Category: Sabotage

UK: 4 new releases from green anarchist zine Return Fire (PDFs)

Just now we’ve sent out the PDF ver­sions of our recent releas­es, for down­load­ing and print­ing (for past issues, see 325).

https://en-contrainfo.espiv.net/2016/06/05/uk-4-new-releases-from-green-anarchist-zine-return-fire-pdfs/ for links to the PDFs

Just now we’ve sent out the PDF ver­sions of our recent releas­es, for down­load­ing and print­ing (for past issues, see 325). To sum­marise, there’s the full length edi­tion of Return Fire vol.3 (Win­ter 2015–2016), full of news, the­o­ry, poet­ry and antag­o­nism (down­load in low-res here); a com­pan­ion piece con­sist­ing of our ‘glos­sary’ entry for the issue, on Coloni­sa­tion; an imposed and print-ready ver­sion of ‘Smarter Prison?’ as a sup­ple­ment to vol.3, which we received from ‘Rad­i­cal Inter­fer­ence’ and released for Decem­ber of 2015; and last­ly, we’ve uploaded one of the fea­ture texts from vol.3, ‘The Veil Drops’, to theanarchistlibrary.org as a sep­a­rate file for read­ing and repro­duc­tion. Also, there is both colour and black-and-white ver­sions of the cov­er includ­ed, in case some com­rades want to do their own print­ing.

Return Fire vol.3

A con­tin­u­a­tion of our project to bring inci­sive anar­chic con­tent from around to world to an anglo­phone read­er­ship. New edi­to­r­i­al con­tent, reprints of things we’ve found use­ful, art­work, action list­ings, for­ag­ing infor­ma­tion, the usu­al.

There’s a few pre­vi­ous­ly-untrans­lat­ed arti­cles in this issue. For exam­ple, one is an extract from the lat­est cov­er sto­ry of Italy’s eco-insur­rec­tionary peri­od­i­cal Ter­ra Sel­vaggia, on ‘The Advance of Urban­i­sa­tion’ and, simul­ta­ne­ous­ly, cracks open­ing in the con­crete which we could utilise… Annie Archet mean­while tells a life-sto­ry of evad­ing iden­ti­ty, in Por­trait of the Invis­i­ble Woman in Front of Her Mir­ror. To name some out of the texts we’ve assem­bled from selec­tions of pre-exist­ing ones, David King looks at the reduc­tion­ist and patri­ar­chal impli­ca­tions of mod­ern repro­duc­tive tech­nolo­gies in ‘Into Her Inner Cham­bers’, and Nico­la Gai speaks to act­ing with­in ‘The Max­i­mum That Our Abil­i­ties Allow’ (from his con­tri­bu­tion to the found­ing issue of the Croce Nera Anar­chi­ca).

The con­tent we have har­vest­ed whole includes The Inten­si­fi­ca­tion of Inde­pen­dence in Wallma­pu, John Severino’s poignant reflec­tions on a project with­in an indige­nous Mapuche com­mu­ni­ty; The ‘Wild’ as Will and Rep­re­sen­ta­tion, about com­mod­i­fied and alien­at­ed approach­es in the urgent need for land recon­nec­tion, sim­ply signed M.; and Sean Dunohoe’s har­row­ing (if lim­it­ed) polemic against the Close Super­vi­sion Cen­tres with­in the British prison sys­tem. (We note that this year the organ­is­ing col­lec­tive for the June 11 project of sol­i­dar­i­ty with long-term anar­chist pris­on­ers has called for a focus on such units wher­ev­er they are in the world; hence we’d like to ded­i­cate this ver­sion in that direc­tion.)

As for our usu­al columns… We take a ret­ro­spec­tive look at some Glob­al Flash-Points of insur­gent activ­i­ty in the months fol­low­ing our last vol­ume. Rebels Behinds Bars cov­ers the State’s aggres­sions against our com­rades, and the latter’s thoughts on top­ics from sur­viv­ing incar­cer­a­tion or repres­sion to (anti-)organisation for the attack on author­i­ty. ‘To Cre­ate & Main­tain Their Wealth’ and ‘Sen­su­al­i­ty, Mag­ic & Anar­chist Vio­lence’ address gen­dered and speciesist dom­i­na­tion through reviews of Sil­via Fed­eri­ci, Arthur Evans and Jason Hrib­al.

