Detention center 127 bis in flames

Since it’s the objective of the State and its vultures the journalists to keep acts of rebellion from being seen by any possible accomplices, various versions of the facts were given, before the event disappeared entirely from the "miscellaneous news" columns. But it doesn’t matter to us whether it was one or even four people that took action that evening, and that the material damage was of this or that size; what inspires us the fact they chose to take direct action, without making any demands, against what confines us all.

To quiet these bursts of revolt, the State has its responses: ten new prisons will be built in the coming years, and a few steps away from the extant center, workers - whether forced to do it or just resigned to their fates - are building a new camp for Besix and Valens, to shut away the uncooperative ones. Like the ones that burnt their cells. But this event wasn’t just a one-off aberration.

For years, a wave of agitation has been running through the prisons. Rebellions have proliferated, as have escapes and confrontations with guards. The revolts echo outside. Riots flare up in city neighborhoods in response to bad treatment in prisons; the collaborators with this prison world are being targeted. The corporations that build the jails, the corporations that run the deportation machine, cops of all stripes… all of them are being made to pay their share of the cost.

Because, in the face of the crushing of each and every person’s freedom, there comes a time when you have to attack those that are working to maintain this world of confinement, whether at home, church, school, or work. Because it’s never too soon to revolt; because the struggle against all forms of authority and domination already points the way we’re headed.

Let’s destroy what destroys us!