Anonymous

22 May 2012

The purpose of guerrilla attack is to spread the struggle into different territories and facets of life. Finance, judicial, communications, military and transport infrastructure will continue to be targets of the new generation of urban low-intensity warfare – the Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI) / International Revolutionary Front.

The means for this struggle are always close at hand. On the morning of May 22nd we struck two points on the railway routes into Bristol, on the outer sides of Patchway (northern) and Parson Street (southern) stations. By lifting the concrete slabs running alongside the tracks and burning out the signalling cables found in the trench underneath, before carriages came on the line. We specifically chose these places so that employees of the Ministry of Defence, as well as military industry companies Raytheon/Thales/HP/QuinetiQ etc., in the business park near Filton Abbey Wood station, and the corporate hub of Bristol, near the Temple Meads station, were amongst the affected. Normal services weren’t restored until the evening.

The potential spread of such blockages in general poses a significant problem for the flow of commodities and for making sure that labour exploitation arrives on time, key concerns for transnational capitalism.

Such actions are a time-honoured method of disturbing the ‘social peace’ myth: from similar sabotages in France; cash courier vehicles getting destroyed in Crete; the night-time smashing of train station ticket machines in Australia; resistance to highway developments eating even further into wild landscapes (such as Khimki forest in Russia) whilst displacing animals and people who are still refusing to assimilate into industrial civilisation (such as Bolivia’s TIPNIS project in one of the most biodiverse regions in the world); to the iconic seizure and arson of the city bus in London last August. Not to mention our comrades of FAI/Fires on the Horizon, in Athens, and FAI/Individuals Conspiring for the Destruction of the Existent, in Curicó, defiant with their barricades…

Everywhere the bosses want us scurrying around their metropolis, like consignments of human flesh in alienating containers on pre-determined routes, in a frenetic hustle for survival, there is and will continue to be every reason to forcefully intervene in the smooth flow of the daily grind.

In the United Kingdom of clockwork control and domestication, we’re some of the ‘unpatriotic ones’ who find the 2012 Olympics, with the ensuing spectacle of wealth (when so many here struggle to feed themselves and their families), harmful developments and escalating police state, frankly offensive. But no union or movement calls our shots, and we have no inhibition to use guerrilla activity to hurt the national image and paralyze the economy however we can. Because simply, we don’t want rich tourists – we want civil war.

Anarchy is unavoidable.
Riot 2012.

- Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI) – May 22nd Group (*)

(* - “Because when your heart beats, it beats freedom, love, and anarchy: Anarchy doesn’t die in the mouth, it prevails in active hands.” – Mauricio ‘Mauri’ Morales.

On the 22nd of May 2009, Chilean anarchist Mauricio Morales died on an operation to attack the school for prison guards in Santiago.

In the struggle for meaningful existence, ‘freedom’ and ‘life’ are things worth the risk of losing in order to truly win them. Mauri ‘lost’ the last one… but that wild instinct never dies, the bet is still on, and today Mauri we will see to it that anarchy lives!

To Billy Augustan and Reyhard ‘Eat’ Rumbayan, fighters of the Indonesian FAI in prison for burning a bank (and to the wanted of that case, never forgetting our comrades in clandestinity) – you may not know us, but we are your co-conspirators, and the same for any being who attacks for individual, collective and Earth liberation. Stay strong and proud.

Lastly, we dedicate these words to the five anarchists arrested in the USA in early May, who, planning to blow up a bridge in the Cuyahoga Valley national park in Cleveland, were infiltrated by a government agent who sold them fake explosives.)

Tags: 2012 Olympics, Billy, Bolvia, Bristol, Chile, Eat, FAI / May 22nd Group, Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI), International Revolutionary Front, International Solidarity, Khimki, Mauricio Morales, Russia, Sabotage, UK

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 24th, 2012 at 10:36 am and is filed under Direct Action.

Text: In response to the recent events in Chicago, a message from Occupy San Diego to the Worldwide Resistance that joined in the anti-NATO demonstrations, as well as to the various Occupations, and students in Quebec as it was condensed by OSD GA (05/23/12).

