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London – Met scum cops go on the hunt for military-style vehicles to tackle coming disorder in London

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Recently it has come to our attention that the scum Met cops (security forces of London) have been on the hunt for military-style vehicles. Last week the HQ Scotland Yard put out a notice stating it was looking for suppliers for armoured personnel carriers, armoured military vehicles, armoured combat vehicles and weapon carriers. It also wants security, fire-fighting and defence equipment and armour plating.

In the scums own words they are looking for “tactical intervention and public order and firearm patrol vehicles…” They also claim that the new repression equipment is not linked to the coronavirus pandemic and the vehicles would not be on the streets until next year. This is not to believed at all, every word out a coppers mouth is a lie. Clearly the security forces on prison island and around the world have already been planning for mass disorder for many years, with ever increasingly militarized security forces looking more like armed forces, especially since the recent ‘financial crisis’ that led to moments of insurrection around many parts of the world.

Particularly on prison island the British state and its security forces have already been investing in vehicles. A list of military-style vehicles the Met currently owns is not available to the public. However upgraded bullet-resistant armoured Jankel Guardians have already been seen in recent years. The seven-tonne personnel carrier can withstand AK-47 bullets and has a bomb-proof floor. The fleet, normally based at Heathrow, was sent out onto the streets after widespread rioting in 2011. They were also seen at Wembley in 2015 following the terror attacks in Paris.

This is a prime example that the British state and security forces are gearing up for disorder if not during the coronavirus epidemic definitely in the economic fallout that will follow. Expect to see these lumbering bastards on a street near you soon as the anti-social and nihilistic rage rises.

The Uncivilzed

Bologna – Saluto al carcere la Dozza

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Il primo aprile un detenuto della Dozza muore in ospedale, dopo che era stato portato dal carcere al pronto soccorso.

Oggi  3 aprile abbiam fatto un saluto lampo al carcere della Dozza di Bologna. Saluti di libertà, un fumogeno e poi abbiam letto questo testo:

“Abbiamo saputo dai giornali* che l’ uno aprile è morto il primo detenuto di coronavirus del carcere di Bologna. Stava in regime di alta sicurezza e aveva settantasette anni. Si chiamava Vincenzo Sucato, arrestato nel 2018. Ancora non aveva ricevuto il primo grado di giudizio. é morto in carcere ancora sotto le misure cautelari. é morto DI carcere. Aveva già problemi respiratori, ma il giudice ha deciso di dargli gli arresti domiciliari,solo perchè era necessario per portarlo in ospedale. E’ dovuto arrivare a essere sul punto di morte per uscire da quelle mura infami ed è morto in ospedale, ma come se fosse in cella, con un piantone fuori dalla porta della stanza.
Vogliamo sapere come state, cosa vi è capitato dopo le rivolte che ci sono state e in che condizioni vi costringono là dentro.
Perchè non vogliamo veniate dimenticati a marcire,vogliamo che persone come Vincenzo, che a 77 anni ancora sono rinchiuse, nonostante le condizioni precarie, non vengano dimenticate nè tantomeno rimangano invendicate.
La causa del dolore inferto a chi sta dietro quelle mura è solo una. Non i crimini, non il diritto, ma solo lo stato.
Lo stato che decide attraverso le carceri di zittire e reprimere chiunque non abbia altra possibilità di sopravvivere se non affrontando e disobbedendo alle leggi, le quali difendono solo i ricchi e il loro merdoso mondo.
‘Non sono i criminali che vanno rinchiuse ma le cause della criminalità che vanno distrutte’ (Ravachol).
Queste cause sono la disuguaglianza, la povertà, l’autorità di quegli stessi che ingabbiano e torturano. Che vogliono protetto il loro privilegio di potere sugli altri.
Non siete soli. Anche da qua fuori si respira l’aria dell’isolamento, della costrizione, della libertà che viene distrutta giorno per giorno.
Le nostre città sono diventate delle prigioni a cielo aperto. Anche per questo vogliamo farvi sentire la nostra vicinanza e solidarietà.
Che glile sfruttatx si uniscano, dentro e fuori e che le morti causate dal carcere qui alla Dozza, come a Modena, Rieti, Udine, non rimangano solo miasmi nel vento.
Crediamo che i veri colpevoli di tutto ciò siano i secondini, i direttori delle prigioni, il ministero di giustizia e lo stato. Non le persone, non i detenuti, le rivoltose che hanno giustamente aperto le celle e distrutto la gabbia che le teneva recluse. Se riuscite, se potete, dateci notizia di voi e delle vostre condizioni, fateci sapere come state e come vi stanno trattando. Vi vorremmo liberx, qua fuori, insieme a noi.
Pensiamo che nessuno più di voi, possa aver tanto a cuore il senso di una parola che anche a noi è tanto cara e che, dentro come fuori, cercano di toglierci e distruggerci: Libertà. ”