The Poems for Love, Loss & War are from Rydra Cos­mo, Hen­ry Zegar­run­do, Natasha Alvarez and oth­er appre­ci­a­tors of all things fer­al. For our Mem­o­ry as a Weapon seg­ment, we’ve used Unset­tling America’s spell­bind­ing telling of civilisation’s spread through Europe from the south and beyond, and sub­se­quent tra­jec­to­ry, in The Witch’s Child.

And of course, much more! (All pris­on­er address­es and also some court-case news is now up to date in the PDF ver­sion.)

Coloni­sa­tion

This time, we end­ed up print­ing the ‘glos­sary’ sep­a­rate­ly to the main body of the zine. This size­able essay could be a stand-alone on the sub­ject (one which we feel to be both key and mis­un­der­stood by anar­chists in much of the world) and dis­trib­uted as such, but is also rel­e­vant to sev­er­al items in con­tents of vol.3.

‘Smarter Prison?’

New­ly laid out in A5 imposed for­mat, this explo­ration of the ‘Inter­net of Things’ and the tech­no­log­i­cal ide­ol­o­gy which it advances was first sub­mit­ted to us dur­ing the Black Decem­ber mobil­i­sa­tion. (We’re hap­py that since then, Sil­via, Bil­ly and Cos­ta, who are ref­er­enced in ‘Smarter Prison?’, have been told they will not face tri­al again for their thwart­ed attack on the IBM facil­i­ty.) The strug­gle against the nano-world con­tin­ues…

‘The Veil Drops’

This is a read­er on counter-insur­gency through the lens of ‘cri­sis’, the social and de-civil­is­ing. It’s the longest edi­to­r­i­al piece from vol.3, and up on The Anar­chist Library for wider acces­si­bil­i­ty.

Until next time,
R.F.

Germany: Largest Lignite Mine in Europe Shut Down for 2 Days by Sabotage

In the ear­ly hours of Mon­day Morn­ing April 25, in the dark of the night, pow­er cor­ri­dor with 10 pow­er mains sup­ply­ing cur­rent to the mas­sive dig­gers, con­vey­or belts and all oth­er facil­i­ties  of the Largest Lig­nite Open­cast Mine in Europe have been set ablaze result­ing in the whole mine being shut down for 2 days and con­tin­u­ing to oper­ate to this moment in lim­it­ed capac­i­ty.

Ger­many: Largest Lig­nite Mine in Europe Shut Down by Sab­o­tage for 2 days.

