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Émile Henry’s Defense & Émile Henry Letter to the Director of the Conciergerie

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It is not a defence that I present to you. I am not in any way seeking to escape the reprisals of the society I have attacked. Besides, I acknowledge only one tribunal — myself, and the verdict of any other is meaningless to me. I wish merely to give you an explanantion of my acts and to tell you how I was led to perform them.
I have been an anarchist for only a short time. It was as recently as the middle of the year 1891 that I entered the revolutionary movement. Up to that time, I had lived in circles entirely imbued with current morality. I had been accustomed to respect and even to love the principles of fatherland and family, of authority and property.
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Sul 22 febbraio a Nantes (ZAD)

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Torniamo a distanza di poco più di un mese sul 22 febbraio scorso, per proporvi un gustoso e dettagliato racconto di quanto accaduto quel giorno a Nantes, durante la manifestazione nazionale contro l’aeroporto di Notre Dame Des Landes. Proprio negli ultimi giorni, e precisamente lunedì 31 marzo, sono state arrestate, per aver partecipato a questa manifestazione, nove persone che si aggiungono alle 14 arrestate il 22 febbraio. Chi volesse conoscere meglio questa lotta può consultare il sito Zone A Défendre che è sempre aggiornato e che contiene anche dei testi in italiano, per chi invece volesse ascoltare un racconto a caldo della giornata riproponiamo qui l’intervento a Radio Blackout di una compagna che c’era:
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The Revolutionary Illusion (en/fr)

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Le Rétif

“Humanity marches enveloped in a veil of illusions,” a thinker – Marc Guyau – said. In fact, it seems that without this veil men aren’t capable of marching. Barely has reality torn a blindfold from them than they hasten to put on another, as if their too-weak eyes were afraid to see things as they are. Their intelligence requires the prism of falsehood.
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Sous pavillon de complaisance

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Bref survol des thèses révisionnistes

Introduction

Le recueil de lettres personnelles, glanées au fil du temps, que j’édite n’a pas pour objectif de présenter la énième étude, plus ou moins exhaustive et inédite, de l’antisémitisme, en particulier de celui qui apparaît sous divers pavillons de complaisance à prétention révolutionnaire.
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Call for antifascist counter-protests on April 5th, 2014

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On January 26th, the fascist organizers of the “Day of Anger” march gathered many of their militants in Paris.

They paraded with clearly anti-Semitic slogans and Nazi salutes. Neo-Nazi groups (such as the Petainists youth) were alongside the National Front (FN) politicians, as well as many representatives of clearly fascist movements: royalists, religious extremists, negationists, […]

Contro la scienza delle sommosse (it/fr) 2000

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Observatoire de téléologie
Non solo non è mai esistita una scienza delle sommosse, ma sembra proprio che, a meno di un’eccessiva deriva del concetto di sommossa, non possa esistere. Lo garantiscono i limiti della sommossa stessa. Poiché ciò che nega prima di tutto questo atto offensivo collettivo, è l’organizzazione. Se la mitica spontaneità della sommossa è un amalgama abbastanza grossolano, c’è sempre in questo genere di rivolta una immediatezza, un che di inatteso, una subitaneità che sfugge alla preparazione. Così come la rivolta si basa sull’incontro e sul piacere, essa si distingue per l’irrazionalità e l’imprevisto.

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Abyss

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L’Encyclopedie des Nuisances

A bottomless chasm, or at any rate one that cannot be plumbed, we call an abyss. What of the gulf into which this society of dispossession is plunging before our very eyes? That there may be no end to this descent, or that it may end only with the self-destruction of the human race — these are, of course, mere hypotheses, much like the famous “China syndrome” itself. The crushing presence of such a possibility, however, already sits in judgment over all human actions and governs the construction of the various “safety barriers” whereby a world at war with its own power hopes to avoid a terrifying end by surviving in an endless terror. The real question is therefore: How many Chernobyls will be needed before the truth of the old slogan “Revolution or death!” is recognized as the last word of the scientific thought of this century?

That the demand for life itself has now become a revolutionary programme is demonstrated, at least negatively, by the following fact: carried farther and farther into madness by the necessities of their dominance, those social forces that would once have been described as conservative are no longer concerned even with the conservation of the biological bases for the survival of the species. Quite the opposite, because they are in fact bent on the methodical destruction of those bases. The dimensions of the gulf that they are digging for us are forever being calculated and recalculated, right down to the likely speed of our descent into it, right down to the bottom line — which is, in the event, the lifespan of cesium or plutonium. For this society is mad in Chesterton’s sense: it has lost everything except its reason — everything except that abstract rationality of the commodity that is its ultimate raison d’etre, and the one that has outlasted all the others. No doubt one could find other ruling classes in history which, having lost all historical perspective beyond that of their own survival, sank into a suicidal irresponsibility; but never in the past has a ruling class been able to press such vast means into service of such a total contempt for life.
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