Attack on Italian nuke chief raises fears of anarchist violence

[Os Cangaceiros]

MILAN - The head of a nuclear power company was shot in the leg by an unidentified gunman in Italy on Monday, police said, in an incident reminiscent of politically motivated violence that raged in the country in the 1970s and 1980s.

Roberto Adinolfi, chief executive of Ansaldo Nucleare, a company linked to Italian defence conglomerate Finmeccanica, was shot in the street outside his house in Genoa in northern Italy, police said.

Shooting people in the legs was a trademark practice by the Red Brigades, a left-wing guerrilla group that carried out a campaign of murder and kidnapping aimed at destabilizing Italy in the 1970s and 1980s.

An investigative source told Reuters two people on a motorbike wearing helmets had fired three shots, hitting him in the leg. The bullet fractured his right knee but he was not in serious condition, the source said.

The investigative source said magistrates were considering whether anarchists might have been responsible for the attack.

The anarchist movement has a strong presence in the city and, according to Italian news agency Ansa, police were looking at recent pronouncements by some anarchist groups calling for "a shift to a new phase that could lead to armed action," BBC News reported (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17982038).

Politicians from all sides were quick to condemn Adinolfi's shooting, some of them blaming a spreading "climate of hatred" in the recession-hit country.
"We hope investigators can find as quickly as possible those responsible for an act that brings us back to a very sad chapter of Italian history," said Lorenzo Cesa of the centrist UDC party.

Finmeccanica controls Ansaldo Energia, the parent of Ansaldo Nucleare. The Genoa attack would be "extremely serious" if it was linked to political and social frictions, said the chief financial officer of Finmeccanica, Alessandro Pansa.

Austerity measures by the government of Prime Minister Mario Monti to control Italy's huge public debt have caused mounting resentment, although protests have generally been peaceful and there have been no real signs of organised political violence.

A string of suicides, notably among businessmen suffering financial problems, has however underlined the human cost of the crisis. Last week, a 54-year-old man took a hostage in the offices of tax agency Equitalia in an act of desperation although the incident ended without violence.

http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/07/11577330-attack-on-italian-nuke-chief-raises-fears-of-anarchist-violence?lite

[Agathor]

That oughta get unemployment down.

[ed miliband]

That oughta get unemployment down.

why should anarchists, or any "pro-revolutionaries" or whatever for that matter, be concerned with bringing unemployment down? leave marching for the state or bosses to give us a job to the trotskyists, stalinists and social democrats. ensuring the unemployed get what they are entitled to, organinising to get more than that? yeah. seeing that those in work aren't made unemployed, and get more for less? yeah. pious "right to work" marches? no thanks.

not that i think this act changes anything for the better or whatever.

[bcbm]

bring back the 70s

[The Douche]

As many friends have quoted recently:


To lame a beast like that can have a deeper, more meaningful side to it which goes beyond revenge, beyond punishing him for his responsibility...

To lame him forces him to limp, makes him remember.

[campesino]

the problem with this kind of violence, is that it sends a message, but not an action. it would be more meaningful if a communist workers union were to overtake a factory. The Palestinian resistance groups certainly got attention in the 70's and 80's, but they weren't able to reclaim one inch of soil. the problem is really about how to attain, secure and expand communist power. the best thing that we could probably do right now is rob the bourgeoisie of assets, over and over again, workers take what is yours.

[gorillafuck]

nobody gives a shit.

[Railyon]

Love the jumping to conclusions. Yeah, must be anarchists! This is so 1880s.

[bcbm]

it would be more meaningful if a communist workers union were to overtake a factory.

fantasy is often more appealing than reality

[The Douche]

the problem with this kind of violence, is that it sends a message, but not an action. it would be more meaningful if a communist workers union were to overtake a factory. The Palestinian resistance groups certainly got attention in the 70's and 80's, but they weren't able to reclaim one inch of soil. the problem is really about how to attain, secure and expand communist power. the best thing that we could probably do right now is rob the bourgeoisie of assets, over and over again, workers take what is yours.

Escalate the struggle, always escalate.

[corolla]

Meh, whatever.


As many friends have quoted recently:

To lame a beast like that can have a deeper, more meaningful side to it which goes beyond revenge, beyond punishing him for his responsibility...

To lame him forces him to limp, makes him remember.

God there is literally nothing on this earth more obnoxious and pretentious than bad insurrecto poetry.

[The Douche]

Meh, whatever.



God there is literally nothing on this earth more obnoxious and pretentious than bad insurrecto poetry.

That's not poetry, nerd. Its from a pamphlet called Armed Joy, a theoretical document, and that quote is actually a direct reference and analysis of a laming that occurred in the 70s.

[bricolage]

what's 'make him remember' meant to mean though, isn't that just advocating violence as a way of changing the minds of the bourgeoisie?

[Ravachol]

Yes, taking over the means of production would be better. Then again, so would be the complete transformation of all social relations and their material base into FULL COMMUNISM....

Regardless of what you think of something like this, it's not just a 'symbolic act'. It means striking at the direct channels of Capital, those who, through their daily activity, produce certain effects within the world. Whether or not it's much of a contribution is another matter, since you can't 'cut of the head of the king' with Capital.

Interesting material which also shows how extremely widespread this practice was in Italy, outside of specialised urban guerrilla groups as well: http://libcom.org/history/armed-struggle-italy-1976-1978

[Threetune]

That's not poetry, nerd. Its from a pamphlet called Armed Joy, a theoretical document, and that quote is actually a direct reference and analysis of a laming that occurred in the 70s.

"theoretical document" :laugh: "analysis" :laugh::laugh:
Pure poetry.

[The Douche]

what's 'make him remember' meant to mean though, isn't that just advocating violence as a way of changing the minds of the bourgeoisie?

I think its more about intimidation and assertion of power than changing minds.

[Comrade Jandar]

"theoretical document" :laugh: "analysis" :laugh::laugh:
Pure poetry.

Why is that a bad thing? I guess poetry is bourgeois now. Sorry for not getting the memo.

[The Douche]

"theoretical document" :laugh: "analysis" :laugh::laugh:
Pure poetry.

Oh, you've read Armed Joy, then? Want to discuss it?

[ed miliband]

Oh, you've read Armed Joy, then? Want to discuss it?

i do think it works more as a polemical piece than analysis, especially compared to something like workers autonomy or let's destroy work let's destroy the economy. i guess one could read it as analysis in retrospect, considering the time it was written in and the response it received

also something can be both poetry and analysis/theory surely?

[The Douche]

i do think it works more as a polemical piece than analysis, especially compared to something like workers autonomy or let's destroy work let's destroy the economy. i guess one could read it as analysis in retrospect, considering the time it was written in and the response it received

also something can be both poetry and analysis/theory surely?

