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Updates & Housekeeping

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A few updates to share.

Firstly, this website is moving from the autistici static hosting to noblogs. It was getting very cumbersome to manage plus it was hard for other individuals to use.

Secondly, this site no longer hosts the Open Anarchist Study Group page, it now has it’s own website where updates are posted as well and you can contact that project for specific questions about it.

Lastly, one individual is finally working on general cleanup of the library. Fixing broken links and adding new zines. There will be a post once it’s done!

Long Live Anarchy

P.S. See you all at the Seattle Anarchist Bookfair!

Mauricio Morales Presente!

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NOTE: We are currently moving our blog from it’s current place over to here on Noblogs. This was originally posted May 22nd, 2025

“We must be violent, beautifully violent until everything bursts. Because, remember that any violent action against these promoters of inequality is plainly justified by the centuries of violence they have subjected us to. Arm yourself and be violent, beautifully violent, naturally violent, freely violent.” – Mauricio Morales

16 years to this day after your death in combat your memory still lives and your warrior spirit walks alongside those who choose the path of combat.

May we all find the strength to be beautifully violent.

MAURICIO MORALES PRESENTE!

We share this link to the text Let’s Turn The City To Ashes: Words By And About Mauricio Morales.

Lets Turn The City To Ashes

Informal Organizing Talk Recording

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NOTE: We are currently moving our blog from it’s current place over to here on Noblogs. This was originally posted April 5th, 2025

https://kolektiva.media/videos/embed/aef9690b-15fd-4482-9a88-cf7c8f32e5b6

The recording from the talk our comrade gave in informal organization at Pipsqueak in Seattle back on Feb 9th, 2025.

This serves as a 101 introduction to the ideas of informal organization and the orientation toward insurrection and social revolution. If you are familliar with these ideas already, you may not get a whole lot out of it. It was also an experiment in different ways of sharing knowledge and an attempt to sharpen the skills of spoken word.

ARCHIVE: Raid Preperation

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NOTE: We are currently moving our blog from it’s current place over to here on Noblogs. This was originally posted November 26th, 2024

We’re archiving this little infomational video from @disruptwars on instagram. It’s not comprehensive but is a good starting point for people to preemptively start thinking about house raids. There’s a lot of really useful information that gets made for instagram and then is lost, this is our part in preserving it. But if you’re making information for instagram, please also make it for and send it to a counter-info website and/or make it into a zine, or if it’s video like this get an account with kolektiva.media and also upload it there. Archiving our information is crucial for all of us 6 months later.

Two New Zines

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NOTE: We are currently moving our blog from it’s current place over to here on Noblogs. This was originally posted November 9th, 2024

Now that Archive.org is open again to uploads we can start putting out new zines, as well as fixing some missing ones in our library. We’re dropping two today, For A New Combat Position of Anarchist Insurgency which is a collection of statements on Black December, including the origional call from anarchists Nikos Romanos and Panagiotis Argirou held captive by the Greek State, as well as an anonymous call to action by “Anarchists Outside the Walls for a Black December”, and two statements by anarchist prisoners Sean Swain and Michael Kimble on the concept of Black December.

Secondly we’ve got Action is Always Worth It! Subversive Words by Anarchist Prisoners Mónica Caballero & Francisco Solar collecting as many of their writings and statements as we could find.

Enjoy!

For A New Combat Position of Anarchist Insurgency: READ/PRINT

Action is Always Worth It!: READ/PRINT

FRAGMENTS: Alfredo Bonanno in Palestine

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NOTE: We are currently moving our blog from it’s current place over to here on Noblogs. This was originally posted October 25th, 2024

I was recently absent mindedly scrolling through Mike Gouldhawke’s archive, looking at various sections that caught my eye and found myself in the Collected Words for Alfredo Bonanno section where I then went to the Act For Freedom Now! Memorial piece written for Alfredo.

Toward the end was one paragraph I nearly missed, it reads;

“We would be remiss if we did not mention that it was while in the cells of Greek democracy after his arrest near Trikala city , that Alfredo Bonanno, wrote in a calm ferocity the many pages that would become the book “L’ospite inatteso“, (“The Unexpected Guest”). It was here that he revealed in intense, piercing stanzas his recollections of combat decades prior in the land known as Palestine. A struggle against torturers, massacres administered by grey men with a clockwork routine.”

Immediately I dug through the text to find the part mentioned and put it through a machine translation. It’s rough, but adequate enough to tell the story of a moment of his life in Palestine taking part in armed action against the IDF. From what I can gather, the book in its whole is a reflection on life and death and particularly what it means to be an anarchist and take a life.

