Conspiracy of Cells of Fire claimed responsibility

[Delenda Carthago]

CoCoF claimed responsibility for the letter bombs. In their 13 pages long communique they analyse how they want to start an international network of guerilla groups.They also mention their 3 arrested comrades,two that are arrested since last week and one 1 1/2 year back.


WHOEVER DOES NOT ARM HIS DENIALS, DIES IN HIS CONTRACTS
On 01/11/2010, after we have already delivered two incendiary packages to Suisse Mail on Astidamantos street and to ACS on Spirou Merkouri street; in Pangrati, sent to the Mexican embassy in Athens and the address of Eurojust (EU Police agency) in the Hague, we are surrounded by police officers of the DIAS group (motorbike task force) and arrested. In our possession were found two more packages of incendiary parcels destined for the presidential residence of Nicolas Sarkozy in France and the Belgian Embassy in Athens.

As revolutionaries we do not recognize any interrogating authority. So, we were bound to refuse to apologize to cops and investigators, since our revolutionary position only before the public and comrades we feel as a duty to promote.
We declare ourselves, therefore, hostages of the revolutionary war, proud members of the revolutionary organization Conspiracy Cells of Fire. We do not regret anything and we support all communiques and actions of our organization, as well as those that will happen from now on, which made us and will make us proud.
We support with all our soul the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, because it is also a part of our soul. We pride ourselves in our selection to find ourselves in a position of attack against the system.
Even through the difficult conditions of detention we will not stop showing never our clear views and positions on armed violence, urban guerrilla warfare and the revolution.
Comrades, let us not allow them to take from us even a drop of land.
Comrades, lets break the apathy and social stupefaction.
Let’s blow up the regularity of society once and for all.
P.S. There is no more beautiful way to show solidarity and the widening of the revolutionary consciousness than the continuation and intensification of diverse guerrilla action. So we send our most sincere comrade greetings to the guerrillas, which in spite of the times, continue to shine with fires of hate the miserable nights of the metropolis.
In the campaign for international solidarity to foreign organizations and imprisoned fighters, a communique of the organization will follow.
NOTHING IS OVER
THE WAR CONTINUES
Conspiracy of Cells of Fire – Commando Practical Theory
Gerasimos Tsakalos
Panagiotis Argirou



I think theres gonna be a translation of the communique in the next days, I ll post it when it happens.

[Delenda Carthago]

International revolutionary front
CALL FOR SOLIDARITY TO THE GUERRILLAS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY ORGANIZATION CONSPIRACY CELLS OF FIRE, THE REVOLUTIONARIES AND THE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE ACCUSED FOR THE SAME CASE (TRIAL ON THE 17TH OF JANUARY)
Another reason of our action, via the mass sending of incendiary parcels to embassies and European leaders, was so we can make an international call. We therefore call to all lengths and widths of the earth, from Europe to Latin America, for the strengthening of the revolutionary war. We organize internationally and aim at the enemy. We can’t wait to see the subversive elements flooding the streets and the guerrilla groups striking again and again. All means unlock and go on the table without taboos and fetichisation. On the demonstrations we smash the heads of cops, banks are robbed and are delivered to flames, bombs blow up governmental buildings, guns execute politicians, journalists, cops, judges, as well as all sorts of protectors of this world. This way step by step the domestic internal enemy becomes even more dangerous for them. Also solidarity, one of the most powerful and authentic weapons of revolutionary forces, acquires a stronger and coordinated cry. To the mass arrests on a protest in Belgium we in reprisal will put bombs in Greece and when a revolutionary team is jailed in Chile Argentina should fill with rubble from the attacks of comrades. For us the dead guerrillas and prisoners are not a point of truce, on the contrary they become the motive force of the excerbation of revolutionary processes. This is why we believe that Solidarity should become more an armed stubborness of today an not a humanitarian protest of reform. On the 17th January 2011 in Athens will be the trial for the case of our revolutionary organization. In this are being tried some our proud members, some revolutionaries and other anarchists because of personal relations with the accused. It is of no value to speak of the trial, since we define ourselves outside the limits of juridical authorities. What has substance is the expression of aggressive solidarity to the comrades that are accused and are in prison for this case. For us despite the man-hunt that has been unleashed against us by the police as well as the recent arrest of our 2 members, nothing can stop the continuous and evolutionary course of our action. In our decision to promote a battle to the end WE CALL in Greece, Europe, Chile, Argentina, Mexico and to the whole world to the comrades and guerrilla formations to send their attacking signals to the judges and the Greek authorities as well as a greeting of solidarity to the hostages of the new urban guerrilla warfare. Let this trial become another reason for action in the Revolutionary War
CONSPIRACY CELLS OF FIREwww.actforfreedomnow.blogspot.com (http://www.actforfreedomnow.blogspot.com/)

[Ravachol]

This is all very nice and all but how does this strategy differ from the European urban Guerilla groups (RAF,Action Directe,CCC,GRAPO) and the Italian movement of '77 (Brigate Rosse, Prima Linea,Autonomia Armata,etc.) at all?

These strategies lose themselves in the moment of struggle and, despite not fetishising this or that tactic, fetishise the moment of confrontation. The problem is that this logic is purely negative. The moment of living, the constructive project of building a new order in the here and now, is completely neglected and thus all space won by assaulting Capital and the state is left empty and desert, only to be re-conquered by capitalist normality again after the clashing of steel is over again.

To quote Tiqqun on this:



The return to war demands a new conception of these.
We have to invent a form of war such that the defeat of Empire will no longer be a task which kills us, but which lets us know how to live, to be more and more ALIVE.

What we are talking about here is simply the constitution of war machines. By war machine, it is necessary to understand a certain coincidence of living and struggling, coincidence which does not present itself without simultaneously demanding to be built.
Because each time one of these terms finds itself in some way separated from the other, the war machine degenerates, goes off track. If it is the moment of living that is unilateralized, it becomes ghetto. It is in here that we bear witness to the sinister quagmire of “the alternative,” in which the purpose seems without ambiguity to be the commodification of the Self under the envelope of difference. The majority of occupied social centers in Germany, Italy or Spain, demonstrate how simulated exteriority to Empire can be a precious resource in capitalist valorization. “The Ghetto, the justifying of “difference,” the privilege given to all introspective and moral aspects, the tendency to consitute oneself as a separate society renouncing assault on the capitalist machine, on the “social factory,” is all of this perhaps a result of the vague and gushing rhapsodic “theories” of Valcarenghi [the director of the counter-cultural publication Re Nudo] and his consorts? Isn’t it strange that they accuse us of being a “sub-culture” precisely now when all of the flowery shit and non-violence that accompanies it is in crisis?” the autonomists of Senza Tregua already wrote in 1976.

On the other hand, if it is the moment of struggling that is isolated, the war machine degenerates into army. All of the militant formations, all of the terrible communities are war machines that have survived their own extinction in this petrified form.
(..)

War can’t be allowed to be put away as an isolated moment from our existence, as the decisive confrontation; from now on, it is our existence itself, in all of its aspects, that is war. That is to say that the first movement of this war is reappropriation. Reappropriation of means to live-and-struggle. Reappropriation, then, of spaces: squat, occupation or collectivizing private spaces. Reappropriation of what’s in common: constitution of languages, syntaxes, means of communication, of an autonomous culture –snatching the transmission of experience from the hands of the State. Reappropriation of violence: communizing fighting techniques, forming self-defense forces, arms. Lastly, reappropriation of basic survival: diffusion of medical knowledge-ability, progressive organization of a network of autonomous resupply.


There is nothing worse than liberating space that cannot be occupied by us again. A space (in the broadest sense, ranging from houses to factories,etc.) that cannot be held, transformed and re-appropriated isn't conquerable by any sensible definition.

[IndependentCitizen]

Why can't we have groups with cool names in the UK :(

[bricolage]

There is a rapid tendency to assume that any kind of violence if propogated by those with the right sounding rhetoric should not only not be condemned but should be 'supported' (ignoring what 'support' actually means...) and seen as a productive action worth replicating.

Yet what we can actually see is that violence is not a homogenous category and cannot be treated as one universal tactic, idea or concept to be supported or opposed. In this respect a fundamental difference is between what we can call class violence and what we can call substitutionist violence. Whereas the former originates from class struggles, is essentially spontaneous and is done less for a political purpose and more as a instant reaction against oppressive intrusions of capital into everyday life, the latter is meticulously planned, enacted with a clear political goal and a result not of ordinary workers engaged in struggle but self-appointed 'guerillas' who have withdrawn themselves from everyday life and now stand at the side poking it. In many ways the guerilla is the violent conclusion of the activist;


Activism reproduces the structure of this society in its operations: "When the rebel begins to believe that he is fighting for a higher good, the authoritarian principle gets a fillip." This is no trivial matter, but is at the basis of capitalist social relations. Capital is a social relation between people mediated by things - the basic principle of alienation is that we live our lives in the service of some thing that we ourselves have created. If we reproduce this structure in the name of politics that declares itself anti-capitalist, we have lost before we have begun. You cannot fight alienation by alienated means.

