The Turkish police attacked the crowd protesting in Istanbul against the attacks on North and East Syria and detained around 50 people.
Members of the Labour, Peace and Democracy Forces in Istanbul gathered in Şişhane to protest the attacks of the Turkish state-backed HTS and FSA jihadist fascist gangs against Aleppo and Rojava.
The demonstrators, among them deputies for the DEM Party, were blockaded by the police and subjected to a brutal crackdown after protesting the arbitrary intervention, chanting ‘Bijî berxwedana Rojava’ (Long Live the Rojava Resistance). 50 people were taken into custody by use of violence.
Despite the crackdown and detentions, the DEM Party Istanbul Provincial Organisation staged a march in protest at the attacks on Aleppo and Rojava by the jihadist fascist gangs of Al-Qaeda and Al-Nusra remnants HTS and the FSA, guided by the Turkish government.
In the night of Tuesday the 25th of November two KPN vehicles in Amsterdam (KPN is a leading telecommunications and IT provider in the Netherlands) got attacked.
One van was set on fire, the other got its windows smashed.This action was a retaliation for KPN’s sponsership of the NEDS armsfair, against militarism, and the technology of repression.
Against genocide and apathy.
Love and courage to those that struggle, Revolutionary hearts burn forever.
Early thankstaking morning* we flooded the home that Ghost Robotics CEO Gavin Kenneally is trying to sell. He used to live there but seems to have moved out after the home started getting attacked. In July his home was tagged and in October it was tagged again and windows were broken. To create more lasting damage we ran a hose from a wall faucet through a small hole we punched into a glass door and turned the water on. Ghost Robotics develops robot dogs that are used in occupied Palestine and at the US/Mexico border. We took the fox we saw slipping under a fence as a good omen and hope the water kept running all night.
Let us each be a small drop in a liberating flood that drowns all authority!
For this day, the was a call for an international of day of action and in memory of the anarchist comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris.
They took their anger at the ongoing militarisation, genocides and the celebration of the 69th anniversary of the german army to the streets.
At the sides, numerous leaflets were distributed against militarisation, the german army and in memory of the deceased anarchist comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris who lost his life in an explosion on the 31stof October in Athens – as well as calling for solidarity with the anarchist comrade Marianna M., who was injured in the incident and is now in prison, and the anarchists Dimitris P. and Dimitra Z., who were also imprisoned in connection with the explosion.
Slogans were sprayed, fireworks set off, barricades were built and an office of the socialdemocratic party was attacked.
When the cops turned up, the crowd dispersed into the night – according to the press, three people were stopped on the street in the course of the evening.
Against any war – against any militarism.
The german army is nothing to be celebrated.
Revolutionary hearts burn forever!
Uncondiational solidarity to the comrades imprisoned in Athens.
Against all militarism, against all war! From Hamburg to Athens – Revolutionary Solidarity!
Today we are taking to the streets to express our anger at the celebration of the 69th anniversary of the Bundeswehr.
We see the ever escalating wars, the genocides, the rise of the weapon industry.
We see an offensive orientation of society towards militarism.
We see this accompanied by an authoritarian formation internally and brutal, murderous isolation externally.
We want to counter this with an attack on all borders, all states – all authority.
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In raging memory of the anarchist comrade-in-arms Kyriakos, who died in an explosion in Athens on 31 October.
Those who die fighting for freedom live forever – in the heart of social revolt.
All strength to Marianna, who was seriously injured in the explosion and is in hospital in the hands of the cops.
Marianna – strong like our passion for freedom!
In solidarity with Dimitra and Dimitris, who were arrested after the explosion and are in prison.
No rebel alone in the hands of the state!
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Second leaflet:
We took to the streets to commemorate our fallen comrade Kyriakos Ximitris. He died in October 31st through an explosion in an Athens appartement. He dedicated his life to the international struggle against state and capitals – and his unbridled solidarity with the exploited and love towards his friends & comrades.
Kyriakos – forever in out hearts! Grief and anger!
Revolutionary solidarity with Marianna, which ist hospitalized and imprisoned since the incident, and the other imprisoned comrades.
In downtown Montréal on Friday night, police repression descended on a pro-Palestinian and anti-NATO demonstration. During the day, a first rally had begun around 4:30 p.m. The procession then set off to join a second demonstration. The latter denounced in particular the presence of a NATO delegation at the Palais des Congrès.
The officers of the SPVM (Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal) decided to disperse the demonstrators using pepper spray, tear gas and baton blows; in response, smoke bombs were used by the demonstrators, metal barriers were thrown in order to hinder the work of the police. The police officers were also the target of pyrotechnic projectiles. Several shop windows and windows of the Palais des Congrès were smashed, a police car and two other vehicles were set on fire. About 80,000 people took advantage of Friday to strike and participate in the movement. The police made 3 arrests.