Purtroppo non siamo rimasti tanto tempo quanto la situazione e le nostre passioni avrebbero richiesto. dopo altri saluti e un po di coreografia, abbiam sentito qualche risposta da dentro e poi ci siamo dileguate senza ricevere troppe attenzioni da parte delle guardie.
Certi che le occasioni per tornare sotto quelle mura di merda non possano e non debbano mancare. Cogliamo l’ attimo.
A presto.
Alle/ai detenutx le nostre grida,
Ai secondini e direttori il nostro odio.

*https://bologna.repubblica.it/cronaca/2020/04/02/news/detenuto_bologna_coronavirus-252939061/

Fornacette (Italie) : piller en respectant bien les distances

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Les voleurs tentent le coup à l’aide d’une pelleteuse
Traduit de l’italien du journal local quinewsvaldera, 27 mars 2020

L’intervention des carabiniers et des vigiles privés ont fait fuir les voleurs qui ont tenté de cambrioler le Penny Market de Fornacette (Toscane) la nuit dernière.

Après avoir dérobé un engin sur un chantier du coin, ils se sont dirigés vers le supermarché et ont abattu un morceau de façade extérieure pour ouvrir une brèche. L’objectif était le coffre adjacent. L’alarme et l’arrivée sur place des vigiles et des carabiniers les ont contraint à lâcher l’affaire et les truands se sont enfuis.

Depuis, plus aucune trace. Les dégâts matériels sont importants. L’enquête est ouverte pour comprendre si les protagonistes peuvent être les mêmes que lors d’un épisode identique survenu il y a quelques jours à Lavoria.

Amiens (France) – 7 SPIP (Integration & Probation Prison Service) Vehicles Torched

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via corporate news outlet France Bleu:

01.04.2020: This is the first time that the offices of the SPIP, the Somme’s Integration and Probation Prison Service, have been targeted by such an attack. During the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, around 3:30AM, one or more individuals torched several vehicles.

The vehicles were parked in a private parking lot behind the offices. Two vans used to take the detainees to the courthouse were torched. Five cars that allowed officers to visit detainees in open facilities, such as for parole, were also destroyed.

“Die Justice, Die Jail, Die State, Die!” was sprayed with black paint on the walls of the car park. It was signed with a circle A symbol of the anarchist movement. But the prosecutor of Amiens is being cautious. Nothing so far confirms this lead. Alexandre de Bosschère for whom this attack is above all symbolic: “it is not the SPIP itself that is targeted but justice, the State”.

An investigation has been opened and the images from the CCTV cameras exploited. But for the Force Ouvrière union, the individual or individuals would have passed through the back of the buildings. A simple barrier protects the entrance to the car park, while in front, facing the prison, the heavy white door is placed under video surveillance.

(via Attaque)

Marseille (France) – Arson Attacks Against Prison City Collaborators SNEF

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Sniff Sniff SNEF

As social control intensifies more and more in Marseille (like elsewhere) and as cameras and other surveillance devices proliferate, SNEF has established itself as a prime target in our fight against state nuisance. Indeed, if the latter are known to take care of all kinds of work (you will surely have seen their name appear on a number of sites contributing to the accelerated gentrification of Marseille), they are also one of the big “winners” and collaborators with city policy to significantly expand the camera network.