Not only does such action necessitate a group of individuals, self appointed to act in the name of a wider class but it is bound to further accentuate the differences between them and said class. Furthermore when engaged in such armed struggle such groups become increasingly dependent on further isolated acts of violence to sustain themselves leading most likely to destruction by the state (because lets face it no matter how strong your 'gangs' may be, the police is much stronger).

Regarding Greece, TPTG are very clear on the matter;

From a proletarian point of view, even if these attacks were not organized by the state itself, the fact that after a month all of us became spectators of those "exemplary acts", that had not at all been part of our collective practice, was a defeat in itself.

The potentiality of class violence (such as Greece 2008) lies not in the act of violence itself but the plane it opens up, in this way the potentiality lies in what the violence can spawn. The difference between this and substitutionist violence is not only that the latter is separated from the wider class but as a result of this separation the end can only be the means itself. It cannot spawn anything else, it can only lead to its reproduction and eventual collapse. Now I'm sure people will be quick to jump in with "you don't know Greece, who are you to tell us what to do" or probably more likely "no revolution has ever been free of violence, you are an excuse for pacifism" but if we look back in history an interesting example is that of February 1917, here in a paragraph I read recently;

It began over bread, or rather the shortage of it. Indeed one writer said that 'Tsar hunger' began the revolution. In Petrograd long queues of women and boys were told at the end of February that there was no bread. The people refused to believe this, and began to riot. The police tried to stop them, so the people began to fight with them and shout, 'down with the police', and, 'down with the war'. The riots got worse, and the factory workers joined in, many going on strike, especially the 30,000 men from the great Putilov factory. At this point the government called in the army, but thought there were 160,000 troops in Petrograd, they were nearly all recent recruits who had not been properly trained and who did not obey orders unthinkingly. They refused to obey their officers, some of whom were killed, while other fled, and the soldiers began to shoot the police who were still fighting for the Tsar; indeed people believed that the police had machine-guns on rooftops and in church towers from where they could fire on the crowds. Even the Cossacks refused to fight for the Tsar, and the government was quite powerless.

In this way the rioting was only revolutionary because of the strikes and mutinies that came as a result of it. It provided a break in normalcy yes but such a break is only relevant as a pathway to something more productive and sustainable.

It is not only unhelpful but also bordering on reprehensible for anyone to fetishise violence. We do not support or oppose it but see it as a natural result of a society built upon and maintained by contradicting interests. It is not a content of struggle just a form that it will probably end up relating to and as such when it erupts from material conditions, from the crippling brutality of life under capitalism we are given the option of how to relate to it and questions must be asked. When it is seen as something that can be wished into creation by voluntaristic activists and that in this way it will simply lead to a greater revolutionary movement then this offers nothing to any kind of challenge to capital. Give up activism. Give up guerillaism.

[Delenda Carthago]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MxrFwW2ccno/TNFdAYt5Q3I/AAAAAAAACMI/KWJU3wcCjNQ/s1600/pirines_sillifthentes.jpg

the two arrested persons of the Conspiracy.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Mp8jUgavFao/TNLC1R1vfHI/AAAAAAAAET8/BzKtH5o6GqQ/s1600/kathgoroumenoi.jpg

Them being dragged to the court by the anti terrorist cops

http://www.pressgr.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/fire-570x435.jpg

Two other people that were arrested a year ago.The one in the black-white shirt (Haris Hatzimichelakis) also claimed responsibility for the case a week ago.

[Delenda Carthago]

if anyone is intrested, the whole communique just got translated and cn be found here...

http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1240921

[Delenda Carthago]

There is a rapid tendency to assume that any kind of violence if propogated by those with the right sounding rhetoric should not only not be condemned but should be 'supported' (ignoring what 'support' actually means...) and seen as a productive action worth replicating.

Yet what we can actually see is that violence is not a homogenous category and cannot be treated as one universal tactic, idea or concept to be supported or opposed. In this respect a fundamental difference is between what we can call class violence and what we can call substitutionist violence. Whereas the former originates from class struggles, is essentially spontaneous and is done less for a political purpose and more as a instant reaction against oppressive intrusions of capital into everyday life, the latter is meticulously planned, enacted with a clear political goal and a result not of ordinary workers engaged in struggle but self-appointed 'guerillas' who have withdrawn themselves from everyday life and now stand at the side poking it. In many ways the guerilla is the violent conclusion of the activist;


Not only does such action necessitate a group of individuals, self appointed to act in the name of a wider class but it is bound to further accentuate the differences between them and said class. Furthermore when engaged in such armed struggle such groups become increasingly dependent on further isolated acts of violence to sustain themselves leading most likely to destruction by the state (because lets face it no matter how strong your 'gangs' may be, the police is much stronger).

Regarding Greece, TPTG are very clear on the matter;


The potentiality of class violence (such as Greece 2008) lies not in the act of violence itself but the plane it opens up, in this way the potentiality lies in what the violence can spawn. The difference between this and substitutionist violence is not only that the latter is separated from the wider class but as a result of this separation the end can only be the means itself. It cannot spawn anything else, it can only lead to its reproduction and eventual collapse. Now I'm sure people will be quick to jump in with "you don't know Greece, who are you to tell us what to do" or probably more likely "no revolution has ever been free of violence, you are an excuse for pacifism" but if we look back in history an interesting example is that of February 1917, here in a paragraph I read recently;


In this way the rioting was only revolutionary because of the strikes and mutinies that came as a result of it. It provided a break in normalcy yes but such a break is only relevant as a pathway to something more productive and sustainable.

It is not only unhelpful but also bordering on reprehensible for anyone to fetishise violence. We do not support or oppose it but see it as a natural result of a society built upon and maintained by contradicting interests. It is not a content of struggle just a form that it will probably end up relating to and as such when it erupts from material conditions, from the crippling brutality of life under capitalism we are given the option of how to relate to it and questions must be asked. When it is seen as something that can be wished into creation by voluntaristic activists and that in this way it will simply lead to a greater revolutionary movement then this offers nothing to any kind of challenge to capital. Give up activism. Give up guerillaism.
thats very nice of you.keep reading and inform us about 1917,we really need it.

PS1. Who is "we" you are talkin about?
PS2. I dont agree with either you or CoCoF

[Delenda Carthago]

This is all very nice and all but how does this strategy differ from the European urban Guerilla groups (RAF,Action Directe,CCC,GRAPO) and the Italian movement of '77 (Brigate Rosse, Prima Linea,Autonomia Armata,etc.) at all?

These strategies lose themselves in the moment of struggle and, despite not fetishising this or that tactic, fetishise the moment of confrontation. The problem is that this logic is purely negative. The moment of living, the constructive project of building a new order in the here and now, is completely neglected and thus all space won by assaulting Capital and the state is left empty and desert, only to be re-conquered by capitalist normality again after the clashing of steel is over again.

To quote Tiqqun on this:



There is nothing worse than liberating space that cannot be occupied by us again. A space (in the broadest sense, ranging from houses to factories,etc.) that cannot be held, transformed and re-appropriated isn't conquerable by any sensible definition.
Specificly CoCoF have a huge difference with the groups you mentioned,something they have analyse in an old communique.Red Brigades believed that the revolution is gonna come by the workers of FIAT,RAF by the third world peoples, 17November(Greece) by people.CoCoF thinks that the revolution is gonna come by revolutionaries themselves.Also, dont compare RB, which was an army of thousands, with the other teams.They have very litle in common.

[bricolage]

thats very nice of you.keep reading and inform us about 1917,we really need it.
Meh, I read about it because it was a thin book I found lying around and I can sneak thin books around with me when I am at work. The 1917 bit was a really minor bit of my whole argument, you can ignore it if you want.
but you know what if you take the main point I was trying to make there:

"The potentiality of class violence lies not in the act of violence itself but the plane it opens up, in this way the potentiality lies in what the violence can spawn. The difference between this and substitutionist violence is not only that the latter is separated from the wider class but as a result of this separation the end can only be the means itself. It cannot spawn anything else, it can only lead to its reproduction and eventual collapse... It provides a break in normalcy yes but such a break is only relevant as a pathway to something more productive and sustainable."

You could apply that to anything. I mentioned 1917 because I had a quote on it you could jump to the UK student protests the last few months and it'd be the same.

PS1. Who is "we" you are talkin about?Communists? It's just a way of talking, I suppose it is pretty douchey. I should probably stop doing it.

PS2. I dont agree with either you or CoCoFWell fine, but maybe you could at least address some of the points I raised.
As a side point for someone who doesn't agree with CoCoF you've made quite a few posts about them without indicating any criticism.

[scarletghoul]

As a side point for someone who doesn't agree with CoCoF you've made quite a few posts about them without indicating any criticism.He's providing us with valuable news updates and information.

