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Title: Reverse Countdown Author: Nikos Romanos Date: June 2013 Language: en Topics: anarchism, robbery, Greece, armed struggle Source: Retrieved on July 21, 2013 from http://actforfree.nostate.net/?p=14818
This text [1] does not contain complete placements around the matters it
grapples. It publicly places thoughts, conclusions and findings. It aims
at giving food for thought and desire for action. Until next time.
If something stresses us and troubles us, besides the deprivation of our
freedom, it is our worry if the life we gave and give to the struggle,
will touch some at the degree we desire.
Those who will decide that anarchy is not a frozen meaning, it is not an
ideology, it is not attached with the bug of diplomacy. Our anarchy is
expressions of an authentic and slave-less life. One can see it in the
flaming bottles against the ritocops in the demos and the night-time
attacks, one can see it in the smoke from the incendiary attacks,
attacks on fascists and every enemy of freedom.
For those of you who see it therefore do not even bother to speak to it
of ideologies, it will not answer to you and despises wooden speech.
The language it speaks, demands passion, rage, imagination and
destructive intention. You will feel it flood you when you revolt
violently. Fall in love with it and make it yours.
Melt the ice of incarceration and warm our hearts with fire…
…And now words will speak. Words which are not enough to describe our
armed decisions and contradictions. But even so they promise, reminisce.
Words which revenge the organized silences of the modern world when
accompanied by the sounds of explosions of guerilla attacks, creating
thus liberated time-spaces in the generalized captivity produced by the
system. In these moments therefore neither bruises for the newsreports
fit, neither scratches for hypocritical evasiveness. Either way the
bodies of the rebels always bared, the beatings, swearing, incarceration
and handcuffs. And if some times they stop for a bit, it is not from the
slaps and kicks from the pigs, but the subservient looks which silently
admit their complicity.
Pity has no place, it never did and never will. It likes to pose however
in front of the lens causing unanswered questions in the armies of
tv-idiots who never wondered what really goes on in the darkness of
invisibility with unknown protagonists the disinherited of the social
margin. As for the people of our cast, the bet of destroying the
existence and the existential mutiny remains open, for whoever, for
those whom the flame of resistance burns their bloodied heart.
Then come choices. They should be analysed, become clear and understood,
take down bridges of communication through their dialectic approach and
revolutionary critic. The target? To be adopted by more and more
comrades who will judge them as fertile and effective practices of the
anarchist struggle.
For me bank robberies are a timeless choice of revolutionaries which
“unlocks” many possibilities. First of all it releases you from the
tentacles of waged labour and the contracts attached to it. Thus time is
liberated from your daily life, giving you the choice to devote yourself
to your passions. Where the destruction of joy ends, begins the joy of
destruction. Simultaneously bank robberies consist also a necessary mean
to fund multiform structures of the anarchist struggle with money
re-appropriated from the enemy. We are talking about the support of
anarchist projects, hostage comrades, guerilla structures. At the same
time it is a factual opposition to the social ethics of waged labour and
its social roles which the capitalist world reproduces.
Of course no action on its own has revolutionary characteristics. The
subject through speech, motives and its aims, gives meaning to the
action and leads it to the targets it defines. In my case, the refusal
of labour is a part of the specific choice, the other is the support of
anarchist direct action and attacks against state and capitalism through
anarchist urban guerilla.
The mean of urban guerilla is a useful tool in the “arsenal” of every
anarchist. An armed confrontation against dominance which disputes in
practice so much the state monopoly in violence, as much as the
fictitious need of a mass revolt in order to act. Urban guerilla action
shows that the system is challenged and its myth of omnipotence can
collapse together with the façade of the invincible machine. It causes
fatal wounds to the enemy and is a message of insurrection and an open
invitation to take action against the oppression. At a personal level
you do not let yourself succumb and bow the head before the strength of
the system but you arm yourself and attack it. Risks, decisions and
consequences are weighed with political and personal criteria and lead
to the choice. Either you fight for the destruction of the system or you
capitulate with its benefits. A choice which goes along with the
qualitative evolution of the anarchist struggle. Something that means we
must cast off the political populism which has blossomed in the
anti-regime circles. Lets tell it how it is. We are at war with the
system, we have casualties, hostages, hunted. None of that can or should
be said pleasantly in order to caress the “oppressed” ears. It must be
said as it is, a punch in our stomach which we ought to return it to
their faces.
