Mes: noviembre 2015

El pasado 4 de noviembre de 2015 agentes de la Brigada de Información asaltaban las viviendas de 5 compañerxs anarquistas en la capital, todxs ellxs miembros del colectivo Straight Edge Madrid, dedicado a la difusión de las luchas y las ideas anarquistas mediante la organización de actos y eventos informativos o de encuentro, libres de drogas y de autoridad. Tras registrarlo todo y llevarse material tan “peligroso” como sudaderas, panfletos y ordenadores portátiles, lxs 5 compañerxs fueron detenidxs y burdamente acusadxs de ser integrantes de una supuesta “organización terrorista” de cuya existencia no hay pruebas, y de haber llevado a cabo varios ataques incendiarios en las ciudades de Barcelona y Madrid, todo esto aliñado con las mentiras de los medios de comunicación, que repetían las delirantes fantasías policiales afirmando entre otras cosas que el presunto “grupo terrorista” tendría un líder, lo que es ridículo pues si somos anarquistas es precisamente porque queremos a la autoridad fuera de nuestras vidas. Una sexta persona se encontraba de viaje cuando fueron a buscarla, y finalmente se presentó a declarar, siendo imputada también.

Lxs detenidxs fueron trasladadxs a la comisaría de Moratalaz y dos días después pasaron a disposición de la Audiencia Nacional, que envió a dos de ellxs a prisión preventiva y dejó al resto en “libertad” tras el pago de diferentes fianzas de varios miles de euros cada unx (20000€), pendientes de juicio con graves cargos en contra.

Ante esta situación, que deja bien claro qué no le gusta al estado, cualquier muestras de apoyo es insuficiente, por eso pedimos máxima difusión. Para ampliarla os recomendamos que le echéis un ojo a la página de facebook “Straight Edge Euskal Herria”, desde la cual se están llevando diferentes iniciativas para recaudar dinero, al igual que se intenta dar difusión a todo lo relacionado con el caso.

NAHUEL Y BORJA NO ESTÁIS SOLOS !!
NO VAMOS A PARAR HASTA TENERNOS OTRA VEZ CON NOSOTRXS !!

Statement from the arrestees of Pandora II

https://efectopandora.wordpress.com/2015/11/06/english-statement-from-pa/
Last Wednesday, the 28th of November, nine people were arrested in the course of a new anti-terrorist operation orchestrated by the information services of the Mossos d’Esquadra [Catalan police], in connivance with the 3rd Court of the Audiencia Nacional [high court in Madrid]. After the search/sacking of our houses, as well as that of the Libertarian Athenium in Sants, we were taken to different police stations on Barcelona’s periphery, and handed over the next day to the Guardia Civil [Spanish police] to be transferred to Madrid. At midday on Friday, we were taken before the judge Juan Pablo Gonzalez Gonzalez, who decreed liberty with charges for two of us, imprisonment eluctable by bail for six, and inconditional imprisonment for the comrade who currently sits in Soto del Real.

The group of arrestees who are currently out of prison wish to make public a series of reflections and political positions:

The generic accusation for the nine of us is “Membership in a criminal organization with terrorist aims”. Concretely we are accused of forming part of “GAC-FAI-FRI,” which is well known to be a concept artificially constructed by the police, a joining of initials that intentionally and in a very calculated way mixes spaces of coordination among collectives (GAC) with the ‘signature’ that on an international level some groups use to claim sabotage actions (FAI-FRI).

The construction of this organization-framework supplies the police with all the repressive resources that the anti-terrorist apparatus has at its disposal: tribunes with the mandate of a state of exception, greater juridical insecurity, much harsher sentences for those comrades convicted of certain actions, incomunicado detentions, special penitentiary regimes, personal relationships of friendship or comraderie perceived as criminal, media hype, social stigmatization, etc. It is enough to say that during the entire process of the arrest—from the moment we saw our houses invaded and ransacked until the point we were brought before the judge—we did not even know what we were accused of.

With the invention of the initials GAC-FAI-FRI the police forces have designed a net with which they can potentially catch anything that moves within the anarchist and anti-authoritarian milieu. In the context of this organization-framework, going to debates, participating in assemblies, visiting imprisoned comrades, or simply having personal contact with a person considered a member of the organization are sufficient criteria for inclusion on the black list. It is this diffuse and extensive character which provides the true force of the anti-terrorist strategy: after every repressive wave, those who solidarize with the arrestees are also susceptible of being considered part of the organization and as such arrested, one after another.

