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Poster - Some Anarchist Attacks in Bristol

anon | 11.12.2013 11:09

This list of actions over the last few years around Bristol has been complied to show that successful strikes against the system are not only possible, but are being regularly
carried out. Even lockdown UK with its surveillance and control has weak points and opportunities – we're only as pacified as we let ourselves be! For sure there's much more happening than these “claimed” actions, as well as many different forms of struggle against authority.

The common thread in these actions is direct attack targeting the many forms of
domination, in the age-old struggle for freedom. Beyond that, the motivations and analysis of the individuals and groups behind them are varied. For more info on such actions and others across the world, see
325.nostate.net / contrainfo.espiv.net (multi-lingual) / earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports

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1-1-11 Windows broken at
police station & probation
office in St Pauls

10-1-11 A bailiff firm & HSBC
bank branch windows broken,
three police cars & a police
CCTV van paintstripped &
windows broken, O2 mobile
phone tower set on fire in
Brislington

15-1-11 Security & surveillance
van set on fire

17-1-11 Two BT telecommunication
vehicles set on
fire

8-2-11 Between 40 to 50 BMW
vehicles scratched &
paintstripped at a Cribbs
Causeway showroom

26-2-11 CCTV van
paintstripped in daytime,
internet & telecommunication
cables burnt at night

24-3-11 Windows broken, paint
bombs thrown & staff vehicles
damaged at RBS banking
centre near Temple Meads

26-3-11 T Mobile/Vodaphone
mobile phone towers set on fire
in Hambrook, Siston Common
& Longwell Green

12-4-11 Van of private
detention corporation Mitie
burnt in Staple Hill

18-4-11 Windows smashed at
Mitie offices in Hartcliffe

4-5-11 Three vans set on fire at
the probation office in St Pauls

1-6-11 Two banks windows &
cash points smashed on
Gloucester Rd.

8-6-11 House of a BNP fascist
're-decorated' in Knowle West

1-7-11 Paintstripping & tyre
puncturing of six police
personal vehicles on Trinity Rd

20-7-11 Windows of estate
agent Maggs & Allen smashed
in Henleaze

8-8-11 Power corporation EON
vehicle burnt in St Pauls

9-8-11 Windows smashed on
two Whiteladies Rd banks.

9-8-11 Police riot van set on fire
in Bishopston

10-8-11 Police collaborators
Pieminister graffitied in St
Nick's Market

11-8-11 Windows smashed &
paint-bombs thrown at Evening
Post newspaper offices

11-8-11 BBC radio mast set on
fire in Bedminster Down

13-8-11 Three unmarked police
vehicles get bricked at Trinity
Rd police station in daytime

25-8-11 Orbis/Sitex security
van set on fire in Hartcliffe

26-8-11 Lloyds TSB bank
windows broken in Fishponds

5-9-11 Newfoundland Rd
police station graffitied

19-9-11 Windows & cash points
of Tescos & Lloyds TSB bank
smashed in St George

24-9-11 Two to three unmarked
vehicles paintstripped at the
police Serious Crime Squad
HQ on Feeder Rd.

27-9-11 McDonalds windows
smashed in Bedminster

5-10-11 Cop car set on fire at a
police station south of the river

10-10-11 Anti-squatter PG
Group office gets locks glued
shut & graffitied in Redland

10-10-11 Windows smashed &
graffiti at the Magistrates Court

11-10-11 Windows smashed at
Bristol Civil Justice Centre

7-11-11 Lord Mayor of Bristol
& a Tory councillor have their
cars burned at their homes

16-11-11 Two Santander banks
get windows smashed

17-11-11 Maggs & Allen
windows smashed in Henleaze

7-12-11 Clifton Brides wedding
shop locks glued & graffitied

15-12-11 Fire set against Lloyds
TSB bank depot

4-1-12 Nine prison officers
personal cars paintstripped at
Ashfield adult/youth prison

8-3-12 Beauty salon that also
exploits animals has windows
smashed & graffitied on
Whiteladies Rd

