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Revolutionary People’s War – A Brief Introductory Brochure

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The given text, titled ‘Revolutionary People’s War – Şerê Gelê Şoreşgerî’, is an important introduction to better understand the current strategy of the PKK. This introductory brochure was prepared by the #Riseup4Rojava network, based on transcriptions from an education on the Kurdish Freedom Movement. This introductory brochure is intended to serve as a guide for discussion, education and for better analyses, understanding the current situation we are in around the globe, and for developing a perspective with a practice of what is to be done. With further brief introductory brochures on topics such as Special Warfare, and on Internationalism, the latter text written by Riza Altun, our goal is, on one side, to strengthen the understanding of Democratic Confederalism and the Strategy of Revolutionary People’s War and to deepen strategical discussions in our broader network, and on the other side, to create a strong common perspective of our role, as the global resistance movement, in the defense of the Revolution of Rojava, the smashing of Turkish Fascism, and the build-up of Rojava everywhere. 

Download the brochure here:
– English
– Spanish
– Italian
– Portuguese
– German

 

 

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Two cranes sabotaged at Damen Oranjewerf, Amsterdam (Netherlands)

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In a recent speech NATO chief Mark Rutte warned that “we are not ready for what is coming our way in four to five years,” and that Europe needs to “shift to a wartime mindset and turbocharge defense production and defense spending.” While NATO prepares for the war to come, arms companies worldwide make millions on war that is already here, and millions of migrants flee from wars present and past.

We as anarchists must ask ourselves how we will act, today and tomorrow. Will we complain online about the latest outrage or join those marching in circles begging the politicians for crumbs; to do something, anything, other than funding these merchants of death? Or will we take matters into our own hands? Organizing mutual aid for those displaced by conflict, climate and the economy. Blockading and sabotaging the arms companies that make war, colonialism, and genocide possible in the first place. On the first day of christmas some anarchists chose to do the latter.

Breaking into the floating dock of the Oranjewerf in Amsterdam, owned by Damen, and sabotaging two cranes by smashing the computer consoles and joysticks. Damen is a Dutch ship building and repair company that owns more than 30 wharves and operates in 120 countries around the world. The company produces work vessels as well as military ships and patrol boats used by the border patrol of many countries.

Damen has designed and exported military ships to many different navies around the world, including to the United Arab Emirates. The UAE is a part of the Saudi Arabian led coalition of countries that waged war against the Houthis in Yemen, a war in which over 150,000 people were killed. Another 227,000 people died due to famine and inadequate health care resulting in part from a Saudi coalition naval blockade. Ships built or designed by Damen were almost certainly involved in this humanitarian disaster.

Damen profits from the increasing militarization of countries around the globe. For example through the Song Cam Shipyard, a joint venture with a Vietnamese partner, not far from the Chinese border and in the direct vicinity of the headquarters of the Vietnamese Navy in Hai Pòng. Damen has already sold four Sigma major surface vessels to the Vietnamese navy. The ships will be fitted with missiles made by European missile company MBDA, three Italian Oto Melara guns and will be equipped with Thales Netherlands sensors, fire control and combat management system. This wharf is one of the largest in the Damen Group and is located near the South China sea, a region that is constantly present in the news as the U.S., China, and their proxies flex their muscles and politicians sow fear of a third world war. With each step towards war Damen rakes in immense profits.

Outside the scope of the navy, the Damen company provides a range of vessels for the network of companies that serve the oil industry with personnel transport and offshore activities like building platforms and pipe laying in Nigeria. Shell and other oil companies have devastated the Niger Delta and mercenaries, militias and the state have murdered countless protesters and insurgents seeking to free their territory from the neocolonial grip of big oil. Of course Damen also supplies the Nigerian navy with small ships like the LST-100, suited to transport 235 troops, with bow and stern ramps capable of carrying 70 tons (just below the weight of a main battle tank), and able to transport smaller vessels and (armoured) vehicles, board helicopters and surface and aerial drones. These boats are used in anti-piracy operations that serve to protect the oil industry.

When people attempt to flee this devastation, wrought by European states and companies through colonialism and war, in order to seek refuge in Europe they are often intercepted by the coast guard or border patrol in ships built by Damen. The Damen group supplies Morocco, Tunisia, and the United Kingdom with vessels used to patrol the external and internal borders of fortress Europe. They also supply the Libyan coast guard which has been known to forcefully intercept and sometimes shoot at migrants and search and rescue vessels. Damen profits on all fronts; from the industry and resource extraction that often leads to war, from war itself, and from the aftermath when people try to migrate by selling industrial and military vessels around the world to the highest bidder.