The concept of the terrorist organization is designed to be indefinitely extended, perhaps with the objective of that moment when the entire milieu considered to be dangerous finally ends up isolated and suffocated by the repressive dynamic, or when the capacity of that milieu to continue taking political action is so reduced that it is no longer worth the effort to continue repressing it. The fact that this new operation contradicts the very declarations of the Mossos (who had already affirmed that the Barcelona section of the GAC-FAI-FRI had been dismantled) does not surprise us, given that the terrorist organization is constructed, modified, and amplified by the actions of the police themselves, and not the other way around. The “fight against terrorism” creates terrorism, the same way that law creates the crime.

The attempt to fix the existence of a terrorist organization supposes a qualitative leap in the repressive strategy used against the struggles, a leap that should not go unnoticed by anybody and that demands a profound reflection in the heart of the movements.

We signal the Interior Counsel of the Generalitat [autonomous Catalan government] and specifically the General Commissary of Information of the CME [Catalan police] as the direct culprits of this latest repressive agression. The attempts to dodge the blow claiming that the Mossos are only following the orders of Madrid are nothing but petty, cowardly evasions of responsibility that cover-up their involvement in these deeds, as they were the ones who impelled and designed every last detail of the operation approved by the Audiencia Nacional [high Spanish court in Madrid].

[Translator: parts of the Catalan independence movement, hoping to benefit from the latest wave of repression, have qualified it as another example of the Spanish state’s repression of Catalunya, as though anarchism were a national phenomenon belonging to Catalunya. To achieve this distortion, they have to minimize the role of the Catalan police and government in the repression.]

In this sense, seeing how the Generalitat of Catalunya hands over young Catalans to the Spanish tribunes, prisons, and repressive bodies that are a continuation of Francoism, gives us a very clear image of what the real basis is of the so-called “sovereignty process” [which the Catalan government currently in power is conducting in an attempt to win independence from Spain], putting in evidence just how perverse the liberating rhetoric that surrounds this process is. What is certain is that the [Catalan] government identified the anarchist and anti-authoritarian movements as an enemy to destroy a long time ago, and the Pandora process has no other objective other than to achieve this goal. They strike at anarchism not for its ideas on an abstract level, but rather for what it has been, what it is, and what it can be in practice: a minority of revolutionaries that do not hesitate to defy the system and its oppressive and corrupt foundations, that encourage those around them to rebel, and that refuses to be seduced by the channels of political integration that a liberal capitalist democracy can offer.

During the last cycle of struggles, fed by the global financial crisis and the politics of austerity that have placed the entire weight of the adjustments onto the backs of the exploited, in Catalunya a new terrain of resistance has opened up, in which the role of revolutionaries has become especially bothersome to the neoliberal project of the Generalitat. With all our limits, errors, and contradictions, during these last years we have fought to stop the attacks directed against living conditions (as regards work, housing, healthcare, etc.) of everyone; we have disseminated a structural analysis of the crisis, demonstrating that the problem is not one or another aspect of the system but the system itself; we have created spaces and networks for the resolution of our problems and necessities via solidarity and mutual aid, autonomous structures free of the institutions with their dynamics of paternalism and charity; we have, together with thousands of people, strengthened the strikes that have lit up the city in defense of our interests as workers; we have raised barricades against the destruction of neighborhood social centers; we have gone into the streets to repudiate femicide, to visibilize the exploitation of women in the sphere of reproduction and care, to disobey the anti-abortion laws that pretend to control our bodies and our lives; we have denounced and broken the silence around police violence and murders, around racist persecution, the deportation machinery, the immigrant detention centers, prisons, and of course, we have never stopped pointing out and attacking those responsible for our misery, the States, the bosses, and the elite financiers, both local and international.

This is what we are, and this is what we aim to destroy. The political objective of these repressive waves is none other than to spread fear and discouragement in order to obtain social movements that are domesticated, reluctant to disobey and opposed to breaking the rules of the game that Power imposes in order to perpetuate itself. And from that stems the repression against anarchists, communists, independence activists, strikers from the 29th of March [general strike, 2012, soon facing trial], the accused from the Can Vies riots [May 2014], those convicted from the Blockade Parliament action [2011, some of whom are soon to enter prison]… The system does not pretend to convict our guilt, but rather to demonstrate its own innocence: it wants to absolve itself by delegitimizing, isolating, and neutralizing all that which accuses and confronts it.

