Italy: Communique from the Informal Anarchist Federation, “Do not say that we are few” [full DRAFT translation]

Posted on August 8, 2011

Due to the timeliness and relevance of the following text, we are releasing a complete but unpolished draft translation of it. Source: culmine. Translation by: war on society:

(This draft translation contains a few errors and some poor wording; it should be mainly understandable as it is, but we ask that it not be disseminated very widely yet; please expect a final version to appear in the coming week…)

Do not say that we are few

To our sisters and brothers of the FAI / International Revolutionary Front, a contribution reasoning its communication, organization and armed struggle, at the dawn of a new era

Do not say that we are few
And that the commitment is too great for us.
Would you say that two or three tufts of clouds
Are few in the corner of the summer sky?
In a moment they let down wherever …
Flashes of lightning, bursts of thunder
And it rains on everything.
Do not say that we are few
Say only that we are.
- Lee Kwang Su

We the comrades of the “FAI / Artisans Cooperative of Fire and Affinity (occasionally spectacular) / International Revolutionary Front” and of the “FAI / 20^th of July Brigade / International Revolutionary Front” claim in this writing the fruit of a meeting of more voices, in the name of the comrades “FAI / Sisters-in-arms, Mauricio Morales Cell / International Revolutionary Front,” the parcel bomb that in March 2011 resulted in the serious wounding of the Lieutenant Colonel of the thunderbolt Alexander Albamonte, the parcel bomb that lightly wounded the clerk of the Swissnuclear office, and the parcel bomb to the Koridallos prison in solidarity with our sisters and brothers of the “Conspiracy of Cells of Fire / FAI / International Revolutionary Front.”

In recent times, in the metropolises overlooking the banks of the Mediterranean, the streets are continually animated by increasingly heated protests and manifestations of the oppressed who are no longer willing to suffer the oppression of rule: from Greece to Tunisia, from Spain to Libya, the fuse continues to burn. In one of these streets we met and we have decided to deepen the discussion on what is moving in the circles of insurrectional anarchism across the world.

Within the general optimism of the comrades who, in the diversity seen always new outbreaks of struggle, in a dialogical and lively informal international confrontation, there was a dissonant voice. It was a comrade of our “Sisters-in-arms, Mauricio Morales Cell,” who told us ragefully of the censorship of the communique/discussion that claimed the actions mentioned above. These 12 claims, delivered by post to various realities of the anarchist movement in Italian, were not published by any, preventing a communication vital for the international growth of informal discussion. Today we know that this censure is only the desperate reaction of a former anarchist tainted by assemblary bureaucratism and by the obsession of the social struggle transformed into stupidity in partial struggle.

From the ashes of the old and glorious individualist anarchism, a new insurrectionalism has been / is being born. As our sisters wrote in their never-arrived claim: “For the first time in history an informal organization, a federation of informal groups across the world was made flesh, bleeding and drawing blood.” The informal organization is no longer an abstract fantasy, a soliloquy in the mouth of a handful of (more or less learned, more or less sincere) comrades. In these last years, in various parts of the world, the new nihilists have sparked the concern of various states, and fear and hostility in the official part of the anarchist movement. The new anarchism will give the destructive fantasy its proper force and will cement the nihilistic act with the proper consistency. Since we launched the proposal for an “Informal Anarchist Federation,” much water has passed under the bridge. Today, thanks to the sisters and brothers of the “Conspiracy of Cells of Fire” who have relaunched the “FAI / International Revolutionary Front,” the “FAI / International Network,” “The International Network of Action and Solidarity,” the “Informal Anarchist Federation – International Network“… with its thousands of names has become a reality. A reality which, now more than ever, needs to grow through the medium of informal organization on the world stage thanks to a federation of action groups. Dozens and dozens of cells, nuclei, movements, and individual comrades who diffusely and horizontally, united by a strong and clear pact of mutual aid, chaotically and destructively wage war on the existent.

In Greece:

- Conspiracy of Cells of Fire / FAI / International Revolutionary Front

- International Revolutionary Front / Conspiracy of Cells of Fire / Revolutionary Groups for the Spreading of Terror – Cell of Vandalisms.