I meant only the quoted portion, was a quick analysis, of why one would shoot and lame an individual instead of shooting and killing them.

Not that the text is any sort of analysis.


Of course something can be poetry and any number of other things, but of course our esteemed and very mature future gulag guards in this thread believe that anything insurrectionary is of no political value, especially if it might be poetic in the slightest.

[Ocean Seal]

why should anarchists, or any "pro-revolutionaries" or whatever for that matter, be concerned with bringing unemployment down? leave marching for the state or bosses to give us a job to the trotskyists, stalinists and social democrats. ensuring the unemployed get what they are entitled to, organinising to get more than that? yeah. seeing that those in work aren't made unemployed, and get more for less? yeah. pious "right to work" marches? no thanks.

not that i think this act changes anything for the better or whatever.
Hi there I like to do nothing and claim that it is out of intellectual superiority because unless the revolution is coming the rest of you are just reformist slime trying to get those workers to keep their jobs rather than simply destroying capital immediately. I'm sure that when the revolution comes you will just continue with your nihilist stance of hey who cares about the working class--that's paternalistic. You know who is going to lead the next set of revolutions the Trotskyists, the Stalinists, the Insurrectionist Anarchists, and everyone who is willing to get their hands dirty.

[ed miliband]

Hi there I like to do nothing and claim that it is out of intellectual superiority because unless the revolution is coming the rest of you are just reformist slime trying to get those workers to keep their jobs rather than simply destroying capital immediately. I'm sure that when the revolution comes you will just continue with your nihilist stance of hey who cares about the working class--that's paternalistic. You know who is going to lead the next set of revolutions the Trotskyists, the Stalinists, the Insurrectionist Anarchists, and everyone who is willing to get their hands dirty.

hahaha, i love this.

no but seriously, didn't you read the part where i said:


ensuring the unemployed get what they are entitled to, organinising to get more than that? yeah. seeing that those in work aren't made unemployed, and get more for less? yeah.in response to this:


hey who cares about the working class--that's paternalistic.yep, i often point out that some people here (and it's a trait common to all tendencies) talk about the working class in such a way that suggests that they are apart from them and either want to lead them or simply improve their condition (or both), and i do find that paternalistic. i don't see how it isn't.

[Ravachol]

'Getting unemployment down' as a means in itself is as arch-reactionary as it gets. It's the logic that led the SPD's Gustav Noske to support the construction of yet another hoard of German dreadnoughts in the middle of WWI because it 'created jobs'.

http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/3951/warproduction.gif

[bcbm]

You know who is going to lead the next set of revolutions the Trotskyists, the Stalinists, the Insurrectionist Anarchists

god help us all if this is true

[ed miliband]

god help us all if this is true

yeah s/he didn't make it clear enough that they are no longer parodying me at that point

[ed miliband]

"socialism means hard work"

[The Douche]

"Fuck work"- Karl Marx.

[gorillafuck]

That's not poetry, nerd. Its from a pamphlet called Armed Joy, a theoretical document, and that quote is actually a direct reference and analysis of a laming that occurred in the 70s.is a good way to paraphrase the analysis "if you shoot someone in the leg they can't walk"?

[The Douche]

is a good way to paraphrase the analysis "if you shoot someone in the leg they can't walk"?

Did you read the quote? Or are you just trying to blend in with the progressively lower and lower standard of intelligence on the board?

[Ele'ill]

God there is literally nothing on this earth more obnoxious and pretentious than bad insurrecto poetry.

Maybe whiny sockpuppets on revleft

[ВАЛТЕР]

Don't they have bigger fish to fry than nuke chiefs? Something tells me that the Red Brigades aren't back, and the RAF isn't about to start blowing shit up again.

I feel this is an isolated incident which is being used by the media to villainize the left. Again. If it was a politically motivated action, it would be obvious as a group would come out and take responsibility for it and relay the message they are trying to send.

[gorillafuck]

Did you read the quote? Or are you just trying to blend in with the progressively lower and lower standard of intelligence on the board?you caught me, I'm a conformist.

of course I read the quote. someone will remember because they'll have an injured leg instead of being dead.


Something tells me that the Red Brigades aren't back, and the RAF isn't about to start blowing shit up again.good.

[The Douche]

you caught me, I'm a conformist.

of course I read the quote. someone will remember because they'll have an injured leg instead of being dead.

Which is not what you said originally. The point is to instill fear in the enemy. I'm ok with that, its not high on my personal list of priorities, but I quite like when other people take it upon themselves to carry out.

[gorillafuck]

Which is not what you said originally.I didn't know I needed to explicitly state that people usually remember when they have injured legs. I'll try to remember that.

[Ravachol]

But but but it will alienate people from TEH LEFT!1!oneshiftone! Now all that precious effort that went into building impotent front-groups that degenerate into 'vote labour', 'support social-democracy without illusions' is down the drain! :rolleyes:

[The Douche]

I didn't know I needed to explicitly state that people usually remember when they have injured legs. I'll try to remember that.

I don't think its about remembering that you got shot, so much as remembering why you got shot? And the fact that the other people who do what you do will also be reminded that the same fate might come to them.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Don't they have bigger fish to fry than nuke chiefs? Something tells me that the Red Brigades aren't back, and the RAF isn't about to start blowing shit up again.

I feel this is an isolated incident which is being used by the media to villainize the left. Again. If it was a politically motivated action, it would be obvious as a group would come out and take responsibility for it and relay the message they are trying to send.

The Red Brigades aren't back, and neither are the RAF? What they did happened in a whole other era than the one we're in now. It's like if someone killed someone else in Russia, and some poster said "welp, personally I don't think the Narodniks are back..." Even though the cold war only officially ended about two decades ago it seems pretty far away at this point.

And I wish the left were being villainized. At least then we'd know we were somewhat relevant.

[black magick hustla]

ive read armed joy a lot of it is highschool poetry wank with a few cool, lucid nuggets

[ВАЛТЕР]

The Red Brigades aren't back, and neither are the RAF? What they did happened in a whole other era than the one we're in now. It's like if someone killed someone else in Russia, and some poster said "welp, personally I don't think the Narodniks are back..." Even though the cold war only officially ended about two decades ago it seems pretty far away at this point.

And I wish the left were being villainized. At least then we'd know we were somewhat relevant.


I was trying to mock the entire belief that this was an act of the radical left.

No evidence points to it being an action carried out by a radical leftist group, yet the media immediately decided that it must be an act of "left-wing terrorism" because it has some similarities to actions carried out in the 70s-80s. Apparently you can't get shot in the legs in Italy without it being politically motivated.

