lunedì 2 maggio 2011

it/es Comunicato iniziativa 1-28 Maggio 2011 di Silvia, Costa, Marco, Billy – 1 maggio 2011


COMUNICATO INIZIATIVA 1.-28 MAGGIO 2011

Dal 1 al 28 maggio intraprendiamo un nuovo sciopero dei pasti a staffetta di 7 giorni ciascuna, come nuova iniziativa collettiva per dare continuità ai legami e rapporti già intrecciati con altri scioperi e molte iniziative solidali e di lotta fuori dal carcere, e anche come risposta ai tentativi della procura federale svizzera e della repressione internazionale di denigrare, isolare e stroncare le lotte.
Tentativi che rimarranno sempre vani davanti alla nostra determinazione di non spezzare quel filo che ci unisce a voi compagni/e fuori ma di invece continuare a tesserlo insieme, come parte del movimento rivoluzionario, del movimento di Liberazione Animale e della Terra.

Un anno fa, l'inizio dell'enorme catastrofe BP-Deep Water-Horizon conferma il principio della società tecnoindustriale che i suoi rimedi tecnologici alle catastrofi della tecnologia saranno sempre peggiori del male che pretendono di curare, aggiungendo invece a ogni distruzione un'altra e più grande distruzione. In questo caso con l'agente chimico a composizione nanotech e segreta dalle conseguenze ignote irrorato in modo sperimentale in quantità enormi nell'ambiente marino.
A composizione segreta come il composto chimico immesso ad alta pressione insieme a sabbia ed acqua nelle profondità del sottosuolo, per, grazie a nuove tecnologie, la perforazione-estrazione del gas sciste, vale a dire non più del gas naturale in grandi bolle in via di esaurimento, ma del gas contenuto in miriadi di bollicine racchiuse negli strati scistosi come l'argilla. Con ben immaginabili conseguenze disastrose come i terremoti e l'ulteriore inquinamento chimico in superficie e delle falde acquifere. Emblematico è la proliferazione nei media corporativi delle pubblicità del gas come energia verde che con Fukushima ha soppiantato quelle per l'energia nucleare come energia pulita...

E le immagini del nord del Giappone sono entrate nelle nostre case e celle con tutta la loro forza impressionante di un evento difficile da immaginarsi.
L' indomabilità degli elementi naturali mette a nudo tutta la presunzione antropocentrista del progresso tecno-scientifico e, insieme alla vita di migliaia di persone, spazzano via in un pomeriggio tutte le certezze di una società urbana.
Tutt'intorno a noi scienza, economia e governi hanno modellato l'esistente ponendoci tutti in sospeso su di un'impalcatura autoreggente artificiale tutt'altro che solida: appunto la società tecnologica e industriale.

Da millenni di civilizzazione ora condensata nella sua espressione più totale e globale che è il Capitale multinazionale, siamo forzati/e tutti/e ad affidare le nostre vite alle sue nocività e illusioni. Con la stupida arroganza che lungo tutta la storia ha caratterizzato ogni dominante, il potere non può permettersi una messa in discussione di sè e del presente in cui ci ha costretto. Disposto ai ritocchi, comunque sempre false soluzioni, solo se possono rafforzare la sua legittimità, non può però che continuare a riprodursi in una spirale continua i cui cerchi asfissianti vanno sempre più restringendosi attorno a noi. Dove le bio- e nanotecnologie interne a questa spirale nociva che è il sistema in sè, non sono affatto semplici ed ulteriori sviluppi tecnologici tra i tanti, ma sono invece la tecnologia chiave con cui tutta l'impalcatura su cui siamo deportati/e lontani/e dal nostro mondo naturale si sta restaurando e, all'interno della spirale tecno-industriale, rappresentano quell'anello di catena che va a chiudere il cerchio d'acciaio del dominio delle nostre vite e su tutto l'esistente.
Dove a preoccupare i profitti dei padroni e delle loro multinazionali non sono più tanto quelle masse divenute succube del progresso materiale, bensì i "limiti" stessi di questo pianeta. Nasce l'esigenza allora di ottenere nuove materie prime, nuovi materiali e sostanze con nuove proprietà, nuove forme di produrre energia, nuove specie vegetali e animali “migliorate”, nuove applicazioni alimentari, industriali e mediche ottenute con la manipolazione del vivente e della materia. Innovazioni che, come d'altronde tutte le cruciali innovazioni tecnologiche della civilizzazione, nascono dalle esigenze militari per la guerra imperialista verso l'esterno e l'interno per la trinità conquista, controllo e sfruttamento.
Guerra, che oggi più che mai trascende l'ambito militare e ha allargato il suo fronte, appunto, a ogni espressione del vivente e della materia sia nano sia macro e supera finanche il pianeta terra per sé.

Così ogni settore produttivo investe in queste tecnologie, ma non accontentandosi più della ristrettezza dei laboratori di ricerca ma trasformando, dopo averlo trasformato finanche insieme allo spazio in un unica discarica mortifera e nauseabonda, l'intero pianeta in un laboratorio, un nuovo mondo vivente, o meglio agonizzante, ingegnerizzato.

Non per -come vogliono far credere le grandi campagne di green-washing del terrorismo mediatico e statale delle corporazioni- risolvere i disastri sociale e ambientali originati dal sistema, ma per poter continuare sempre e ancora a riprodurre questo sistema di dominio e di sfruttamento fino a chiudere definitivamente l'accerchiamento tecno-industriale.

