want such “ points of reference ”, why are they important and what are the problems with it . How can we create spaces of struggle in which not only anarchists , but also other rebels could find each other and eventually coordinate some struggle initiatives ? ( 5 )
At the same time , the plans for building new prisons have been puzzled out and we started to spread the proposal for diffuse attack against the builders , architects , promoters , managers and other responsibles . These same companies and institutions are also active in lots of other projects to change the face of Brussels and are therefore within reach of hand of anyone willing to put sticks in the machinery of the State . Media or “ alternative media ” gave echo of some attacks and sabotages ( 6 ) which happened in this perspective , but it is clear we cannot rely on the informations power is willing to give away : only in the spaces of the struggle itself we can verify the extent and depth which this proposition is taking . We think that one should also point towards the materiality of what is making the reinforced control of the population and the continuation of exploitation in these modern times possible : the flows of information and energy are actually the veins of every city-prison , veins which for sure can be cut . ( 7 )
For the moment , we want to try to extend our terrains of intervention by bringing the agitation also to other areas in Brussels , and even to other cities . We should also still mention that the place where they want to build the new prison is just next to the “ last village ” of Brussels , in Haren . Of course , the atmosphere is quite different than the one in the neighbourhoods of Brussels , but we still consider it important to also have a presence in this village , even if it would be only to demonstrate that other ways than juridical oppositions or mediatic interventions are possible to obstruct and sabotage the construction of the new prison . ( 8 )
To still spend some words on the relations with the inside of the prisons : in February 2014 , an uprising took place in the prison of Hasselt , followed a few weeks later by one small riot in Leuven and a revolt in the juvenile detention center of Everberg .
These riots gave courage to those who want to fight , but are often confronted with the resignation of others . One should know that the big majority of the fighters inside are for the moment being submitted to very harsh conditions of individual regimes or isolation while another part of those who lived the beautiful years of uprisings are luckily on the outside now . Also concerning the prisons , we think today we should take the initiative to break the repressive encirclement , determining ourselves the times and the conditions to put up a fight rather than exhaust oneself with answering to every repressive maneuver . And this , as well on the inside as on the outside . Several attempts in this direction are being made , linking the struggle on the inside with the struggle against the new prisons .
Our goal is unequivocal , as well towards the comrades as towards the people to who we are proposing to share a struggle : we want to destroy this project before it is finished , knowing that the actual destruction is surely a material fact , but not only . It are also the existing social relations which allow power to realize this or that project or to make this or that progress in the intensification of exploitation and control . To struggle against the building of the maxi-prison is therefore also to create , by attacking , the “ conditions ” where one can really and truly refuse this new prison , in thought as in acts . It means to encourage to revolt in the neighbourhoods , to offer some suggestions for means of struggle ; it means also to contribute in a way that in the existing prisons , the fighting individuals can continue their revolt and criticize the construction of new prisons . There lies the heart of our choice for a projectual struggle : develop a fighting trajectory which undermines the foundations of accepting and resigning , and thus of power itself .
Notes
1 . We count almost one person each month dying during or after a police intervention ; without mentioning the tens , or hundreds of persons being beaten or tortured in the police stations or during arrests .
2 . For those who would like to understand more what happened in these times , we recommend the book Brique par brique . Se battre contre la prison et son monde ( Belgique , 2006 – 2011 ), Tumult Editions , Brussels , 2012 . But not only in the past . In December for example , the cars belonging to the prison director of Bruges , Jurgen Van Poecke , were burned in the middle of the night on th parking lot in front of his villa . The fire also damaged the villa up to a point to make it unlivable ; unlivable as any prison cell or as the isolation module in the prison of Bruges . In that same month , an attack took place in solidarity with anarchist prisoners : the car belonging to the vice-president of the European Parliament , Giorgos Papastamkos , member of the Greek party Nea Demokratia , was burned . And the next day , a mysterious fire erupted in the garage of the Italian Embassy , another country never failing to distinguish itself in the repression against anarchists and fighters .
3 . For example : pamphlets , posters , graffiti , banners , small gatherings , distro tables , screenings on the street of a small documentary against the new prison , discussions in the street , the spreading of our regular anarchist paper Hors Service , the distribution of “ propaganda ” in fixed distribution points like bars or other places .
4 . When we speak about this , were are thinking of physical points like spaces or occupations , of “ organizational ” occasions embedded in an initiative of struggle , but also about distribution points for propaganda and news about the struggle , contact points , spaces to meet and coordinate ... all these are questions we are thinking about and which we will have to confront when the struggle starts to grow .
5 . Almost a year has passed now since the last “ low scale ” riots in an area of Brussels , but sometimes things stir up . On New Years Eve for example , on dozens of different places in
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