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Scandalous Thoughts: A Few Notes On Civil Anarchism

Every so often, cyclically, collective or social anarchism becomes restrictive to some anarchists and an anarchist individualism reasserts itself. It happened at the turn of the twentieth century when some of the great anarchist thinkers began to question some of the more communistic dogmas. It is happening once more, and once more we witness some of the social anarchists writhe in panic as their comfortable dream is disturbed and they wittingly or unwittingly reinforce the stranglehold of the State by condemning their unruly sisters and brothers who appear to threaten the pursuit of what one comrade has aptly described as ‘civil anarchism’.

It is a horrible creature, this civil anarchism. A slathering, craven and despotic monster with eyes in the back of its head which tries to be what anarchism will probably never be – palatable to the modern consumer masses.

One of the major qualities that those engaged in making attacks seek is to recover knowledge of themselves and each other, to recover personal power, to enact a radical and dramatic break from Society, with its intolerable cage of the social norm and the consequent deadening of individual sensibility. Some communiqués from this tendency are flowery and poetic in the extreme, and are not to everyone’s taste, but reading an Anarchist Federation statement is deadening. It is the materialist death-march of politics against life, the patriarchal voice of ‘political reason’ against the wild rebel spirit, of the political against me.

The combatants seek to recover volition and dispel the inauthentic. This can only start from your experience, not from the experience or dogmas of others, although it involves your relationship with a few comrades within “the mass” or the “working classes”. Until it is active, on the street, there is little genuine struggle to be found in some abstract crowd of people you have no relationship with. It seems incredible to read the thoughts of those that identify as (Formal) Federation anarchists and even more pointless to have to critique it. It is a bit like critiquing the performance of a clown by the standards applied to a serious drama. The issue for me here is the same denial of individuality that the State imposes – some herding of unique human beings into some utilitarian category by pedagogues and masters who find the individual unwieldy and dangerous, but find an abstract ideological cage immensely comfortable.

This lack of authenticity and the somewhat anachronistic politics of their “revolutionary organisation” as a whole, is reflected in the Federation’s outrage at the shooting of Italian nuclear boss, Roberto Adinolfi and the letter bomb sent to the Chief of the Italian tax office Marco Cuccagna. The Federation disingenuously manipulate the facts with regard to the latter in order to prostitute their particular ideology by describing the boss of the tax department as a ‘worker’. Not only is this insulting to anyone’s intelligence, who can see quite clearly that the target was one of the bosses who rob them every day of their hard-earned wages, but it is puzzling because they pretend to ‘care’ about the suffering of these targets and to state categorically that ‘the working class’ care too. If I am being authentic to myself, then I can say I do not care a bit if this bureaucratic robber is attacked, injured, killed. Actually, I am happy about it. I imagine many people would also not care and may even feel some satisfaction and even joy at the news.

Some basic questions of the Federation which do not really require answers: who are these “working class” people you speak of; how many individuals who make up the “working class” do you personally know; how do you know that all these people disagree with attacks on capitalist infrastructure, bosses and tax collectors; what gives you the right to speak for anyone but yourself; what do you say about the “working class” people who rioted in London in August 2011 (and throughout history)? To even ask these questions seems ludicrous, but a quick look at Federation discourse seems to necessitate them since they seem so sure of themselves.

The Federation/Libcom mindset continues with its psychometric assessment of supposed “terrorist tactics”. They borrow another meaningless spook from the hostile media and the State – the mindless, indiscriminate anarcho-insurrectionalist-“terrorist”. Again, how many of these individuals does the Federation know, and how does the Federation know that such acts are not part of a rich and more complex life. Furthermore, to state the obvious, insurrectionist methods are widespread amongst the disaffected of the world, as widespread as ‘organising’, and sometimes have more in common with “working class” rebellion than anything the Federation comes up with. The Federation is tellingly silent on this reality in the main, preferring only some parental nod to “working class” anger that could be so much more constructive if only the unruly would acknowledge the wisdom of Federation physicians and swallow their prescriptions.

Here the Federation again reveals itself to be incapable of liberating itself from the shackles of ideology: that denial again of the complex human being and its shunting into some useful abstract category. But as we look at the Federation’s reactions to other anarchists, it actually becomes more sinister, in that they are frequently almost indistinguishable from our enemies. It’s choice of forum is the internet. A brief review not only of critiques of technology, but also experience of it, reveals how destructive this form of faceless, mass interaction is. Furthermore, the language used by the Federations is akin to experiencing the fist of repression coming down on the human face of anarchism. The Federation reinforces the State, by adopting the rhetoric of the industrial-military-technological system, such as its aforementioned recent condemnation of anarchist “terrorist tactics”.