Attraverso questa iniziativa vogliamo trasmettere uno specifico sentire rivoluzionario anarchico ecologista, che ci porta a contrastare con una priorità d'intervento le biotecnologie, le nanotecnologie e la ricerca nucleare poiché nocività pilastro su cui il sistema và ricombinandosi. Ecco perchè cogliamo l'occasione anche e soprattutto per un appello al rilancio della lotta all'ingegneria genetica e in particolare alla continua diffusione, articolata dall' EFSA a Parma come passaggio obbligatorio, degli OGM in Europa sostenuta dalle multinazionali chimiche e agro-alimentari, che puntano ad una liberalizzazione delle sementi OGM. Anche questo è parte, e parte cruciale, del tentativo d'estendere il controllo e dominio totale e assoluto in tutti i processi biologici (come per quelli sociali ed economici con la nanotecnologia/tecnologia informatica) riducendo l'essere vivente ad un mero aggregato di geni da plasmare a convenienza della produzione.
Lotta che non passa delegando ad esperti/e o politici/he sempre complici ma organizzando iniziative ed agendo diffusamente per fermare queste necrologie.

Con questo sciopero ribadiamo la nostra volontà di rimanere soggetti attivi in un più vasto percorso di lotta a lungo termine, abbattendo muri, sbarre e frontiere del potere e rinnovando complicità attiva a tutti/e coloro che lottano contro l'oppressione dell'uomo sull'uomo, sulla donna, sugli altri animali e sulla terra tutta!

Complicità e solidarietà incondizionata ai ribelli che il 7 febbraio si sono opposti a un trasporto della morte in Val Susa!

Complicità e solidarietà incondizionata ai/alle 5 compagni/e sequestrati/e il 6 aprile 2011 e a tutti/e colpiti/e da questa ennesima repressione basata sui fascistissimi articoli associativi d'Italia!

Solidarietà ai/alle compagni/e della guerriglia sociale ostaggi in Grecia, in Cile, in Argentina, in Messico, e dappertutto nel mondo!

Solidarietà ai/alle compagni/e della montatura “caso bombas” ed ai quattro prigionieri politici Mapuche, tutti/e in sciopero della fame e ostaggi dello stato fascista in Cile!

Nonché a tutti/e i/le prigionieri/e rivoluzionari/e ostaggi della guerra sociale qui in Europa come nelle Americhe e ovunque nel mondo!

E non per ultimo, un caloroso saluto rivoluzionario a voi compas riuniti/e in questo 1. Maggio qui a Zurigo e nel resto della Svizzera, dove nella convergenza delle vostre specificità ci sappiamo vivamente presenti, dove, come prigionieri/e rivoluzionari/e, ci sappiamo vivamente presenti anche nella forte mobilitazione e partecipazione internazionale contro la repressione e per la liberazione di noi prigionieri/e rivoluzionari/e !

Con la solidarietà in movimento, la repressione non fermerà le nostre lotte! La passione per la libertà è più forte di ogni autorità!


Inizio maggio, dal carcere svizzero
Silvia, Costa, Marco, Billy

Suiza: Silvia, Costa, Billy y Marco inician huelga de hambre

Silvia, Costa, Billy y Marco (presxs Anarquistas en Suiza) han decidido iniciar una huelga de hambre desde este primero de mayo hasta el 28 de este mismo mes, como una iniciativa de dar continuidad a lucha y solidaridad entre quienes se encuentran en la cárcel, también como respuesta a los intentos por aislar y sepultar la lucha.

Silvia, Costa y Billy están en cárcel desde el año pasado junto a Marco Camenish (muchos años en cárcel) acusadxs de ataques a empresas destructoras de la tierra, industrias que experimentan con animales, laboratorios de tecnologia, entre otras.

En un texto publicado escriben sobre a mas de un año del vertido de petroleo en el mar ocurrido en México, de la expansión y fortalecimiento de la civilización industrial. Mandan un saludo también a lxs compañerxs secuetradxs en Chile, México, Argentina, Grecia y a lxs mapuches en huelga de hambre.

http://www.silviabillycostaliberi.tk/

Barcellona - Una delle detenute del 4F si suicida dopo 6 mesi di prigione


Una delle detenute del 4F si suicida dopo 6 mesi di prigione

26-04-2011

Patricia Heras era stata condannata per gli incidenti di Sant Pere Més Baix dove un membro della Guardia Urbana ricevette un colpo che lo lasciò tetraplegico. La ragazza aveva sempre difeso la sua innocenza. Amnesty International ha anche denunciato il caso e le torture inflitte alla detenuta.

Patricia Heras, una delle persone condannate per i fatti di Sant Pere de Més Baix dove nel 2006 un poliziotto di Barcellona risultò gravemente ferito durante un confuso sgombero d'un locale, si è suicidata in casa sua la scorsa notte. Heras, che aveva redatto nel suo blog una versione dei fatti contraria alla versione accettata dal tribunale, era in carcere da sei mesi, quattro dei quali in “terzo grado” - tornava a dormire tutte le notti in carcere. Sempre si è dichiarata innocente.

I fatti successero il 4 febbraio 2006 quando la Guardia Urbana cercava di terminare una festa in una casa presunta okupa (il movimento okupa negò che ci fosse nessun tipo di relazione con quell'edificio) nella via di Sant Pere Mès Baix. Negli incidenti un membro della Guardia Urbana fu aggredito con un vaso che gli causò lesioni gravissime che lo lasciarono in stato vegetativo.

