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Title: Azione Rivoluzionaria Author: Azione Rivoluzionaria Date: 1980 Language: en Topics: armed struggle, Insurrectionary, insurrectionary anarchy, Elephant Editions Source: https://archive.elephanteditions.net/library/azione-rivoluzionaria Notes: Original title: Contributi alla critica armata libertaria, January 1980, âNuovi contributi per una rivoluzione anarchicaâ â 17. Excerpts first published in English in Insurrection 1983. Translated by Jean Weir.
An armed revolutionary organization is an indispensable instrument in
the struggle against oppression. This is beyond doubt. The problem
arises with regard to the limits and structures that this organization
must give itself in recognizing itself as a means and not as an end.
Strange as it may seem, that is exactly the point. The experience of AR,
discussed at length in these old pages, demonstrates how an organization
born with anarchist intentions, gradually became addressed towards a
consideration of itself as the first objective to guarantee and
increase, if not maintain and safeguard at any cost.
From the actions, which contained revolutionary meaning and content,
they address themselves â as the dispassionate reader can see for
themselves â towards a theoretical rumination that can only lead to a
precautionary justification for existing.
Never as today, as a new season of insurrectional struggles is setting
off, does this problem of organization and the risk of unrestrained
self-reference need to be faced in no uncertain terms. The
generalization of the clash does not admit privileged levels, nor is it
to be blindly delivered to improvisation and spontaneity.
Look around. From the daily clash we will have to pass, sooner or later
â better sooner than later â to a more detailed and coherent
insurrectional project, capable of involving others and not only
demonstrating how determined we are.
The enemy is getting ready, are we?
Alfredo M. Bonanno
Trieste, October 19^(th) 2011
In the present volume we have collected the most significant documents
drawn up by the armed organization Azione Rivoluzionaria from 1976.
These documents were born, for the most part, from the need to claim the
various actions conducted against men and organisms of power and, while
fulfilling their function of immediate clarification aimed at the
general public â they also contain revolutionary analyses of
considerable interest. The broader document, entitled Notes for an
internal and external discussion, which provides a detailed contribution
to the social, political, military and strategic analysis of the present
[1980] class clash will be considered separately. [This is not included
in the English edition.]
Scrolling through these documents we see Azione Rivoluzionarias attempt,
with characteristics that could be summed up as anarchist positions, to
counteract the project of the Stalinist and Marxist-Leninist front of
the various armed organizations active in Italy with the critique of
arms, emerge with greater clarity and precision. The class analysis, the
function of the armed organization, the objectives to be achieved, the
relationship with mass work, are elements that make it possible to trace
the differences between Azione Rivoluzionaria and the other armed
organizations, while bringing out important contradictions with the
general principles of anarchism and the practice of autonomous struggles
that have been going on for several years.
The most important of these contradictions is that of the function of
the armed organization which persists in seeing itself as having a
âguidingâ, âprimaryâ function, towards mass work in the conditions of
production and exploitation. It would have been more accurate to have
talked about the indispensability of the specific armed organization and
the simultaneous importance of the extension of mass work, without the
one being subordinated to the other or vice versa.
It does not seem right to infer from the fact that âcomrades are moving
in very dirty waterâ, once âthey insert themselves within the supporting
structures of capitalâ, that mass work be subordinated to clandestine
armed intervention, as it is necessary in order to allow the development
of revolutionary nucleuses within the productive reality. We believe, on
the contrary, that mass work can be further developed, always within the
productive realities and guaranteeing an appropriate contact with the
outside, which would render the task of the specific armed organization
of attack and defence against power more significant.
With the publication of these documents we are taking the opportunity to
open a debate among comrades included in the different realities of
struggle, in order to better clarify the relationship that could exist
between armed organization and mass work.
Libertarian Autonomous Group â Turin
With the attack on the main offices of Paoline Editions, representatives
of the cultural wing of the Vatican linked to the CIA and the American
multinationals, the revolutionary feminist and proletarian forces have
struck one of the centres of their millenarian oppression.
The generalized attack against the proletariat by the capitalist forces
has also expressed itself through a return to ultra-repressive moralism
propagated in the texts published by Paoline Editions.
As well as the successful parliamentary clerical-fascist manoeuvre of
confirming abortion as a crime and thereby incrementing clandestine
abortions with which the barons of bourgeois and anti-feminist medicine
are enriching themselves further at the cost of thousands and thousands
of women, the feminist revolutionary forces are replying with the
propaganda and support of armed struggle for their liberation.