[the last donut of the night]

stalinists just can't bear a little good-hearted fun

[Os Cangaceiros]

No evidence points to it being an action carried out by a radical leftist group, yet the media immediately decided that it must be an act of "left-wing terrorism" because it has some similarities to actions carried out in the 70s-80s. Apparently you can't get shot in the legs in Italy without it being politically motivated.

It's speculation, pretty much. The manner it was carried out in, aka he was specifically shot in one of his extremities supposedly, and the position occupied by the victim in question, makes it somewhat plausible that it was a left-wing attack.

Or maybe it wasn't.

[The Douche]

ive read armed joy a lot of it is highschool poetry wank with a few cool, lucid nuggets

Whatever, keep using NiCom as a reason to justify why communism equals posting on a message board, and never engaging with the working class.

[bcbm]

i don't remember reading that in nicom

[The Douche]

i don't remember reading that in nicom

Cause that's not what it suggests, but people use it to justify that kind of shit. I think its a valuable critique, but people use it as so much more.

[bcbm]

just seems a bit off topic

[The Machine]

Whatever, keep using NiCom as a reason to justify why communism equals posting on a message board, and never engaging with the working class.

hey maybe some of us prefer online rpg to larping, no shame in that

[KrimsonV]

Today anti-nuke anarchists have claimed their responsibility, and have promised that this "is just the beginning".

The medias are still using this opportunity to bash Marxist-Leninists however, and leaflets carrying the symbol of the Brigate Rosse have been found in a town nearby Milan. I personally don't think the BR have anything to do with this, not only because they probably don't even exist anymore, but also due to the target of this attack. A nuclear chief would be the least of their concerns.

[The Douche]

hey maybe some of us prefer online rpg to larping, no shame in that

Engaging the class is not necessarily the same as the communist larping that the left does.

[The Machine]

Engaging the class is not necessarily the same as the communist larping that the left does.

real shit tho what constitutes engaging the class? just talking to working class people? i think most people on here are working class so p. much everyone does that every day. idk how im advancing communism when i bullshit with my cowokers about baseball or meek mill or kate upton.
communists in the us haven't egaged the class on a relevant level since they got kicked out of the union leadership, and even then whether or not they were actually agitating for communism is debateable.

[The Douche]

real shit tho what constitutes engaging the class? just talking to working class people? i think most people on here are working class so p. much everyone does that every day. idk how im advancing communism when i bullshit with my cowokers about baseball or meek mill or kate upton.
communists in the us haven't egaged the class on a relevant level since they got kicked out of the union leadership, and even then whether or not they were actually agitating for communism is debateable.

I should have also included something about participating in the civil war.

As far as what engaging with the class means, it means finding social ruptures and interjecting communist politics into them. And no, I don't think most people on here are working class, I think they're students, students who will likely be proletarianized when they finish school, but currently, they're just students, and many posters are not adults, either.

As far as unions or whatever, meh, the only people who fetishize the essential proletariat are people who have never spent much time around them. I am of the opinion that the majority of workers who're organized into unions in the US will not support communist revolution, but sit on the sidelines.

[The Machine]

I should have also included something about participating in the civil war.

As far as what engaging with the class means, it means finding social ruptures and interjecting communist politics into them. And no, I don't think most people on here are working class, I think they're students, students who will likely be proletarianized when they finish school, but currently, they're just students, and many posters are not adults, either.

As far as unions or whatever, meh, the only people who fetishize the essential proletariat are people who have never spent much time around them. I am of the opinion that the majority of workers who're organized into unions in the US will not support communist revolution, but sit on the sidelines.

How do you find social ruptures? Because right now I don't think most working class people except for punks and nerds have much time for radical politics.

Being a student and a worker aren't mutually exclusive. I am currently enrolled in college but I also work at a restaurant and odd landscaping jobs and help support my family. Maybe it's different because I go to community college, but a lot of if not the majority of students I see work on the side.

And yeah I'm not fetishizing unions. Tbh I don't know what the "essential prole" is, but since the average worker isn't unionized I don't think unions nowadays have a whole lot of relevance in class politics. My point was that the last time communists in America "engaged the class" in a politically relevant manner, they were in charge of the unions at a time when unions were important to the class struggle. However your last point is interesting to me. Why do you think unionized workers would be more likely to sit on the sidelines during a revolution?

[The Douche]

Fuck replying to this on my phone.

[The Machine]

sounds like you need to get a library card.

i also just realized that the "essential proletarian" was a nihcom refference that i missed, i would like to clarify that yes i did read nihcom but i also smoke a lot of weed so like the thing is what had happened was

[gorillafuck]

Whatever, keep using NiCom as a reason to justify why communism equals posting on a message board, and never engaging with the working class.I don't really oppose this guy getting shot in the knee but it's not "engaging the working class" in any way

[Искра]

Bonanno is a wanker.

cmoney please don't get mad.

[The Douche]

I don't really oppose this guy getting shot in the knee but it's not "engaging the working class" in any way

Like I said, I shouldve included something about engaging in the civil war.

[black magick hustla]

bonnano is wank not cuz' he is an insurrecto dickhead but because his pamphlets are a bunch of phrases and slogans weaved together into nothing. i am not a nihilist communist and i don't think posting in a "message board" is engaging the working class, whatever the fuck that means (although to be fair, you'd probably reach more people by doing so than leafleting or something). i simply choose to sit on my ass for now for no better reason except that i am burnt out and cynical and lazy, and i don't have a bone of militant in my body

[black magick hustla]

altho i peed on someoens records in chicago i guess that could be construed as militancy against bad taste

[The Douche]

How do you find social ruptures? Because right now I don't think most working class people except for punks and nerds have much time for radical politics.


Social rupture occurs all the time, like, constantly. Things like prison breaks, robberies, cop killings etc (you know the sort of stuff that insurrectos put into zines that essentially function as a masturbatory police blotter) are all examples of social rupture on a small/individual scale. Big social rupture happens to, like riots (even sports riots), or any time people come up against a force which is dominant in our society, and act against it. As for punks and nerds, they do not represent social rupture. When they riot its just part of the spectacle. (and punks aren't really the default anarcho subculture anymore, hipsters are).


Being a student and a worker aren't mutually exclusive. I am currently enrolled in college but I also work at a restaurant and odd landscaping jobs and help support my family. Maybe it's different because I go to community college, but a lot of if not the majority of students I see work on the side.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was a full-time student/part-time worker for a while also. Students are still students, and not fully proletarianized. Especially people at levels above community college/tech school.


Why do you think unionized workers would be more likely to sit on the sidelines during a revolution?