On June 24th and 25th the latest NATO summit will be held in Den Haag, where politicians, military personnel, and representatives from the arms industry will come together to discuss how to most effectively wage war on the rest of the world. This summit will be accompanied by the largest police operation in Dutch history involving half of the nations police force. The cops have politely asked the general public to please not organize any other events during this time as their capacity will be stretched to the limit. So what’s your plan?

 

 

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France: Communique claiming responsibility for the attack on three electrical transformers in Toulouse on the night of December 2 to 3, 2024

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Toulouse: “They refused to be cannon fodder, we will refuse to be drone fodder”.

Communique claiming responsibility for the attack on three electrical transformers in Toulouse on the night of December 2 to 3, 2024

That night, with light hearts, we wandered around the city in search of a breath of fresh air, a nice encounter, an adventure like only the night knows how to welcome. And as it’s impossible to walk 500 meters in this sad city without coming across one of these industrial horrors at the service of the generalized massacre underway, the adventure quickly presented itself to us. Light-hearted, but never insensitive or resigned, we went looking for a few treasures of our own, which we scattered here and there, so that, with one great BANG, these industries of death would finally power off.

 

France’s aerospace industry, the largest in Europe (civil and military combined), is home to the majority of the management bodies and operational headquarters of European companies and programs, and covers the entire aerospace technology spectrum (including nuclear ballistics). On a national level, the most important cluster in this sector (educational institutes, research laboratories, production plants, etc.) is located in Toulouse.

We acted on three sites, two in the south and one in the north. We lifted some trap doors, and set fire to the cables they were hiding. In one of the enclosures, we attacked a high-voltage power line where the sheath went underground. No mention of these acts in the media, yet the flames were dancing high when we left the scene, leaving little doubt as to the success of our operation…

We acted on the eve of the annual aerospace and aeronautics show, one of the world’s most important in this field. We hoped to spoil their party. Let them know that the rebels haven’t had their last word! This city is infamous for the proliferation of its death industries, but it has also seen a resurgence of anti-militarist agitation in recent years: demonstrations and rallies, public screenings and discussions, tagging of recruitment offices, disruption of events, unfurling of banners and sticking of anti-war posters on 150 JC Decaux bicycles, towing against the SNU, blocking of high schools against the massacre in Gaza, actions against Thalès, Apside, Carrefour, Latécoère, sabotage of SNCF lines…

With our action, we tried to cut off the juice to part of this “industrial flagship” (aeronautics, armaments, technologies) owned by the French state.
We could just as easily have cut off the electricity to the former SNPE (Héraclès – Ariane) chemical site in the heart of the city, but for fear of recreating the AZF explosion – or reviving the memory of it – we decided against it. What can we say about a world that builds these ticking time bombs, just waiting for a spark to ignite a new industrial catastrophe? Is it in the name of progress, of the promise of a world free of disease, that we see the earth being poisoned a little more every day? What irony!

On the other hand, we didn’t particularly want to impact the residents of the neighboring districts. But the way things are organized leaves us little choice. Faced with their wars of conquest and colonization, of inter-state rivalry and control over the raw materials essential to the mutation of capitalism, we’ve chosen our side. Faced with their industrial wars against rivers and oceans, against mountains and ice caps, from the subsoil to the stars, we have chosen our side. Faced with their social wars against the exploited, against women, against the marginalized, against the deserters of gender and race, against the indigenous, we have chosen our side. Faced with their technological wars against what grows and what resists the machine, we have chosen our side. Against their wars: our side is that of solidarity, of struggle, of mutual aid, of the offensive and of rebellious love against all states, all industries, all massacres of the living… and of freedom.

Conflict is spreading, with Russia and NATO promising a third world war. So, faced with this unstable world, don’t we want to ask ourselves a few questions? How much longer can we afford to look the other way, or be content with a meagre humanitarian contribution? How do we intend to react if the conflict gets closer? If, as the state plans, military service is reinstated, and a whole category of people is sent off to war? That the factories and offices where you work are requisitioned and put at the service of this same war? Do we know where military supply convoys pass through? Do we know how to heal people? Do we want to rely on the state to guarantee our well-being, when it has proved time and again that this is not its primary concern? After all, if it doesn’t hesitate to expose us to industrial risks, why would it be more concerned about our well-being in the event of war?

