March 2014 issue 1 Anarchist correspondence Websites Italie Contrainfo Finimondo http://contrainfo.espiv.net http://www.finimondo.org Act for freedom now Tairsia, foglio aperiodico di critica sociale http://actforfree.nostate.net (Salento) Tabula Rasa [email protected] http://www.atabularasa.org Viva la anarquia Peninsula Iberica http://vivalaanarquia.espiv.net Infierno, publicación Anárquica por el Brèves du désordre desmadre y la revuelta http://cettesemaine.free.fr/spip [email protected] Non Fides Aversion, publicacion anarquista http://www.non-fides.fr [email protected] Uruguay Belgium Anarquia, periodico anarquista Hors Service, feuille anarchiste (Bruxelles) http://periodicoanarquia.wordpress.com http://journalhorsservice.blogspot.be El Refractario, hoja de critica social Salto, subversion & anarchie (Bruxelles) http://periodicoanarquia.wordpress.com http://salto.noblogs.org Chile Switzerland El Amanecer, publicacion mensual anarquista Aufruhr, anarchistisches Blatt (Zürich) (Chillan) http://aufruhr.noblogs.org http://periodicoelamanecer.wordpress.com Grenzenlos, anarchistische Zeitschrift (Zürich) El Surco, publicacion mensual anarquista [email protected] (Santiago) http://periodicoelsurco.wordpress.com El Sembrador, periodico anarquista Germany (Cauquenes) Wut im Bauch, anarchistisches Blatt für die http://periodicoelsembrador.wordpress.com Revolte (Hamburg) El Sol Acrata, periodico anarquista [email protected] (Antofagasta) Fernweh, anarchistische Strassenzeitung http://periodicoelsolacrata.wordpress.com (München) Sin Banderas Ni Fronteras, reflexiones http://fernweh.noblogs.org insurrectas para agudizar la lucha contra toda autoridad (Santiago) [email protected] France Kiebre, revista anarquista (Concepcion - Lucioles, bulletin anarchiste de Paris et sa Talcahauano) région http://revistakiebre.wordpress.com http://luciolesdanslanuit.blogspot.fr Subversions, revue anarchiste de critique sociale (Paris) Argentina [email protected] Exquisita Rebeldia, publi anarquista (Buenos Aires) [email protected] Netherlands Abrazando el Caos, revista anarquista Kaduuk, anarchistische krant / anarchist [email protected] newspaper (Amsterdam) [email protected] Mexico Conspiracion Acrata, publicacion de tendencia anarquista insurreccional (Mexico D.F.) [email protected] EDITO Here it is, issue 1 of Avalanche. The second issue be- their place with more in-depth contributions. Several cause after 0 comes 1, that is the logic of mathemat- texts go into the repressive blows against anarchists. ics. Not that we believe in a linear development of this Again, we do not aim to be exhaustive, but we want to project. It will undoubtedly not only go crescendo, but put forward some texts that try to trace connections. that does not stop us. With jolts and bumps, to the rhythm of the anarchist activity, of life itself we go further. In many places in the world anarchists and anti-au- thoritarians are trying to strike up the attack against Honestly we got quite a few positive responses while authority. The versatility of the attack, the different ap- spreading the zero issue. Sometimes with some criti- proaches to fighting from an anti-political and uncom- cal notes after the comrades went through the texts. promising perspective and the critiques to sharpen and We wouldn’t want to have it otherwise. The messages deepen these attacks are very dear to us. They form the that reach us also talk about future contributions. While heart of the autonomous and informal anarchist move- there are already some seeping in, we wait eagerly for ment that starts from the individual, from his own an- others. The correspondence we propose is not an easy archist ideas and from the attempt to bring freedom for one, we are aware of that. Writing down a sort of where which we fight here and now, in practice in the strug- we are or what we want (or even what is happening gle. It is certainly not the easiest way, because insur- around us) on paper provokes a lot of thoughts and rectional tensions not only confront everything we de- discussion between comrades. An important process spise in this world of cemeteries, but also because they of which the tentative written down result then effects constantly ask the question of the why we are fighting the sharpening of ideas and methods in other places. to each of us. In some countries, very sad things hap- Food for the imagination or a tingle, an incitement to. pened within anarchist circles, it makes no sense to act as if nothing happened. This edito is not the place While we were working on this issue, copies of the to go much deeper into it, but against those who try to zero issue are still on their way to their destination. impose hegemony on anarchy, we will continue to fight In times of internet and the constant capitalist flux, it for the versatility of the anarchist struggle and attack. sounds like a unseemly fact. Anarchist correspondence does not