. It’s been end of Marxist analysis. I’m not feeling that comrades are still quite long since I wrote an open- saying that our negative teacher fighting for a true revolutionary letter. should be abandoned, I’m not change… and the spirit of saying — as Bakunin once said — insurrectionalism is still in the air I don’t know, all the circumstances “It is enough of theory”. like a light of hope – in this dim here were sometimes too hectic to atmosphere of cages of repression. even try to focus on writing No! informal-insurrectionist something. A mixture of personal- groups should continue to We send our hugs to all the FAI feelings for my loved ones, the develop their theory through members around the world (those process of the trial, and millions of praxis of attack, to find the limits who are free and imprisoned) and ideas that sometimes came like a of informal groups of attack, to as well CCF members in Greece, rain of stars. develop an understanding on how our true revolutionary and warm to bridge social upheaval to our feelings to all of you.. On a sad And I’m sure that we all miss the own individualistic tendencies of note, we are truly disappointed stars, the overwhelming feelings revolt. As myself, I always tried to that some our local comrades who of our unlimited universe, find a red thread between social are inspired by fear and media possibility and it’s nihilistic and individual revolt. Because I sensationalism which make them essence. have a deep connection to social 53 struggles, in which, I never stop and retreat as our untamed apply the anti-terrorist law and sacrifice my individual ego of love and wild passions will create bury me even in the condition in revolt just to “please” the ‘social the silence before the coming which I find myself, they want anarchist’ belief of long-term storm. that trophy of war, a youth with strategy, even though I’m still many wounds, imprisoned for not confident that a possible bridge Long-live Anarchy and International having tricked himself with the between the two poles that Cooperation of Anarchist-Praxis comfort of a revolution framed insurrectionary anarchist must within political correctness. also have good relation to those Insurrectionary egoist, Power’s ambition with my trial is autonomous grass roots people Comrade E (Indonesian FAI) for the señora of the house to tell that are also longing to storm the Long-Live Luciano Tortuga Cell her little rebel that this is how heavens. idealists meet their end, those who dare to dream, to even think, Let’s end the dead-end classical that it begins with the rebellion anarchism rhetoric and all those proper to youth and if it goes leftist politician once and for all unchecked it can end in terrifying and to recreate the dynamics of consequences–to justify by means internationalists anarchist plague of my example the prison system, of revolt, to reflect and develop the repression for the “good of our the strategy of attack and a children and the future.” recreation of autonomous liberated spaces. I know that power wants that, or at the least hopes for it, that in one Comrades, although all of this way or another I will appear might sound too sloganistic, I publicly, thus I preferred silence; I think it is important to reflect and think that in these moments it is recreate and so the wildfire of much better that others speak for anarchist revolt might become the me–my comrades, known or fatal weapon for every unknown, just like in endless domination that is continuing to events for animal liberation, one destroy every aspect of life, living knows to speak for those who creatures, our mother nature and Letter to the cannot, I believe that now the all those magnificent wonder of Indomitable hearts same should happen, because I our limitless universe. sincerely think that other from Luciano comrades, even from different I wave with smiles to those parts of the world have already indomitable rebels of the Olga Tortuga done this and have had splendid Cell (FAI/IRF) with their coura- results, not only with everything geous action against the imbecile Comrade Luciano Pitronello was that involves my morale, but also of nuclear saints. Hugs to accused for the attackin on a branch of with everything that involves insurrectionary anarchists Santander bank at June 1, 2011. solidarity, which I would dare to belonging to FAI/IRF in Chile, During the transportation the explosive represent as the first piece of a Bolivia, France, Germany, Italy, device exploded on him, resulting in his great row of dominoes, in which etc. How I wished to hug you all seriousinjury.The comrade was one pushes the first and the someday. detained despite his serious health second pushes the third and so on problems,and even in prison he managed successively, where my morale To Olga, their isolation for you is to recover. Luciano was sentenced on comes to be one more piece in the another reason for every ticking Wednesday, August 15 2012 to 6 dominoes, in which there is also time of fire across the globe. Much years freedom under supervision (house damage to the system in breaking love for you companera. To arrest). with its authoritarian logic, the Giorgos Polidoros, Gerasimos esteem that the action generates Tsakalos, Panagiotis Argirou, January 1, 2012 Santiago $hile. as much on the individual level as Christos Tsakalos, Damiano 7 months since the attack failed collectively, as well as Bolano, Michalis Nikolopolous, representing another seat in the Giorgos Nikolopolous, Haris It is difficult to begin to write conflict with reality, and one Hadjimihelakis, Theofilos when I know that I have so much could spend days like this Mavropoulos. to communicate and even more to numbering the different effects keep quiet; silence has become a that a solidarity action can have. If you all happen to see the stars great companion, and not in vain, or the sun, remember I’m also since my enemies want me to Nevertheless, as much as my seeing it with you and to my communicate, to explain myself enemies want me to friend Luciano Tortuga, the with my ideas, to justify my communicate, I know that many plague of black revolt will never illegal action, so that they can to comrades also wanted me to, and