*This release is based on the journal Block NATO, organised by CLAC and D4P, but it is independent. We will explain here the reasoning behind our actions of the evening of Friday, November 22nd, because we know why we do these things and we believe very strongly in what we do.
Let’s put things first in context : Friday marked the start of NATO’s parliamentary assembly in Montreal. NATO represents the military apparatus of the global north, it’s the biggest military alliance in history. While our governments are already making the life of the excluded and exploited a death circus, NATO pressures Canada to invest 50% more of its GDP into the military. That represents 55 billion dollars. NATO is a major decision-making body that embodies militarist and imperialist interests. It’s also an accomplice in the genocide happening in Palestine.
NATO includes the richest countries in the world, namely Canada, Germany, the United States, France, Italy and the UK, but it also conspires with non-member allies such as Japan and the Zionist entity (Israel). It protects the capitalist interests of the global north, with the United States as a semi-formal secretary. NATO organises the threat and capacity to act in devastating ways to counter any initiative of liberation of the global south. Its interests are imperialist: the States formed and governed by capital aspire to extend their power by exploiting external territories where they steal resources, destroy nature and enslave people through political, economic and/or military domination. It normalises the horror of its crimes against humanity by camouflaging them as humanitarian missions and by splitting the political costs between different countries, maintaining their democratic bases in ignorance or illusion.
The military interventions supported by NATO protect governments aligned with American interests and crush any alternative, keeping the global south under capitalist constraints. NATO’s alliance with the zionist entity is ideologically coherent, as a colonial enterprise, but Israel also provides technologies of control and weapons that NATO states use throughout the world, in their imperialist missions and on their own populations.
And oh by the way, no we don’t support Russia or prefer it to NATO, people typically think NATO is about defending against Russia, but we don’t even care, every fucking colonizer of this world has to be taken down, we hate this capitalist system and its extensions from the bottom of our heart.
The problem we’re fighting here isn’t specifically NATO’s assembly, nor the actions of the CDPQ (which requires every public employee to fund the Palestinian genocide), but they are symptoms of that problem. What the problem really is, is the dominant system which causes all these horrors : capitalism. There is no more time for calm and asking nicely. Resistance is legitimate, the State and the police can no longer have a monopoly on violence – if it’s the only language they’ll hear. We want the illusion to stop and we want to draw light, in the streets and in the media, to the horrors deployed right under our noses. We attack capital, materialised most densely downtown, to oppose symbolically and materially the most odious crimes committed for capitalism:
The windows of the Palais des Congrès, where the NATO summit is happening A car set on fire Riot police covered in paint Businesses’ windows smashed
Our acts are charged with rage born from the horrors we witness and denounce here, but also from our own grief: between climate collapse and housing crisis, inflation and shit jobs, health and education systems in ruins, xenophobia, transphobia, covid and depression, profiling and repression, the rise of fascism, etc. All of which answer to the same system. We have had enough and we are horrified, so we gather and we show our refusal. Our actions have had a symbolic and material impact: they have imposed costs financially, have disrupted and disturbed, have propagated our ideals and made visible this very legitimate and necessary struggle.
Before anything was even attacked, the police charged, pepper-sprayed and hit us. In our fight, we have seen the complicit posture of our governments : police violence is an obvious manifestation of it. To repress our actions, the police, the state’s guard dogs, have used weapons and tactics developed by the zionist entity and other NATO investments. The police have again and always defended the interests of the rich and the State: pepper-spraying, beating, breaking ribs, gassing, poisoning. It tries to choke hopes of freedom for human lives and nature, currently massacred, but we are still standing. We denounce the arrests and many injuries (cracked skull, broken arm, projectiles in the eyes, etc.), but we are still standing. The Fall was warm and winter will burn hotter, because the struggle is all we have left, because we need to do everything we can, because we love our revolutions deeply, because we love our comrades and what we know we can do together.
The media will focus on our violence, they will manipulate our messages, our messages confronting the atrocities perpetrated by Israel and NATO – responsible for millions of deaths. So it is crucial to say again that it is the brutality of the oppressive structures governing us that we fight, that the worst violence is the State’s and that that violence is a direct consequence of capitalism.
Fire against Kaefer! Sabotaging the arms industry. What is destructive must be destroyed.
On the night of November 9-10, 2024, at the headquarters of the Kaefer Group in Bremen-Walle, we set fire to two company vehicles. The vehicles were well away from the building and other vehicles, so there was no danger to people. Kaefer is a global group based in Bremen. According to its own information, Kaefer is mainly active in the fields of industrial plant insulation, access technology, surface protection, fire protection, electrical and mechanical services, marine interior design, offshore industry and construction.
With research and sabotage we want to show that the destruction and exploitation of the earth is inextricably linked to the destruction and exploitation of people.
