FAI/ELF COMMUNIQUE FOR TV & RADIO BLACKOUT

As part of the ongo­ing anar­chist war for total lib­er­a­tion, we car­ried out a hit on the Bathamp­ton radio and TV relay sta­tion. Fires were set at four points of the struc­tures, and we left undis­turbed. As a result of the sab­o­tage, on top of caus­ing hun­dreds of thou­sands of pounds worth of dam­age, we region­al­ly shut down all TV chan­nels on Free­view as well as all nation­al ana­logue and dig­i­tal radio sta­tions. Addi­tion­al­ly it took down Voda­phone and oth­er mobile net­works, dam­ag­ing police com­mu­ni­ca­tions and oth­er dig­i­tal ser­vices. 80,000 homes and busi­ness­es in the area were affect­ed.

 

The enter­tain­ment indus­try is an impor­tant tool to manip­u­late human behav­iour. With­out a steady sup­ply of dis­trac­tions it would be much hard­er to per­suade peo­ple that their lives are sat­is­fac­to­ry, to con­vince them to keep going to work or in what­ev­er way to repro­duce the sys­tem. So to deprive the net­work of the abil­i­ty to offer this essen­tial means of escape from chron­ic mod­ern stress, anx­i­ety, frus­tra­tion and dis­sat­is­fac­tion is to under­mine the smooth run­ning of soci­ety, how­ev­er tem­porar­i­ly.

 

There are many soft tar­gets and many lo-tech meth­ods avail­able for us mal­con­tents who glad­ly choose con­flict over dis­pair. This gives rise to the prospect of rebel­lion with thou­sands of faces, with infi­nite rea­sons to block­ade and destroy what­ev­er stands between us and our goals. We want to expe­ri­ence har­mo­ny as a liv­ing plan­et, face to face encounter as inti­mate cir­cles of proud and free-think­ing indi­vid­u­als, and a chance to mould an exis­tence filled with wild play and fierce joy. Our first response when faced with today’s crush­ing dom­i­na­tion and a sub­servient soci­ety will always be out­breaks of dis­or­der, refusal and beau­ty.

 

Our com­rades from far and wide who also car­ry this fight share our thoughts so close­ly that often their words could be ours. So when they are kid­napped and held far away from us our deter­mi­na­tion is only fur­ther fuelled. Fol­low­ing many actions in Italy the state has unleashed a wave of repres­sion against anar­chists and their projects (Oper­a­tions Ardire, Man­gia­fuo­co, Ixo­di­dae, Thor…), some across bor­ders, accus­ing some of attacks of the FAI (Infor­mal Anar­chist Fed­er­a­tion) and rais­ing a tro­phy for the media-judi­cial cir­cus: Nico­la Gai and Alfre­do Cospi­to, who they claim are FAI / Olga Cell. But if the pros­e­cu­tors thought for one minute that they had dis­man­tled the group even in Italy with their oper­a­tions, anoth­er cell soon proved them wrong with an attack on the bank­ing sys­tem in the cap­i­tal, fol­lowed by grid sab­o­tage in Indone­sia, gun­shots in Mex­i­co, lib­er­a­tions in Rus­sia, bomb­ing in Greece, mass arson in Argenti­na, to name but a few. The new anar­chist guer­ril­las laugh in the faces of the pow­er­ful because the repres­sion is only throw­ing petrol on the fires of the open lead­er­less resis­tance.

 

We are on the side of every­one who has burnt stuffy text­books and tak­en the offen­sive to rean­i­mate an anar­chy that had turned to dust in so many throats. Any rebel’s cap­ture becomes yet anoth­er motive to strike, as we have before and will again, as a reminder of the social cost of their impris­on­ment.

 

This action car­ried out eight years to the day since Xosé Tar­rio (a dig­ni­fied pris­on­er of Spain’s FIES iso­la­tion units, against which a series of attacks last decade were lat­er claimed by the first gen­er­a­tion of the FAI) died in the cells, leav­ing his blood on the hands of the jail­ers, courts and cops.

 

FAI / ELF,

New Hori­zons of Burn­ing Rage

 

report in main­stream media:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2256525/Bathampton-arson-attack-transmitter-site-leaves-80–000-homes-TV-radio.html