On the night of March 17th, preceding the first day of confinement, we decided to pay them a small courtesy call at one of their offices, leaving part of their electrical infrastructure on fire. A week later, this time in the city center and during full confinement, one of their cars was also set on fire.

These attacks are part of a series of sabotages targeting this company as well as others responsible for the spread of surveillance in Marseille, including a small number of other torched cars, and the sabotage of fiber optics and cameras throughout last year.

While the net is tightening more in these times of pandemic madness and the attempts to dispossess our lives are increasing, trying to get rid of the oppression that grips us seems to us like a breath of fresh air, a breach in the existent that would like us to remain docile.

AGAINST CONTAINMENT AND A SOCIETY OF CONTROL

https://anarchistsworldwide.noblogs.org/post/2020/04/02/marseille-france-arson-attacks-against-prison-city-collaborators-snef/

Marseille – Feu à un collabo de la prison à ciel ouvert – Fin mars 2020

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Snif snif SNEF

Alors que le contrôle social s’intensifie de plus en plus à Marseille (comme ailleurs) et que les caméras et autres dispositifs de surveillances prolifèrent, SNEF s’impose comme une cible de choix dans notre lutte contre la nuisance étatique. En effet, si ces derniers sont connus pour s’occuper de travaux en tout genre (vous aurez sûrement vu leur nom apparaître sur nombre de chantiers contribuant à la gentrification accélérée de Marseille), ils sont aussi un des grands ‘gagnants’ et collabos de la politique de la ville visant à étendre considérablement le réseau de caméras.

Dans la nuit du 17 mars précédant le premier jour du confinement, nous avons décidé de leur payer une petite visite de courtoisie à l’un de leurs bureaux en laissant derrière une partie de leur infrastructure électrique en feu. Une semaine plus tard, cette fois en centre ville et en plein confinement, une de leur voiture a également été incendiée.

Ces attaques s’intègrent dans une série de sabotages visant cette entreprise ainsi que d’autres responsables de la propagation de la surveillance à Marseille, notamment un petit nombre d’autres caisses incendiées, et le sabotage de fibre optique et de caméras tout au long de l’année passée.

Alors que les mailles se ressèrent davantage en ces temps de folie pandémique et que les tentatives de dépossessions de nos vies se multiplient, essayer de se défaire de la poigne qui nous enserre nous apparaît comme une bouffée d’air frais, une brèche dans cet existant qui nous voudrait docile.

CONTRE LE CONFINEMENT ET LA SOCIÉTÉ DU CONTRÔLE.

https://sansattendre.noblogs.org/post/2020/04/02/marseille-attaques-incendiaires-dun-collabo-de-la-ville-prison-mars-2020/

The Philippines – Against a Quarantine with Martial Law Characteristics

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The Opportunism of Martial Law

In March 2020, the people of the archipelago known as the Philippines were alarmed at the rate of local transmission of the disease known as COVID-19. On March 12, police and military forces were mobilized to enforce a community quarantine for the whole of Metro Manila scheduled to start on the midnight of March 15. This quarantine was later generalized for the whole island of Luzon, a population of some 53 million souls. That the mobilization of the state’s apparatus of violence was more noticeable than the mobilization of medical and social resources is telling of the administration’s priorities.

A regime of violence is in place. Soldiers with assault rifles set up checkpoints; one questions the necessity of assault rifles against the coronavirus—do these people plan to shoot it? At these checkpoints, some women report being sexually harassed. Local police and barangay officials took it upon themselves to creatively experiment in punitive measures like caging alleged lockdown violators in a small cage. A police officer was recorded threatening to shoot residents for purportedly breaking lockdown while hitting residents with a stick in a Muslim community in Quiapo. A homeless lola was violently arrested for being outside during curfew hours—essentially arrested for being homeless! Houses are still being demolished during a time when people urgently need homes to stay in. A teacher and her son in General Santos were arrested without warrants over Facebook posts. A congregation of people looking for relief goods in Barangay Bagong Pagasa were arrested. The National Bureru of Investigation is subpoenaing people for “unlawful utterances” on social media. President Duterte went on record threatening warrantless arrests against “disobedience” and in a later speech threatened to shoot people for going out of their homes. Indeed, someone was shot by police at a Bulacan checkpoint, the police washing their hands of it like they did with the drug war.