I share this very rough fragment both for its thematic timeliness regarding the armed struggle against the ongoing genocide israel is carrying out against the Palestinian people, as well as the description of what it takes to organize an action many anarchists in the territories dominated by the american state would think of as a fantasy, far beyond their grasp.

I also share this with the hope someone out there with a grasp of the italian language and time to kill will see this and feel inspired to undertake the task of translating this book into english – or any other language really. Thinking seriously about the state of the world and what the struggle for total freedom asks of us all, the reflection on life, death, and what it means to take a life is – in my mind – of critical importance.

-An Individual who comprises part of Fugitive Distro

The Unexpected Guest – 203.

L’ospite Inatteso

The desire, but perhaps more than that, the need for a larger project, buzzed continuously in my head, intensely and precisely in Palestine. Here the limitations to our work were fewer and we also had the possibility, at times, of developing a simple information provided by the movement into a more complex action than the linear identification and clarification of a single individual. Although the other side was more aggressive than elsewhere, being one of the most powerful and best equipped armies in the world, there was room for actions in the city, often not limited to just intelligence men or Arab informants who had gone over to the enemy. This situation sometimes led to a broader intervention and the collaboration of multiple groups. The study and preparation took longer, sometimes months, but the results could be more effective. A plan could be studied calmly and methodically and there was no shortage of competent people or groups willing to collaborate on a broader action.

The capture of three army men was one of these most successful actions. It required more than four weeks and the use of about thirty comrades, with central coordination and the availability of adequate weapons to block a moving military convoy. This is one of the most detailed and complex actions ever attempted – excluding what were considered suicide attacks. The findings were therefore not limited only to measurements and correspondence but also included a military assessment of the territory and the movement of military vehicles in a journey of approximately one kilometre. It wasn’t a question of putting a moving military vehicle out of action. This type of operation, while remaining very complex and difficult, is simpler from an organizational point of view. On the contrary, it was a question of blocking a moving column, detaching a part of it, the tail one, through an explosion, and taking prisoners, something that had previously been attempted only once, but with negative results. These soldiers, despite having received appropriate military training, were basically boys and, once attacked, at least that time, they did not prove to live up to their fame. After a pro-forma response, they immediately surrendered, exiting the armored vehicle with their hands in the air. Meanwhile, the other companions kept the rest of the convoy at bay, which due to the terrain could only stop or move forward. Although it may be considered an exception to the rule, there were no injuries or deaths. The unexpected guest remained idle.

The three soldiers taken prisoner were subsequently exchanged by the movement with thirty comrades who were in Israeli prisons. The excellent result led to a reconsideration of our work and a new planning approach. But, in short, the exhaustion of resources, the loss of some comrades, the ruthless hunt conducted by the intelligence men and the accumulation of information brought us back to the usual activity. It didn’t take long for the work to resume as before, the same and precise, while the possibility of achieving coordination of such magnitude as to be able to repeat the action described above receded. We also had to go in the direction the wind was blowing, do what needed to be done, strike headlong where it needed to be struck.

This is what I told myself as I reflected on my more or less hastily dashed hopes. The ideal of absolute liberation also had to pass through the bottleneck of these peripheral, disturbing actions, goads for people accustomed to hitting hard. It was enough to look at the generalized misery of an entire population forced every morning to line up and go to work for the enemies with just a few cents of pay, to realize that those actions not only corrected a monstrosity by deleting it from the list of the human race, but constituted a repayment for every suffering suffered. Many of these wretches felt their chests expand when they learned that a massacre had been shot. Who could object to this feeling of intimate satisfaction, of compensation for the wounds that the body of an entire people suffered? Who could claim the right to stay the hand of the unexpected guest?

Moving Away from Enemy Infrastructure

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NOTE: We are currently moving our blog from it’s current place over to here on Noblogs. This was originally posted October 25th, 2024

After years of complaining about the hells that are social media in particular and enemy infrastructure in general, we’ve finally taken the step to removing ourselves and our reliance on it by revamping our website to be more useful to our needs.

If you want all the technical details, check the bottom of this post, but the short version is on top of hosting our zine library (which we are now also adding poster and sticker designs to! …whenever the Internet Library, recovering from its recent hack, exits Read Only mode and lets us upload things again…) it also hosts a blog, a calendar of events, and a page dedicated to the weekly Open Anarchist Study Group.

It’s currently very bare bones design wise, but we’ll get around to making it pretty.

I want to talk about the desire and intentions for making this switch, the main one being that we want to take seriously our critiques of the existent and our desire for self organization, as well as a desire to publish a wider variety of things, to be another node in the anarchist counter-info ecosystem, and for the ability to better archive our project.

