The plan.
To the anarchist “space”
- The call.
Every call for action, like “Black December”, is an attempt to coordinate our forces. It is an effort to
interrupt the normal flow of reality. It is a plan to invade it with our own characteristics and subvert
- It is a poll of our desire for anarchy here and now, and of our ability to confront the forces
of order. It is an occasion for people acquainted or not, to meet in the action field and try to raid to
the palaces of the state, organized and abruptly. It is an international signal of complicity to all the
comrades within and outside the walls that strengthens our solidarity. It is an anarchist agreement
which confirms that there are people in all corners of the earth, that without speaking the same
language, they coordinate the pulse of their hearts, align their gaze facing the enemy, clench their
fists , wear a hood and attack against the social engine of authority, its structures and its relations.
The call of “Black December ” had such moments …
And now what? Back to normality?
Each call for action may be just a snapshot of revolt repeating itself, waiting for the next
anniversary, the next opportunity , the next ” Call ” or it maight turn to an appointment with
history …
To all those for whom anarchy means “I burn behind me the bridges of capitulation and of social
peace”, the anarchist action has not any date of beginning or end…
Thus, the bet of “Black December ” actually unlocks a larger bet. A bet for those whose
calendar of attack is constantly stuck in today, here and now. The challenge of creating an
autonomous anarchist pole for the organization of the anarchist urban guerrilla.
2) Memory is not garbage.
« Black December ” was an open call to everyone, but was mainly recorded as a point of reference
for the insurrectionary, the anarchist-nihilists,the young comrades, the non aligned, the
“troublemakers” against the state ( and partly against the inactivity of the official ‘anarchst space’,
against its pacifist transformation).
We are not going to refer that much to the call of “Black December”.Each call for action is an
instance of a more comprehensive history that preceded and perhaps the accelerator of a
perspective that follows.
There would be no “Black December” if there was no November, October, September … there
would be no anarchist urban guerrilla if there were no clashes in demos, barricades and
molotov cocktails, there would be no revolt in 2008 if there were no arsonists and commando
attacks the three previous years, there will be no perspective if there is no memory.
Through time, anarchy gives -internally- birth to its anarchist overcoming. It gives birth to
trends (anarchist individualism, anarshist nihilism, insurrectionary anarchy e.t.c.) with the most
sharpened corners, which choose to move at the edge of the movement, of the “space”, of
revolution… Sometimes such trends act as a detonator for anarchy, raising the bar of the
anarchist attack and sometimes cannibalizing each other full of conceit and arrogance…
In Greece the appearance of heretic trends within the “space” is as old as the “space”itself.. Trends
that either declined and turned into circles of artistic intellectuals (eg situationists) or were
assimilated and integrated in the official “space”… All of them though, have left their mark in a
story that’s never ending.
In 2005, a circle of people opens in public, in a very visible way (posters, magazine, participation in
meetings) the challenge of upgrading the anarchist violence, with the slogan “think revolutionary –
act offensive”. Appears, now more organized and constant public presence An insurrectionary
tendency that aims not only at the state and the authority but also at the complicity of social
apathy, appears now, more organised and with a constant public presence. Meanwhile, the issue of
work refusal opens in public, with armed bank robberies as its cutting edge… In fact, the partial
thematic of work refusal, twinkles the eye and is actually the prologue of discussions on the
diffusal of the anarchist urban guerrilla. Out of this diffusible mobility (arsons, robberies,
commando attacks, assemblies such as Coordination of Action) was in January 2008 the
Conspiracy of Cells of Fire was born. The Conspiracy of Cells of Fire emerges as the
organized expression of an heretic anarchist trend with a clear orientation to the armed
struggle and references to anarchist individualism, to nihilism, the revolution of everyday life
and criticism in the state-society complex.
There was, Of course, it was not this trend that gave birth to the insurrection of December 2008. A
revolt cannot be cpyrighted or owned.
But it was mainly the trend that had the reflexes to accelerate some of the most conflicting
events which occurred in December 2008, since the small core structures were already
operating regular coordinated attacks.
iii) Catching up with today
The first arrests for Conspiracy of Cells of Fire at September 2009(the case of Chalandri) created a
storm of fear. The majority of the heretic trend (anarcho-nihilists, anarcho-individualists, antisocials
etc) bowed at the panic of oppression, integrated at the security of the “official” anarchist
movement, and their big words about “revolution or death” were left behind like a rotting carcass,
looking like betrayal. Those who were realizable, were a few comrades who remained unshakeable
and wanted to continue what has been started… But for all these things, many has been said and
written… Today, a big part of the anarchist movement has been living with the imprint of defeat, the
fear of oppression, with the lost opportunity of an uprising that never came to be in these times of
economic crisis, of introversion, of informal hegemonies. However, the consignment that’s been left
cannot be determined when will be of use and certainly nothing is lost forever. The last two years, a
new generation of our anarchist trend is making an appearance from the debris of the past, making
their own course. A trend that has been created not so much because of the mutual political
characteristics but because of the mutual desire for something different from what it already exists
in the anarchist movement in Greece. A trend that appears more homogenized than it really is due to
those who criticize with depiction. In reality it’s a wave of people that includes from conscious
comrades to persons that just hate police and want to make an outbreak..