[bricolage]

He's providing us with valuable news updates and information.
sure, I like news as much as the next person, although people tend to have vested interest in which news they publish, I mean I'm sure a bunch of people on here probably support this stuff.

But I would actually be interested in hearing a critique AttackGr might have of it.

[Amphictyonis]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MxrFwW2ccno/TNFdAYt5Q3I/AAAAAAAACMI/KWJU3wcCjNQ/s1600/pirines_sillifthentes.jpg

the two arrested persons of the Conspiracy.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Mp8jUgavFao/TNLC1R1vfHI/AAAAAAAAET8/BzKtH5o6GqQ/s1600/kathgoroumenoi.jpg

Them being dragged to the court by the anti terrorist cops

http://www.pressgr.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/fire-570x435.jpg

Two other people that were arrested a year ago.The one in the black-white shirt (Haris Hatzimichelakis) also claimed responsibility for the case a week ago.

Why do the COPS look like NAZI's and the 'terrorists' like college students? (stupid question)

[Delenda Carthago]

First of all,you wrote lots of things while you havent read what they had to say about the situation.Matter of fact, I m pretty sure you have read very litle things about/from them, and for this, I cant bother much about your critisisms.First you read,then you answer.

Secondly, CoCoF say in their communique, that its not about the buildings that they explode or the people they attack,its about provoking thougts on the social dialog about the institute roles of them.So,that answers many things you said.

Last but not least, I disagree with them because I have a different opinion on how revolutions happen. I am pro class struggle,not volontarism. I am pro that objiective situations do matter,they dont. And we seem to have a pretty different ideal of how revolution would look like, what is going to be about and how we gonna get there. I have stopped believing that we gonna turn Greece into ruins and we gonna start over for quite a while. They still think so.

Does this mean I m gonna stop posting news about them?Shit no,espesially now that they fucked the whole EU up. I may be wrong and they could be right.

[Delenda Carthago]

Why do the COPS look like NAZI's and the 'terrorists' like college students? (stupid question)
Probably because they both are?

[bricolage]

First of all,you wrote lots of things while you havent read what they had to say about the situation.Matter of fact, I m pretty sure you have read very litle things about/from them, and for this, I cant bother much about your critisisms.First you read,then you answer.
Well I'd read everything you put in this thread before I posted. If I get the time I might get round to that pdf you put up today.
But then again maybe I'll have to learn Greek and read everything they've ever written before I know enough for you to reply...


Secondly, CoCoF say in their communique, that its not about the buildings that they explode or the people they attack,its about provoking thougts on the social dialog about the institute roles of them.
Not really because it buys into my point that these thoughts are not going to be 'provoked' by self-defined activists/guerillas/revolutionaries acting outside the parameters of everyday life and poking their heads in with bombs and guns once in a while. I agree with what you wrote about class struggle vs voluntarism etc, which is why I don't think voluntarist/substitionist violence like this is ever going to be of any use to anyone. It reinforces the spectator-participant relationship, has no potential to expand any kind of social base and is thoroughly alien to class politics. Sure you can burn everything down, but after you have burnt everything what then?

[Devrim]

I am pro class struggle,not volontarism.

This is exactly what voluntarism is:


Secondly, CoCoF say in their communique, that its not about the buildings that they explode or the people they attack,its about provoking thougts on the social dialog about the institute roles of them.

Devrim

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Not really because it buys into my point that these thoughts are not going to be 'provoked' by self-defined activists/guerillas/revolutionaries acting outside the parameters of everyday life and poking their heads in with bombs and guns once in a while. I agree with what you wrote about class struggle vs voluntarism etc, which is why I don't think voluntarist/substitionist violence like this is ever going to be of any use to anyone. It reinforces the spectator-participant relationship, has no potential to expand any kind of social base and is thoroughly alien to class politics. Sure you can burn everything down, but after you have burnt everything what then?

"For revolutionaries it is psychologically quite difficult, if not impossible, to raise their voices against the futile application of 'revolutionary justice' by terroristic groups and individuals. Even Marx, who despised all forms nihilistic actions, could not help being elated by the terroristic feats of the Russian 'Peoples’ Will.' As a matter of fact, the counter-terror of revolutionary groups cannot be prevented by mere recognition of its futility. Their perpetrators are not moved by the conviction that their actions will lead directly to social change, but by their inability to accept the unchallenged, the perpetual terror of the bourgeoisie unchallenged. And once engaged in illegal terror, the legal terror forces them to continue their activities until the bitter end. This type of people is itself product of the class-ridden society and a response to its increasing brutalization. There is no sense in forming a consensus with the bourgeoisie and condemning their activities from proletarian point of view. It is enough to recognize their futility and to look for more effective ways to overcome the ever-present capitalist terror by the class actions of the proletariat." - Paul Mattick

[TC]

"Conspiracy of Cells of Fire" has got to be the lamest name for an underground organization I've ever heard. That sounds like something some kids came up with in a basement between games of Dungeons and Dragons.

[black magick hustla]

"Conspiracy of Cells of Fire" has got to be the lamest name for an underground organization I've ever heard. That sounds like something some kids came up with in a basement between games of Dungeons and Dragons.
i think the real name is conspiracy of nuclei of fire, which are you kidding, its gr8. better than red army faction or -something- liberation front

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

It's also translated from Greek. Something could certainly be lost in the process. I've already seen it translated as Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, Conspiracy of Fire Cells, and Conspiracy of Cells of Fire).

The name is (or should be) the least of anyone's worries anyway.

[IndependentCitizen]

It's also translated from Greek. Something could certainly be lost in the process. I've already seen it translated as Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, Conspiracy of Fire Cells, and Conspiracy of Cells of Fire).

The name is (or should be) the least of anyone's worries anyway.

To be fair, I think the name is incredibly important.

A group's name is a huge part of identity, and their enemies would fear the very sound of the name because of their actions..

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

It's only important if it's a product you're trying to make popular. To be fair though, that is the approach of many left groups.

[bcbm]

some of the greek terror groups that have claimed bombings have really awesome/hilarious names. there is a list somewhere on the internet but i can't find it right now

[Palingenisis]

some of the greek terror groups that have claimed bombings have really awesome/hilarious names. there is a list somewhere on the internet but i can't find it right now

I dont agree with their politics but I wouldnt call them "terror groups"...More misguided working class partisan groups. For all my *****ing about anarchism when it comes to anarchists and the IMF Im on the side of the anarchists however psycho they are.

[bcbm]

semantics

[Palingenisis]

semantics

Possibily...But "terror groups" sounds like something from the capitalist press and it really does imply a moral judgement.

[bcbm]

i don't think anyone here is going to be confused about what was meant

[Delenda Carthago]

Well I'd read everything you put in this thread before I posted. If I get the time I might get round to that pdf you put up today.
But then again maybe I'll have to learn Greek and read everything they've ever written before I know enough for you to reply...


Not really because it buys into my point that these thoughts are not going to be 'provoked' by self-defined activists/guerillas/revolutionaries acting outside the parameters of everyday life and poking their heads in with bombs and guns once in a while. I agree with what you wrote about class struggle vs voluntarism etc, which is why I don't think voluntarist/substitionist violence like this is ever going to be of any use to anyone. It reinforces the spectator-participant relationship, has no potential to expand any kind of social base and is thoroughly alien to class politics. Sure you can burn everything down, but after you have burnt everything what then?
Well, I know that it is hard to understand, but that doesnt mean that you can say some things that only can come out of assumption.The only way to kinda understand what this group is about is to read this communique.

[Delenda Carthago]

It's also translated from Greek. Something could certainly be lost in the process. I've already seen it translated as Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, Conspiracy of Fire Cells, and Conspiracy of Cells of Fire).

The name is (or should be) the least of anyone's worries anyway.


Some translate it as nuclei, some translate it as core, some as cells. i think the closest is cells...obviously something is being missed.

[Delenda Carthago]

All of their communiques in their first phase in 2008 translated in english
http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1244569

[Delenda Carthago]

CONSPIRACY CELLS OF FIRE-COMMANDO HORST FANTAZZINI claim responsibility for the bomb attack against the Administrative Court in Athens on December 30 /2010 (Greece)

I. "The days are coming when they try..."
"Whoever passed by the front of a courthouse or prison and his look didn't darken, in the thought, that he could be there as the culprit, then he did not live his time with integrity and dignity"
The attack on the Administrative Court is dedicated with all our fire to our brothers (G.Tsakalos, P.Argirou, H.Hajimihelakis) of the prisoner's cell of the members of Conspiracy Cells of Fire. Our comrades and the honest minority of dignified revolutionary Persons political and civil, are not just a piece of our struggle, it's not only an aspect of our action, but their choices, attitudes and dignity, is the struggle itself as a whole,it's the substance.

