PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR SABOTAGING THE ECONOMY,
OBSTRUCTING WAR, DAMAGING THOSE WHO FINANCE IT
Lacking the will to manifest an impotent presence, with
little interest in fanning nay simulated and generic humanitarian pacifism, we
try to spread some methods for rendering the life of the mass destroyers
difficult and, possibly, to liberate ourselves from their presence.
Outside of the institutions, the unions and the more or less
oppositional political forces that offer their services in false and
spectacular contestations, we desire to build passages of self-organization
that allow individual or collective, transitory or extended, violent or
nonviolent practices of direct action to extend and travel, but without any
longer being restrained by the dam of legality.
What we would want to sow therefore is nothing other than
the seed of revolt.
- Not getting gas at Exxon-Mobil distributors (that supply
fuel for the military vehicles in Iraq); cutting the pumps or sealing the slots
of the automatic payment machines with silicon; when necessary chewing gum
inserted deeply or a little spray bottle to obscure windows and screens of
distributors can be useful; at the limit attaching a sheet of paper with the
writing: “OUT OF ORDER”. Remember that other petroleum companies are no
different, Exxon-Mobil simply won the contract; thus the same methods can be
used for them as well.
- Boycotting the payment of taxes, bills, rent: refusing all
tribute to the institutions; more generally, not accepting selling your life
(working) in order to have what you need to buy survival; refusing the
domination of property and considering everything that pleases you as yours,
taking it without asking permission of anyone.
-Deserting the working places positions school rooms and
causing them to be deserted; occupying the schools and universities, blockading
those places that form our daily prisons and declaring the authoritarian
indoctrination of deans and teachers now empty and meaningless; if the
situation doesn’t allow this, walling up the entrances or putting silicon into the
locks, preventing opening and access; doing the same to workplaces; spreading
general strike.
-Taking back the paths, the plazas, the streets, carefully
choosing those that are most central and trafficked; occupying them and holding
them, interrupting the rhythms that daily make us slaves and lunatics
(obviously without asking for authorization from the police station or the
civil governor); involving drivers; constructing total blockades.
-Avoiding locking oneself into the cage of pro-institutional
opposition (let’s remember that the majority of the political forces that now
oppose the war supported the one for Kosovo and those that even then opposed it
did so because, from the bottom of their parliamentary impotence, they were not
called to submit to the rules of international capital) or in organization that
are not structures horizontally; in the plaza refuse their (or any other)
services of order, opposing total autonomy to them.
- Resisting repressors of every sort; spreading the refusal
of their role; if possible passing to the counter-attack and driving them out
(at least when they don’t renounce upholding their unfortunate function) from
the cities; demolishing their vehicles and offices; if violence against people
or even against things is repugnant to you, organize and integrate forms of
defense and passive resistance.
Remember that in any
state in the world, anyone who puts on a uniform has chosen to obey orders in
exchange for the legal power to coerce, to force others into obedience, into
the renunciation of freedom. And that these uniforms are not different from any
other uniform worn, least of all by those who trample down the Iraqi population
-Keeping in mind that the war in Iraq, like all wars, and
like the war that is carried out against humanity every day is the fruit of the
economic-political system to which we are subjected; that therefore, only by
freeing ourselves definitively from the state and capital (present on the
territory in their various forms), of every sort of regurgitation and
reproposition of them, we might finally take control of our existence.
--humanliberation