‘Anarchy – Civil or Subversive?’ : A Collection of Texts Against Civil Anarchism

PDF: Civil anarchism book

Bored of the type of anarchism that seems to exist only as a boring routine of endless meetings and crap benefit gigs full of self-important tossers?
Sick of middleclass mummys boys pretending to be proles?
Fed up of being told what the “class struggle” is and isn’t?

We are too and so we put together this booklet about it.

BEYOND THE ‘MOVEMENT’- ANARCHY!

From Dark Matter and 325 associates

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“No Future, Just Vengeance” auf deutsch

Comrades in Germany of magazinredaktion.tk have translated the introduction text from “August 2011 Revolt: Anarchy in the UK”. Heres to insurrection across all borders!

Keine Zukunft, Nur Vergeltung: Reflexionen über die Augustrevolte – Von einem jungen anarchistischen Rioter.

Der Augustaufstand entzündete das graue Dunkel der alltäglichen städtischen Schinderei; das Leben barst auf die Straßen, von denen uns das Landesrecht sagt, dass dort nur selbstkontrollierte Drohnen laufen dürfen – unter dem wachsamen Auge der Videoüberwachung. Ich kann nicht wirklich etwas Tiefsinniges anbieten oder in irgendeine bessere Zukunft weisen oder irgendwelche Vorhersagen treffen – außer dass nichts vorbei ist! Es war einer der lebendigsten Momente meines kurzen Lebens, jedenfalls bis jetzt. Es war mein Augenblick, unser Augenblick – der Augenblick loszumachen und unsere Wut aus dem Käfig zu lassen, hinaus auf die Straßen der Gefängnisgesellschaft, wo der Schleier gelüftet wurde und wir sehen, wie unsere individuelle Isolation auf den Straßen von einer Massenlähmung herkommt, wo wir unseren Feinden, den Bullen entgegentreten konnten, vereint gegen sie und die von ihnen geschützte öffentliche Ordnung.

Für mich gab es kein Zögern – ich konnte es kaum erwarten, die Ausschreitungen über London hinausgreifen zu sehen und die Bilder aus der brennenden Hauptstadt machten mich ungeduldig, mich dem Aufstand anzuschließen. Ich glaube das scheidet alle – diejenigen, für die es unsere Erhebung war und diejenigen, die sie als etwas Fremdes, Seltsames, Problematisches und Beängstigendes ansahen. Bei der nächstbesten Gelegenheit, als sich die Gesetzeslosigkeit ausbreitete, waren wir da draußen, euphorisch, beim Versuch, sie weiter auszubreiten: Durch die Konsumtempel randalieren, die Polizei bekämpfen, kaputt hauen und verbrennen. Wir gingen los, um dezentralisierte und chaotische Zerstörung und Plünderungen zu entfesseln. Wenn wir uns wie ein großer Körper empfunden und auf ihn vertraut hätten, dann hätten diejenigen von uns, die in der Gegend randalierten, in der ich war, deutlich mehr erreichen können, was die Bekämpfung der Bullen, gezielte Angriffe und Plünderung angeht. Es gibt immer ein nächstes Mal und ich weiß, dass sich viele darauf freuen und sich genau auf das vorbereiten.

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August 2011 Revolt: Anarchy in the UK

August 2011 Revolt: Anarchy in the UK contains a rough chronology of events during the rebellion, and action communiques during the period from anarchist groups aiming to deepen and extend the conflict, as well as a couple of essays written after the main events analysing the nature of the revolt and prospects for the future.

CONTENTS:

No Future, Just Vengeance…………………………..1
An Incomplete Chronology of Events……………..14
Report of Demo at Brixton Prison, 21 August……41
Letter from fugitive anarchist Badger……………..45
The Struggle Against the Existent Continues…….49
DON’T PANIC::DON’T TALK anarchist poster……..62

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Thousands have been locked up since the insurrection, police chase many others, and the state seemingly have social consensus from the mass of citizens for a more fascist Britain, but the fresh blast of freedom has filled our lungs and state terror won’t stop us.

