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Burning Cables For Beginners

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a.k.a. Anti-Civ Arson Booklet

Translated from German. Also available in French.

[Note from Warrior Up: We’ve chosen not to make this text available as a PDF because we believe that if an arson guide is distributed in printed form, some people will inevitably keep it in their homes or in movement spaces, which the police would be happy to find during a repressive operation. In addition, a printed guide collects forensic traces from anyone who has interacted with it, so if the police recover a copy, they can, with some work, determine who has read it. We recommend that you only read incriminating guides digitally, using Tails. If you’d like to be able to read the guide offline, simply download the HTML file during a Tails session (in the Tor Browser, right-click anywhere on this page and select “Save Page As…”) and then copy it to a LUKS-encrypted USB so that you can access it later during an offline Tails session.]

“There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part! And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop!” – Mario Savio

The cornerstone of a sustainable arson campaign is reliable delayed ignition. However, for small groups without a secure procurement network (which is most of them), many older instructions for making timers are simply no longer feasible.

The rise of online stores in recent years has made it almost impossible to get transistors or ICs from local electronics stores with cash. Even if there is such a store in your area, caution is advised as the police are sometimes surprisingly good at tracing back electrical components. Internet ordering is also unfortunately not an option for our purposes. If you try to solder the required parts out of cheap devices from the dollar store, you will quickly realize that the surface mount device (SMD) components used today are usually much too small to solder by hand.

This guide therefore came out of the desire to share our experience with materials that are readily available at supermarkets or hardware stores. It can also be considered an update to the ELF guide “Setting Fires with Electrical Timers”, which is still well worth reading.

– Angry Birds Commando, Fall 2024

The following pages are intended for adults. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, you can expect a significant amount of repression if you are charged with arson. If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.

Secondly, if you are negligent in your choice of the target or in the storage of incendiary devices, you put yourself and others at risk. We really don’t need any more wildfires. But with proper care, the recipes here are no more dangerous than a barbecue.

When a fire is successfully set, it destroys most traces and gives you time to get away. Unfortunately, igniters with a timer always leave a degree of uncertainty as to whether it actually worked. If an incendiary device fails to ignite, not only does the action fail, but it also provides the authorities with a lot of useful information. The antidote is: test, test, test.

It’s possible that the materials you find will behave differently than the ones we used, such that you will need to adjust the recipes. Again, this means testing, testing, testing… And then, temperature and weather are also factors. And thus, the need for even more testing.

An old bomb-making rule is that explosives and detonators should never be transported or stored together. It makes sense to apply this to incendiary devices as well. Store accelerant and igniters in separate boxes, which are preferably fireproof. A few plastic bottles of water in each box is also a good idea as extra insurance. Also remember that batteries can get very hot if you have caused a short circuit. This can happen, for example, if open wires come into contact with a metal box. In general, though, you don’t want to leave these devices at home. If they are found, they are more than a little suspicious…

The Accelerant

This is the easy part — don’t make it a science. Sure, you can dissolve Styrofoam (lots of Styrofoam, you need at least half a cubic meter) or pieces of soap in gasoline and make your own “napalm”, but … what for? Gasoline, liquid barbecue lighter fluid, chafing fuel, ethanol gel, kerosene … all burn brilliantly! 1 Depending on the quantity, it may not even be particularly suspicious to have some on the shelf. However, depending on the nature of the cable shaft, it can help to use a gel-like accelerant to prevent it from seeping away. 2 In terms of quantity, it is difficult to make a general recommendation. In any case, more is usually better. For a few cables, you’ll need at least 500ml.

A cable shaft covered by a concrete slab, running alongside railroad tracks in Hamburg.

Pour the accelerant into thin-walled plastic bottles or Ziploc freezer bags. In the latter case, additionally secure the opening with tape to keep the contents from spilling into your bag during transportation. 3

The ideal location to place the accelerant is under the cables, but this is not always an option. No problem — it will flow downwards after ignition.

In principle, this is already enough for a simple arson: place it, ignite it, run away. If you are sure that no one will notice the fire soon after it is lit, this may even be the better option, as it eliminates the risk of an igniter failing. If you decide to use gasoline and light it directly, pour out the gasoline and light it by throwing a burning firelighter cube or a burning piece of cloth (not your used socks!) from a short distance.4 Without this short distance, the ignition of the accelerant may burn you.

