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The plan.

To the anarchist “space”

  1. 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

  1. 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..

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

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Conspiracy of Cells of Fire – Urban guerilla cell.