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