ACAB

– Dark Matter Publications

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New pamphlets on anarchist individualism and cognitive freedom

Dark Matter Publications present two pamphlets formatted for DIY decentralised printing: Off the Leash: iconoclastic words from Zo d’Axa, Albert Libertad, Emile Armand, Renzo Novatore, Enzo Martucci and Erinne Vivani”, a collection of rebellious thoughts that demand to leap off the page into action, celebrating unbridled freedom and the intensity of life; and Reclaim Your Mind: An urgent message to the ‘insane’, the ‘angry’, the ‘unstable’, the ‘chaotic’, the ‘depressed’… We conceive of the anarchist struggle as a struggle to free ourselves from the domesticating institutions and control patterns of civilization to live in chaos, free association and in all the unique expressions of liberated individuality, necessarily singular yet common. We laugh at notions of normality. We also laugh at the collectivistic group think culture and cowardice of the dreary world around us.

We give a complicit wink to the anarchist comrades of counter-info blog Culmine and translation project ParoleArmata facing state repression in Italy after the raids by carabinieri and anti-terrorist officers on the 29th March 2012 and the judicial charges of subversive association and terrorism. Like those of these anarchic individuals our words are armed words, and why? – because:

“…every written or spoken subversive word becomes a bullet, exploded in the back of authority, riddled without pity by the verbal and practical shots of rebels around the world; because every text, every conspiratorial consideration becomes lead that lodges into the battered body of Power, which does not hesitate to unleash its watchdogs against us as punishment in order to deter us, but uselessly; because every letter is ablaze with the blood and the revolt of thousands of individualities who don’t accept their submission and who pass to action without delegation, in the first person: shadows in the night who slip through dark alleys in order to let dominion taste their revenge.” (ParoleArmate)

Towards the creative nil.

Chaos and anarchy!

– Dark Matter Publications

Below is the introduction to “Off the Leash“:

The defeat and subjugation of the populations of the planet has been the victory of the socialised mentality over individualistic wildness. We are supposed to believe that this world’s problems, such as poverty and oppression, are the fault of those old Christian bugbears Selfishness, Greed, Pride, Hate and Immorality more generally. Nothing could be further from the truth. This moralising narrative demands, like any morality, self-mutilation and increased repression.

The forced slave march down the road of ‘Human Progress’ has been led by various deified abstractions over mountains of corpses, bulldozing through the wild woods to plant monocultures drip-fed subservience. It has been the march of the phantoms. Never letting any being be sufficient in itself, these deities demand sacrifices and mete out justice, bestow rights and responsibilities, and are the cause which is to be followed, the beat to synchronise the rhythm of life to, the order into which one fits. These phantoms are potentised by the loss, socially and self-inflicted, of individual power, vitality, bio-energy. Max Stirner talked of spooks, Karl Marx of fetishes, Friedrich Nietzsche of idols. (Marx and Nietzsche though were moralists in their own right, smashing old idols to replace with new ones.) These phantoms are sovereign concepts which stand above the individual, demanding obedience. Individual potency (including sexual) becomes alienated from us, invested in the phantoms that now dominate us. Whether we potentise a God, a Great Leader, or Capital we are alienated from our own being, our own potentialities. Unless they remain our tool or plaything, concepts, groupings, systems, and so on turn us into tools and playthings.