- International Revolutionary Front / Terrorist Warriors’ Complicity of the fallen commando John Severino

- International Revolutionary Front / Deviant Behaviors for the Spreading of Revolutionary Terrorism / Cell of Anarchic Action

- Cell of Revolutionary Solidarity – FAI

- Anarchist Revolutionary Front / Deviant Behaviors for the Spreading of Revolutionary Terrorism / Cell of Reflexive Attack

- FAI / Cell of Aggressive Conscience

- International Revolutionary Front / Conspiracy of Cells of Fire / Revolutionary Groups for the Spreading of Terror / Abnormal Cell-Heretics

In Indonesia:

- FAI Informal Anarchist Federation, Indonesia Section.

In Mexico:

The two souls of Mexican insurrectionalism (ALF-ELF) and the Autonomous Cells for Immediate Revolution – Praxedis G. Guerrero.

- Informal Anarchist Federation / Acrata

- Earth Liberation Front (ELF) / International Network of Action and Solidarity – Anti-Civilization Informal Group

- Earth Liberation Front (ELF) / Informal Anarchist Federation International Network

- Insurrectional Cell Sole-Baleno of the Autonomous Cells for Immediate Revolution – Praxedis G. Guerrero / FAI

- Commando of Free, Dangerous, Wild and Incendiary Individuals for the Black Plague / FAI / International Network

- Luddites Against the Domestication of Wild Nature / FAI / International Network

- Eco-Anarchist Cell for the Direct Attack / FAI / International Network

- Revolutionary Action Brigade for propaganda by the deed and armed action – Simon Radowisky / FAI / International Network

In Chile:

- International Revolutionary Front / Insurrectional Commando Aracely Romo

- Commando 8^th of December International Coordination FAI

In Russia:

- ELF Russia Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI) / International Network of Action and Solidarity / International Revolutionary Front

In Peru:

- Circle of Iconoclastic Action / FAI

In the Netherlands:

- Conspiracy of Cells of Fire – Dutch Cell

In England:

- International Informal Anarchist Federation / FAI

In Italy:

- FAI / Artisans Cooperative of Fire and Affinity (occasionally spectacular) / International Revolutionary Front.

- FAI / 20^th of July Brigade / International Revolutionary Front

- FAI / Sisters-in-arms, Mauricio Morales Cell / International Revolutionary Front

- FAI / Lambros Fountas Revolutionary Cell

- FAI / International Solidarity

- FAI / Animal Revolt

- FAI / Horst Fantazzini Revolutionary Nucleus

- FAI / Cell against Capital and Prison and its Jailers and its Cages

- FAI / Armed Cell for International Solidarity

- FAI / Terrible Anonymous Revolt (RAT)

- FAI / Metropolitan Cell

- FAI / Narodnaja Vojla

It has been ten years during which, through action with our limitations, but with constancy, we have striven to realize this organizational design. Naturally the growth will not be linear and progressive, there will be ups and downs, for long and short periods in which almost all will be silent and then back stronger than ever in a country that we might not even imagine. Every group and individual with its strength, its will, will give its proper contribution of action and of communication to help everyone else to adjust the shot.

The repression has hit hard in Greece. Our sisters and brothers of the “Cells of Fire” continue to fight within the walls, participating with their writings, in an exceptional manner, in this organizational arrangement. If we know one thing, in such diversity, we are the hand that will break the chains. At first what we will bind the revolutionary solidarity through what some anarchists stupidly call “fictive movement,” failing to understand that their solidarity is tempered in any revolutionary project.

In our history we in the Italian FAI have always acted, without mediation, in “social” struggles: the struggle against FIES [extreme isolation units in Spanish prisons used to cage anarchist prisoners and other “uncontrollables”], the struggle against CIE, never relating to them in a demagogic top-to-bottom way. We have always acted as individuals not wanting to indoctrinate anyone. We destroy that which destroys us, what does not kill us makes us stronger.