For all those who refuse our existence, avoid to connect micro-policies
with the multiform anarchist struggle and dream of “self-organized”
bloodless struggles and post-capitalist paradises. If we knew them, we
have already forgotten them.
We live in a time where social contracts are delivered to the flames of
the onslaught of neo-liberalism. Consequently the welfare state and
social benefits shrink before the onslaught of multinational
conglomerates.
The spearhead of civilization, the techno industrial complex
consolidates its sovereignty. The new order demands a god which will be
announced as the saviour of humanity. Its name is science. An authority
which cannot be disputed by common mortals while its social acceptance
prepares bloodlessly for total control. The application of new
technologies, the growing technostructure of the state which abandons
the bureaucracy of the past, the desire for voluntary mass control from
society, is a taste of a civilized totalitarianism. Through dominating
propaganda, daily crimes of science are groomed. With the excuse of
improving the living level and medical care. The protectors of life
raise the value by wearing the uniforms of hypocrisy. When however they
find it necessary they drop the masks in order to exterminate in the
name of their god (money), declaring the crusades of today.
Deterministic theories collapse, since despite the economic bloodsucking
of the population, people remain prisoners of their inhibitions, fears,
vested (which are decreasing more and more). Prisoners of a system from
which they depend materially, mentally, spiritually. Tolerance therefore
increases and humiliation continues. In the queues at the unemployment
offices, the churches soup-kitchens, the bosses offices, in the refined
charity of the humanitarian campaigns of the media.
A humiliation which insults human dignity, while the managers if
political scene brag about the accomplishments and humanity of
democracy.
Modern human beings do not choose, they simply follow the choices of
others. They do not worry, they leave others to do that for them. They
do not have a voice and prefer to listen to the voices of others. They
do not arm themselves, best case scenario they become indignant. They do
not live but simply are convinced that the virtual world of screens and
adverts are their lives.
Screens of modern civilization project models of people and ideal
products, decreasing thus the distance between them. People, products
and machines become one in the whirlpool of control spreading
constantly. The uniqueness of the individual ceases to exist and
identifies itself with the mediocrity which takes on the responsibility
of silence. A silence which murders while smiling drowned in between
products of consumerism heaven, police stations, prisons, concentration
camps, psychiatric clinics and the “developed” countries of the
capitalist periphery.
Public opinion, this will-less systemic creation, settles with vulgar
habits and strolls around the beds of the bosses. Empty opinions
therefore are not susceptible of ideological repairs. Besides, no matter
how much ideology you sprinkle, shit remains shit.
For the people who against their time take the risk to fight and fall in
love passionately, attack will never fit into an ideological mold in
order to be liked and fair. Tracing past historical experiences of
struggle, discovering our common points of connection with other
fighters, we strengthen the barricades of today and construct the
revolutionary prospect of tomorrow. Lets built militant communities of
struggle which will conduct a front-line struggle against state and
capitalism. Lets built anarchist relations inside us living and
promoting the anarchy of wild freedom in the present tense.
Lets dare and continue to dare.
10, 100, 1000 revolutionary cells against dominance and mass
subjugation.
EVERYTHING FOR FREEDOM!
LONG LIVE ANARCHY!
My warmest comradely greetings to all anarchists who do not capitulate
and maintain the bet of subversion open. To the comrades who choose to
strike the state and capital anonymously, those who choose a name to
baptise their mutiny, to the cells of the Informal Anarchist Federation
– International Revolutionary Front (FAI-IRF), which continue the
diffused attack.
To all hostage brothers and sisters at every corner of the world who at
night look at the stars between bars and barbedwires.
P.S.1. Just before this text came out I was informed of the hunger
strike of anarchist comrade Kostas Sakkas who demands his immediate
release. In the near future I will publish a text in solidarity to the
comrades struggle [2].
P.S.2. With my look on suburbs of Stockholm set alight and the flaming
barricades inTurkey.
Avlona prisons
Nikos Romanos
June 2013
[1] The author is one of four anarchists (Dimitris Politis, Yannis
Michailidis, Andreas-Dimitris Bourzoukos) arrested in Febbruary 2013,
accused in the Velventos-Kozani (Greece) robbery case.
[2] Published at theanarchistlibrary.org as “Hunger Strike”.