‘FAI / ELF New Horizons of Burning Rage’ take responsibility for media sabotage

Bath transmitter at Bathampton

FAI/ELF COMMUNIQUE FOR TV & RADIO BLACKOUT

As part of the ongoing anarchist war for total liberation, we carried out a hit on the Bathampton radio and TV relay station. Fires were set at four points of the structures, and we left undisturbed. As a result of the sabotage, on top of causing hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of damage, we regionally shut down all TV channels on Freeview as well as all national analogue and digital radio stations. Additionally it took down Vodaphone and other mobile networks, damaging police communications and other digital services. 80,000 homes and businesses in the area were affected.
The entertainment industry is an important tool to manipulate human behaviour.
Without a steady supply of distractions it would be much harder to persuade people that their lives are satisfactory, to convince them to keep going to work or in whatever way to reproduce the system. So to deprive the network of the ability to offer this essential means of escape from chronic modern stress, anxiety, frustration and dissatisfaction is to undermine the smooth running of society, however temporarily.
There are many soft targets and many lo-tech methods available for us malcontents who gladly choose conflict over despair. This gives rise to the prospect of rebellion with thousands of faces, with infinite reasons to blockade and destroy whatever stands between us and our goals. We want to experience harmony as a living planet, face to face encounter as intimate circles of proud and free-thinking individuals, and a chance to mould an existence filled with wild play and fierce joy. Our first response when faced with today’s crushing domination and a subservient society will always be outbreaks of disorder, refusal and beauty.
Our comrades from far and wide who also carry this fight share our thoughts so closely that often their words could be ours. So when they are kidnapped and held far away from us our determination is only further fuelled. Following many actions in Italy the state has unleashed a wave of repression against anarchists and their projects (Operations Ardire, Mangiafuoco, Ixodidae, Thor…), some across borders, accusing some of attacks of the FAI (Informal Anarchist Federation) and raising a trophy for the media-judicial circus: Nicola Gai and Alfredo Cospito, who they claim are FAI / Olga Cell. But if the prosecutors thought for one minute that they had dismantled the group even in Italy with their operations, another cell soon proved them wrong with an attack on the banking system in the capital, followed by grid sabotage in Indonesia, gunshots in Mexico, liberations in Russia, bombing in Greece, mass arson in Argentina, to name but a few. The new anarchist guerrillas laugh in the faces of the powerful because the repression is only throwing petrol on the fires of the open leaderless resistance.
We are on the side of everyone who has burnt stuffy textbooks and taken the offensive to reanimate an anarchy that had turned to dust in so many throats. Any rebel’s capture becomes yet another motive to strike, as we have before and will again, as a reminder of the social cost of their imprisonment.
This action carried out eight years to the day since Xosé Tarrio (a dignified prisoner of Spain’s FIES isolation units, against which a series of attacks last decade were later claimed by the first generation of the FAI) died in the cells, leaving his blood on the hands of the jailers, courts and cops.


FAI / ELF 
New Horizons of Burning Rage

source: ACTFORFREE

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Anti-Prison World New Years 2013 UK (Brixton, Nottingham, Cardiff)

Bringing in the new year with rage against those microcosms of class society, those concrete coffins, PRISONS, various people in different parts of the UK joined in the worldwide anarchist demonstrations against jails.

 

BRIXTON LONDON

Brixton, London    31 December 2012

…almost midnight

The Gregorian calendar is moving towards the next chapter in the existence of those who mark time in the boredom of ritual
 …Suddenly they appear out of nowhere, a few people out of step, dressed in black. Unfurling banners, a strange light in their eyes, they unhurriedly conquer the urban high street and proceed towards Brixton prison. Surprise – a spontaneous barrage of recognition – claxons, shouts and clenched fists from passing cars and buses. Precious instants of reciprocated feelings:
FIRE TO THE PRISONS, FUCK THE POLICE!
At last a common language; a spark of life. To then disperse into tiny particles until we meet again. To attract, repulse, embrace and corrupt each other once more… Then the gloomy destination is reached. 800 invisible souls entombed within that monstrous edifice.
A cry into the darkness: Freedom!
                                      Again: Freedom!!! …Response from the bowels of the State cannibal:Freedom!!!
Echoes in the night…Freedom!!!…Freedom!!! Odd fireworks are set off. Some flame-propelled plastic bags respond.At the perimeter the massive gate resists an onslaught of banging andkicking. Wild howls pierce the silence that that building has imposed onthe surrounding night for almost 200 years.By the time the custodians of order arrive everyone is on theirway. Each with their thoughts… Hearts and consciousness expandingthroughout the reaches of the island universe of those who fight tosubvert the existent. From inside the prison cells or in the open gulagunder invisible stars. In their own way, each one was saying ‘I’m here!’ To the bosses of this world and those who defend their interests: Happy New Fear!

