Edwards and JP Morgan offices defaced with paint, windows smashed
~ Cristina Sykes ~
Palestine Action says its activists targeted Edwards Accountants in Birmingham and JP Morgan at Victoria Embankment in London early this morning (May 14th) due to their involvement with Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit. Both company’s offices were covered in red paint, and the front glass doors of JP Morgan were shattered.
Edwards Accountants are the listed accountants for Elbit Systems UK and its subsidiaries, whilst JP Morgan hold Elbit shares worth over $22m. This week, financial reports showed JP Morgan had reduced their investment in Elbit Systems by over 53%. However, they still remain a major investor in the company which is a major supplier of weapons for the Israeli military, which is committing genocide in Gaza.
Photos by Direct Action Images
Elbit Systems, which is the primary target of Palestine Action’s campaign, supplies over 85% of Israel’s military drone fleet and land-based equipment, as well as bombs, missiles and other weaponry.
The Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) announced on Monday the imposition of a naval blockade on Haifa Port in occupied Palestine, declaring the strategic Zionist-controlled port a new target. The move comes in response to the continued and escalating Zionist aggression against Gaza and its blockade-induced starvation campaign.
In an official statement, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, spokesperson for the YAF, cautioned all maritime companies whose vessels are docked at or en route to Haifa to treat the announcement and future warnings with utmost seriousness.
This escalation follows the successful enforcement of a blockade on the Port of Umm al-Rashrash — also known as Eilat — which ceased operations under Yemeni military pressure.
Saree: We will not hesitate to escalate
Brigadier General Saree reaffirmed that the Yemeni military will not hesitate to escalate further in support of the Palestinian people and their Resistance. He stressed that all military actions against the occupation would only cease if the aggression on Gaza ends and the blockade is fully lifted.
“The armed forces will not hesitate to take any additional necessary measures in solidarity with Gaza,” Saree declared. He also underscored that Sanaa’s position remains firm in backing Palestine’s right to resist occupation and systematic oppression.
Aerial and naval targeting of the occupation intensifies
The Haifa Port blockade is the latest phase in an expanding military campaign led by Yemen. On May 4, the Yemeni Armed Forces declared their intention to impose a complete aerial blockade on Zionist authorities by targeting the Ben Gurion Airport.
Subsequent reports confirmed multiple strikes targeting Ben Gurion, leading to evacuations and forcing settlers into shelters. These operations were described as a direct response to the occupation’s siege on Gaza and its ongoing airstrikes across the Strip.
Airline warnings and Ben Gurion strikes continue
In parallel with military actions, the Yemeni leadership in Sanaa has issued repeated warnings to international airlines, urging them to avoid Zionist airspace entirely. These warnings have coincided with a string of attacks that disrupted civilian aviation and highlighted Yemen’s growing regional military influence.
Sabotaging capitalist normality – Attack on the rail infrastructure
During the night of 9th April, we set fire to railway signal and electric cables with a number of incendiary devices in various places near Basel.
The cops and the media have kept quiet about our action up until now.
Situated on the borders between three countries with maritime links going as far as the North sea, a highly developed rail and motorway network as well as an airport, the town of Basel is a central logistic node for the flux of goods that keep capitalist normality functioning. Given that we have a very low opinion of this state of affairs, we attacked its infrastructure to put a stop to it, at least for a moment.
Our attack was specifically aimed at the transboundary rail transport of goods and people and the rail link to the port of Kleinhüningen. One of the most important north-south links in Europe passes by Basel. The line between Rotterdam and Genoa belongs to the program Trans-European Transport Network and is constantly under expansion. The three Rhine ports of Basel carry out 10% of Switzerland’s foreign trade. About a third of its imports of petroleum products is loaded on to trains and lorries here. One container in four going to Switzerland passes through the ports of Basel. Loaded with merchandise made starting from raw materials plundered from all over the world or construction material with which more and more motorways, banks and jails are being built, the ground is sealed and everything living is buried under a thick layer of concrete.