TEXT: From San Diego to Chicago: A Message of Solidarity

Since its inception on September 17, 2011, Occupy Wall Street and the many nationwide Occupations it spawned have continuously faced brutal repression at the hands of the state’s heavily-militarized police departments.

Despite this repression, these past months have seen The People from San Diego to Oakland, all the way to Chicago and New York, coming together to exercise our 1st Amendment rights to freedom of speech and to hold public assemblies. We have used these rights, guaranteed under the U.S. constitution, to collectively express feelings of mass injustice. The People have taken to the streets and raised their voices all the way to the steps of Congress in Washington itself, and, more recently, in Chicago during the G8 and NATO Summit. Yet the repression continues and has intensified.

The current administration’s failure to acknowledge and condemn these vicious violations of our civil rights comes as no surprise. It has embarked on a campaign to ignore us, hoping we would fade to oblivion; to discredit us by disseminating misinformation through the tools of the mainstream media; and by pushing legislation which directly attacks our civil liberties. This past New Years Eve, Barack Obama signed into law the NDAA, the National Defense Authorisation Act, granting the president the power to indefinitely imprison any citizen anywhere in the world, including inside the U.S., without charge or trial. He also signed into law HR 347, the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act (aka the Anti-Protest Act) which restricts the practice of free speech by criminalizing public protest near any Federal building and/or Federal Agent. With these laws, the governement aims to further oppress, silence, and strike fear among its own citizens, continuously pushing the U.S. into a fascist state.

The General Assembly of Occupy San Diego stands in solidarity with our sisters and brothers who showed resilience and courage in Chicago during the anti-NATO demonstrations, an organization that disguises its imperialistic agenda as humanitarian help. We denounce the heavy militarized tactics employed by the Chicago Police Department to repress people’s right to assemble. We denounce the sensationalist mainstream corporate-media as a tool which the 1% employs to shamefully manipulate their biased coverage of events. We declare the NDAA and HR 347 as direct violations of our constitutional, civil, and human rights.

To the various Occupations, the Students in Quebec, the Protesters of Frankfurt, and all the People Worldwide Resisting Injustices: Occupy San Diego stands with you.

To the Chicago Police Department, the mainstream media, and the Obama administration: The whole world is watching!

05/23/2012

http://www.sandiegooccupy.org/node/295
http://www.facebook.com/osdedu
http://www.facebook.com/OccupySanDiego

During the month of June, the 99% will not pay our loans & credit card bills. Let’s show the 1% that the 99% are far more powerful than they are.

We can join together to change things without force or violence.

The financial system cannot survive without us.

We are the 99%.

(The money that would normally go to the 1% could be used instead to help those who are unable to meet their own basic needs, like food. Like pay it forward, towards people in your local community, family, friends, etc. You can give some food to someone in need or who is unemployed and unable to support themselves.)

((No one is asking, so please do not send your money anywhere, there is no organization affiliated with this protest.))

Additional steps that you can take:

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

May 27

In a box of cards lies our fate, decided by some 80 million feeble minds. For the first time in 3 decades our voices are not worthless. A celestial soul that has paid the price is watching over us from above. A once in a lifetime chance for our nation to rise from beneath the dust. This is the chance to make a difference…

Everyone has made up their minds now. The majority chose not take a stand and remain silent. Can’t blame them, the previous regime has blinded them by poverty and illiteracy. It’s too late to blame anyone now, the announcer is about to speak the final results. “People of our beloved nation, I carry in my hands your destiny. Your choice of leader is now narrowed down to one of two; either the insincere mass murderer who has massacred you when chanted for freedom, or a deceitful con artist who has used religion to gain the throne”.

The words struck an Egyptian more painfully than the bullets he took in Tahrir. The so seemingly bright future we imagined suddenly turned horrifyingly dark. Spring is over now, the clouds got denser and darker, blocking the sunlight. A thunder struck, followed by heavy rain showers that washed the undried blood of martyrs, where they sacrificed it, down the drain, along with all the hopes of everyone who has took action against heinous regime.

I’m sorry, I have failed you.

Anonymous

May 28

FAI / May 22nd Group claim responsibility for sabotage on Bristol trainlines (UK)

May 27