There are still old-timers who remember the times when the word war was not a distant abstraction. People have always had to resist their rulers’ desire to go to war. We cannot escape this. They refused to be cannon fodder, we will refuse to be drone fodder. Far from wishing to sound alarmist, this is an invitation to reflect, to discuss, to refuse passivity. Talk to your neighbor, in line at the bakery, after the next war movie you see. Talk away from eavesdroppers (telephones are ears!). Ask yourself who you can count on, and how you can defend yourself against those who might do you harm. We may not be able to “change the world”, but we can still control our own lives.

We couldn’t end this communique without sending all the warmth of our incendiary night to the compas in Greece and elsewhere who are suffering the hard loss of Kyriakos, an anarchist who recently died in an apartment explosion, and the repression that follows. You are in our thoughts. Take heart.

Thanks to the indomitable of the zad against the A69, whose courage and determination reinforce our own. One occupation may be over (and long live sabotage against construction companies!), but others will be born, because we’ll never give up. And what these pieces of freedom torn from reality bring us, they can never take away from us! Take heart, and solidarity with those who are suffering the state’s counter-offensive as a result of this struggle.

Solidarity with all those resisting the genocidal war unleashed by the State of Israel (which, among other things, buys its supplies here in Toulouse to equip the IDF).
Solidarity with activists, anarchists, ecologists and indigenous peoples resisting state and paramilitary military aggression. We’re thinking of Kanaky, Martinique, Mayotte, Kurdistan, etc.
Thanks also to all the compas who are taking action against war, and more generally, to all those who are trying to resist it, in whatever way they see fit. Strength to you!

Signed: the new aeronautical CNT

PS: For an idea of the sheer number of these companies, here is a non-exhaustive list of the ones we were able to touch:

• To the north: Airbus plants in Colomiers & Blagnac, Eads ATR, Safran, Dassault, Stelia Aerospace, Latécoère, British Aerospace, Daher, SopraSteria, Atos, Bolloré Logistics, Collins Aerospace, Alyotech, Groupe Mecachrome, Actia Automotive, …
• To the south: Airbus Defence & Space, Cassidian, the cluster of SMEs and start-ups developing UAVs based at Labège Innopôle, Diodon Drone Technology, Centre Spatial de Toulouse, Ansys, Delair, EADS Defense & Security Systems, Magellium, Nexeya, Soditech, Millinav, …

 

 

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Berlin (Germany): double incendiary attack against the concrete industry

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[On the night of Sunday to Monday, December 2 in Berlin, at around 3am, a double incendiary attack destroyed around twenty concrete trucks at two industrial sites in northern Berlin. The 8 concrete mixers torched in Gehrenseestraße (Lichtenberg district) belonged to the Mexican multinational Cemex. And the 9 concrete mixers torched on Pyramidenring (Marzahn district) belonged to the German company HeidelbergMaterials.

You may recall that these two global concrete giants had already been attacked several times in the German capital: on December 27, 2023, CEMEX was set ablaze for the first time (five concrete mixer trucks arsoned, as well as the bulk conveyor belt and a technical building near the silos), then a second time on January 19, 2024 (two excavators present on the Berlin A100 highway construction site). On March 15, 2024,HeidelbergMaterials was attacked (six concrete trucks destroyed and three excavators damaged on the A100 highway construction site).

Here is a translation of the claim for the latest attack, on December 2, which hit both Cemex and HeidelbergMaterials at two separate sites, a text that appeared on indymedia germany on the same day].

Switch off the concrete industry

Flames once again lit up Berlin’s cold, dark nights. On the morning of December 2, machines and vehicles belonging to concrete giants Cemex and Heidelberg Materials were reduced to ashes.

This is not the first time that these companies have been targeted by well-deserved attacks. Already in the winter of 2023/24, several Cemex trucks and a conveyor were completely destroyed by fire, and several Heidelberg Materials trucks, which were used to transport concrete for the A100 freeway, were set on fire. The two action claims explained how these companies are responsible for projects of destruction of nature and colonization. Now the concrete industry has been dealt another blow. There’s no need to explain why these two companies have once again become targets. We understand this action as the continuation of a series of attacks on concrete giants around the world, as an offensive against those responsible for the ecocide that is already a reality in many territories. These companies actively participate in neo-colonial policies and profit from war, exploitation and genocide in the countries where they operate.