Pharmaceutical and chemical industries based in Basel also import machinery and materials that they need for the fabrication of products which will then be exported using the same route. Whether it is carcinogenic chemical products of Syngenta or the anticancer drugs of Novartis or Roche, they are two sides of the same coin. Instead of seriously devoting themselves to globally healing illnesses caused in large part by the techno-industrial complex (and even less to attacking their causes), people are linked to a health system orientated above all towards profits of the pharmaceutical groups as well as keeping us fit to be used for work, day after day.
For the smooth functioning of this life-destroying system, the goods transport railways are of major importance. With their logistic, SBB Cargo and DB Cargo [the two operators of rail freight belonging to the Swiss (the SBB/CFF/FSS) and German (the Deutsche Bahn) rail companies respectively; translator’s note] profit from neocolonialism and war. They belong to the military infrastructure.
The Deutsche Bahn transports the military material of the German army and armies of NATO. The deadly freight of the weapons industry needed for forced displacements, devastation of land, genocide and maintenance of the dominant social relations is transported throughout the entire world. Industrialisation and therefore the deepening of the relations of power and the structures of exploitation would certainly not be possible without the intervention of the railways. Still today this technology serves to colonize territories that are not yet developed and render them accessible to capitalist exploitation (for example, the participation of DB in the project Tren Maya in Mexico and the rail link with a new deep water port, in the east of the Brazilian Amazon). Now, the question could be asked as to why we are attacking precisely rail transport when it is considered to be more respectful of the climate than road transport for example. First and foremost: we have found that the motorways are also shit. We consider nevertheless that the «process of green transformation» is a lying narrative through which there is an attempt to sell us off hope in an ecological future of the system.
The locomotive of progress, being green, will save us from climate catastrophe with technological solutions, we are told, and is CO 2 neutral!
All the same, it is precisely this progress that is the catastrophe. Moreover the fact that it is not less, but more and more CO 2 which is released into the atmosphere, in the name of green energy and climate-friendly mobility, the lithium, the cobalt and the rare earths are being extracted in increasingly large quantities, thereby destroying ecosystems and biotopes. Extractivism is ravaging more and more vast surfaces of Earth and belongs to the same megamachine that offers to the great majority of human beings nothing but an existence in social misery. It is time to put on the emergency brake.
A few more words on the interruption of passenger transport: right next to the railway line stands the prison of Bässlergut, where people are imprisoned in administrative detention with a view to their expulsion, because they break the rules of the world colonial order and are not integrated into the production chain where they were born. Some of them have been on hunger strike various times over the last few months, struggling for freedom.
These structures of control and submission operate here, at the German-Swiss border, even outside the walls of the jail, in the form of real manhunts. Here, in the area of free circulation of people, the federal German cops patrol en masse, to avoid this being misinterpreted as free movement of people. Because, of course, this doesn’t apply to everybody. The workers and the tourists must be transported here. But those who don’t have the good papers, or don’t have any at all, see themselves refused the right to a train journey from Basel to Germany.
We also see our action as part of the struggle against the murderous regime of immigration and borders. We are in solidarity with all those who cross borders in defiance of the murderous politics of Europe.
In the world in which we are living they tell us that everything we have mentioned above is indispensable. If it’s up to us to make the most of our own lives, we will never be able – left to ourselves – to lead a life as good and sure as the one imposed on us. But there are also other tales. Stories of a life outside the logic of utilisation, stories of intergenerational struggles of communities all over the world against oppression, exploitation and the destruction of nature Stories of resistance, mutual aid and solicitude.
These tales are not just ideas, but also possibilities. We believe in these stories and we want to continue to write them. We want to attack the existent to make room for the possible.
Small acts of revenge for the murdered people of our class.
Rich people don’t travel by train
Two years after the State – Capitalist Crime of Tempi, two days after the February 28 uprising, we chose to attack some prominent representatives of the dictatorship of the capital.
The branches of Elpedison and NRG, “alternative” providers of electricity and accomplices in robbing the lower classes through overpricing electricity, saw their storefronts shatter.
The National Bank, the basic player of the banking capital who (among many others) steals the houses of the people’s families, after first having financially exhausted them with thieving bank rates, saw their ATMs broken.