source: ACTFORFREE

Nottingham

On New Year’s Eve around 30 people turned up outside the gates of Nottingham prison to make some noise and show solidarity with the people being held inside. We toured the perimeter of the fence with a sound-system, banging pots and pans against the side of the fence, chanting and shouting, whilst fireworks were set off and thrown over the walls.

A parent of one of the prisoners had this to say afterwards:
‘‘Thanks very much for doing this. My son says it’s fucking amazing and when he heard the shouting he said it made him smile. Too many working class boys are in prison and it’s all because everything is unequal and the rich ones are taking the piss. But it’s great that you did that and that people inside heard. Love and respect to all of you’’.

This was just one of many prisoner solidarity demos that happened around the world on New Year’s Eve. The prison system is a brutal and violent means of repression and control by the state that needs to be challenged and resisted in our struggle for freedom. Noise demos are just one small way of breaking the isolation that prisoners are subjected to, letting them know that they are not forgotten.

source: 325

CARDIFF

NYE Prisoner Solidarity Demo, Cardiff Prison.
Last night as part of the international call out for noise demonstrations outside of prisons and detention centers, a group of anarchists and anti-authoritarians assembled at cardiff prison where some people set off fireworks and scattered hundreds of fliers from the top of the multi-storey car park opposite the jail (which is visible from many of the cells in the prison) whilst others sounded a siren, banged drums, threw fireworks over the wall of the prison and participated in anti-prison and anti-police chants with the prisoners who did everything they could to communicate back to the crowd gathered outside.
The fliers read “Solidarity is our weapon – Freedom now!” on one side and “Fire to the prisons, fire to the borders and fire to those who protect the system that’s killing us all. ACAB” on the other.
The initial group made a speedy and tactical retreat after noticing the approaching filth accompanied by a fire engine heading towards the prison. Roughly an hour later a small group returned to set off the last firework and shout some more in support of those inside.
 some anarchists.

source: ACTFORFREE

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PRISON ISLAND UK STILL HERE

Yes folks we’re still here, 2013, and the worlds still spinning. Due to busyness we’ve been away for a while and won’t be updating Prison Island UK as much. So no anecdotes of New Years chaos just a few updates from the  anarchist resistance in the UK.

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Barnardo’s shop gets locks glued, Cardiff

From Indymedia UK (Nov 8 2012):

You lock up kids you get locked out

On the night of the 7th November 2012, unknown activists superglued the locks of Barnardo’s shop in Cardiff and left a message to protest against the cooperation of Barnardo s with Cedars detention who are not even refraining from locking up children in their detention center. The action was probably part of the action day against Barnardo s that was held today in different places all over UK.

Stop Cedars

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Animal Liberation Front threaten Huntingdon Life Sciences supplier, Bedford

From Directaction.info:

“In the night of 5th Nov 2012 the ALF hit HRP Limited – Supplier (Cooling Equipment) Unit B6, Manton Centre, Manton Lane, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK41 with ‘ALF; DROP HLS!’. the message was left with spray paint. This is your first and final warn pull out of supplying HLS. This time the paint was white for peace next time it will be red for blood. You have been warned!

If you have any business dealing with HLS, we will find out and we will find you and make sure you fucking regret it.

Cut your ties with HLS now.

For the animals…

ALF

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Irish Republican Army execute Loyalist screw, Lurgan (County Armagh)

From the capitalist press (2 Nov 2012):

Dissident IRA members shot dead a prison officer on the M1 motorway near Lurgan in County Armagh.

David Black, a member of the Orange Order, was gunned down when a car pulled alongside him and opened fire yesterday morning.

He was a prison officer at Maghaberry Prison where many dissidents are being held and some are on a “dirty protest.”

The Lurgan area is a hotbed of anti-peace process Republicans.

