Communique From Some Texas State “Vandals”

An anonymous transmission

To our fellow San Martians,

We typically prefer that actions speak for themselves, but perhaps a few words are due. In the face of renewed genocide and mass deportations, all that is left is what must be done. Taking up the task of disruption, sabotage, and attack is not something we do lightly. The people of Gaza have repeatedly called for mass student escalation. We’ve witnessed targeted deportations of politicized students, workers, and teachers with legal status; a wave of student protests repressed and occupations torn down, and paltry concessions rescinded by university admin.

We ask: what did a protest of over 500 students last spring at the Stallions accomplish? We stood and chanted as fellow students at UT were teargassed. Last week, the Party for Socialism and Liberation hosted a small protest of barely a few dozen. Then everyone went home. Held on the square, this event made front cover of the University Star alongside an opinion piece by the Star’s editorial board advocating “proper avenues” of “political expression.” They even dared to invoke the expelled San Marcos 10 in an effort to downplay a little graffiti. Why? The university can better control every aspect of the narrative if we allow them to dictate proper political expression.

Our detractors have labeled us vandals, criminals, outside agitators, domestic terrorists, radicals/extremists. Though these titles are certainly an honor, we remain your humble neighbors, colleagues, & classmates. Living in the heart of US imperialism necessitates actions that disrupt business as usual. We do not fear political repression, but instead a return to normalcy.

Some students have bemoaned the defacing of their “beautiful” campus. Fuck you lol. This university is complicit in funding Israeli genocide and actively collaborating with ICE against the will of its student population. It was already an extension of an active warzone; our political act simply reminded people of that. It is students who make this campus beautiful, because it is our campus.

Others pointed out the inconvenienced sanitation workers forced to take such art down. For the first time, students recognized the existence and working conditions of underpaid, primarily immigrant workers who lack union representation on this campus. But rather than lay those concerns at the feet of a, frankly overpaid, administration whose campus is expanding unsustainably, these students prefer to weaponize said workers against a political movement. How often has the student body taken it upon themselves to guarantee the survival of these workers or their families?

UPD has claimed all its efforts are being concentrated on unveiling us while sexual harassment, assault, hazing, and homophobic and racist violence are still mainstays at this University. Perhaps it would be best if they concentrated on those, if they weren’t so often guilty of excesses of violence themselves.

Another point of interest was the overwhelming discussions held in the wake of our graffiti. Through Reddit, Instagram, and classrooms debates were held, photographs taken, interviews conducted, and statements released. The University Star would have you believe otherwise, that “many students have already ceased conversations surrounding it.” A boldface lie in an attempt to downplay an event the paper references in 3 different articles this week.

Our beloved University President, Kelly Damphouse, even took to the battlements of his own Instagram post responding to the flurry of negative comments he received from Texas State students, and liking messages such as “we stand with you Kelly.” Seems his public outreach coordinator needs to run some trainings with him, feeling the need to respond to each and every negative comment with hundreds of likes.

Funny thing that few people recall about Kelly: his doctorate is in counter-terrorism, counter-intelligence, and studying resistance movements. What that means, dear reader, is that the president of our university has a degree in stifling unrest. His position befits the degree as he has spoken wearily of anti-war student activists of the 60’s and compared them to today’s protests around Palestine. A fed for a president who needs to lay off the ‘gram lest he make a fool of himself. We are happy to report that the vast majority of student body responses on social media that we witnessed were positive

Finally, we come to the particular questions and answered that spurred this communique. Why did we do it? Should you do it? How? Was it easy?

We did it because it was a step, a small one, towards escalation. Graffiti carries a certain transgressive and sensationalist appeal that gets people talking. However, this was by no means a performative action designed only to create commotion. IT is part of a sustained national attempt to attack institutions responsible and hold them accountable. In the spirit of the Merrimack 4, we think it important to bring the war home. As parades, marches, protests, and community events have their place in revolutionary change, so too does direct action, disruption, and clandestine activity.

With minimal planning, some spray paint, and committed friends we reveal ways to strike back. It was easy. “stay tuned” and “you can do it too” were not just slogans but calls to action. Be bold. Be creative. Have fun, because it is fun to revolt. It’s the University’s responsibility to divest from genocide and keep ICE out. We can bleed their pockets. Material damages is money they cannot spend elsewhere. We take risks because we can, and once you realize it’s possible so can you.