Femminista)
Free abortion is a political objective which the female popular masses
have inserted in the ambit of a far wider revolutionary aim: the
liberation of the popular masses.
The condition of total subordination women are subjected to is fruit of
a society in which essential structural values are power and profit in
the fullest sense of the term. Sexist discrimination is racial and
classist discrimination and this in turn acts on the popular masses in a
comprehensive and total way.
Women, blacks, prostitutes, homosexuals, proletarians and prisoners are
our political allies.
The parliamentary norm which regulates abortion is a squalid spectacle
by the boss and social-reformist clique who act through the legalitarian
parties.
With the approval of articles 2 and 5 the woman does not have the right
to manage her own body and her life autonomously. With the introduction
of shoddy amendments, the substance of this liberticidal law has not
been touched in the slightest. Article 5 bis, in fact, widens womens
responsibility, but self-determination is denied and it is up to the
doctor to decide whether the woman should or should not have an
abortion. Therefore, legal and political confusions are provocatively
created. Self-responsibility does not mean self-determination. The
legislative meaning of self-responsibility consists of a subtle
repressive manoeuvre where the woman becomes policeman of herself.
The doctor-policeman will have to investigate an economic and social
field absolutely unrelated to his presumed health authority. Here then
the doctor, made into public official, becomes a link in the repressive
chain of the police State.
The speed with which the problem of abortion has emerged at a political,
cultural, social level is not attributable to the greater concern of the
political power centres, but to the decisive, conscious, combative
position taken by the female masses and feminist autonomy that forced
and had an effect in an extremely volatile manner on the acquiescent,
apathetic, reactionary patriarchal policy. It is the women who have
given the alarm to the closed bigoted world of the party sections and
commissions, provoking and highlighting the turbid power intrigues found
in opportunistic alliances between bourgeois parties, always ready to
unite in front of the revolutionary âdangerâ, using the weapon of
fascist dictatorship.
The DC-PSI-MSI (Christian Democrats, Socialists, Fascists) alliance
should be seen in this optic, aimed at denying the political,
psychological and physical self-determination of women. The
depersonalisation operated by the profit system and power structures
have now reached nazi level: women, the popular masses, have been robbed
of the ultimate, inalienable property: their bodies.
TO THE ATTACK, FOR THE GROWTH OF FEMINIST AUTONOMY
[On 3 February 1977, in La Spezia, at around 22.50 a bomb explodes in a
Luisa Spagnoli dress shop in Piazza Cavour.]
We have closed a den that rakes in its profits from the sweat of the
imprisoned proletariat.
3 May 1972 â 31 March 1977
Five years ago in Pisa anarchist comrade Franco Serantini was murdered.
It was the first result of the elections in course in the country and
the confirmation that the Christian Democrat regime had decided to
maintain power and defend the bosses interests, shooting whoever
intended to oppose them. Since the deaths of Avola and Battipaglia in
1969, there has been a whole succession of assassinations and State
massacres in response to the workers need for communism and freedom. In
the past seven years a great revolutionary potential has been born,
which, starting from real needs, is tired of compromise and has accused
not only the bosses and the State but also the traditional Left, which
in its deeds has shown itself to be a mediator of class conflict
functional to the survival and growth of the capitalist system. The
comrades have understood that antifascism is carried out in the streets
and not in anniversary parades; that the class struggle cannot be
exercised in negotiations between bosses and legal structures such as
the Factory Committees, but in the section and factory assemblies; that
what counts is not political transformism but economic revolutions; that
popular justice cannot and never will be able to express and exercise
itself through codes and tribunals but with direct action; that the
State and the bosses defend their class interests arms in hand and
therefore it is necessary to give oneself similar structures and impose
our revolutionary programme; that the most coherent way to celebrate the
dead of May 1 1887, like May 5 1972, would be that of making those
responsible pay, transforming a day of mourning and whimpering into a
day of celebration, one of authentic
revolutionary joy. This May 5 1977 will remain a fundamental date for
the revolutionary movement, because one of its vanguards has been able
to give a precise indication of struggle.