La versione secondo la quale un vaso gli era stato lanciato addosso da una balcone, fu spiegata dall'allora sindaco Joan Clos. Anche se dopo cambiarono la versione e si affermò che le ferite erano state causate da una pietra. Patricia Heras in ogni caso non fu accusata di questo, se non di aver lanciato successivamente una barriera metallica contro la polizia, accusa che lei negava, affermando che non si trovava neanche sul luogo dei fatti.

Nel gennaio del 2008 Heras fu giudicata nell'Audiéncia Provincial di Barcellona e condannata, con Alfredo Pestana a tre anni di prigione per attentato contro l'autorità. I condannati ricorsero al tribunale supremo spagnolo che il 3 giugno del 2009 ratificò la sentenza imposta dall'Audiéncia Provincial di Barcellona.

Posteriormente richiesero l'indulto al consiglio dei ministri, che non fu concesso.

Nell'ottobre del 2010 Patricia Heras entrò nel carcere di Wad Ras di Barcellona e il 18 dicembre del 2010 passò alla sezione aperta con l'obbligazione di tornare a dormire ogni notte in prigione.

Il 26 aprile 2011 si suicidò in casa sua.

Per questi fatti ci sono in prigione altre tre persone, Juan Pintos, Alex Cisterna e Rodrigo Lanza.

Amnesty International denunciò il caso e le torture che ricevettero i tre detenuti principali.

Anche Patricia Heras denuciò i matrattamenti subiti.





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Manifestazione: Patri 4F, non dimentichiamo

Ieri pomeriggio 26 aprile ci assaltava la notizia della morte di una compagna: Patricia Heras, detenuta per i fatti del 4F, decideva di togliersi la vita piuttosto che tornare in carcere un'altra volta.

Dopo un processo pieno di irregolarità e bugie da parte del comune di Barcellona e la Guardia Urbana, Patricia fu condannata a tre anni di carcere incolpata per dei fatti che sempre negò di aver aver commesso.

Puntiamo il dito all'allora sindaco Joan Clos, a Jordi Hereu consigliere sulla sicurezza e a tutti i complici di questo sistema penale assassino come colpevoli per la morte di Patri.

PIENI DI RABBIA E DI DOLORE PER QUESTO NUOVO ASSASSINIO DI STATO, CONVOCHIAMO UNA MANIFESTAZIONE PER DOMANI GIOVEDÌ 28 APRILE ALLE 19:30 NEL FORAT DE LA VERGONYA

(a fianco del mercato di Santa Caterina, Metro L4 – Jaume I)

SENZA GIUSTIZIA NON CI SARA' PACE.
Addio Patri.

Trento e Rovereto - Sabotati bancomat Unicredit contro guerra in Libia


TRENTO-ROVERETO: DIVELTI A MAZZATE 3 BANCOMAT UNICREDIT. COMPLICE DI GHEDDAFI. GUERRA ALLA GUERRA."

http://www.informa-azione.info/trento_e_rovereto_sabotati_bancomat_unicredit_contro_guerra_in_libia

War, Catastrophe, Democracy, Prison – We Want Revolution


Translated from www.finimondo.org

Text of a leaflet distributed in Brussels (Belgium) in April 2011.

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In a time when words seem to lose their meaning, when the language of power tries to penetrate all our conversations, we think it is even more indispensable to make an effort in order to speak clearly. Let’s stop parroting what the newspapers say, television shows and the powerful want us to believe. The point is neither to agree at all costs nor to convert everything, but it is to try to speak with our mouth, our words, our pains and our hopes.

War… or revolution

The beginning of NATO bombardments against the forces loyal to Gaddafi in Libya marked a fatal step. At the beginning, what was undoubtedly an armed insurrection of a significant part of the population against the regime, is slowly transforming into a military war. Apart from some self-organized forms of resistance, which all kinds of authority define as ‘irregular’, the insurrection in Libya seems to have degenerated in a conflict between opposing armies. And it is not by chance that the ‘irregulars’ down there have always been very suspicious towards the ‘official opposition’, which has copied the hierarchies, grades and structures of command of the Gaddafi’s army. As a matter of fact, the militarization of the conflict has buried the possibility of a radical overturning of Libyan society. New uniforms, new leaders and new authorities constitute an obstacle to those who want to experiment other social relationships, relationships of solidarity and reciprocity, self-organization of social life between people instead of a new regime, new social structures, new leaders and new privileges. Today in Libya the question is to support in all possible ways the insurgents who have struggled and who will struggle again in the future for a deep change of society. As a Libyan anarchist comrade said, the question is to refuse power’s blackmail – be it Gaddafi, the official opposition or NATO – which intends to suffocate the possibility of social revolution by pushing towards a merely military war. Let’s never forget those who have died while struggling for freedom and have challenged a monstrous regime by relying on their strength only, putting their life at risk.

Catastrophe… or revolution

What happened in Japan is not a natural disaster but a social catastrophe. What happened in Japanese nuclear plants is not a disgraceful incident but the sad consequence of a world full of industries that vomit poison., of nuclear plants scattered everywhere, which have heavily and tragically mortgaged life and freedom on the earth, of an economy that poisons the planet and human minds, by obeying only to the quest for more profit for the powerful and the rich. Entire regions in Japan are currently encircled and militarised. After building nuclear plants and putting the interests of capitalist economy ahead of everything else, the Japanese State now presents itself as the sole actor able to sort the situation out, to manage the disaster and to ‘help people’. By implementing a military regime in the devastated areas of the island and a regime of scientific control that reduces the inhabitants of the contaminated areas to simple numbers, radioactivity rates or guinea pigs, the State is strengthening its grip on the population. Frightened by the even too real nuclear threat, people are running towards their saviour… But the cause of a problem cannot be at the same time its solution; if the cause continues to exist, the problems grows. And the problem is not so much natural disasters but this world of industries and nuclear plants, metropolis where one cannot live and devastated countryside. The point is either to continue to make the catastrophe permanent in this world or radically change road, dethrone economy and its king the money, stop believing scientists and experts in order to find solutions to problems they themselves created, and invent new ways of living together. Either the catastrophe of this world full of horrors or social revolution.