In the ear­ly hours of Mon­day Morn­ing April 25, in the dark of the night, pow­er cor­ri­dor with 10 pow­er mains sup­ply­ing cur­rent to the mas­sive dig­gers, con­vey­or belts and all oth­er facil­i­ties  of the Largest Lig­nite Open­cast Mine in Europe have been set ablaze result­ing in the whole mine being shut down for 2 days and con­tin­u­ing to oper­ate to this moment in lim­it­ed capac­i­ty.  This act of eco­tage fol­lows by a week dam­ag­ing of a pow­er pylon to neigh­bour­ing Indi­en mine.  Both mines exploit lig­nite which with its high mois­ture and con­t­a­m­i­nant con­tent and low ener­gy coe­fi­cient is only used to sup­ply pow­er gen­er­at­ing plants, a series of which sur­rounds the mines with one pow­er plant exclu­sive­ly pow­er­ing the  the Ham­bach mine.
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This act of eco­tage and destruc­tion of equip­ment with­out the injury or loss of life has tak­en aim at the indus­try which accord­ing to still rather con­ser­v­a­tive 2015 study of World Health Organ­i­sa­tion on the Effects of Air­borne Fos­sil Fuel pol­lu­tants is respon­si­ble for sev­en mil­lion deaths around the world each year, mak­ing it the sin­gle great­est envi­ron­men­tal health risk, con­tribut­ing to one out of every eight glob­al deaths.  Even more dras­tic  and irre­versible effects on cli­mate change(not includ­ed in the above men­tioned study), to which coal is the lead­ing con­tribut­ing fac­tor, esti­mat­ed to reach a run-away effect at 2 degrees centi­grade glob­al change by IPCC com­mit­tee with a new con­sen­sus form­ing plac­ing that point at 1.5 degree annu­al tem­per­a­ture change on which brink we are present­ly.  Hav­ing already caused glob­al bleach­ing and die-off to the rain­forests of the oceans — the coral reefs,  the com­bined tem­per­a­ture change and the increased acid­i­ty from car­bon absorb­tion to worlds ocean is about to make this largest habi­tat on earth unliv­able to the next most sen­si­tive organ­isms: plank­ton.  Plank­ton which con­sti­tutes the very foun­da­tion of the whole ocean eco-sys­tem caus­ing in effect unprece­dent­ed glob­al die-off and dec­i­ma­tion of life, putting one of the largest human-caused plan­e­tary extinc­tions aready tak­ing place into high­er gear still.
As this March became the hottest month on record and as Green­land ice cov­er under­went unprece­dent­ed melt­ing a month ahead of its usu­al time, and as emp­ty non-bind­ing promis­es are made at more and more policed, mil­i­tarised world cli­mate sum­mits all of this as the world slides into the future of chaos and insta­bil­i­ty it is in this case at least that the future gen­er­a­tions will be able to know that not all stood silent and com­pla­cent when faced with a glob­al hege­mo­ny of extreme ener­gy extrac­tion and its not so silent part­ners of dis­in­for­ma­tion, apa­thy and repres­sion.  We are how­ev­er still at a very high risk of these same  future human descen­dants and ecosys­tems fac­ing a dire real­i­ty in which so lit­tle has been done.

That is why Ham­bach For­est Earth-First salutes those respon­si­ble for remind­ing all that it is not a crime to com­mit a less­er “crime” in order to pre­vent a much larg­er one of glob­al destruc­tion, death and eco­cide from tak­ing place as it has for so long in full impuni­ty and in broad day­light……

Ham­bach­er For­est Earth­First!

http://hambachforest.blogsport.de

 

[Ed: More info here & here]

Attacking UK’s coal transport system — Severing the lines that feed the machine

Sev­er­ing the lines that feed the machine is not impos­si­ble. When peo­ple take up civ­il upris­ing in the UK, if peo­ple are able to shove their oblig­a­tions to one side to open up an avenue, they main­ly have the abil­i­ty and pos­si­bil­i­ty to be able to grasp their will for some­thing new.

Sev­er­ing the lines that feed the machine is not impos­si­ble. When peo­ple take up civ­il upris­ing in the UK, if peo­ple are able to shove their oblig­a­tions to one side to open up an avenue, they main­ly have the abil­i­ty and pos­si­bil­i­ty to be able to grasp their will for some­thing new. The war is not over when those moments stop, it sparks up in lit­tle rap­tures here and there, show­ing that we are not crushed, things can be brought to a grind­ing halt again, even for a split sec­ond.

It just takes a few bright spir­its and we see it clear, when the smug con­fi­dence of author­i­ties is knocked, a few pins get hit out and things can be seen in a dif­fer­ent light. Out of synch and off bal­ance, every­thing no longer appears struc­tural­ly sound, life feels more up for grabs.

The new hori­zon peaked through our cloudy day, Sun­day 6th March, and we hope this uncom­pli­cat­ed act of sab­o­tage we have under­tak­en expos­es the vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty of their com­plex matrix.

We took a risk assess­ment and as night just start­ed to close in we entered the 1st rail­way tun­nel, we cut both lines with a portable disc cut­ter, we did­n’t imag­ine de-rail­ing a loco­mo­tive but wreck­ing dis­rup­tion and eco­nom­ic dam­age (time is mon­ey). We entered a 2nd and did a fur­ther two cuts, mark­ing them all with pink paint, and leav­ing a ban­ner as a warn­ing.

