Introduction
Dear comrades,
given that the trial of Aachen has passed by far the
limits of our patience and that the farce got a
spectacular and “circus-like” dimension, I see myself
obliged to bring forth a brief summary of what we all
lived through till this day... Of course the comrades
present here will cover all this in more detail and
depth in a Dossier.
“THE SOLIDARITY”
Before beginning I want to express my affection and
revolutionary complicity with all the comrades who
have travelled from all points of Europe to be present
and show their SOLIDARITY... Comrades who have filled
our hearts with warmth in the icy tribunal room...
Comrades who had to endure humiliating searches and
controls of all types... Comrades who have been
filmed on video, got their personal data registered in
files which were later sent to repressive organisms...
Comrades who have been sentenced to economical fines
(or to imprisonment) and evicted from the court room
as the solidari@s of the 20th of April or of the 25th
of August when they were also dragged out by force and
with police violence.
And also to the comrades during the solidarity days of
the 13th till the 19th of March followed up in
different cities in Spain, France, Belgium, the
Netherlands, etc.
A brotherly embrace also for the SOLIDARITY of the
groups of the F.A.I. in Italy and other comrades
impassioned with the insurrectionalist revolt... And
let’s not forget the 4th of May when many comrades in
many parts of the world took the streets...
A SOLIDARITY so beautiful and revolutionary, so full
of love and struggle, demonstrating to ourselves that
our project and affinity are neither a “utopia” nor a
“nice theory” that it dies buried by “walls”,
“borders” and/ or windbags... Nobody can detain that
which is inevitable, that which depends on ourselves,
on our will and our passion !!
It is my desire that this SOLIDARITY extends to all
imprisoned comrades in the world... i have in mind
proper names not from the past but from this century
who suffer from the isolation imposed upon them not so
much by our natural enemies but sadly enough by a good
part of the movement that calls itself “anarchist”...
In the “movement” sometimes “adjectives” are used as
“the Marini case”, “the O.R.A.I. case, “the four of
Córdoba”, “those of Valencia, “the five of Barcelona”,
“Operation Black Out”, “Operation Croce Nera”, etc.
Of course it is a way of talking to know what we are
talking about when we communicate, but sometimes it is
also “a way of understanding” (interpreting) that
which is happening within the movement...
With this I want to say that we are not isolated cases
(we are “isolated” by those who have an interest in
it) but conscious rebels (consequent anarchists) who
do not wait for the “miracle” of the arousing up of
masses who have nothing revolutionary, but we join the
collectivities and individuals who do not ask
permission to be free and oppose all authority... One
time we accompany the revolt, the other time we
provoke it...
We have rejected the “reformism” and the “defence” of
“all and everything” by the “Humanists” and “Mystics”
who believe and think that the State and its
institutions are things that can be “improved”
“gradually” by the action of the “masses”...
We are some who believe that the moment has come to
attack and destroy what doesn’t serve us and to the
contrary enslaves and destroys. In contrast with the
concept of the Masses, we propose that of the
Community of conscious individuals who do not search a
centre... a Community of groups and individuals “at
the margin” and “against” the project of Dominion in
all its aspects : economical, technological, political,
social, architectural, etc.
“Resistence and Attaque !!”
Comrades, let’s not waste time and energy in
discussions with those who live of words and for
words, ours is the Action !!
Let’s make that our own existences and desires are
expressed by means of our acts and actions !!
Let us join and demonstrate our solidarity and
complicity with those who arouse our sympathy and who
do not let themselves be governed, exploited
prostituted and domesticated by the diverse powers of
the State, its institutions and Capital.
As I said, we are not “cases” and even less
“vanguards” but rebels and revolutionaries in struggle
against Dominion and Domination... And as Rebels and
Revolutionaries we carry each other in our hearts and
our acts/actions...
Short time ago I read a very interesting book of
Miguel Amorós (editor : Muturreko Barutazloak) titled
“Las Armas de la crítica”. One of the articles :
“Technology and the dissolution of classes” is one of
the best I have recently been reading (and without too
much intellectual jerking-of) about this question. But
the entire book is very interesting (let’s say
“booklet” because unfortunately it only contains 104
pages).
As important as action are reading, discussions,
meetings, exchanges of texts, experiences, etc, etc.