However, with railroad signal cables, as with most other targets, we can assume that the fire will be noticed fairly quickly. This is where igniters with a timer come into play.

Read more: Burning Cables For Beginners

The Pyrotechnic Igniter

With this simple igniter, reasonably precise delays of up to an hour can be achieved. The only disadvantage is that it creates a little smoke and smell. However, for all targets that are not in the middle of the city, premature detection is very unlikely due to the smoke, especially at night.

Take two solid rectangular firelighter blocks and glue them together with some liquid glue 5. Then secure them together with cable ties. Before the glue has dried, alternate matches and incense sticks between the blocks. The matches and incense sticks must be touching! To increase the reliability of the igniter, you can use as many incense sticks as you like. If you are concerned about smoke production, use fewer. The matches should protrude far enough from the block to get oxygen, but should be close enough to the firelighter to ignite it reliably.

A piece of cardboard is placed around the igniter for protection, which is then secured with cable ties.

When you light the incense sticks, small flames will usually form at the end of them. Extinguish these by waving, not blowing. At this point you already have your mask on anyway. The pyrotechnic igniter must be placed horizontally so that falling ash does not ignite the matches prematurely. The container with the accelerant is then placed above the igniter.

The incense sticks burn surprisingly well. Even a strong gust of air from a passing train should not extinguish them in the cable shaft.

The Electric Igniter

For most actions, you will need no more than the techniques already described. Keep it simple. However, for longer and/or more precise delays, or if the smoke could be noticed (unlikely in the case of night-time arson of cell towers, power lines, or railroad signal cables), there is no way around electric igniters.

The key ingredient for electric igniters is nichrome alloy wire. Fortunately, a toaster provides enough for several dozen actions, so it’s worth keeping the rest in a safe place outside your home. The wire is difficult to solder. Screw terminals usually do not close completely and therefore cannot hold the flat wire securely. WAGO terminals™ are the best option. 6

Take a 4.5 cm long piece of toaster wire and push it all the way into the terminals. Depending on the electrical resistance of the wire and the characteristics of the batteries, it may be necessary to experiment with the length. 7.

Poke two holes in the sides of an empty matchbox. Attach the terminals to the bottom of the box with liquid glue and wait for everything to dry. Meanwhile, cut off the match heads with scissors. Two or three small boxes should be enough.

Fill the box to the brim with the match heads. Don’t be too stingy here. A little liquid glue can help hold everything in place, and thus ensure that the toaster wire stays in contact with the match heads. However, too much glue will smother the flame.

Wrap cling film around the box once, then secure it with liquid glue and cable ties at the ends. There should only be a single layer of cling film so that the heat from the ignition can quickly burn a path to the oxygen.

A voltage of 9 volts is sufficient to make the wire glow, but a single 9-volt PP3-size battery will not provide enough current. Connect two 9-volt batteries in parallel, i.e. plus to plus and minus to minus, so that the currents, not the voltages, add up. With a little practice, you can simply solder the wire to the battery terminals.

The WAGO terminals at the ends of the wires are important. A single accidental contact of these wires will start the fire… burning backpacks are considered suspicious.

The accelerant, igniter, and timer (see below) should only be assembled in close proximity to the site of use.

The last step is to attach a piece of a firelighter to the matchbox using cable ties. There shouldn’t be too little firelighter, but it is essential that the match heads still have enough contact with the air.

Now it is time to test. If it is assembled correctly, the firelighter should not smolder slowly when the circuit is closed, but burst into flames immediately. Of course, during testing you can leave more space between the battery and the matchbox so that the two 9-volt batteries are not destroyed during each test — just build the igniter as described, but without the battery, and instead connect the battery with alligator clips for the tests.

Of course, the battery and WAGO terminals can also be integrated into the timer instead of the igniter to minimize the risk of premature ignition. We chose this design because the proximity of the battery and terminals to the point of origin of the fire more reliably destroys DNA traces that may be on them. 8

The Egg Timer Switch

Almost a cliché, but it works. First of all, you need two conductive, reasonably flexible metal strips that you can solder to. One option is filing strips used in file folders. However, you must first remove the non-conductive protective layer.

