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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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Not Liking Someone Doesn’t Mean They’re a Cop: On Bad-jacketing

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Since the commencement of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, millions around the world have taken to the streets in support of Palestine against the genocidal Zionist entity. We are, globally, in an unprecedented moment of anti-imperialist mobilisation, which threatens not only the Zionist occupation but the colonial powers that uphold it.

This text was written through the summer and early autumn of 2024 from Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee territory (so-called Southern Ontario, Canada), where people, many new to the left, have been facing intensified violence and harassment from both police and Zionists. Protests are regularly met with arrests and other attacks, which have created a climate of fear among attendees and organisers.

At the same time, that fear, combined with a disconnect from previous generations of struggle and an often-unchallenged fear of militancy, has led to practices that end up putting our comrades in more danger. This text hopes to address one such recurring issue.

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A Friend of Mine or a Friend of Ours? – An Essay On Vouching

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Zine: A Friend of Mine or a Friend of Ours? – An Essay On Vouching

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Vouching means different things to different anarchists. For some, to vouch for a person means the vouchee is felt to be trustworthy and competent enough for an action. For others, vouching means that the voucher has concrete evidence of the trustworthiness and competence of the vouchee, and is willing to stake their reputation on that evidence.

To agree on whether to vouch for someone or not, we need to be clear about what we mean by vouching. We propose three components of a vouch that might be helpful in discussing that meaning: trustworthiness, competence, and the voucher’s reputation.

Trustworthiness refers to whether or not the vouchee has or will intentionally or unintentionally assist law enforcement. This includes that the vouchee is not currently, and has never been, a law enforcement agent or worked for law enforcement as an infiltrator, that the vouchee has never been a confidential informant and is not currently one, that the vouchee will not intentionally or unintentionally reveal information to those not involved in the action, and that the vouchee will not cooperate with any investigation in the future, even if facing prison time.

Competence refers to whether the vouchee is mentally and physically capable of doing the proposed action, including not abandoning the action before it starts, not having a panic attack during the action, and not becoming physically incapacitated during the action.

Reputation refers to the consequence of giving a bad vouch. Depending on the severity of the violation, and risk of the action, the reputational consequences could range from not taking the voucher seriously in the future, to not doing actions with the voucher or vouchee ever again, to retribution against the voucher and the vouchee for deception or gross incompetence.

Below we give additional detail on the strength of evidence that can be used to assess the trustworthiness and competence of a vouchee, along with a short discussion of the voucher’s reputation, and the consequences of a bad vouch.

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