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State anti-anarchist repression, revolutionary solidarity (Italy)

(A)SolidarityMeansAttack(A) | 15.04.2012 12:54 | Repression | Terror War | World

Letter from Culmine blog editorial group on the March 29 raids against anarchists, including these comrades // letter from Tomo, one of the arrested anarchists // "Personal Inferno: For a Clearing of Solidarity" message from Edizioni Cerbero – Maurizio de Monte and Federico Buono - to comrades of Culmine and ParoleArmata // letter from the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire / FAI-IRF prisoners cell (Greece) to Culmine and ParoleArmata concerning the recent raids // solidarity letter from Conspiracion Acrata editorial collective (Mexico) to Culmine and other arrested comrades // Words from 325 for Culmine, Parole Armate and the others //

Perugia – Anarchists investigated, searched and questioned (Italy)
Posted on March 30, 2012 by Culmine – Translation act for freedom now/B.pb :

On 29th March the power of attorney of Perugia, following an investigation led by public prosecutor Comodi, has unleashed a repressive operation against 4 anarchist comrades. House searches were carried out in Pisa, Chieti, Brescia, Genoa, Catania, Ravenna and other cities. We don’t have a complete picture yet but we know that 2 comrades were forcibly taken to the ROS [Special Operations Unit of the Carabinieri] barracks in Perugia after being house searched, where they were supposed to be questioned by the public prosecutor. The comrades gave no comment interviews and were released in the night after 22 hours of kidnapping. The charges are: 270bis and 280, the latter concerning ‘a subversive nature of crime organization’. Carabinieri of the ROS of Perugia, ANTI-SUBVERSION unit of Rome and TECHINCAL INVESTIGATIONS unit of Rome took part in this police operation. Besides the usual IT and paper material, these kinds of stuff were also seized by the cops: clothes pegs, bulbs, pliers, screws, nails, bolts, electric cables, pins, batteries, masks, goggles, books of general chemistry and books of organic chemistry… in spite of anti-technology!

As always particular attention was given by the cops to the mail with imprisoned comrades, especially letters with Gabriel Pombo da Silva, Marco Camenish and the prisoners of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire. In the context of IT investigations, the email address culmine(at)distruzione(dot)org mail has been violated and copied. We are going to spread a note on this, both in Italian and Spanish. For the moment we express our unconditional solidarity to the 4 investigated comrades and we keep on shouting:

Viva l’Anarchia!
Death to the State, its accomplices, protectors and false opponents!

Rebels greetings

Culmine, 30th March 2012

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Letter from Tomo on the recent crackdown against anarchist comrades (Italy)
From contra-info:

Thursday, March 29th, during the night, by order of the general prosecutor’s office of Perugia and the pubblico ministero (public prosecutor) Manuela Comodi, diverse house searches were carried out against four anarchists in various cities (Pisa, Ravenna, Genoa, etc.); different divisions of the carabiniers [Italian paramilitary police] were mobilized, including the Anti-Crime Section from Bologna and the Anti-Subversion and Technical Investigations units of the Special Operations Group (Raggruppamento Operativo Speciale, ROS) from Rome.

At 4.05, I found myself with six carabiniers that plunged into the house (2 local, 2 ROS and 2 of the aforementioned Anti-Crime Section) in search of documentary material, useful material for assembly of explosive parcels, and so forth. All this happened because of my affinity relationships with the comrades of Culmine and my comrade who is involved along with me in the project ParoleArmate.

During the house search, the cops commented in sarcastic way on everything they could lay their hands on, which only increased my feeling of nausea, hatred and disgust towards them.

After three hours of searching and rummaging, they returned to the police department with two cardboard boxes full of material (the one was returned to me immediately, while the other was kept as it was considered useful for investigation purposes).

They took everything: a computer, 3 cell phones, around forty books, pamphlets, leaflets, letters (with particular attention to material about the comrades of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, which comprised two letters and a few brochures), a pair of gloves, old handwritten sheets, and so on.

I was compelled, that very morning, to go to the provincial department of carabiniers, where I was handed the record of house search and sequestration; that’s when I found out that, among the four whose houses were searched, I was the only one not to be put under investigation.

My comrades have been charged under articles 110, 112, 270bis and 280 (of the Italian Criminal Code).

