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Title: Fragment: Violence
Author: L
Date: June 24, 2013
Language: en
Topics: violence, insurrection, Social Anarchism, terrorism, FAI
Source: Retrieved on June 25, 2013 from http://325.nostate.net/?p=8197

L

Fragment: Violence

This short text is part of a collection of critical writings in progress

concerning “civil anarchism”, as put forth by Venona Q. and Dark Matter

publications, which is a response to a statement by the UK Anarchist

Federation/Libcom denouncing the non-fatal shooting of CEO Roberto

Adinolfi of Ansaldo Nucleare in Genoa, Italy [1]. Two anarchist

comrades, Nicola Gai and Alfredo Cospito are accused of the action,

which was claimed by Olga Cell-FAI/FRI. Solidarity to the accused, who

are imprisoned in Ferrara, Italy. This fragment is simply a meandering

series of thoughts, the results of a notepad and a rainy afternoon,

rather than a ‘manifesto’ or the kind of dry political statement that it

is in response to.

I

“By having carried out dozens of attacks against targets of the system,

with especially destructive material results, we were and will always be

precise. We aim specifically against the institutions and the officers

of the system, giving special attention to not injure someone who is not

a target to us.” CCF

Violence is neither good nor bad.

It is the State’s basis for it’s domination and consent. Any one who

breaks this relationship is usually deemed criminal and/or insane. Any

acts used in this transgression are usually deemed “unlawful” or

further, “terrorism”.

II

“There are no innocents. We all make part of the social machine of

Power. The question is whether we are oil or sand in its gears.

Therefore, we reject the notion of the apparent innocence of society.

Silence is never innocent. We hate both the hand that holds the whip and

the back which passively endures it.” CCF

The willing citizens, media, police, law courts, judges, prisons and

military are the lines of defence for the order of this relationship in

Society. Anarchist violence is the shattering of this order, the

reclamation/expression of our power and the rupture of the complicity of

the submissive crowd. It is the seizure of the existent reality and the

beginning of its destruction.

III

“Life obtains value based on the choices every individual makes.” CCF

It is obviously still needed to say that when anarchists use force, it

is never indiscriminate. The civil anarchists, whose sole domain really

is in the realm of politics, react to the rhetoric of “terrorism” which

is imposed by the State by merely repeating their dogmas about “risking

the lives” of postal and clerical workers. It’s clearly a matter of

technical and operational questions, to strike the intended target, but

I won’t cry for the secretaries of Swissnuclear [2], the Chief Director

of Equitalia [3], nor for the boss of Ansaldo Nucleare. Nor will I be

alarmed if an employee of an embassy is harmed, for everyone other than

idiots understands what those places represent. The new anarchist

guerrillas don’t look for clemency based on their clear targeting but

express their opposition in their own terms in their own ways.

IV

“The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction” William

Blake

The civil anarchists draw the same line as the Marxists regarding the

“criminals” and themselves: “Good people” who are within the laws of

their self-designed parameters of behaviour and the “bad people” who are

condemned by their rules. Outside of the UK many of the comrades have a

much closer relationship to “violence” and “criminality” through bank

robberies, organising attacks, fierce demos, stealing, fraud,

counterfeiting etc. and added to that possibility the experience of

clandestinity or living underground. Illegalism is the bread of the

insurrection. Many have gone to prison already and we can learn about

their cases in many places. In the UK there is a widespread lack of

experience concerning the organisation of the attack, the recognition of

the ideas and relationships of the affinity groups to the “criminal

acts”. Going beyond the law is part of developing the

anarchist-insurrectional project and this is part of the reason why the

civil anarchists despise and neglect the cases of the imprisoned and

fugitive comrades- because they reject their actions, the tendencies of

attack and the global discourse of anarchists of praxis. Individual acts

of violence/negation which are not approved by their group-think are

regarded as part of the “criminal” or “terrorist” sphere and smeared as

provocations. In this way, the civil anarchists become part of the

discourse of power and compose themselves as a sector of repression.