They have a pretty privileged position, I'm not above using the term "labor aristocracy" to describe it. I don't think they will be particularly opposed to communism, but I don't think they'll be interested in laying their lives on the line for it, like precarious workers (most of us) will.


bonnano is wank not cuz' he is an insurrecto dickhead but because his pamphlets are a bunch of phrases and slogans weaved together into nothing. i am not a nihilist communist and i don't think posting in a "message board" is engaging the working class, whatever the fuck that means (although to be fair, you'd probably reach more people by doing so than leafleting or something). i simply choose to sit on my ass for now for no better reason except that i am burnt out and cynical and lazy, and i don't have a bone of militant in my body

I've just been in a bad mood lately.

[Rafiq]

People are missing the point: Violent terroristic acts by Anarchists is a clear indication of the rise of class struggle. It always has been.

[The Machine]

Social rupture occurs all the time, like, constantly. Things like prison breaks, robberies, cop killings etc (you know the sort of stuff that insurrectos put into zines that essentially function as a masturbatory police blotter) are all examples of social rupture on a small/individual scale. Big social rupture happens to, like riots (even sports riots), or any time people come up against a force which is dominant in our society, and act against it. As for punks and nerds, they do not represent social rupture. When they riot its just part of the spectacle. (and punks aren't really the default anarcho subculture anymore, hipsters are).

idk man insurrectionists have been inserting themselves into social ruptures forever and how has that worked out? Punk may not be the default subculture anymore but I doubt that hipsters are, most hipsters I know are at most radical liberals. The thing that has really replaced the punk scene, at least in the south, is the post-hardcore bullshit.


Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was a full-time student/part-time worker for a while also. Students are still students, and not fully proletarianized. Especially people at levels above community college/tech school.

Don't yeah yeah yeah me motherfucker. Explain to me how going to school makes you less of a prole on the job. Sure calling someone a "student" makes for a good little cheap insult on revleft, but that fact remains that students who work are workers.


They have a pretty privileged position, I'm not above using the term "labor aristocracy" to describe it. I don't think they will be particularly opposed to communism, but I don't think they'll be interested in laying their lives on the line for it, like precarious workers (most of us) will.


Fuck privilege politics dude. Makes for a lonely barricade. Take it to it's logical conclusion and the only people who should care about communism are impoverished obese transexual lesbian women in the third world. And who really wants to lay down their life for communism? I'm certainly not interested in laying my life down for shit except for the people I care about, and I'm not in a union or privileged. The point of communism is making a better world for everyone, not making workers Jesus themselves for the greater good.

[The Douche]

idk man insurrectionists have been inserting themselves into social ruptures forever and how has that worked out?

Not really, they've just been talking about it or analyzing it from outside. Or trying to turn things that aren't really social rupture into social rupture (see occupy).


Punk may not be the default subculture anymore but I doubt that hipsters are, most hipsters I know are at most radical liberals. The thing that has really replaced the punk scene, at least in the south, is the post-hardcore bullshit.


I didn't mean that hipsters are mostly radicals, I meant that most radicals, if they belong to a subculture, are hipsters, whereas, back when I first go into this shit most radicals into a subculture were punk.


Don't yeah yeah yeah me motherfucker

:wub:


but that fact remains that students who work are workers.


And students who student are students. Seriously though, there is (and always will be, as long as capitalism exists) a divide between the university and the workplace. There have been some valiant and interesting attempts at breaking down that divide though, like May 68 and the cultural revolution.


Fuck privilege politics dude

Not privilege like that. I mean actual privilege, they have better wages, better working conditions, better benefits, better job security, better avenues for redress of grievances, better everything. They have actual, tangible privilege, not theoretical privilege.


And who really wants to lay down their life for communism? I'm certainly not interested in laying my life down for shit except for the people I care about

I didn't say lay down your life. I would never suggest that anybody should die for anything, but there are things I would risk my life for.


The point of communism is making a better world for everyone, not making workers Jesus themselves for the greater good.

I think you're inventing disagreements where we don't actually have one.

[Os Cangaceiros]

I like the cut of Bonanno's jib. He's pretty legit.

Of course I don't buy into all of his crap, but the fact that he's 1) an insurrectionary anarchist who actually writes in easy-to-understand language (this used to be universally the case among older insurrectos, when people like Johann Most were ranting in revolutionary newspaper for comrades "with the courage of your convictions and the sense to assassinate: ready, aim, FIRE!" but sadly no longer) and 2) he was actually seen as a threat by the Italian state and has been imprisoned in several countries for his political activities.

Plus wasn't he in his mid-70's or something and was involved in bank robberies lol?

[The Machine]

Not really, they've just been talking about it or analyzing it from outside. Or trying to turn things that aren't really social rupture into social rupture (see occupy).

yeah man I don't know much about the insurrecto scene so I guess I'm not one to say


I didn't mean that hipsters are mostly radicals, I meant that most radicals, if they belong to a subculture, are hipsters, whereas, back when I first go into this shit most radicals into a subculture were punk.

again i dont have much to say to this either, except that hipster seems to me to be more of a slur applied to a bunch of different subcultures rather than the cohesive scene that punk is.


And students who student are students. Seriously though, there is (and always will be, as long as capitalism exists) a divide between the university and the workplace. There have been some valiant and interesting attempts at breaking down that divide though, like May 68 and the cultural revolution.

So what class are students then? How does a student worker's student-ness override his exploitation in the workplace?And how does this fit into a communist analysis? Like how do I as a student have different material interests to my cowokers who aren't currently attending school?


Not privilege like that. I mean actual privilege, they have better wages, better working conditions, better benefits, better job security, better avenues for redress of grievances, better everything. They have actual, tangible privilege, not theoretical privilege.

Racism isn't just a theoretical problem and whites people have it tangibly better than black people in a lot of cases. Privilege politics is still bullshit though, and to buy into it you have to essentially agree with the field nigger/house nigger dichotomy. imo, they're both equally enslaved.


I didn't say lay down your life. I would never suggest that anybody should die for anything, but there are things I would risk my life for.

Again nothing I can really disagree with.


I think you're inventing disagreements where we don't actually have one.

I'm squabbling over petty bullshit, there's a difference. But seriously, this stuff does interest me, so why not bullshit about it?

[Os Cangaceiros]

Personally I think that there are divisions between workers and students, but it's more of a social division. I don't really see any economic division between two people who work wage jobs (as many students do), they're pretty much part of the same economic class, despite the fact that the student who works and has the financial backing of relatives and goes to a decent school is better off than a non-student who works at McDonald's or something.

Sometimes the student movement meets up with the worker's movement, as in say Italy or France. Sometimes it doesn't, such as in the USA during the 60's/70's (for the most part)

[The Machine]

Personally I think that there are divisions between workers and students, but it's more of a social division. I don't really see any economic division between two people who work wage jobs (as many students do), they're pretty much part of the same economic class, despite the fact that the student who works and has the financial backing of relatives and goes to a decent school is better off than a non-student who works at McDonald's or something.