Democracy… or revolution

After the cries of victory coming from Egypt and Tunisia, cries that our media transformed into a homage to western democracy, a new order is about to impose itself. Egyptian troops are once again shooting at the crowds in revolt, Tunisian jails are filling up with insurgents who struggled for much more than a simple change of regime, various political and religious rackets are doing their best to recuperate and channel anger into filthy nationalisms and oppressing religions. But, in spite of growing repression, fights keep on. While in Egypt wild strikes take place continuously against old and new bosses, entire areas in Tunisia are still today out of the clutches of the new State and self-organize themselves to face material needs, by putting into practice reciprocal solidarity instead of capitalist competition, by pushing back from villages cops, political leaders and judges, identified as the expression of the suffocation of freedom.

Everything is being tried in order to make people forget that there exist other possibilities beyond the alternative between dictatorship and democracy; that it is possible to experiment new ways of living together which are not run by the State, be it elected or imposed; that there exist other possible choices rather than be subjected to ferocious exploitation like in most parts of the world, or respect social peace between exploited and exploiters and be content with crumbs as often happens here. Everything is being tried to make people forget what the powerful of everywhere, be them democratic or dictatorial, rude or gentle, ferocious or human, fear most: a social revolution which puts an end to the causes of exploitation and oppression.

Prison… or revolution

For those who choose to struggle for freedom, real freedom, in the end there are only two answers from their enemies: bullets or prison. Recently some Italian anarchists were hit once again by repression. Five comrades in Bologna are now being held in prison and sixty houses were searched all over Italy. Charged with ‘organized crime’, they are imprisoned by the State, which hopes to stop the struggles against migrants detention centres and the attacks against the responsible for the machinery of deportation; the solidarity with the insurgents on the other side of the Mediterranean and against the Italian companies that profit form Gaddafi’s regime to import gas and oil and export weapons useful to suppress revolts (after all the same companies are keen to build nuclear plants in Italy, which also provokes resistance); the comrades’ irreducible choice for revolt and their attacks against the structures of dominion.

If we talk about them it is because we recognize ourselves in those struggles and because we share, beyond borders, their desire for freedom which pushes them to struggle by words and deeds. No prison will ever stop our struggle for freedom. Solidarity with the Italian comrades and with the comrades imprisoned in other countries of the world consists in continuing, always continuing to attack dominion, with hope in our hearts and clenched fits.

Let’s give fire to the powder keg. May the wind of freedom blow, may the tempest of insurrection rage.

Anarchists

en/es Anarchist rapper from Siberia kidnapped by Russian authorities


28th of April, hip-hop musician Andrei "KUBA" Kravchenko was kidnapped by police in Moscow in university, where he was about to pass his final exams in faculty of PR. He was handcuffed and taken to police station of "Bogorodskoe", from where he was further sent by airplane to his hometown, distant city of Chita in Siberia.

30th of April, Andrey was interrogated in criminal case against local anti-fascist activists, and eventually released court pending. Case dates back to September of 2010, when a group of local Nazis, lead by Semen Murzin, claimed to local polcie that they had been beaten up by anti-fascists. Five anti-fascist were charged with "hooliganism", but eventually three of them have been requalified from suspects to witnesses.

Andrey moved to Moscow in September to continue his studies, and he was never interrogated. He was never given a summon to court, thus there is no legal basis to claim that he is evading investigation, and his arrest was thus a hijacking.

This is continuation of a long series of police repressions against local activists. Andrey took part to ecological protest camp against planned reprocessing plant of used nuclear fuel in summer of 2007, Nazis attacked to camp and killed activist Ilya Borodaenko. Back then, Andrey was interviewed to state TV channel NTV.

More details in Russian

KUBA myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/kubarap
Moscow oldschool

Papakha - Our bus is going to hell (featuring KUBA, Sasha Chryme)

10-Side - Unity (feat. NR, KUBA)


http://avtonom.org/en/anarchist-black-cross

El jueves 28 de abril fue detenido por la policía el cantante de hip-hop Andrey “Cuba” Kravchenko en Moscú. La detención tuvo lugar en la universidad donde estudia cuando iba a dar sus exámenes estatales en la facultad de Publicidad. Esposado, Andrey fue conducido a la Estación de Policía “Bogorodskoe” desde donde fue enviado en avión a su ciudad natal, la ciudad siberiana de Chitá.

El 30 de abril Andrey fue interrogado por el proceso contra los activistas anti-fascistas de esta región y poco después liberado. El caso fue abierto en septiembre de 2010 cuando un grupo de nazistas locales, liderados por Semión Murzin, declararon ante la policía haber sido atacados por un anti-fascistas. Cinco anti-fascistas fueron acusados de “bandalismo”, pero tres de ellos pasaron de ser sospechosos a ser testigos.

Andrey se trasladó a Moscú en septiembre para continuar sus estudios y nunca fue interrogado. Además, nunca se le había llamado a declarar, lo que implica que no hay bases legales para afirmar que estaba evadiendo la investigación y su arresto se puede comparar más a un secuestro.