The line in ques­tion runs through the Avon Gorge from Roy­al Port­bury Dock over from Avon­mouth, it’s freight only (no pas­sen­gers), 70% of the UK’s import­ed coal for pow­er gen­er­a­tion comes through these docks. This line is a bot­tle-neck to the coun­try’s dis­per­sal. Most of it from USA where they blow apart moun­tains to get it out and Rus­sia from the Shor and Teleut ances­tral lands laid waste in Siberia, also places like Indone­sia which dri­ve back the forests for sprawl­ing mines and plan­ta­tions. That’s to keep fac­to­ries run­ning and city lights on, when we’ve got a feel­ing for escap­ing the work pris­ons and regain­ing the stars. Oth­er loads car­ried on the line include con­struc­tion aggre­gate and new built vehi­cles on their way to the show room. More high-speed train­lines are com­ing to the UK, more roads, more ancient wood­land and wildlife wiped out in the fren­zy of progress.

After see­ing the firey activ­i­ties against the coal flow in the Ham­bach for­est of Ger­many since New Years — don’t give up the fight!, or the cut­ting of the coal belt in Scot­land some years back by per­sons unknown when the bat­tles against coal min­ing raged, we realise we’re not orig­i­nal. It’s not even the first time for eco-sab­o­tage ambush­es on that line from Port­bury or the trou­ble­some car­go, over the years. We see attacks fol­low­ing attacks on train­lines in dif­fer­ent coun­tries, it’s with­in reach to hin­der the cir­cuits pow­er­ing the giant, we just have to har­ness our courage, keep an eye peeled for soft spots, maybe start­ing small but always dream­ing big. Right now we’re read­ing about eco­nom­ic dam­age this month from train­line sabo­teurs in the north of Spain, we affirm our sol­i­dar­i­ty and respect too for the anar­chists there with show­case court cas­es or police atten­tion oth­er­wise, we laugh to hear about the row­dy spir­its that keep up when repressed for the fight to reject domin­ion. Maybe the sparks kicked up in the train tun­nels even reflect­ed over the Alps and beyond to light the sky for those in dark cells for try­ing to stop high-speed cap­i­tal­ism and also its nano-world tech­nolo­gies.

Join­ing our strength with the near and dis­tant tribes, refusal and attack! Block the flows, up the fight­ers!

Toward a life that’s wild and free from coal, quar­ries, cars or cops. Avon Gorge sab­o­tage group “Sand In The Gears”, sign­ing out.….

Sabotage at Hambach open-cast mine

On Mon­day night, we sab­o­taged some con­struc­tion machin­ery at the open-cast mine Ham­bach, Ger­many.

29.10.15

On Mon­day night, we sab­o­taged some con­struc­tion machin­ery at the open-cast mine Ham­bach, Ger­many. Five dig­gers, two bull­doz­ers, one road roller and one oth­er, expen­sive look­ing machine ahd their hydraulics and elec­tron­ic cables cut. the fuel and oil tanks were filled with sand, some mechan­ic parts dam­aged and all the win­dows were smashed. Despite the mas­sive secu­ri­ty-mea­sures RWE and the police put up against us, it was still real­ly easy to do seri­ous dam­age to these tools of destruc­tion.

This action is tar­get­ed against the mine’s oper­a­tor RWE and its accom­plices, which are destroy­ing the basis of life on this plan­et.

While the big mass of peo­ple in ger­many is sit­ting silent­ly in front of their tele­vi­sion screens, dis­tract­ed from the dai­ly destruc­tion of our lives by smart enter­tain­ers and prophets of con­stant growth, hun­drets of thou­sands of peo­ple are dying on the oth­er side of the world through the effects of cli­mate change.

While most peo­ple should be aware that we can’t go on like this, it is unfor­tu­nate­ly only a small minor­i­ty that is act­ing against this destruc­tion, risk­ing their health and free­dom in the process.