The move reflects a broader strategic vision embracing gender liberation, pluralism, and local democracy
~ Blade Runner ~
The formal announcement of the PKK’s dissolution has sparked mixed reactions among Turkey’s Kurds and international supporters. However, it has been years in the making and comes as no surprise to long-term observers of the Kurdish movement and readers of Abdullah Öcalan‘s theory of Democratic Confederalism. The shift had been indicated months earlier and signifies a strategic transformation aligned with a broader vision of autonomy beyond the state, the party, and the armed struggle.
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) was founded in 1978 and launched an armed struggle in 1984, demanding Kurdish autonomy. Turkey responded with harsh military repression, and the two sides became entangled in a bloody conflict that lasted for decades. Over the course of this war, between 40,000 and 50,000 people were killed, including civilians, PKK fighters, Turkish soldiers, police, and village guards. The 1990s were particularly brutal, marked by widespread village burnings, forced displacements affecting up to 3 million people, and systemic human rights abuses. Despite several attempts at ceasefires and peace talks, the violence periodically escalated—especially after the collapse of negotiations in 2015, when renewed urban warfare brought heavy casualties to cities like Cizre and Sur.
Since Öcalan’s capture in 1999, the Kurdish freedom movement has gradually shifted away from traditional models of armed vanguardism, nationalist statism and Stalinist rigidity. While the PKK maintained its armed forces—particularly in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan—its ideological orientation increasingly prioritised social transformation over military confrontation.
This shift found structural expression in the formation of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) in the early 2000s: an umbrella of organisations with a decentralised and horizontal character. The KCK encompasses a wide array of communities, political parties, citizen initiatives, committees, and grassroots institutions across Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. It represents a deliberate move away from the rigid, centralised model of the vanguard party, in favour of a networked configuration grounded in direct participation and local autonomy.
In Turkey, the KCK has been politically active in coordinating cultural, social, and municipalist initiatives. It has succeeded in winning local councils and electing candidates to mayoral positions. The Turkish state has responded with sustained repression, including mass arrests of alleged “KCK members” over the past decade.
In this new worldview, the space for a hierarchical party structure like the PKK has been steadily shrinking. Öcalan’s February 2025 call for the PKK to formally dissolve was met with support from officials within Kongra-Gel, the legislative body of the KCK that claimed that this step “marks the beginning of a broader democracy movement—one that includes women, workers, and environmental activists”, thus being more aligned with the framework of Democratic Modernity.
Democratic confederalism was first articulated within the PKK and found its most visible, though partial, implementation in Rojava. Where the PKK once contributed to ethnic polarisation within Turkey and even among Kurds, the Rojava model now emphasises the transition to plurality, feminism, and decentralisation. For over a decade, the region has resisted Turkish invasions, ISIS offensives, regime hostility, and international neglect, all while pushing the social and political revolution. Like the Zapatistas—whose influence is evident across the movement—Kurdish cadres have redefined and demystified the idea of armed struggle. Central to this paradigm is Jineology—the “science of women”—which frames women’s liberation as the foundation of any meaningful revolutionary process.
Turning Point
The decision to end the cycle of armed polarisation with the Turkish state could signal a turn toward a more contemporary revolutionary horizon—one grounded not in elite substitution, but in mass participation. Rojava, too, is entering a new phase. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have signed an initial agreement with Syria’s central government to initiate negotiations for formal recognition of the region’s autonomous status—not as an independent nation-state, but as a decentralised component of a reimagined Syrian polity. Though past efforts were blocked under Assad, shifting power dynamics have reopened the possibility of dialogue. The ideas of confederalism and gender liberation may now be closer than ever to broader realisation and territorial grounding. Despite the grave dangers from negotiating with the jihadist Syrian regime, the Kurdish administration continues to push forward, seeking recognition as a self-governing entity within a fractured and centralised region.
This evolution naturally coincides with the PKK’s disbandment. In Turkey, these developments may challenge the regime’s foundational narrative. For decades, Ankara has used the PKK’s designation as a terrorist organisation to justify military operations, political repression, and the targeting of Kurdish organisations, journalists, and international allies. It has claimed that all Kurdish structures—from the PYD to the YPG/YPJ and the SDF—are fronts for the PKK. With the PKK now dissolved, the legal rationale for this strategy is weakened. Though state discourse may persist, its credibility—especially internationally—could erode. This could offer Erdoğan the opportunity to pivot toward a political approach that acknowledges Kurdish autonomy in exchange for domestic stability and constitutional leverage. Ankara’s recent pledges of financial support to Kurdish-majority regions—which comprise roughly 15–20% of Turkey’s territory and are home to an estimated 12–17 million people—may be signs of this shift.