The only limits that we place our actions are of an ethical character. In a world divided into included and excluded, we have with our actions made a choice. We are not interested in a society divided into classes, we do not want any dictatorship of one class over another, we want anarchy! Millions of microcosms where each individual can experiment freely. Something very similar to what we experience every day through action, elaborated in the best way of organizing without surrendering one’s own individual freedom. It is amazing to grow in this organizational experience together with sisters and brothers who we have never seen and probably never will see. It is amazing how, in a given historical moment, individuals who do not know each other come to the same conclusions.

We do not know how the FAI / International Revolutionary Front will evolve; the possibilities are enormous and unimaginable. It could die in a flash or grow exponentially. Our growth will be mainly qualitative, growth consistent with the unimaginable potential of informal organization. It will take a long time before the FAI / International Revolutionary Front gives its best, before the informal organization creates real problems in this state of things.

It is a war of anarchist resistance that began more than a century ago. With its highs: the contribution of the Paris Commune, the era of propaganda by the deed, the era of great revolutions and its lows: the trade unions, non-violence, the libertarian municipalism, all of which we believe goes by the name of compromise.

Our path will be characterized by a long and continuous communication through action. Communication is the core of all our informal structure, and is also its weakness. Until a year ago, our action-communiques could be read on the front pages of all major Italian newspapers; this sufficed us to communicate. Today, power (it was inevitable) has realized the danger of this communication and they censor not the action but the communique, the message. To speed up the dissemination of this writing and to reach the greatest possible number of actual anarchists, we decided to use e-mail. This choice is also due to the scarcity of Italian language publications willing and able to give space to what is new is moving in the anarchist movement internationally. To increase the reproducibility of an action, in our opinion, this action must be motivated, claimed. Otherwise, power will pollute it, distorting the meaning and making it in fact sterile and this, which we write, we know well for having experienced it directly on our skin many times. A destructive action will always remain a beautiful thing, even if it is not claimed. It can be done for the sheer pleasure of doing it. To do something right is always good. But to us this is not enough, we want to make this system fall. The more reproducible the action, the greater is its real destructive potential; the more rebels understand that a real resistance exists the more they will be motivated to action. In the past and even today, some of us happened to individually participate in actions that were not claimed, with comrades who of course were not part of the FAI / International Revolutionary Front, in order to make technical data that could save the precious lives of comrades, and–why not?–to learn some new technique.

We of the Italian FAI continue to travel all the routes that can flow into the revolutionary river. Riots, popular struggles, more circumscribed projects of radical struggle, all contribute to give new life to our practices of attack. It has been ten years that we have acted undisturbed. Power hits right and left with increasingly fanciful repressive operations, but so far none of us has ever been hit. We regret very much for the comrades who were arrested and indicted, but better that the perpetrators remain outside, free to strike and to strike again. Some of us may fall, but will soon be replaced by other groups. We hope on this occasion to behave like the sisters and brothers of the “Cells of Fire,” who continue the struggle with courage and consistency within the walls of a prison that we are sure will miss.

Criticism must always be active and alert. We have to save criticism and self-criticism from self-referentialism that would lead us to be fictitious, to go nowhere.

As we’ve said before, it is preferable that the affinity groups are not known to each other, to better combat repression, but if it happens like it happened to us, to re-meet in the field of movement, then the risks increase contemporaneously with the immediate prospects. For example, increased technical capacity, increased chances of acquiring weapons and explosives, greater ability to support the comrades forced into clandestinity.

We have read with great attention “The Sun Still Rises” of the “Conspiracy of Cells of Fire,” and we came to the conclusion that the three key points of the informal agreement of the second generation of the “Cells of Fire” can become the key points the “FAI / International Revolutionary Front.” In these three points are based on our main features.

First: the destructive direct action as a necessary and indispensable. Action that can go from the launch of a Molotov cocktail to the assassination, with no hierarchy of importance, each group or individual will decide how best to take, in accordance with its own revolutionary ethic that surely must agree never to strike in the pile. This point should give rise, according to our perspective, to a new anarchist and nihilist guerrilla, thousands and thousands of fires against capital wherever.