Justice is a spider web, catching small prey and swallowing them, while allowing the big reptiles to penetrate and dominate it. Whoever disagrees can visit the prisons to see all these drug addicts and poor devils that fill them up and look around in there to find any businessman or politician who is responsible for the biggest robberies and the most brutal degradation of our lives. So in sight of the political court marshal that's prepared

forJanuary 17thfor our Revolutionary Organization CONSPIRACY CELLS OF FIREwe will be sharp and relentless in our options and actions. If some believe that our Brothers are easy prey and 'Cook' the menu of penalties they wish them to contribute to pay dearly for the bill, we would like to inform them they are just fooling themselves and that from here on their personal safety is in immediate danger. So it would good that in the upcoming trial the judges wear black balaclavas and don't mention their names ever and anywhere.It is "unfortunate" that the system leaves its simple puppets to be targeted so easily and also think that it will escape so easily. It's a "shame" that these "people" need 24 hour police protection and are afraid to open a letter or a folder. It is a "shame" to believe that they can sleep with a clear conscience when their decisions are the carbon copy of the files of the Anti-Terrorist police in order to judge the Conspiracy. To judge an idea, a proposal, a plan that makes something more beautiful against this world.

Modern inquisitors-judges, we publicly pledge that for every year of prison that our brothers' ears hear, we will put a kilo of explosives the yards of your houses, in your cars, in your offices, while we do not excluded personal face to face meetings with you, using the element of surprise approach. We think that it's a small world and sooner or later we will meet, in the future or sooner. Besides, as very rightly was announced by the Union of Judges and prosecutors, in a style of one thousand Cardinals, "the moment of crisis is sure to come to all of us at some point .. ". Only now it's time for the "judges" to be judged for all those ugly acts they have committed. Since you are not ashamed to be the spearhead of the system against the insurgencies that are coming, we will make sure you feel our resentment and dislike for your dirty work. If some by judging ideas and prosecuting revolutionaries consider that they are just doing their job, then we will transfer "our work" to their homes. Of course the war that we have with the corrupt judical mafia is not limited to the field of the hearing of our case. We would be narrow-minded and hypocrites if we did not mention the crimes of justice as a whole.

We understand the ordeal faced in the courts by thousands of people and their families. See, "justice" has a special preference in uniforms, authority and money, and not the truth.Not all “criminals” are “guilty”, or judges “innocent”.Even if there is a small minority of judges that do not take bribes, that do not bow to their political bosses, do not accept the records of the police as pre made decisions, should know that without freedomthere's no justice. Even they themselves only through the position they hold serve an oppressive and illiberal system and that's why they are among the enemies of freedom. How many times the "virtuous observers of the law" try and sentence without even any obvious evidence. An example is the recent trial named by the Media "crime syndicate". Already months before tv-judges with the "democratic" procedure of publishing telephone tappings have decided the verdict. "GUILTY" ...

At the same time one of the defendants has clearly taken responsibility for the kidnapping of the shipping magnate relieving most of them while some were already in prison when the kidnapping happened. But the outcome of the trial is a public secret that is already rigged and cooked in the headquarters of the Police. But if anyone wants to look for a real "crime syndicate" and its "safehouses" they should look in parliament, on Alexandras Avenue at GADA (Athens police headquarters), in the mansions and yachts of the rich. But these are not touched by "justice"
We also do not forget how resentful judges are. It is not accidental that the vindictive
sentencing of a young person Chrisovalantis Pouziaritis with the predatory sentence of 9
years and 3 months for his involvement in last year's clashes of December 6thin Thessaloniki. A conviction based solely on the vague testimonies of the cops who arrested him.
But even when "doing" their work, under pressure from a diffuse anger, as in the case of the cop Korkoneas (the cop that killed Alexandros Grigoropoulos on Dec. 6th2008), we know again, that they are hypocrites. They sacrifice an insignificant pawn in order to cover their leadership.Because even the most 'fair' punishments smell terribly bad when imposed by a victorious and inhuman authority.Besides, as we said before, after our strikes on Koridallos prisons and the courthouse in Thessaloniki, we are opposed to the imprisonment of any human being. The deprivation of liberty, is simply torture. We are not
torturers, like the Democrats. The solution to conflicts with such scumbags like
Korkoneas, comes from taking law into one's own hand. Those who felt the most loss of
their comrade A.Grigoropoulos should decide the "fate" of his murderer.
We believe that the same path,taking the law into one's own hands, should be followed for all rapists, pedophiles, pimps, fascists and snitches.
"As revolutionaries we do not recognize any investigating authority. So we were bound to refuse to apologize to cops and interrogators, since our revolutionary position is that only before the public and our comrades do we feel a duty to promote." (P. Argirou - G.Tsakalos members of the prisoners cell of C.C.F.)
Finishing with the issue of the judical mafia, we believe that every decent imprisoned Human for whatever reason he is "inside" must not do the "Favour" to the judges and recognize them as eligible to judge him. Because this is what they want with their "legalization", their recognition as a superior clique of people whom the rest have to be fully accountable to.But honourable judges you should know that the expensive clothes that you got this morning from the drycleaners have absorbed the blood of thousands of people you tortured and locked in prison without a second thought. And this blood will drown you...This is why we call the criminal and political friends and comrades who choose to walk with dignity as a guide to refuse to recognise their inquisitors in any way. There is not only one way, but many. From silence against interrogators and judges, from the refusal to appear in court, by converting the trial into a public forum for the dissemination of revolutionary values, to the attack in the courtroom against the "honorable judges" by spitting, swearing, shouting and throwing objects, glasses, coffee etc.
To get them behind a protective window, for them to move around with bulletproof vests accompanied by the masked cops of the anti-terrorist.
Our first appointment is therefore on January 17th. We will be thereNEXTto our brothers the members of the prisoners cell of C.C.F. and to those who had the dignity in this adventure to hold their heads up high. We'll be there with our soul, our hearts and our minds. Because otherwise, we are looking for intense passages to take back our comrades and to be together again tomorrow in the struggle, theNEW URBAN GUERILLA WARFARE.
Because our day will come...
II. "But, what they will never be able to imprison is my free revolutionary conscience. What they will never be able to prevent is the continious production of my radical insurrectionist speech, even under the conditions of incarceration” (Harris Hadjimihelakis member of the prisoners cell of the C.C.F.)
A while ago a vast mobilization took place within prisons with the participation of many prisoners in the abstention of prison food. The fact passed as "insignificant news" in the media, some domestic disputes between prisoners did not let things expand and many were met with with disappointment, while the leadership of the ministry, with a smart strategic move, gave partial amnesty to disciplinary actions so that "the incident be considered final ..." We as the Revolutionary Organization Conspiracy Cells of Fire will always support the struggle of prisoners and their mobilizations. We understand the difficult circumstances under which thousands of people are tortured every day. We will not comment on the demands of the prisoners considering them in advance selfevident and obvious, because they are in the direction of a struggle that is the most important for humans, the struggle for freedom and dignity. But we do not forget that"any improvement of the conditions, will not fundamentally change everyday life, because the deprivation of freedom alone is a constant punishment "(V. Stefanakos prisoner). Even these scumbags, the directors of prisons, complain that the vans come back from the courts loaded with 300 to 400 years of prison time. So this is the mirror of our civilized society, a vast warehouse of souls in pigsty conditions. Until when will we tolerate people being released from prison in coffins (the Greek prisons have the highest rates of suicide). Until when will we tolerate a handful of sub-humans to judge us with laws written by the hand of our executioners and our exploiters.
But in relation to the mobilizations in the prisons it's better that we say two words in the language of the prisoners without fancy phrases and policies. We know that everyone inside thinks that they have been wronged by society. But instead of doing an illegalist catwalk and looking to find a hit of smack to take, snitching on the person next door, how to divide the community of the wing or the cell, they take a look around and see that prison depends on him. He fixes the plumbing, electrics and all general building work. He cleans, cooks, to keep the prison open. Its him with his submissive attitude that binds the others around him, turning himself into a cop of the system.We know very well that the greatest threat to freedom is not its violent deprivation through captivity, because the prisoner can fight to win it back, but the real threat is the loss of the passion and appreciation you have for it.
In prison what kills even more than smack is habit. The habit of wearing invisible handcuffs on your mind, the habit of the exercise yard, the surprise checks and transfers, the visits behind plexiglass, the permanently on television...
Koridallos for example, the largest prison in the country has about 2500 prisoners maybe more, while the guards on duty never exceed 50 even in an open prison. If all of these inmates refused to cooperate with the 50 individuals, refuse to play the game with the carrot and the whip, then they could tear down the prisons with their nails overnight. A refusal therefore of cooperation and sabotage their procedures. We believe that there is already a struggle that has started long ago without us. From the bomb on the director of the prisons of Corfu to the bomb to the Director of Alikarnassos prison and from the shooting of the prison employee in Koridallos to the beating of the director of Avlona prisons, there is anger, there is anger, there is a memory...Prison is the stone that while the builder of legitimacy throws away as useless, can become the cornerstone for building a new world. The decent criminals and political prisoners can combine their experience and transform prison into a workshop of producing knowledge and conscience, to make the experience of lack of freedom a stubborn struggle, make themselves the spark in the powder kegs of the prisons. We already know that the struggle against prisons is a struggle for life that knows no frontiers and nations. The universal language of violence and deprivation of liberty has written its own history on the bodies of prisoners. Recently, 83 prisoners died in the prisons in Chile. In retaliation, the anarchist group“commandos of vengeance for December 8"attacked the technology and computer department of the cops for the dead in San Miguel prison sending a clear message that in this struggle no one is alone.“cages do not get better, they get destroyed. For the end of this, and every other society." (Monica Caballero, anarchist prisoner in Chile).
III. From Theory to Practice.