In the quest for liberation, the individual must be allowed to express itself, to follow itself. The individual is not always at odds with the collective, but to try to squash individual drives into some collectivity or society against its will is totally useless. The individual will sooner or later rebel because a mass collectivity forged at the expense of the free individual will entail rules and regulations (albeit informal or even unspoken) which are against liberty of life, feeling and thought. These tendencies have been at war before, and it is worth reading the essays of Voltairine de Cleyre on this matter with her suggestion that the individual anarchist be free to express their rebellion in their own way. Violent attacks against the bosses and the State will alienate some people, but not all. Pacifist action will alienate some people but not all. Even if we could once and for all identify every “working class” person and also get them to agree that they are “working class”, do the Federations really think that this mass of people will hold one homogenous view on social change, on the causes of misery and on the best way to liberation (if all agree that liberation is their goal). The civil anarchists are searching for a purposefully driven conscious proletarian class which no longer really exists in the manner they describe as a revolutionary subject in the West. They have embarked on a hollow search which ends in sterility at the level of the actual uncontrollable mass social clash, and anyway largely failed to follow their own politics through to their conclusions.

The separation of people into classes is in some ways a nonsense when it is not based on their individual opinions or actions. A brief look at Native American history, as one example, shows us how banal and inaccurate it is to speak of ‘the Native American people’ in one homogenous outpouring of bad breath: there were indigenous warriors fighting genocide and assimilation and there were also indigenous folks who colluded with the American State and turned on their own people to accumulate money and power.

Those of us who might be allotted the label of insurrectionist, individualist, and/or nihilists do not make perfected claims to knowing how revolution will come about. There is a great humility in the words of the emerging rebels and armed struggle groups. I would say that at this point in history, when so much has been tried and so much has failed, let us admit that we do not know what is right, what will ‘work’. People are far more complex than that and the world is huge.

The Federation’s distillation of everything down to “working class struggle” is problematic. The working class as it used to be has all but gone and anyway, like democracy, it was originally rooted in horror and lies for many. Democracy was invented on the backs of a Greek slave class and the Industrial Revolution first imposed the destruction of the individual and introduced ‘the dispossessed herd’ as it ushered in this age we hate. Focusing on the “working class” in this way is like shuffling between different forms of oppression, saying that we prefer that form of oppression over this one: people fought tooth and nail against becoming subsumed into a “working class” at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The assimilation of artisans and rural peoples into the industrial working class was bloody, so why some anarchists are attempting to reify it now, especially now that the machine has moved on and is now subsuming the traditional working class into the post-industrial consumer class, is not just questionable, it is bizarre. They are all simply stages in the grinding progress of the machine and we would do well to abandon all of these chimeras. This is not to deny that a class struggle has always and continues to be fought, but I prefer the term “social war” to “working class struggle” largely because it includes more individuals and their choices, including those who consider themselves traditionally working class. Class as a concept and as a social binder has become increasingly muddy over the years. People can be more crudely divided – if we must – into the rich and the poor, the included and the excluded, the critical and the uncritical regarding the State and civilisation.

To be denied individual autonomy, recognition and relationships causes alienation and disempowerment. The authority of a ghostly mass over the individual does nothing except assist the project of the State and capitalism by agreeing that the individual human being is nothing more than an economic unit or a vast and faceless aggregation of economic units. Is this really how we wish to define human beings and do anarchists really think that such a perspective is liberating? To negate the role of individual action in favour of a vague conception of the “class-struggle” of yesteryear is a dangerous fiction. Certainly, since it is also the project of the State to destroy the volition and value of the individual; it cannot be called revolutionary, except in the autocratic uber-political sense of being ruled by statist apparatus – none of which desire empowered individuals or like-minded groups of individuals who want freedom. It is not the role of anarchists to replace one tyranny, be it “democratic”, monarchist, collectivist or any other kind of rule, with another.

What is this ‘issuing of statements’ condemning the acts and opinions of others who consider themselves anarchists? It is to play the political game of ‘good anarchist’ and ‘bad anarchist’ for the media and the repressive machine of the police. It is to undermine the very meaning of the term ‘anarchy’; a complicated and shifting web of principles, praxis and relationship with the goal of liberation which is not a singular state of being, no more than it is a State.

Moreover, the fact that the Federation feels the need to make statements against acts of other anarchists must surely show them that their project is doomed. At the end of the day, I say to the Anarchist Federation and their fellow travellers: I do not agree with you, I do not desire the world you envision. I say I am not alone in finding your statements and perspectives antithetical to my own rebellion and my personal concept of liberation which is based on my understanding and experience of State oppression. And since your project depends on the absolute agreement of the mass of which I am a part, and since it appears from the debates and statements of the Federation that what is envisioned is a mass anarchist society, I declare that I want freedom not only from the State but from Society and you. I ask then: what are you going to do about me?