The solidaristic response to our arrests shows us that our enemies are still far from achieving their objectives. We want to thank and to recognize each and everyone one of the showings of solidarity expressed in these past days. The protests, the marches, the actions, the gestures of complicity and care, the economic donations… the enormous support received has an incalculable value for us, a value that easily compensates for the bad fortune we have received, that shrinks it down until it becomes no more than an object of ridicule. We do not believe in their laws, nor in the guarantees they offer us: our only defense, our only guarantee, is the solidaristic response in the streets. The massive demonstration of support that you have offered us, and that previously we offered to our sisters and brothers arrested in the earlier [anti-terrorist] operations, demonstrates the failure of the anti-terrorist strategy in its attempt to isolate us through the extension of fear.

Now we are in the streets, but only partially. One of us, Quique, remains locked up in the prison of Soto del Real. For this reason, the solidarity must not stop; on the contrary it must multiply. We call for an intensification of the struggle in the streets for his release, for every single comrade to write him at least one letter, and to enthusiastically back up all the convocations and call-outs made on his behalf, as well as to be attentive to any request or information that comes from the collectives he forms a part of: Libertarian Action of Sants and the Syndicate of Miscellaneous Trades of the CNT-AIT of Barcelona. Under no circumstances will we leave him alone; not him, nor Monica, nor Francisco [two anarchists arrested on anti-terrorism charges in 2013, still locked up awaiting trial], nor the rest of the imprisoned comrades.

Neither arrests, nor trials, nor prisons can break the bonds of our solidarity or our political commitments. For us, the dirty cells where we have spent these last days will always be more dignified places than the luxurious offices from which the misery of everyone is managed.

NOT ONE STEP BACK!
THE STRUGGLE IS THE ONLY PATH!

–The arrestees of the latest phase of Operation Pandora who are currently out in the streets.

Pandora II, new arrests in Madrid, translation of statement by arrestees:

On Friday, October 30, the nine anarchists arrested two days earlier in Barcelona and Manresa in the second phase of Operation Pandora were brought before the Audiencia Nacional, a high court in Madrid. Two of them were released on provisional liberty pending trial, six of them were released on a relatively high bail, and one of them was given preventive detention, remanded to prison until trial. All of them are charged with criminal organization under Spain’s anti-terrorism laws. Specifically, they are accused of belonging to the GAC-FAI-FRI, a fictitious organization stemming from the police’s imaginative combination of the GAC, a public anarchist group responsible for publishing a book criticizing democratic government, and the FAI-FRI, which happens to be the only international anarchist organization considered terrorist by the European Union. Police allege that a wave of sabotage actions and politically motivated arsons that occurred between 2012 and 2013 were carried out by their fictitious organization, though neither of the two actual groups in question claimed or has been connected to any of the attacks (nor was anyone injured in any of them).

The Barcelona anarchist who is currently locked up awaiting trial was already on provisional liberty awaiting trial for charges stemming from the March 2012 general strike, in which he is accused of damages against the Corte Inglés, a large shopping mall on Plaça Catalunya. He can be written at:

Enrique Costoya Allegue
CP Madrid V Soto del Real
Ctra M-609, km3,5 Módulo 15
28791 Soto del Real (Madrid)
Spain

The arrests occurred the same day that the Audiencia Nacional decreed another two years of preventive imprisonment for Monica and Francisco, two anarchists from Chile who were already acquitted of all charges in the “Bombs Case” in that country, and who are currently accused of placing a small bomb in a cathedral in Zaragoza, an action claimed by the “Commando Mateo Moral” which produced no injuries.

In a common pattern, the Pandora II arrestees were involved in supporting those arrested in the first phase of Operation Pandora, who in turn were involved in supporting Monica and Francisco. Parallel to Operation Pandora, carried out by the Catalan police, in March 2015 the Spanish police launched Operation Piñata. In total, 63 anarchists have been arrested under the anti-terrorism law in the last three years in the Spanish state.

As is now usual, relatively large solidarity protests occurred in many cities across the Spanish state on the heels of the latest arrests. At least in Catalunya, the feeling of many people on the street is that the operations are some kind of political scam, given that few people perceive any kind of anarchist terrorism. However, a common sentiment is that the investigation, carried out by the Audiencia Nacional, is another attempt by the Madrid government to interrupt the Catalunya independence process, as though the anarchists were the radical wing of the independence movement. This widely expressed opinion does not take into account the fact that in an independent Catalan state, anarchists would be public enemy number 1, and they have been the most vocal critics of the independence process who do not support the domination of Catalunya by the Spanish state.

It is probably no coincidence that the Catalan police did not carry out the corruption-related raid against the Pujol family, a centerpiece of Catalan politics, in another investigation ordered by the Madrid courts, yet they were the ones in charge of the raids and arrests against anarchists that same week. Although all evidence acquired has been sent to Madrid, the Catalan police will retain copies in their extensive files on anarchist, in the event of an independent Catalan state.

