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risks of being a political criminal

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Hello NeverSleep anarchists,

I woke up 4 o’clock in the morning, I decided to visit your website to see is there are some news, and I see you published questions about political criminals, should we spend time with other people and expose/bring them automatically to repression? here is my opinion, I will try to be short, but I see author of zine don’t know so much about spies therefore I must write longer. you can also publish this message on your website because we can not leave comments on articles, therefore I send email to you.

Person who made questions in this zine asked many questions and I can not answer all of that, I can say one short example: I was in Denmark and I said to anarchist (insurrectionist) girl from Croatia: I am followed by danish spies and if I visit anarchists, they will be followed also, therefore it is better that I don’t visit their gatherings and don’t spend time with them. She told me: “we are anarchists and we must accept that we are under repression, we can finish any time in the prison, we must stay together and we should not separate because of repression, it means I should not avoid other anarchists.” it is the same about spending time with illegal immigrants or soup kitchen mentioned in this zine about political criminals, if you are under repression, you should not isolate yourself from others, and others should accept they can finish in the prison because ruling class make repression and nobody can escape from that. so, I answered shortly about many questions from zine.

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no peace

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Reflections on Columbia, the Student Intifada and the Culture of Counterinsurgency

28 October 2024 – by Anonymous

“The concentration of violent power in the hands of the few can occur unopposed if it is done quietly, if unnecessary provocation, which can set a process of solidarity in motion, is avoided—that is something that was learned as a result of the student movement and the Paris May.”

— The Urban Guerilla Concept, The Red Army Faction 1971

 

On 30 April 2024 — the 56th anniversary of the 1968 Columbia University mass arrests — the New York Pig Department besieged Harlem, locked down the entirety of Columbia’s campus, swept the Gaza solidarity encampment, and raided Hind’s Hall. This raid marked the end of the spring of the Student Intifada. Those of us who were at the barricades are still reeling from the experience. There are few moments in our lives where history opens its doors to us. Taking the leap through is disorienting, but the responsibility to make sense of this conjuncture falls squarely on those who take the leap.

Journalists and pundits have chimed in endlessly on the Student Intifada with a particular focus on Columbia University. Many of these pundits were nowhere near the action nor the partisans who made the action happen, thus they often get the basic facts of the action wrong. As one rebel once advised, “No investigation, no right to speak.” Additionally, the political orientation of the commentariat necessitated the silencing and erasure of the most radical flank of the movement. This flank played a vital role in not only the uprising at Columbia, but in the direction of the movement nationally. This essay is an attempt to both correct the record and offer up some political perspectives from a segment of this radical flank.

The next sequence of the Student Intifada remains elusive but it is important that interventions are made to push the movement in the correct direction. A minority with the correct revolutionary line is not a minority.

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