Genoa, July 21st 2001,
by participants of the Black Block

We are speaking out for a part of the black block.

We do not want to submit helplessly into the politics of the powerful. We have come to enter militantly the red zone and to stop the g8 meeting.

Yesterday the police acted brutally against the protesters. Protesters were beaten up, were attacked with tear gas and shock bullets, they were imprisoned and tortured. The police brutality culminated in the murder of one protester.

In the published opinion the black block was made responsible for the whole violence.

Day by day, the capitalist world order produces a diversity of violence. Poverty, hunger, expilsion, exclusion, the death of millions of people and the destruction of living spaces is part fo their policy.

This is exactly what we reject.

Smashed windows of banks and multinational companies are symbolic actions. Nevertheless we do not agree with the destruction and looting of small shops and cars. This is not our policy.

However, we also do not let us be divided. To divide resistance is a usual way to weaken resistance. We appreciate and count on solidaric criticism.

We are angry and sad about the murder of Carlo Giuliane. Let us turn our grief and anger into resistance.

If windows rattle then you cry,
but you are silent when people die.

History does never end. Viva la revolution