[Berlin] Switch Off The Concrete Industry!
The flames once again lit up the dark and cold nights of Berlin. On the morning of December 2, all that was left of the machines and vehicles of concrete giants Cemex and HeidelbergMaterials was rubble and ash. This is not the first time that these companies have come under well-deserved attack. In the winter of 2023/24, several trucks and a conveyor belt from Cemex were completely destroyed by fire and several trucks from HeidelbergMaterials, which were used to transport concrete for the A100 highway, were burned down. The two claims of responsibility called out both companies for their roles in colonialist land destroying projects. Now there has been a further blow to the concrete industry.
It is not necessary to explain why these two companies were targeted again. We understand this act as the continuity of a series of attacks on concrete giants around the world, as an offensive against those responsible for the ecocide that is already a reality in many territories. These companies actively participate in neo-colonial politics and profit from war, exploitation and genocide in the countries where they are present.
Concrete plays an important role in today’s world. Countless metropolises have been built that resemble cages for people, in which one breathes only exhaust fumes and misery. They are places of alienation where it is no longer possible to see the awe-inspiring beauty of wild nature and where faceless towers block out the sunlight as human idiocy tries to scratch the sky by erecting ever higher buildings. But they forget that there will always be a little plant that finds a crack in the concrete to take root and grow. This color in the dreary gray is living proof that wild nature can resist the oppressive concrete. Just as, fortunately for us and unfortunately for them, there are people everywhere who want to destroy their world of concrete. It inspires and brings a smile to our faces every time we hear that elsewhere, companies that devastate the earth are met with anger and fire.
Or as the comrades from the “Insurgent Cell for the Maipo/New Subversion” from Chile wrote: “Let this fire be an embrace for the comrades who have carried out attacks in other territories of the world […] because we know that the attack must be immediate and in all the territories where the facilities and means of those responsible for the destruction of the planet are located. In this way, we contribute to dialogue through direct and confrontational action, without any false hope in institutional processes or saviors.”
May the heat of the fire warm the hearts of Marianna, Dimitra, Dimitris and Nikos, who are locked up in Korydallos prison in Athens.
Revolutionary memory of the comrade Kyriakos and all those who died fighting.
Freedom and happiness for Nanuk, Maja, Hanna and all the other imprisoned comrades and to all those in hiding in the vastness of nowhere.
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