On the other hand, it is also necessary to point out that the CUP, a far-left activist platform turned political party that is now one of the most sizeable and important minority parties in the Catalan parliament, vocally expressed solidarity with the anarchists the day of the arrests, serving to dilute the government narrative of “anarchist terrorism”.

Madrid update:
On Wednesday, November 4, five more anarchists were arrested in Madrid under the anti-terrorist law, also accused of belonging to the GAC. In this case, however, the Policia Nacional (who carried out Operation Piñata) are accusing them of the explosive artifacts that were placed in the cathedrals of La Almudena (Madrid) and El Pilar (Zaragoza). Two comrades, Monica and Francisco, have already sat two years in prison accused of the latter action, and evidence the police fed to the media upon their arrest suggested they acted as a pair, and showed blurry surveillance footage showing two people, not more. Nonetheless, the police have shown that they can claim the GAC to be dismantled and then arrest another 14 supposed members, and they can arrest as many people for the same illegal action as they want, and the media will never question them, on the contrary, it will only continue to act as their mouthpiece. In that vein, and with typical racism, the newspaper La Razon duly parroted the xenophobic police emphasis on the Latin American origins of three of the latest arrests in Madrid.

The total number of anarchists arrested on anti-terrorism charges in the Spanish state in the last three years is now 68.

Among the numerous protests and solidarity actions that have occurred in Madrid in recent days, a number of people have been injured or identified by police, and heavy fines may follow.

URGENT:
És convoca manifestació antirrepresiva i de resposta contra l’última «Op. Pandora», per la llibertat del company anarquista empresonat i en solidaritat amb totes les persones represaliades.
Divendres 6/11/15 a les 20:00h a Pl. De Sants.
Terrorista és qui ens condemna a una vida de misèria, no qui lluita contra ella.
No ens aturarem fins que totes estiguin lliures.

 

El pasado miércoles 28 de octubre se producían nuevas detenciones (9 en total) y asaltos a domicilios y ateneos libertarios en Barcelona y Manresa, en el marco de una operación contra el anarquismo de los Mossos d’Esquadra en coordinación con la Audiencia Nacional, bajo acusaciones de terrorismo contra los y las compañeras. Tras ser trasladados a Madrid y pasar a disposición judicial, el Juez Juan Pablo González, magistrado suplente del Juzgado Central de Instrucción 3 de Madrid, acordó cinco libertades bajo fianza de 5.000 euros, una libertad bajo fianza de 4.000 euros, dos libertades con comparecencia semanal y retirada de pasaporte, y la entrada en prisión preventiva de un compañero.

A esto hay que añadirle la vista del pasado martes 27 donde se decidía si les prorrogaban la prisión preventiva a Mónica y Francisco o les ponían en libertad a espera de juicio. Ha salido la resolución, y se les ha prorrogado.
A pesar de que la legislación española contempla los dos años como el tiempo máximo que una persona puede permanecer en prisión preventiva, el Estado tiene la posibilidad de alargarla (argumentando algún tipo de excepcionalidad en el caso) durante dos años más, y lo ha hecho.

Algunas respuestas por parte del anarquismo en Madrid fueron las siguientes:

-Martes 27 de octubre (mañana). Por la mañana, en plena hora punta, se realizó un corte de carretera durante unos minutos con una pancarta, bengalas y petardos, en la Avenida Complutense, en plena Ciudad Universitaria. La pancarta llamaba a la libertad de los compañeros Mónica y Francisco. Después, los compañeros y compañeras entraron en las facultades de Periodismo, de Geografía e Historia y Filosofía, desplegando la pancarta, repartiendo cientos de panfletos y leyendo con megáfono los mismos entre grandes petardazos. Mencionar que algunxs acomodadxs izquierdistas, se sintieron molestos con que la normalidad de la universidad se viera interrumpida (sin pedir permiso) por una acción solidaria con unxs presxs anarquistas.

-Martes 27 de octubre (mañana). Paralelamente, desde la 9 de la mañana, tuvo lugar una concentración en las puertas de la Audiencia Nacional, donde tenía lugar la vista de Mónica y Francisco. Varias pancartas y unxs 50 compañerxs corearon consignas. Se produjeron algunas identificaciones por parte de la Policía Nacional (varias dotaciones antidisturbios se deplazaron al lugar).