I began this article by essentially wishing to encourage those of us who call ourselves anarchists to cease mutual condemnation and to assert that actually not one of us has the “answer”. However, I end by sensing that some of “us” know so little of what it means to be liberated in heart, thought and action, and so little of what class solidarity and struggle really means, that I can only imagine an anarchist society such as appears to be the aim of the Anarchist Federation, would be as fraught with repressions and various prisons as this one. That is, unless those who would impose their faceless societies on the rest of us realise their futility.

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[Wk2] Lectures

Morning Lecture

"You are no better than a barbarian trying to box. Hit him in one spot, and his hands fly there; hit him somewhere else, and his hands go there"  - Demosthenes

Example: ANU Hack - what would you advise the UNSW VC? (Great Exam Q!!)  - temptation = strengthening firewalls  - structure of answer      -> not just a tough external shell but protect compartments e.g. a submarine

4 things you need to understand inside and out to be a professional at security engineering. The primary colours:      1. Trust      2. Secrets      3. Humans      4. Engineering - risk, complexity... what else?

BLOG about the objective of the UNSW email -> objective, intents, strengths & weaknesses. 

Trust  - who can you trust? -> no one, least of all yourself  - what can you trust? -> nothing!

Defense in Depth

Focus on the Development of Castles  -> wood -> stone -> moat -> walls -> outer wall and inner wall -> thick walls = security 10 years ago - if something breaks you don’t lose anything, opposite of a single point of failure for example a space shuttle

Apes vs Ants  - humans and apes are very complex but so are ants and bees  - ant fungus = risk! -> brittle, easily disrupted with a single point of failure  - complex society, essentially the colony is a creature, everyone has a precise role      -> apes have individual freedom (agency)

Bell-LaPadula Model  = a state machine model used for enforcing access control in government and military applications  - for example, normal, confidential, secret and top secret  - relies on human obedience which will fail  - single point of failure, strength of 10 000 with the brain of one

Clip from Wargames (1983)  - multiple physical measures e.g. deceptive appearance of house, two people, crack it open = tamper evident, locks and keys (definitive action) - enemy could stop a launch by killing someone

Physical Security  - key logger dongle tracks all the key strokes, keyboard -> dongle -> computer - camera watch them type it in (for passwords) - “Every contact leaves a trace” - Locks -> most padlocks can be unlocked with a “master key” (saw/bolt-cutters) - physical data destruction -> e.g. a shredder, can be pieced back together

Side Channel Attack In computer security, a side-channel attack is any attack based on information gained from the implementation of a computer system, rather than weaknesses in the implemented algorithm itself.  - Every contact leaves a trace  - Power and financial side channel attacks, audio etc. For example, a cache side-channel attack works by monitoring security critical operations. The attacker is then able to recover the secret key depending on the accesses made (or not made) by the victim, deducing the encryption key. Unlike other side-channel attacks, this method does not create a fault in the ongoing cryptographic operation and is invisible to the victim (wikipedia).

Example: Security for Journalists - Following the AFP raids on Australian journalists - Disable microphones -> run workshops on it

Example: FOI Planning - Freedom of Information Legislation also on a state level. What information would be good to know? Lodge on and report back - Ask the right questions - E.g. Great Barrier Reef or ANU Data Breach

Example: Disable Microphone in Sonos (Voice controlled smart speaker)

- Entropy = “randomness” - Valid sentences are long distances apart

Afternoon Lecture

Confidentiality

Vigenere - Caesar + Password  - Different encoding for different positions in the sequence  - Kasiski Test

 - Index of Coincidence - see homework

Enigma  - Caesar + almost infinite password (password extender)  - How does the enigma machine work? Don’t worry about the plug table just the rotors are enough to understand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASfAPOiq_eQ  - Brute forced = trying all possible solutions - The security relies on how the machine is set up -> receiver machines had to be set up the same way as the sending machine - Key Distribution Problem = the risks and costs associated with making sure the enigma machines match - Weaknesses:      - Repetition of the message key      - Repeatedly using the same stereotypical expressions in messages      - Having only three different rotors for the three positions in the scrambler

Security Bits

2^10 = 1024 2^20 ~= a million 2^30 ~= a billion Therefore, 2^29 ~= half a billion = 29 bits of security to crack it.