The big question is whether the Turkish authoritarian regime will allow such a democratic approach, or whether it will force the Kurdish movement back into armed insurgency. In the past, the PKK attempted several times to withdraw its forces from Turkey, but each time the process was disrupted by the Turkish state.
What comes next is uncertain. The history of betrayal runs deep, and the risks of co-optation or renewed repression remain. Yet the Kurdish movement has demonstrated extraordinary adaptability, rooted in lived resistance and revolutionary imagination. If this is the end of the party, it may well mark the beginning of something deeper: a stateless alternative struggling to survive amid the ruins of the patriarchal nation-state.
Activists in Berlin have hit the Amazon Tower with a large-scale painting on May 12, 2025, on the week of Nakba, condemning the current genocide in Gaza. The action protests capitalist exploitation and settler colonial violence — free Palestine, power to the global working class!
Fascism is here and alive. It is a tool used by capitalists to justify global exploitation of the working class and violence against the most marginalized. The focus on profit and the accumulation of wealth by the 1% has led to widespread suffering and a cycle of endless enslavement to labor.
As a company, Amazon is far more than just an online shopping platform: more than 70% of Amazon’s profit [1] comes from AWS (Amazon Web Services) cloud infrastructure service, which powers a large proportion of commercial websites and apps around the world. This malicious monopoly of Big Tech on the fabric of our lives provides a fundamental engine of global capitalism that keeps the majority of the world — especially in the Global South — constantly oppressed. The Amazon tower in Berlin is contributing to the gentrification of our neighborhoods, pushing out our communities of affordable and dignified housing, while providing ample space for technocratic businesses to make endless profit.
The genocide in Gaza and the occupation of Palestine, too, is linked to this endless exploitation of resources. Gaza has an underwater natural gas field, the development of which has been blocked by Israel. After the genocide started, Israel granted 12 licenses to Israeli and foreign companies. In the West Bank, water resources, natural and mineral wealth [3] are being stolen by Israel.
Amazon directly helps the war and the occupation. For example, Project Nimbus [4] provides cloud services to the Israeli government and military that could be used in West Bank and Gaza. Amazon and Google are making $1.2 billion through the contract, benefiting from the killings and oppression we’ve seen over the past 2 years and the 77-year long occupation. AI-powered target systems such as “Lavender” and “The Gospel” are used to kill people in Gaza, and it is only possible with the help of Big Techs including Amazon.
We are enraged! The capitalists do not care about our lives at all. The consolidation of power by mega-corporations leads to an oligarchy rule of the few, ignoring the democratic representation of the people.
True freedom requires our collective liberation. No one is free until everyone is free. Down with Amazon! Free Palestine!
Map of the series of “unsolved” incendiary attacks in the city of Munich from 2019 to 2025, published by the local press (Sueddeutsche Zeitung, April 22, 2025)
The wave of repression (searches, summonses and arrests) against the anarchist milieu in Munich at the end of February has not succeeded in putting an end to sabotage against the city’s critical infrastructure, as demonstrated, for example, by the two incendiary attacks carried out in the course of last April.
On Tuesday night, April 9, at around 3:20 a.m., the emergency control center of Deutsche Bahn alerted the police to a cable fire in a manhole in Obermenzing, a district to the northwest of Munich. The arson attack caused extensive damage to the cable systems running alongside the tracks, with 8 of them going up in smoke: three copper cables, three fiber-optic cables and two cables used for train signalling. Rail traffic was severely disrupted throughout southern Germany, and the Nuremberg (Bavaria)-Erfurt (Thuringia) high-speed line in particular had to be closed, as the damage caused all signals in this area to turn red. Deutsche Bahn also had to cancel around 96 trains and divert 16 others.