The second key point is important to us and ­­­we are never the spokesmen, representatives of anyone. We do not represent that we, women and men, in constant revolt against the existent, against political power, technological power, the power of capital which is likely to wipe out the entire lives on this planet on all levels. In us naturally there is no hope in a class that will impose its dictatorship over another, which then always reduces to the dictatorship of the “representatives” of a class over all others. In us there is no solidarity that does not confront subjugation, but that if the exploited do not move a finger to lift, contributing thereby also to our oppression. What qualifies us most is the refusal of delegation, of “representation,” our revolt is individual and it is there that our anarchism, nihilism and revolution traverses the organizational instrument of the informal federation.

The third issue featuring: international revolutionary solidarity. The comrades who participate in this informal arrangement should launch campaigns of struggle that will join with other groups of the FAI / International Revolutionary Front, in their own time and manner. Three simple and direct points which we believe would mark a step forward for our informal organization, expanding its vision of “anti-social” and “nihilistic” the founding document of the FAI, “Who we are: An open letter to the anti-authoritarian and anarchist movement.”

Everything about the “FAI / International Revolutionary Front” is in chaotic and continual evolution, beginning with its many names and definitions. We are only just beginning, the “Conspiracy of Cells of Fire” is the motor of this explosion of revolutionary vitality. The driving force of an informal federation that is growing and that has exceeded the confines—which for us anarchists are dead—of nations. Any organizational writing, analysis and criticism coming from the actions of the FAI / International Revolutionary Front will never be the definitive one. Our informal federation is in continual evolution. The comrades of the International Revolutionary Front span the world by one fire and another, already contributing to the analysis and to the growth of this project. Our sisters and our brothers who are imprisoned are our greatest strength, their analysis opens our eyes, our anger and hatred for their arrest gives us strength. A continuous and infinite organizational adjustment: this is the Informal Federation at its source, not in the perspective of a distant future revolutionary world that will arrive we do not know when, if ever, but in the perspective of the quality of our existence, which in this moment, here and now, is fully realized in the armed struggle against power.

We of the Italian FAI propose as the banner of this struggle the symbol of the “Conspiracy of Cells of Fire,” the 5 arrows of different lengths and different directions that together affect the power. To indicate the myriad of groups and individuals of the International Revolutionary Front / FAI, who, with varying intensity but united by a pact of mutual aid, strike without breath. The arrows are topped by a black star with an A inside, our symbol of anarchism; above the star, the name of the group of the International Revolutionary Front that claims the action. We decided on a symbolism for the story of “Conspiracy of Cells of Fire” came in and we broke through the rebels in our hearts. This, of course, if the Greek comrades are in agreement.

In a time of world crisis at all levels, perhaps an informal anarchic structure means to stop awaiting the events and go to the revolution. In Arab countries, regimes collapsed to give rise to other regimes, this time democratic. The world super powers are easy game to influence events, Europe is on the brink of collapse, we must not remain with hand in hand, tied to old organizational schemes that have already past their worst. To hold an Informal Anarchist Federation is to concretely intervene in view of the struggles of the excluded of the whole world, it is to concretely intervene in the struggle that nature takes every day against criminal human “technology.” To intervene through the reality of widespread attacks on the territory. Attacks that are never missed, but that tie together by an informal international network based on the pact of mutual aid, becoming more visible, more virulent, multiplying the diffusion and in fact the subversive potential. As we have said, we do not believe we have the truth in our pocket, but we are convinced that in certain moments in history, the ideas impose themselves on their own, now is the time to give the real contribution that perhaps will make the difference. A good wager, which we make, the best wager that an anarchist revolutionary can make, to throw your heart over the obstacle and see what happens.

We of the FAI / Artisans Cooperative of Fire and Affinity (sometimes spectacular) / International Revolutionary Front and the FAI / 20^th of July Brigade / International Revolutionary Front adhere to the campaign of revolutionary solidarity that the comrades FAI / Sisters-in-arms, Mauricio Morales Cell have initiated with the package bomb to the Koridallos prison. Once a year, we will strike in solidarity with our sisters and brothers of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire until we find them in freedom. The dozens and dozens of years in prison to which they were condemned will be transformed into a tragic boomerang for the Greek state. The interests of that state in Italy will be struck, year after year, with ever increasing hardness. We invite other groups and individuals of the FAI / International Revolutionary Front around the world to do likewise.