Esta es la continuación de una larga serie de historias de represión policial contra activistas. Andrey tomó parte en el campamento ecológico de Angarsk que protestaba contra la planta de energía nuclear. El campamento fue atacado por neonazis y Iliá Borodaenko fue asesinado por estos. Andrey fue entrevistado por el canal estatal de televisión NTV después de los hechos y declaró:

- estoy dedicado prácticamente sólo a la música, y estoy en el centro de atención de los empleados del Centro “E”. Escuchan mis canciones en MySpace, leen mi página en Vkontakte, intentando descubrir elementos extremistas en ellos.

More details in Russian

KUBA myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/kubarap
Moscow oldschool

Papakha - Our bus is going to hell (featuring KUBA, Sasha Chryme)

10-Side - Unity (feat. NR, KUBA)

1 de mayo: día de lucha contra la explotación capitalista


Estamos contra el trabajo:
- Porque es mentira que dignifica, sino que te esclaviza.
- Porque le damos nuestra vida a un patrón para que se enriquezca, dejando de lado a nuestros seres queridos, nuestro desarrollo y crecimiento como personas libres de oprimir y ser oprimidas.
- Porque las labores tienen que ser comunitarias y no para el lucro de unos pocos.

- Porque mas trabajamos, mas gastamos y consumimos cosas innecesarias.

Recordando a quienes murieron luchando contra este sistema de explotación. Autogestión, sabotaje y robo a tu patrón. Su riqueza te pertenece.

Por la recuperación de nuestro tiempo y de nuestras vidas!!!

Viva la anarquía!!!

DESCARGAR

http://vivalaanarquia.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/1-de-mayo.pdf

domenica 1 maggio 2011

en/es Letter from Rami Syrianos


Last week, comrade Rami Syrianos—arrested in Thessaloniki on January 31 after a robbery at a public auction—released his first open letter.

Without a doubt, we are living through yet another period marked by the readjustment of this world’s living conditions. Capitalism’s gleaming shop window has been shattered to reveal what lies behind: a process of putrefaction and decadence. Democratic hopes and capitalist promises are quickly slipping away alongside the fictitious prosperity (through loans) of capitalism’s decades-old golden age. The “promised land”—complete with private swimming pool, two cars, and four televisions—has suddenly disappeared, replaced by a gray desert of depression, desperation, insecurity, and fear. Domination, showing suitable flexibility, is withdrawing toward a new kind of digitally programmed totalitarianism—entrenching among new police units, biometric databases, and an even newer, more elastic batch of “antiterrorist” laws—all in an attempt to steel itself against the enemy within, which is threatening the ever-so-fragile social peace. The “invisible” forced social labor camp has become a maximum-security prison, while the social cohesion built up over years is again changing the rules on which it was based and questioning access to wealth and consumption; questioning the promises and hopes of social ascent and recognition; questioning the role of wage-labor as a means to satisfy needs and desires, as a ticket to fulfillment in a world of consumerist dreams and sensations.

Work is not simply and exclusively an economic process that makes human activity marketable. Due to its totalitarian character, it imposes itself as a generalized universal condition that creates and shapes relationships and consciousness. By giving work a new meaning—transforming it into the means of attaining social ascent and fulfilling capitalist promises of participation in consumption—Power has reinvented and reestablished its prevailing discourse in the minds of its subjects, spreading and amplifying it, and now consolidating it among all social classes. Empty rhetoric about “businessmen who made fortunes on their own,” about achieving social recognition through bank loans, but also about fulfillment through consumption, found fertile soil in attentive ears for the cultivation of a cannibal consciousness whose supreme value is the ruthless pursuit—even over dead bodies—of prestige, power, and wealth. The old working class has become a bunch of petty-bourgeois proprietors who identify their own interests with those of the system, since apart from their chains (now made of plastic and in the form of loans) they also have their comforts and social status to lose. Under the terms of the generalized consensus now taking shape, the traditional repressive forces are “withdrawing” to the rearguard (although they are still developing in secret) and a campaign of decay and isolation is being launched, spearheaded by prefabricated lifestyle models, access to centers of entertainment, social recognition, and consumerist happiness. Social peace is guaranteed by satisfying the new collective desires of a society that, hungry to consume products and images, has abandoned itself to an orgiastic existence stripped of all meaning. This is an era in which existential poverty is becoming the most extreme, isolation and concern only for one’s own skin are rooting themselves into people’s consciences, and life is gradually losing all significance—caged by work hours, televised “reality shows,” standardized entertainment outlets, and images of fictitious happiness. However, this party has an expiration date. The time has come to add up the bill, and it will have to be paid, plus commission.

New social conditions are being reshaped to make the step from the internalization of control (which was possible because of access to power and consumer goods) to the internalization of obedience through fear, insecurity, unstable work hours, unemployment, and images of entire areas occupied by mercenary police. Using the international financial crisis as a pretext, an attempt of unprecedented scale is being made to redistribute wealth toward the highest social strata and simultaneously restructure the entire assemblage of social relations. The fictitious image of affluence is being smashed to pieces, just like the hopes that accompanied it, and in its place looms the vision of an inexorable future. Fear and uncertainty are replacing the promises that have been the driving force of the social machinery, sinking their roots into the minds of subjects who were just recently quite content, but who are now watching the disintegration of their “earthly paradise” made from loans, watching as they are touched by the fate to which they themselves—untroubled by all the blood spilled on their road to progress and happiness—once condemned people who live on the margins of capitalism. Wage-labor, the cornerstone of widespread social change, has been demystified and stripped of its “the way to get ahead and be happy” veneer. Thus, its true face—its nature—is now plainly revealed: a coerced, exploitative process of producing inequality. Under these conditions, with the piecemeal demolition of traditional mechanisms of consensus that previously functioned according to plan, with social cohesion becoming more and more fragile, Domination is espousing a hostile discourse. It is declaring a permanent state of emergency and fortifying itself behind flexible new “antiterrorist” laws, biological databases, surveillance systems, and thousands of new contract police/urban mercenaries ready to impose a new totalitarianism.

