This past September, in Sao Paulo, during some acts at the university a
group of skin heads assaulted members of the anarcho-punk collective. Once
the comrades of the victims were informed of the nazis' presence they went
over and there was a confrontation in which one of the nazis died of a
gunshot. The police arrested Ivam, a young libertarian from the city whom
they accused of being the author, being only one of the victims of the nazi
attack. Finally Ivam was set free.
VARIOUS ANTIFAS
* In September there were serious disturbances when three hundred young
antifascists tried to penetrate a demonstration against the European Union
called by a populist party, in which there was a contingent from the extreme
right. There were hard confrontations with the police and their nazi chums.
*In Barcelona three nazi skins, two of them from Falange Espan~ola de las
JONS (still around? T.N.) were casually arrested in possession of a CETME
assault rifle.
*On October 15th in Barcelona there was an antifascist demonstration that
coincided with the ultra's celebration of the day of hispanicity.
*September 2nd in Oviedo 20 nazis from several cities (Oviedo, Gijon, Leon,
Segovia and Valladolid) marched through the Old Town. Thirty antifascists
that went out looking for them were surrounded by police just as they had
located the nazis. Later there were other incidents.
*Around the first of November a neonazi group in Valladolid was broken up.
Several members were arrested and found in possession of blades, concealed
guns and neonazi propaganda. During the last few months they had committed
multiple attacks.
*On October 31st the press highlighted the assault on a bar owner and his
children by some okupas from Madrid's La Latina district. After barricading
themselves for several hours in the okupied house they surrendered to the
police. Finally it was established that the bar owner is somewhat fascist
and his children two well known nazi skin heads that were denounced by the
okupas. Note that the okupas have no troubles with any other neighbors,
except with the bar owner.
*Recently fourteen antifascists have been condemned, and nine of them jailed
for their participation in a demonstration two years ago en Welling (a
London suburb), when thousends of people tried to attack the headquarters of
the ultrarightist BNP and there were serious disturbances.
* Antifascist concert in Lleida. Friday December 1st, at El Estudio
(Alcoletge). El Oso Yonki, Inadaptats, La Carniceria, Nivel 30 and Tarzan.
1,000 ptas.
*** ANTIFASCISM IN ZARAGOZA: EXPLOSIVE SITUATION ***
The events that took place in the city of Zaragoza during the month of
October and that have peaked with two attempts of arson against the seat of
the Ateneo Libertario and El Acratador are so serious and signal a
qualitative jump very important in nazi groups' performance that we can say
without a shadow of a doubt that they signal a point of inflexion in the
trajectory of the city's antifascist movement.
The brutal knife attack and beating of a young man in Heroismo St., the
group beating of several young men that sprung to the defense of an african
inmigrant in San Miguel St., the brutal aggression of two girls in Lagasca
St., the assault by a group of motorists covered with fascist symbology on
Barrio Latino Bar with the result of one serious and several light injuries,
another young man's beating in Leon XIII St., the ambush and assault upon a
person that was leaving Solidaridad Obrera Libertaria (SOL), the damages at
the hair saloon managed by several people from Guinea in Coso St.,
confrontations between young nazis and antifascists at the Instituto
Jeronimo Zurita and on Vasconia St, the attack on two moroccan inmigrants
and on a member of Rebel in Plaza dela Magdalena, and particularly, the
savage aggression upon four soldiers in Sueiro St. (one of whom was knifed
while the other had his arm broken), would be in itself enough motive to
sound all the alarms but, if this weren't enough, to this we must add the
automobile persecution suffered by a young man previously attacked this past
September and the attempt to shove a young member of SHARP into a car in
Sevilla St.
Both incidents seem to have aggravating characteristics: What exactly did
the nazis pretend to do with these people?. In view of the events it's our
obligation to accept as possible any hypothesis no matter how serious. Two
of the people in the car have been positively identified as Jose Luis Baeta
and Miguel Angel Gutierrez, known nazis implicated in many aggressions and
who were arrested a few days after the attack on the four soldiers.
Notwithstanding their admission to have taken part in the events they were
set free (Jose Luis Baeta was arrested for the seventh time!!). How is it
possible that a known nazi can pursue in a car the same person he attacked
in september (assault trial pending) without being put in preventive arrest?
How deep is the involvement of ultra right judges such as Carlos Lasala in
this business? Where does tolerance end and judge's and police's complicity
begin? What favors pay back the information squealer Jose Luis Baeta gives
and what is his involvement in police framings against antifascists?.
This avalanche of events has been experienced by antifascist circles in
diverse ways. Through several different sources El Acratador has been able
to confirm different acts of response against the nazis among we he note the
fire set at the home of the above mentioned Miguel Gutierrez, which caused
certain damages, and several correctives given to nazi riff raff in several
points of the city. It is significant that the press learned of the arson
attack against CSA Angel Chueca thanks to our information because the police
deliberately hid information on the fire to our local. Writers for the
Heraldo de Aragon admitted that this wasn't the first time something like
this happens. Aparently the police want to avoid a "social alarm". What are
the police guidelines to decide what may cause a "social alarm"?. Ostrich
politics does not solve cases nor fixes problems. Why did the night court
not have even a report about the arson at our Centro Social?.
With respect to the movement, we consider that these are moments in which a
profound analisys of and consideration of the situation and cold blood must
prevail, avoiding for the moment a hard and visceral respose that could lead
to a situation the movement would be unable to assume.
We regard very positively the reorganization and consolidation undertaken by
Plataforma Antifascista de Zaragoza - with five working commissions going
full blast - with the goal of achieving a more rational and fluid
functioning and a faster and more effective response to each situation, both
on an informative as well as a judicial level. On the contrary, it worries
us the attitude that is developing day by day in some members of the
alternative movement and that causes us to ask ourselves to what point are a
lot of people conscious of what's happening, when it's not causing us to
feel pure and strong shame.
Hardly can the people be encouraged to denounce all aggressions when
militants with years of experience still deliberate whether it's worthwhile
to denounce the arson of a political local or when they refuse to politizice
and to make public the trials for nazi aggressions. What kind of moral
authority have we got to attempt to organize the antifascist movement when
matters as primary and obvious as these haven't been resolved yet? What's
happening is very serious: either the antifascist militants own up to the
seriousness of the situation or we retire from the streets. To be
"alternative and antifascist" does not consist solely in sporting a certain
aesthetic, go to a lot of "radikal" concerts or wear t-shirts with "destoy
fascism" on them, but also in accepting a real compromise with struggle that
carries with it a real risk. It's useless to organize one or a thousand
meetings and to edit nonstop antifascist propaganda if, when the wolf sticks
out its ears people run to hide under their beds or suddenly redefine
themselves as "pacifists" after a political trajectory that belies
completely their sudden faith in pacifism. Sincerely, we don't believe. Fear
is human, we all have it, but it is within our dignity to overcome it and
face facism, for as we all know fear is their main weapon. In the Ateneo
Libertario we are clear: we must not give up not for one moment, we must use
(or at least allow to be used) each and every weapons of god and the devil
against fascism, from the judicial-political way to the hardest street
action, but in all cases in a solidary and organized way. Everybody should
own up to this, with all the implicit risks. Only by organizing ourselves in
an efficient way will we be able to win the battle against fascism.
Organization guarantees a greater efficiency and less risks in the political
antifascist struggle than acting spontaneously. We, from the Ateneo
Libertario shout to you a message of struggle and of hope: Go get them!
Together we will sweep them away! Direct action against fascism!.
Kike - C.S.A. Angel Chueca
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