Anarchists sabotage railway signalling in Bristol

[emanymton]

Can't see a thread on this already, sorry if I missed it.

Anarchists sabotage railway signalling in Bristol

So anyone we know?

Great way to win over the working class of course, fuck up their morning commute.

I am interested in the step up in 'militancy' this involves, and I wonder if we will see more of it or is just a one off by a group of people who got pissed one night?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

So this was the reason I was late back into London from Bristol yesterday? Wonderful. Bunch of fucking idiots.

 

[editor]

Fucking dickheads. What an utterly pointless action.

 

[DrRingDing]

Unfortunately this is the reaction their actions generally get.

 

[JHE]

It described Tuesday's actions as guerrilla activity and said it had "no inhibition" about using such methods again. Characterising the Olympics as a "spectacle of wealth" in a time of austerity, it ended the statement saying it wanted "civil war" and that anarchy was "unavoidable".

The "Informal Anarchist Federation" - one stoned student posting his drivel from his flat in Montelier?

 

[8ball]

Unfortunately this is the reaction their actions generally get.

From a good many anarchists, I imagine.

 

[butchersapron]

Can't see a thread on this already, sorry if I missed it.

Anarchists sabotage railway signalling in Bristol

So anyone we know?

Great way to win over the working class of course, fuck up their morning commute.

I am interested in the step up in 'militancy' this involves, and I wonder if we will see more of it or is just a one off by a group of people who got pissed one night?

This isn't a step up at all - there's been television/radio masts attacked, cop cars burnt out, MOD transport attacked, premises torched all sorts, - you've just not heard about it. Despite the dicks carrying it out doing their very best to incriminate themselves via woeful communiques

 

[danny la rouge]

Twats.

 

[chilango]

I, for one, salute my comrades' actions!

obviously I don't - but a queue of people condemning them is going to get boring quickly!

 

[free spirit]

and sabotage to "hurt the national image and paralyse the economy however we can"

What are they doing paraphrasing George Osbourne's budget speeches?

 

[editor]

Burning down TV masts. Yep, that's really going to hit The Man where it hurts

 

[emanymton]

This isn't a step up at all - there's been television/radio masts attacked, cop cars burnt out, MOD transport attacked, premises torched all sorts, - you've just not heard about it. Despite the dicks carrying it out doing their very best to incriminate themselves via woeful communiques

Yeah i was starting to get that from a bit of digging.

 

[Random]

This is the kind of problem with the anarchist label I was thinking about...

 

[Jon-of-arc]

It's not exactly the angry brigade, is it?

 

[gunneradt]

Which is why i always laugh when cable thieves frazzle on the lines

 

[Random]

It's not exactly the angry brigade, is it?

Iirc the Angry Brigade saw themselves as part of a rising tide of workers' struggles in the 1970s; strikes, demonstrations, etc. and saw themselves as a more militant expression of that wider class movement. Whereas this kind of action just seems to be single issue campaigning "war is bad" but prepared to use property damage. Not a new development, of course, but unusual to be claimed as an anarchist action, rather than justified with reference to human rights or christianity.

 

[Captain Hurrah]

fucking nobs.

 

[chilango]

awesome names though:

In Greece:
- Conspiracy of Cells of Fire / FAI / International Revolutionary Front
- International Revolutionary Front / Conspiracy of Cells of Fire / Revolutionary Groups for the Spreading of Terror – Cell of Vandalisms.
- International Revolutionary Front / Terrorist Warriors’ Complicity of the fallen commando John Severino
- International Revolutionary Front / Deviant Behaviors for the Spreading of Revolutionary Terrorism / Cell of Anarchic Action
- Cell of Revolutionary Solidarity – FAI
- Anarchist Revolutionary Front / Deviant Behaviors for the Spreading of Revolutionary Terrorism / Cell of Reflexive Attack
- FAI / Cell of Aggressive Conscience
- International Revolutionary Front / Conspiracy of Cells of Fire / Revolutionary Groups for the Spreading of Terror / Abnormal Cell-Heretics​