Under the state of things, it is not an exaggeration to say the government of the Philippines has effectively imposed martial law in fact, if not formally declared in law. At a time of crisis, the gut instinct of the State was to mobilize and deploy its apparatus of violence. The deployment of medical resources is secondary to the assault rifles deployed. Instead of the deployment of increased medical resources, we have uniformed forces aimlessly and needlessly straying city borders with no other purpose than installing themselves as the false faces of the state’s peace and order. It is peace and order and not public health that is the priority of the state.

This martial law is extralegal, not that legality has significance to anarchists in the archipelago. Activists of all stripes understand that the state apparatus of violence is not limited by what they prescribe in law. State violence has always been both legal and extralegal, never mind that legality is a pointless distinction when the balance of power favors the state. Legality is meaningless when what is violent can simply be legalized in an act of congress or municipal ordinance—indeed that is what happened with the Bayanihan to Heal as One Act.

The deployment of the apparatus of violence to literally combat a medical emergency betrays a certain opportunism from the state. The state is opportunistically using the crisis to expand its police power. While the purported purpose of the lockdown is to quarantine, it is also a godsend to the fascists in the police and military as an excuse to crack down on dissent. And what of the new laws they put into place now? What guarantee do we have that the extreme measures the state takes today do not become the new normal after the end of COVID-19 crisis?

We have seen an unprecedented expansion of the surveillance state with drones and cameras being drafted to keep a close eye over public spaces. Instead of using their resources to feed people, they instead use this crisis as an opportunity to expand their ability to do surveillance!

In a special session, congress railroaded the Bayanihan to Heal as One Act with its controversial provisions on granting special powers to the Office of the President and dramatic jail time and fine penalization for dissenters.1 This is the use of shock doctrine, or the opportunistic use of crisis to pass controversial or questionable laws. First described by investigative reporter Naomi Klein, the shock doctrine is used specifically during crises like our own to take advantage of the difficulty to build resistance to these policies due to the crises. The state is using this crisis as an opportunity to expand its power. This is not a phenomena isolated in the Philippines; Hungary is now practically a dictatorship after Prime Minister Viktor Orban used the crisis to expand his powers to practically dictatorial levels and now rules by decree.

We anarchists are skeptical of authority itself. We do not think those in authority have our best interests at heart. We think they are there only to reproduce and expand their own power. After the crises passes, the state of emergency will be lifted, but the new powers and the new state of surveillance will stay.

Solusyon Medikal, Hindi Militar!

We anarchists in the archipelago do not contest the need for a quarantine. After all, a quarantine and social distancing is needed to protect the most vulnerable among us like the immunocompromised, people living with HIV, and our elderly.

With that said, a quarantine enforced by violence and guns is clearly the wrong way to implement a quarantine. It does more harm than good. The checkpoints are made up of squads of large men with guns with barely any medical equipment in sight, not to mention the repeatedly noted lack of trained medical professionals. Reports of the vagueness of protocol, sexual harassment, and sometimes outright robbery and extortion on the part of the police and military personnel are being posted by people who go through the ordeal of dealing with them. What is even more alarming is the possibility of the checkpoint officers becoming vectors for the diseases themselves with reports of checkpoints without face masks or police and soldiers in close contact with the people they check. Checkpoints also risk becoming a place where people are forced to congregate, creating possible vectors for viral transmission. Ultimately, soldiers and police are trained in violence, not empathy or care-giving. Thus when confronted with homelessness, these people respond with violence—arresting the homeless instead of giving them a home, as was the case with lola Dorothy Espejo.

The severe discrepancy between resources devoted to militarized policing versus medical needs is made even more apparent by this trend of “VIP testing.” Politicians, oligarchs, and elites are able to jump the line and gain priority access to COVID-19 testing all the while people are being turned away from critical treatment due to lack of testing.