Three of these eco-defend­ers are cur­rent­ly impris­oned in Aachen and Cologne, for their attempts to stop the clearcut­ting of the Ham­bach for­est throughthe ener­gy-giant RWE.

All three were heav­i­ly abused dur­ing their arrests, either by police or RWE’s pri­vate secu­ri­ties, with one per­son even get­ting their nose bro­ken and sev­er­al teeth smashed in. There­fore we want to ded­i­cate our action to the impris­oned peo­ple of Ham­bach and send our sol­i­dar­i­ty to them.

Also we want to make it clear that we will not be scared into sub­mis­sion and hope that more peo­ple will be moti­vat­ed by our action, to com­mit sim­i­lar acts of resis­tance against the brown-coal-death-machine.

 

The Chaos Engi­neer­ing Crew

French Monsanto Research Site Damaged in Suspected Arson Attack

A Mon­san­to research cen­ter in west­ern France suf­fered heavy fire dam­age in a sus­pect­ed arson attack ear­ly Wednes­day morn­ing, the offi­cial in charge of the site said.

Octo­ber 28th, 2015

A Mon­san­to research cen­ter in west­ern France suf­fered heavy fire dam­age in a sus­pect­ed arson attack ear­ly Wednes­day morn­ing, the offi­cial in charge of the site said.

The offi­cial, Jakob Wit­ten, said police inves­ti­ga­tors “strong­ly sus­pect it was a crime as no elec­tri­cal or oth­er sources were found.”

 The fire was ignit­ed from two dif­fer­ent places at the site, where about 10 peo­ple work and which is spe­cial­ized in corn research. The smell of gaso­line lin­gered near the build­ing, which had heavy dam­age in its recep­tion hall and offices.

“No Mon­san­to sites in Europe have so far been the vic­tim of fires of crim­i­nal ori­gin, this is unprece­dent­ed vio­lence,” Wit­ten said.

How­ev­er, forty tons of GM sug­ar beets were torched in Ore­gon, spark­ing an FBI inves­ti­ga­tion, so the sen­ti­ment behind this lat­est arson, if it indeed was an act of vio­lence, is not unprece­dent­ed.

The Creve Coeur-based com­pa­ny is the fre­quent tar­get of crit­i­cism in France over con­cerns about genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied crops it has devel­oped.

The gov­ern­ment said last month it would use a new Euro­pean opt-out scheme to ensure a ban on the cul­ti­va­tion of GM crops in France remains in place.

 

Two Moments of Oil Railway Sabotage in Montreal

The infra­struc­tures of State and cap­i­tal con­tin­ue to spread their ten­ta­cles, seek­ing to accel­er­ate the extrac­tion and trans­porta­tion of resources to the mar­ket.

Sep­tem­ber 10th, 2015

from Anar­chist News

The infra­struc­tures of State and cap­i­tal con­tin­ue to spread their ten­ta­cles, seek­ing to accel­er­ate the extrac­tion and trans­porta­tion of resources to the mar­ket. The vast ter­ri­to­ry that is the Cana­di­an North, often sparse­ly pop­u­lat­ed due in large part to the dis­place­ment, iso­la­tion, and geno­cide of indige­nous peo­ples, is an immense source of prof­it; oil, gas, forestry, hydro-dams, ura­ni­um mines, etc. Var­i­ous mon­strous infra­struc­tur­al expan­sion projects are cur­rent­ly try­ing to con­nect the Alber­ta Tar Sands through pipelines along the St. Lawrence riv­er to the Atlantic. These projects entail expand­ing and con­struct­ing new infra­struc­ture such as ports, rail lines, and high­ways all along this route on col­o­nized ter­ri­to­ries.

We placed a cop­per wire con­nect­ing both sides of the tracks, thus send­ing a sig­nal indi­cat­ing a block­age on the tracks and dis­rupt­ing cir­cu­la­tion until the tracks were checked and cleared. This train line in par­tic­u­lar is being worked on in order to facil­i­tate the trans­port of oil east­ward to the port of Belle­dune in New Brunswick.