Ask yourselves, in all their rhetoric of the “worker” – where is the

“criminal”? Not all “criminals” are rebels but there is an entire world

which is not touched upon. It is not a mistake, the civil anarchists

despise criminals and do not seek the end of prisons, simply their

reformation. They are scared of the anti-social mob, King Mob, who has

come back to torch all the houses of the politico-meritocrats and burn

the city, because the civil anarchists are ‘the cops of the future’.

For the civil anarchists, essentially in their Christian-socialist

thinking, the ‘worker’ is simply one who toes the line in their

projection, does what everybody else does, does not take more than he is

due as a worker and will only ask for more, but seldom take. The

“criminal” does not toe the line, she is an Outsider. The criminal takes

what they want, even more than they need, and bows to no one. The

criminal is not to be managed by the civil servants or the civil

anarchists, and so the criminal is excluded from their conversation. Or

suppressed. It’s the same process for the uncontrollable Unique.

V

“For us, there is no middle ground. They who declare openly their

anarchist intentions are facing a decisive dilemma, to either act or

give up anarchy forever. There can never be anarchy at the rear of

coffee shops and gossiping… Either act or shut up…” Conspiracy of Cells

of Fire-FAI/IRF — Consciousness Gangs-FAI/IRF — Sole–Baleno Cell

Attacks are the primary goal of the new anarchist urban guerrillas, to

disrupt the patterns of activity of functionaries, conduits and engines

of the economy-megamachine, and to spread terror amongst the included

classes. Destruction of banks, businesses, electrical infrastructure,

internet transmission, mobile phone, television, radio antennas and

attacks on technologies of domination might not be properly defined as

“violence” or “terrorism”, but the blows they inflict are troubling

enough to the authorities to be regarded as such by them. Property

destruction aggravates the enemy and the submissive crowd, and has a

clear insurrectional purpose. I reject the “non-violent” label often

attached to actions of sabotage, and consider them part of the

polymorphous struggle reaching beyond such definitions that benefit

social control.

Anarchist violence is “criminal” in the sense that it goes against

sociable expectations of order and consensus, so it is probably

perfectly acceptable to presume -especially within the post-industrial

core, where the sense of social peace is high- that the closest enemies

the anarchists can expect trying to prevent them enacting their deeds

are other anarchists, -civil anarchists- those who are eager to avoid

repression and carry on with their harmless routines in the metropolises

of the world.

VI

“We speak through fire. To remember and always keep on our mind, our

sisters and brothers who are kidnapped by the state and seized behind

bars. To continue the urban guerilla warfare against enemies of freedom.

Let the action speak for us.” Anger Unit FAI/FRI Indonesia

The shooting of CEO Roberto Adinolfi I do not regard as being

particularly “violent”, more an anarchist act of free will and liberty.

These acts are sadly rare and do not happen with enough frequency, it’s

a challenge to try harder. Certainly I consider such actions should be

one of the constitutive parts of any anarchic insurgency, and despite

the elitist bleating of the civil anarchists I am really yet to get

upset that the Federazione Anarchica Italiana share the same acronym as

the Federazione Anarchica Informale. This is because it’s not necessary

to give glasses to someone who cannot read. It’s been ten years since

the Federazione Anarchica Italiana declared that the Federazione

Anarchica Informale was a police phantom. A false opinion that the civil

anarchists in UK eagerly parroted for a decade already because it suited

their blind politics. In their statement decrying the shooting of

Adinolfi, they conflate separate actions of attack as the acts of a

singular group, but the FAI does not exist in the way that they like to

portray, not incidentally, it’s the same way that repression promotes in

manoeuvres like Operation Ardire, the Marini Case etc. In this way they

try to spread the lies around, so for what goes for one, it goes for the

other, a priori.

Their aim was denunciation and suppression of an uncontrollable new

anarchic tendency, which threatens their organisations. They fear

criminalisation of their hobby-groups, drinking holes and minor events,

so they aid in the criminalisation of the next generation of anarchic

struggle and attempt to repress it. As they have made their decisions,

we have made ours, and the results are there for any one to see – an

informal international insurrectional force that multiplies and doesn’t

rely on one single line, theory or method, and is true to the anarchist

ideas. I return the charges of ‘vanguardism’ and ‘elitism’ back to the

controlling organisations of civil anarchist tedium and reserve. I do

not need to become a signed up member of a centralising political cult

and give a percentage of my income to the committee to be an anarchist!