54 you should know that I know this to do so simply, to which you each arson organized in my name and I’m sorry you had to spend respond with a blow to my is in my mind, I can never forget several months of uncertainty to conscience, “And your comrades?” the valiance of my Mexican receive any news, I profoundly Do I think that communicating comrades, the insubordinates regret not communicating myself with you is something banal and who have made themselves my in these circumstances, it was I unimportant? It’s true, I don’t need comrades in Greece, I wish to who always stressed that to vomit out everything that embrace the savages of Bolivia solidarity should be reciprocal, happened that night, I believe that and the US, affectionately saluting and believe me that more than in the future there will be time for the rebels of Spain and Italy, the anyone I regretted not having that… libertarixs of Argentina–take acted sooner, I felt that I was heart!, not to mention the betraying myself in being silent. So, you want to know about me? iconoclasts of Indonesia–strength, “Does it make him uncomfortable Well, I will fight in order to live, comrades! To the anonymous of that we act in solidarity with and live in order to fight until the ALF and ELF in Russia and in him?” I speculated that you being free and wild, I do not trick the world. To the imprisoned thought this in interpreting my myself in thinking that I am less comrades across the world, I send silence, but I have a small and wild if I breathe artificially or not, all my care in these humble beautiful daughter who needs her because I believe that it is in letters, to the comrade Tamara, papá, and I cannot betray her situations like that when the most prisoner in Mexico, to Gabriel either. She moved me to silence, wild human instinct blossoms– Pombo Da Silva, prisoner in my ideals move me to dialogue the instinct of survival; I’m not Spain, to Marco Camenisch, and you my forever comrades trying to allude to anyone in prisoner in Switzerland, to the incite me to the point in between. particular, because I know that always dignified comrades of the many comrades desire my death Cells of Fire, how I envy your I do not like to write without with all the best, but I want to courage, and of course to my thinking what I want to convey from here deliver a lesson for comrades of the territory and to be fully understood, to everyone–one cannot desire the dominated by the state of $hile, to write something in my situation death of a comrade to free them you who I knew in person know merits a profound reflection–is it from their body, unless of course that I carry you in my heart worth it? Since in my case, unlike the comrade manifests it, but if everywhere I go, I have never the majority of political trials that were the case, the person been separated from you because I which are usually frame-ups, in would seek the means to put an carry you in my smile; I know my case it is proven, since I really end to their life, without thus that in a letter I could never thank did transport a bomb the generating a judicial case everyone and each one of the morning of June 1st with the (homicide) for a third party. actions I hope that it is destination of the bank branch Because what would happen if to understood that I do not intend to located on Av. Vicuña Mackenna “do me a favor” they had killed exclude any one, the forms in and Victoria, downtown me? Who are they who call which you have been in solidarity Santiago. themselves my comrades to judge with me are many and as diverse whether or not it’s worth the pain as the same struggle, from illegal For my part, I wanted to tell for me to keep living? The only one actions to activities to telephone everyone why the attack failed. capable of taking such a decision calls, internet messages, and How could I try to communicate is the individual, only he knows libertarian songs; finally I want myself and ignore something so what he really desires, and in you to know, each and every one relevant? Or even, Why that particular I want to keep living, in of you solidarious rebels that this bank? To politicize an anti- order to continue fighting. loco for freedom will Never, never capitalist attack is not only to forget you, you were known to be advocate for the violence, it is also On other other hand, I want you as great as skyscrapers and to to put the noose around my neck, to know that I appreciate all and strike where it hurts, and above and as for that, Never!, because as every one of the solidarity actions all, you made the stars shine with long as I am alive I plan to that you have done with me, the your courage, and that is continue fighting, it doesn’t banners hung in different parts of something worth imitating. matter to me if I’m short some the world or those messages that fingers, a hand, my hearing or carry the same solidarios reach I would like you to know what the sight, I will continue forward at my ears in one way or another, solidarity created for me in those all costs, that is something that each leaflet, each counter- days when nothing made sense, my enemies have to know as information bulletin, each space of when learning to remake my life much as my comrades. your lives that you dedicated to did not make a bit of sense, me I keep as a treasure, know that because you know I was doing Then you ask me to break with I have been aware of everything, poorly, what happened to me I the isolation, with the hermitism that in this world there are not would wish on very few people around me; I posit that I would be words for my feelings of because it was horrible–and in ashamed to communicate myself, gratitude, because each bombing, the greatest darkness there 55 appeared small gestures that prisons have much care for me unable to keep carrying on in the pushed me to not give up. How and help me a lot. I rigorously projects that I participated in, could I betray those who risk follow my rehabilitation understanding that for me there their lives to give me treatment and I try to give myself was none that was more valuable encouragement? And I learned to encouragement when information than another, each and every one conquer life anew; I know that from the outside is scarce; also I means a contribution to the social you will never know how have proposed many projects to war and I yearn that those important you have been. Now I myself, I am already working on projects do not go adrift because I find myself as strong as ever; some, others are for when I have am not around, on the contrary I prison, far from intimidating me, completed my sentence. should be another motivation to has made me as strong as in those continue forward, I know that I days; life is paradoxical, because I I think that a rebel becomes a am not absolved of criticism, always said that to have warrior when one is able to get because if I formed part of those comrades in prison should never back up stronger than one fell, dreams I should have acted not at motivate one to fear, entirely the who is able to see a reality even 100% of caution, but at 150%. opposite it should be the reason though one has everything to lose, for the wick in the bottle of a warrior does not necessarily I am sure that my example will gasoline, for the fuse in the have to know how to make a close one more chapter and that explosive or incendiary charge, bomb or handle one, nor to have the new and not-so-new for the smile in the insurgent techniques of camouflage, these combatants will know to rescue hearts after each day of attack, are things one learns by addition, the positive from all this, because this I believed before and I still warriors are dangerous for their the struggle continues and there believe it, and now I am the one ideas and principles because they are too many hearts that do not fit who finds himself a prisoner, so if see all the way to the final in this authoritarian world and my enemies do not succeed in consequences, always firm, want to open a path, because we intimidating me when I find steadfast, because they do not did it in the past we know how to myself in their clutches I see it betray themselves nor their do so in the present, personally I will be difficult for them to do so comrades, because they are make a good balance of the anti- with my comrades. always aware, because they don’t authoritarian struggles in the let themselves be carried by fuck- world, one or another diminishes I plan to confront the prison in the ups or rumor, because if they have but generally the prognosis looks same way that I confront society– problems they confront them, if good. with dignity and happiness, they feel pain they cry, and if they never in a submissive way, to, as are happy they laugh; because But as much as the struggle has been said before, make the they know to live out a full life, advances, the repression will too, prison combative. I tell you that I though it will not therefore be and my case will be utilized to am in the hospital section of the peaceful–those are the true reopen the pathetic bombs case Santiago 1 prison, here there is a warriors; now in this war there frame-up, therefore I make the regime similar to that of the are many joyful occasions, but suggestion to be alert, never to maximum security module of the there are also moments of inaction but rather to caution, high security prison, but without bitterness, because it is a war, not because my self-criticism can be a yard, without radio, without a juvenile phase, and to confront applied by all, the idea is to share TV, with one weekly visit of at the system of domination it, nor do I say this as certain most 2 people and with the risk of utilizing these conclusions can science, it is speculation, perhaps catching the illnesses of other carry disastrous consequences they do not intend more frame- prisoners; the room is shared and and we should know that ups for fear of looking ridiculous is larger than a cell, around here beforehand, because an error, a again, or maybe they’ll flush they call it the crazy prison, small carelessness changes down the toilet everything in because to spend much time here everything, I always say this and which which my deed is is enough to drive you crazy, this I had understood, therefore I accredited, so the call is to be well although I am of the opinion that acted according to the terms that I awake, with all 5 senses in the what does not kill you makes you used. Regarding my wounds, they street. stronger, also as they say around have all healed, unfortunately the here, “we crazy ones are those marks will always remain but I To end I want to dedicate some who have the most beautiful carry them with the same pride final lines to that person who dreams.” I tell you that I do a lot of as my tattoos, because they are traveled with me in the early exercise to recuperate the the best evidence that I am hours of June 1st. Hermanitx*, I musculature I lost, I sing a lot, convinced in my ideals–how know that my accident must have especially the songs that nobody could I not be? I carried that bomb marked you, perhaps you spend likes, I write letters to my little with dreams and hopes and those nights without sleeping, in the baby girl every week, sometimes remain intact. uncertainty of daily life, “Will they when I have a roommate I play find out it was me? Will they notice chess or we talk, generally the On the other hand, I regret being me? Will I wake up tomorrow or will I