This operation is nothing but the umpteenth attempted act in order to repress and intimidate those who are refractory and rebellious, trying to put off the anarchist and insurgent fire that burns inside of us. Needless to say they haven’t even remotely succeeded in their aim. We continue in the non-path, the one of flames and hatred, without retreating even one millimeter.

Words, thoughts and hands arm themselves; we concretize our rage, our desire and need for destruction. We attack.

An accomplice embrace of fire to all the prosecuted comrades and all in affinity who have demonstrated their vicinity and solidarity, among whom are the comrades of the Cerberus Editions (Edizioni Cerbero) and the comrades of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire. May the blaze of anarchist insurrection spread and propagate from the heart and the eyes of the indomitable in the whole world to the streets of cities and metropolises, notwithstanding all the attempts to confine and extinguish it.

This is why I join the cry of my comrades:

VIVA L’ANARCHIA! LONG LIVE ANARCHY!
LET THE POWDER ROAR AND THE FLAMES DESTROY!

Tomo, April 2nd, 2012, al Culmine del Nulla
… at the Culmination of Nothing.

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PERSONAL INFERNO – For a clearing of solidarity

‘… I don’t want and don’t give solidarity,
Because I’m convinced that it is yet another chain
And because, like Ibsen, I believe that the one who is most alone is the stronger.’
Renzo Novatore – I’m also a Nihilist

PERSONAL INFERNO
For a clearing of solidarity
Invitation to Egoist nihilist action addressed to the comrades hit by the law of the State issued by society under the disguise of nun Manuela Comodi*.

No prayer!
No sign of abating!
The rebel who triumphs on his EGO knows, and he knows how many abysses his existence has. Alas! ‘There are too many abysses for the lonely ones’ Zarathustra used to say

No prayer!

No profession of faith or creed for the lonely one!

No fanatic religious solidarity for the lonely one!

No prayer or rosary!

This is the path, the non-path!
So rise up you single vagabonds of the Ego!
Do not kneel down!
If you die your soul will die even before your body!

Do not pray!

‘I am a guardrail on the flow: those who can, take me.’
So your EGO speaks!
‘But I am not your crutch’

Do not trust man Christ recommended! I add, not even God!
Trust yourself!
Do not beg!

To the comrades of Culmine and Parole Armate
Edizioni Cerbero – Maurizio de Monte and Federico Buono

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* M.Comodi is the public prosecutor directing the case.

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Letter from the Imprisoned Members Cell of the CCF to Culmine & Parole Armate concerning the recent raids (Italy)
Translated by Act for freedom now! / boubourAs:

For a few days now has begun one more oppressive operation against anarchist comrades in Italy. Some comrades were arrested, interrogated, some got conditional discharges and others, house arrest.

The cops raided houses in the areas of Pisa, Chieti, Genoa, Catania, Ravena and elsewhere. The operation included the Carabinieri of Perugia, the Antiterrorist and the team of Technical Investigations of Rome. Amongst the arrestees, were also 4 anarchist comrades who were persecuted for “criminal organization of a subversive nature”. From the confiscated objects from the houses of the comrades, this time the cops showed special interest to their email communication with Gabriel Pombo da Silva, Marco Camenisch and the members of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire. During the investigation the email account of Culmine and Parole Armate was broken into and copied. By the cops.

Don’t say that its over…

Through these few words we send a comradely signal to all those who participate in Culmine and Parole Armate helping in the translations and the spreading of communiques, texts and letters from prison for the spreading of insurrectional anarchy.

Right now the Black International of the anarchists of action is a fact. Nothing would be the same without them. Especially this last year an international anarchist galaxy is created by individuals and autonomous groups who, whether support the FAI/IRF, or not, the attack the existing, communicate with their concerns, exchange thoughts.

They are the comrades with no name, the friends without a face, they are all of us who wore a hood and became bombers of authority symbols, bank robbers, saboteurs of their normality, and arsonists of social peace. Through Culmine and Parole Armate we share experiences and close relations with these unknown comrades from around the world.

This sharing is a moment of the continuous attack against the dogmatic thought, the mass culture, the society of useless information. Through Culmine and Parole Armate blossoms the real polymorphic dialogue of the anarchist insurrectional internationalism, not just in the words, but in practice. Because words fill the pages just like bullets slide into the chamber of a gun.

Ready and armed to give their own battle. Words that hit the normality of daily life, words that escape from the prison cells, words that are whispered conspiratorially before the moment of the attack, words that turn into actions, words that don’t beat around the bush, words clean like our look and conscience.

