Condos torched in Vancouver BC

[Ele'ill]

http://anarchistnews.org/content/agf-fire-condos


AGF: Fire To The Condos!

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 12:16 -- Anonymous (not verified) Last night we burned down a yuppie development on 1st ave near Victoria. We are tired of seeing our lives and memories being torn down one development at a time. We wish and will create fear for developers in East Vancouver. The class war is heating up. We have no intention on stopping. If we, if you, allow this continue you will be pushed out of East Vancouver due to rising rent and gentrification. If you are the cause of gentrification you should never feel safe
For a world where no one is homeless, hassled by police, the state or capitalists.
(A)GF

[Yet_Another_Boring_Marxist]

Good on them! Solidarity to our Anarchist comrades.

[Fourth Internationalist]

How exactly does this help anarchists? It makes them seem petty and desperate for attention.

[Yet_Another_Boring_Marxist]

How exactly does this help anarchists? It makes them seem petty and desperate for attention.

Gentrification is the process by which middle class people settle into working class neighborhoods and raise property values, this driving the working class into more impoverished areas and reducing the property values there.

It isn't a matter of helping Anarchists. Its a matter of class war. Gentrification is a form of settler-colonialism, only with working class people as the victim rather than oppressed nations.

[B5C]

Anarchists claim this? What ever happen to ELF?

[Ele'ill]

How exactly does this help anarchists? It makes them seem petty and desperate for attention.

Direction actions especially ones like this aren't seeking attention. As the communique indicated there was a condo, it was severely damaged, these types of actions are a threat to future condos and other such development. Accepting the possible consequence of serious charges such as arson charges when confronting the state or other aspects of society isn't petty.