The action carried out by the comrades who struck Mammoli is not an
episode of stupid revenge as some journalists have tried to make out,
but is full of political significance. Mammoli could have saved Franco
after the police beating and did not do so based on a cynical political
calculation, a precise class choice, reconfirming once again in this
case his behaviour on many other occasions towards imprisoned comrades
(in the prisons there was great rejoicing when the news that he had been
struck reached them). Mammoli is not only the doctor who through
negligence left Franco agonizing for 32 hours while drop after drop his
blood filled his cranial cavities until it crushed his brain. Mammoli is
a symbol, an institution, a link in the prison system and his behaviour
does not differ from that of other doctors in Italian prison who file
away the death of a comrade with a few words.
The figure and behaviour of Mammoli bring to mind many other squalid
characters: the director of the prison in Pisa who tried to bury Franco
in a hurry; the progressive magistrate Sellaroli who questioned Franco
supported by two cops and did not bother to let him go to hospital; the
great inquisitor Calamari who invoked the inquiry to cover it up; the
captain of P.S. Albini who arrested Franco after ordering the lynching;
the judge Angelo Nicastro who acquitted Mammoli. We do not allow
ourselves to be misled by these names, it is not only on them that our
attention must dwell, because there are hundreds of Mammolis, Calamaris,
graduated police and magistrates in Italy, as cynical and determined as
they are: and this gloomy mosaic is the grim image of the State.
PISA â Franco Serantini, born in Cagliari, July 16 1951, is lynched by
10 police officers under orders of Captain Albini. He is arrested by
Commissaire Pironomonte and Captain Albini and taken to Don Bosco
prison.
Serantini is interrogated in prison by sub procurator Sellaroli.
Prison doctor Alberto Mammoli examines Serantini and writes: âBruising
right eyebrow; numerous contusions partly abrazed on the back, arms and
lower legs; state of shock; Sympatol-Cortigen ice bag permanently in
situâ.
After 32 hours of agony, of atrocious suffering, anarchist comrade
Franco Serantini dies. The certificate written by Dr Alberto Mammoli
speaks of a âcerebral haemorrageâ. An attempt is made to make his body
disappear in fret and fury.
Director of Don Bosco prison sends an employee with a death certificate
to the Town Hall to ask for permission to have Franco buried. The
employee on duty refuses to sign the authorization. At 17.30 the prison
direction solicits authorisation.
The âGovernor of Toscanaâ General Procurator of the Republic Mario
Calamari advocates the judicial inquest to himself and magistrate
Sellaroli takes care to formalize the trial to prevent the transfer of
the inquest to Florence.
Instructing judge of Democratic Judiciary, Paolo Funaioli deposits the
sentence which follows his investigations.
There are dozens of parliamentary interpellations and interrogation.
Someone sues. The newspaper articles and Left reviews are the democratic
cover of the system.
The instructing judge Paolo Funaioli, downgraded at Calamari for his
inquest which could lead to putting responsibility on the prison doctor,
Dr Mammoli, and Captain of the P.S. Albini, is transferred from the
penal to the civil law tribunal.
The medical-legal report is deposited while the conflict continues
between Calamari and the Pisa judges.
Dr Alberto Mammoli, Pisa prison doctor, is sent to trial for culpable
homicide. In the meantime the Commissaire Pironomonte resigns from the
police because he has become disgusted by his work as hangman, but he
does not supply the names of the police who massacred Franco.
The High Court Council turns down Calamaris proposal and confirms judge
Funaioli in his post.
The General Prosecutor asks instructing judge Funaioli to acquit the
pigs âas they remain unknownâ and Dr Mammoli because âthe deed does not
constitute a crimeâ.
After a whole series of conflicts between Calamari and Funaioli, the
judge asks for Captain Albini to be tried for âgiving false evidenceâ
and other officers for concealing the names of Francos slaughterers.
Judge Funaioli âspontaneouslyâ asks to resign. Judge Angelo Nicastro
takes his place.
Judge Angelo Nicastro concords with Calamari in deciding not to continue
proceedings against Dr Mammoli âfor not having committed the deedâ and
limits himself to sending Captain Albini and the police guard Colantoni
to trial for false witnessing.
The magistrates court sentences the two pigs to six months suspended
sentence.
Appeal trial of Captain Albini and the guard Colantoni where they are
acquitted.
After the sentence of bourgeois justice, the proletarian one has
arrived. [Dr Mammoli was injured with 3 gunshots in Pisa]. Justice has
taken its course. âThe Serantini case seemed to be closedâ, writes Paese
Sera.