This wind of thousands of untameable words and anarchist actions visits numerous times the crossroad of Culmine and Parole Armate, for a moment, so it can explode and create again thousands of new moments of chaos and anarchy.

Culmine and Parole Armate is the secret harbour of chaos where words mixed up with actions and thoughts disguised into gestures go back-and-forth continuously in indeterminate and informal formations of attack. By stealing and rephrasing the words of the comrades Parole Armate we can say that the project of Culmine and Parole Armate is a result of the will of some anarchist individuals who deny the meaning of the official syntactic team and instead of that invite all those are interested in the spreading of insurrectional anarchist texts, to create relations and situations which liberate and are ready to be materialized outside the virtual frame of the internet.

For us the anarchist undertakings of Culmine and Parole Armate were created from the thought and desire of some comrades who discussed, managed from some hands which liberated meanings and disputes and belong to whoever considers them a piece of the individual and collective struggle for anarchy and chaos.
No matter what happens because of the attack of the Italian police, Culmine and Parole Armate will remain for ever a meeting point of comrades and friends, an unmade map of the Black International of Anarchists of Action.

Until we meet again

Solidarity to the comrades who are persecuted by the Italian state FOR EVER IN BATTLE FOR THE REALIZATION OF THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL OF THE ANARCHISTS OF ACTION

Imprisoned Members Cell of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire – FAI/IRF

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Solidarity letter with the anarchist comrades and with Culmine, from Conspiración Acrata (Mexico)

from liberaciontotal, transl waronsociety:

It is the hour of the social tragedy!
We will destroy laughing.
We will set fires laughing.
We will kill laughing.
We will expropriate laughing.
And society will fall.
The fatherland will fall.
The family will fall.
All will fall after the free man is born.
The one is born who has learned the Dionysian art of joy and laughter through tears and sorrow.
The hour has come to drown the enemy in blood…
The hour has come to wash our minds in blood.
Enough, enough, enough!
As the poet transforms his lyre into a dagger!
As the philosopher transforms his probe into a bomb!
As the fisherman transforms his oar into a formidable ax.
As the miner comes up from the unbearable caves of the dark mines armed with his shining iron.
As the farmer transforms his fruitful spade into a war lance.
As the laborer transforms his hammer into a scythe and cleaver.
And forward, forward, forward.
It is time, it is time — it is time!
And society will fall.
The fatherland will fall.
The family will fall.
All will fall after the Free Man is born.
Forward, forward, forward, oh joyful destroyers.
Beneath the black edge of death we will conquer Life!
Laughing!
And we will make it our slave! Laughing!
And we will love it laughing!
Since the only serious people are those who know how to be actively engaged laughing.
And our hatred laughs…
Red laughter. Forward!
Forward, for the destruction of the lie and of the phantoms!
Forward, for the complete conquest of individuality and of Life!
RENZO NOVATORE – TOWARD THE CREATIVE NOTHING
1922, ITALY.

A few days ago, the security apparatus at the hand of the Italian State perpetrated a repressive raid against anarchist comrades and the Culmine blog, a raid carried out in various cities and towns of that country, resulting in 4 comrades arrested under accusations that are the most common accusations in Italy and under which many other comrades have been arrested and incarcerated in the past, in similar repressive raids. Accused of Terrorism and subversive association, our comrades find themselves in the clutches of the State and need to be vindicated in the same way that those anarchist comrades in affinity in Italy have shown themselves in solidarity with the struggles and the prisoners in other parts of the World.

We know well that these kinds of raids are directed to debilitate and “demoralize” those anarchist scenes and groups that operate in various parts of the world. Today in Mexico we have the comrade Braulio imprisoned, accused of fighting against civilization and attacking those who contribute to the continual exploitation of animals and nature; Braulio is accused of setting fire to a pair of ATMs in the — fascist — city of León Guanajuato. In Indonesia, the comrades Billy and Eat likewise accused of attacking capital, setting fire to a bank in that country’s capitol city and being active part of the “Long Live Luciano” cell / Informal Anarchist Federation. Billy and Eat are comrades in affinity who have expressed their solidarity with the local peasant struggles and with the anarchist prisoners of war in the world. In Greece, the trial continues against the comrades of the CCF-Greece and of Revolutionary Struggle, likewise against other imprisoned anarchist individuals for not aligning their lives to the way of life imposed by the system and fighting actively for the destruction of the State/Capital. The comrade Gabriel Pombo Da Silva continues in prison awaiting his transfer to the Spanish State. Gabriel, who identifies himself in affinity to anarchist insurrectionalism and to the FAI/IRF, is an active comrade who has always contributed critically and positively to the spread of what we fight for, likewise he has openly expressed his solidarity with the imprisoned comrades and those in struggle in the entire world. Marco Camenisch remains behind bars. The imprisoned comrades in Chile, the US, Canada, and in many other parts of the world where anarchist action is daily present. So then do we wait for the cities to keep burning? In the continuation of the beautiful creative Destruction, what are we waiting for?