The Central Office for Combating Extremism and Terrorism (ZET) was put in charge of the investigation, after traces of an accelerant were found on site. Investigators have also pointed out in the press that this train line is the one that leads, a little further on, directly to the armament factories in the Allach district, and that another sabotage attack against the rail network had occurred the same night on the German-Swiss border.
Munich, April 22, 2025: construction equipment fire, with the Strabag logo blurred out on the arm of the excavator in the Süddeutsche Zeitung (above), or blurred out on the rear of the same on regional TV station BR24 (below).
April’s second incendiary attack took place on Easter Monday night, Tuesday April 22, at around 3 a.m., when a backhoe and a wheel loader caught fire in the Thalkirchen district of southern Munich. The damage was estimated by the local press at 400,000 euros, and the hunt for suspects, immediately launched by police drone after a neighbor had seen the flames, was unsuccessful.
The very next day, several major regional media scoffed at the fact that the arsonists had attacked the Wolfratshausener Straße construction site, which includes the building of a new bicycle path… while carefully blurring out the company logo on the burning machines. In fact, the company in question is the much-hated Strabag, one of Europe’s biggest construction firms, involved in every conceivable infamy on the planet, and whose every new construction project means a progression of concrete deserts that already seem endless.
Meanwhile, among the series of forty-seven “unsolved arsons” that have struck Munich since 2019 and are being investigated by the special police unit “Losange” – with several tens of millions of euros of damage officially accounted for – this would be the 13th attack to date against construction machinery. A lucky number, as the spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office explains: “An extreme left-wing motivation cannot be ruled out, given the target of the crime”. Police station no. 43, part of the State Security Service, was therefore put in charge of the investigation.
[Local press summary (Süddeutsche Zeitung, BR24 & München TV), April 9-25, 2025]
WE DO NOT FORGET-WE DO NOT FORGIVE THE STATE-CAPITALIST MURDER AT TEMPI
Following the large rallies for Tempi that took place on 28/2 and the riot outbreak, especially in Athens, in the early hours of Tuesday 4/3 we carried out a symbolic attack with colors at the branch of the Ministry of Transport in Piraeus, at 5 AIGALEO Street, at the building of the Attica Regional Administration-Regional Administration of Piraeus and Islands.
The Ministry of Transport is the relevant state body responsible for the train collision in Tempi, as the ministry responsible for all transportation infrastructure.
The issue of the state-capitalist murder of 57 people in Tempe and the injury of at least 87 others came to the fore again two years later, with the publication of expert findings, which refer to the presence of flammable (illegaly transported) materials on the train, which are related to the explosion that followed the collision of the two trains.
Subsequently, public discourse was flooded with petitions “against the (government) cover-up” and with the demand “for the truth to shine” and “for justice to be served”.
However, the cover-up, although obvious, is not something new and does not only concern this specific case, but constitutes a permanent and timeless practice of every authority. Along with deception, concealment, manipulation, blackmail, oppression and exploitation, to secure and perpetuate the privileges of wealth and power. That is why, as a political slogan, the “NO COVER-UP” directly refers to populism.
And who will make the truth shine? The officials of the state and the institutional network, among them the prosecutors and the judges? The government or opposition members? The party and journalist bureaus? All those who speak the language of lies at all times? All those who seek “social peace” for the smooth functioning of the state/capitalist system? Or perhaps those who seek the mediation and representation of the social base, advertising their experience and mechanisms as administrators of the social-class struggles?
Language and words have long since lost their social meaning. With the latest leap into the void, the spread of social media, where the circulation of all kinds of nonsense and disorientation became an “undeniable democratic right” of a hypnotized social majority that avoids the oxygen and responsibility of social-class confrontation and liberation against a state/capitalist system that is increasingly barbaric and deadly. Ending up suffocating by limiting itself to complaints and protests, which refer to a request for the purification and gentrification of a system that cannot improve but can only be overturned.
Because how exactly will justice be delivered when JUSTICE constitutes one of the three pillars of the modern-contemporary state along with the legislative and executive powers? When it reflects and represents the Right of the Powerful? When it constitutes a basic institution-mechanism for the defense of the dominant -politically and economically- classes and their interests? The famous Rule of Law is nothing but the carrier and guarantor of social injustice.