Sometimes the student movement meets up with the worker's movement, as in say Italy or France. Sometimes it doesn't, such as in the USA during the 60's/70's (for the most part)

Sure there's definitely a division between full time students and workers, but I don't think a student who works is any less exploited because he goes to school. I guess a student who's got a trust fund from mommy and daddy and is working for beer money isn't really a worker since they don't have to sell their labor, but a lot of kids families, even "middle class" ones, break bank to send their kid to school. I don't think their should be a students movement though, since students don't have any real relationship to capital as students. This doesn't override the exploitation of students who are forced to sell their labor however.

[Sasha]

http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/11/italian-anarchists-kneecap-nuclear-executive?cat=world&type=article

[The Douche]

So what class are students then? How does a student worker's student-ness override his exploitation in the workplace?And how does this fit into a communist analysis? Like how do I as a student have different material interests to my cowokers who aren't currently attending school?

Some (many) students have no relationship to the means of production. Students often have a strange social role, usually, because they see themselves as future members of the bourgeoisie upon graduating college, and so they often identify with liberal rather than communist positions. Of course some identify as radicals, mostly out of a philosophical urge. The recent capitalist crisis has changed this social position, of course, as many students are discovering/will discover that when they leave school their degree means little to nothing. And thats why you start to see student movements against austerity (like a few years ago with all the school occupations in the US, the student riots in the UK, and the current student struggle in Quebec), but those student movements have historically had a difficult time linking up with the working class proper.


Racism isn't just a theoretical problem and whites people have it tangibly better than black people in a lot of cases. Privilege politics is still bullshit though, and to buy into it you have to essentially agree with the field nigger/house nigger dichotomy. imo, they're both equally enslaved.

You tell me you don't like privilege politics, and then explain white privilege to me? I'm very familiar with what it is, but that is still not the manner in which I was using the word to describe unionized workers.

[Tim Cornelis]

People are missing the point: Violent terroristic acts by Anarchists is a clear indication of the rise of class struggle. It always has been.

Not really. It requires merely one man to execute such an attack, it doesn't indicate anything.

[Rafiq]

Not really. It requires merely one man to execute such an attack, it doesn't indicate anything.


Well, for an organised group..

[The Machine]

Some (many) students have no relationship to the means of production. Students often have a strange social role, usually, because they see themselves as future members of the bourgeoisie upon graduating college, and so they often identify with liberal rather than communist positions. Of course some identify as radicals, mostly out of a philosophical urge. The recent capitalist crisis has changed this social position, of course, as many students are discovering/will discover that when they leave school their degree means little to nothing. And thats why you start to see student movements against austerity (like a few years ago with all the school occupations in the US, the student riots in the UK, and the current student struggle in Quebec), but those student movements have historically had a difficult time linking up with the working class proper.

57 percent of students work so most students are workers. Sure students don't have a relationship to the means of production as students and the student movement is pretty worthless, but they're exploited as workers. They may see themselves as future members of the bourgeois, but so do a lot of Americans who aren't in school, that's the whole idea of the American dream. And it's just that, an idea, it doesn't change the material reality of their relationship to the means of production.


You tell me you don't like privilege politics, and then explain white privilege to me? I'm very familiar with what it is, but that is still not the manner in which I was using the word to describe unionized workers.

I don't think getting the long end of the proverbial stick is much of a privilege. If you think union workers won't support a communist revolution because of the benefits, it's the same logic that suggests that white workers have less of an interest of ending capitalism than black, gay than straight, ect until it's only left handed octogenarian non union genderqueer migrant worker women who have any real reason to support revolution.

[The Douche]

57 percent of students work so most students are workers. Sure students don't have a relationship to the means of production as students and the student movement is pretty worthless, but they're exploited as workers. They may see themselves as future members of the bourgeois, but so do a lot of Americans who aren't in school, that's the whole idea of the American dream. And it's just that, an idea, it doesn't change the material reality of their relationship to the means of production.

I mean, these statistics don't change the reality of the situation. I'm not saying I understand why student movements don't organize themselves as worker-students, and why they don't understand that in a few short years they will be proletarians (most likely precarious workers nowadays). I don't understand the "student mentality" at all, but it certainly exists, in my experience. I never went to community college for long, and never set foot in a university, so my experience is limited to my dealings with them, and the historical experience. I certainly can't formulate any solutions, because I don't have the necessary experience. But the fact that many students are workers and most all of them will become workers doesn't really do anything for us if they cannot see their own social role.


I don't think getting the long end of the proverbial stick is much of a privilege. If you think union workers won't support a communist revolution because of the benefits, it's the same logic that suggests that white workers have less of an interest of ending capitalism than black, gay than straight, ect until it's only left handed octogenarian non union genderqueer migrant worker women who have any real reason to support revolution.

Have you ever worked with or spent lots of time around the essential proletariat, the kind of people in the auto unions, communication unions, steelworkers, those type of people? People who make $29 an hour (the average wage of a UAW member), plus benefits, vacations, stock options, etc, really don't have any interest in revolution, their life is beyond comfortable, I don't know how you could even approach those people. I'm not gonna argue with you about alienated labor and work, we're on the same page and the same time in regards to the exploitation of these individuals. The issue is how/if they can even conceive of their position in that way (much like the students).

As a personal annecdote, my father did two jobs in his adult life, working for the communication workers union, and owning a franchised business (the company (not his store) made $4 billion in 2011). He eventually sold his restaurant back to the franchise and went back to work for the phone company, where he actually made more money than he did owning his own business.

Austerity is starting to change this to some degree, but if the effects of austerity will be to push those essential proletarians to the communist position or not, is not decided. (and again, the same could be said of students, though students seem to be moving towards communist politics)




But this is an irrelevant argument, because the essential proletariat is actually only essential to capital, and not to us in the context of communist revolution. Its ok if not a single union worker ever sides with the communist position, as we can still make revolution without them, and the precarious workers are the vast majority of society.

[The Machine]

I mean, these statistics don't change the reality of the situation. I'm not saying I understand why student movements don't organize themselves as worker-students, and why they don't understand that in a few short years they will be proletarians (most likely precarious workers nowadays). I don't understand the "student mentality" at all, but it certainly exists, in my experience. I never went to community college for long, and never set foot in a university, so my experience is limited to my dealings with them, and the historical experience. I certainly can't formulate any solutions, because I don't have the necessary experience. But the fact that many students are workers and most all of them will become workers doesn't really do anything for us if they cannot see their own social role.

I don't know many university students so my experience is pretty much entirely limited to CC, but I don't really see much of a difference in mentality between students and everyone else. But really I don't think most people see their own social role, especially in America.