56 have died in my sleep? Will I be But before beginning, I want to betrayed?” I remember that once I advise you of the reasons for my told you that despite the deep delay. The days have not been hatred I feel toward the wretch easy, the permanent confinement who stabbed his compañera, I also has begun to do its work, and my believed to understand it one mood has been terrible, which is should be in a similar situation, to why my first draft of this see if we are as strong as we say, communique ended up being a because I have always believed compendium of rage and ire; that betrayal is an internal arrogance, aggressiveness and enemy. Now I can tell you with haughtiness began to flourish in certainty that that little guy has my attitudes, and faced with no balls! I also remember that some situations I simply did not before going out to the street that recognize myself, but I fight, I night I told you that I was going fight to continue forward and not without my Kabbalah, a totally betray myself, trying to fight my meaningless thing, something own self in daily life, reminding that I felt gave me luck, you told myself and not forgetting who I me that I was crazy for believing Luciano Pitronello am and why I am here. in such things, luckily I brought The abyss does not my other amulet, I am still alive Well here I go… and now we can laugh about that stop us nonsense. Hermanx, I want you to As concerns my wounds and know that although I could never The abyss does not stop us. healing it has gone very well, the imagine the horrible things that Communique at one year after daily exercises and practice in the have played with your mind or the Bombing that almost cost me manual labor of life have been your heart, I continue to be the my life done, I say this with a great smile, same little turtle who smells like that I have surpassed the feet and sleeps on the floor and I First days of June, 2012 disability of knowing myself am never going to have to semi-mutilated; as for my vision reproach you for anything, To the conscious rebels; to my it has improved greatly, but I because that night it was my companions scattered across the world: should continue with the ocular turn, just like in past times it had treatment for a good time; as for been your turn, if something A little more than a month has the burns, apart from being all happens the second person flees, passed since everything changed healed many have evolved so we had agreed and so it had to for me that cold predawn of June positively, even so, I should keep be, because although you might 1st last year, and I believe that to using the special compression suit many times feel like a traitor, you not declare myself about it would for the burns and the rose hip oil. are not, in this war that we be to play along with the game At least for me, this chapter that decided to take on there are no that has me here prisoner in the has to do with my physical state words to understand us. I may hospital of the Santiago 1 prison, is closed, happily the bomb did never see you again, if so, good and it would be a dishonor to not kill me. luck in everything that comes. myself, but above all to you my dear compañerxs who worry about My emotional state has been I said it once and now I say it me. weakening over the past days, but again with pride: Never defeated, this is due to the permanent never repentant! From here I send I should say: I wanted to make a confinement, I know that all a warm embrace to the people balance one year from when all prisoners have our highs and who walk in clandestinity. this happened, but did not lows, so I am optimistic about this manifest it publicly for two situation, after all, the With Mauri present in memory! reasons: the first is because that confinement cannot be forever, Prisoners at war to the street! text was too compromising, and and if it was then they would Against all authority! the second and more important in only have my flesh, because my Walking toward the creative nothing! my opinion is because nothing mind and spirit will carry on in was really analyzed in it, it was the street next to each combatant, Luciano Pitronello Sch. only a compilation of frustration, smiling and conspiring, and I say Insurrectionalist Political resentment and hatred that raged this not as a poetic slogan I affirm Prisoner. against everyone, cursing those it as a reality that is reflected in who ran off, but now I want to do the projection of insurgent * Little brother / little sister – transl. it, I feel the lucidity to be able to dreaming where the deliver some words that I am sure authoritarian values of are so deserved. domination are crushed in various ways.