On April 1, the elitism of the regime was apparent where people congregated at a national highway in Barangay Bagong Pagasa upon hearing a rumor that food packs would be distributed there. They were met with mass arrests, purportedly for breaking quarantine. Instead of meeting needs, the state opts to just arrest them all. Meanwhile Senator Koko Pimentel who willfully broke quarantine protocol knowing that he was a patient under investigation is still a free man without any repercussion other than public outrage. Pimentel scandalously endangered critical medical personnel when it was reveled later he was positive for COVID-19. One also remembers that convicted plunderer and widow of the old dictator Imelda Marcos is still a free woman despite the courts deeming her criminal. It is clear that law and protocol only apply to toilers and dispossessed while the elites can live as they will, willfully endangering working people around them.

We also see the discrepancy in the dismal provision of relief packs. Endless emergency funds are activated but relief provided is paltry. These dismal relief goods are contrasted with images of agricultural traders in the Cordilleras destroying and discarding vegetables simply because they cannot sell these! Vegetables are being thrown away while people are being arrested for protesting their hunger. In these times of crisis the need for an economy to fulfill needs instead of profits is increasingly urgent. One wonders why with all these emergency funds activated from the crisis, government agencies cannot simply purchase all these produce before they are discarded.

Against a militarized quarantine, the people of the archipelago demand in one voice: Solusyon Medikal, Hindi Militar!—Medical solutions, not military! Against the elitist privilege in accessing COVID-19 testing kits, activists cry out: free mass testing now! Against the paltry provision of goods, the people organize in mutual aid and bayanihan networks that seek to fulfill needs.

Quarantine and Capitalism are Incompatible

During this time of crisis, it is increasingly apparent that quarantine and capitalism are incompatible. A quarantine requires people to stay at home, limit going out, and practice social distancing. But how can people stay at home if they are precarious workers under a no-work no-pay scheme and live paycheck to paycheck? How can people confine themselves to their homes if their needs are dependent on their paychecks? If workers are laid off, how will they afford groceries and rent while in quarantine?

A quarantine needs to fulfill the needs of the people as a irreducible minimum for the reproduction of daily life, that is to say, to be able to access food, water, medicine, and other things needed to stay alive. But production under capitalism does not revolve around meeting needs, it revolves around meeting profits. Thus when a state of emergency shuts down the engines of profit, so does the engine of wages shuts down, and with that the needs are left unfulfilled.

Against the contradictions between capitalism and quarantine we need a system that meets needs instead of profits. We need a quarantine that ensures people do not starve. Without work and against the demand of rents and profits, our demands must be to distribute according to need, to cancel rent, and to cancel residential utility bills. And after the crisis, to keep these canceled.

For a Non-Militarized, Self-Managed quarantine

In the face of a martial law dressed in medical gowns, what can we count on? Each other.

Regular people, people like you and me, are doing what they can to make sure that not only they survive, but to ensure the well-being of those around them, too. We see people practicing mutual aid, or as it is known in the Philippines, bayanihan. We see people making masks and medical gear, not for profit, but because there is a need for it. Mothers in Los Angeles are taking over abandoned houses in search of quarantine like Kadamay did in Bulacan. Neighborhoods all over the world are helping each other out by pooling together what little they have, and like the political dissident Jesus breaking bread and fish, are able to fill each others’ needs with the most shoestring of supplies. These are seeds for a future post-capitalist economy based on needs rather than profits.

It is clear we can expect no salvation from the state or capital. Against the quarantine with martial law characteristics, it is urgent that we forward a liberatory alternative based on solidarity and mutual aid instead of militarism and impunity. It is possible to have a self-managed quarantine that is not enforced with assault rifles. For example, residents among urban poor communities in Metro Manila have taken the initiative of setting up their own self-managed checkpoints, sans assault rifles and macho egos. In Hong Kong and Taiwan, quarantines are not enforced by force of arms but rather by the collective responsibility of everyone. A quarantine without coercion and violence is possible if we care to look.

Indeed, a better world is possible if we care to look.

