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#Munich
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This interpretation refers to the aforementioned Welt am Sonntag article, which points to possible supra-regional connections. We do not know whether the article was merely the product of the authors' vivid imagination or was supported by background discussions with the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and/or intelligence agencies. However, it is striking that Welt am Sonntag has recently engaged in "investigative" activity in other contexts as well. Last year, it addressed the alleged structural background of the "Switch-off Campaign," as well as an "analysis" of the actions and alleged nationwide structures of the so-called Vulkan groups following the Tesla attack in 2024. We consider it unlikely that these articles were written and published without specific information from the investigative authorities (https://kontrapolis.info/13213/). During the same period, a "danger analysis" also appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, which primarily described an allegedly increasing propensity for violence among left-wing radicals, rehashed the narrative of a climate-driven RAF, and conflated it with the proceedings against militant anti-fascists (https://kontrapolis.info/12562/). This takes the arc even further, and it can be assumed that the FAZ, as well as the WamS, published the articles in the political interest and with the explicit approval of the German repressive structures. Both newspapers have served as mouthpieces for the Federal Prosecutor's Office and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution for decades.
Conclusion:
The police attack is a reaction both to the considerable number of unsolved arson attacks in Munich in recent years, as well as to journalistic projects such as the Zündlumpen (fire lump) and the wind farm brochure. Furthermore, we also see the investigation as an attack against anarchist, resistant, antagonistic, and militant structures in general. We will have to wait and see what the criminal constructs against the accused are. It remains to be seen how the police will proceed: how the upcoming witness summonses and detention review hearings will proceed, whether there will be follow-up searches or an expansion of the circle of those affected, whether there will ultimately be charges and trials, and which of the numerous allegations will even be heard there. None of this is in our control. What is important to us at the moment is that the police's attempt to threaten and intimidate individuals is collectively rejected. It would be nice if we could also respond to the attack politically and practically in such a way that the cops look even more stupid than they did after the attack on their shitty cars.
How can we respond to the attack?
At the moment, the priority is to find out how those affected can be supported directly. The prisoners will certainly appreciate mail, solidarity actions, and fireworks, and the other accused and witnesses could certainly use some support as well. The upcoming proceedings will cost a lot of money and take up time. You can find practical information on how you can support them below. Beyond that, two other points are important to us: first, we should all consider how we can organize and protect ourselves against (possible further) repression by the public prosecutor and the police. Second, and given that the attack is directed not only against the accused but also fundamentally against antagonistic practices and organizations, we want to share with you our thoughts on militant practices under the current political circumstances. Perhaps you disagree, or perhaps you also see similarities.
>On dealing with further repression:
We assume that the repressive authorities are hoping for clues about the unsolved arson attacks, but at the moment they primarily want to understand the connections and workings of activist and militant groups. This means that the searches conducted so far may not be enough. We have to expect that there may be further observations, surveillance attacks, searches, and arrests, also in other cities and regions. So, everyone, please clean up your rooms, attics, basements, and sheds, use Tails and TOR when surfing the internet or communicating, leave your phones at home from time to time, and talk to your friends about how you can generally protect yourself against surveillance. And above all: don't speculate about what certain people might or might not have done. The cops will use everything they learn to get a better picture and threaten you or others or drag you to court.
The police certainly hope to intimidate not only those affected but also all of us through the searches and investigations. In recent years, the police and public prosecutors have made very liberal use of the accusation of criminal association (§129). In Munich, this isn't just directed against newspapers like Zündlumpen. The Munich Attorney General's Office, for example, is currently conducting §129 proceedings against the "Last Generation," whose actions aren't fighting for the abolition of capitalism, but for the introduction of speed limits on the Autobahn. Therefore: discuss with your friends how to deal with fears and uncertainty. During searches, witness summonses, or arrests, never agree to any statements, and don't sign anything. Think about how you can support each other if the police single out individuals among you.
>On our relationship to militant practice and sabotage:
We understand the arson attacks, whether with or without explanations, as examples of militant self-defense against a destructive capitalist system of violence. Apparently, the police and the public prosecutor's office see it similarly, even if they call it something else. However, by militant practice, we mean more than arson attacks against infrastructure or attacks on Nazis and their structures. For us, militant practice means anything that, regardless of the restrictions of the criminal code, challenges social conditions and seeks to change them in an emancipatory sense. This includes unannounced demonstrations, flash mobs, newspapers, leaflets, posters, or spray-painted slogans, as well as riots, blockades, or occupations. It can be actions such as adbusting or targeted property damage. Militant practice can be more symbolic or materially devastating. It can express a political stance through accompanying publications or dispense with explanations. Practical solidarity with those affected by state repression is also a necessary part of militant practice. For us, the "legitimacy" of a militant practice derives from how we assess the social situation as a whole. Much could be said about this, but we'll limit ourselves here to a few key points that do not claim to be a comprehensive political analysis:
>War mobilization, militarization and new imperialism
The first thing the CDU and SPD, as the likely new federal government, have just agreed on with the support of the Greens, is a gigantic rearmament package. The rearmament of the Bundeswehr will be accompanied by debates on the reintroduction of military service and considerations for the development of new, European nuclear weapons. The imperialist expansion and control of "one's own" territory and sphere of influence through military force and war is not the exclusive privilege of Russian imperialism. It is also taking place these days through the Turkish, Iranian, and Israeli governments, in Rojava and Syria, in Yemen and Iraq, or on the Golan Heights, in the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank. The US government is threatening to annex Greenland and the Panama Canal; the Chinese government is threatening to annex Taiwan. Traditional political and military alliances are in upheaval. The hope that this massive, all-round rearmament will prevent wars is naive and absurd. Greater political resistance to the war policy is nowhere to be seen, but all the more necessary for it. War requires infrastructure, armaments, and weapons supplies. Targeting and destroying all of this is always the right thing to do.
Climate and nature destruction
We can start again with the future CDU/SPD government. Gigantic investments in "infrastructure" are intended to enable war capability and economic growth; a consistent fight against global climate and environmental destruction would require a break with the growth and profit principles of capitalist production. This, of course, is too much to ask even of the Greens. On this issue, too, there is currently no evidence that a "civil society" climate movement would force "system change." Sabotage of the supply chains of overproduction and thwarting the destruction of nature can, however, at least somewhat slow the pace of widespread global devastation.
>Flight, migration
Should we seriously justify why the sabotage of the murderous and increasingly tightening German and European border regime is necessary and justified? Perhaps it will only be for a short time that European governments will continue to talk about protecting human rights while committing murder at their borders. In any case, it is already foreseeable that in the near future, not only arson attacks on police cars but also civilian sea rescue operations or resistance to the payment card system will be considered attacks on the state and prosecuted accordingly.
>Authoritarian, patriarchal, racist, fascist and jihadist mobilizations
actu militante
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