We don’t have to take as a fact that the circumstances
and forms of understanding the struggles are
“identical” in all states. Of course, our relations
(formal or informal) are based on the reciprocal
acquaintances between individuals and affinity groups,
but this doesn’t mean that the political-social-etc
conditions, circumstances and discussions
(experiences) of every “nation” and in extension
“movement” (“knowledge”, “consciousness”, “practices”)
are identical... Therefore the job of translating and
distributing “interesting” texts in different
languages is very appreciated and necessary...
I have become conscious of this fact (of its
importance) when I came in contact and took part in
political discussions with comrades of “northern
Europe”. This is no “criticism” - please, I do not
want to confuse things and be misunderstood - but a
reality which hampers the theoretical understanding
and thus the extension of our project...
We want, we desire the same as all those who
desperately love freedom and do not want to wait “in
resignation” for I don’t no which type of
“revolutionary subject” and/or objective-subjective
condition”...
As in the “prehistory” of the “Working Class Movement”
at the congress of the A.I.T. rose the
_expression-concept of “the revolution will be the work
of the working class movement or will not be”, today
we have to say the same only without this
“revolutionary subject”... It might be : “the
insurrection will be the work of the
insurrectionalists or will not be” !! Or, if you want,
the revolt ; because there is no revolution without
insurrection, and neither is there an insurrection
which is not preceded by an accumulation of revolts.
This “graveyard peace” can only be disturbed when we
“amongst ourselves” are capable to create a
revolutionary consciousness which doesn’t reside (at
least not in western Europe) in a “working class” as
in the old days but in “something” which we all
together still have to clarify...
(...)
“The PLOT of Aachen”
I return to the theme of our trial in Aachen.
It’s clear it is all about our desire to keep our
freedom, but in the hands of the different authorities
and “mass-mierda” it has all changed in a repugnant
spectacle and theatre...
Remember that the first “official investigations”
talked (Interpol-Madrid) about contacts with ETA and
the “International Anarchist Movement” ( ??). From the
side of the Germans (B.K.A. y L.K.A.), they talked
about a Gang of dangerous raiders known as “Gentlemen”
presumably responsible for 14 bank robberies. They
also talked about contacts with members of the
“radical left” (se referring to two comrades of Red
Help Dresden who, when informed about our detention,
asked for a visiting permission) with whom we would
plan to rob some banks and weapon shops in the city
mentioned.
OK, this is in great strokes the police frame up,
reproduced and exaggerated by the sensationalist
press. And of course, I almost forgot, the
I-don’t-know-how-many murder attempts of police men
which also proved to be another police fantasy...
What remains of all this ? An escape which escalated
and ended after detaining two persons and robbing a
car followed by a traffic accident. And the attempt to
charge José with an expropriation of a bank and my
sister with “complicity” in this.
From the beginning, José and me took all the
responsibility for the events which took place in
Aachen. As well the witnesses as the “hostages”
confirmed our version that as well Bart as my sister
didn’t participate in any illegal act whatsoever
(don’t forget that my sister suffered four months in
prison and that Bart continues to be in custody till
today...).
Really outrageous is the fact that the tribunal
persists in its obstinacy to not hear the witnesses of
the defence : human rights organisations, specialists
in tortured people, reports about the F.I.E.S., etc.
... even when the judge “Dr. Nohl” who presides the
Tribunal said in one of the sessions (sic) “don’t
worry, all matters will be treated here”... Obviously,
just another lie...
Silence, “security measures”, arrogance and
mistreatment... That is all what he have received as
“defence”...
In short, comrades, I couldn’t expect much from a
bourgeois legality which didn’t even take care to keep
up the appearances... And I want that all know this
and make up their own conclusions... Protesting is
“the minimum” what one can do when a comrade is
imprisoned...
(...)
And I leave it for now, cause my fingers are painful
from writing and I have some more “work” waiting.
These letters are a handful of considerations that I
wanted to share with you all... A way to keep the
spark alive... the promethean fire of the Rebellion...
My thoughts and my heart are with all of you, although
the judge wants to keep me/us isolated in his Tribunal
and the screws want to keep me/us in their prisons...
Words for the social war
Viva la Anarquía !!
Gabriel