As far as taking seriously our critiques and desire for self organization goes, it’s basically an eye roll inducing cliché at this point to say Social Media Bad, Phone Bad, etc. We all make the joke, do an awkward chuckle about it and don’t really think about it again until we’re complaining about it again the next day. Repeat ad infinitum. But even at the risk of making you, dear reader, roll your eyes yet again I think it’s worth going these critiques and looking critically at why we begrudgingly accept this at best and make a complete joke of it at worst.

Though before I delve into this I do want to be explicitly clear about two things.

Firstly, there is no technical solution to social problems. Meaning that social media or not, there are underlying issues to all the things I’m about to bring up that are more rooted in the ways a world built upon hierarchy, submission and generalized alienation between and from ourselves, the things we do, and the world around us. This has to be intentionally examined and attacked at all times, in all spaces, regardless of what tools we are or aren’t using.

Secondly and similarly, while moving from social media to a website on our own infrastructure doesn’t magically do away with the things I’m going to bring up, I do think every tool and technology carries within it the world that made it and a way of relating to the world it presupposes and encourages, which is why I think using different and older tools is a worthwhile project as a scaffolding to help encourage different behaviors and ways of relating.

And again, no technical solution to social problems, there are inherent issues with alienated, impersonal communication which relies upon a world of displacement and resource extraction to enable it’s invention, the laying of it’s global infrastructure, and the physical resources and energy upkeep to keep it going.

All that being said, to me part of taking self organization seriously is understanding that anarchy is a tension that we live in all parts of our lives and as such we take up the task of self organization in all parts of our lives and projects. Part of this is rejecting the capitalist ideology of efficiency and the mass media ideas of image making and consensus building. In all these realms political parties and billion dollar news corporations will always be better than whatever we can do, but we aren’t trying to emulate them and build followings, voters or viewers. We want to find and encourage rebellious individuals engaged in the infinite tension of living freedom, an entirely different goal requiring different tools.

Beyond this even, we are a people without a tradition of self organization – taught and socialized through family structures, religion, school, work and politics that our only role in life is to obey and follow orders. Every small instance where we can practice and experiment with it helps us when we break through the time and space of authority and domination and have chances to experiment with the bigger projects of self organization – whether its a squatted social center or farm or the liberation of a whole territory, whether a temporary autonomous space carved out by a riot or a months long insurrection enveloping a whole region.

And, to be real, most people have a working bullshit detector. Look at these anarchists who say they are against all forms of domination, hierarchy, authority and representation yet vote and petition those in power. Clearly their words are just words and they are politicians like any other who speak out both sides of their mouths. It’s an issue of coherency, of understanding our means are our ends because there is no end. We already have to make so many sacrifices to survive, such as paying rent while we are too weak to simply take housing as needed, but this is not an excuse to simply shrug it off and say that it is what it is.

As far as specific critiques of social media go what concerns me is that its a particular tool that encourages spectatorship, not just in the way of social media apps are designed in a way to keep our attention but also in the way of when people come out to the streets rather than participate many come simply to stand around and get videos and pictures for social media often to build a particular image of themselves or their group/project.

In this way social media is also a repressive tool as these images and videos become a way for police forces to reconstruct scenes and identify people for arrest. Beyond this, social media is basically a ready made network map of rebel communities and affinities for our enemies – who follows who, who follows what project, who interacts with who more or less.

There is a more sinister aspect of repression that comes with it which is algorithmic control, self censorship and limiting of our discourses within the limits of civil society. It’s no secret that most of what is seen is decided by a black box algorithm made and tweaked entirely by our enemies which builds personality profiles on users which is also sold to advertisers and, like all other data social media gathers from us (including DM’s), is available to the police. It’s clear that we know this on some level and understand how identifiable we make ourselves via these platforms so we engage in a practice of self disciplining in what we say which leaks out into our broader discourses and practices. For example, with regards to the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people by the israeli state how many people complain about how they’ve seemingly exhausted all options of resistance? How many of us put forward not a watered down version of direct action, but a direct action that speaks through fire and gunpowder? Part of it is we know we are identifiable which means open to door knocks by our enemies over our words, the other part is because our enemies control these platforms they have control over our presence on these platforms and under a misinformed desire to keep access to these platforms we engage in self disciplining of our words and ideas letting our enemies exert control over our dialogues.

Slightly touched on already but there is also just keeping in mind the cycle of social reproduction – that what we do creates a certain kind of world which compels us to continue to do the same activity which shapes us into particular people of that world. In this instance, the majority of radical projects being on social media requires people to have a working phone or at least some level of consistent internet access and particular social media accounts to keep up with and participate in things going on which fundamentally excludes people who don’t have those resources or don’t want to have them. People shouldn’t need a particular social media account or a phone to tap into particular information, resources or projects and at the current moment most individuals sharing of news, information and events stops at sharing a post on a particular social media site and even worse many newer people coming to anarchy don’t know a time when this wasn’t the case. It will take a lot of intentionality and cultural struggle to change that.