To block train lines, one can :
1. Obtain at least 8 feet of unin­su­lat­ed 3AWG cop­per ground wire (the kind that is used for wiring main ser­vice pan­els in a house).
2. Wrap the wire around each rail of the track, con­nect­ing both sides, and ensure good con­tact.
3. Cov­er the wire between the tracks so that it is more dif­fi­cult to detect.
4. Smile at the pos­si­bil­i­ty of caus­ing thou­sands of tonnes of train traf­fic to be dis­rupt­ed.

This sim­ple act is eas­i­ly repro­ducible, and demon­strates the vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty of their infra­struc­ture despite their sur­veil­lance tech­nolo­gies and legal appa­ra­tus intent on dulling our teeth. The recent strength­en­ing of the Cana­di­an State’s capac­i­ty for repres­sion through Bill C‑51, now law, includes leg­is­la­tion requir­ing a manda­to­ry min­i­mum sen­tenc­ing of five years for those con­vict­ed of tam­per­ing with cap­i­tal­ist infra­struc­ture. For us, this leg­is­la­tion fur­ther empha­sizes how inte­gral the func­tion­ing of ‘crit­i­cal’ infra­struc­ture is to projects of eco­log­i­cal dev­as­ta­tion (and the soci­ety that needs them), and how pow­er­ful­ly the sim­ple act of sab­o­tage can con­tribute to strug­gles against them.

We con­ceive of our strug­gle as against civ­i­liza­tion and the total­iz­ing domes­ti­ca­tion it entails; we seek noth­ing less than the destruc­tion of all forms of dom­i­na­tion. As a step in this direc­tion, we hope to con­tribute to the for­ma­tion of a spe­cif­ic strug­gle against these projects of indus­tri­al expan­sion. We want to orga­nize to com­bat these projects in ways that are decen­tral­ized and autonomous, includ­ing with con­sis­tent and wide­spread rail­road block­ades. Autonomous self-orga­niz­ing escapes a mass move­ment log­ic (to impose an agen­da through ‘mobi­liz­ing’ oth­ers while wait­ing for the ‘right’ con­di­tions to act) and the polit­i­cal recu­per­a­tion imposed by reformist envi­ron­men­tal activism. Con­ver­gences can play a cru­cial role in ini­tia­tives flour­ish­ing, but it is equal­ly cru­cial that the strug­gle against these projects does not start and end there. Let’s up the ten­sion against this world, let’s pro­lif­er­ate the attacks.

Award giving for greedy estate agent CJA in Bristol

Award giv­ing in recog­ni­tion of ser­vices to land­lords and their rights. We proud­ly pre­sent­ed bricks through win­dows of CJA estate agents in Southville on the night of 31st August. All win­dows smashed and the inter­na­tion­al squat­ter sym­bol paint­ed on their wall. Because despite the ban on squat­ting hous­es every­one should have a decent home.

Award giv­ing in recog­ni­tion of ser­vices to land­lords and their rights. We proud­ly pre­sent­ed bricks through win­dows of CJA estate agents in Southville on the night of 31st August. All win­dows smashed and the inter­na­tion­al squat­ter sym­bol paint­ed on their wall. Because despite the ban on squat­ting hous­es every­one should have a decent home.
CJA have showed real resilience and sin­gle mind­ed­ness to make a stand for max­i­mum prof­it regard­less of the tough con­di­tions faced by ten­ants every­where. In a let­ter to Bris­tol land­lords in March this year they encour­aged land­lords to hike their rents and cyn­i­cal­ly take advan­tage of the hous­ing cri­sis. Because the cri­sis is for land­lords and prop­er­ty devel­op­ers anoth­er busi­ness oppor­tu­ni­ty. They then arro­gant­ly ignored a cam­paign by a local com­mu­ni­ty union to hold them to account. So we found anoth­er way to encour­age them to see the costs of their actions. Thou­sands of us are trapped in over­crowd­ed, over priced and chron­i­cal­ly under­main­tained and decay­ing rent­ed hous­es. We con­stant­ly strug­gle to pay the rent under the ever present threat of evic­tion and home­less­ness. Gen­tri­fi­ca­tion and coloni­sa­tion of our areas push­es rents ever high­er and forces us fur­ther out. This is social cleans­ing and it is a very prof­itable busi­ness. For greedy land­lords and estate agents like CJA, decent, afford­able homes don’t come into their sums. It’s all about invest­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties and ruth­less prof­i­teer­ing. Mean­while, there is a huge increase in home­less­ness and the hos­tels are full to burst­ing. We don’t have to take this. Let’s fight for a world with­out land­lords, where peo­ple’s homes are not for the prof­it of the rich.

