Cellphone Antenna Sabotaged with Fire, Bristol

FOR SELF-ORGANISATION & ANTI-CAPITALIST RESISTANCE

May 21, 2010, approx 2.30am.

A ‘T‑mobile’ repeater was destroyed by fire. All effort was made not to endan­ger any life and the mast was cho­sen due to its dis­tance from res­i­den­tial build­ings and activ­i­ty. The fence was cut with bolt-crop­pers and placed at the base of the anten­na, wrapped around the elec­tri­cal cables pow­er­ing the mast, was a cut tyre filled with rags soaked in paraf­fin. Soaked rags were also tied to the cables and tucked into the tyre. Fire­lighters were used to ignite the lot. The anten­na was sit­u­at­ed near the cen­tral Tem­ple Meads rail­way sta­tion close to a new ‘urban devel­op­ment’ area.

Destruc­tive acts against the telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions infra­struc­ture of cap­i­tal­ist econ­o­my are sim­ple and repro­ducible, as are attacks against oth­er facets of indus­tri­al soci­ety. The sys­tem relies on a net­work of cables, anten­nas and pow­er units to enforce and sus­tain its exploita­tion. Far from being a face­less abstract ene­my, the con­duits of com­mod­i­ty pro­duc­tion remain attack­able at many points, vul­ner­a­ble to our courage, rage and joy.

We ded­i­cate this action to the arrest­ed anar­chists Con­stan­ti­no, Luca and Sil­via in Switzer­land, accused of con­spir­ing against a nano-tech facil­i­ty; to all the pris­on­ers of the social strug­gle in Greece and to all those who have begun to fight, in a myr­i­ad of places, of dif­fer­ent tongues, races and names.

FOR INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL & ECOLOGICAL STRUGGLE AGAINST STATE & CAPITAL

Cells of Fire: Storm of But­ter­flies