57 Prison is hard, I will not deny it, imaginary, and finally starting to that only we live the but it is possible to confront it, speak more about torture, the consequences of confinement, and and we are witnesses of that, methods the enemy applies, crime it is not that one wants for myself and each and every one of as base value for a State-police, everyone to live these my companions who have in mutilation as a possibility in the consequences, but the sense of not different ways embraced me to war against authority, pain and being alone and helpless makes us make me know that I am not agony as part of the life of strong, therefore, when a comrade alone. The exemplary punishment warriors, and thus each and falls prisoner it doesn’t just have that power boasts so much about every one of these difficult to do with their confinement/ is nothing of the sort, at least in possibilities that one can face, punishment, there are many my case, since my comrades as beyond speculation and noble hearts who decide to well as myself do not have a clue charlatanry. accompany the comrade in this why their media-spectacle is new situation, acting in solidarity realized successfully, and what’s If I am to share my scant, but no with him/her, being present, more, the only example we follow less intense, experience in this writing, spreading news of their here is the one we give ourselves, sense, I would say that the work situation, vindicating them in the wielding our best weapon: of prison and isolation have to do street, with flyers, pamphlets, solidarity. more than anything with a moral posters, shouting their name in demotivation, the others start not the demonstration, breaking the Self-critiques I make many, above to matter a bit, likewise what is symbols of power in their honor, all in this episode that is called happening outside, you adhere etc. Prison and isolation do their prison, where I have taken out the yourself to the prison reality, this work, you start to dig your own worst of myself, for which I is your world now, what do you grave and alone you go deeper humbly beg the pardon of each get from knowing about what is into it, until you end up hearing and every one of the comrades happening outside if you are phrases so absurd as that you are who I have shown my teeth to in inside? You start to worry always alone, and the worst of this self- one way or another, those I have less about yourself, you do not imposed trap is that we ourselves attacked only for the desire to care about anything, you become take care of driving off the tools unload my anger, those I did not contemptuous of others and the that can help us to not decline, want to see/write due to the rage environment, you begin to value and then, sickly, we complain and and envy that my condition others’ efforts to get a smile out of get depressed from the created in me, and above all, I beg you less and less, because they are forgetfulness we have buried the pardon of everyone who has not living your nightmare, it ourselves in, because by now no had to swallow bad faces, follows that you lose the fear of one remembers us, no one is in disagreeable times and my poor anything because you know that solidarity with us, the character for the sole fact of you have lost everything and you desperation eats us up inside, and wanting to be in solidarity with are at the bottom of the abyss, what we think would be our me. So as I ought to confess I have you have fucked life, you turn greatest weapon to confront not been at the height of the hostile and aggressive, seeking in adversity was crushed by the circumstances, of your solidarity this way to end everything soon, walls of silence, our will which is enormous, but here we that the jailers crush you with shattered, and so your projects are ready to move forward, to fall their batons for the insults you become of little relevance, you get and to get back up again, to learn hurl at them every day, and that, discouraged easily, the future from the errors — this is the idea, if you are lucky, they’ll give you a becomes uncertain, you start to right? hand and you’ll end up dead, to lose interest in life, and one finally rest from the psychosis anguishing night you end up If I am to make a constructive you are carrying or, in the worst hanging yourself in your cell. criticism it would be only that case, that other prisoners do this perhaps there is a lack of first- task to show you who has the So in order to not fall into these hand information about what it is most balls. When the psychosis of kinds of dynamics it is important to live the consequences of confinement advances, gestures of to observe oneself constantly and choosing a rebel life, what it solidarity begin to matter little, to be evaluating ourselves, means to live in prison and you put to yourself emotional clinging to the things/people/ isolation, what this brings with it, traps like “Why see importance in a circumstances that make us well, understanding more closely the gesture of solidarity if I remain and distancing ourselves from the stigma of being considered a prisoner?” or even worse, you harmful (as much as possible), terrorist and what goes on with articulate phrases like,”They are because certainly to reach a state our lives when this happens, not suffering the consequences like I of carceral psychosis is not a familiarizing ourselves more with am,” and you curse your luck; but matter of one day or another, it is subjects like clandestinity and some hard loving and caring slaps a monster that goes on growing in exile that are recurrent places in are needed to warn us of the of our minds and hearts with the the struggle for freedom in a way toxicity of these thoughts, that is passing of times, and it is that is more real and less to say, it is really stupid to believe effectively a gradual process that 58 we can become aware of and order to not crumble along the believing it; and the best example combat before it is too late. way, to be observant and analyze can be given by Mauri [Mauricio what the prison reality offers you Morales, killed during an anarchist I should say that nobody ever told and to take from it what you action in Chile., 2009] – why is he me what permanent confinement deem convenient, which is to say known for an unsuccessful May meant (much less how to confront that if the prison keeps you in 22 and has anyone ever heard of it), my most real encounters were total isolation you can take the times when he helped some the anecdotes of one book or advantage of the silence of this elderly people in his another, and the rest was situation to read, write or reflect, neighborhood with their heavy experienced through my alternatively if it offers you the shopping bags? We ourselves are imagination, with this, I am never courtyard you can take advantage responsible for reducing him to a saying that today I was not ready of it to exercise or talk with other date on the calendar. Society to assume the costs of the prisoners (one can always learn strikes you psychically, your days postures I had chosen in life, but it something useful), and thus in a no longer have the sense they did definitely would have been a substantial way the possibility of before, you are worth nothing and great help to me. Fine, but at least elaborating an escape plan or a you have ruining the lives of in my case I have tried to face this mutiny always exists everyone around you — Why arming myself with projects to independently of the regimen they keep existing? Why cause more contribute to, even from my submit us to. pain? They no longer need to stain condition, it is important to find their hands with your blood; sense in your days, they can be If I am to speak about another one please, we are civilized people, simple things, reading a book and of the possible consequences of instead they incite you to finish giving your opinion, writing with this war that some fill their yourself off, because they have others who are imprisoned or not, mouths with so much, it would be reduced you to a mere episode, creating music/poetry, learning to to say that to be recognized as an you are that, a terrorist who only draw, exercising your body, etc; enemy of authority is not easy, knows how to create pain around but here I make an note, our most less so when you are labeled as a him, and so the best thing you can important projects, at least in terrorist in the media, your social do is to do your loved ones a permanent confinement, should environment is affected almost favor, that is if you still have be those that are needed only unanimously, family members, anything of a heart left, and end from our readiness and will, and friends and comrades take off your life. This is the hidden therefore, I do not foreclose on the running, turn their backs on you discourse that reproduces our possibility of contributing in and often deny they ever knew shiny Chilean democracy, there projects that are beyond our you, few are the brave who dare are no longer any revolutionaries, physical limitations, but one must to remain with you, the public now they minimize us as mere keep in consideration that these opinion does its work and terrorists, because clearly a can bring oceans of frustrations through all the possible methods revolutionary is someone with with them: someone doesn’t come the system tries to isolate you, feelings, with ideas, love of to visit, does not write me back, they don’t have to get their hands freedom and a companion of the forgets to bring this or that, that dirty with the death penalty oppressed, that is, someone worth we organize ourselves around anymore, these days the methods imitating, instead the terrorist is a certain themes, and if our senses are more sophisticated and shadow with impunity who has of life are limited in turn to just democratic, they make your life no heart and is obsessed with the projects in the street, with a few cease to have meaning because use of violence due to past trip-ups of this kind we will be they distance you from childhood traumas — so how to taken down in terms of morale everything that you are a part of, face this situation? more or less quickly; therefore I and they don’t just do this believe that one must maintain physically by getting you in a For my part I have learned to keep two kinds of projects, one that cage, but also psychologically to public opinion at bay, which is makes us maintain contact with reduce your convictions, they usually the opinion of the the other side of the wall, and the demonize you collectively, they bourgeois press, with the simple other that must do more than erase the memory of what you act of analyzing their role one anything with an individual once were and they transform manages to halt much of their labor, that can generate itself even you into a television case, in a discourse, although I will not in conditions of maximum failed explosive attack, in a bank deny that many times in their confinement, something that robbery with a policeman killed, work they have hurt me deeply, happens in unfortunate cases, be or into a member of a phantasmic above all when you become it loss of communication with the terrorist organization, you are aware of these opinions coming outside, or the seizure only of the that, you are your letter of from the mouths of people you material we use for our individual presentation, to such an extent love, when they are the ones who projects, so we do not decline in that if you don’t become aware put you between the spade and morale. It is important to create that you are much more than the wall: either kill yourself or support networks for oneself in what the press says, you end up keep hurting us, wow, how 59 difficult, how intense, then it is you become obstinate toward