The revival of insurrectionary practices around the world, the reappearance of metropolitan guerrilla warfare, the combative marches and riots everywhere, the revolts in the Arab world, the growing distrust of the role of regime intermediary being played by the Left, and the return to more radical forms of struggle: All these things remind us that the commitment to revolutionary change has neither been lost nor forgotten. Rather, it is entering the arena once again, more urgent and vital than ever. The criminal prosecution, imprisonment, and murder of those who struggle are not the results of an attack launched by Domination. They constitute its defensive efforts, undertaken to address the cracks expanding throughout its foundation, while people lose faith in the idea of its omnipotence more and more each day.

On January 31, while I was making my getaway after carrying out a robbery at the vehicle auction organized by the Public Asset Management Agency AE (which conducts a wide range of different auctions and is responsible for the liquidation of cars, motorcycles, and many other assets seized by the pigs or by customs), I was surrounded and arrested by uniformed pigs from the DIAS squad. They brought me to Thessaloniki Police Headquarters, where I was stripped down to my underwear, handcuffed behind my back, and made to stand facing a wall for about seven hours while various undercovers and other pigs joined the parade to get a look at me. I continually refused to say anything other than that I am an anarchist, and I also refused to have my fingerprints and photograph taken.

They later brought me to my home, which they searched for five hours before we returned to Police Headquarters. Once back there, a dozen pigs surrounded me and their chief attempted to begin a process of interrogation and humiliation of my principles in the style of a “friendly chat,” during which I heard grotesques such as: “We’re the real revolutionaries and you’re just a loser,” “We’re against the banks” (!), “While you refuse to help yourself, the other one has already squealed,” etc. As we can see, some clichés never die. The only thing I told them time and time again was that I am a revolutionary anarchist and that they are nothing more than Power’s thugs—lackey enforcers of the law without minds of their own, who humiliate, torture, and murder in exchange for a salary. When morning came, after getting in touch with my lawyer I found out that—because of a phone number written on a slip of paper I tragically forgot I had on me—they had arrested another person I knew from the antiauthoritarian milieu, and the mass media had printed photos of both of us. They then brought us to court, making a shocking spectacle out of the whole thing like always. They dressed us in white bulletproof vests, with panic-stricken pigs in balaclavas looking like something out of a scene from a cheap Hollywood action flick. The only thing I told the hearing judge was that I did what I did as an anarchist in the context of the rejection of work, and that the other person being charged had nothing to do with the case. They ruled that I was to be placed in pretrial detention, while the other comrade was released because dozens of witnesses testified that he was working at the self-managed Polytechnic cafeteria at the exact time of the robbery.

Robbing the Public Asset Management Agency AE repossessors was an honorable expression of my refusal to submit to the oppressive, empty reality imposed by chopping space and time into pieces; imposed by work hours and predetermined paths; imposed by the coercive “you must” ordered by bosses in response to the alienated “I want” expressed by their subordinates; imposed by a production process that turns people into living spare parts for the machinery of consumption of images and products. Rejecting the role of victim of the exploitation applied by little and big bosses alike, as well as the role of sacrificial lamb or collaborator with exploitation itself; sickened as much by the submissive work ethic of the “poor but honest” as by the overambitious arrogance of the “successful careerist”; perceiving the entire complex of social relations as an alienated result of capitalist production, I decided to shift into individual action, throwing myself into the polymorphic revolutionary anarchist process, part of which is the rejection of work. The rejection of work can’t just be a thoughtless choice divorced from a more generalized rupture with hierarchy, and obviously said rejection isn’t necessarily defined by its method (a robbery, for instance). Robbery and burglary can easily degenerate into a job, with fixed hours and everything else that entails: the same arrogance as the rich, the participation in consumerism, the fragmentation of time according to “work hours,” and the development of a (criminal) professional identity. Robbery, kidnapping, individual or collective expropriation of goods, sabotage, attacks on economic targets, collective living experiences, and free street markets are all methods that give meaning to the complete rejection of the world of work, production, and consumption, but only if they increase awareness that leads to support for a wider revolutionary struggle for individual and collective liberation.

As a part of this polymorphic movement, I now find myself imprisoned in the dungeons of Ioannina, paying the price for my principled decisions. The only thing I regret is not doing more outside these walls.

Not a single step backward.

