On the night of May 1st (2am Wednesday morning) a number of targets
in 2 different locations were attacked. In Downend, the windows and ATMs
of Lloyds and HSBC banks were smashed, with a Besley Hill and St
Andrews estate agents both smashed up as well. On Wells Road in Knowle,
the windows and ATMs of a Natwest were destroyed, as well as a Money
Shop; Besley Hill and Mathews estate agents were also attacked.
Whilst Mayday once commemorated the lives of anarchists murdered by
Chicago State Police, it has now been recuperated by the reformist left
into a celebration of the working class. We wish to destroy work – its
logic and content – and no state sanctioned bank holiday, party or
celebration even begins to touch on our hatred of it.
We are not specialists in social struggle, we work as you do, we
shop where you shop and we catch the bus with you, yet we’ve decided
that enough is enough.
Banks and estate agents represent the ownership of property,
privatization and corporate control. Banks play a leading role in the
impoverishment of our lives through the destruction of our environment
and our dependence on the economy. They support dictators, arms dealers
and the military who invest in murderous regimes. Money lenders such as
the Money Shop are legalized loan sharks, flourishing in times of
recession by preying on the poor. The estate agents make huge profits
from the gentrification of our neighborhoods and the urban landscape.
All these businesses show the extent to which the land and our lives
have been colonized by capitalism.
That is why it brings us joy when banks are continuously attacked in
Bristol, blown up and robbed in Santiago (get well Tortuga, freedom for
Marcello, Freddy and Juan!), set alight in Ottawa (freedom for Roger
Clement!) and Yogyakarta (freedom for Eat and Billy!).
With regards to the criminalization of squatting, we wish to be part
of no campaign defending its legalization. Instead we stand with the
excluded who act in a manner that serves their own autonomy, independent
of any governing body. This includes those on rent strike, strategic
squatting in the context of genuine struggle (rather than as an end in
itself) and all those who have taken back space from the rich without
falling into the monotonous binary of legal/illegal. We hope that the
autonomous housing movement can develop into something more dynamic,
radical and dangerous. Because property is still theft, rent is still
robbery, and profit is still only another word for plunder!
We choose this method to break the illusion of social peace. Taking
action means taking control of our lives, not asking the state for
scraps.
The future is unwritten…
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