Franco Serantini was lynched by police in 1972 and left agonising till
death by Dr Mammoli because he was guilty of anti-fascism. Mammoli has
not been eliminated because others are just as guilty as he is, but he
is politically, humanly and professionally corresponsible for the
assassination of the anarchist Franco Serantini.
This behaviour does not differ from that of other doctors in Italian
prisons.
[April 30 1977 at 5. 15 am, two explosions take place in Milan, one at
the employment office, the other at the Opel car showroom of the
multinational General Motors.]
During the night groups of comrades have more or less symbolically
struck a series of objectives which represent âclean workâ: above all
the employment office, certainly a marginal instrument in the market of
capitalist labour, but which symbolizes the bosses and reformists will
to âemployâ us in any way whatsoever in the field of exploitation. At
the Milan Opel we wanted to strike a part of that monstrous coagulation
of German capital that is torturing and destroying our comrades in West
Germany.
[May 1 1977 5.5 am, three bombs explode in Turin, one at the SIP
telephone centre, one at the employment office in via Gioberti, one at
Michelin in via Livorno.]
We are the Azione Rivoluzionaria groups for the abolition of waged
labour.
prisons in Florence and Livorno
Today, July 17 1977, the construction of the new âmodel prisonsâ has
been struck and sabotaged. True concentration camps (tombs for the
living where prisoners are completely annihilated), struck
contemporaneously in Florence and Livorno, cities where the
technical-operative action was possible.
The precise intent was to single out, denounce and combat the criminal
project of capitalist restructuring which resolves class antagonism
through the annihilation of proletarians, revolutionaries and opposers
to its homicidal plans. The comrades reaffirm the unity of the class
movement in solidarity and resistance with the proletariat who have been
round up by capital and the State.
Against capitalist reorganization, against detention-extermination.
Freedom for the comrade prisoners.
Here Azione Rivoluzionaria, we are claiming the night bombing of the
headquarters of the IPCA in Cirie.
journalist Ferrero
Between 17 and 18 September 1977, the armed nucleus of AR âRico and
Attilioâ struck the headquarters of âLa Stampaâ in Turin and the
journalist of âLUnitaâ Nino Ferrero. A bomb intended to cause great
damage to the structure without injuring the people there was left at
the headquarters; the journalist of âLUnitaâ was kneecapped. With these
two armed interventions Azione Rivoluzionaria meant to sanction precise
personal and collective responsibility concerning the management of the
news relative to the deaths of our comrades Aldo Marin Pinones âRicoâ
and Attilio Di Napoli, fallen while they in turn were preparing to
strike the headquarters of the Fiat newspaper in the framework of a
complexive action, unfortunately tragically interrupted.
In unison, police and factory council are shrieking out against this
âattack on the freedom of the pressâ once again pulling a veil over the
reality of things: we did not intend to strike the freedom of the press
and communications, but the shameless campaign of lies and calumny
carried on by the hacks of the regime towards the growing movement of
proletarian opposition, conscious that to the âarms of criticismâ the
time has come to substitute them with the âcriticism of armsâ. With this
armed intervention we meant to and intend to establish with force the
truth about our comrades âRicoâ and Attilio...
âRicoâ was a fighter for freedom and communism in his country of origin:
Chile. He fought with all his might against Pinochets regime, paying in
first person. Outside his country he took up arms once again, knowing
that the proletarian class struggle does not know national boundaries.
Rico fought in other South American countries, he fought in Italy
against the Christian Democrat regime and the historic compromise to
cite only a few of his actions â to mention only those that we have an
interest in indicating â the destruction of the new prisons in Florence
and Livorno and the explosion against the IPCA of Cirie.
Attilio was a very generous comrade, very young, capable of choosing and
deciding in the midst of a corrupt and mendacious world, conscious of
having to overcome the dichotomy between thought and action, ready for
anything with the sure instinct of young proletarians convinced that
they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Attilio participated
in various actions distinguishing himself for his courage and
revolutionary wisdom.
âRicoâ and Attilio fell due to a technical error...
âRicoâ and Attilio live in the memory of all revolutionaries. Other
hands will take up the arms fallen from them in battle. Their slanderers
appear for what they are: vile dogs in the pay of the security services.