The alternative to the issue of social justice is for the exploited and oppressed social groups, classes and individuals to assert their rights and confront injustice by developing our collective power, intelligence and vision that will seek to overthrow the oppressors and executioners and create a non-violent, classless, authority-less communal organization of life. Moreover, the essential indicator of the crisis of the state/capitalist system is the degree of development, consciousness,organization and action of the forces that seek to destroy it.
Until then, we will remind you that references to the murderous nature of the state and capitalist machine and the way they treat us as expendable cannot be limited and exhausted in Tempi. The dead workers in the so-called “work accidents” (179 in 2023, 114 in 2024 and many more disabled) cannot be missing and excluded. The Roma people murdered by the police cannot be missing and excluded, such as Michalopoulos in Thiva during a simple police check, Frangoulis in Thessaloniki for 20 euros of gasoline, Sampanis in Perama for a stolen car.
The hundreds of migrants who have drowned due to push-backs by the Greek coast guard or have been found murdered in police stations, such as Mohamed Kamran Asik on 21/9/2024 at the A.T. Agios Panteleimonas, a well-known hellhole of humiliations, beatings and torture of migrants, cannot be left out and excluded.
Have we ever thought about how the 600 migrants who were in the hold of the fishing boat off Pylos on 14/6/2023 must have felt in their last seconds? The feeling of suffocation and lack of oxygen when it capsized and sank to the bottom, at a depth exceeding 5000 meters, due to the mooring and the attempt to tow it out of Greek territorial waters by the coast guard?
Two years ago, a slogan for Tempi correctly stated: WE DO NOT HAVE NATIONAL MOURNING, WE HAVE SOCIAL-CLASS WAR. While an older slogan said:
ACTION REPLACES TEARS. We would add, with the background of our insurrectional sensitivity and the driving force of consciousness for the conquest of freedom. Against all authority. Against state, capital, racism, nationalism, patriarchy.
New incendiary attack against NGE in support of Louna in Val d’Oise. The GIEC announces the resumption of demolition work on the Roissy-Picardie link.
Last weekend, anarchist lightning struck a second time at the same site, where NGE and Egis are building the Roissy-Picardie rail link.
Armed with rage at the news of the extension of Louna’s pre-trial detention (accused of having set fire to an NGE machine), we wanted to add our own contribution. So, on a quiet night, two machines were attacked. At least one of them ended up completely engulfed in flames.
This site had already been targeted at the end of January by anarchists in support of the zadists against the A69 and the Bordeaux-Toulouse high-speed train line. The communiqué claiming responsibility for the action prompted us to take a look, and add a little smoke. As a reminder.
As can be seen from the images circulating prior to our action [see below this article], at least 3 other machines had already burnt down on the same site. If we add ours, that brings the total to 5, which adds up to a hefty bill for NGE.
The cops, judges, prosecutors and other assholes see confinement and the violence that goes with it as a legitimate and just response to a destroyed piece of machinery. Let’s reverse their logic and fight back with what we’ve got: let’s avenge every comrade who’s been arrested with incendiary strikes until our lives start being worth more than their poor metal carcasses.
Our thoughts are with Louna and all the prisoners! Courage to the zadists who continue to fight at the Guinguette Vaillante in Saint-Jory against the Bordeaux-Toulouse high-speed rail line project.
It seems logical to us to attack NGE for the eviction of all occupied sites along the A69 highway between Toulouse and Castres, and for its participation in the police operation targeting the Guinguette on January 22.
As for Egis, the other company present on the Roissy-Picardie link site, in addition to collaborating in prison construction, it is also responsible for the future Administrative Detention Center (prison for foreigners who don’t have the right papers) in Nantes. This engineering firm is also involved, with Alstom and Systra, in the tramway project linking Jerusalem to Israeli settlements on Palestinian land.
All good reasons to target their machines.
A word of caution to those who would like to do the same. Even if the length of the Roissy-Picardie site (almost 4 kms) means that there are vulnerable and poorly protected areas, cameras that seem to detect movement are strategically placed. What’s more, at least one security guard patrols a section of the site by car at night (the section between the D317 and the A1).
Free Louna! Fire away!