Filing strips

Then solder wires to both strips. Put a piece of cardboard between the moving part of the egg timer and its case to muffle the ticking noise. It’s best if not everyone notices it right away…

How the metal strips are attached depends on the model of egg timer you are using. In this case, two small holes were burned into the handle with a soldering iron, through which wires were fed. The other metal strip was bent and attached to the case with a screw. For other cases, it might be better to use hot glue or to cut a small slot into which the strips are inserted.

To make sure that the movement of the timer is not obstructed in any way, you can glue it into a cardboard box. The wire must also have enough slack to allow for the necessary movement.

The maximum delay time is (obviously) one hour. The only disadvantage is the more or less loud ticking.

The Ice Block Switch

Longer, albeit imprecise, delays can be achieved with a block of ice and a clothespin.

The clothespin must have a strong spring and the widest possible opening angle. Tie its handle ends together with a piece of wire. Then attach two metal strips like the ones described above to the other end with wire. It is important that the metal strips touch each other when the clothespin closes and that they are not in contact with the spring. Otherwise, the circuit will be closed even when the clothespin is in the open position.

Hang the clothespin in a plastic container filled with water so that the upper end still protrudes above the surface. Place the container in a freezer and wait 24 hours.

Remove the top wire immediately before placing the incendiary device. You can also try removing this safety wire after the first layer of ice has frozen and then freezing more water over it. This will allow the clothespin to be placed in the center of a block of ice of any size.

One liter of ice should provide a delay of several hours for night-time actions, even in the height of summer. If the block of ice is placed with the plastic cup still holding it, the duration increases considerably because the melting water protects it from the warm air. The disadvantage is that you have left one more thing at the scene of the crime which could have traces on it.

If you have used prong paper fasteners for the metal strips, remember that they are no longer rustproof once the protective coating is removed. Therefore, the ice block must not wait in the freezer forever before being used, and to test the delay duration at different ambient temperatures, a new clothespin must be made each time.

For transporation, an insulated cooler bag is required, which should also spend a few hours in the freezer.

To increase igniter reliability, you could also freeze several completely independent circuits in the same block of ice. If you use several independent circuits, it is important that the wires can be clearly assigned, as the ice block is usually not very transparent. If the wrong connections are made in the heat of the moment, a logical AND circuit is created instead of an OR circuit, which defeats the purpose of the whole thing (i.e. the circuits will no longer be independent).

The Digital Switch

As described in the introduction, the era of self-soldered timer circuits is probably over for most people, at least for the time being. Fortunately, capitalists are never above selling complete timers to revolutionaries for a small profit. An electrical outlet timer with minor modifications is all we need. Since circuit board layouts vary differ from brand to brand and change over the years, only the rough approach is explained here. Basic electronics knowledge and equipment are assumed.

The first step is to get one of these outlet adapters, take it apart, and familiarize yourself with the layout. Of particular interest are the rectifier, probably a small IC with DC output and AC inputs labeled, and the relay, a slightly larger magnetic switch.

Use a soldering iron or saw to cut a new adapter in half, as shown in the illustration, to save space. Put some tape on the sides to make sure it doesn’t fall apart.

One of the two wire strands of the outlet will be connected to the relay. The other two wires which are connected to this one will be the positive and negative terminals of the resulting timer. The second of the two wire strands of the outlet can be ignored.

If space is not an issue, it is also possible to avoid cutting the outlet adapter in half and simply insert a plug into the adapter instead. The positive and negative terminals of the resulting timer are then the two ends of the same wire, before and after the adapter.

Then (depending on the position of the rectifier) a small hole can be made in the back with a soldering iron to expose the rectifier. We will be replacing the DC output of the rectifier with the DC output of a battery. This is necessary because the built-in batteries, if present, will keep the clock running but will not provide enough voltage to operate the relay. Due to the small size of the rectifier, some soldering experience is required.

The choice of batteries depends on several factors. Firstly, the voltage required by the relay for switching must be determined. In the case of the adapter shown, it was about 12 volts. We connected two 9-volt batteries in series to get 18 volts. 9 The other question is how long the delay will be, which again depends slightly on the ambient temperature 10. With this design we ended up with a delay of about 72 hours, which is a lot, but theoretically an adapter with weekday switching can achieve a delay of 7 days.

So some clever trial and error is required. A combination of batteries connected in series and parallel or a different type of battery may work for you. Battery datasheets are available online and often provide detailed voltage drop curves over the service life of the battery model.