LONG LIVE THE CONSPIRACY OF CELLS OF FIRE
LONG LIVE THE FAI / / INTERNATIONAL REVOLUTIONARY FRONT

FAI / Artisans Cooperative of Fire and Affinity (sometimes spectacular) / International Revolutionary Front
FAI / 20^th of July Brigade / International Revolutionary Front

From house arrest in Santiago, Chile – Mónika Caballero in solidarity with the comrades of the CCF and with Billy, Silvia and Costa

from:   culmine translate by SYSIPHUS/actforfreedomnow!28/07/2011





In anticipation of the start of the political-judicial-thriller media spectacle known as “caso bombas”, I am breaking the silence of house arrest to send a fraternal greeting to the comrades theo.r.c.c.f. who yesterday saw the conclusion of their first trial. The exemplary vindictive measures of the powerful have shown themselves in the territory denominated the Greek State.

It may seem a poor strategy on the part of one risking a sentence of 20 years’ prison (accused of participation in a non-existent illicit terrorist association and the placing of explosives) to show solidarity with people who declare themselves guilty, but I am not interested in entering the rationale of the oppressors and observing implacably as they imprison the warriors that collide with this society and who, attacking, passed to action with conviction. Solidarity to those who have passed to the offensive has always been criticized by the pseudo-revolutionaries who see anti-authoritarian practices as youth fashion, and when the war carries high costs they take a distance and become mere spectators of a battle which they have neither the ovaries or the balls to continue, nor is it to make a group sacrifice or deliver oneself easily to the enemy.
But what would happen if you did not make acts of solidarity toward those who have been struck by capital? Is it less dangerous to support those that are legally innocent? I am an anarchist and I am not interested in the laws of society. Solidarity is not just a high-sounding word of communiques, it is material and concrete practice.

Wherever they are, an imprisoned anti-authoritarian cannot feel alone. Tomorrow could already be late…
For you prisoners of the “Halandri case”: 
I read your communiques and declarations, I have made many of your words my own and cherish them like a beautiful treasure, without ever having had the opportunity to exchange a word with you I call you comrades and I feel your heavy sentences in my bones.

The hegemony of power uses (will use) the same strategies, the trial that is being carried out in this part of the world is a bad copy of other trials, your trial will be a model to be followed for many governments, it will be “the great antiterrorist victory”. But all this happens where there is the most beautiful disobedience. Ideas cannot be defeated, indeed they reinforce themselves in others that hold them carved in their chest. I imagine the pleasure on the faces of the guards at seeing the bodies of such worthy people behind bars, anger and disgust inebriate me at a mere attempt to be in their place. Prison, death and escape are in the DNA of the unyielding, they are the cost for having bitten the chains.

Walls and borders separate us, ideas unite us.
A tiny gesture… I hope it will give you a smile in these hard times.
I would like to take this opportunity to send a hug of solidarity to Silvia, Costa and Billy 
I give you a poem by Sandra Trafilaf, political prisoner of Pinochet’s military dictatorship, written around 1984.

“Fences and metal doors 
surround this underworld
trying imprison our joy of living 
and loving 
the letters of my comrades
are fluttering 
in this improvised writing desk
cries and voices from afar 
mingle with their words 
confused, dark memories
of murderous volleys
and all the same I
fill up again with struggles
and victories. 
I am not alone.”

Mónika Caballero
An anarchist awaiting trial

Ps: I would like to thank each individual and/or collective that spreads each release and makes possible interaction between comrades.

Letter of anarchist political prisoner Theofilos Mavropoulos who is imprisoned in Koridallos prisons

Theofilos Mavropoulos was arrested two months ago after being wounded during an armed confrontation with two police officers (who also got their share) in northern Athens. He spent several weeks at Red Cross Hospital before being transferred to a prison hospital and then to A Wing at Korydallos Prison. Below is his first full-length open letter.

