I was recently absent mindedly scrolling through Mike Gouldhawke’s archive, looking at various sections that caught my eye and found myself in the Collected Words for Alfredo Bonanno section where I then went to the Act For Freedom Now! Memorial piece written for Alfredo.
Toward the end was one paragraph I nearly missed, it reads;
“We would be remiss if we did not mention that it was while in the cells of Greek democracy after his arrest near Trikala city , that Alfredo Bonanno, wrote in a calm ferocity the many pages that would become the book “L’ospite inatteso“, (“The Unexpected Guest”). It was here that he revealed in intense, piercing stanzas his recollections of combat decades prior in the land known as Palestine. A struggle against torturers, massacres administered by grey men with a clockwork routine.”
Immediately I dug through the text to find the part mentioned and put it through a machine translation. It’s rough, but adequate enough to tell the story of a moment of his life in Palestine taking part in armed action against the IDF. From what I can gather, the book in its whole is a reflection on life and death and particularly what it means to be an anarchist and take a life.
I share this very rough fragment both for its thematic timeliness regarding the armed struggle against the ongoing genocide israel is carrying out against the Palestinian people, as well as the description of what it takes to organize an action many anarchists in the territories dominated by the american state would think of as a fantasy, far beyond their grasp.
I also share this with the hope someone out there with a grasp of the italian language and time to kill will see this and feel inspired to undertake the task of translating this book into english - or any other language really. Thinking seriously about the state of the world and what the struggle for total freedom asks of us all, the reflection on life, death, and what it means to take a life is - in my mind - of critical importance.
-An Individual who comprises part of Fugitive Distro
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After years of complaining about the hells that are social media in particular and enemy infrastructure in general, we’ve finally taken the step to removing ourselves and our reliance on it by revamping our website to be more useful to our needs.
If you want all the technical details, check the bottom of this post, but the short version is on top of hosting our zine library (which we are now also adding poster and sticker designs to! …whenever the Internet Library, recovering from its recent hack, exits Read Only mode and lets us upload things again…) it also hosts a blog, a calendar of events, and a page dedicated to the weekly Open Anarchist Study Group.
It’s currently very bare bones design wise, but we’ll get around to making it pretty.
I want to talk about the desire and intentions for making this switch, the main one being that we want to take seriously our critiques of the existent and our desire for self organization, as well as a desire to publish a wider variety of things, to be another node in the anarchist counter-info ecosystem, and for the ability to better archive our project.
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