The switch ensures that the igniter can be stored without draining the battery.

And that’s it. If everything went well, you have a timer with a delay time of several days for less than €20.

On the day of the action, flip the switch between the battery and rectifier, set the time and day of the week, then set the desired ignition time and you’re ready to go.

On site, before actually connecting the igniter to the two wire ends, you can manually set the adapter to ON for a test. You should hear a soft click. Then switch it back to OFF and then to AUTO.

Some Thoughts on the Psychological Aspects of Militant Actions

Round out the last few pages of a guide like this with some information about traces, encryption, technology, and infrastructure, and you have the technical side covered. The political and psychological aspects of this work are much more complicated. We don’t want to push our political line at this point — you’ll have good reasons for wanting to set cables and machines on fire. But we do want to address the psychological side, which is often underestimated. Although though it can be liberating, carrying out clandestine actions is stressful.

Paranoia is a very real danger in the face of the seeming superiority of vengeful state authorities, and possibly wandering alone in the dark woods or along railroad tracks at night can also be quite frightening. Then there are doubts about your own relevance or legitimacy, or the feeling that you are not doing enough. And then, of course, there is isolation, which intensifies everything. You can’t talk to anyone outside of a small circle of people involved. All fears, worries, but also triumphs and creativity have to be kept under lock and key. You may also have to change your habits or, for security reasons, express opinions in public that are so tame they make you want to scream inside. This may alienate you from those around you.

All this is normal and part of the process, but it needs to be balanced and addressed.

As far as repression is concerned, try to have this clarity: repression is not primarily a consequence of illegality, but of effectiveness. If you are part of an effective movement that the system feels threatened by, you become a target — even if you have “only” prepared food for a mutal aid project and nothing else. But this also means that if your goal is to overcome the status quo, you always have to accept a certain risk of repression. And repression is definitely not a sign of failure. Anyone who fights can lose a battle.

Everyone makes mistakes and everyone even makes stupid mistakes. Usually quite often. Even with the best planning, a police patrol can happen to turn the corner just as you’re about to leave.

In our experience, courage, determination, and energy grow from the certainty that you are doing the right thing. This certainty, in turn, comes from a solid theoretical foundation. This doesn’t mean that you have to spend years studying the “classics” or that you have to get on everyone’s nerves with scene jargon. It does mean that you should take the time to answer the following questions honestly and sincerely. It’s best to do this now. No one wants to ask themselves, “What did I do?” when they read about the latest action in the newspaper or are already at the police station. The “certainty that you are doing the right thing” does not mean arrogant dogmatism. A little residual uncertainty is what makes us human. Try to find answers that feel right, and don’t hide behind political gobbledygook. Your answers should be clear enough for a child to understand. Hell, maybe even a liberal can understand them then!

What really bothers me? What really keeps me awake at night? And what problems am I just talking about because it’s trendy at the moment?

Are the problems related, do they have a common root? Is there a main problem? Who is responsible for my problems? Is someone to blame?

What should the world look like instead? What is the goal? Why do I think this would be desirable? Is there a logical path to get there, a strategy? Do I know methods for the individual steps, do I know tactics?

Has it ever worked? In other words, are there historical examples of my goal, my strategy, and my tactics? If so, are they transferable? If not, why might it work now?

On what do I base my knowledge? Have I been swayed by propaganda? Do I know what I am talking about? What is “the system”? What does resistance mean? Do I know what revolution really implies?

Am I fighting for myself or for others? If I am fighting for others, did they ask me to? If not, would they if they could?

Am I on the left? Or the right? Or neither? What is my social class? How does that shape my thinking? If I write action claims, to whom are they addressed?

How much am I willing to sacrifice? Can I go to prison for a year? Can I go to prison for five years? Or longer? Will my loved ones be taken care of during that time? Can I keep my mouth shut?

Am I looking for recognition? For adventure? For revenge? Is this good or bad? Does revolution have to be fun?

What negative consequences can my actions have on bystanders? Why are they justified? Are they justified? What is violence? To what extent does the end justify the means?

How would I explain my actions or inactions to future generations? Is there any justification for using ineffective tactics?

Do I actually believe in victory? Does the word even exist in my vocabulary? Or do I merely want to fight to ease my conscience?

What if we lose?

And what if we win?

What if we really can win?