It is quite clear that the struggle against the prisons and revolutionary solidarity with our imprisoned comrades is not an isolated struggle, it is the same as the daily struggle for the destruction of this same system, the same as the daily struggle for our individual-collective liberation, and clear that though their repressive blows weigh on us the bombings, arsons and barricades continue to illuminate the night. This has remained demonstrated in more than words… in practice and in deeds!

From Finland to Peru, Barcelona which recently has started to burn, passing through Greece, Poland, England, Italy, Spain, the US, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Indonesia, etc. Thousands of anarchist comrades in affinity who under their won and unique ideas, “organizational models,” methods, signed or unsigned, cells, nuclei or individualities, anonymous or “public” began their own insurrection and who today are present in an immense international/informal anarchist coordination which continues dealing blows against power. Each one under its own possibilities, times and spaces. There are not superior forms of struggle, everything is valid, we need everything, everything that focuses on the destruction of the present system of death and oppression. Without armed vanguards, nor weighty, obscurantist or clandestine organizations. Without centralism nor populist directives, anarchist action must continue striking and every time with greater potency.

We do not go through life under illusions, thinking that with “4 little bombs” or some arsons — as some of our more fierce critics have expressed — we are going to change the world, more than anything this is about vindication, daily conflict, anarchist action that form part of a project of total destruction of the State/Capital as a unique real form of creating and constructing a free life in its totality, and for us it is much more valid than to merely remain as activists-spectators. Moreover we do not want to change the world, changing it is equivalent to reforming it, we want to destroy it, to destroy the capitalist world and along with it to destroy its social relations, such as domination.

We know that construction must also be immediate, but we also know that this construction must be coolly calculated, departing from ethics and models that as much as possible are not recuperable by power, since the way in which we live in the present is like we desire to live in the future some day. That construction, that way of living anarchically from the present must depart — also — from the point of view of confrontation with power and its values, not conforming, not escaping, and not accepting.

This new repressive strike against the comrades in Italy, tomorrow may be succeeded in any other part of the world where there is activity, we must be prepared and informally coordinated for an immediate response to attack many points complicit in the incarceration of our comrades. Whether we are near or far, everything is possible, we don’t need to see each others’ faces for this, we all already know how this works. SOLIDARITY AMONG ANARCHISTS IS MUCH MORE THAN A WRITTEN WORD.

From the editorial collective of CONSPIRACION ACRATA, we express our solidarity with those comrades arrested in this raid and with the comrades affines of CULMINE whose mail the repressive apparatus has seized and surely — very surely — are investigating everyone who we communicate with through this medium, near or far. We must stay on the alert.

For the total destruction of the State/Capital!
Fire to the prisons and the prison guards too!
For each imprisoned comrade… fire in the streets!

Conspiración Acrata editorial collective
Publication of insurrectional anarchist tendency.
Mexico. April 2012.

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Words from 325 for Culmine, Parole Armate and the others
325.nostate.net

325 express our solidarity and complicity with the comrades of the counter-information websites Culmine and Parole Armate, who have been subject to investigation and raids in Italy.

It has been seen, from time immemorial, the force that strikes the individuals who speak out against the reigning dominant order. Those who want to live by their own will in the events of their life, those who talk openly of freedom, and of what it might take to get it, are targets for repression. Those who participate in counter-information structures and networks, those who publically express narratives and forbidden information that run counter to the aggressive positions of dominion will be especially suppressed. Those who act on it, well, they are the damned ones, and a special place in hell is allegedly reserved for them.

“Perhaps you, my judges, pronounce this sentence against me with greater fear than I receive it.”

War against Heaven – for the black light of chaos.

(A)SolidarityMeansAttack(A)

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