Wanting to coordinate theory with practice, and to send our Respect, Faith and Friendship to our brothers P.Argirou, G.Tsakalos and H.Hadjimihelakis of the prisoners cell of C.C.F., to anarchist revolutionary P.Massouras, anarchist K.Karakatsani, the antiauthoritarian-arsonist G. Skouloudis and the 4 wanted comrades who are prosecuted for the same case, the honest and authentic anarchist fighter G.Dimitrakis, the dignified P.Giannou and to the brilliant criminal minority who do not bow their heads and walk with dignity as their guide we chose and decided to strike the Administrative Courthouse of the judical mafia. We mapped out the area, we calculated the distance to the General Clinic so that not the slightest thing happen, watched the movements and shifts of the special guard post between the Administrative court and the Appellate court, timed the blackout that prevails at 7:15 in the morning when the streetlights go out, the frequency of the route of the pigs of the D.I.A.S. group around the target, we expropriated the vehicles we needed and we went on the attack. We formed a fully operational team more than ready to attack any involvement. Two support vehicles supervised the court both before the planting of the motorbike with the bomb, and at the final stage of its parking, where one of the two vehicles received the comrade who drove the motorbike. The positioning of the support team was such that they were able to immediately subdue the guard in the rare case that
he realized something, but also to surprise any police variable force (e.g. control of the rider by the motorbike of the DIAS or by an accidentally passing patrol car). Both our position and our weapon superiority would be enough to disengage us and we could get away unscathed.


As we have said before when talking about operational descriptions of some
of our strikes, we do so to demystify the technical sacrosanctity of power.
We believe that anything is possible provided that there is the will and organization. We are last who would demote a revolutionary project to a military logic of prevalence of the "fittest". The issue for us is not who will be the most disciplined soldiers, the most talented officers, this draws the revolution to a spectacular background, abstracting it away from daily life.
What we simply say to the enemies of freedom is that whatever you do we will continue to strike you, to disturb your interests, bother your peace, to affect your certainty and your safety.

What are we selling? Nothing.
What do we want? Everything.


CONSPIRACY CELLS OF FIRE-COMMANDO HORST FANTAZZINI.
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They also had a declaration about an international "fai" network they want to help been created, but its not translated yet.

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NTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF ACTION AND SOLIDARITY - INFORMAL ANARCHIST FEDERATION
“Solidarity is a constant attack against the system and society, an act where the words fabrication, innocent, guilty, do not fit. Because as revolutionaries it is our duty to always be guilty for this system, always dangerous and always proud of our choices. We are not persecuted for our ideas, but because it seemed poor to us to not transubstantiate them into actions.” (Gerasimos Tsakalos member of the prisoners cell of C.C.F.).
Real solidarity between revolutionary consciences and groups of comrades is what the dominators fear most, it is the idea of a prospect that makes the ground tremble under the feet of the scum that call us terrorists.Today we express our absolute solidarity to the comrades all over the world that have passed the threshold of prison without bowing their head, without kneeling, without regretting even one moment.Tomorrow we will be together with them in the struggle.This era suits Caesar since the masses are calling out “those who are about to die salute you.” However while the majority of the drowsing society watches the spectacle of its own death, mental and physical, there are still People, there are still situations of disobedience and revolt.It is one of the few times where almost simultaneously in most of the metropoli of Europe and not only, widespread mutinies are being expressed in London, Paris, Rome, Athens.In the face of the new challenges of our era with society being one endless correctional facility and fortress-Europe setting the foundations of the new European class that marginalizes and removes as unnecessary those who are not absorbed harmoniously into the productive machine (immigrant minorities, e.g. the Roma in France, unemployed, poor), we wish for our insubordination to go beyond the narrow geographic limits of Greece in order to meet and act jointly with groups of comrades from all over Europe and the entire world so we can join our fists against the wardens of our life.
A while ago we published an international call of solidarity for the upcomingtrial on January 17th of members and comrades of our organisation as well as other individuals. In a very short time signals and gestures of solidarity arrived from all areas of insubordination strengthening the wild joy to live and feel the authentic side of the revolution. In Greece the comrades of theincendiary group “warriors of revolutionary conscience” set fire to a car dealership calling for a solidarity campaign for the upcoming trial on January 17th and passing the baton to the Thessaloniki comrades that preformed a barrage of incendiary attacks. Simultaneously comrades from abroad responded immediately to the call out, from the statement of the group“the autonomous cells of the immediate revolution-Praxedis G.Guerero”, the placing of an explosive devise by ELF in Renaut in Mexico against the summit for climate change, the placing of a smoke bomb in Portland in a private bar for cops, the bomb attack of the Argentinian comrades on the Greek embassy, the stoning of the police station in Bristol, up to the well-targeted sending of explosive parcels from the brothers of ItalianFAI- Revolutionary Cell Lambros Foundas.
For the all reasons in the world and those that have already been mentioned, we consider that today more than ever it is desirable, but also feasible, to put together an international network of anarchist individuals and groups of comrades.
We do not want to speak at great length on theoretical acrobatics and hypothetical estimates. A few years ago on 21/12/2003 the comrades of FAI published an open letter to the anarchist antiauthoritarian movement in the prospect of creating an international Informal Anarchist Federation. A gew years later, we as Conspiracy Cells of Fire consider that the basic values of the “letter” continue to be a constant wager in force and we are willing with all our strength to contribute to this direction. Using therefore the basic characteristics of the text of the comrades of FAI we are also putting in motion the proposal for an international anarchist network.What we propose is to compose an international network of groups of comrades, antiauthoritarian and chaotic, with horizontal structure, open to everyone that wants to act, individually or collectively, without politicianism so he can satisfy the desire for life here and now.
Each one can with his comrades and friends create an autonomous cell of action, in which theoretical research coexists harmoniously with their corresponding practical application. Through the execution of actions, regardless of the material damage (from slogan writing and smashing of banks and luxury shops up to incendiary-explosive attacks and executions of representatives of the system) each cell with its proclamation will participate in a open dialogue within the network but also with the wider radical circle. The communication will be based on responsibility claims and the distribution of theories by the tools of counter-information that the anarchist movement possesses (publications, flyers, internet web pages, stickers, pamphlets, etc.). In this way all those situations (supposedly conspiratorial clusters in the amphitheatres, the oratories in the assemblies, the gossips in the cafes) that are “vulnerable” to the dominance of informal leaders or can be affected by a police snitch or traitor that through his leaks can make the whole organization or part of it fall like a paper castle, will be abolished.
Through every responsibility claim it is possible to open a thematic for discussion (e.g. for the immigration issue), to organize an expedition of solidarity (e.g. for the trial of certain comrades) to publicize a situation (e.g. the conditions of confinement in the prisons) or even to simply declare the existence of hotbeds of mutiny against the system. As had been mentioned in the past by the comrades of F.A.I. “an expedition of struggle via actions and the following proclamations, will also be followed by the rest of the individuals or groups according to their times and their methods”. The actions of each group will be accompanied by their signature. Particularly in the international callouts the appropriate time frame should be given in order that the comrades from each country can assemble those elements necessary to help them act on the plan. Let;s not we forget that the kilometric distance will be covered, beyond certain personal contacts where and if it is judged necessary, through proclamations and texts of reflection, which must be especially instructive and informative. In this sector immediate translations by the groups themselves and other comrades certainly helps.
Also in order to clarify things in our contribution to the creation-support of the Informal Anarchist Federation - International Network we want to stress that our proposal, also supporting the plan of the cells of F.A.I., is a proposal of practical theory. We are speaking of a network of direct action where our positions and values will be propagated simultaneously and will be judged through the actions of direct attack on the regime. By putting on the central axis of the Network - Federation revolutionary solidarity, we mean all those aggressive forms of action (posters, demos, slogans, events) as well as armed actions against the structures and individuals responsible for the confinement of the comrades. Surely our solidarity does not have any relation with technical - legal support.“Urban society offers enough lawyers, social-workers, priests so the revolutionaries have something else to deal with” (F.A.I - open letter to the anarchist – anti authoritarian movement)Finally we never forget who our enemy is in this war. We know that the official state will turn all its forces against the internal enemy. As we also know that the majority of society often conceals within it an informal, more conservative, more fascist, more inhuman state than the state itself. It is also a fact that certain social minorities are more anarchist than the official anarchist and more revolutionary than the professional revolutionaries.
We declare our war with authority today calling friends and enemies to take sides “and we should know that it will not be a minority that will make the revolution, however well armed it might be, but on the other hand, we are determined not to put off our revolt to when everyone will be ready.”
We therefore call again the comrades, friends and groups in Italy, Argentina, Mexico, U.S.A, England, Chile, Brazil, Spain, Germany, France, Belgium and anywhere mutiny bursts out to contribute with their moves so that we turn the trial of January 17th for the case of Revolutionary Organization Conspiracy Cells of Fire into a vaulting horse of attack against the structures of the system. Because we know that the trial will last a long time, let it be considered that all this period is a belligerent period and a good opportunity for new attacks...
At the same time we send our revolutionary greetings causing noise and chaos in the concentration camps of the metropolises to the imprisoned hostages all over the world.
GabrielPombo da Silva, Thomas Meyer Falk in Germany, Marco Camenisch, Luca Bernasconi, Constantino Ragusa, and Silvia Guerini in Switzerland, Jock Palfreeman in Bulgaria,Abraham Lopez, Adrian Magdaleno Gonzales, Braulio Arturo Duran Gonzales in Mexico, Marcelo Villaroel, Freddy Fuentevilla and in jailed for the “bomb case” in Chile, Jean Marc Rouillan in France.We know that behind the imprisonment of each one of our comrades a clear choice is being hit. For this we consider it important that individual calls and expeditions of solidarity promoting each case separately be organized by groups. It is necessary that we resist the counterfeiting of the Media that twists the cases of imprisoned comrades, they isolate them and finally conceal them so that they can pass into oblivion. The only way to break the wall of silence is through our actions to give words to the hostages whose possibility of being “free” has been taken away from them. We want to sabotage isolation, to propagate the separate case of each one, his thoughts, his choices, his struggles. These people are not names in a phonebook, they are COMRADES and they are not alone. We call the prisoners themselves and their close action groups to give the spark for new international hostilities through their speech and their actions. We as Conspiracy will be next to them in the common battle in order to stop the exploitation of person by person once and for all.
“The struggle needs consistency, needs devotion. The struggle for individual freedom should be considered equal to the fight for collective freedom. But the mistake that many make is that they misunderstand these significances confusing consistency with boredom and (self) discipline with authority. The struggle however does not need dogmatic people ready to die for the “cause” without living fighting, without living with passion.”(The autonomous Cells of the Immediate Revolution - Praxedis G. Guerrerro)
CONSPIRACY CELLS OF FIRE – COMMANDO HORST FANTAZZINI
P.S. Horst Fantazzini was a bank robber in Italy who was “politicised” in prison and gave hard battles for his freedom and for the collective struggles of the prisoners. In his modest personality the political and the penal abolished segregation of words and they were transformed into substance. Horst was a revolutionary Person that fought the system and its wardens. He robbed banks, flirted with freedom between his escapes and never bowed his head to his executioners.In July 1973 in an escape attempt he “arrested” as hostages his two wardens and wounded another by shooting him with a pistol that he had managed to smuggle into the prison. He asked for his freedom and the snipers of the police gave him bullets, seriously injuring him. A while later the undisciplined Horst tries the leap for freedom again, but his fall wounding him in the legs, leads him to high security imprisonment. Horst wrote and his words were bullets against system. He wrote about freedom, unfairness, the struggle, the revolution. After a period of semi-freedom (worked as a warehouse worker and returned to prison at 10.00pm) he was arrested on December 19th 2001 with anarchist comrade Carlo Tesseri outside a bank, and charged with attempted robbery. On December 24th 2001 he is found dead in the baths of the prison from natural causes. Now the system cannot arrest him again. Because Horst Fantazzini is alive in our memory, in our conspiracies, in the difficult but beautiful struggle that we give in order to take back the authentic side of life. Horst is one of us. Honour forever to anarchist – bank robber Horst Fantazzini.