Have you ever worked with or spent lots of time around the essential proletariat, the kind of people in the auto unions, communication unions, steelworkers, those type of people? People who make $29 an hour (the average wage of a UAW member), plus benefits, vacations, stock options, etc, really don't have any interest in revolution, their life is beyond comfortable, I don't know how you could even approach those people. I'm not gonna argue with you about alienated labor and work, we're on the same page and the same time in regards to the exploitation of these individuals. The issue is how/if they can even conceive of their position in that way (much like the students).

As a personal annecdote, my father did two jobs in his adult life, working for the communication workers union, and owning a franchised business (the company (not his store) made $4 billion in 2011). He eventually sold his restaurant back to the franchise and went back to work for the phone company, where he actually made more money than he did owning his own business.

Austerity is starting to change this to some degree, but if the effects of austerity will be to push those essential proletarians to the communist position or not, is not decided. (and again, the same could be said of students, though students seem to be moving towards communist politics)

I can't say I've spent much time around union workers or the essential prole, but the career field I'm planning to go into is pretty heavily unionized. However, would you argue that the essential proletarian actually would have it better under capitalism than communism? Or that communism doesn't have much to offer these people? Obviously they're not interested in revolution now, no one really is, but even though unions are corrupt and dying they do remain pretty much the only political organization in America actually organized along class lines. Even right now the essential proletariat, as comfortable as they might be living, are probably the most "class conscious" workers. As for the anecdote about your dad, workers making more than petit bourgeois is actually more common than you would think. For example I used to bus tables in a restaurant where the waiters would often make more in tips working less hours than the salaried management. Money doesn't change relationship to the MOP.
I associate pretty much exclusively with the precarious proletarian, and I don't think they have any more revolutionary potential than anyone else.


But this is an irrelevant argument, because the essential proletariat is actually only essential to capital, and not to us in the context of communist revolution. Its ok if not a single union worker ever sides with the communist position, as we can still make revolution without them, and the precarious workers are the vast majority of society.

Actually I think this is where the argument gets relevant. I'd agree that the essential proletarian isn't essential to us as an essential proletarian, but just in terms of the numbers game I think we'd have to get a lot of these people on our side. If you look at mainstream politics, the "middle class" is a pretty sizeable political force just because of their sheer numbers, and both parties pander pretty hard to that demographic. Most middle income people are either middle or high earning workers or petit bourgeois, and if workers make up a good number if not the majority. We're going to need at least some of these people on our side, and I'm guessing a lot of them are "essential proletarians".

[Ravachol]

Stratfor (the private geopolitical intelligence agency) published a short analysis of the incident and context:



Italy Addresses Escalating Security Problems

Italian Interior Minister Anna Maria Cancellieri announced May 13 that she intends to use the Italian army to protect two Italian companies that recently came under attack. The first is Equitalia, which handles tax collection for the Italian government and has been attacked approximately a dozen times since December 2011, when a letter bomb injured an employee at the company's Rome office. The second company is Finmeccanica, Italy's second-largest industrial conglomerate. Gunmen shot and injured Roberto Adinolfi, the chief executive officer of Finmeccanica's Ansaldo Nucleare, in Genoa on May 7. An anarchist group claimed responsibility for the Adinolfi attack May 11 in a letter that also referred to the letter bomb at Equitalia.
Cancellieri highlighted another security issue May 14 when she said that Italy's high-speed train network, the TAV, is one of the Italian government's largest security concerns. She indicated that the army could be deployed to protect TAV infrastructure as well, including the Turin-Lyon line currently under construction and facing opposition from local groups amid allegations of environmental degradation and financial waste related to the project.
Although there is no explicit link between the Adinolfi attackers and the TAV protesters, Rome is concerned about an overall escalation of violence and anti-government activity in the country. A recent uptick in aggression from Italian anarchists amid the country's financial crisis  could draw unemployed and disenfranchised Italians into acts of violence against the state, and the decision to deploy the army indicates that Rome is not ignoring the possibility of more violence.

Analysis

The anarchist group that claimed the Adinolfi shooting, the Olga Nucleus of the Informal Anarchist Federation-International Revolutionary Front, is aligned with the Informal Anarchist Federation. The Olga Nucleus threatened eight more attacks in coming weeks, connecting the attacks to the imprisonment of eight anarchists in Greece . The group released another memo May 13 claiming solidarity with jailed Greek anarchist Olga Economidou, who was recently moved from one prison to another in Greece and is, according to the anarchists, in solitary confinement.
The Adinolfi attack marked a shift in tactics for Italian anarchists. Previously, anarchist groups in Italy mailed letter bombs to targets or tossed homemade explosive or incendiary devices at their targets. The attacks were aggressive but involved a certain degree of anonymity. The May 7 shooting indicated that members of the Olga Nucleus had prepared to attack Adinolfi. They likely surveilled his home, monitored his morning routines and prepared for a more brazen attack. The attackers shot Adinolfi in the leg -- probably intentionally -- to show that they were close enough to kill him but did not (Adinolfi was hospitalized after the attack). The Olga Nucleus stated in a leaflet sent to Italian newspaper La Repubblica that its members are learning new approaches and skills, which could explain the change in tactics.

Italy's Volatile Circumstances

The May 7 attack alone is not a significant security problem for Italy, but the threat of more attacks from an evolving anarchist group does pose a risk. Italy is vulnerable to unrest right now. Although its economy is not as bad as Greece's or Spain's, it has a 9.8 percent unemployment rate -- its highest since 2000 -- with a youth unemployment rate of more than 30 percent. Italy's technocratic government is struggling under the leadership of Mario Monti. A portion of the population likely feels disenfranchised and disenchanted with the Italian government and economy.
The Olga Nucleus is not using the economy as justification for its attacks, but its general anti-government stance is a more dramatic alternative than the political process for those wanting radical change in Italy. Of course, not everyone upset with the government or economy will engage in violence, but a more assertive anarchist movement could provide some disaffected Italians with a more attractive option than waiting for the government to sort out the current economic stagnation.