the fail all of them, the who you love your turn to decide, you or they, obvious, this could not have and who want to see you happy, you or those you love most, and if happened to you, there must be but above all, you cannot fail you choose yourself what sense an explanation, but the only yourself, you told yourself this will life have without them? Will explanation is the one the mirror once when things were difficult, you choose yourself? Do you love gives you, the days pass, you get you are a warrior for life, and you them so little? You? Them? The depressed, you think that you will clench your teeth against the instinct of survival or your love? never get past it, you need to ask shame, sometimes you say Which is stronger? Apparently for help for some basic tasks and horrible things, you are neither is the correct alternative, this causes you an uncomfortable implacable in front of yourself, but I choose my life, if I do not love humiliation, you become hateful other times you feel the proudest myself, it is impossible for me to and this new situation frustrates in the world, you did not fall in love others. And I end up you, the people who try to spite of everything, the days move expelling various persons from encourage you notice your forward, you start to take in the my life and from my heart for resignation, life like this does not ritual of all this, you no longer always, I keep going, alone and make sense, but they apply turn sour before your reflection, wounded like that predawn, themselves to support you in you begin to accept it, you learn confused, with death stalking me spite of your mood, you are things that are new for this and red in flames of ire, life hit me irritated, you don’t want to do context, but not so new for life again, but it is only another exercises or rehabilitate yourself, itself, you relearn to learn, things chapter and I get up again, this you want to send everything to now are seen in a different nuance time with the help of what was the shit, take your life away, this and one afternoon with the sun never missing: solidarity. Now I seems to be an option, but you are still as company you set the reflect on it, one year after the afraid that in the attempt you will ultimatum, if I do not remake my bombing that almost cost me my end up worse off, you are life by this date then I will not go life, and I do not repent these confused, you cry in the nights of on with this madness… decisions, the pain was better, like solitude and you make yourself the bomb, it was momentary, but like a wild beast in front of others, Finally you persist, you manage life continued and the suffering of you are wounded you know, but to get past it, that date arrives these episodes went diffused with you have to heal your heart to be when you have to make the the passing of time, life continues, able to start to recover. If you evaluation of your performance struggle continues, and what is manage to make it this far, you and the smile on your face reveals insurmountable today will have taken a step forward in the that you have passed the text tomorrow be nothing more than a path toward victory, your with success and excellence, then story, another chapter in this victory, because this is a battle, you do not feel disabled nor existence of combat. now you should arm yourself incapacitated, nor anything, you with patience, frustration is just are another warrior, ready to face At this point I have spoken of two around the corner, one, two, three, anything. possible consequences in one hundred falls, nobody said it revolutionary struggle, prison would be easy, but look at As for what concerns my case in and being recognized as an enemy yourself, you don’t do it very well, particular, I suppose that what of society, but I have not spoken of but you do it, and alone, without happened to me was what the consequence that is most help, a pat on the back, the rest is happens in the majority of serious noted in my case, the mutilation practice they tell you, if you could accidents, I wanted to seek a rapid of our bodies and how we can do it once, you can do it again, you and simple solution (death), but keep fighting in spite of this. If I look around you, physically you some provoked me, some very am to speak of healing and how are alone, and you accomplish it: rudely, at least they tried to, and the mutilation of our bodies you smile. How long has it been so, clinging to solidarity I kept on becomes like a cross that one must since you smiled? You don’t need until the recovery began to give carry for life, I believe that it is to show it to anyone, you have its first results, now with this important to point out that each shown it to yourself, you are a background I got it into my head case is particular, having its warrior giving one of your best that I could get myself up out of windows and own difficulties. fights, you resign yourself not to this fall, I remember that the But I suppose that in the final die, this is for the brave, a few stubbornness and obstinacy count there are enough more stumbles, ridicule from the played much in my favor, since similarities. At first you are usual suspects, reality takes care there were people who did not discouraged, it is like a cataclysm of putting you on the uphill, you give a shit about my recovery that dusted your life away and all lay it on yourself, it is difficult, (including medical specialists), beautiful feelings find themselves but you already did not renounce but in the end I would make the under the rubble of mutilation, yourself, that is a fact, you look best judgment myself, it would desires that what happened to back, you’ve come a long way to only a question of time, I also you had only been a bad dream collapse here, now you have remember that I went through that you will soon wake up from, reasons to continue, you cannot many embarrassments that I 60 would prefer not to disclose little longer, but that is such a its totality, we have everything to hahaha, and these happened small detail, so insignificant if you lose, and do we accept these because I went against time in my compare with how close I was to conditions before we embark on recovery, I tried to do/practice death, with what passed over, the search for our dreams? I am of everything, even without having because after everything I always the idea of knowing what one is rehearsed things, and I say that I knew it, for revolutionaries involved in, so as to also know to went against time because I impossibilities do not exist, and abide by the consequences, wanted to go into the prison as my splendid recovery is proof of assuming them and coming out recovered as possible, I did not that. gracefully through them, because want to even think of a prison otherwise what happens is what guard assisting me, I luckily that What matters is to never lose the a dear and close compañera never happened. After going into spirit of struggle, not ever, it does warned of: we turn ourselves into the prison on November 22 with a not matter how terrible things the worst propaganda of struggle. tight stomach and high morale, I look, but while your mind and prepared to take advantage of this your heart do not betray you the If we think carefully, it should not new situation of total confinement rest becomes mere detail, our surprise us that many comrades to finish with rehabilitating bodies can weaken, it is true, but of before have chosen self-exile as completely, and there was no lack what makes us great has nothing a response to some of these of times when they ridiculed me to do with flesh and bones, what consequences, and it really very for my physical condition, but in turns us into giants are our difficult to continue the fight in an the face of these situations I bit convictions, our spirit of knowing area where through the media my tongue and thought that that we do what is correct. and socially the system cries for sooner or later they would regret your annihilation, in the end how their jokes, because I knew better Now, I write these lines not only can one confront the system when than anyone that they were to warn of the awful consequences it is obsessed with confronting spitting at the sky, soon I would that revolutionary struggle can you, having you individualized, be totally recovered and they bring with it, I also do it to located and pointed out? Now, I would not dare to speak to me contribute in the creation of new believe that if it is indeed true that that way; the time passed, I took and not so new methods for the exile of before served to hide my time, I went as slow as a confronting the difficult journeys behind the comfort of a normal turtle, I exercised every day that we can carry our decisions life, far from the criminalization of without a break, whether it was along. And And it is that on this revolutionary ideas, today, and cold or hot, I was disciplined with occasion I can contribute with with the validity of the proposal myself, and it was a question of some examples, through which I of the comrades of the Conspiracy Practice, Patience and encourage other comrades to of Cells of Fire, of arming an Perseverance (the 3 “P”s like I told share their experiences, since the International Revolutionary you) to find myself totally possibilities of struggle are Front, it remains clear that it does recovered, and well, here I am, infinite, madness, rape, exile, not matter whether we find look at me one year after the mutilation, victory, torture, ourselves prisoners, exiles in bombing that almost killed me. clandestinity, laughter, another region, or clandestine on Who said that I would bite the imprisonment, pain, betrayal, another continent, the struggle is mud of humiliation forever? Who amnesia, dependency, beatings, only one and it surpasses the said that I would be defeated for humiliation, death, all of these, barriers of nations and borders, the rest of my life? Who said that none, others, and so many more, because independently of the the struggle does not make us and how many of the warriors in language we speak or the great? If my ideas can bring me to the street today who fight against idiosyncrasies that differentiate lose my life, they can also bring power and its designs know this? us, the struggle continues to be me to recover it, that was always That is, how prepared are we to against structures of power, my gamble, and so I have thrown assume the costs of the social war against the values of authority myself with all my strength into if we do not know these kinds of and against the logic of the fight, because I recognize in it things? Can we speak of not exploitation and domination, the greatness to break the chains, repenting without having all this bonding us in this way with each and it is a matter of observing me in consideration? Do we and every one of the warriors in the everyday to confirm this understand the significance of who fight for the same objective assertion, if with telling you that I prison? What it brings with it? Or as ourselves: freedom. I recognize can even thread a needle, like this, do we comprehend what it carries myself in the internationalist as I am, with 8 of the 10 fingers of when a comrade is mad? How far struggle, since I know first-hand my hands, I can tie my shoelaces, do we understand the its excellent results, which is why cook, wash, make nice origami consequences of declaring I take advantage of this instance cubes and if it pleases me I can ourselves enemies of the State/ to unite myself to the proposal of even carry out all the tasks that I Capital? the comrades in Greece, did before, clearly, the only small embracing the initiative of the difference is that it takes me a In a struggle against the system in FAI/FRI as a project that appeals