Translator notes:

  1.   “Gasoline by itself tends to flash and burn out quickly. Adding an equal part of motor oil to the gasoline will result in a longer-lasting, hotter flame. The best consistency for the fuel is that of a thin jelly rather than the firm butter paste of most flame fuel products.” – from a Paladin Press book ↵
  2.   In Germany, a cable shaft often runs alongside railroad tracks, covered only with concrete slabs. In other national railroad systems, these same cables are instead buried, emerging only at bridges, signal boxes, etc. ↵
  3.   As the ELF guide notes, “electrical tape is like a magnet for hair and skin flakes,” and the same is true of tape in general — it picks up an electrostatic charge when unpeeled from the roll, and this charge is what is responsible for the “magnet” effect. Therefore, the use of tape should be avoided whenever possible. If the use of tape is unavoidable, an anti-static model should have less of a “magnet” effect, but keep in mind that any adhesive surface still presents an increased risk of collecting DNA. Alternatively, glue can be easier to apply in a controlled manner than tape, so that you never have direct contact between your gloves and the adhesive surface. Another option is to use a cable tie, which can often do the job of holding something in place without requiring an adhesive surface. ↵
  4.   Alternatively, you can avoid needing to pour out the gasoline by lighting a firelighter cube placed on top of the plastic bottle, as described in “A Recipe for Leaving No Trace“. ↵
  5.   Firelighters are usually sold in two different forms — as individual cubes or entire blocks. ↵
  6.   Other brands of lever-clamp terminals should also work. ↵
  7.   Longer = more resistance ↵
  8.   See “DNA You Say? Burn Everything to Burn Longer: A Guide to Leaving No Traces” ↵
  9.   “The working life of a battery is extended by wiring an extra battery in series. The voltage will be doubled, but this is not a problem for any of the electrical components. Tape the two batteries together. Then use a battery-snap to connect the negative terminal of one battery to the positive terminal of the other battery. Cut a second battery-snap in half to use on the remaining terminals.” – Setting Fires with Electrical Timers ↵
  10.   See “Electrical Timers in Cold Temperatures”, Setting Fires with Electrical Timers ↵

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Val d’Oise, France : new incendiary attack against NGE in support of Louna

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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)

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Pig Snouts and Feet Scattered at 6th Precinct

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April 23, 2025

6th precinct Manhattan – To honor the finest donut-eating pigs of the NYPD, we presented them with a generous gift of pig snouts and pig feet, scattered all over their car with a side of red paint. When they are not harassing the unhoused, beating up protestors, or shooting up subway stations, they are busy trading tips on genocide with their Zionist friends. Oh what would we do without these heroes! Maybe they deserve more gifts like these from more grateful New Yorkers?

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Direct Action Against Magellan Aerospace

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April 15, 2025

Last night, some people in NYC took direct action against Magellan Aerospace, a company which makes parts for Lockheed Martin F-35 jets and other death machines used by the American and Zionist regimes. Someone went inside the fence at the back of the building and slashed the tires of trucks at the loading area. Actionists also redecorated the building with paint. Free Palestine.

97-11 50th Ave, Corona, NY 11368

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Athens, Greece: ‘Provocateur Faction’ takes responsibility for the incendiary attack on the house and police guard of the Supreme Court President Ioanna Klapa

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“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.

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Shut the System target Barclays over fossil investments

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Group claims coordinated graffiti, superglue and cable-cutting actions

~ Cristina Sykes ~

Shut The System (STS) says its activists have targeted branches of Barclays bank and the homes of senior management ahead of the bank’s Annual General Meeting on Wednesday.

In a press release the group said they superglued door locks and ATMs and sprayed graffiti on the exteriors of bank branches in locations including London, Bath, Lincoln and Devon, and cut WiFi cables at the bank’s Northampton headquarters.

The activists also spray-painted messages calling for divestment from fossil fuels on the properties of three senior Barclays executives—CEO Vimlesh Maru, global head of sustainable finance Daniel Hanna, and president of Barclays Bank PLC Stephen Dainton.

Barclays is one of Europe’s biggest investors in fossil fuels, having poured $235.19 billion into the sector since the 2015 Paris climate agreement. The bank made some climate pledges and restrictions on new oil and gas financing in 2024, but its policies still allow investment in fossil fuel companies.