BUILD THE MOVEMENT OF ARMED STRUGGLE FOR COMMUNISM AND FREEDOM
REVOLUTIONARY ACTION AGAINST THE BERLINGUER GOVERNMENT
DESTROY THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS OF PROLETARIAN ANNIHILATION
LONG LIVE COMBATANT CHILE. LONG LIVE PROLETARIAN INTERNATIONALISM.
HONOUR TO THE COMRADES FALLEN IN STRUGGLE. LET US FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF
MARA, LUCA, SERGIO, ANNAMARIA, ANTONIO, DI RICO, ATTILIO.
We of Azione Rivoluzionaria placed the bomb at parco Ruffini to strike
the anti-communist congress of tomorrow. Moreover, tell the âUnitaâ
journalist to remember what he wrote about the Chilean comrade and hell
understand why we shot him.
At 5 oclock on September 28 a nucleus of Azione Rivoluzionaria partially
interrupted the urban transport and distributed a leaflet signed the
Industrial Confederation. We wanted to draw the workers attention to the
problem of torture and special prisons. Comrades will excuse us for
having donned, but only for a moment, the foul clothing of the
confederal secretaryship. The very thought that the trade union and
party apparatus are sensitive to the problem of torture and the
concentration camps is a serious and naive sin. If sometimes they have
acted in these terms in the past, they have done it only instrumentally;
once they are associated with power they soon exhaust their democratic
characteristics to reveal the bloody face of power.
Tomorrow they will not hesitate to shoot the workers, as they do today
with the emarginated, killed like birds in the streets of Italy and as
they do against the revolutionary comrades.
...
... Comrades, let us take our indications from the comrades imprisoned
in Asinara. They write: âIn the whole metropolitan area the
anti-imperialist combatant prisoner is considered a hostage in the hands
of the State which is tending to develop a double actin in his regard:
on the one hand treatment aimed at the progressive destruction of his
will, personality and political identity through isolation. On the other
the propagandistic use of this as âdeterrentâ towards the revolutionary
movement and proletarian forces. To this âtreatment of warâ the
revolutionary movement is engaged over the whole metropolitan areas in
replying with âacts of warâ.
Comrades, let us respond to the States attempt to annihilate us with
just as many annihilation measures.
The supporters of the hard line cannot believe that they can hide behind
the shadow of General Della Chiesa, nor can the supporters of the soft
line hide behind âthe need for a political frameworkâ. They will all
fall, swept away by the ruins of the concentration camps.
REGIONAL DAY OF STRUGGLE PROCLAIMED BY THE CGIL, CISL, UIL FEDERATIONS
AGAINST TORTURE, SPECIAL PRISONS AND THE REACTIONARY INVOLUTION WHICH IS
BEING IMPOSED UPON THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT
WORKERS,
The secretaryship of the CGIL/CISL/UIL Federation is calling you to a
day of struggle against the reactionary involution in this country.
We take the words of Pierre Carniti, âWe are in the presence of an
involution which is going towards strangling democracy and political
debate, and making the State omnipotent..â
The Confederal Secretaryship cannot fail to denounce the dangers
inherent in this process which has in fact led to the legalisation of
torture against dissidents in Italy. The events of Puteano, Alcamo,
Rome, among others, show how torture is becoming normal praxis against
dissidents.
Moreover, the unions cannot ignore what is going on inside the prisons.
They cannot accept the distinction, Byzantine to say the least, between
advanced punitive prisons and concentration camps such as the Asinara.
In fact, when a prisoner is held in a cell for 22 hours out of 24 and
the two hours recreation are spent in a cubicle covered by a metal net
Vietnamese-style, does he find himself in a special or a punitive
prison? If every protest is punished with beatings right to the limit of
survival, what should we think?
Perhaps we should wait for a chain of âsuicidesâ as in Stammheim before
we begin to talk about special prisons? In Italy we already have the
experience of the Aversa asylum...
...
To continue to remain silent on this subject would mean to give our own
endorsement to this reactionary involution whose supporters are
unfortunately present within the Trade Union movement.
In fact, to continue to deny the existence of political prisoners in
Italy, as has been done by certain trades union leaders, means to
support this process of liberticide, as well as to deny the evidence
which is before us; if political prisoners do not exist, what sense is
there therefore in a law that discriminates between common law and other
prisoners and asks for special treatment for them?
Through continuing to deny the evidence we will find ourselves part of a
process which will destroy not only freedom but truth.