Tarnac 9 Cleared of Terrorism Charges Over Rail Sabotage

An alleged “anar­chist cell” at the cen­tre of one of France’s most polit­i­cal­ly-charged legal sagas is final­ly to be tried for sab­o­tag­ing high-speed train lines.

August 9th, 2015


An alleged “anar­chist cell” at the cen­tre of one of France’s most polit­i­cal­ly-charged legal sagas is final­ly to be tried for sab­o­tag­ing high-speed train lines.

But in a major blow to police, who con­duct­ed a sev­en-year inves­ti­ga­tion into the group, the four will not face ter­ror charges, judi­cial sources told AFP on Sat­ur­day.

The so-called Tarnac group was round­ed up in high-pub­li­cised raids in Novem­ber 2008 accused of sab­o­tag­ing the TGV net­work around Paris, a pow­er­ful sym­bol of French nation­al pride and tech­ni­cal know-how.

Thou­sands of pas­sen­gers and more than 160 train ser­vices were delayed after steel rods were put across over­head pow­er cables on three high-speed lines between Paris and Lon­don, Brus­sels and the French regions.

Then inte­ri­or min­is­ter Michele Alliot-Marie brand­ed the group a dan­ger­ous “ultra-left anar­chist move­ment”, but the group — who lived in a rur­al com­mune in cen­tral France — and many on the French left, accused Pres­i­dent Nico­las Sarkozy’s right-wing gov­ern­ment of try­ing to frame them.

But in a major blow to the author­i­ties, anti-ter­ror­ist judge Jeanne Duye came down against their demands in her long-await­ed judge­ment Fri­day to try them for ter­ror offences.

Yil­dune Levy, sus­pect­ed of belong­ing to a ‘ter­ror­ist organ­i­sa­tion’ with her then-boyfriend

– ‘The Com­ing Insur­rec­tion’ –

She did, how­ev­er, send the group’s reclu­sive leader Julien Coupat, his wife Yil­dune Levy and two oth­ers for tri­al on con­spir­a­cy charges, sources said.

The group’s lawyers called the deci­sion a “total repu­di­a­tion” of the alle­ga­tions against the four.

“After near­ly sev­en years of try­ing to pin the blame on them, we final­ly have a coura­geous judi­cial deci­sion. It is a total repu­di­a­tion of the pros­e­cu­tion case,” Marie Dose and William Bour­don said.

“From the begin­ning, our clients were con­sid­ered and treat­ed like ter­ror­ists. Final­ly they have realised that it doesn’t stick,” they added.

“Our arrest was pure­ly polit­i­cal and was based on false tes­ti­mo­ny from the police,” said anoth­er of the accused, Math­ieu Bur­nel. “All this will fall apart at our tri­al.”

The case cen­tred on the charis­mat­ic fig­ure of Coupat, 40, a far-left intel­lec­tu­al from a wealthy fam­i­ly who had gath­ered a group of 20 fol­low­ers around him in a remote vil­lage in the Cor­reze region of cen­tral France.

Rely­ing heav­i­ly on pas­sages from a 2007 book attrib­uted to Coupat, “The Com­ing Insur­rec­tion”, inves­ti­ga­tors claimed the group — the “invis­i­ble com­mit­tee of the imag­i­nary par­ty” — had tipped over from rad­i­cal anar­chist pol­i­tics into ter­ror­ism.

The book dis­cussed sab­o­tage and oth­er ways to “finalise the fall of the state”, and men­tioned the high-speed TGV net­work as an “easy” tar­get.