Concrete plays an important role in today’s world. Countless cities have been built that resemble cages for people, where all you can breathe in is exhaust fumes and misery. They are places of alienation, where it’s no longer possible to see the awe-inspiring beauty of wild nature, and where faceless towers block out the sunlight, while human idiocy tries to scratch at the sky by constructing ever taller buildings. But they forget that there will always be a little plant to find a crack in the concrete, to sink its roots in and grow. This color, in the sad gray, is living proof that wild nature can resist crushing concrete. Just as, for our happiness and their misfortune, there are people everywhere who want to destroy their concrete world. It inspires us and brings smiles to our faces, whenever we hear that, elsewhere, companies that ravage the earth are faced with anger and fire.

Or as the comrades of the Célula insurreccional por el Maipo. Nueva Subversión wrote from Chile: “May this fire be an embrace for the comrades who have dealt blows in other territories across the world […] Knowing that attack must be immediate and in all territories where the facilities and means of those responsible for the devastation are found, contributing to dialogue through direct and confrontational action, without any shade of hope in institutional processes or saviors.”

May the warmth of the fire warm the hearts of Marianna, Dimitra, Dimitris and Nikos, locked up in Korydallos prison, Athens.

In revolutionary memory of our comrade Kyriakos and all those who died in combat.

Freedom and happiness for Nanuk, Maja, Hanna and all the others locked up in the prisons, as well as for all those who have went into clandestinity in the vastness of nowhere.

(Chile) Incendiary Stroll at University of Santiago (Usach) in Memory of Risue and in Solidarity with Anarchist and Mapuche Prisoners

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Thursday, October 10…

On that mid-day a group of masked people left from inside the University of Santiago to block traffic in the context of the first month since the assassination of the comrade Alonso Verdejo (Risue). He was assassinated in the last pilgriage by a cowardly attack of a fascist counter-march. Through this we also show solidarity with the 532 years of resistance of the Mapuche people-nation.

Throughout the action, there were confrontations with the police and propaganda was spread against the frame-up of the comrades from Villa Francia imprisoned for the July 6th case and against the isolation of comrade Francisco Solar, demanding the end of his political imprisonment.

The demo ended without arrests.

Guerrillas Stop Turkish Army Advance Attempt in Girê Cûdî: HPG

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The Press Center of the People’s Defense Forces (HPG) said in a statement that the guerrillas are continuing their resistance against the Turkish occupation troops in South Kurdistan. According to the statement, various guerrilla actions have taken place in the Zap and Metîna regions in the past week.

On the western front of the Zap region, Turkish army soldiers stationed in the Girê Bahar and Girê Cûdî areas were shot at several times. An army surveillance camera installed in Girê Cûdî was destroyed.

On Wednesday, soldiers advancing towards a tunnel system were repelled twice, with the guerrillas using light weapons. Fighters from the Free Women’s Units (YJA Star) intervened against another advance attempt on Saturday. One soldier was killed and two others were injured. The occupying troops in Serê Metîna were attacked on Thursday by female guerrillas with semi-automatic weapons. On the same day, the YJA Star also intervened in the area against combat helicopters, forcing them to withdraw.

Attacks by the Turkish army

As for the attacks by the Turkish army on the Medya Defense Areas, the HPG said that in the past four days, prohibited explosives were used a total of 16 times against tunnels in the Girê FM and Girê Cûdî areas in Zap and in Şêlazê in Metîna. A tunnel system in Girê Amêdî was hit by a drone on Saturday.

In addition, the HPG reported 26 air strikes by Turkish fighter jets in Xakurke, Zap and Gare between 24 and 28 December. The Girê Bahar area was bombed eight times by attack helicopters on 25 December.

 

 

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(Chile) Incendiary Stroll at Liceo 7 José Toribio Medina, Ñuñoa

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Thursday, December 5, masked individuals raised barricades and confronted the police (COP) with molotov cocktails outside of Liceo 7 José Toribio Medina in Ñuñoa, Santiago.

The incendiary action was carried out in rejection of the political persecution experienced inside the establishment, which has resulted in harassment and expulsion of students who have been linked with actions of the street struggle.