Rome's Response

The army deployment Cancellieri announced has not been confirmed, and few details about the possible deployment are available. Italy's Committee on Order and Security will meet May 17 to discuss the specifics of any deployment.
There are precedents for military deployments to address criminal issues in Italy. In 2008, the army sent 3,000-4,000 troops (reports vary on the number) to the Naples area after six men were fatally shot in what was thought to be an unusually public and violent organized criminal conflict. In 1992, 7,000 troops were deployed to Sicily to help secure the region after Sicilian organized criminals assassinated two high-profile government prosecutors. (The Carabinieri, Italy's military police force, has been deployed across the country to fight organized crime and provide protection details and could be deployed instead of, or alongside, army troops.)
However, these military deployments were very specific. Assisting police in maintaining order in the region around Naples for a few weeks is more straightforward and contained than protecting hundreds of offices and stores -- or, even more vulnerable, hundreds of miles of train tracks -- across the country. Finmeccanica, Equitalia and the railway are soft targets, harder for security forces to guard and easier for assailants to study and attack.
A large-scale, open-ended military deployment could be just the response the anarchists want. Groups like the Olga Nucleus do not have the resources to fight the Italian state, but if they can provoke state forces into a confrontation, they can undermine the government's image and authority. The militarization of a country is serious, and Rome will certainly try to balance its need to secure its national interests with its need to avoid provoking more of the population into sympathizing with the attackers.
Italy is still far from a significant security crisis. The Olga Nucleus has achieved the high profile it wanted, and this will make it harder for its members to remain undetected. Increased security could make it harder for the anarchists to conduct surveillance and obtain resources, such as explosives, and investigations that put them on the defensive could complicate their efforts to plan and execute new attacks. This will be a crucial testing period for the Olga Nucleus' staying power, and the extent of any army deployment will show just how seriously Rome is taking the anarchist threat.

[Os Cangaceiros]

ROME -- Italian authorities moved Thursday to step up police protection for thousands of people and offices considered potential targets of violence triggered by anger over Italy's economic crisis.

The decision by Interior Minister Anna Maria Cancellieri to assign 18,000 law enforcement officers to security detail was prompted by the shooting two weeks ago of a top nuclear industry executive and recent threats and acts of aggression directed at offices of Equitalia, the state tax-collection agency.

Hostility is running so high against Equitalia that Prime Minister Mario Monti paid a visit Thursday to the tax agency’s office and assured employees of his unconditional support.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/05/fearing-anarchist-attacks-italy-tightens-security.html

[The Douche]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/05/fearing-anarchist-attacks-italy-tightens-security.html

b-b-but I thought this was just the actions of a couple lone idiots who are alienating the workers?

[Red Commissar]

http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/11/italian-anarchists-kneecap-nuclear-executive?cat=world&type=article

And a translation of their statement linked in the guardian article for those of you who can't read Italian:

http://culmine.noblogs.org/2012/05/15/italy-claim-of-responsibility-for-the-armed-attack-against-roberto-adinolfi-of-ansaldo-nuclear/


OLGA CELL
INFORMAL ANARCHIST FEDERATION
INTERNATIONAL REVOLUTIONARY FRONT

“The government of science and of men of science cannot fail to be impotent, ridiculous, inhuman, cruel, oppressive, exploiting, maleficent. We may say of men of science, as such, what I have said of theologians and metaphysicians: they have neither sense nor heart for individual and living beings. In so far as they are men of science, they have to deal with and can take interest in nothing except generalities; that do the laws” – Michael Bakunin

“In Japan we had over ten thousand dead, but not a single one to date due to nuclear accidents.” – Roberto Adinolfi

“The environmental impact of nuclear energy is limited, considering that it does not produce CO2.” – Roberto Adinolfi

THE MARK OF LIFE
Toward an imaginative way to destroy the existent

Ideas born from the fates, words accompanied by action carrying the mark of life. We have crippled Roberto Adinolfi, one of so many sorcerers of the atom with a candid spirit and a clean conscience. Roberto Adinolfi, nuclear engineer, administrator in charge of Ansaldo Nuclear; he has steered the Ansaldo-FIAT Consortium as its technical director, the consortium was created for the design of the Italian plants of Montalto di Castro and Trino Vercellese; in the past he has collaborated in the renovation of the Superphenix and has constructed the plants at Cernavoda in Romania. Before nuclear fell into disgrace, he was one of the most responsible together with Scajola for the return of nuclear energy to Italy. Member of the Unicen Commission for nuclear regulation and Vice President of the Italian Nuclear Society, part of the Governing Board of the European technology platform Sustainable Nuclear Energy.

Despite not liking violent-style rhetoric, it has been with a certain pleasantness that we armed ourselves, with pleasure that we loaded the magazine. Grasping the pistol, choosing and following the target, coordinating mind and hand were necessary steps, the logical consequence of an idea of justice, the risk of a choice and at the same time a confluence of enjoyable sensations. A little bit of justice, some lead in the leg to leave a lasting memory of what was to him a grey assassin. The target is a colorless scientist, a technician, a word sadly in fashion these days which behind a fictitious neutrality hides the long arm of capital, a director little inclined to appear in the spotlight, at this time a villainous responsible who has not only designed and renovated nuclear plants that have caused and are causing deaths around the world. Not only has he designed and collaborated in the creation of deadly plants, but he has also promoted nuclear plants and their exploitation with Ansaldo scheming with various governments; science, politics and economics in perfect union.

In past centuries science had promised a golden era, today it is being carried out toward self-destruction and more total slavery. The science-technology pairing has never been at the service of humanity, in its deepest essence it shows the imperative need to eliminate everything that is irrational, to dehumanize, to annihilate, to effectively destroy humanity. Capitalism with the help of science tends to annul conflicts, individuals today are free to realize their subjective selves only through the consumption and production of goods. The machine orders, the human performs. Capital orders, the consumer consumes. Science orders, technology kills. State and science, capitalism and technology are only one thing, one single Moloch.

Increasingly close accords between states, diffuse capitalism, scrupulous science, criminal technology are inexorably killing the planet. A few kilometers to the north in France, Switzerland, Romania the nuclear plants can no longer be counted. In the European Union alone there are one hundred ninety-seven, twelve within the Italian borders. Adinolfi knows well that it is only a matter of time before a European Fukushima reaps death on our continent. We are certain, engineer, that if even for just a second you felt jointly responsible for Damocles’ sword hanging over our heads. We have bad news for you: for each action there is an equal and opposite reaction, and your body shows it.

With this action of ours we return to you a tiny part of the suffering that you, man of science, are pouring into the world. Roberto Adinolfi, lead man of Ansaldo Nuclear, tentacle of Finmeccanica, monstrous artificial octopus. It is its tentacles that everywhere strangle, murder and oppress. Finmeccanica means Ansaldo Energy with its nuclear tombs. Finmeccanica means Ansaldo Breda with its high-speed trains that devastate the land. Finmeccanica means Selex Sistemi Integrati, Dirstechnical Service, Inc. Elsac Datamat with its equipping of the racist US police for the control of the Mexican border, with its delirious design of electronic walls at the Libyan border against migrants, and its sophisticated electronic supplies to the Chilean police. Finmeccanica means Avio Alenia, Galileo and Selex with their deadly F35 fighter bombers, and the terrible aerial drones without pilots. Finmeccanica means interforce range from Salto to Quirra in Sardegna. Finmeccanica means bio- and nano-technology. Finmeccanica means death and suffering, new frontiers of Italian capitalism.