As Sigmund Freud described, civilisation is based on permanent repression of individual instincts, on renunciation, causing a constant tension between individual desires and the instilled control patterns, which lead to suffering and neuroses. All the varied desires we have are repressed in favour of the morality system. Selfishness, greed, pride, hate – not to mention free expressions of caring, sharing, vulnerability and love – are subjugated by external control patterns of behaviour, creating individuals that are useful to Society and its rulers. Society, beginning mostly with the Family, enforces it’s domestication of the individual, sapping our vitality by repressing with fear and shame our instinctual desires, our free-creating-playful-sexual-agressive-selfish-joyful-inquisitiveness. Look around you – everywhere there are people who are afraid of living for themselves, afraid of self-ownership, unable to feel accomplishment or power except through being part of the Mass, a Useful Part of something or other: lifted up by their Leaders, victorious though their Sports Team, empowered by Group Pride (Nation, Religion, Ethnicity, Class, etc), made “complete” by their partner or parents or kids. These characteristics of suppression of self-centred desires in favour of reified phantoms, zombies animated by our alienated potency, may be obvious in the patriarchal, Christian honest worker and loyal citizen but are just as present in ‘radicals’ and ‘revolutionaries’ who, most of the time, simply have an alternative Faith.

The mass of the oppressed have so far not liberated themselves because, when they even rise up against the oppressors, they have generally followed ‘Revolutionary’ ideologies that call for renunciation of individual desires, have simply changed patterns of authoritarian behaviour rather than overcoming these patterns. The waves of self-defeating capitulation by the oppressed have allowed increasingly horrifying events to take place – wars, ecological devastation, genocide, social re-engineering – that have, at the very least, tarnished the optimistic viewpoint of socialistic revolutionaries. Three paths are presented – a deeper, perhaps more nihilistic and less optimistic, certainly less populist, examination of our situation that stops seeing society as the innocent victim; surrender, making peace with the existent in the name of ‘pragmatism’, ‘reform’ or ‘evolution’ to pursue reasonability; and, of course, shutting our eyes very tightly, covering our ears and repeating the mantra of our belief in ‘a better future’ very loudly. The working class war mobilisations of the two ‘World Wars’, and the ‘betrayals’ of the mass social democratic and communist movements, led some revolutionaries in the West to challenge themselves to understand the consequences of these phenomena.

Optimistic socialistic anarchists believed, and continue to believe, that Society and the State are in conflict, are separate, and have used populist rhetoric to try to raise the masses against what is depicted as external to them – greedy rich men and unscrupulous politicians –, rather than attacking the submissive attitudes of the people that allow the rich and powerful to ride on their shoulders. Responsibility is shifted to the external enemy and the masses are depicted as victims, rather than as the main upholders of domination. The individualist current in the Western revolutionary tradition, on the other hand, have had no problem laying the blame for the masses subjugation directly at the feet of the submissive themselves, while still aiming their guns and bombs at the rulers and their most active agents, like the police, journalists, bureaucrats, priests and military. Feeling the need for revolt in their bodies, those of an individualist-nihilistic bent never needed to justify their insurrection in terms of ‘the Will of the People’, ‘History’ or ‘Justice’; and have always been quite prepared to forego optimism in favour of honesty and pragmatism in favour of dignity. Amid the catastrophe of history, these individuals were free in the only way anyone can be free, by seizing freedom for themselves.

All previous civilizations have crashed. This one – global, industrial, and cybernetic – will also crash. The consequences will simply be much greater than the collapse of previous civilisations that have left ruins covered by sand and over-run by jungles. As long as civilization – the techno-economic-statist concrete infrastructure as well as the social dynamics – functions, the individualistic human will remain an outcast and an enemy. Only the destruction of civilisation, by the systems own crises and limits, as well as ‘the barbarians’ attacks and increasing desertion, can spell an end to mass society and open the way for a multiplication of chaotic worlds of small group autonomy and the free play of egoistic individuals forming relations based on desire rather than duty. Of course there’s every possibility that we’ll all be wiped out by some combination of nuclear, biological, chemical and nanotech catastrophes, climate change and pandemics. But if there is any better future it will come from a refusal of all the submissive attitudes, all the bowing before domination, all the abdications of our individual self-responsibility, all the renunciations of our desires and the self-stunting by illusionary ‘realisms’ and ‘responsibilities’ and ‘weaknesses’. Anarchy never was the harmonious perfect society imagined by the socialistic, and we can only truly conceive of anarchy as re-wilding. Let us be clear – mass technological society is incompatible with freedom, as we experience bodily, grasp logically if we allow the heretical thoughts through, and can see in the world around us, and by looking at the past and imagining our futures. Only in the ruins of the urban centres, of the global infrastructure networks, of all the cultural edifices of civilization, with weeds breaking the concrete can we re-wild to dance under bright stars. But we live for now – if it’s the end of the world, let’s dance and laugh right here and now!

