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Those who are materially realized by those who decided
to attack this world here and now, or those who are made
public by the mass media and/or the means of counter
information? In theory, this is not the same thing, but
in practice, it is. An action which is not made public,
of which the echo doesn’t reach the ears of others, is
for many people as if it never happened. Such an action
has a meaning for the enemy, but not for the friend or
the comrade. And the enemy knows this, he is very well
aware of it, and that’s why since years he decided to apply and adopt the old Mussolinian lesson in this matter:
as much as possible making any act of revolt invisible
by always remaining silent about it, or by blaming it to
other causes (technical problems, mafia rackets, etc.).
What to do when confronted with a silence which prevents the event of existing because it isn’t elevated to
the rank of a news item? The easiest way is to answer to
the call of the spectacle, to penetrate in his flowerbed by
choosing a logo and by spreading real press communiques under the form of staggering responsibility claims.
In this case, the news report is so assured to exist that in
a certain way, it is even making the action superfluous.
Today, it is enough to paint a threatening slogan on a
wall, signed with the right logo, to be represented with a
lot of noise on the front page.

two sorts of problems immediately present themselves.
The first problem is that the communication prolongs
the risk of the action, a risk not all are willing to take.
The second problem is that nowadays, there aren’t any
means of counter information in which everyone can
recognize oneself. Internet offers for example numerous
possibilities; but a certain amount of comrades are not at
all agreeing to trust the expression of their real rage to a
so virtual instrument. And for the publications on paper,
they have almost completely disappeared, and the ones
still going around (the embarrassing and instrumental
pretension set aside) only represent those who make
them, and some persons who pretend to read them.

Conversely, those who distrust the media sirens find
themselves constrained to defy a disrememberance
which could be demoralizing on the long run, or to resort to means of counter information. But in this case,

How can we make these facts exists without answering
to any call? We may hope that posing the problem is a
first step to trying to solve it.

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The result of all this is that the direct actions existing
today (those who are known) are, in our opinion, numerically much less t