COMRADE WORKERS, WE ARE ASKING YOU FOR A DAY OF STRUGGLE FOR THE
ABOLITION OF TORTURE, SPECIAL PRISONS, TO CHECK THAT REACTIONARY TURN
WHICH WANTS A SUBJECTED TRADE UNION MOVEMENT, INERT AS WELLAS BLIND AND
OBTUSE.
LET US UNMASK THE REACTIONARIES WHO ARE NESTING WITHIN THE TRADE UNION
MOVEMENTAND WHO WANT ITS DEATH!
LET US ISOLATE THE STRANGLERS OF DEMOCRACYAND POLITICAL DEBATE!
LET US RENDER THE SPIES OF THE NEW STATE HARMLESS!
The Milan Secretaryship of the CGIL-CISL-UIL Federation
[Document given out at the Conference on repression, Bologna, September
23â25, 1977]
We revolutionary militants of the combatant organization Azione
Rivoluzionaria are addressing ourselves to all the comrades
participating in the Bologna conference on Repression to point out a few
things concerning the recent actions that we carried out in Turin,
actions which have been meanly instrumentalised by the bourgeois press
and hangers on.
The first thing to clarify is Lotta Continuaâs function as informer, a
paper which finds itself in the hands of a few profiteers of the
revolutionary good faith of a number of comrades who still believe in
the function of their paper. The accusations that this rag has made
against us are enough in themselves to qualify the whole conservative
politics which the managing group of the organisation Lotta Continua
intend to carry out over our comradesâ heads, paying no attention to the
indications of struggle coming from the movement. Having called us
âfascistâ because we gave a CP servant a lesson he deserved and because
we bombed the largest newspaper of the industrial bosses, can no longer
leave room for any doubt on the direction that Lotta Continua intend to
give to the movement.
The second element that we want to point out is that we combatant
militants of Azione Rivoluzionaria are here together with you
participating in the conference against repression, because we do not
consider ourselves a âmilitary partyâ eradicated from the real struggle
of the mass and communitarian moments of clarification. That is why we
reject every attemptâno matter where it comes fromâto make us pass for
another version of the combatant parties which in fact are acting today
in the reality of the Italian and international revolutionary movement.
Our aim is to realize a combatant structure which is as open as possible
towards the base, one which allows for the massive participation of the
exploited, emarginated, the non-guaranteed and all those who want to
attack the boss class and their servants without a military party
filtering this base and taking over the direction of the struggles.
This is our concept of armed struggle. Simple and not demagogic. Today
armed struggle is not only a project but a reality, a reality that no
servant of the CP or Lotta Continua can ever mystify.
We have attacked the CP, against whom so many revolutionaries have
reversed burning criticism in words, calling them one of the main
sources of reaction. This can only seem to be a bold step forward in
appearances. In fact we have done nothing more than realize what many
comrades theorize.
Future struggles will always be aimed at clarifying both the role of the
reaction and the so-called parties of the left, and the no less
reactionary role of whoever, disguising themselves as revolutionaries,
intends to put a brake on the self-organization of the armed struggle of
the exploited.
unpublished in English
[February 24 1978 a bomb explodes during the night in Corso Garibaldi
88, Milan, the administrative offices of Corriere della Sera.]
Corriere della Sera is equipping itself to face the new run of Italian
freedom. Freedom, the various directors which for some time have been
alternating at the helm of this prestigious truth machine will say, is
such a precious and rare value that it is worth protecting, even inside
in bunker.
Obscure hacks of Corriere, insensitive to any change in ownership or
management (but not salary), Custer will send you to the slaughter.
Donât believe you are secure in your bunker, many other fortresses have
had to give in to truth and this has never disdained to use dynamite...
[Text of the leaflet distributed in Carrara during the III Congress of
the Anarchist Federations International held on 23â26 March 1978]
We are launching an appeal to all the anarchist comrades gathered at
this umpteenth congress, who are not yet sclerotized and prematurely
aged by the continuous and tiring task of treading the scenes as actors
or spectators of the assembly and congress representations and to the
comrades who have not yet devolved all their spirit and their
revolutionary energies to a practice that makes expectation and defence
its main prerogatives.
It is precisely here in Carrara, as in Venice (at the conference on
technocracy), that they want to revive the old branches of confusion,
incapacity and the static nature of the movement. One would like to see
with clarity, understand with true ardour. But unfortunately knowing the
now sad story of these conferences (useful only as practice for trombone
players), we are sure that as soon as all comrades become aware of the
certainty of having clarified or confirmed their âwhat to doâ in their
minds, reality will again be changed so many times that obstinate
certainty and conviction will come up against an insurmountable wall as
a barrier.