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  • 1. Against the co-option of bayanihan by the state to label its expansive powers, anarchists in the archipelago forward a genuine bayanihan in its original meaning of mutual aid.

https://libcom.org/blog/against-quarantine-martial-law-characteristics-03042020

Un cigno nero nelle fratture fra individuo e società

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«Qui ci sono le armi. Se volete, fate. Se non volete, fottetevi»
Errico Malatesta rivolgendosi ad alcuni contadini
durante la tentata insurrezione della banda del Matese nell’aprile del 1877

 

Questo momento di difficoltà sociale prodotta da un’epidemia ci fa scontrare con una condizione ormai lapalissiana: sopravviviamo in un mondo senza evasione possibile dove
non resta che battersi per una evasione impossibile. E in questa constatazione, ecco che si ripresenta la paura di rimanere in balìa dell’ignoto. Chi porta con sé la sofferenza di questo mondo sente una tensione liberatrice che apre le proprie viscere all’imprevisto, sempre. Imprevista è la stessa libertà sognata più e più volte.

Assaporando la qualità, potremmo sentire una voce che non può tardare malgrado le dispersioni delle tante occasioni che ci troviamo davanti. Essa piomba sull’individuo che non scende a patti con la società, illumina la notte perché chi vuole spezzare le proprie catene ha sognato anche di giorno, dimenticandosi della triste necessità.
Non abbiamo certezze. Essere continuamente in dubbio con se stessi è un buon esercizio di critica, perché l’anarchia è un modo di concepire la trasformazione della vita, lontano dalle concezioni dello scienziato e del prete su cosa è effettivamente vivere.
Niente è definitivo. Quando non c’è differenza fra pensiero e azione, ciò che pensiamo si
rovescia nell’azione e l’azione tenta di tracciare ripetutamente il vandalismo dell’idea.
Chi vuole creare uno scarto con il mondo dell’oppressione si realizza nel proprio pensiero e nelle proprie azioni perché espressioni di una parte di vita lontana dai richiami dell’ordine.
La significanza con quello che concepiamo nella nostra mente vuole scendere nel profondo della gioia, del desiderio e della bellezza. Non un semplice fatto che si concluda in se stesso per dirsi che oggi ho fatto qualcosa, ma quel fatto che nasce dal profondo, senza tornare mortalmente alla periferia di se stessi.
Tutto questo fa parte di una tensione. Non ha a che fare con il concreto e neanche con una realizzazione certa del domani. Una tensione che si scaglia contro il mondo, dove la morte e l’obbedienza fanno presa in molti individui.
Se le anarchiche e gli anarchici sono utopisti è perché hanno in mente un sogno senza misure che vuole fare a pezzi una realtà miserabile.
Il tormentato percorso che permette di incontrare la qualità porta la tensione utopica a non
perdersi nella concessione per una maggiore libertà, a non voler allentare la catena per un
domani più florido. Ciò per cui batte il cuore è come liberarsi di quella catena stringente per scatenarsi contro la cattività, ma anche per prendere distanza da chi ci vorrebbe imbonire con il gradualismo della libertà fittizia del pezzo per pezzo.
Libertà vuol dire assenza di limiti. Correre i rischi per la distruzione dell’ordine costituito è la tensione avversa e contraria al mercato delle opinioni. Le trame dell’idea sovversiva
scombussolano il nostro modo di porci in contrasto al mondo.
Insorgere per liberare se stessi resta il miglior modo per liberarsi con gli altri. Questa
ribellione si scontra in piccola parte contro la realtà. Analizzando ciò che ci circonda è la
fantasia della nostra volontà, del nostro desiderio e della nostra utopia che diviene
materialmente gioia per divenire irreconciliabili con l’esistente. Ricordate la celebre frase di Bakunin: «La rivoluzione è sempre per tre quarti fantasia e per un quarto realtà»?
Purtroppo ci sono anarchici che se la prendono con chi ricerca l’ignoto e l’autonomia,
dimenandosi nella giustificazione della sopravvivenza. Disprezzando gli utopisti, per darsi un senso del giusto altri paventano l’acclamazione dell’eroismo. Qualcuno vorrebbe
intraprendere la via più semplice della voracità del mito. Infine c’è chi ancora pensa che lo
Stato sia un organismo vivente con un cuore, non riuscendo ad immaginarsi un altrove in cui perdersi. Come se i palazzi del potere fossero delle scatole da aprire, piuttosto che rovine su cui danzare gioiosamente.

