From: "Nicolas G." <libertarioantifa-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Fuck the Left?/Paris
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 16:09:08 PDT




>holy moly nicky, calm your little revolutionary head down.  let's not start
>calling names here.  while i'm onto you, how's things in paris at the
>moment.  carried out lots more violence against the system recently?  or
>have you mellowed since those wild days of youth?
>
>colin
>
Ha, hilarious, sorry if real action offends your pacifist neo-hippy 
sensibilities ( but maybe your right, maybe the state can be defeated by 
joining hands and singing " We shall        overcome, " and maybe anarchism 
isn't left wing.. )...but since you asked...

I was in Greece, only thing of interest was that we knocked up two stray 
fascists and torched a police car.  Then back in Paris we had our first of 
May festivities.  A party in front of the stock exchange the night before, 
two molotov cocktails were thrown at the building but unfortunately they hit 
the columns right in front and didn't make it inside.
    We also found out the podium for the next day's FN rally was not to far 
away so we headed over there to amuse ourselves a bit, about 50 of us, but 
unfortunately we were met with a very strong DPS ( FN   militia ) presence, 
plus some dogs, plus some cops, so we didn't even risk a fight.  Very 
embarassing.  We'll be back next year.
   At about 2:30 am the cops charged, we resisted as much as possible with 
bottles rocks and whatever else was in reach, but eventually they pushed us 
back onto a small street, we ran out of ammo and not to mention the fact 
that most of our people were piss drunk and so resistance to the CRS wasn't 
terribly friutful ( could that be a case for Straight-Edge?! ).
    The Mayday demo was very good.  We were about 40 000 at the LEFT WING 
demonstration, which included ANARCHISTS. About 700 in the CNT section of 
the demo which was very good.  Oh, by the way, the CNT noow has about 4 000 
members and is considered on of the *extreme left-wing* organizations with 
the most militants! The Anarchist Federation was also there but a dismally 
small presence.
   So there hasn't been all that much action in Paris lately.  We did occupy 
( about 500 people ) an Air France office about a month ago.  We made a 
little barricade but the cops got by it very fast and after a bit of 
resistence ( I had my jacket ripped by three CRS who were trying to take me, 
needless to say that they eventually succeeded, but I'm proud of the fact 
that it took three of them quite a while to get me down ).  Eventually there 
were 369 arrests, six injuries, and strong media converage, which was good.
        There is a demonstration for Palestine coming up soon, and then it's 
of to Cologne, Germany for the May 29th European  demo.

Revolutionary Syndicalist greetings,
    Nicolas G.


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