But Coupat, who refused to con­firm he was its author, said it was “ris­i­ble that ter­ror­ism charges could be brought on the basis on a book on pub­lic sale.”

Coupat and Levy, 31, admit­ted being close to TGV lines east of Paris when an iron bar was placed on the track on the night of Novem­ber 7, 2008, but denied putting it there.

Coupet spent more than six months in jail as police tried to build a case against him, with Levy also locked up for more than two months.

The pros­e­cu­tion has five days to appeal the judge’s deci­sion.

from AFP

Addi­tion: their arrest was in part down to Mark Kennedy, the British under­cov­er cop embed­ded in Earth First! and the wider eco­log­i­cal direct action move­ment for over 7 years.  More info

Meuse, France: Nuclear Waste Landfill Project Sabotaged

July 14th, 2015

anony­mous report / Con­tra Info

Not far from Bure, an analy­sis site of ANDRA was attacked by a few deter­mined night owls.

At Bure, in Meuse, pow­er is try­ing by all its means to have accept­ed a nuclear waste land­fill project 500 meters under­ground.

Despite that the project has not yet offi­cial­ly start­ed, that of the nuclear waste not arriv­ing before 2025, the ANDRA instal­la­tions (the Nation­al Agency for Radioac­tive Waste Man­age­ment, in charge of the land­fill project) are already swarm­ing in the area.

One night around the 25th June, a con­struc­tion site con­tain­ing mul­ti­ple elec­tri­cal instal­la­tions and a well, to analyse the con­di­tion of the rock and water table, was dev­as­tat­ed.

The well was then forcibly blocked up with con­crete, and all the cab­i­nets were frac­tured and destroyed by the rage of those who don’t want to wait for the exhaus­tion of legal resorts to attack this project.

Attack the infra­struc­ture of pow­er wher­ev­er they are, in Meuse like else­where.

Against Cigéo and its world, resis­tance and sab­o­tage!

Mexico: Explosive Attack Against Ministry of Agrarian Territorial and Urban Development

from Insur­rec­tion News / Con­tra Info

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT…

Black June. On June 6 at about 3AM we suc­cess­ful­ly det­o­nat­ed  an explo­sive device made of dyna­mite that was placed inside the offices of SEDATU (Min­istry of Agrar­i­an Ter­ri­to­r­i­al and Urban Devel­op­ment) locat­ed on Rev­o­lu­tion Avenue near the cor­ner of Rio Mix­coac in Mex­i­co City, Mex­i­co. The det­o­na­tion destroyed the glass front of the build­ing.

In Mex­i­co, this sec­re­tari­at – using dif­fer­ent names – has been respon­si­ble for putting an offi­cial stamp on the turn­ing of nature and the earth into com­modi­ties and of nor­mal­iz­ing the dis­pos­ses­sion and vio­lence that the state uses in it’s accu­mu­la­tion of cap­i­tal.

We are a group of insur­rec­tionary anar­chist fem­i­nist witch­es who have gath­ered in a cell of affin­i­ty. Our group was born on August 25 2014 when we det­o­nat­ed an explo­sive device in a PAN (Nation­al Action Par­ty) office in the Mex­i­co City and placed anoth­er device in the Lore­to church in the his­toric cen­ter of the same city.

June is a month of thir­ty days…

We also denounce the vile way in which the mass media hides the news of the attacks and the resis­tance.

Sol­i­dar­i­ty with the impris­oned com­rades in Chile, Italy, Greece and Spain. We are with you com­rades.

Sol­i­dar­i­ty with the com­rades Mario López and Car­los López. We are with you com­rades.

NO VOTES. KILL THEM ALL

Mex­i­co City, June 7, 2015

Lupe la cameli­na
Por la célu­la de difusión del
Coman­do fem­i­nista infor­mal de acción anti­au­tori­taria (Infor­mal Fem­i­nist Com­man­do Of Anti-author­i­tar­i­an Action) 
(COFIAA)

(via con­tra info, trans­lat­ed by Insur­rec­tion News)