Shut The System is demanding that Barclays and other banks immediately prohibit all finance and insurance for fossil fuel expansion, adopt emissions reduction targets aligned with 1.5°C scenarios, and scale up financing for a just transition.

“For years Barclays have resisted the calls of peaceful campaigners to divest”, said the group in a press release. “By targeting Barclays offices, the luxury flats and mansions of their senior staff and organisations supporting the bank, we are creating the pressure to reign in these corporate murderers”.

Found on: Freedom News UK

Three Murders in 24 Hours. Night Attack on Police Training College. Justice for Abisay!

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On Monday night, April 14th, anarchists entered Collège de Maisonneuve, which hosts the police training program, Techniques policières. The entrance was painted with “MINI COPS = FUTURE KILLERS” and “JUSTICE FOR ABISAY CRUZ” as well as other tags like “3 STATE MURDERS IN 24H” and “MAKE FASCISTS AFRAID”. A fire extinguisher filled with paint was very helpful, and a window was smashed. We do not forget the murders and abuses committed by the Montreal police over the last few weeks; readers, please spread the popular vengeance. To the students of the Techniques policières program: drop out and change paths, it is not a safe future, neither for us, nor for you. This program trains people who will be the future of state violence. The police is a force that punishes the poor, immigrants and racialized people, that beats and shoots protesters, that arrests and kills people like flies. This society is sick and the sickness is capitalism, the State, and hierarchy, and the guardians of this terrible social order are the police. We will never forget the injustices committed against us. Long live the memory of Abisay Cruz and that of all those killed by the police.

In this video, we can see the curious looks of passersby the following day.

Found on: MTL Counter-Info

Security Checkpoint Vandalized at Columbia University

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April 30, 2025

Overnight, an autonomous group acted against Amerika’s repression of the Palestine movement. The group attacked one of Columbia University’s border checkpoints — structures created to surveil and suppress the student momvement. Security equipment was dismantled and stolen. Infrastructure was vandalized.

These checkpoints materially link Columbia to the zionist occupation through an identical colonial tactic: separating the hallowed “inside” from the criminalized “outside.” There are parallels in the way that resources are concentrated “inside”: the ill-gotten gains from Columbia’s rampant expansion across Harlem mirror the zionist entity’s desperate, vampiric attempts to transform and extract as much value from Palestinian people and land as possible. There are parallels in the way that the technologies and institutions used by ICE to surveil, kidnap, and traffic immigrants in the US — with the help of IOF-trained pigs — are used by Isr*el to murder Palestinians and Black and Brown people globally.

The U.S.-zionist empire is attempting to erase Palestinians and Palestine. It is our duty to act. Any instruments that further our repression will never be allowed peace.Free Palestine. Free all political prisoners. Glory to our martyrs. Abolish ICE.

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Trans day of vengeance W: quebecor trashed, cybertruck wrekt

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In the spirit of Trans Day of Vengeance and April Fool’s Day, a cell of trans anarchists crashed the fuck out, targeting transphobe media and transphobe truck. Around 4:30 in the morning, angered by the police violence at the trans vengeance demo, armed and masked trannies took their vengeance to Quebecor, parent company of Journal de Montreal, TVA, and more. These media outlets have consistently spewed transphobic, bigoted and fascist poppycock into the news cycle. Around 5 windows of their square victoria headquarters were smashed to shit, light pink paint was sprayed on the windows and inside the entrance, and fireworks were tossed in.

As they were dispersing, the trannies stumbled across a beautiful parked cybertruck. Angered by elon musk’s transphobic and fascistic rampage, the little transes jumped on this golden opportunity. “Fuck Nazis” was tagged on the back in bright pink, red paint covered the sides, and the front windows and windshield were smashed to smithereens.

Happy april fools, elon, go suck a trans dick

And happy trans day of “visibility” to all. May our rage and revenge be visible to all those who wish us harm <3

Found on: MTL Counter Info

Nanaimo Tesla charging station attacked

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During the night of March 16, 7 out of the 8 electric chargers were destroyed at the Tesla charging station in Nanaimo, BC. Two of them were set ablaze and subsequently torched, and five others were smashed by brute force, rendering them unusable. Police were not called directly to the scene, but were informed of the incident following the investigation by the Fire Rescue. “We have no suspects,” RCMP spokesperson said.

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