—Rami Syrianos, Ioannina Penitentiary Center, April 2011

Carta de Rami Sirianos
Hace una semana el compañero Rami Sirianos que resultó detenido el 31 de enero de 2011 después de atraco a una subasta en Tesalónica publicó su primera carta:

Vivimos sin duda en un periodo en que el conjunto de condiciones de vida en ese mundo se está reajustando de nuevo. El reluciente escaparate del capitalismo se hizo añicos y dejó a la vista lo que hay detrás: un proceso de putrefacción y decadencia. Las ilusiones democráticas y las promesas capitalistas escapan rápidamente junto a una abundancia ficticia (tras prestamos) de la época dorada del capitalismo de las décadas pasadas, ahora cuando la “tierra prometida” con piscina privada, 2 coches y 4 televisores desaparecieron dejando en su lugar un desierto gris de la depresión, desesperación, inseguridad y del miedo. El Dominio, mostrando una flexibilidad de lo más apta, se repliega hacia un nuevo tipo de digitalmente programado totalitarismo y se atrinchera con nuevos cuerpos de policía, biométricas bases de datos y unas nuevas, más elásticas, legislaciones “antiterroristas”, todo esto en un intento de fortificarse en contra del enemigo interno, que está amenazando a esa tan frágil paz social. Ese “invisible” campo de trabajos forzados social se convierte en una cárcel de alta seguridad, mientras que la construida durante años cohesión social está reajustando de nuevo las reglas sobre cuales fue basada. Está cuestionando de nuevo el acceso a la riqueza y consumo, las promesas y esperanzas por una subida y reconocimiento social, el papel del trabajo asalariado como medio para cumplir necesidades y deseos o como billete para la auto-realización de uno mismo en un mundo de sueños y sensaciones consumistas.
El trabajo no existe simple y exclusivamente como un económico proceso de comercialización de la actividad humana. Debido a su carácter totalitario, se impone como una condición general y universal bajo la cual se están creando y formando relaciones y consciencias. Fue tras dar un nuevo significado al trabajo, convertirlo en medio para obtener la subida social y satisfacer las promesas capitalistas de tomar parte en el consumo, como el Poder ha reinventado y recreado el discurso dominante en los cerebros de sus súbditos, lo difundió y expandió, lo consolidó ya entre todas las clases sociales. Las retoricas sobre “empresarios que se hicieron fortunas por sí mismos”, sobre reconocimiento social obtenido tras créditos bancarios, pero también sobre auto-realización tras consumo, en los oídos diligentes han encontrado un terreno fértil para cultivar las consciencias caníbales que como su valor supremo tienen la despiadada, sea sobre las cadáveres, caza por prestigio, poder y riqueza. La vieja clase obrera se vuelve pequeños burgueses propietarios y identifica sus propios intereses con aquellos de sistema, puesto que aparte de sus cadenas (que ya se hicieron plásticas y tienen forma de préstamo) tiene para perder también sus comodidades y su estatus social. Bajo la condición del consenso generalizo que se está configurando, las fuerzas represivas tradicionales se “retiran” a la retaguardia (aunque en secreto se están desarrollando), y se está lanzando una campaña de decaimiento y individualización, que como punta de lanza tiene unos prefabricados modelos de estilo de vida, el acceso a los centros de entretenimiento, el reconocimiento social y la felicidad consumista. La paz social está asegurada con la satisfacción de los nuevos deseos colectivos de la sociedad que, hambrienta por consumir productos e imágenes se entrega a una orgia de despojar su propia existencia de cualquier sentido. Esta es la época en que la pobreza existencial se hace más profunda, la individualización y la preocupación sólo por su propio pellejo extienden sus raíces en las consciencias de la gente y la vida va perdiendo más y más cualquier sentido, enjaulada en horarios, “reality shows” televisivos, estandarizados encajes del entretenimiento y imágenes de felicidad ficticia. Sin embargo, la fiesta tenía una fecha de expiración. Ahora llegó la hora de hacer la cuenta y se la tendrá que pagar con comisión.
Nuevas condiciones sociales que se están configurando llegan para hacer el paso de la internalización del control (que era posible tras acceso a los bienes materiales y al poder) a la internalización de la obediencia tras miedo, inseguridad, horarios laborales flexibles, desempleo e imagen de zonas enteras ocupadas por mercenarios policiales. Usando la crisis internacional financiera como pretexto, se está intentando –a una escala sin precedentes-redistribuir la riqueza hacia los sectores sociales más altos y al mismo tiempo reestructurar todo el conjunto de las relaciones sociales. La ficticia imagen de la opulencia se está rompiendo en pedazos, como también las ilusiones que le acompañaban, y en su lugar amanezca la visión de un futuro inexorable. El miedo e incertidumbre remplazan las promesas que hasta ahora fueron el eje principal de la mecánica social, ponen sus raíces en las mentes de los, aún hace poco bastante contentos, súbditos, los cuales ven como sus “paraísos terrenales” hechos de préstamos se caen en pedazos y ven como les toca el destino al cual ellos mismos – sin preocuparse por el sangre que se iba derramando en el camino de su progreso y felicidad- condenaban hasta hace muy recién la gente que vive en el margen del capitalismo. El trabajo asalariado, siendo la piedra angular de los cambios sociales más amplios, queda despojado de su manto de “medio de avanzar y ser feliz” y desmitificado, así dejando ya muy claro su verdadero rostro, su naturaleza: un sacado por amenazas proceso de producción de desigualdades y una explotación. En estas condiciones, cuando los tradicionales mecanismos de consenso que anteriormente funcionaban bien poco a poco se van derrumbando y la cohesión social se hace mas y mas delicada, el Dominio adopta un discurso bélico, declarando un permanente estado de excepción y se atrinchera detrás de las nuevas, más flexibles, legislaciones “antiterroristas”, bases de datos biológicos, sistemas de vigilancia y miles de nuevos contratados policías/mercenarios urbanos, preparados para imponer un nuevo totalitarismo.