Letter of anarchist political prisoner Theofilos Mavropoulos who is imprisoned in Koridallos prisons
“A revolutionary is like a kamikaze, who simply does not accept the fate that the machine gave to them. It is simple to ask for a life that is worth living. Those who totally deny this society have already faced the risk of death. The struggle against the existing way of things is an armed goodbye.-

War or suicide”
Collaboration of individuals for the realization of the negative
(abroad)
from the pamphlet

On 18/5/2011 in the area of Pefki, me and my comrade had an accidental meeting with cops. They wanted us to stop, we tried to leave but we failed (a cop dashed at my comrade while my comrade tried to escape) and thus, wanting to get us out of this situation I made the choice, the political choice of armed conflict. Wanting to slip away from the armed praetors of democracy and since we could not surrender without a fight, deciding to risk in this way, gave the opportunity to my comrade, who was unarmed, to get away. My comrade made it away successfully using their own copcar, but I could not follow because of my injury.
The reason that me and my comrade did not stop at a police control is because we had made the conscience choice of revolutionary illegality. The last and obligatory choice of someone who denies the imposition of imprisonment on them from “Justice”.

The condition of illegality involves a life on the edge of the razor, where the choices get tougher since the risk goes sky high. Legality” is therefore of obvious use to a revolutionary entity.
Nevertheless for all those revolutionaries that come to the dilemma of surrendering or not, how easy or how difficult they will “sell their corpse” leaves its own deposit of disobedience. As in the case of the “robbers in black” who for many years have made the choice of illegal freedom instead of arrest and imprisonment, and more specifically Simos Seisidis who refusing to stop at a police check lost his leg from a cops bullets. Their examples and not only fill all our hearts with pride and strength.
From now on i define myself as one more anarchist revolutionary political prisoner in the hands of the state. A state that ahead of the likely hatched social disturbances tightens the bonds of its subjects abolishing indirectly or directly a lot of democratic pretexts (abolishment of anonymity of phones, required to carry id card, bounties on fighters heads, publication of photographs of fighters, imprisonment of some of them with non existent evidence, the hood law…).

Such moves however cannot intimidate the generalised war of conscience that is being carried out. A multiform war, in the here and now, constantly evolving, aiming at the inversion of the existing way of things. A revolutionary war. Without a beginning, middle or end, but with many fronts. From the open public assemblies to the dynamic and militant demonstrations and from armed guerrilla attacks to the little everyday influences that evolve us at an individual and collective level.

In order for the anarchist/anti-authoritarian movement to be effective against the methodized moves of the enemy, it should not be torn apart. Shams, individual vanities, personal disputes, envy but mainly the tolerance and consent to such kind of behaviours should give their place to the composition and continuous refreshing of the a/a movement. Especially the moment we observe attempts of organised internationalisation of subversive action, from Latin America all the way to Europe, this need is more important than ever.

Also the fact that the number of political prisoners has increased rapidly recently leads to various conclusions. Apart from the matter of our solidarity, which has substance when it is bidirectional and aggressive, we must contemplate the need for the subversive forces to always be a step ahead of the enemy.

In order to win a war, not only will and abilities are necessary but also strategy. When the opponent moves the pawns so must you.
The way each one will choose to fight is an individual choice and responsibility. Beginning therefore from the individual all it takes is to collectivize the common desire to fight against authority. Surely political balances play their part, whats important however is the effort to invert them for the better.

The spreading of a/a ideas has a leading role. The quantitative and qualitative strengthening is necessary. Moreover casualties are statistically certain in a war. The motive however for a potential revolutionary henceforth is not only the undesirable integration in the lower social layers. It is such the sovereign mesh of capitalistic relations and perceptions in the lives of everyone that you meet “underprivileged” in all social and economic classes. When human life becomes a product on the shelves of supermarkets and marketing, what use is it to speak of expensive and cheap products, when everything has its price. Without a doubt in the classes of the poor and exploited there are healthy revolutionaries, however ther are loyal subjects, many loyal subjects…

“Those of you who today watch your children playing carefree in the playground and in the school yards, do not be surprised if tomorrow you see them forming revolutionary alliances or participating in armed attacks against the state and the capital”.
With consistency and insistence therefore, as well as with inexhaustible fighting mood many things can be done. The degree of conciliation may differ. It either flourishes in the amphitheatres or extinguishes at the barrels of the guns but the aim is the same: REVOLUTION FIRST AND ALWAYS.