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It's only important if it's a product you're trying to make popular. To be fair though, that is the approach of many left groups.

I'm not following.. Of course leftists (or any political group that wants to seize power) wants their organisation, or product if you will, to become popular? :confused:

Could you expand on this?

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CoCoF claimed responsibility for the letter bombs. In their 13 pages long communique they analyse how they want to start an international network of guerilla groups.They also mention their 3 arrested comrades,two that are arrested since last week and one 1 1/2 year back.

I think theres gonna be a translation of the communique in the next days, I ll post it when it happens.

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Morons.

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UPDATES ON THE TRIAL OF CONCSPIRACY OF CELLS OF FIRE 24 AND 25 JANUARY (Greece Athens)
On Monday, January 24, the second day of the trial of the accused in the case of Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, the court rejected both claims of the accused: to have the minutes of the proceedings recorded ("Due to high costs" said the tribunal bozos!) and for the identity papers of those entering the courtroom not to be withheld. ...The defendants left the court, revoked their defence lawyers and stated that they will abstain from prison food and go on hunger strike if the court appointed lawyers (which it did).[/URL]Critique of the attitudes of the journalistsThe statement of the six accused prisoners, agreed by the three comrades* on bail, was read by George Karagiannidis and said: "We are adamant about the retaining of our comrades' particulars. ".G. Karagiannidis spoke of the repressive nature of the measure said the defendants want to take their voices beyond the walls of the prison.
The statement made reference to the journalists, who "misleadingly report directly from the counter-terrorist cops They have reported on our personal lives and those of our families, so they too are exposed."
When the accused left the prison/court dozens of comrades shouted slogans and many of them raised their fists shouting "Tough, tough, be proud and strong."*The three comrades Vogiatzakis, Rallis and Giospas who are free on bail claimed that they have nothing to fear, but said that under these circumstances they cannot attend and do not want to go to trial with lawyers whom they do not know.



25 January 2011 - The trial of those accused of involvement in the organization "Conspiracy of Cells of Fire" was stopped this morning and will resume on Thursday. The court proceeded to appoint new defence lawyers, but of the 18 lawyers appointed, only four came forward and stated that they refuse to accept the appointment. As said by the lawyers who refused to take their defence, the case is too serious and the defendants themselves do not wish to be represented. Finally, the court was suspended until Thursday with the appointment of two new lawyers per defendant.
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On Monday 24th of January were examinedtheissues that we have raisedin the court about not with-holding and writing down elements from the IDʼs, of those who come at the trial and about the transcriptofthe minutes of the trial-proceedings, from which two issues above the first one is the most important for us. As we had decided and announced in public in the case that the court would not have accepted our request, we left the court-room and at the same time we released our lawyers.

About what happened in the court-room (24th Dec) know better the people who were present, friends, comrades and relatives. We will bring the events forward, as we experienced them running from our side. While we were being kept in the detention centers we were hearing the voices and slogans of the people outside that were giving us strength and courage. At some time we realized, that the chairman of the special court ordered the detention and removal of some comrades and relatives from the court-room. This was followed by strong shouting and we realized that there were clashes with the cops in the room, from which we were separated by an iron door. Wanting to reach out to help in any way our relatives and comrades quickly, we headed in that direction.

Just before we were in front of the iron door, the cops accompanying us shut the door and what followed were some hard clashes face-to-face against almost twenty cops. Although that the cops were counted as much more than us, the use of batons was necessary for them to bring balance to the clashes. The clashes lasted about ten minutes and, despite that they put handcuffs to some of us, we kept on fighting handcuffed while the cops were wildly beating us up.

Maybe they made it to beat us up a lot, but we responded the same and maybe more showing them, that some prisoners are not easy victims of their pseudo-macho style. Turning now to the alleged organized escape attempt, it isfunny at least, as long as theplace wherewe had been heading to – behind the court-room - leadsto theoutercourtyardof the prison and during the time of the trial it was full of several cop-forces, such as YMET and MAT even members of DAEEV and EKAM.

Finally, we declare that we do not step back from our position to ask for not being kept folders of the comrades and people in solidarity who enter the court-room. The isolation of the defendants in political trials is reflecting the mood for criminalization of partnerships and takes out the meanings from the political subjects that participate in these trials. For us, solidarity is an essential and crucial matter. We do not tolerate the direct attack of the court against the solidarity movement. It is not us who will validate the court-menʼs decision. In first time, we have started refusing the jail-food while none of us will participate in this trial until the court-men will accept our requirement.

We do not tolerate the mockery from the court president, who despite that firstly she agreed on the free arrival of people in the room, after the orders of her political superiors, she took back her own decision proving this way her obvious role as a marionette of the anti-terrorist staff.

We require for the obvious and as long as our requirements are not accepted, so long is got proved the attitude of the special court. We will not be present at the trial until any comrade and person in solidarity will be able to enter the court-room without the fear of cops who keep a folder of her/him. In the case that the trial will start without us and our lawyers, but only with cops and appointive by court lawyers, from the first day that such kind of a trial will start, then in our turn we will start a hunger strike.