The GIEC of 95 (Group of Individuals who are Extremely Combustible, Val d’oise branch)
“Injustice is not anonymous, it has a name and an address”
Bertolt Brecht
In the early morning hours of June 27th [2024] we attacked the house and the police guard of the President of the Supreme Court, Ioanna Klapa, in the Papagos area. That summer evening found the cop who happened to be on duty instead of carelessly gazing at Instagram photos or playing slots (in earlier watches this seemed to be how those on duty spent their time) screaming from the Molotov cocktails that burned him and then being rushed to the emergency room by his colleagues, badly injured. And Klapa, instead of sleeping, fearfully putting out the fire in the entrance and garden of her house.
But why did we choose to attack Klapa while her house was being guarded?
First of all, it was an operational choice with three political considerations. It was not a matter of mere desire or convenience but of collective recognition of the need to attack, yes, using the element of surprise, but on a guarded target. In a field where, in theory, immediate engagement reflexes have been designed and provided for by the police guard to protect the high profile person. In this area there is not room for much analysis. Their preparedness and the proud spirit of the Greek police corps went out the window. Although their operational planning was disgraced, we, to tell the truth, acknowledge that we did not achieve anything particularly great. Life the next day went on as usual, a world of squalor and rot remained the same and the violence of apathy, misery and deadlock still lingers. We had no illusions that we would achieve the most decisive blow to the mechanisms of bourgeois justice and the police. To be a substantially dangerous pole in the social war, however, you have to sharpen the violent responses quantitatively and qualitatively. This is a finding that is eloquently described even by renowned academics and in particular by the jurist Manoledakis: “The overthrow of a political power, and especially today when the state has a perfected huge mechanism for eliminating its opponents, cannot be done on paper or with wishful thinking. In order for the ‘political criminal’ to reach his goal, he must willingly or unwillingly violate a multitude of legal value so that his crime always appears complex. The state is a legal value entangled with other legal values (human lives, personal freedoms, facilities, services, etc.). To reach it you have to go through these values”. So we recognized the importance of such an action and achieved a goal that was both realistic and decisive. To wound their confidence and arrogance, to wound the security they feel in the quiet of their homes and their service cars. We have succeeded, and literally. The burn scars of the security guard will be there to remind him and his colleagues when they notice them that they are in fact vulnerable no matter how much they may think otherwise.
Here lies the second aspect of the rationale behind our attack and the conditions under which it was carried out. The central outcome of our operational planning was to completely destroy the service vehicle and injure the cop, which is what happened. If to some ears this sounds too violent and alienating to their humanistic, pea-brained little minds, then we are speaking and addressing those who read this text and either consciously and with clear political and ideological commitment advocate revolutionary violence by all means or those who instinctively rejoiced and chuckled when they heard the news of a cop being injured that day. To all of them we say that this act was another contribution to the feud we have with the bollocks of the Hellenic Police. We owe this feud and its continuation to our dead. It is a deep and conscious choice with the first and foremost weapon being the determination that defines the need to avenge our dead.
“People do not judge like courts; they do not pass sentence, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they throw them into the void.”
Maximilian Robespierre
It is these dead people who directed us that night to examine Klapa and – instead of the position of the all-powerful judge as she is accustomed to have – to put her in the position of the guilty party. Klapa deliberately repeatedly and by being in an appointed office has been covering up for two years from her position as President of the Supreme Court the government’s responsibility for the murder of 57 people in Tempi. We found Klapa guilty of covering up and tampering with the traces left by the New Democracy killers. We found this scum guilty for not being ashamed to even take on the relatives of the victims. So we looked at her record as President of the Supreme Court and judged that the response of fire and the terror of an attack where her family comfort is housed is the very minimum she truly deserves. We do not expect every Klapa and every Adilini along with Bakaimi to deliver any justice. Just mentioning it makes us laugh. But we want to say one or two things to them. We know very well that among the worst things you can say to a judge and accuse him of is that he is controlled by political power. It gives them an allergy. They have nothing more sacred than maintaining the veneer of the shop window of the civil justice system as “independent”. Since it is not so unlikely that this text will fall into Klapa’s hands – after all, it concerns her – we say to her something that even the most ignorant (unless of course she belongs to the party apparatus and the core of the New Democracy) now believes: you right-wing tsarina, at least try to keep up appearances when you protect the boss who appointed you and don’t lick the Prime Minister’s ass so much. And one more thing, to the relatives of the victims – of the crime committed by those you so zealously protect – you’re going to make a toubeki*. Save the suggestions because as you saw your guarding wasn’t effective enough and as you remember we know where your house falls.