And then the comrades will fall back into confusion, listlessness and
disappointment, or even worse others will insist on keeping their narrow
outlook and we will hear, or rather we hear, talk about the union,
anarcho-syndicalism: a very old mental outlook for the society and the
reality of today and maybe, thinking about it a bit, not even all that
revolutionary for that of yesterday (but how ... and Spain? Oh, yes!
Spain ... but without the FAI?!?). Or again, of class struggle, mass
organization: mental closure even more rotten and decrepit than the
previous one, we would call it in medical pathology: âMarxist
phagocytosis in an unconscious state of degenerate involutionâ.
Comrades, letâs look to renew ourselves for once, to be in step with the
times, or rather to pre-empt the times. How can we hope to be incisive
if the methods of intervention, mostly trivial theoretical propaganda,
are now so old and worn out that they reduce anarchists to a sterile and
unproductive movement of opinion, capable of mobilizing itself either on
a defensive terrain when the power launches its repressive arrows,
(pointless remembering the Valpreda case in its particulars, or worse,
the [Giovanni] Marini case with his: âDefending yourself from the
fascists is not a crime, comrade Marini you will be released!â), or as
âhangers-onâ, not even alternative, of the stormy and obscene policy of
the various ex-extraparliamentarians.
Comrades, letâs leave the politics of slogans, models, what was done a
hundred years ago: letâs try to be proactive. We are also extending this
invitation to the comrades who accuse our strategy of being suicidal.
Is it perhaps suicide to have abandoned the traditional anarchist
groupsâ practice without strategy and tactics who, disoriented by the
evolution of events, do not know how to move to take up again so-called
âpropaganda by the deedâ as an example for generalizing direct action?
Is it perhaps suicide to have identified in the antinuclear struggle,
not just a form of battle in a specific sector, perhaps with ecological
tints, but a precise struggle against power?
And again is it suicide to destabilize the State in all its central or
peripheral forms, ridiculing it, putting it in crisis and pushing it to
show its true face, that of coercion and violence?
But before a few familiar solo trumpeters start shouting: âBut who are
they: FAI, GIA, or GAF?â, we will introduce ourselves:
We are anarchists, we have already said so, ours is a revolutionary
organization in which the various groups have gathered at the local
level, or from the meeting of various personal stories, on the basis of
an affinity between the comradesâ various experiences and conceptions.
Affinity groups that maintain their autonomy and freedom of action and
in which the relations between comrades are not of pure efficiency but
rather are characterized by a maximum of knowledge, intimacy and mutual
trust.
What we want is to bring about a destructive critique of the State,
through the use of revolutionary violence, armed struggle, propaganda by
the deed. We want to speed up the times and widen the internal front of
the clash to achieve a destabilization of the State.
We believe that the constructive, utopian critical presence is not a
sufficient, even if necessary, condition if a negative critical
presence, destructive of the processes in course does not develop
parallel to it.
The critique of arms is the only force that can make any project
credible at the present time.
Here Azione Rivoluzionaria, we are claiming the bombing of the Banco di
Roma head-quarters in via Cernaia, the Ferrari dealer in via Pinciana
and the car showroom in via Palmiro Togliatti.
During the night between the 18^(th) and 19^(th) June we struck the
headquarters of the Christian Democrats in Aosta. This, as a warning,
until they revoke the permission granted to the MSI to continue to speak
in the squares of Aosta; because the DC is a symbol of speculation,
exploitation, of which the Leone case is but an example. The DC wants us
to come out into the streets to make us fight with the fascists and be
massacred by the police. We will not allow other comrades to be killed
in the streets and so we are using these weapons against the fascists
and those who allow them to talk. This action is the demonstration of
our strength and intention. It is just the beginning.
LETS CREATE 10, 100, 1,000 ARMED NUCLEI.
Here Azione Rivoluzionaria, nucleus of direct attack Rico and Attilio,
we have struck the IBM multinational.
We have struck the headquarters of Gazzetta del Popolo to remind all the
regimeâs hacks that hundreds of revolutionary comrades are dying in
Italian prison-concentration camps. This action is in memory of all the
comrades killed in actions against the State.
Create ten, a hundred, a thousand armed nuclei.