In Indonesia:
- FAI Informal Anarchist Federation, Indonesia Section.​

In Mexico:
The two souls of Mexican insurrectionalism (ALF-ELF) and the Autonomous Cells for Immediate Revolution – Praxedis G. Guerrero.
- Informal Anarchist Federation / Acrata
- Earth Liberation Front (ELF) / International Network of Action and Solidarity – Anti-Civilization Informal Group
- Earth Liberation Front (ELF) / Informal Anarchist Federation International Network
- Insurrectional Cell Sole-Baleno of the Autonomous Cells for Immediate Revolution – Praxedis G. Guerrero / FAI
- Commando of Free, Dangerous, Wild and Incendiary Individuals for the Black Plague / FAI / International Network
- Luddites Against the Domestication of Wild Nature / FAI / International Network
- Eco-Anarchist Cell for the Direct Attack / FAI / International Network
- Revolutionary Action Brigade for propaganda by the deed and armed action – Simon Radowisky / FAI / International Network​

In Chile:
- International Revolutionary Front / Insurrectional Commando Aracely Romo
- Commando 8th of December International Coordination FAI​

In Russia:
- ELF Russia Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI) / International Network of Action and Solidarity / International Revolutionary Front​

In Peru:
- Circle of Iconoclastic Action / FAI​

In the Netherlands:
- Conspiracy of Cells of Fire – Dutch Cell​

In England:
- International Informal Anarchist Federation / FAI​

In Italy:
- FAI / Artisans Cooperative of Fire and Affinity (occasionally spectacular) / International Revolutionary Front.
- FAI / 20th of July Brigade / International Revolutionary Front
- FAI / Sisters-in-arms, Mauricio Morales Cell / International Revolutionary Front
- FAI / Lambros Fountas Revolutionary Cell
- FAI / International Solidarity
- FAI / Animal Revolt
- FAI / Horst Fantazzini Revolutionary Nucleus
- FAI / Cell against Capital and Prison and its Jailers and its Cages
- FAI / Armed Cell for International Solidarity
- FAI / Terrible Anonymous Revolt (RAT)
- FAI / Metropolitan Cell
- FAI / Narodnaja Vojla​

 

[bi0boy]

The should burn down an armchair factory

 

[Captain Hurrah]

ALF-ELF

 

[Random]

I knew a Greek who always called himself a libertarian communist, not an anarchist. I think he was eager that people did not think he was a member of the Cells of Fire.

 

[agricola]

I knew a Greek who always called himself a libertarian communist, not an anarchist. I think he was eager that people did not think he was a member of the Cells of Fire.

Out of shame, or because he wanted to claim he was part of "Circle for Iconoclastic Action"?

 

[chilango]

?..but unusual to be claimed as an anarchist action, rather than justified with reference to human rights or christianity.

Not really.

The ELF, who often describe themselves pretty explicitly as anarchists, have been around the almost 20 years.

Much of this stuff seems to be a continuation of that strand mixed with Italian insurrectionism, which has also been around for donkeys years and the Greek groups which I know less about.

 

[frogwoman]

awesome names though:

In Greece:​

- Conspiracy of Cells of Fire / FAI / International Revolutionary Front​

- International Revolutionary Front / Conspiracy of Cells of Fire / Revolutionary Groups for the Spreading of Terror – Cell of Vandalisms.​

​

Proletarian Democracy and its various factions should have comradely discussions with them

 

[frogwoman]

- Anarchist Revolutionary Front / Deviant Behaviors for the Spreading of Revolutionary Terrorism / Cell of Reflexive Attack​

 

[DaveCinzano]

I guess this is a case of the wrong sort of anarchists on the line.

 

[DrRingDing]

I guess this is a case of the wrong sort of anarchists on the line.

Good work

 

[Mrs Magpie]

The "Informal Anarchist Federation" - one stoned student posting his drivel from his flat in Montelier?

In his pyjamas? That sort of informal?

 

[Stoat Boy]

Obviously aint the sharpest tools in the box. They pull off a stunt like this which will no doubt push them up to the top of the shit list for MI5 and/or Special Branch and they do it on some minor provisional line. What does that transport ? Scrumpy ?

They have the whole of the London rail network at their mercy and the whole ripened to bursting point rush hours, at either end of the day but instead they go for somewhere obscure that nobody gives a shit about.

No Gods, No Masters ? More like no brains. Divs.

 

[danny la rouge]

What does that transport ? Scrumpy ?

People.