To return back to the court-room we are demanding for free entrance to anyone who wants to watch the trial only by showing her/his ID and without being written down her/his datum. We also recommend to all appointed lawyers to refuse to participate in this fascist trial-process, from whichwedeprive of our speechandopinion. If they will participate in such a process this will make themundignified at least and it would be good if it would not be them who will “try to take the snake out of the hole”.

Finishing, on our turn, we rejoin from our hearts to the solidarity of all comrades from Greece and outlands, who with their speech and actions give us strength to keep on our struggle.


THE STRUGGLE KEEPS ON
LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION


Haris Hadjimichelakis,

Giorgos Karagiannidis,

Alexandros Mitrousias,

Panagiotis Masouras,

Panagiotis Argyrou

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Another guy has been arrested.Michalis Nikolopoulos.
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One more arrest for the ‘Conspiracy of Cells of Fire’ case On January 26th Michalis Nikolopoulos was arrested in Kifissia (northern Athens), accused in the case of Conspiracy of Cells of Fire. On January 28th he was led at the Evelpidon Courts where a solidarity gathering also held. He appeared before the prosecutor (Loukareos court) for the execution of an arrest warrant that had pending for nearly a year and a half, since he was a fugitive. The comrade refused to testify, saying that he does not recognize the procedure and he was imprisoned. In 3/2, he has also claimed political responsibility for his participation in the revolutionary organization ‘Conspiracy of Cells of Fire’ (his brief statement in english)).
STATEMENT RESPONSIBILITY CLAIM FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE REVOLUTIONARY ORGANIZATION CONSPIRACY CELLS OF FIRE

On Wednesday 26/1/2011, and while I was on Iliou street in Nea Kifissia in Athens, I was chased and arrested from the uniformed pigs of the D.I.A.S. Squad (squad of cops on motorbikes)

I declare clearly and with PRIDE that I am member of the Revolutionary Organization Conspiracy Cells of Fire, something that certainly honours me and unrepentant I continue with the head held high. After my arrest and as a hostage of the Revolutionary war and a political prisoner, I move from the illegal sector to the cell of imprisoned members of the R.O. Conspiracy Cells of Fire. My political ideas, values, perceptions and thoughts were expressed, are expressed and they will be expressed by the speech that is produced by the R.O. Conspiracy Cells of Fire. I am an anarchist and my perceptions are in the tendency of nihilism and anti-socialism, since on a general degree the whole of the current authority was created, developed and is supported on the behaviours of authority lust and passivity produced in the majority by the present society and its structures.

Continuing, something that of course is obvious, even now that I am behind bars I will continue the Struggle and I will support our organization. Also, other organizations of domestic urban guerrilla warfare will have my unconditional support, but also of the international revolutionary front- Informal Anarchist Federation. I simultaneously send my Support, my Faith and my Friendship to the brothers from the illegal sector of the R.O. Conspiracy Cells of Fire, and I have one thing to say to them, “Brothers strong to the STRUGGLE and to the BATTLES that rage… EVERYTHING CONTINUES!

I do not feel loss for my arrest… I do not feel loss for the clandestinity … I do not feel loss that I am imprisoned… I do not feel loss for the Struggle that we conduct…

BECAUSE THE ONLY LOST STRUGLE IS THE ONE THAT NEVER HAPPENED

LONG LIVE THE CONSPIRACY CELLS OF FIRE LONG LIVE THE ARMED STRUGGLE FOR THE REVOLUTION LONG LIVE ANARCHY

P.S. This particular statement is simply and only a claim of responsibility and does not include my experience during my arrest and my detainment at the anti-terrorist headquarters. Does not include my political beliefs entire and more analytically, as also my perceptions about prison, clandestinity and the refusal to appear in court on 17-1-2011, while I was a fugitive. All these will be publicised in a text in the future.


from the hellholes-prisons of Trikala Michalis Nikolopoulos Cell of Imprisoned Members of the R.O. C.C.F.
Thursday 3rdof February 2011


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[Delenda Carthago]

I do not feel loss for my arrest…
I do not feel loss for the clandestinity …
I do not feel loss that I am imprisoned…
I do not feel loss for the Struggle that we conduct…
(Michalis Nikolopoulos member of the prisoned cell of C.C.F)
_I do not feel loss for my arrest…I do not feel loss for the clandestinity …I do not feel loss that I am imprisoned…I do not feel loss for the Struggle that we conduct…


(Michalis Nikolopoulos member of the prisoned cell of C.C.F)


The real defeat in a war is not captivity in the hands of the enemy, but capitulation, loss of conscience, surrender, penitence, statements of loyalty. Because that is where the game of power is played, in the moral decline and depreciation of its dissident opponents. It wants to force rebels to bend, to kneel, to conciliate to make clear that “every struggle is lost, all resistance is useless”

. However the only lost fight is the one that never began. Its commands are clear. “You must not think, you must not resist, you must not fight”. And where its rhetoric does not work, either with the illusion of consuming frenzy, or with the threat of the violence of truncheons, guns and tear gas, there are the judicial “clergies” and correctional establishments ready “to accommodate” the most undisciplined for an indefinite time. They also want to send this message “we decide and we give the orders” inside the special political martial court that is judging the case of the revolutionary organization Conspiracy of Cells of Fire.
There is no need for somebody to be an anti-authoritarian in order to see the overt fascism that prevails in the special court of Koridalos prison. The refusal to install microphones for the recording of the trial and the fact that the cops hold all the identities of the people who want to express their solidarity and stand next to the defendants are the “virtues” of the admirable world of democracy. Those that with their predatory appetites have “mortgaged” the life of an entire population, now speak about the “unsustainable cost of recording the trial” while simultaneously they are restoring in modern history the publication of new testimonial beliefs, by keeping the identities of the people that want to attend the trial, obviously in order to use them in no “innocent” way, but for the input of the Police and the Counter-terrorist department.
We will be brief.



The comrades of the cell of the imprisoned members of C.C.F and the dignified rebels P. Masouras and G. Karagianidis have highlighted the political and repressive policies of this trial a thousand times better than us.


The essential wager that is being played at this moment on the part of the anarchists, revolutionaries, those in solidarity and undisciplined is to not allow power to make one more step towards strengthening its coup d'etat.
The cell of the imprisoned members of C.C.F and the dignified comrades placed a limit of life and dignity by beginning a HUNGER STRIKE on 3-2-2011. “This struggle is given, not for a precarious victory in this court, but in order for it to be imposed as an non-negotiable term in all the political trials that will follow, the possibility of the unhindered attendance by all the people who want to express their solidarity. A fight that comes to a peak with the start of the hunger strike”(Gerasimos Tsakalos- Michalis Nikolopoulos - members of the cell of prisoned members of C.C.F) The comrades turned the court of power into a victory not only for the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire but also for the wider revolutionary front. Everything that happened and everything that will happen constitutes the new legacy of courts and prosecutions that the system is preparing for its political opponents.
Comrades…! in this court is being conducted one of the most important battles that goes far beyond the action and history of a revolutionary organization. The state “tests” the resistance and tolerance of the radical-subversive area.


Certain coincidences, such as the facility with which the police and the public prosecutors fill the TV screens and the front pages of the newspapers with photographs of suspects, where it is proved afterwards that these persons, such as the anarchist Fee Meyer or K.S. that was arrested as a suspect for a robbery in Thessaloniki and turn out to have no relation with these “charges” against them, are not accidental. (We add that for that particular robbery the anarchist Rami Surianos was arrested and for sure if he is innocent he deserves our solidarity, if guilty he deserve it a thousand times more). The new fashion of arrests of persons that are accused for unknown-anonymous terrorist groups, such as the case of the 6 and the arrest of the 4 comrades in Thessaloniki, is also not accidental.
This witticism of the unknown-anonymous terrorist tgroup, as anyone can understand, is an “elastic argument” that stretches and opens depending on the appetites and interests of power and the law enforcement authorities in order to justify the huge increase in future charges (special provisions of terrorism law).


It was heard from the public prosecutor that in the case of F. Meyer “it is not reasonable to possess texts written by suspects for terrorism”. That is to say the possession of texts that are already published, that contain thoughts, concerns, proposals, regardless whether somebody agrees or not, is considered a punishable offence. Thus perhaps the season of the thought police is not far away. We must not forget that what gets used by the eye, gets used by the brain as well. Anyone can remember the reactions that existed to the first special court years ago for the R.O. 17November, and compare them with the present trial. Now the fact that special courts exist seems to be normal and only a few react (a fact that honours them).