… My fingerprints were found in the apartments in Kallithea and Nea Ionias in Volos. I cannot take the historical and political responsibility for my participation in the revolutionary organisation Conspiracy Cells of Fire, since i never had a joint configuration in the political word of the organization, for which I maintain certain disagreements. Therefore I declare clearly that I was not a member of the r.o. C.C.F.
In no case however would these disagreements prevent the path we carved together. Together with the comrades of C.C.F. we evolved, we learned from one another and stronger henceforth acted in favour of the case of freedom and revolutionary prospect. For these reasons therefore I proudly declare myself PRESENT in the houses of Kallithea and Volos, present also in the lives of members of the r.o. C.C.F.
Recognizing their revolutionary action I stand in solidarity to all imprisoned members of the organisation and I send them my comrade greetings.
The pamphlet “the sun will continue rising” should become a prelude of a new more merciless, destructive and unrelenting circle of hostilities. Comrades, whatever the cost we remain with the necks unbent.

HONOUR TO ANARCHIST LAMBROS FOUNDAS
MEMBER OF THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE
SOLIDARITY TO ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS
UNTIL THE DESTRUCTION OF THE LAST PRISON
NO ONE IS FREE


18th of July 2011
Theofilos Mavropoulos
1st wing, Koridallos prisons

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The new Conspiracy of Cells of Fire claim responsibility for arson of 12 telecommunications vehicles

Responsibility claim for the arson of 12 cars of the Greek telecommunications organization (OTE)
Athens

  “How does the light begin from a star and pours into black eternity and walks immortal? The star dies, but its light never does, such is the cry for freedom.” 
(N. Kazantzakis) 

Now, now that the ground is fertile for the fruit of havoc to flourish. The intensification of revolutionary violence against the autocrat of our lives should be the first priority in the plans of the revolutionary forces. Its in our hands to attempt to take over the present conditions and waterproof the airtight valves which combined with laziness, the fear of repression and the arbitrary aphorism of violence repeats inactivity sinking in a swamp of mean interests. With as a spearhead revolutionary conscience, continuous war for the construction of our autonomous existential-value code and the destruction of sovereign social relations and the authority that invades every aspect of our everyday life.

The debt of the anarchist/revolutionary movement is enormous in the current condition since more and more people radicalize towards both ends. The anarchist/revolutionary movement should not in any case be limited to being socially agreeable and acceptable from all since it is now obvious that it will be met with indifference and resignation. The danger of this failure lies in the pollution of the movement from the parasite of inactivity which will also impoverish the movement in all its expressions.

We could say therefore that we are surrounded by invisible enemies but also possible comrades. The continuous development of the multiform revolutionary action should become the tool that will make the masks drop. When we are positioned behind the dividing lines there will be no more excuses, the ignition of social polarization as a fundamental objective inside the revolutionary strategies is necessary.

Let it be placed therefore as an objective the radicalization of the anarchist/revolutionary movement towards the strategy of urban guerrilla. An anarchist should be organized and act away from the eyes and ears of cops in the clear darkness of conspiracy. In order to clarify that this prompt is not out of arbitrarity and fetishism but taking into consideration the promotion of multiform revolutionary action and the strategies of struggle.

As fans therefore of the multiform revolutionary action we consider the field of the street and more specifically that of demonstrations a field on which we can work, evolve and spread our perception. Demonstrations initially constitute points of counter-information, distributions of texts, flyers, spraypainting of slogans and stencils, interrupt the orderly operation of the city and propagate the messages of war. At the same time demonstrations function as a field of spreading revolutionary violence. A violence that in first degree at least does not clash militarily with the mechanisms of repression neither transports the conflict to the utopian sphere of the “final battle”. The violence that is applied with stones and molotov from the minorities that factually dispute the authority create the experience of conflict in a new world, an experience which under conditions can be transubstantiated afterwards into revolutionary conscience. The violence that is practiced aims at becoming adopted by as many people as possible. Far from fetishisms such as ‘whoever smashes stuff is one of us’, the experience of conflict in the street as a first stage of awareness of the participant is important. Reversing the cliche ‘demonstrations are for the cops to win’ we believe that in the demonstrations what wins is the experience and vagabondage.