I could keep going deeper on the particular critiques of social media, and perhaps I will at a later date, but this is just a surface level look at what I think are some of its most pressing issues. I think there is also arguments to be made that alienated communication socializes us to not see others as actual people and as such treat others poorly, that the constant stream of catastrophe next to entertainment desensitizes us to the world around us, that the images projected to us of struggle elsewhere encourages a focus on image rather than action, content of action and experimentation. I could go on, and again these issues are not isolated to social media alone but I argue are particularly more harmful and felt through the mass use of social media.

Coming to the rest of the reasoning for making this switch one of the big ones is a desire to publish a wider array of things. Social media prioritizes images – and generally not printable ones – short video and short text. We want to provide a space to publish the longer works of friends and comrades, interviews, translations and experiment with audio and visual projects. An instagram, twitter, mastadon, etc. account just isn’t the tool for these.

Relatedly, I have a particular desire to archive our project. Social media accounts are notoriously hard to archive, they aren’t archived by default, it’s a pain if not nearly impossible to find old things, we’ve already been long since locked out of our twitter account, it’s a matter of time before instagram kicks us off there and fundamentally none of these companies and their data will be around forever. We think it’s important for radical projects to archive their works – whether its writing, videos, audio, images, whatever it is! – so we can inform and inspire the radicals, anarchists, and random pissed off individuals of the future.

Finally, the distro is fundamentally a counter-info project and at the current moment the counter info ecosystem in this particular territory primarily comprises of Puget Sound Anarchists, a hand full of distros, a hand full of instagram accounts, and an inconsistent amount of graffiti and wheat pasting. This is neither robust nor from my perspective meeting the needs of the individuals and ongoing struggles here. So in being able to better archive and create longer and different forms of media and analysis we are trying to take seriously our position as part of the counter-info ecosystem and use this as an example of what other projects could be doing and offer technical support for any projects that are interested.

May a thousand counter-info projects bloom!

May they inspire a thousand individuals to action!

Before ending this, I again want to just really hammer home the point that there are no technical solutions to social problems and that all of these issues will be tacked by individuals taking the initiative to change these behaviors themselves, and that these issues go beyond social media in particular.

-An Individual who Comprises Part of Fugitive Distro

The Technical Stuff

Currently our library is hosted by The Internet Archive which has its ups and downs. We’re looking into a few alternatives and redundancies, most of which are self hosted. One of these is putting out a yearly torrent of the entire library or parts of the library – such as All Of It, Zines, Zines by Category, Stickers, Posters, so people can take it all or pick and choose. Another option, which is what the Anarchist Stickers Archive uses, is IPFS. Either way it’s going to involve self hosting, which means finding someone or somewhere that will let us set up a server or renting server space with money we don’t have. Or maybe we can find a bunch of other nerds who will share parts of their bandwidth for IPFS, or we just need to dig up and splice into fiber optic cables somewhere to get free internet for a server.

The rest of our web infrastructure is hosted by Autistici/Inventati, an over 20 year long running anarchist collective. We use them for our email account and we use their static web hosting for our website.

We didn’t have to use a static website, we could have used Noblogs which is much easier to use and what we would suggest to people who aren’t particularly tech savvy. If you’ve ever used WordPress, it’s a custom wordpress set up that they self host. We chose a static website because we wanted particular control over how things looked and particularly to have fine control over the display of our library which Noblogs isn’t particularly suited for.

Because we are using a static website we are using Hugo to generate it and be able to have a blog like structure. It’s kind of a pain especially since there is a lot of custom HTML that works against Hugo’s theme system, but now that the base set up is all done adding new pages or blog posts is easy and for the blogs a custom RSS feed is made for people who still use that.

Our calendar of events is the other thing besides the library that’s not on anarchist infrastructure. Currently it just uses Calendar.Online but we’re looking into possibly using the Squat Net radar or if we go the self hosting route for our library putting together an instance of Ganico.

Also it’s unused for the moment, but we have an account on Kolektiva, an anarchist Peer-Tube instance which we may be using in the future for all our audio and visual projects or we might scrap it and do self hosting for all that too. Who knows!

Again, there is no technical solutions for social problems and there were easier ways to go about all of this, but its a matter of principles and desire for self organization as well as one of us (hi) having an interest in these kinds of projects and looking for an excuse to mess around with them.