61 to the same criteria as I, hoping they even try to do it today, it is the bombs case frame-up, whose that this communique can be a something to observe why I am freedom meant a smile for me true and real contribution, above known and where I find myself, when it seemed it would be a all for the comrades who live in but for me none of this is over, I torment, to the comrades of the situations similar to mine and/or will continue, I will get up, I will Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, who to those who in an unwanted show my claws again and I will with their dignity motivate me to future will have to pass through keep fighting, confronting the continue fighting, to Gabriel this. enemy constantly, as in my best Pombo da Silva, Marco times, because I am not a warrior Camenisch, and to all the If I am to make a balance of all who must be remembered with comrades investigated and this, one year after the bombing longing, I am another companion, arrested in the repressive raid that almost cost me my life, my another one of the pack, only in against the anarchist movement in result is positive, very positive, the bowels of the prison beast, all Italy, to Mauri who taught me that and I will not deny that things that differentiates me from the a wolf clenches his jaw even after were difficult, because there were companions in the street is the death, to the autonomous days dark as the depths of the sea, situation that we face, but if you collectives who attack with when everything was crumbling are able to risk your freedom and decisiveness, to the companions around me, my life as I had even life in the struggle that who are clandestine, exiled or constructed it went to shit, but bonds us, why should it be hostage, to the brave solidarians, this helped me, with the pain different for me? One year after to the conscious rebels, to all of you caused, to learn that all this I had the failed attack on the Santander I dedicate these lines, I send you a built I had not made sufficiently bank branch, I have raised myself warm embrace and I owe you the solidly as to endure the praxis of with ferocity, I won, even though I determination of keeping me alive, my discourse, if family, friends, sit on the bench of the accused, because you have to know, you comrades and lovers took off because I knew to take the reigns were oxygen when there was none. flying away from my side, to of my life with my own hands, I speak much more profoundly triumphed in the face of the life of Because when you shouted “strength than just physically, to see myself commerce that they want to compañero“ I felt stronger than ever! in this situation where many impose on us and in the face of Because neither prison nor agony nor thought that it would be better death as the only exit, but this death will detain us! for me to just sink alone before I victory is not only mine, what would take more people down arrogance it would be on my part Long live the International with me, since they believe that I to believe so, because if it were not Revolutionary Front! would never get back up from for the bold comrades who dared Long live the Informal Anarchist this, if all these people to send me their encouragement Federation! Death to the State! underestimated me because in and care, know this for certain The struggle continues! their smallness they thought that that today I would not be writing Toward victory, always! they themselves wouldn’t be able these lines, and so, we, the to stand such a fall as mine, today combatants of the new urban Luciano Pitronello Sch. they are not at my side, it is only guerrilla, are their defeat. Insurrectionalist Political Prisoner. for their mediocrity, because know this: I do not lack the To all those beautiful people who Note: On August 15 2012 Luciano affection to forgive them, after understand that the social war is Tortuga was sentenced to 6 years everything, not one of us was much more than bombs, bullets conditional freedom. prepared for this. But for all the and benzine, and who know that rudeness of my words and life, solidarity is much more than a there was no lack of gestures of hobby to invest your free time in, love and absolute dedication, to all those who cannot pacify making me know that in spite of their dreaming while they know everything they were with me, in that one of their own is suffering, the good and in the bad, until the to those who if they did not have end, reaffirming bonds already the free time kept looking for it, forged, perhaps only with skipping work or class because incredulous gazes of they know that it depended on companionship, with one or them to raise a comrade’s morale, another conversation walking to all those who took on the fun around the block, sharing a snack and exciting adventure of or fraternally criticizing each conquering freedom, to the other on the bench of a plaza. comrades of the FAI/FRI, to my dear friend Reyhard Rumbayan Power wanted me out of the fight, (Eat), who with his noble gestures they wanted to suspend me has brought me strength when I eternally in June 1st 2011, and was weak, to all those absolved of 62 including nicknaming me when the lawyer told me that “bombiux” and I have hope in everyone was outside. It gave me saving my leg. goosebumps that independent of the differences of how we see ABOUT THE LEGAL things, the paths to follow, the SITUATION means, etc. It showed me that Here the problem is that another relationships are also built person is now implicated because through mutual knowledge. Some we made the error of carrying in take one path or decisions, others the backpack which remained at others, but at the end of the road the scene her ID and because of is absolute freedom. that they identified her and linked her with a video of the area. ABOUT HOW I’VE IDENTIFIED Yesterday (June 28) they told me MYSELF that she was detained, or rather Since the bomb exploded I have with their words: “now we’ve got identified myself as an anarchist Letter from Mario your girlfriend” … they said she in spite of the “consequences” that made a statement against me and my way of life, struggles and “Tripa” Lopez well, the same story. First, they ideas can lead to. The federal wanted (and want) me to claim police arrived and tried to turn Here is the first letter of the anarchist the attack on a bank in Tlalpan: “I me and of course I did not accept comrade Mario Lopez, written on June do not accept this,” then they it. Three years less in jail for being 29, while he was in the hospital. He would say it was my comrade a snitch is not worth it, not even if suffered severe wounds after the (now that she was identified) who it was 30. explosion of an incendiary device in the did it: “I do not accept this,” and early hours of June 27 2012 in Mexico finally they wanted me to name Regarding the motives that led me City. On July 17 Mario was transferred more people who did it and to carry out this action, they are to the prison infirmary Reklousorio Sur, obviously I did not accept this. more than my futile and where he is expected to remain for about Regarding my comrade they came contradictory statements to the one month before being transferred to a to corroborate her physical prosecutors who never stopped cell. When the comrade was captured by information and all of this in front pressuring me. In short, as an the cops, a warrant was issued for his of a state lawyer. anarchist, I don’t consider that comrade Felicity Ann Ryder who is now this type of situation or political on the run. Below, we have letters of ABOUT ME moment should be the starting both of them. I stated that I did everything from point for projecting our struggle, beginning to end and that I was as building-destruction is the Hello dear comrades, as you individually responsible for this daily construction of our persons already will know (inside and act (or attempt), of course this and of our goals. I only consider it outside of Mexico) I find myself statement was made under necessary to draw a clear line hospitalized due to injuries to my pressure, with the army, with the regarding political parties shin, leg, and right arm. At the marines, with the military camp without contradicting the above moment I’m “ok” given the #1 and also I was in a state of statement. Even more so in these situation, I am concerned about physical and psychological times where populist discourses my health and am also concerned weakness as a result of the (democratic left or right) can be about several things which I’ll anaelgesics and the surgery on confused with our proposals and expand upon in a few points. my leg. Even so, I maintained this ideas of freedom. The IFE (Federal First the fact of writing now and declaration with the goal of not Elections Institute), PRD (Party of not later. Well, this is easy because directly involving more comrades the Democratic Revolution), are a physically I have the ability to do in my problem. I, as an anarchist, couple more institutions that are so and because in the future when comply (as far as possible) with just like a bank or a police station they charge or sentence me the the consequences and that conform to the machinery of control will be greater and responsibilities derived from my the system. communication will be more individual act. Therefore, I difficult. declared myself responsible for This is my statement to the this act from beginning