Tutti modi di intendere la vita per ergersi ad esempio per gli altri. Esserci e contare. Evitare che la tensione per la libertà possa cadere in questo tranello dell’identità, invece, sembra un’ottima riconoscenza alla propria unicità. Soffiare sul fuoco della rivolta, generalizzare l’incendio delle passioni, anche per distruggere la dittatura del quantitativo e donarsi alla pur sempre difficile ma meravigliosa qualità.
In fondo, chi vuole una vita degna di essere vissuta non si è mai sentito un eroe, non ha mai incarnato il mito dell’azione. Ha pensato, si è procurato i mezzi per agire e ha colpito.
Lanciando un messaggio per tutti quelli che vogliono ascoltare. Dando sfogo all’utopia, per
liberare il mondo da potere e servitù, muovendo continuamente il pugnale delle riflessioni,
toccando la dinamite del pensiero, cercando ardentemente l’affinità fra individui perennemente in lotta contro le strutture e gli strateghi del dominio, senza mai venir meno
alla solidarietà verso chi si ribella alla mostruosità dell’ordine.
Oggi il pericolo interno per l’unità degli anarchici e delle anarchiche è l’utopista. Per questo
alla cameratesca unità è preferibile l’arcipelago delle passioni sfrenate, ritrovandosi affini nel cielo stellato dei desideri e non nell’accozzaglia del bisogno, in quanto solo dall’Uno si crea il Molteplice, non viceversa. E se con i bisogni tutti ci dobbiamo fare i conti, non per questo essi dovrebbero essere una zavorra ai propri sogni e alla propria consapevolezza. Come per la libertà l’antitesi è la sicurezza, per il desiderio lo è il bisogno.
È nella chiarezza di ciò che vogliamo donare a chi ci sta vicino – un mondo senza autorità – che riusciremo ad uccidere i fantasmi che vivono in noi.
La meraviglia dell’avventura nasce da quell’orizzonte caotico che non sa che farsene della
misura. Nel momento in cui una rottura impensabile spezza e distrugge molti riferimenti
ordinati, il senso che vogliamo dare alla vita richiede immaginazione e creatività protratte
all’infinito.

La ricerca dei complici è implicita a ciò che ha generato il proprio universo autonomo.
Lontano dal possibilismo della necessità, vicino ad un altrimenti del provarci. Quell’universo autonomo che non è finito, ma si intreccia con l’infinitezza della superficie del mondo: un senso di sedizione, ignoto anche a noi stessi. Questa è la scommessa da mettere in gioco.
L’insurrezione è un’utopia ed è proprio qui che sta la bellezza del viaggio. La violenza di
questo mondo può fermare l’individuo, ma non le sue idee. E l’individuo non può che
ribellarsi a se stesso, oltre che ai tiranni.
Invitare a vivere fa parte della sfera del desiderio perché le persone sono belle quando
divengono appassionate, facendo apparire un cigno nero che sfidi le nostre paure e i nostri limiti, dissacrando la sacralità del moto perpetuo, distruggendo tutti i luoghi comuni che ci stanno intorno. Negando un mondo che fa della catastrofe la sua unica ragione di vita, attaccando decreti statali, ipotesi politiche, leggi di mercato, dogmi religiosi, applicazioni tecniche e chi difende l’inesorabile genocidio in atto. Nel disordine dei sogni e nell’incanto della rottura con questo mondo potremmo pensare a tutto quello che potrebbe divenire, nelle sue smisurate possibilità.
Tra il sogno dei teppisti e il gioco dei bambini ci sta la voglia più totale, la goduria del
pensiero e la fine dello Stato.
Come rispose Émile Henry ad Errico Malatesta, nel non troppo lontano 1892 sulle pagine de L’Endehors, è l’amore che genera l’odio: più amiamo la libertà, più odiamo chi si oppone al fatto che gli individui possano liberarsi.

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