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Screws cars damaged in Bristol

Screw-fixed | 25.04.2015 11:16

On April 2nd two screws cars were attacked outside Horfield prison. Two wheels on each car were punctured and paintworked was scratched on both.

Cops, screws, when you look in the mirror do you ask yourself: In the name of property protection how many people have I hit? How many have been hospitalized? Whose violence is it time for reflection on?
It is these prison guards who are responsible for so much daily humiliation, misery and brutality.

It is they who hold the keys denying freedom, maintaining discipline and control so necessary for the continuation of capital and state. By being part of the machinery they have made themselves targets.

We understand this won’t demolish the prison walls alone. For the destruction of prisons, state and capital we need a strong, revolutionary force that is prepared to do away with it all. In the mean time we fight the best we can to let our enemies know they’re not beyond our reach.

Solidarity to the hunger strikers in Greece.

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27.04.2015 10:39

Seems pretty pointless to me, this will be regarded by most people as everyday childish vandalism. What did you think it achieve beyond a thrill for you ?

Bristolian

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27.04.2015 13:47

Bristolian, if you actually took time to read the article instead of just trolling it will unfold its secrets to you . Now piss off.

Crow

@Crow

27.04.2015 14:58

Hit a nerve did I ?

The fact is actions of this kind do nothing for the struggle against Capitalism and simply label us as mindless vandals. I'm sorry you are not able to understand that, perhaps you could get a grown up to explain it to you ?

Bristolian

@BrisBoring

27.04.2015 15:37

Yeah you're right I'll just go out and vote for change.
Now piss off

Crow

Chuckle

27.04.2015 15:47

Don't forget to take the time to untwist your knickers first.

(laughing at you really hard now)

Bristolian

@Bristolian and @Crow

27.04.2015 15:52

This exchange is a perfect example of what is so very wrong with the current activist scene in Britain. This stupid wasteful action achieved nothing, the screws will not have linked it to any political act and neither will anybody else have. It will have been seen as was said above as no more than a bit of vandalism with the culprits probably labeled "local kids". I'm not objecting to the idea of attacking the prison system, in fact I strongly support the concept but only when the effort, time and risk is likely to lead to change. This is not going to lead to anything beyond a bit of work for a local car bodyshop !

Alex

@Alex

27.04.2015 16:04

Mate this prick isn't in the activist community he's a troll that turns up on just about any IM thread.
As the author states they know it won't bring down prison walls or capitalism etc. But

1) you have to start somewhere.
2) Small actions are needed to build trust and solidarity among people.
3) The point of this action , I suppose, is really to let people like the cops and screws, that their actions are not going to go unopposed. That they are not untouchable. As in this action ==>

https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2015/04/520213.html.
4) Taking actions like this , I am led to believe, frees you from the mindset that we must just operate within the parameters that are set by the state and ruling class.
5) This statement has attributed the attack to a cause and so therefore is now known not to be just a mindless act of vandalism.

I share your concerns that it is risky and people get caught and get in trouble. But I really don't see how you go from being a compliant member of society to full scale revolutionary unless you go through some sort of process. You don't just wake up one day and do this sort of thing.

Crow

@Crow

27.04.2015 16:35

You believe what you believe, I think other methods are more effective and this action was counter productive.

I'm not convinced Bristolian is a troll, I think he/she is very challenging in the type of posting he/she uses but there is an element of truth in what is being said. We need to avoid making it easy for Daily Mail types to simply talk about us in terms of "vandals", "bored kids" and the inevitable "dangerous anarchists". This action falls into that trap all too easily IMHO. As an example take a look at some of the recent actions in the Bristol area over the past five years, there we had an individual(s) doing real damage to the mechanism of the state will a clear PR message alongside that via press releases and communiques and yet the media was still able to convince the broader public this was "criminal damage" rather than a revolutionary act.

Alex

@Alex

27.04.2015 17:18

Daily Mail types stereotype people when they are not doing anything. They think most working class people are scum anyway so what's the difference? If we stop doing things because we worry about what they and their readers think then well they have sort of won.
I respect that you have a difference of opinion and if it came over that I didn't then , sorry , I didn't mean too.
I take your point that the mainstream press are able to class it as senseless vandalism but this is not inevitable. The first place I heard about the Bristol insurgency acts was in mainstream media .

If you think this was counterproductive , what actions do think would be viably productive? Serious question as I think this should be a space for discussing these things so we as a movement can progress.

Crow

@Crow

29.04.2015 06:12

I think we are in broad agreement but probably differ on tactics. As to a better idea, frankly I do not know, the activist scene in the UK is in a poor state right now. The AR movement is in tatters, anti nuclear weapon protests have all but ended (my sister was at Aldermaston for a couple of years and she confirms this) and the current generation of young people are very apathetic toward politics (I'm a university worker, I see it every day).

I do disagree that this is the right forum for discussion. IMC is in terminal decline across the country with all of the regional sites now closed and this ersatz newwire so heavily infiltrated by the cops it can't be trusted. For example the collective once again turned on IP logging for the site some time ago but have told nobody about it although it is well known by those of us with links to them.

Alex

How EXACTLY did you establish that these cars were owned by prison officers?

29.04.2015 09:05

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29.04.2015 11:22

If you are unhappy with the security measures we need to use to prevent professional trolling I would suggest you stop using the newswire or detail your complaint to the moderation list.

IMCister

@IMCister

30.04.2015 07:05

Thanks for confirnming that Mayday has again turned on the IP logging feature within the system. When were you planning on reporting this to the Moderation List as was agreed ?

Ben

@Ben

30.04.2015 13:09

Fuck off and die you little shit

IMCister

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Screws cars damaged in Bristol

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How EXACTLY did you establish that these cars were owned by prison officers?

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