to end, my comrades and not to the ABOUT MY HEALTH comrade was only there at the muddling and manipulative Well, I have three fairly serious moment when the device questions of the police, who, burns, the first on the right leg, exploded and the most serious without any form of counsel made the second is a hole from once side error was having her ID with us. me fall into unbeneficial positions of my arm to the other, and the for my case…but you are the ones last is on the right shin. Bad if one ABOUT THE SOLIDARITY who are most important. day I go back to practicing Muay FROM COMRADES I identify myself as an anarchist Thai. In the hospital the nurses Yesterday I almost cried (and enemy of any kind of State and of and doctors are behaving great, today while writing this letter) capital, each chooses the methods 63 or means according to their taken only two or three hours that the declaration was not mine, criteria, but the struggle is a daily after surgical intervention, still based on the graphology one, inside and outside of the under anaesthetic, and with investigation that they made in prisons. To the comrades in strong vomiting and dizziness. In which the declaration clearly does solidarity and to the Anarchist the context of such a cowardly not match my hand-writing. Black Cross, a strong, combative complicity, a registry is needed hug and thank you for being with from a juridical physician who 4. From my ingression to the my mother, she understands the must confirm that I was capable of South Remand Centre and equally situation. giving a declaration, when not during my stay in the hospital, the even did the physician not Public Ministry has tried to isolate Greetings to Luciano Pitronello! examine me adequately, they me by all means possible. They Solidarity with all prisoners of war and never even asked any questions at have impeded my visits, only political prisoners in the struggle! all as to my state of physical and letting my mother see me once a Solidarity with the comrades who are mental health. week. As well they have tried to prisoners in Italy! put me in an unhygienic place that For the destruction of the prisons! 2. As I have said since the is not apt for my recuperation, Social war on all fronts! beginning, I accepted to some which thankfully has not gone as Long live anarchy! degree my absolute responsibility. badly as it could thanks to the fact The claim of responsibility begins! As an individual I am, before that the doctors here have been myself and only myself, able to keep me in a relatively Mario, El Tripa “The Gut” responsible for my acts, for that clean area. During my reclusion in June 2012 reason from the moment of my the Ruben Leñero General arrest I have claimed myself an Hospital, with the complicity of Anarchist. However, having the director and of the physicians analysed with detail the in charge, they kept me in an area declarations, I have found many that was inadequate for the things that I never said, but that attention of my wounds, with given the situation it was obvious permanent custody around my that they were going to alter them. bed and at the mercy of the Precisely here is where the state interrogators. I should point out Second letter from lawyer’s complicity comes in, who that all of this the same police was obviously in favour of the officers cynically pointed out to injured anarchist Public Ministry, lending himself to me, threatening to contaminate Mario López all of this set-up. me with severe infections given the lack of hygiene surrounding 3. Furthermore, I denounce that me. Compañer@s, I’ll try to make this as the judge who is bringing about brief as possible, as I’ll have more my case is clearly colluding with 5. Also I want to make public the than enough time in the future to the Public Ministry. From the very constant harassment that my lay out my stance and my moment that I changed lawyer, lawyers are suffering for having reflections. My position remains rejecting the public “defence”, the accepted to bring about my case. the same: I claim myself judge has put many traps and This includes visits to their homes absolutely as an Anarchist and barriers in our way, with the and intimidation of family the only one responsible for my obvious intention of avoiding at members, humiliations and acts. For now, I’ll limit myself to any cost my lawyers taking on my threatening comments, among thanking my compañer@s of case. The most cynical of these other things. This just adds to the affinity for their solidarity and to debacles was the refusal of the long list of acts that go against my “denounce” just a few deeds of judge to accept the evidence case. many within this deceitful process presented by my lawyers which which all began the moment I shows that I did not write the first 6. I want to show my public claimed myself an Anarchist, of declaration, as the judge complicit appreciation to the rest of the which I do not regret. Never with the Public Ministry claims, prisoners of the area where I find apologetic! due to being immobile for the myself, because they have helped effects of the anaesthesia which me with the medicines, food, 1. I want to denounce the total didn’t even permit me to read (I personal hygiene and to maintain complicity of the physicians of the read only two lines of their my area more or less Ruben Leñero General Hospital of declaration before vomiting clean, all of which will help me get Mexico City with the Public because of the dizziness), and even better quickly. Ministry concerning the less was I able to write, for which modification of the declarations so they forced me to sign the Compañer@s, lastly I would like to that they would coincide with declaration. Moreover, it has to be clarify that all of these those of the accusatory part. With underlined that the judge didn’t denunciations and declaration are this I refer specifically to the accept the evidence that confirmed not meant to make myself a victim declaration, the same one that was 64 nor do they have the end of asking Letter from Felicity by your side, compañero. for compassion from our eternal Remember, always face to face enemies: the judges, police Ann Ryder; about with the enemy! and the rest of the mercenaries of the system of domination. I ask her non-arrest and I also send a warm greeting to the nothing from them and I will more fugitive comrades Diego Rios and never beg for my freedom. All of Gabriela Curilem in Chile. A the “juridical process” we are Comrades, friends, warm hug to the comrades from bringing about as a mere strategy, the CCF and Revolutionary nothing more. I write these lines to I would have liked to have written Struggle in Greece, to the make my situation known to my earlier, but for various anarchist comrades in prison in compañer@s of affinity, to my circumstances I haven´t had the Italy, to Braulio Duran, Luciano friends, family and to the great chance to yet. I want to send a Pitronello, Gabriel Pombo da mesh of complicit compas in warm greeting and say thanks to Silva, and to all of the anarchist solidarity around the world. After everyone who has worried about prisoners and fugitives all over reflecting deeply during all of me and my situation, to those who the world. these days, it is very possible that have shown solidarity with Mario from here on I start to refuse to and I. In these difficult moments it Que viva la Anarquia! collaborate with the means a lot to have people interrogations and declarations of standing in solidarity from near Felicity. the accusatory part, something or from far, even without ever that I should have done from the having met me. I sent a start. Although legally it might revolutionary hug to all of you. not be a good strategy, as some have advised me, this decision I want to clarify that despite all of would more be related to my the lies of the Mexico City police convictions and a consequence of forces and the mass media, I was my position on authority and any never arrested and they never had type of power. me detained in any of their prisons. I have tried to understand This experience has been very why they would have said that difficult, but with strength, a lot of and spread such false information rage and with the complicity of throughout Mexico as well as my close ones, I keep on going. Australia, but at the end of the day, as a free person I don´t think Thanks to all of you for your like a police officer, and I won´t be support! able to understand. If it was to try in vain to break or manipulate If from the start I accepted the Mario, to manipulate my family, responsibility of my actions it was or to try to appear half competent also in part because I didn’t wish in doing their jobs, I don´t know. to involve more compañer@s of What I do know is that I am proud ideas in my individual acts. Again, of being an Anarchist, and proud I appreciate all of the solidarity to be an enemy of authority and from you all and for the acts the State. directed at my support and that of Felicity, without devaluing any- To my brother Mario, I send him a each has its own weight and its giant hug and much strength and own importance. health. I know that he will always maintain his convictions strong, I also thank the compas of the CCF- as well as his desire to achieve Greece for their words, which gave me Total Liberation. I will always be strength to keep going. Solidarity is our best weapon.

