Neural Network

From Hommodolars Contrainformación (August 12, 2010) via Liberación Total (July 30, 2010): http://thisisourjob.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/a-much-needed-invitation-to-discuss-the-offensive-against-the-state-capital-and-all-forms-of-authority/

Note from TIOJ: As you can see, this piece has been in our “translation queue” for just over a year now. We finally decided to finish it because we feel it’s a worthwhile addition to the general discourse surrounding insurrectionary praxis. Some of the ideas have already been applied by various groups, while others prefigure certain events of the past year. In any case, many thanks to the comrades who wrote it, and we apologize for the delay!
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Breaking from immediate, vital relationships with the communities of living beings in nature and progress of specialization and division of labour among men, stand for the famous beginning of agricultural and industrial civilization. Since then, with each new generation, people experience nature all the more mediate, increasingly distance themselves from it, isolate and sterilize dead environments in which they live, work, consume, and have fun. Danger, dirt and chaos lurk behind the walls of comfortable flats, schools, hospitals and prisons! The driving force of that deviation, in which terminal phase we live today, is the feverish urge for establishing control and domination over the nature. The fields which were once the habitats of thousands of plant species, are now covered with a single industrial monoculture. Lined up in columns and rows like an army, selected, modified and chemically treated for generations, these plants are the reflection of people’s situation, as well.
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Posted on September 13, 2011 by actforfreedomnow:  http://actforfreedomnow.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/%e2%80%98rain-fire%e2%80%99-%e2%80%93-statement-from-a-uk-fai-sector/

‘Rain & Fire’ – Statement from a UK FAI sector

325 receives and transmits:   Rain & Fire  

This text was written during the course of the growing European social war, and our attempts to situate ourselves in the context of that, whilst in the midst of rising fascism, complicity from most of the society and a fractured and divisive anti-capitalist ‘movement’. These scant few pages cannot express the complexity of the various situations being described in any great depth, but we write so that other rebels at the edges can know how it is for us here. As we were putting the final touches to the text, cities in the UK exploded and remain volatile. However this is not an analysis of the riots – this is a text from inside the social conditions which gave rise to the insurrection.  

This text has been collaboratively written by many individuals in our network over a period of discussion, planning and attack. We have been brief in our communiques so far, but we felt it was time to write something longer.  

“Why are we writing?” Because we know how important it has been for us to hear the knocks on the wall from other renegades in other cells, and because we would like to reach out beyond the people we already know, beyond the realities we have lived in, created, abandoned or remain tied to. As revolutionaries, we are highly critical of these realities and of ourselves, and we write because just, as individuals, we strive to be ‘better’ than we are, we also desire for this world to be better than it is. We are open to the fallacy of our opinions and wish to surpass our expectations, such as they are. We also try to communicate with those outside our circles, and we attempt to staunch the tendency towards self-referentialism which is endemic to many forms of communication. In the end, we have to accept that this text is written to persons unknown and that wherever it is read and whoever it reaches, there will be those who will have an understanding of what is written here – and this is for them.  

There is no longer any sure statement that can be made about this changing world, which catches fire more and more, everyday.  

The present day United Kingdom is a controlled theme-park, covered in surveillance cameras, vehicle tracking, identical housing estates, post-industrial zones and sprawling road and train networks. There is virtually no wilderness left, the powerful and rich control the ‘countryside’, as much as, or even more than the cities, and there is little freedom beyond the mainstream, unless you take it – the same as anywhere else. The prison of everyday life is so total here that the only choice remaining is its complete destruction.  

We welcomed the renewed call by the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire / Informal Anarchist Federation for a world-wide informal anarchist structure based on revolutionary solidarity and direct action: the International Revolutionary Front. As we continue to develop our own project of revolutionary organisation, we affirm the global informal ‘network’ or ‘federation’ of revolutionary groups in existence who are developing, encouraging and participating in uncontrollable confrontation against State and Capital, whilst organising and developing their own initiatives of attack: this is our signal of collaboration. Read more…

[editor’s note:  This was another introduction to Anarchist thinking, and another old blog post re-located here.  This text, and other writings of Bonanno can be found translated to English can be found for free online from Digital Elephant, or The Anarchist Library.]

“Capital’s utopia contains something technically mistaken, that is, it wants to do three things that contradict one another:  to assure the wellbeing of a minority, exploit the majority to the limits of survival, and prevent insurgence by the latter in the name of their rights.”