Here exactly we must pass to the counter-attack. Exactly here we must stop getting used to retreating. Exactly here we must stop fearing the ghost of repression. The repression exists because action exists. Qualitative, quantitative and unrepentant action.
The imprisoned members of C.C.F. and the dignified comrades sparked something off. Our brothers from Thessaloniki of the case of the 4 together with G. Skoyloudis as well as Stelios and Panos Anastasiadis (the NADIR case) turned their solidarity into action by participating in the abstention from taking prison food. Here we want to add that the 4 comrades D. Dimtsiadis, D. Fessas, M. Tsilianidis, S. Tzifkas gave “lessons” in revolutionary dignity, disdaining and offending the judiciaries with their proud attitude as they did not give one word, refusing to recognize the process. We remind them that they are always in our thoughts and that the dangerous journey of revolution has not finished…
Now it is our time. We, “the free”, all of us, anarchists and revolutionaries that say that we refuse this world, that we are fighting for freedom, that we are demolishing their false god that is money because ours is the human being, will we leave our comrades alone? Will we tolerate the fascist delirium of this worthless president (of the court) and her collaborators that pronounce “death” sentences for the comrades that go on hunger strike?


There is no need for anyone to answer to himself with emotion. There is no space for emotion, or for humanitarian sympathies. It is a matter of a clear conscience. If the values and the moral code of persons that still believe in anarchy and her beauty, allows them to delay their attack and make up excuses, they should stay away from the affair We will not wait for them neither will history ….
Now or never there is a need for our most decisive step. We say again that here is being played a total wager from the side of power. The development and the way in which the court of C.C.F turns out will be the guide for the trials to come. What remains unanswered will be considered a defeat. Their wager is in our hand, to make it our opportunity. Because times can be hard, our brothers can risk their lives with the hunger strike, many comrades can be imprisoned in the cells of democracy, however it is always one more chance for attack, for the destruction of this system. Of course, the need for strategy is now more clear than never before. Lightning never travels in straight repetitive lines. It bursts out suddenly. Even a phenomenal “silence”, is not a retreat, but the silence before the thunder…


As a minimal expression of solidarity to the struggle of the imprisoned members of Conspiracy of Cells of Fire and the dignified comrades we sent an incendiary package to the minister of Justice X. Kastanidi who is responsible for the refusal of one of the two requirements of our comrades for the recording of the transcript of the trial. We will not answer his lies concerning the quantity of allegedly powerful explosives that he claimed for reasons of communication policy in order to present himself as victim. We will make do with repeating that the precautionary measures were the same as those of the previous 14 packets so that it is impossible for anyone uninvolved to be injured.


Moreover, we want to say a few things about the recent events in the Law faculty.
This is the season of murderers. When the walls of a building have more value than 300 tortured souls, then it is sure that something is not going well. We have spoken about the contradictions of immigrants in a previous text, however when the majority of Greek society cares more about the windows and doors of a building, then do not search for criminals and murderers in the thieves and the desperate. Look around you, they speak the Greek language fluently and some go around in expensive cars wearing ties. Because you should know that when somebody is cruel in words, it rarely stops there ..


Finally we declare that from now the illegal sector of Conspiracy of Cells of Fire will also participate in the International Revolutionary Front - Informal Anarchist Federation. The explosive expression of solidarity at international level for the trial of C.C.F. and also the publications that put organizations such as the FLT-FLA (Mexico) and Praxedis G. Guerrero in their texts, we consider that they initiate powerful bases for the opening of a revolutionary dialogue through action, but also proposals of co-ordination.
We send therefore the most powerful revolutionary greeting to the comrades revolutionaries in all the world with the belief that our voices and action can meet and coordinate our total attack against power.


The sabotages in Turkey and the attacks of the informal cells of insurrection, the attacks in Chile, the letters with bullets in Madrid and Barcelona, the paint bombs on the Greek embassy in Austria, the arson of courts in Switzerland, the acts of solidarity in Poland, in Bristol, in London, but also in other places- heart of the capitalistic civilization (sources of counter - information culmine, viva la anarquia, act for freedom, 325, safa.espiv e.t.c.) fill us with strength and courage in order to continue. And not only, but also in order to commit through our participation in the Informal Anarchist Federation - International Revolutionary Front that the quiet days are over for ever.


At the same moment the internal enemy in Greece, is developing, becoming more effective and is organizing for its confrontation with the system. The attacks of the International Revolutionary Front - Deviant Behaviour for the spread of revolutionary terrorism, Informal Anarchist Federation - Cell of Aggressive Line, Informal Anarchist Federation - Cell of Revolutionary Solidarity, Warriors of Revolutionary Conscience, commando Lambros Fountas, revolutionary formations for the spread of chaos and other comrades, show that the prospect of international networking in the formation of the Informal Anarchist Federation and its values is effective here and now. Now every anarchist group can participate in this open platform of action and thought, contributing with its own way in its development and co-ordination. Also we send our warm solidarity to the anarchists Monica Caballero and Andrea Urzua Cid who are to be found in the women's prisons of Chile and to all the arrested for the bombs - case, to the anarchistsAdrian Magdaleno and Braulio Arturo Duran(jailed in Mexico), to our brother Gabriel Pombo Da Silvain prison of Germany and to Billy, Costa, Silvia, M. Camenich (prisons of Switzerland).


Finally we embrace our own people, Michalis, Gerasimos, Panagiotis, Xaris, Takis, we grit our teeth and give them this promise and commitment:As long as the sun rises from the east we will not stop fighting for your release even for a moment, to be all together again in the most beautiful plans that we left unfinished in order to fulfil the most wild and “mad” adventure of revolution. Our day will come...We dedicate you these few words to you...

“Love danger. What hardre? That is what I want.
Which road will you take? The most rugged uphill.
Love responsibility
Do not look for friends, look for comrades.
Do not ask “will we win?”... “will we be defeated?”... just FIGHT...”


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Informal Anarchist Federation / Conspiracy of Cells of Fire

[Red Bayonet]

Without the mass base, they can be nothing but Narodniks, who, in short time, will either be kaputt,imprisoned,hoist by their own petards,demoralized, or who will eventually 'outgrow' their youthful idealism.

[Delenda Carthago]

Yeah,so far the "imprisoned" part is what is takin over...

[Sasha]

An supposed dutch CotCF cell claims to have carried out multiple arsons and an ddos attack on a major dutch bank.
My gut tells me they (so far an cell actually exist, I suspect its just an individual) are actually not responsible but just take credit. Anyway for what its worth, their (poorly written) claim letter:


final statement Conspiracy Cells of Fire, Dutch Cell
The attacks on the fascists of Rabobank is dedicated with all our fire to our brothers of the prisoner’s cell of the members of Conspiracy Cells of Fire and the opressed people of the world. Our comrades and the honest minority of dignified revolutionary Persons political and civil, are not just a piece of our struggle, are not only an aspect of our action, but their choices, attitudes and dignity are the struggle itself as a whole, they are the substance. Attacks we are claiming: • June 2010- setting the tower in fire in Utrecht(Netherlands) • October 2010- setting the tower in fire in Utrecht(Netherlands) • February 2011-setting the tower in fire and attacks on the website of Rabobank in Utrecht(Netherlands) Justice is a spider web, catching small prey and swallowing them, while allowing the big reptiles to penetrate and dominate it. Whoever disagrees can visit the prisons to see all these drug addicts and poor devils that fill them up and look around in there to find any businessman or politician who is responsible for the biggest robberies and the most brutal degradation of our lives. We do not believe in a capitalist system that kills, steal, murder, bring modern fascism, bring racism, bring wars in to our lives. We do not believe in a system that helps banks for their mistakes, while people starving from hunger. We do not believe in a political fascist system that so called leaders of the people, and at the same time stealing from the same society for their interests. Why Rabobank, The fascists from rabobank where investing in the arms industry(the arms that they are investing is also going to the police, military in the Netherlands, Egypt, Greece, Israel, Libya, Algeria and other country’s). Rabobank calls this justifies action, and we also get Shell, ING, ABN-Amro, Randstad. All these mentioned fascists company's of the system are paramount in their view that they justify the action. The attacks on Rabobank justify what we call action! Future attacks on Shell, ING, ABN-Amro, Randstad these companies accountable! In Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, the above mentioned companies and / or subsidiaries that have been attacked by splinter cells called the Fire. A truth that is not released by the representatives of the syteem. This shows our strong international solidarity. We count rabobank guilty for the dead of thousands of people, including children. Like the most fascist company’s, they are saying that they behavior justifying action when they are investing. Our action against the rabobank is justifying action. We are continuing our attacks and against the banks, executions of the so called government leaders of the Netherlands, against fascists party like PVV, VVD, CDA and the ass licking left parties.
Èá áãùíéóôïýìå ìÝ÷ñé íá ðåèÜíïõìå áäåëöïß êáé áäåëöÝò
Conspiracy Cells of Fire, Dutch Cell

[Delenda Carthago]

6 more arrests.3 people were already with a warrant on their heads.

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All the people with a warrant on them is now captured, so many say that this is the end for CoCoF.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Al-Jazeera report that mentions them (and the "Informal Anarchist Federation" in Italy):

http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/insidestory/2010/12/20101229947748289.html