Never defeated, never repenting! ¡Que Viva la Anarquia!

“Tripa” Anarchist prisoner of the Government of Mexico City, Mexico

65 FURTHER WEBSITES OF CCCOUNTER-INFORMATION & TRANSLAAATION

http://www.dir.dir.directectectaction.info/o/o/ News from the frontlines of eco & animal liberation.

http://www.hommodolars.org/web/index.php Chilean social insurgent website.

http://fromrussiawithlove.noblogs.org/ Russia and Ex-USSR radical news and theory.

http://prisonislanduk.noblogs.org/ Riotous, anti-system and anti-social news and reports.

http://negasi.noblogs.org/ Negation - Counter-Information - Provocation (Indonesian)

http://liberaciontotal.lahaine.org/ Spanish news for total liberation.

http://www.inf.inf.inforororma-azione.info/o/o/ Italian news for total liberation.

https://directactionde.ucrony.net/ Social war in Germany.

http://disaccords.wordpress.com/ News dispelling the myth of social peace in Australia and nearby places.

http://detvildamotstandet.noblogs.org/ The Wild Resistance. Insurrectionist, Anti-Civ & FAI/IRF translations (Sweden).

http://conspiracycellsoffffiririre.blogspot.gt.gt.gr/r/r/ English translations of the news and the text of the imprisoned members of CCF and texts – communiques in solidarity with them.

http://raf.espiv.ne.ne.net/t/t/ News of the social war translated into Polish.

http://suieetcendres.blogspot.gr/ Social war in Belgium.

http://feartttosleep.espivblogs.net/t/t/ Multi–lingual website with direct action news and theoretical texts around the world.

http://saspf.squat.gr/ The texts and the news of the imprisoned members of CCF and prosecuted for the same case in Greek. [email protected]

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