“If history is not an infinite process, as I firmly believe,” wrote the individualist Enzo Martucci, “than when it exhausts its cycle it will disappear opening the way to anarchy. If, on the other hand, history endures, then anarchism will remain – that is, the eternal revolt of the individual against a stifling society.”

Here we publish these texts by a few enemies of society alive in Italy and France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a celebration of the rebellious and individualistic zest for life. Rather than detached thinkers these were individuals of action, active perpetrators of the crime of freedom – the crime that contains all crimes –, ready and willing to rob the rich and attack the State, not for ‘some cause’ but for themselves.

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‘The Sun Still Rises’ by the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire: Imprisoned Members Cell

FREE PDF DOWNLOADOF THE PAMPHLET ‘The Sun Still Rises’ FOR DECENTRALISED DIY PRINTING AND MASS DISTRIBUTION

As a contribution to the anarchist struggle we publish ‘The Sun Still Rises’ by the Imprisoned Members Cell of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire in an English-language version with an expanded introduction. Here we attempt to provide a chronology of the projects of the CCF, and the intersection and collectivization of diverse insurrectionary projectualities around the world (increasingly expressed as the Informal Anarchist Federation / International Revolutionary Front), to give those who are unfamiliar a more contextualised understanding of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire and the developing struggle. We believe ‘The Sun Still Rises’ is an incisive text of the new rebellious anarchist guerilla war and this pamphlet is intended for decentralised DIY printing and mass distribution.

Direct solidarity to the imprisoned comrades of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire!

– Dark Matter Publications

FROM THE INTRODUCTION:

The facts of the anarchist urban guerrilla group Conspiracy of Cells of Fire’s operational record were culled from police and media reports, as well as libertarian websites. This pamphlet was originally published in Greece and a chronology of actions claimed by the anarchist group was put together by comrades in solidarity to go alongside the text by the imprisoned members of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire (CCF). Here we replicate this chronology to give those who are unfamiliar a more contextualised understanding of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, their actions and their trajectory.

In Greece, anarchists have constituted themselves as a social force through their continued aggression against domination, with a practice of carrying out attacks that has forged strong revolutionary individuals, agile affinity-based groups and a combative presence. Unlike many parts of the world, Greek comrades have thrived not on liberal and leftist activism, or subcultural identity politics and academic navel-gazing, but on continual conflict with the State and Capitalism, creating a genuine anarchist movement. The decision to go on the attack against domination is not what is unique about the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire and the new nihilist urban guerrillas. Unlike most Greek anarchists, the comrades of Synomosia Pyrinon tis Fotias (Conspiracy of Cells of Fire), claimed actions under the same group name, with the aim of creating a consistency of action and discourse as well as organisational continuity. Whilst bearing in mind the differences in perspective, they were similar to other Greek anarchist armed groups like Epanastatikos Agonas (Revolutionary Struggle) and Secta ton Epanastaton (Sect of Revolutionaries) in this aspect, in that they each created a distinct visible revolutionary entity.