tend to follow the fastest way to the largest A publication like Avalanche is based on the correspond- audience, but rather the erratic paths of comrades and ence between different realities. That also means that their affinities. In backpacks, passing different postal struggles or actions echo beyond the reality in which addresses, from hand to hand, a bundle of paper be- they are immediately visible. This is not evident and that comes an excellent opportunity to pass by, to drink is why we found the text “Facts et disfacts” an important coffee together, to strengthen links across borders. contribution which raises questions that affect us all. In this issue, as said, some specific contributions. Ad- We do a warm call to all comrades who can recognize ditionally, we have still reproduced some chronologies. themselves in it to contribute to the project of Ava- Like about the conflicts in Burgos that found resonance lanche, an international anarchist correspondence, in in many heads and hands. And the disruptive moments the way they consider most appropriate. Among many in the Brazilian territory that manifest a certain deter- other occasions and opportunities we hope this project mination (see the previous issue) and that we do not offers space to the strengthening of the relationships want to lose sight of. Undoubtedly, there is more to it across borders and to propel the anarchist struggle. and an international chronology can count many addi- tional pages. But we are confident that others will claim [email protected] http://avalanche.noblogs.org IT W E R E TH E ANARCHISTS ... February 2014 - Spain “Listen, I come to sing for those who have fallen, I will ally has something to do with it. That’s why the State not give names or clues, I will only say comrades... has to isolate and slander every attempt of rebellion, to and I sing for the others, for those who are alive, and make it seem unsympathetic in the eyes of the normal who are having the enemy in their sight...” souls, so that this episodes and examples do not propa- gate. So, since a while, those to be repressed, those who To the known and unknown friends and comrades who lead the poor on the way of violence and madness, and embrace the anarchist ideas, to those who keep their who also put bombs and burn churches, are the anar- heads high inside of the prisons and those who keep the chists (which is not completely false neither). An ether, struggle alive in the streets. Some thoughts about the something without an outlined body, but which power is anarchist struggle in the Spanish State. trying to structure sufficiently so it can be categorized as a terrorist group, and trying to put out the smallest We find ourselves in a curious political and social situ- light of rebellion in her mids. ation. On the one hand, ETA put down their weapons. GRAPO (Groups of Antifascist Resistance of the First In the course of the last year, we have seen articles of October) has been dismantled and the Islamic fun- appearing regularly in the media, speaking about the damentalism is loosing its presence in the media in this growth of the violent anarchist activity in the Peninsula. part of the globe. In parallel, the social crisis linked to About how the strength and the frequency of the attacks the so-called economic crisis (and we say “so-called” have increased, about how anarchists abroad are being because capitalism is in itself a constant crisis and be- financed from here out and how the Italian or Greeks an- cause for those on the down side of society, it is the archist comrades come to teach the natives the art of the eternal situation in which we have to survive) seems to social war, just to give some examples. The public re- intensify. New outbreaks of protests and even riots ap- ports of the cops go in the same direction, warning about pear in different places and social environments of the the danger anarchist struggles are starting to represent, Peninsula and the State is going to find himself without making them one of their primary concerns. And even if internal enemy to blame for the errors, since blaming they have the habit to say an infinite amount of aberra- “the people” in favor of whom everyone pretends to act, tions with the intention to criminalize and repress, it is doesn’t seem the most adapted thing to do. The anar- true that our ambition is to become their worst threat. chist phantom appears then, like an internal devil to But on our own merit. We know well the language of blame for all the clashes in the demos, for all the in- Power. His accusing fingers points towards us and we tensifications of the struggles. To deactivate them, the are not innocent. We do not want to be innocent. We are State cannot allow itself the luxury to brutally repress anarchists. And by carrying our anarchism, we want to the population, nor to insinuate that the population actu- inspire to passion, solidarity and revolt.