Fire to the Prisons #3

Insurrectionary Anarchist Quarterly From A Longing For Collapse
for a borderless and razor-edged revolutionary solidarity.
June 2008

As anarchists, revolutionary anarchists, it is obvious we are mutually in opposition to the order of capitol and the state, among other things of course (all institutions of domination and control). What we seem to lack here, specifically in the cascades of the northern United States, is revolutionary solidarity. Solidarity is not synonymous with charity or another moral service done in hopes of rewards of good fortune. Sadly this seems all to often the mentality when one is asked to show solidarity with a captured comrade. An anarchist is taken hostage by the state and all we do is donate money? Clearly money is needed for legal support, and surely those sisters and brothers locked away appreciate it dearly; however, revolutionary solidarity is not just holding benefits and fundraisers, teach-ins and letter writing groups. Revolutionary solidarity is solidarity in action, revolutionary solidarity is in a continued struggle and attack.
Some of the simplest lessons can be learned from the anarchists in Greece on this matter. A comrade held for bank robbery is beaten in prison by the guards, anarchists show support outside of the prison followed by attacks on banks, along with those who defend the current social order, the police. In the states, the police were fought against after attacking demonstrators at a port in Olympia W.A, then within a few months police were again confronted for their brutal acts of violence against us all and were forced to leave their vehicle to the rage of spectators at a dead prez show, then in weeks following that, others attacked banks in Bremerton W.A, leaving a trail of notes attached to bricks addressed to those who perpetuate the existence of a suffocating life of poverty. These acts are acts of revolutionary solidarity in and of themselves. To see fellow anarchists taking a stand and striking at the very mechanisms and institutions that wish to see us enslaved, to see their hollow authority struck down, and then acting to maintain and escalate this degree of resistance, to join in this struggle for absolute agency over every aspect of our lives, by fighting those who wish it otherwise, this is revolutionary solidarity.

taken from the article "Some thoughts on revolutionary solidarity" by Run A. Crow

other content:
-Riot 2010! Indigenous and insurrectionary anarchist resistance to the Olympics and 2010.
-Social War in Chile- Mapuche resistance in chile and insurrectionary solidarity.
-Revolutionary Solidarity (article and reports)
-Prisoner Updates (reports)
-An Army of One: Breaking away from the deception of political efficiency
-Some Bridges can be Burnt
-As i walk through the valley of darkness. I mostly walk alone.


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