10-3-12 The Last Resort fascist
skinhead stall attacked with
paint in daytime at St Nick's
market

11-4-12 BBC & communication
services/police radio mast set
on fire on Dundry Hill

1-5-12 Multiple banks, estate
agents & a Money Shop
smashed in Knowle &
Downend

22-5-12 Railway lines
sabotaged on two sides of the
city through signal cable arson

5-2012 Clear Channel
advertising van burned in
Staple Hill, billboard chopped
down on Netham Rd, electronic
billboard cables sabotaged on
St Philip's Causeway

30-5-12 Bristol Conservative
Association windows broken,
graffitied & paint-bombed in
Clifton

25-7-12 Energy, technology &
utility corporation GDF has
windows broken & graffitied in
Speedwell

31-7-12 Two BT vans are set on
fire

08-2012 O2 mobile phone mast
set on fire in Longwell Green

13-8-12 Thomas Cook in
Clifton & Lloyds TSB bank
depot near
Temple Meads
windows are
both smashed,
Virgin Media
van graffitied &
paintstripped in
Lockleaze

14-8-12 Lloyds
TSB bank
graffitied & its
windows are
smashed in St
George

30-8-12 Pentecostal christian
missionary group's minibus
burnt in St George

22-10-12 Standfast Ltd security
& surveillance vehicle set on
fire in Redland

24-11-12 Palestinian aparthiedprofiteer
Marks & Spencers
windows smashed, G4S
security corporation car
paintstripped

1-1-13 Windows & glass doors
at the front of the animal prison
Bristol Zoo smashed &
paintbombed

9-1-13 Prison officers personal
cars paintstripped in daytime
outside Horfield prison

04-2013 Police 4x4 set on fire in
Easton

11-4-13 Windows smashed at
Fishponds Conservative Club

14-4-13 In daytime one Mitie
vehicle paintstripped & tyres
slashed by Temple Meads, then
one burnt in St George at night

29-4-13 Avon & Somerset
Guarding security firm
window-smashed & graffitied
in Fishponds

2-6-13 Two Tascor private
deportation transporters
smashed and dented in Cribbs
Causeway depot

20-6-13 Fire set at Border
Agency office in Portishead,
building damaged & seven
vehicles burnt

6-8-13 Windows smashed &
graffiti on the County Sports
Club in the centre which hosted
a fascist band

26-8-13 Fire set that guts multimillion
police firearms range
construction in Portishead,
G4S & court-servicing
corporation Amey vehicles get
paintstripped and slashed tyres
near St George

28-8-13 Homemade bomb set
off at Barclays bank in
Brislington

anon

Comments

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No closer to a revolution

11.12.2013 16:45

Why don't you spend your time organising and trying to communicate with ordinary people? Petty vandalism might be good fo your ego but its not helping me or anyone else in our day-to-day struggles. I'm not inspired by these acts, just as I'm not inspired by toddlers' tantrums. I'm inspired by people taking positive steps to organise themselves and their communities in spite of and against the police state we live in.

I'd be interested to hear your analysis of how these "direct attacks" are actually going to empower people to take control of their own lives, although I suspect said analysis would probably be long on urgent expletives and short on rationality. Yes, a handful of people (and no more) might be turned on by an arson attack, but what next? Do we just burn it all down?

Note - I'm not arguing against violence, property damage or sabotage - I think all of these are tactics which are sometimes useful and other times essential. I'm arguing against poorly conceived actions carried out by an elite vanguard with no social base whatsoever.

Fighting back is a struggle - there's no short cuts. Attaching the word "anarchist" to actions which have nothing to do with non-hierarchical organisation and everything to do with elitist squatter cliques does nothing to aid the cause of liberatory social struggles here and around the world. I'm sick of stupid punks claiming to act in my interests and actually just working to alienate people from our cause.

anarchist

Agent provocateurs

11.12.2013 19:43

"Homemade bomb set off at Barclays bank in Brislington"?!