Source: Austin Autonomedia

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Attack on Hungarian Ambassador’s Vehicle (Athens, Greece)

Claim of responsibility for the attack on the Hungarian ambassador’s vehicle outside the Hungarian embassy

The trial of Maja T., a non-binary activist, begins in Budapest on March 6. It is a trial that takes place in the shadow of the
fascism-antifascism conflict in Hungary going on for over a century.

The waves of the Russian Revolution of 1917, which swept through almost all of Europe, manifested themselves in Hungary with the creation of the socialist council democracy that overthrew the bourgeois regime in 1919.

It took the intervention of foreign powers to suppress the revolution and hand over power to the reactionary General Horthy, who established an authoritarian regime. World War II found Hungary siding with the fascist axis powers.

The looming defeat of fascism led the Horthy regime to secret negotiations with the Western Allies. Germany anticipated this development by occupying Hungary in 1944 and establishing a purely Nazi regime of the Crossed Arrows party.

The Red Army’s lightning advance in January 1945 encircled Budapest, trapping thousands of German SS and Hungarian Crossed Arrows men. When they attempted to escape in February, they were surrounded and annihilated, in a Hungarian Meligalas 2 like incident.

The fall of “established socialism” allowed the reconstituted Nazis to claim the “Day of Honor”, on the anniversary of the mass extermination of German and Hungarian Nazis, with their presence on the streets and fascist fanfare.

At the 2023 Nazi fiesta, in a coordinated action that appears to be the work of a multinational anti-fascist strike force, many Nazis were attacked in various parts of Budapest, with nine of them being seriously injured and the far-right Orban government launching repressive operations against anti-fascists. An operation that reflects the blatantly anti-immigrant, misogynistic and homophobic policies of the Hungarian state.

Hungary is just one of the examples of modern states in a world that is constantly changing. It is not an exception, but a prefiguration of the direction in which global domination is heading. After the end of the short fairy tale of globalization, of the “global village” that would constitute a capital “that has no borders”, the world seems to be entering, through a series of successive crises, a new phase of restoring closed up national borders – fortresses, of hyper-intensive armaments, militarism, intolerance, racism. This process presupposes and favors the shift of the political spectrum ever more “to the right”.

Almost all of the major powers today are either ruled by authoritarian regimes or by governments suffocating under the weight of the rising far right, implementing neoliberal, racist, anti-immigration policies. The image of one of the most economically and politically powerful people in the world greeting the crowds with a Hitler salute horribly encapsulates an aspect of the current era.

But like every era, this one has more than one face. The global anti-fascist, anti-state, anti-capitalist resistances are still present. Authority does not act alone and is shielding up by their fear of the internal enemy. Our own action, as a contribution to the international mosaic of resistances, is also an internationalist signal of struggle towards all the forces of radical anti-fascism. The huge mobilizations for the state crime of Tempi, where all sorts of fascists either did not dare to appear or were beaten where they made the mistake of showing their faces, are another hopeful message that nothing is fated to happen, that history can be written by the world of struggle.

To these pages of history belong the anti-fascists from Germany, Italy, Albania, and Syria who were targeted by Orban’s far-right government and remain hostages in Germany, Italy, and France.

Maja T. was extradited from Germany in a fast-track procedure. In a preliminary hearing in a Hungarian court in February, it defended its anti-fascist campaign and non-binary identity.

On the morning of March 4, anti-fascists awaited the arrival of the Hungarian ambassador’s black Mercedes outside the Hungarian embassy, at the intersection of Vas. Konstantinou and Amyntas street. Our hammers that shattered the windows of the embassy vehicle send a message of solidarity to Maja T. and all persecuted anti-fascists.

FOR MILITARY ANTIFASCISM

FREEDOM TO MAJA T.

SOLIDARITY TO THE 2 ANTIFASCISTS WHO ARE PROSECUTED FOR THE ATTACKS ON THE OFFICES OF GOLDEN DAWN

HONOR FOREVER TO THE ANARCHIST ARMED REVOLUTIONARY KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS

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https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1634443/
Translated by Act for freedom now1

Note: photo not associated with action.

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