Antifa crew from Niš doesn’t remain silent while the Brazilian state conducts terror in the streets. A banner was hung at one of the city’s overpasses, reading: “World solidarity against the World Cup – Support favela riots – AFA Niš”. While corporations, states and the media promote the World Cup, […]
2014 FIFA World Cup
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While others were watching the football match between Brazil and Colombia our thoughts were somewhere else. We don’t cheer for any team, especially when we know that there are people outside of the stadiums, in the streets and in the neighbourhoods that lost their houses or even lost their friends […]
Company car set on fire in Prenzlauer Berg; June 2nd, 2014. Incendiary device for Bosch Sicherheitssysteme in Storkower Street (near a police station) in solidarity with the revolt against the World Cup. The Bosch Security Systems draws up security plans for train stations and airports, for banks and administrative authorities; […]
Members of Contra Info translation counter-information network have been invited to participate in the second day of the 4th edition of Resist Festival in Warsaw. On Saturday, June 14th, from 17pm, we make a brief contribution in solidarity with anti-repression struggles in Greece and the rebellion in face of repression […]
Montevideo, June 2014. In the early hours of Monday, June 9th, we attacked the headquarters of the AUF (Uruguayan Football Association) located in the corner of Guayabo and Vázquez streets, destroying and burning part of the building with three Molotov cocktails. This action is in response to all the shit […]
In the night of May 28, 2014, we went out to spray-paint slogans in Berlin’s neighbourhood of Friedrichshain. Our thoughts are with Babis Tsilianidis, anarchist prisoner in Greece awaiting appeal trial on June 5 (the comrade was convicted at first instance to 10 years and 4 months for robbery at […]
May 22nd, 2014 You get what you give. We are sure that we did not come too late for the commemorations of April 1st, 1964. So here goes our simple gift to all the militarists and supporters (keeping silence is consent) of the ’64 coup which changes name, or form, […]
On June 12, 2014 begins the world football cup in Brazil, a sporting event which businesspeople, politicians, journalists and sympathizers eagerly await, some because of greed, others because of nationalist exacerbation, a World Cup that has the highest budget ever invested in history (over 600,000 million dollars, and the account […]
Solidarity is a living force! Light it up! On Monday, December 16th, 2013, as a hot sun of 34°C was setting and the full moon was rising against the sky that covers us, we paid a visit to a Santander bank branch located on Osvaldo Aranha Avenue, right in front […]
In the early hours of October 17th, 2013 Paulo Roberto Pinho de Menezes, 18, was beaten to death by officers of the ‘Police Pacification Unit’ (UPP) in the Manguinhos favela of Rio de Janeiro. The cops immobilized the teenager and took him in a dark back-alley, where they fiercely beat […]
Finally the Brazilian metropolises are living the moments that they haven’t seen since long ago. Since the beginning of June 2013, hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of dozens of cities in the context of a struggle against a fare hike for public transit, as well […]
On Wednesday, December 5th, 2012 the residents of the Borel favela (Morro do Borel, occupied since 1921 in Rio de Janeiro) went out in the streets in a collective effort to break the curfew that the cops of the local UPP (‘Police Pacification Unit’) have imposed in the area since […]