Or to organise!

For them, Capitalism is only a “social relationship” which can never be

changed without adhering to the “aims and principles” of their formal

organisation which speaks of a “culture of resistance” that there is no

evidence of them ever creating in any concrete way. Speaking for myself

at least, Capitalism is only a small part of the domination I face today

with my comrades scattered around the world, that fight against the

totality of the existent and accept all anarchist methods and

consequences of using them. The international actions of the FAI/IRF and

the anarchists of praxis are more than just vapid hot air and vacuous

socialist propaganda speaking of “a world where our whole lives are

really under our own control”.

VII

“Moreover, do not forget that actions follow speech” CCF

Unlike the civil anarchists, I consider there to be no essential

difference in validity between individual or collective revolutionary

anarchist-insurrectional violence, whether it comes out of a “broad

based class-struggle movement” or not. A small action or a big one; a

minor fracas or a large riot; a banner drop, a broken window, a trashed

corporate office, a burned bank; an act of solidarity, a favour, a gift,

a meal, a bed; a pamphlet, an article, a poster or a spray-painted

slogan can eventually become a bullet in the head of authority, and

remains as valued by the new anarchist black international.

VIII

“FAI/IRF is an international conspiracy of anarchists of praxis that

sets fire on the defensive positions of reformist society-ist

anarchists. It gets rid of the smell of mold that has settled in anarchy

seen at amphitheatres, and fills the air with the smell of gunpowder,

black anarchy, night-time, explosions, gunshots, sabotages. This

explains why the International Revolutionary Front of FAI and Conspiracy

is on top of the anarchist dangers list as cited in recent Europol

reports.” Conspiracy of Cells of Fire-FAI/IRF — Consciousness

Gangs-FAI/IRF — Sole–Baleno Cell

In this collapsing world I consider my words, ideas and deeds as

raindrops that add to a storm of catastrophic proportions that my known

and unknown comrades are bringing forth. It is already causing havoc

across the world and the pressure fronts still build. Together with

other wild, violent Unique ones we will meet in the days and the nights

to commit crimes against Society and the State.

A hug to my friend Giannis Naxakis [4]. An incendiary hug to all the

imprisoned comrades.

[1] 7 May 2012 — Genova, Italy: Roberto Adinolfi, chief executive of

Ansaldo Nucleare, a company linked to Italian defence conglomerate

Finmeccanica, was shot in the street outside his house in Genoa in

northern Italy. The bullet fractured his right knee but he is not in a

serious condition. Finmeccanica controls Ansaldo Energia, the parent of

Ansaldo Nucleare.

[2] 30 March 2011 – Olten, Switzerland: A package bomb exploded in the

offices of Swissnuclear (the Federation of the Swiss nuclear industry)

giving two office workers superficial burns. The attack was claimed by

the FAI.

[3] 09 December 2011 – Rome, Italy: Chief Director Marco Cuccagna of

Italy’s tax collection office, Equitalia, receives a letter-bomb which

explodes after he opens it, causing damage to his hands, blowing off

part of his finger and almost blinding him after his glass desk shatters

in the explosion.

[4] 30 April 2013 — Athens, Greece: anarchists Yannis Naxakis and

Grigoris Sarafoudis were arrested in the district of Nea Filadelfeia, as

they were coming out of a cafeteria. At the same time, a large police

force stormed the café and caught the anarchist fugitives Argyris

Ntalios and Fivos Harisis-Poulos. Both comrades had arrest warrants

pending against them since mid-February 2013 (after the double robbery

in Velventos–Kozani and the incarceration of anarchists Andreas-Dimitris

Bourzoukos, Dimitris Politis, Nikos Romanos and Yannis Michailidis). All

four have been remanded in Koridallos prison, formally indicted on

‘terrorist organization’ charges based on DNA samples for separate bank

robbery cases.