The pursuit of power, control, resources, economic growth and national greatness is expressed in the global trend towards armaments, war and fascism. The election of Trump, the rise of fascism in Germany and many other countries is an expression of this, but the same trends are reflected in the policies of “liberal” government. While who holds parliamentary power has many practical consequences for our lives, it is important to recognize and attack these tendencies. Therefore, we focus on those, like Kaefer, who benefit from war politics and enrich themselves through militarism and racist oppression. We have the greatest possible empathy for the pain of people who have to live under constant war.
And we are always on the side of those who fight for freedom.
Everywhere, regardless of state, nation and religion.
Against war, fascism and the destruction of the earth, for the social revolution!
Our thoughts are with the bereaved, injured and fugitive comrades in Greece. Sending you love and strength!
Solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en and all those resisting destruction!
Switch-off the system of destruction – Switch off KAEFER!
This morning we received several reports that Jay Hartzell awoke to find ‘No confidence’ tagged across the front of his garage. As Jay Hartzell and his weird overlords continue their futile attempts to repress the movement we applaud this brave, logical, and hilarious direct action. Happy graduation day, Jay.
{jay hartzell is the president of the university of austin}
“Answering the national call to “shut down tech” on October 24th, autonomous groups of community members targeted Microsoft headquarters in Seattle, breaking glass jars full of “blood” (red paint) on its Executive Briefing Center building, pouring “blood” on the big Microsoft sign, and leaving behind the message “Azure: Drop Israel Not Bombs” painted in dozens of places. This action brought attention to companies in Seattle have with the israeli occupation forces (IOF), that many are unaware of.
A recent article in +972 Magazine exposed how Microsoft’s cloud computing software, Azure, has been crucial to the criminal military operations conducted in Palestine and Lebanon. The article, quoted an IOF colonel who said that the cloud services provided by Microsoft and other major tech companies have led to “very significant operational effectiveness” in the Gaza Strip. This officer further described the cloud computing capabilities as a “weapons platform” that included applications to mark targets for Unmanned Ariel Vehicle (UAV) drone strikes. In particular, +972 highlighted Microsoft’s Azure as the military’s main cloud provider.
Microsoft has shown time and time again that it values profit over people, whether that be the tens or hundreds of thousands of people it helps slaughter, or its own employees it censors and fires for speaking out against the company’s unethical actions.
The main target was the Executive Briefing Center in which all of Microsoft’s executives meet, discuss, and come to powerful decisions, like those relating to war crimes and human rights violations. Every member who works in the Executive “Bombing” Center is aware of and complicit in the actions that Microsoft is taking.
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance. And the movement will continue to expose and escalate against l entities–like Microsoft–that are aiding the israeli occupation and genocide.”
From November 22nd to 25th, NATO’s parliamentary assembly will be in Montreal for its mortifying circus. From a military alliance during the Cold War, NATO has today become the armed wing of Western countries, imposing its bellicose policies throughout the world. Faced with these war profiteers, it is imperative that we make our voices heard and combat their destructive logic.
The impact of NATO on our policies is huge:
Increases to military budgets: This summit comes at a time when NATO is pressuring the Canadian government to increase the share of its GDP devoted to the armed forces to 2%, a 50% increase, while the Canadian government has already increased its military investments by 41% from 2014 to 2021.
Destruction in the name of United-Statesian imperialism: Let’s not be fooled by the sterile language of Western forces; NATO’s interventions, far from being strategic and precise, are rather excessively powerful, disproportionate and imprecise. NATO destroys everything in its path, spreading misery and encouraging the multiplication of armed groups, all to preserve the interests of its member states, principally the United States, pillar of the alliance and giant of the military-industrial complex. This imperialist logic keeps the peoples of the Global South poor and dependent on the Global North.
Aiding and abetting the Palestinian genocide: So-called Canada is complicit in the genocide in Palestine by contributing to the supply of weapons, facilitating economic and academic partnerships and, above all, by its unwavering support for Israel, NATO’s central ally. It is through military support for Zionist forces that NATO is able to maintain a strategic foothold in the Middle East, in order to advance the political and economic interests of its members.
Peace will not be won at the point of a gun, but by putting an end to imperialism and capitalism. It is in honor of all the colonized peoples of yesterday, today and tomorrow, here and elsewhere, that we call on your courage and determination to walk the streets with us!
On November 22, let’s take it to the streets en masse to make our anger heard! Let’s unite to remind States the world over that their hands will always be stained with the blood of the exploited, no matter how much they try to hide it in velvet gloves or laughable summits!
Together, let’s block NATO and affirm our rejection of militarism, imperialism and colonialism!
Date and time:
Friday, 22 November 2024 – 17:30
A journal written in 3 weeks in preparation for the NATO Parliamentary Assembly from November 22 to 25, 2024. The full document in pdf. Or just the English or French version.