- Each bit doubles the security - Safest as it’s going to get at 256 -> anything bigger is completely out of the scope for 6441 - Analogy -> Marco Polo playing chess for the grains of rice

One-Time Pad  - Tempest      -> Project Venona = intended to decrypt messages transmitted by the      intelligence agencies of the Soviet Union. During the 37-year duration of the      Venona project, the Signal Intelligence Service obtained approximately 3,000      Soviet messages (only a small fraction of which were ever decrypted). - Breaks - Number Stations -> Radio (shortwave) station that just transmits random sequences - side channel attacks

Random Number Generator - Lava lamp random number generator

Example: Data Centres - Where are the data centres? Where do the fibre optic cables land? Analyse physical data -> around Alexandria

Example: Data Destruction - Retired drives in their data centres - Throwing out the drives is not deleting - Erase data, write overdose, smash it and then throw it in someone else’s bin

Type I/Type II Errors - Prediction vs Real World. Example, will the Pirate Party win the election? AIDS - Predict don’t and they do - Predict do and they don’t

Anatomy of Attack -> used to target random people for LOLs but now an organised criminal attack      1. Someone is targeted      2. Make them do something dumb      3. Exploit the weaknesses

Good Analysis by Bruce Schnier

Weakness of the Week Self-Interest - “bet on self interest, it’s the horse that always wins”.

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Friendly reminder that the FBI Files are publicly available - updated weekly as FOIA Requests are processed.

Direct links to Q-Z (August 4th 2017)

Rocky Marciano Rudolph and Eugenia Peierls Robert S. Lynd Roswell UFO Richard Nathaniel Wright Roy Wilkins Robert F Kennedy (Assassination) Records Management Standards for Scanned Documents 0774D Robin H. Gibb Rodney King Robert McNamara Robert Maxwell Ralph Abernathy Ronald Wilson Reagan Robert Bork Rosenberg Case Richard Barrett Rita Hayworth Russell Means Rudolph Nureyev Rock Hudson Roberto Clemente Ruby Ridge Incident Rudolph Carnap Robert F. Kennedy Rowan and Martins Laugh-In TV Show Rock Hudson Richard Wagstaff "Dick" Clark Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr Russell Tyrone Jones Robert Novak Richard Charles Holbrooke Ralph Roe Richard Matsui Aoki Robert Bluejacket Ray Douglas Bradbury

Saddam Hussein Stokely Carmichael Sammy Davis, Jr Steve Allen SNIPEMUR Stay-Behind Special Agent Program in Alaska Social Networking Sites and FBI Employee Guidance Security Division Processing of Forms Involving Activities Outside of the FBI Silas M. Newton Steven Paul Jobs Satchel Paige Sun Myung Moon Spiro Agnew Space Shuttle Challenger Sidney Korshak Sen. Joseph (Joe) McCarthy Surreptitious Entries (Black Bag Jobs) St. Valentines Day Massacre Supreme Court Sen. George W. Norris Sixteenth (16th) Street Church Bombing Stanley Levison Sikh Temple Shooting September 11th (9-11) Commission Report Sam Iacobellis Sempra Energy Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono Special Intelligence Service Sir William S. Stephenson Senator Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy Southern Christian Leadership Conference Shirley Temple Black SOLO

The Zodiac Killer Truman Capote The Doors Tamerlan Tsarnaev Taylor Caldwell Tokyo Rose TWA Flight 800 Thomas Michael Menino Thomas Ryan Eboli Terrence Steven (Steve) McQueen The Grateful Dead Tupac Shakur Ted Bundy The Beatles The Covenant The Sword The Arm of the Lord The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) The Hells Angels Ted Stevens Thurgood Marshall Thomas Hale Boggs Theodore Chaikin Sorensen Threats Against Members of Congress, 2000-2010 Technology-Based Tagging, Tracking, and Locating Program Policy Guide Policy Directive 0643DPG The Monkees Tattoo Recognition Database Trump Management Company Trump Shuttle Trump Taj Mahal

UFO Usama (Osama) Bin Laden U. S. Senator Robert Byrd

Vincent Astor Vito Marcantonio Vincent Thomas Lombardi Virginia Tech Venona Viola Liuzzo Vincent W. Foster, Jr Vincent Foster Virginius Frank Coe

William Brennan Jr. (US Supreme Court Justice) Wernher VonBraun William J Donovan William Safire Wallace Fard Muhammed William Powell Watergate William Remington Winston Burdett WACO / Branch Davidian Compound Walter Leland Cronkite Whitney Houston Weather Underground (Weathermen) Walter Winchell Winston Churchill William Randolph Hearst, Sr. White Supremacist Groups Will Rogers Walter Krivitsky Wilton Norman "Wilt" Chamberlain Walter Elias Disney White Aryan Resistance Willard Skousen William J. Clinton Foundation

Zionist Organization of America Zvonko Busic

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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.

L

[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.