Kiss my ass no real anarchist would endanger ordinary workers

Swansea

wat

11.12.2013 19:47

there are far too many anarchist organizers sitting around talking and hardly anyone getting there hands dirty,!
chill with this kinda chat and go and do what you want
there is nooo point telling other ppl wat to do at all just do wat u do
its great that ppl do different things

there is nothing wrong with elitest squatter cliques either, if u dont wanna be part of it then dont but its hardly worth complaining about, if u wanna be in one then start one....etc.

just get on with your own life this kinda thing does not require someone to annalyae or critisize it its jus some things that have happened.

lastly i think there is a real problem in uk and espically english anachist scene where everything has to be for some one else or some group of other ppl, do stuff for yourselve!! its important and will problerly be a lot more successfull cause u will really mean it

ohho ohoh and ORDINARY PEOPLE!!
we are all ordinary people!
at least i am!
stop separating anarchists form everyday society....

to many organisers

Whatever

11.12.2013 22:02

slows their system down, whatever agitates, whatever needles, whatever annoys, whatever fucks it up its ass on a regular basis gets my support every time.

till its destroyed

one step at a time

11.12.2013 22:26

communicating is not "just talking", it requires much effort to acquire the knowledge and background information to make a persuasive argument. at the moment, the de-centralising, anti-hierarchy argument being put forward by anarchists and other activists is making definite changes in the public mind.

as others have stated, we need to build a larger social base before any significant actions can be taken. smashing windows smacks of desperation, why should we feel desperate when, for the first time in generations, the tide is turning in our favour.

of course, if you do get arrested and locked up, take time to read some books and listen to some of the better informed inmates. if you use your time wisely, you will return to the streets and the political scene with a far more mature outlook on life.

very best wishes to all my anarchist and activist brothers and sisters.

astrix

No urgent expletives and some rationality

12.12.2013 03:23

Reply to 'anarchist'

'I'd be interested to hear your analysis of how these "direct attacks" are actually going to empower people to take control of their own lives'

By helping people realise, even if only those people who do them, that the seemingly unimpregnable edifices that dominate our lives are susceptible to attack, no matter how small.

By empowering them by doing such and providing a step upon a trajectory towards greater actions (of any kind).

The dichotomy that you try to put forward is false. To argue that anarchists should not do such things but should restrict themselves to workplace organisation or to 'people taking positive steps to organise themselves and their communities' is laughable.

Although the type of organisation you refer to is also invaluable I haven't seen much evidence of it being successful for a good many years. In fact it can plainly be seen that any small advances made using this method are rapidly recuperated by both the state and capital (Unions for one example). On the other hand the types of actions listed in the OP have grown worldwide.

Surely any kind of political action aimed at disrupting, exposing, or destroying the dominant existent state of society or that enables either an indivudual or group take back any level of autonomy, no matter how small, should be celebrated by someone calling himself an 'anarchist'.

Posting a reply such as yours implies that you are either extremely blinkered, some kind of fucked up reformist social anarchist or a state sponsored shill.

Marius Jacob

These attacks were obviously inside jobs!

12.12.2013 12:43

Anarchist do not carry out random attacks on property like this. These attacks are so out of character! These violent attacks were obviously carried out by the British state in an attempt to discredit anarchists and other political activists! We need to expose the real people who carried out these violent acts, MI5! Having been in the anarchist movement for over 30 years this is not the first time the British state has carried out false flag attacks and tried to blame them on anarchists.

I am not fooled

well done

12.12.2013 21:21

It is very brave and commendable, these are good actions and especially the 'escalation' tactics of fire setting the cop firearm range and the barclays bomb. This is what we should be doing, escalating the war, which is happening all over the world, working behind the scenes of mass media and mass 'protest movements'.

well done to all involved and stay safe, whoever you are.

this is a good quote, even though it is from the IRA, it is still an apt quote, although not verbatim, goes along these lines:

'we dont seek a mandate from the public, our mandate comes from the justice of our cause'

Francesca

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