UP THE RA!! DEATH TO SCREWS, COPS & IMPERIALIST SOLDIERS!

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lone man in rooftop protest, HMP Birmingham

from the capitalist press (Nov 12):

An inmate used netting aimed at stopping drugs being thrown over the walls to prisoners to help him clamber on to the roof of a Birmingham prison in a five-hour stand-off, it has been claimed.

The Prison Officers’ Association confirmed that the lone prisoner absconded to the roof of HMP Birmingham in Winson Green at around 1pm yesterday.

SOLIDARITY & ANGER!

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young irreducibles hunted by police after rooftop protest, Keighley (West Yorkshire)

from the capitalist press (Nov 8 2012):

Police are still searching for two young men who got away after a ten-hour rooftop protest in Keighley.

Officers had to cordon off the area around Redcliffe Street in the town after the pair got onto a roof at about 11am yesterday and started hurling slates as crowds gathered to watch.

They were seen moving between the rooftop and the inside of the house.

The men are wanted in connection with a recall to youth custody and a breach of a community order. Three people were arrested at the scene on suspicion of assisting an offender.

During the stand-off, trained negotiators were brought in to talk them down and police were withdrawn after the men’s retreat from the roof was settled on.

FUCK THE LAW, FUCK SOCIETY – FREEDOM!!

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Teenager arrested for arson of cop car, Liverpool

from the capitalist press (2 Nov 2012):

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of setting fire to a police car in Liverpool.

The car was parked on Hursley Road, Fazakerley, when it was set on fire just before 19:00 GMT on Tuesday.

Merseyside Police said the teenager, from Fazakerley, was arrested on suspicion of arson and later bailed.

Fire crews were called and the flames were put out, before the car was taken away for forensic examination. No-one was injured.

FUCK THE COPS – FREEDOM TO ALL REBELS!!!

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Christians outraged by use of church cross for bonfire, Blackburn (Lancashire)

from the capitalist press (Nov 9 2012):

VANDALS have set fire to a 10-foot cross stolen from a church’s garage.

Community leaders said they were ‘disgusted’ and ‘outraged’ that yobs had burnt the wooden cross on land close to Holy Trinity C of E Church in Blackburn. The cross, which was burnt on a bonfire, has been used for more than 30 years in the Good Friday procession from Little Harwood to Larkhill.

Police said a gang of youths ransacked the outbuilding connected to the church’s worship centre, also stealing a mattress, ladder and other household items.

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phone lines sabotaged, Purton (Wiltshire)

from the capitalist press (Nov 2 2012):

Residents of a street in Purton are without a phone line after vandals ripped up cables.

Yobs left 14 homes in Reid’s Piece without telephone lines on Halloween.

The youths are believed to have damaged a small cable with 14 lines coming off of it.

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arson attack on Suffolk leather factory

from the capitalist press (6 nov 2012):

An investigation has been launched after a suspected arson attack that’s badly damaged a leather goods factory at Woodbridge in Suffolk. Around 30 firefighters spent most of the night tackling the blaze at the Gibbins store on the town’s Debden Road.

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firefighting crew attacked, Rochdale (Greater Manchester)

from the capitalist press (nov 5 2012):

CCTV footage has been released of the terrifying moment when firefighters were ambushed by yobs who lured them to a wheelie-bin fire – then hurled bricks at their windscreen.

The crew, from Heywood fire station, had put out the blaze when they came under attack as they tried to reverse their engine to safety.

One of the bricks shattered the windscreen glass – meaning the vehicle had to be taken off the road for repairs.

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Fire to the schools! – bonfire night in Goole

from the capitalist press (10 Nov 2012):

MINDLESS vandals wrecked a Goole primary school’s newest building – only weeks after the keys were handed over.

An extension at Marshlands Primary School in Old Goole was broken into on the same day that children had first begun receiving lessons in it.

The incident occurred on Monday evening – Bonfire Night. As well as the inside of the building being damaged, a van adjacent to the school was set on fire, while a forklift belonging to building contractors was also targeted.

Electrical items inside the new complex were stolen whilst children’s books and toys were burnt in what police say was an attempted arson.

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cant stop the fire – Bradford bonfire night

from the capitalist press (Nov 6 2012):

Firefighters in Bradford faced incidents of violence and vandalism during Bonfire Night.