-Bonanno’s points in this text are really to use moments of irrational rioting to institute “an insurrectional and revolutionary reality” before there is ever to be a social revolution, because the communications controls of the ‘included’ classes of society are another manipulation of economy for all those that make up the ‘excluded’ class in post-industrial capitalism that need to be eliminated in order for the excluded to begin freeing themselves and all people of the previous dominating mindset that has been used to control not only the excluded but all peoples in a post-industrial capitalist society.

If I am wrong in this understanding of Bonanno’s text, feel free to correct me or to add any relevant information to enrich my understanding in his anti-political outlook.

[editor’s note: This was one of the first works read in the initial discovery of Anarchism, and one we have transferred to this blog from the old blog. Some quotes were thougt to be pertinent to others as well.]

“Anarchy or no anarchy, the people must eat and be provided with the necessities of life. The cities must be provisioned and vital services cannot be disrupted.”

“The progress of the new society will depend greatly upon the extent to which its self-governing units will be able to speed up direct communication–to understand each other’s problems and better coordinate activities.”

“One of the most cogent contributions of anarchism to social theory is the proper emphasis on how political institutions, in turn, mold economic life.”

Maybe the explosion, despite the enormous amount of damage it caused to the building, did not stop the operation of the stock market since it did not destroy the central software system, but we believe that it worked, and it will continue to work negatively on the market and on the psychology of all kinds of opportunists, since the message was clear and was received by economic power as a whole: those responsible for the current crisis, the major shareholders, the golden boys, the capitalists, will pay for their criminal activity, and no State mechanism can protect them.

This action comes at a time when the economic crisis is moving towards its peak – despite statements to the contrary – the Greek economy is collapsing, the country has officially entered the recession and Karamanlis [Prime Minister from ’04 to ’09, leader of Nea Dimokratia (N.D),political party of the centre-right,], on the day of the attack exactly two years after the previous elections, declares new elections because of the collapse of the national economy and once again asks for the tolerance of Greek society in order to intensify the robbing, oppressive and exploitative policies of his government.

We urge the people to turn their backs on the political system and to abstain from the elections on October 4th [2009]. No government, whichever party or coalition of parties comes to power, can get the country out of the economic crisis, which is the deepest and will be the longest lasting crisis in the history of the capitalist system. And if some parts of Greek society, forgetting the “modernized” government of PASOK [Socialist party], the neo-liberal economic and social adjustment it imposed and the anti-social policies it applied from 1996 to 2004, believe that today this party will implement populist politics and vote for them, the contradiction will emerge from the first months of the new government. It will show that Papandreou [leader of PASOK] and Karamanlis have the same strategy for the crisis, which is the protection of profits and capital while the theiving raid and neo-liberal attack on the most vulnerable parts of society will not only continue but will intensify, in the name of “rescuing the Greek economy”.

No regime party, from the far right to the left, is in a position to put an end to the crisis and ensure a decent life for all, since that implies a rupture with the system and its institutions. To live without crises means that we live without capitalism, free market economy, without government and organized authority. This is the reason why the dilemma is not Nea Dimokratia or PASOK or the left. The real dilemma is CAPITALISM OR REVOLUTION.
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[editors note:  This is a machine translation of a Spanish text titled “La epidemia de rabia en España (1996-2007)” and can be found here:  http://www.alasbarricadas.org/noticias/?q=node/18247  Please feel free to write to us, or comment where this translation could be improved]

Submitted by info on Thu, 07/28/2011 – 10:25

Digitized by Czolgosz – Reflections for the revolt. Originally published in the
Journal loopholes.

The epidemic of rabies in Spain (1996 – 2007)

Let us take away what bailao (presentation)

Believe me that as we operate, regardless of the law, anything other than the
strictest honesty would bring dire consequences.

Jack London, Murder S.L.

For some time, some partners feel the need to take stock of experience in the
Spanish State for sectors of militant anarchists, communists and independent, which
for a time converged around a certain idea “insurrection.” This need arises from two
circumstances. The first is the evidence that it has closed a stage. We are not in
the same spot ten years ago or even five-, and we want to draw relevant conclusions
to better face battles that are not in a hazy future, but already we are bearing
down. This requires a debate, or at least cause a reflection. Read more…