The duty to defend the memory of our dead cannot stop at a violent gesture, at a single attack. We must create at every opportunity the conditions that will allow a direct and dynamic response to the demagogues of our thoughts and dreams and the usurpers of our lives. The same applies, of course, to those who protect them. The conditions that we must take advantage of also arise from mass violent outbursts such as that of 28 February. Diffuse groups and individuals clashed that day, putting the mentality of acts of revenge for the murder of 57 people in Tempe at the forefront. Any similar opportunity must not be allowed to go to waste. Not with the logic of a fetishistic violent vision and a simple clean-up. Too many years of absence of mass aggressive clashes and the few exceptions in between have damaged the reflexes of the militant minorities and have left behind a conspiratorial logic in many parts of the people who take to the streets. From the righteousness of the December rioters and the mass militant stubbornness of 2010-2012, we have moved on to insatiable securitarianism and the baptism of provocative cops with an obsession that is truly impressive. Most people are more or less aware of the responsibilities of the left, let alone the KKE [Greek Communist Party], for this provocative propaganda. On top of that, the huge crowds on 28 February ensure the presence of many ignorant people about what violent mass clashes at central gatherings signify and their necessity. It can only cause laughter that all of them, at the sight of incidents in other countries around the world, pull out of the quiver of the know-it-all, the shouting at the apathetic new Greek who no longer resists. Only the constant and repeated confrontational presence will answer all these sputtering people. Let us have no illusions that all this number of people will read the analyses of the space on provocateurism. Let’s answer them in the street with our unyielding and determined intention to attack cops, capitalist targets and state property. If they don’t understand words, let’s give it to them in words. In the general strike on 9 April the conflict minorities must, if necessary, respond forcefully to possible challenges and any threat to their security by sputtering vigilantes of social peace.
KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS ALWAYS PRESENT
“What does it matter if death finds us? What matters is that our cry will be heard and another hand will be by our side to take our weapon and other rebels will rise up to catch the song, to hear the new cry of war and revolution.”
We dedicate this phrase of Che Guevara and its meanings to the dead urban guerrilla Kyriakos Xymitiris. We don’t need to talk about Kyriakos. His choices have spoken. The militant path he took was marked with signs of dedication, unadulterated faith and commitment to the struggle for the HOPE he so believed in. At noon on the 31st of October, Kyriakos Xymitiris left too early after a device explosion on Arcadia Street. But the signs that led him among the cyclones of a reality that struggles to impose apathy and starkism, those roads that Kyriakos opened with the stubbornness and passion of an armed rebel, those signs will be followed by all of us who will commemorate his passage into “illegality” along with the other outlaws Lambros Fountas, Michalis Prekas, Christoforos Marinos, Christos Tsouchouvis and Christos Kassimis. We will keep those streets bright because Kyriakos’ own life and his sacrifice prove so thunderously and blatantly that people who love the struggle for freedom and life are willing to risk it without a second thought. To give it totally to the revolutionary cause.
MARIANNA FIRM AND STRONG AS FREEDOM
IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS MARIANNA M., DIMITRI P., DIMITRA Z., NIKO R., ARGYRI K.
Provocateur Faction
DN Note
*Τουμπεκί (Turkish: tömbeki) is the tobacco used in ναργιλέ, nargilé (shisha, hookah). In coffee houses until the interwar period, nargilé was widespread. There are various interpretations of the origin of the expression “κάνε τουμπεκί, kane tombeki”, which metaphorically means “shut up”, “shut it up”. The nargilé was prepared by the “tömbeki”, nargilé maker, of the coffee houses, and because they would catch up on the conversation and take a long time to offer it to the customer, the customer would in turn shout: “Kane tombeki”, meaning stop the conversations and make the tobacco.