The CCF promote urban guerrilla warfare and revolutionary terror against the oppressors, and view themselves as part of a third pole in Greek anarchism – anti-social, individualist and nihilistic – rather than either leftist or social insurrectionist. In this they are among many of the new generation of revolutionary Greek youth, the generation of the December uprising of 2008.
A huge storm of revolt raged through the streets of Greece in December 2008. After the 15 year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos was murdered in cold blood by a cop, riots spread throughout the whole country for several weeks. Hundreds of corporate and government targets were attacked, plundered and set on fire. Although it was anarchists and anti-authoritarians who took the lead in this storm during the first week after the murder, it spread itself fast and many people got involved in this revolt against miserable living conditions, against the authorities and against the hopelessness offered by this world to the exploited and oppressed. But the revolt didn’t cease at the end of 2008, neither did it start on the day of the murder. The attacks against the structures of State and Capital went on and spread to several smaller towns in Greece.

Between September 2009 and March 2011 numerous individuals from the anarchist movement in Greece were arrested in connection with the campaign of insurrectionary attacks carried out by the CCF against the dominator system. Nine individuals amongst the arrested have taken responsibility for being members of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire and continue to form an active group in struggle inside prison: Gerasimos Tsakalos, Panayiotis Argyrou, Haris Hatzimichelakis, Michalis Nikolopoulos, Giorgos Nikolopoulos, Olga Economidou, Damiano Bolano, Christos Tsakalos, and Giorgos Polydoras.

In May 2011 the imprisoned members of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire released ‘The Sun Still Rises’ which outlines their trajectory and their active proposal for a revolutionary war, a violent flux of insurrectionary transformation in which the individual can permanently break out of Society’s suffocating passivity, an existential struggle in which the revolutionary minority creates new values in the ashes of present mediocrity. Writing from prison, following his arrest on 1 November (2011), Gerasimos Tsakalos said of the general population: “Of this total mass, we must through our speech and our action strike at the characteristics of submission that dominate it, so as to create the minorities that will deny the values of the dominant culture through Revolutionary Conscience and Ethics. Only through dignity, pride and honour can we reach the theoretical rigour in choices of action. Self-organisation, solidarity and rage arm our desires. The practical theory of the destruction of the existent in all its forms, should become the means that will unite minority subgroups towards a Revolutionary perspective. […] we do not seek the diffusion of our words and our actions using as a spearhead only the ugliness of the economic situation, something that could be simply a transitional phase of capitalism itself, but we emphasize the ongoing existential poverty, which is a permanent consequence of this world. We promote a transition to a more total critique and attack on the poverty of communication, artificial feelings, the lack of dignity, the small and big expressions of dominating social relations, the lack of desire to risk seeking and the fear of rupture for a freer life. […] Regardless of whether or not there is a prospect of direct mass conflict within the system, we live and act for now. For the satisfaction of our Ego and for the individual materialisation of our desires that are collectivised through the infrastructures of diffused revolutionary guerrilla war.”

The Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, inside and out of prison, used the State’s trials as flash points from which to renew and launch a world-wide insurrectionary project – the Informal Anarchist Federation / International Revolutionary Front. Numerous individuals around the world responded to the CCF’s call and fire signals went up from Mexico to Italy, Russia to the UK, Chile to Indonesia. A new international of anarchist action “becomes flesh by bleeding and drawing blood”, as the FAI cell ‘Sisters in Arms of the Mauricio Morales Nucleus’ put it in a March 2011 communique for the letter bomb which seriously injured Lieutenant colonel Alessandro Albamonte, chief of general staff of the Ruspoli barracks (Livorno, Italy) of the Parachutist Brigade Commando (which serves in Afghanistan). Amongst the many actions which gave flesh to this new black international were the following: a parcel bomb to the Greek Embassy in Rome, Italy, by a FAI cell, which was defused on 27 December (2010); the 30 December bombing of the Greek Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina; an arson barrage between 12 and 13 January (2011) in Thessaloniki, Greece, by ‘Informal Anarchist Federation – Cell of Revolutionary Solidarity’ targeting a politician’s office, offices of the union of retired police, two cop cars and a car of the diplomatic corps; the 15 and 16 January arson barrage in Athens of a bank, local PASOK (Greek political party) offices, security vehicles, a cops personal motorbike by ‘Wolves of Solidarity’; the arson by ‘International Revolutionary Network – Deviant Behaviors for the Spread of Revolutionary Terrorism – Cell of Anarchic Action’ of vehicles of the National Electricity Company, UPS delivery company, police and a military equipment firm; the arson of construction vehicles and equipment by the Earth Liberation Front in Coacalco and the bombing of a HSBC bank in Ecatepec, 15 January, Mexico; the arson of a security vehicle in Bristol, UK on 15 January; the petrol bomb attack on a power company offices by ‘Informal Cells of Insurrection’ and an attack with fireworks on the facade of a shopping centre by ‘Öfke’ (Anger), on 16 January, in Instanbul, Turkey; the arson attack on a Barclays Bank in London and the arson of two vehicles of British Telecom in Bristol, on 17 January; the arson of the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona, Switzerland on 17 January; graffiti on the KB Bank in Slask, Poland, on 17 January; the pair of explosive letters to the Chilean embassy in Mexico City from the ‘Autonomous Cells of the Immediate Revolution – Praxedis G. Guererro’ that led to its evacuation on 23 January; the arson of an armoured money transfer vehicle in Hania, Crete, on 23 January; the attack with stun bombs on the prefecture of the military police in Puerto Montt, Chile, on 29 January; the bombing with a device made from butane gas canisters and petrol of a police station in Coacalco, Mexico, on 5 February by ‘Earth Liberation Front – Informal Anarchist Federation/Global Network’; the bombings of the BBVA, BCI and BancoEstado banks in Chile on 11 February by ‘December 8 Commando, Supporters of the Informal Anarchist Federation’s call for International Coordination’; the arson of bulldozers in Khimki Forest, Russia on 19 February; the arson of the skyscraper of Rabobank in Ultrecht, Netherlands, by the ‘Conspiracy Cells of Fire : Dutch Cell’.

As expected, the State’s judicial puppetry sentenced the proud young members of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire to many decades in prison. The struggle, of course, was far from over. On the evening of 12 December, 2011 five members of the CCF and imprisoned underground figure P. Vlastos attempted to escape from Korydallos prison. The jail break failed but the comrades took several guards hostage and used the opportunity to make a statement (which Giorgos Nikolopoulos read out over telephone to the media in a live broadcast) that declared they would not negotiate with the police, but wanted to publicize the horrible conditions in Korydallos prison. In a statement they released later, the imprisoned members of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire declared: “If the work of jailers and judges is to lock the prisons’ doors, ours is to unlock and violate them. Even though we failed to release our bodies, we released our existence even for a few moments, occupying a space in prison. This sense is unique, and we do not regret anything.”

The fight goes on.

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“Sustained attacks on the social peace of the rich will continue.” – Interview with Chilean anarchist Marcelo Villaroel

FREE DOWNLOAD OF THE PAMPHLET ‘”Sustained attacks on the social peace of the rich will continue.” – Interview with Chilean anarchist Marcelo Villaroel’ FOR DECENTRALISED PRINTING AND MASS DISTRIBUTION: http://325.nostate.net/library/sustainedattack1.pdf

Chilean social combatant and anarchist Marcelo Villaroel is imprisoned and accused in the “Security Case” for bank robbery and the murder of a policeman. (See the recent communique from the Buenos Aires Support Network for the accused comrades Marcelo, Fredy and Juan for more information). This pamphlet contains a translation of the interview Marcelo gave from High Security Prison in Santiago, 5 October 2010. Marcelo discusses his (anti-)political evolution from a Lautarista militant to anarchist, the “Security Case” for which he’s accused and the latest anti-anarchist state repression “the Bombs Case”, and the autonomous anti-capitalist and anarchist offensive the state aims to crush.

Full text online at ThisIsOurJob.

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