In the place, along with making visible the situation described above, the anonymous people threw pamphlets in memory of anarchist comrades Luciano Pitronello and Belén Navarrete who died this past August and in solidarity with the imprisoned comrade Marcelo Villarroel.

The action finished without arrests.

ELN Attack Leaves Four Wounded in North East Colombia

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Four Colombian military personnel were injured on Sunday after an explosive device exploded in a rural area of Tibú, in the department of Norte de Santander, bordering Venezuela.

“Four of our soldiers were stunned and treated at the scene by combat nurses who stabilized them before being transferred to Cúcuta, in order to provide them with specialized medical care,” the Army said in a statement.

The military, members of Mechanized Cavalry Group of Ground Operations Battalion , were conducting a routine patrol when an improvised explosive device was activated in the passage of armored vehicles in the La Florida sector.

Four soldiers were injured by stunning and were treated at the scene of the incident by military nurses, who stabilized them and took them to Cúcuta, capital of Norte de Santander, for specialized medical care.

Local press media says several attack have being reported in the area, reporting that after the explosion, there were reports of heavy clashes in this area, where several vehicles were caught on the track, with passengers, in the crossfire.

ELN announced today that from midnight this morning until January 3, it will implement a unilateral ceasefire “as a gesture of peace” on Christmas dates.

The Government and ELN had until 3 August the longest bilateral ceasefire agreed with the guerrilla, which could not be extended due to disagreements at a dialogue table that is currently suspended.

 

 

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Chad Forces Out French Military; French Purge From Africa Continues

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France has initiated its military withdrawal from Chad, signaling a significant reduction of its involvement in the Sahel region.

On Tuesday, two Mirage fighter jets departed the capital, N’Djamena, returning to their base in eastern France.

French military spokesperson Colonel Guillaume Vernet confirmed the departure as “the beginning of the return of French equipment stationed in N’Djamena.”

End of an Era in Chad

A French colony until its independence in 1960, Chad had maintained close ties with Paris, including the presence of French troops since the 1980s.

N’Djamena served as the headquarters for France’s “anti-terrorism” operations in the Sahel, a mission that officially ended in 2022 after criticism of its effectiveness in combating jihadist insurgencies.

In November, Chad ended its defense cooperation agreement with France, following the example of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, which severed ties with Paris after their Western-backed governments were overthrown.

France Reduces Regional Footprint

After its withdrawal from Chad, France’s military presence in Africa will primarily remain in Gabon, Ivory Coast, and Senegal.

However, even these deployments are being scaled back.

Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye recently announced that French troop numbers in Senegal will be reduced from 350 to 100, and Paris has similar plans for Gabon and Ivory Coast.

 

 

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Guerrillas Destroy Surveillance Technology in Zap and Metîna

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The Free Women’s Units (YJA Star) have destroyed military technology and weapons from the Turkish army’s inventory in the Zap region in South Kurdistan. In particular, this involved several camera surveillance systems that had been installed in the area surrounding Girê Cûdî, as well as landmines laid by occupying troops around the resistance massif. The Press Office of the People’s Defense Forces (HPG) issued a statement about the balance of war in the Medya Defense Areas over the past three days.

The Girê Cûdî is on the western front of the Zap region. According to HPG, guerrillas have successfully pushed back two attempts by the occupying forces to advance onto the massif in recent days. The YJA Star also destroyed surveillance technology installed by the Turkish army at nearby Girê Amêdî, and another camera system was hit in Serê Metîna in the Metîna region. Guerrillas also destroyed a searchlight.

Actions by the “Şehîd Axîn Mûş Air Unit”

In their statement, the HPG also reported on four actions by the “Şehîd Axîn Mûş Air Unit” that took place between December 14 and 16 in the Girê Bahar resistance area. Three military positions were destroyed, and an armored vehicle damaged, said the statement.

Regarding the latest attacks by the Turkish army in South Kurdistan, the HPG reported that their tunnel systems in Girê Amêdî were bombed three times on Monday, with banned explosives.

In addition, between Saturday and Tuesday, the organization recorded a further 22 attacks on its territory carried out by fighter jets. Targets were hit in the regions of Xakurke, Metîna, Gare, Qendîl and Zap. A further 21 air attacks, primarily aimed at Xakurke and the Girê Bahar in Zap, were carried out by Turkish attack helicopters.

 

 

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