-Martes 27 de octubre (tarde). A la espera de las noticias sobre el aumento o no de la prisión preventiva a Mónica y Francisco, una manifestación convocada con apenas 24 horas de antelación a las 20H –no comunicada, ni legalizada- juntó a casi 400 personas en la Plaza de Tirso de Molina. La concentración echó a andar por el bario del Lavapiés, repartiendo cientos de panfletos, para después subir hacia La Latina a travesar la Plaza Mayor y finalizar en la Plaza de Santa Isabel (metro Ópera). Los furgones policiales siguieron desde la distancia la marcha, pero no hubo ningún incidente reseñable.

-Miércoles 28 de octubre. Con las noticias del aumento de la prisión preventiva para Mónica y Francisco y los nuevos registros y detenciones en Barcelona, una nueva manifestación convocada a las 20H con apenas tiempo –nuevamente no comunicada, ni legalizada- juntó a casi 400 personas en la Plaza de Tirso de Molina. La concentración intentó hacer un recorrido parecido al del día anterior, echando a andar por el bario del Lavapiés, para después subir hacia La Latina y a travesar la Plaza Mayor, tras lo que fue interceptado por la policía antidisturbios, desviando el recorrido hacia la Puerta del Sol y acabar en Tirso de Molina. Finalmente, solo hubo algunas identificaciones al tiempo de finalizar la manifestación en Tirso de Molina y ningún incidente.

-Viernes 30 de octubre. Los 9 compañeros y compañeras detenidas en Barcelona el pasado miércoles eran trasladados a Madrid, para pasar a disposición judicial. Una nueva concentración a las puertas de la Audiencia Nacional convocada desde las 9 de la mañana arropó a los compañeros y compañeras catalanes.

-Sábado 31 de octubre. Una nueva concentración tuvo lugar convocada en la plaza de Lavapiés a las 20H sin comunicar ni legalizar en respuesta a la represión al anarquismo, que salió en manifestación por las calles de Lavapiés. Esta vez la manifestación fue abortada por la policía que atacó lateralmente la cabecera de la manifestación. Se produjeron algunas contusiones y varias personas retenidas a las que se les tomó los datos. Los represores insistieron a las compañeras retenidas que el objetivo de estas identificaciones era sancionar con multas de varios miles de euros.

La represión golpea a unas ideas y unas prácticas que no pueden ser asimiladas por el Estado. Nuestra respuesta a sus golpes fue ponerlas en práctica. Estado, Capital y sus defensores deben saber que encajaremos sus golpes y continuamos y continuaremos en la lucha, sin olvidar a nuestros compañeros y compañeras presas. No habrá tregua hasta la destrucción del Estado y el Capital.

¡Libertad anarquistas presxs!
¡Muerte al Estado y viva la anarquía!
¡Solidaridad y lucha!

n la madrugada del 4 de Noviembre de 2015 la brigada de información ha irrumpido en
las casas de cinco compañeras pertenecientes al colectivo STRAIGHT EDGE MADRID,
registrando hogares e incautando material del colectivo. Los registros han acabado con la
detención de cinco compañeras quienes se encuentran detenidas en la comisaría de
Moratalaz y no podrán hablar con un abogado hasta el próximo día. Se espera que pasen a
disposición judicial el viernes.
Otra operación contra el movimiento anarquista tras la pasada segunda edición de la
Operación Pandora, en donde compañeras de Barcelona (barrios de Gracia, Sant Andreu y
Sants) y en Manresa fueron detenidas por supuesta pertenencia a los GAC (Grupos
Anarquistas Coordinados) y en donde una de ellas se encuentra en prisióon preventiva.
Este mismo año vivíamos hace unos meses en Madrid, Barcelona, Palencia y Granada la
llamada Operación Piñata en donde ocurría lo mismo: registros de hogares y centros
sociales que acabó con la detención de 15 personas acusas de «pertenencia a organización
terrorista».
El pasado Diciembre observamos la llamada Operación Piñata en donde ocurría lo mismo:
la policía irrompió en 14 casas y centros sociales y detuvieron a 11 anarquistas en
Barcelona, Sabadell, Manresa y Madrid.
No podemos olvidar a nuestras compañeras encerradas desde 2013, Monica y Francisco,
quienes desde el primer momento fueron enviadas a la cárcel bajo régimen F.I.E.S
(Ilegalizado por el Tribunal Supremo) acusadas de colocar un aparato explosivo en la
basílica del Pilar en Zaragoza, sin herir a nadie.
Todo esto tiene un solo nombre: Represión. Represión al movimiento anarquista, a las que
luchamos por crear puntos de vista y espacios libres de toda autoridad. No somos ni
culpables ni inocentes, somos anarquistas
Ante su represión nuestra solidaridad como arma.
¡Si ser anarquista es un delito, entonces somos delincuentes!
¡Solidaridad Compañeras detenidas!