La reanimación de las practicas insurreccionales en todo el mundo, la reaparición de la guerrilla metropolitana, las marchas combativas y disturbios por todos lados, las revueltas en el mundo árabe, la creciente desconfianza hacia el papel de intermediario del régimen que juega la Izquierda, y además la vuelta a unas formas de lucha más radicales, todo esto nos recuerda que : la apuesta por un cambio revolucionario no se ha perdido ni olvidado, sino entra de nuevo en la arena, aun más perentoria, mas vital que nunca. Las persecuciones penales, encarcelamientos y asesinatos de los que luchan no son el resultado del ataque lanzado por el Dominio, sino constituyen sus obras defensivas, hechas para afrontar el crujido en sus fundamentos, que se hace más y más intenso, mientras que la fe en el imagen de su omnipotencia se va perdiendo cada día más.
El 31 de enero, cuando estaba huyendo después de realizar el atraco a la subasta de vehículos organizada por Organización de Gestión de los Bienes Públicos A.E. (se trata de un órgano que maneja gran gama de subastas y es responsable de la liquidación, principalmente de coches y motos pero también de muchos otros bienes confiscados por los maderos o por la aduana) fui rodeado y detenido por cerdos uniformados de la brigada DIAS. Me llevaron a la Comisaria Central de Tesalónica, donde me desnudaron dejándome sólo en calzoncillos, me esposaron por detrás y me pusieron de pie para que mirase la pared durante más o menos 7 horas, mientras que varios secretas y otros maderos hacen el desfile para verme. Continuamente me niego de decir cualquier cosa aparte de que soy anarquista, también me niego que me tomasen huellas y fotos.
Luego me llevan a mi casa para registrarla y a cabo de 5 horas que eso duró volvemos a Comisaria Central. Una vez ahí, una decena de maderos me rodea y su jefe intenta de empezar un procedimiento de interrogación pero también de una humillación ética, lo hace de manera “charla entre amigos”, y entre otras escucho cosas grotescas como por ejemplo: “nosotros somos los verdaderos revolucionarios, tu eres un pendejo”, “nosotros estamos en contra de los bancos” (¡!!), pero también “porque no te ayudes a ti mismo, el otro ya ha hablado” (como vemos algunas clichés nunca mueren…), etc. Lo único que les digo una y otra vez es que soy anarquista revolucionario y que ellos no son nada más que matones del Poder, simples aplicadores de la ley sin voluntad ninguna, que al cambio de un sueldo humillan, torturan y asesinan. Cuando llega la mañana, después de comunicarme con mi abogado me entero que, debido a un papelito con un número de teléfono que por un trágico error me olvidé que tenía encima, detuvieron a una otra persona que conozco, que también pertenece al ámbito antiautoritario, y que los medios de comunicación publicaron fotos de nosotros dos. A continuación nos llevan a los juzgados haciendo su tan conocido espectáculo de crear impresiones: nos ponen unos blancos chalecos antibalas mientras que los maderos con pasamontañas presos de pánico representan alguna cutre escena sacada de la peli de acción de Hollywood. Al juez de instrucción le digo solamente que lo que hice lo hice como anarquista en el marco de rechazo al trabajo y que el otro acusado no tiene nada que ver con ese caso. Ordenan de ponerme en cárcel preventiva, mientras que al otro compañero le dejan libre, puesto que en el momento mismo del atraco trabajó en la autogestionada cafetería en la Politécnica, algo que confirmaron decenas de testigos.
El atraco a los escubridores de OGBP A.E. es una expresión honrada de mi rechazo de someterme a la opresiva y vacía de contenido realidad impuesta por ese cortado en trozos espacio y tiempo de los horarios y trayectos pre-determinados, de los forzados “debes” que ordenan los jefes a los enajenados “quiero” que expresan sus súbditos, de un proceso de producción que convierte la gente en unas vivas piezas de recambio para la máquina de consumo de imágenes y productos. Negándome a imitar tanto el papel de la victima de explotación utilizada por cada pequeño o grande jefe como el de sacrificador o colaborador de la explotación misma, asqueado tanto por el moral sumiso de obrero “pobre pero honrado” como por la llena de ambiciones arrogancia de “carrerista exitoso”, percibiendo todo el conjunto de las relaciones sociales como una enajenada consecuencia de la producción capitalista, decidí de pasar a la acción individual lanzándome al polimórfico proceso anarquista revolucionario, proceso la parte de cual forma también el rechazo del trabajo. El rechazo del trabajo no puede ser una simple opción alejada de la más general ruptura con la jerarquía y evidentemente no es el medio con que sea llevada a cabo (por ejemplo un atraco) lo que la define como tal. Asaltos y robos fácilmente pueden degenerar en un trabajo con horarios fijos y todo lo que ese incluye: arrogancia propia de los ricos, participación en el consumo, fragmentación de tiempo según los “horarios” del curro y el desarrollo de una (delincuente) identidad profesional. Atracos, secuestros, individuales o colectivas expropiaciones de bienes, sabotajes, ataques contra objetivos económicos, experiencias de vivir colectivamente, mercadillos gratuitos…todos esos son medios que dan el significado al rechazo total del mundo de trabajo, producción y consumo, si la concientización que conllevan se adhiriese a una más amplia lucha revolucionaria por la liberación individual y colectiva.
Siendo parte de este movimiento polimórfico, me encuentro ahora encarcelado en las mazmorras de Ioannina pagando el costo de mis conscientes decisiones. Lo único de que me arrepiento es que no hice más cosas fuera de los muros.
Ni un paso atrás.

Rami Sirianos
Centro penitenciario de Ioannina
Abril de 2011

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