An officer at Fairweather Green station suffered minor injuries after being hit with a flying half-brick as yobs attacked a crew damping down a bonfire near the junction of Spencer Road and Harlow Road, Lidget Green, at 7pm yesterday.

The same crew also attended a house fire and two cars in flames.

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Bonfire night anti-prison demo, Cardiff

reposted from Act For Freedom Now! (Nov 6 2012):

At midnight November 5th around fifteen masked-up anti-authoritarians rolled up outside the grim walls of Cardiff Prison to fire and throw fireworks over the wall, released a smoke bomb at the traffic intersection there. shouting against prisons, screws and the police and with a mobile sound system blasting and spotlights and alarms going off in the prison, the response was righteous from inside!! Prisoners shouted back from their cell windows and there was a big feeling of rage outside and inside meeting in shouts of ACAB and cheers as fireworks banged and whizzed. The fireworks got let off, there was some shouts back and forth then the motley crew dissapeared before any cops showed up.
Prisoners in Cardiff have recently protested about poor food (undernourishment) and generally shitty conditions at the old 19th century constructed hellhole. We stand against prison and the society that is based on mass imprisonment for self-organised struggle, defiance and contempt for the authorities and the snitch citizens.
Its time to come out loud and come out proud for Freedom and Revolt.
Spread rebellion and the values of freedom through every way – by breaking the silence, talking, writing, flyposting, graffiti, marches, direct action.
Its time to attack and struggle against the system that is crushing us!
November 5 – gunpowder, treason & plot!!
SOLIDARITY WITH THE RESISTORS IN THE BRITISH PRISON SYSTEM
FREEDOM FOR JOHN BOWDEN
FREEDOM FOR KEV THAKRAR
FREEDOM FOR EVERYONE
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Walthamstow: ‘Spirit of London’ 7/7 bus burnt

FUCK THE STATE PSUEDO TERROR FAIRYTALE / FIRE TO THE SYSTEM – Freedom to the arrested and accused

from the capitalist press (oct 22 2012):

TWO teenage girls have been charged with setting on fire a bus which was the tribute replacement for the double-decker destroyed in the 7/7 terrorist attacks.

The top deck of the vehicle was almost completely destroyed in the blaze, which happened at around 12.30am on Friday (October 19) in Selborne Road outside Walthamstow Central station.

The bus, specially named ‘The Spirit of London’, was unveiled in October 2005 to honour the 13 people who died in the Tavistock Square blast earlier that year.

It has been operating on a number of London routes since then, but was in service as a number 69 on Friday.

The girls, both aged 14, are charged with arson and will appear at Stratford Magistrates Court on Wednesday October 31.

source: Guardian

the system slaughters the people and holds itself up as our benefactor – fuck them and fire to them

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earth destroying machines continue to burn, Weymouth (Dorset)

from the capitalist press (oct 24 2012):

ARSONISTS set fire to a digger in another attack in Weymouth with fire officers warning the crime could cost lives.Firefighters rushed to a building site off Lorton Lane to find the vehicle well alight early yesterday morning. Fire chiefs have issued a warning into the dangers of arson attacks following a spate of blazes across Weymouth and Portland. Dorset Fire and Rescue revealed that crews have tackled 90 arson attacks in the borough so far this year, while arsonists struck 104 times across the same period in 2011.

source: This Is Dorset

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53 vehicles smashed up at Queensferry auction business, Wales

showing how its done…

from the capitalist press (oct 23 2012):

VANDALS went on a wrecking spree and smashed 53 cars in one night. A Transit van was also set on fire by the yobs after they targeted the Wilson’s Car Auction on Station Road, Queensferry, on Sunday night. Police have launched an inquiry into what they described as “widespread and costly” damage, and asked anybody with information to get in touch. Three youths were seen running from the scene shortly after the attack, and detectives are keen to track down.

source: Daily Post

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UKBA offices smashed up, graffitied, Cardiff

following the dawnraid kidnapping of a family by UK Border Agency uniformed racists the windows of the local UKBA offices were smashed up twice and the slogans NO BORDERS and DIM FFINIAU (welsh for ‘no borders’) were left. there was also a campaign of trying to resist the UK states deportation of the family including obstructing UKBA vehicles, jamming phonelines, etc.

for more information see: Timeline of anti-deportation resistance in support of the Saleh family (Bristol Indymedia oct 25 2012)

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