- iv) The clash of old and new
Every birth is violent. Every new wave that is born is questioning and clashing against its womb,
wanting to cut the umbilical cord. Intertemporarily, all heresies that are born inside the anarchist
movement have targeted with their incandescent critique the old structures. Respectively, the senate
of the anarchist movement, if they cannot take in the new by projecting the infallible of their
inveteracy, then they will fight it with the senile fear of change. Especially today, it seems that the
connection of communication between old and new has been lost permanently… The reasons are
many, but history doesn’t wait for our introversion. What is urgent is a new idea, a plan for the
continuation of the struggle. Every new anarchist wave is often discovering itself by stating what
they hate in the “official” anarchist movement. The critique against the immobility of the movement
many times supplanters the critique against the tyranny of authority. We now think that the inner
situation of the anarchist movement is polarized more than ever. That’s why it’s the time for the next
step. The new anarchist trend can abolish the introversion, be self-determined and create its own
autonomous political anarchist movement.
Remembrance is a basic component of this effort. We remember our past experiences, not to imitate
them, but to exceed them. The fact that the new anarchist wave is suffering from lack of
organization in procedures and assemblies, because they think that this is a characteristic of the
bureaucracy of the official anarchist movement, it’s like they are bestowing this to them.
The organization, the assembly, the political procedures don’t have copyrights. They are means of
struggle that are determined through the political persons who are taking part in them… The
aphorism and the supposedly unconventional attitude like “I don’t care about the procedures, I’ll do
what I want…” is a perverse conservation and a fear against the punctuality and responsibility that
an anarchist needs in order to partake in the urban guerrilla warfare. A tool doesn’t have a positive
or negative hue, contrariwise, they way that tools are used has. A political assembly is bureaucratic
when the people that are taking part are bureaucrats. Nevertheless, an assembly can be a living
procedure of conformation, coordination and propulsive analysis, a mean of personal and collective
development. Let us now create our own political procedures, without bureaucracy, our own
assemblies without jabbers, our own organizations without ranks… Let’s us construct our own
infrastructures for the armed bust against the empire of authority.
- v) The 5 points- for an autonomous and offensive anarchist trend
Anarcho-nihilism, anarcho-individualism and in general the more offensive anarchist heresies, are
not “accidents” in the history of anarchy, but on the contrary, they are the most promoted parts of it.
These trends can now constitute an autonomous political movement.
A movement that doesn’t seek the absolute agreement in theoretical gospel truth and the statutes of
ideological clarity. A movement that doesn’t blackmail for an aggregate identification of views, but
one that recognizes the political kinship of the groups and individuals who take part and meet in 5
basic characteristics First of all, we are anarchists regardless of our particular mentions (nihilists,
insurgents, individualists etc). As anarchists we do not recognize not only the state and authority,
but also not any central committee of “revolution”, no ideological expert, not any hierarchical
relationship in our interior. We organize based on aformalism and coordination of groups and
individuals of political kinship. Secondly, the polemic against the state and authority doesn’t leave
beyond approach the social connivance of silence, the apathy and obsequiousness. We attack with
actions against the state of officials and their structures, but at the same time we want with our
address to blow up the social relationships that make acceptable and sometimes procreate the
authority in everyday life. Thirdly, we support the International of Anarchists Federation. We desire
that our hostilities in the interior of the states we are living to be connected as moments of an
overall anarchist war internationally. We are exchanging ideas, we are sharing experiences, we are
creating solidarity relationships and we pursue to constitute an international anarchist federation
where the fragments of an explosion in Santiago Chile will reach to Athens and then multiply…
Fourthly, we do not give up on our imprisoned comrades. Our offensive solidarity is the retaliation
for their captivity. This doesn’t mean identification with their views. The prisoners are not sacred
idols, nor symbols of struggle, BUT they are those who are missing from our sides… The
consequence of all these imprisoned comrades who remain unrepentant in the prisons and don’t
grow thin, is a proof that the struggle is worth… Finaly, we promote the diversity in anarchist
actions. We are able to create our own squats, our own political procedures, assemblies, groups, our
publishing ventures, our means of information media. Howbeit, because often the invocation of
diversity becomes the alibi of marginalization of armed anarchist practices, we need to make clear
that diversity doesn’t reproduce itself. The squats, the posters, the events, the printings, the media of
information that are retrenching in the borders of perseverance of their ventures, are turning to
island of supposedly-freedom without threatening authority. The authentic diversity of the struggle
essentially has to support and promote the armed clash with the system. It is the encounter of the
movement with the insurgent realm. It is the rite of passage from theory to action, from the
serendipitous to the organized, from the fortuitous to the planned.
It is propaganda through action.
These five key points (some have been reported previously in texts of the Conspiracy of Cells of
Fire and the FAI – see “Fire and Gunpowder”) are the elements of a proposal that is open to all those
interested in participating, in enriching, in criticizing, in working it out.
In no case does it constitute an ideological fence, but instead an occasion for practical discussion. At
the core of the proposal for the establishment of an autonomous space of heretic anarchist trends, is
consciousness.
The first collective project where consciousness is actually tested, is an anarchist group. In the
context of this discussion’s propulsion, we will cite in public in the coming months a number of
personal texts of some imprisoned comrades of the Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire (Olga
Economidou, George Polydoros, Christos and Gerasimos Tsakalos).
The experiences, concerns and the prospect of the project of an anarchist group through personal
narratives are no instructions for the armed practice, but certainly have to contribute to the debate
on the urban guerrilla and its propulsion. Besides, the experience cannot be transferred. That ‘s why
the bet is to move from theory to action.
As an initiation of this discussion we ‘ll publicize in a few days the pamphlet of comrade in
Conspiracy of Cells of Fire Gerasimos Tsakalos ”Individualities and Anarchist Groups “which will
soon be released in print … From reading … to complicity …
Conspiracy of Cells of Fire – Urban Guerilla Cell.
Informal Anarchist Federation – F.A.I.