Human beings are made of flesh and dreams. Our dream is that of a humanity free from every form of slavery, that grows in harmony with nature. A dream that we make live in the moment in which we fight to realize it. Our dream has for us a name, “anarchy,” and we are ready to gamble everything in order to realize it. We are not alone in this adventure, in the whole world a new anarchy is blossoming opposite of an ideological and cynical anarch-ism, an anarch-ism empty of any breath of life, which only finds its realization in theory and attendance at assemblies and manifestations, the whole cowardice of a citizenism that stinks of death. A new anarchy is rising from the ruins of this anarch-ism, thousands and thousands of cells that speak among each other through thousands and thousands of actions.

Damiano Bolano, Giorgos Nikolopoulos, Panayiotis Argyrou, Gerasimos Tsakalos, Michalis Nikolopoulos, Olga Ikonomidou, Christos Tsakalos, Haris Hatzimichelakis, the imprisoned members cell of the CCF/FAI are the brothers and sisters who gave their determination and courage to fight, their consistency and projectuality have made us strong. Camenish, Pombo da Silva, Eat and Billy, Tortuga, Silvia, Costa, Billy and so many other prisoners in the prisons around the world, Russia, Mexico, Chile, Indonesia, Switzerland, the United States, were the ones who taught us not to fear prison. De Blasi, Pinones, Di Napoli, Cinieri, Morales, Sole, Baleno and so many killed by state repression, were the ones who taught us not to fear death. It was the brothers and sisters and those who we do not know of the Italian FAI/IRF who have proceeded to give a concrete informal organizational perspective. With their determination, constancy and persistence, in spite of the general pessimism, against a critique — a critique always full of envy, against a realism without hope, against everyone and everything, they have succeeded in keeping the flame of the new anarchism alive. A flame becoming bright like the sun when the sisters and brothers of the CCF have brought their contribution of courage-action-organization.

If we were realists we would not take on such risks, we would live our existence producing and consuming, maybe being indignant. We are the crazy lovers of freedom and we will never renounce the revolution and the complete destruction of the state and its violence. In our anarchist and nihilist revolt, the hope of a future without borders, wars, social classes, economy, exploited and exploiter. The possibility of realizing this dream is for us like a gleam of light in the darkness. However dim this gleam may be, it is always worth reaching for, cost what it may, the quality of our life will be enriched.

To you anarchists who accuse us of being unrealistic, adventurist, suicidal, provocative, martyrs, we say that with your “social” struggle, with your citizenism you work for the reinforcement of democracy. Always in search of consensus, without ever crossing over the limit of the “possible” and the “rational,” the only compass guiding your action is the penal code. Willing to risk only up to a point, always ready to find infinite ideological justifications so as not admit to your own fears. We are sure one day you will have the last word on us, as in the past you have had with your last experience of armed struggle. In a few years you will write a good book on our story, criticizing our errors and our shortcomings; from the heights of your “coherency” nothing is revolutionary enough, but no one, not even you, will be able to take away the pleasure that today we have fully realized and lived, here and now, our revolution.

If we consider the lives of the vast majority of us anarchists we realize that we are not so distant from the alienation of those who produce, consume and die. We produce and consume radical culture and alternative music and slowly, ever so slowly, die without ever having taken arms against and shot an oppressor. All our revolutionary tension is unleashed in fiery articles for our journals and websites, in fiery words to our songs and the sporadic clash in the plaza, enough to silence one’s own conscience. It is clear that what we are making is a self-critique, we do not feel that we are something different from other anarchists. By holding a stupid pistol, we have only taken one step in many for escaping from the alienation of “Now is not the moment…” “The times are not ripe…”

Vanquishing fear was simpler than what we had imagined it. Doing today what only yesterday we thought impossible is the only solution that we have found for breaking down the wall of daily oppression, of the impotency and resignation that we have seen up to now as pawns in an insurrectionalist anarchism of mere facade that with its lack of courage legitimates power. We could strike while looking for “consensus” on where the tooth hurts, for example some functionary of Equitalia [tax collection agency in Italy, which is very unpopular these days - transl.], but with this action we are not looking for “consensus.” What we are looking for now is complicity. In the recent past, a cell of the FAI/IRF severely wounded a functionary of Equitalia, which has received a wide approval, something that the self-named “social” anarchists in recent years have tried countless times to achieve without much success. The brothers and sisters of the “Free Eat and Billy Cell” have shown with that action that in the end consistency pays, and that it is not necessary to limit oneself to action in order to get “consensus.” These comrades have shaken from our backs a malediction that has for too long been weighing on anarchists’ backs, the malediction of this badly interpreted search for social consensus that binds the hands of those who are aware of the urgency to act, here and now.

In these times in which so much certainty of the state-capital is sinking, the idea of freedom cannot be derogated: the idea of social struggle in which we recognize ourselves and we want to move ourselves is that of a people in arms against any form of state, political, or economic oppression. We do not consider ourselves representative of citizens indignant over some malfunctioning of a system that they want to continue to be part of. Exchanging rage and indignation in the place of a process of revolt against the status quo is a sign of a dangerous revolutionary myopia. With the entangling of comrades, even generous ones, into the cultivation of a field of dissenting democracy, with its own little cliques and consortia and its miniature politicians, generosity transforms into assistance, the spectacularization of the clash with relative manipulation by the media. Only the radicalization of the conflict can lead to paths of social and individual freedom.

With this action we give rise to the “Olga Cell.” We enthusiastically adhere to the FAI/IRF, uniting with so many groups of the new anarchist international around the world, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Indonesia, Russia, England, Italy, Spain, Greece… Projecting and carrying out this action were anarchists without any “military” experience, without any specialization, only the anarchists who with this our first action want to definitively mark a line between ourselves and that anarch-ism that burns only when chatting and is soaked in gregariousness. We have taken the name of a sister of ours from the CCF, Olga Ikonomidou because in her consistency and strength as part of the “Imprisoned Members’ Cell of the CCF,” she resides at the heart of the FAI/IRF. In our next action, the name of another Greek brother, an action for each of them. With Adinolfi’s wounding we propose a campaign of struggle against Finmeccanica, murderous octopus. Today Ansaldo Nuclear, tomorrow another of its tentacles — we invite all the groups and individuals of the FAI to strike this monstrosity with all necessary means.

LONG LIVE THE CONSPIRACY OF CELLS OF FIRE

LONG LIVE THE FAI/IRF

LONG LIVE ANARCHY!

Olga Cell FAI/IRF