We stress therefore that we will not attack somewhere and sometimes when the skies rain conscience and the world floods of revolution. We will choose action now and we will force it to a continuous aggressive and simultaneously evolutionary move in time. We prefer a possible abomination of society from becoming a piece of the misery and postponement. As revolutionaries we owe via the step that is offered by well aimed revolutionary action to spread our revolutionary conscience and the practices that “accompany” it, to all those who have their eyes and ears open in order for them to see and hear, far from material epicurisms, psychological dead ends, tv-narcosis and submission.

Agreeing with the proposal of the Conspiracy Cells of Fire of the 1st period we decided to factually promote and support its continuation. More dangerous, unpredictable and chaotic than ever. Guerrilla methodologies, infrastructures and battle tactics are already in the “laboratory” of revolutionary development.

And now a clear personal message to the bastards that are on the list of the “immediately interested”: You will not get rid of the Conspiracy this easy you motherfuckers, not today, and not as long as there are decisive revolutionaries ready to crush your bones. 
With great joy we greet the network of soldiers from the Revolutionary Groups for the Spreading of Terror who decided to include their precious services in the organization with the vandalism of a bank and the arson of municipal-cop cars and the mayors car. We respond warmly and we reply, lets go again this time STRONGER. 

The 2nd generation of the Conspiracy is here and we are present. Napoleon said that the worse thing that a nation can suffer is the transformation of its land into a theatre of war. Precisely this raging civil revolutionary war in the interior of the country is what we must intensify to the limits. Intensification with every one of our weapons and not with prayers, we face the enemy. From the stone to the pistol and from posters to the expropriations of food from the shelves of supermarkets. The machine of extermination of political opponents of the state is in full force. We should do whatever we can in order to become the sand in its cogwheels. We should be a permanent cost to the captivities of revolutionaries with continuous strikes on social peace and the public life of the country.

Every day that passes, contradictions collide, combine, mature, speak. Our desires for a life that will chase everything free against the ugliness of dominating relations that underestimate everyone of our creative aspects, against materialistic lust, a result of the feigned consuming dreams that are projected by the “advertisers” of capitalism but also the need of the morbid majority to gag its sentimental voids.

Negativism is drowned in the passivity of the universe, it looks for ways out, expressions, aims to bloom, get educated, attack. Its composition-collectivization in the fragmentary events reactions of the total of its life gives strength, free moments, self-realization but does not suffice. These representations are defused before you even begin to express yourself. They finish before you even begin to live them.

Popular moodswing, without making any particular deepening in the feelings that are being born by its long-lasting oppression, gives its position of partially factual, spasmodic “indignation” to the sun of the beaches. Revolutionary prospect requires continuity, duration and the logics of postponement for the “next season” do not concern our case. 
Faithful therefore to the revolutionary “call outs” but also to ourselves, we do the obvious: the continuation of revolutionary war. We take therefore the responsibility for the arson of 12 vehicles of O.T.E. (greek telecommunications organization) that were in the outdoor parking lot in Maroussi on the cross of Hatziantoniou and Dionyssis street. 

International Revolutionary Front 
Conspiracy of Cores of Fire 
Luciano Tortuga Cell 

P.S. And if one word is the one that should be heard to the corners of this of rotten world, is non other than this, REVOLUTION, REVOLUTION, REVOLUTION, and if a fist should break the face of social rot, and if a knife should plunge deep in its gut. The time is now. Nothing is gained without struggle. Hard, merciless and subversive fight. 

(The absolute destruction that we left behind us indicative our intentions and cordially dedicated to the wolf Theofilos Mavropoulos.) 

P.S. 2 A deep greeting to the comrades of the Informal Anarchist Federation – International Revolutionary Front. Only with war our lives lives and desires walk together. Hold Strong Luciano! 

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