“Since the Bristol Riots” – Communiques from the FAI, ELF and other attacks (2011-2014)

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Since the Bristol Riots” is a collection of communiques from the Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI), Earth Liberation Front (ELF), and other anonymous attacks in the Bristol area since the riots in April 2011 until October 2014. The communiques include attacks targeted against police, banks, prisons, military, security services, courts, state, church, fascists, media, communications infrastructure, corporations and more. Totaling 96 pages, included is a selection of over a dozen articles related to this time frame and context, such as reports of the Stokes Croft riots and recent police repression against the broader anarchist movement as they investigate the attacks. 2011 April 21st - St Pauls: Stokes Croft Riot after raid against Telepathic Heights squat (5) April 28th - St Pauls: Stokes Croft erupts into rioting again (6) May 4th - St Pauls: Fires set in attack at probation unit by Informal Anarchists (7) June 1st - Banks smashed in solidarity with Stokes Croft rebels (7) June 8th - Knowle West: Attack against home of a nationalist-fascist by Anarchists (8) July 2nd - Trinity: Cop vehicles attacked opposite police station by Anarchists (9) July 20th - Estate agents attack in solidarity with Freeshop & Emporium (9) August 8th - August 2011 Revolt: St Pauls and Stokes Croft Riots (10) August 9th - St Pauls: Eon vehicle torched by FAI / Eco-Anarchist Insurrectionaries (11) August 9th - Bishopston: Riot van at police station set on fire by Anarchists (11) August 11th - Old Market: Evening Post headquarters smashed and paint-bombed (12) August 11th - Bedminster Down: BBC Radio transmitter destroyed by fire by ELF-FAI (13) August 13th - Police vehicles bricked in daylight and banks smashed (13) August 25th - Heartcliffe: Orbis/sitex van gutted by flame by Squatters Unite (13 August 25th - Fishponds: Lloyds TSB windows smashed (14) September 8th - Police station graffitied with 'Injustice is law' (15) September 19th - St George: Windows and cashpoints of Lloyds TSB and Tesco's smashed (15) September 28th - Serious Crime Squad HQ vehicles paint-stripped by Splinter Division (16) September 27th - Bedminster: McDonalds drive thru smashed by ALF/ELF (16) October 6th - Police car set on fire in solidarity with Revolutionary Struggle (17) October 10-11th - Courts attacked in solidarity with Revolutionary Struggle by IRF Bristol (17) October 10th- - Redfield: PG Group offices attacked in solidarity with The Factory (18) November 7th - Lord Mayor & Tory Councillor vehicles attacked by Class Terror / FAI (19) December 15th - Attack on Lloyds Bank Depot by Anarchist individuals / Cells of FAI (19) November 16th - Santander Banks smashed for Luciano Tortuga (20) November 17th - Henleaze: Estate agents attacked in solidarity with The Factory by (A) (21) December 17th - Clifton Brides gets graffitied and locks glued (21) 2012 January 5th - Ashfield: Screws cars attacked at adult & youth prison (22) March 9th - Clifton: Beauty Box attacked by ALF / ELF / Some Anarchists (23) March 11th - Fascist-Skinhead stall gets a new paint-job by Local Antifascists (23) April 11th - Dundry: Communications infrastructure arson against BBC Radio and police by ELF / Empowering Inferno (24) May 2nd - May-hem: Two highstreets attacked in one night (25) May 22nd - Trainlines sabotaged against Ministry of Defence by FAI / May 22nd Group (27) May 30th - Clifton Downs: Conservative Association windows broken and painted (28) June 1st - Clear Channel van burnt and two billboards attacked by Anarchists (28) July 16th - Old Market: EDL confronted with bricks and bottles (29) July 25th - Speedwell: Olympic Park Energy Centre contractor attacked by Anarchists (30) July 31st - Longwell Green: Multiple Arsons as Olympic torch returns by Autonomous Sabotage Cell (31) August 13th - Attacks on Olympic Sponsors and Media by Team “A” (33) August 25th - St George: Attack against olympic sponsor Lloyds TSB by Team Bristol (33) August 30th - St George: Vehicle burnt of the Jesus Kingdom City by Free Thought Association / Fraction of Gender Renegades (34) October 23rd - Redland: Arson against cctv in schools by Counter-Surveillance Cores (35) November 24th - Palestine solidarity attacks against G4S and Marks & Spencers (36) 2013 January 1st - Clifton: Bristol Zoo front entrance attacked – NYE (37) January 4th - Bathampton: TV, Radio, Vodaphone and police communications blackout by FAI / ELF - New Horizons of Burning Rage (38) January 11th - Horfield: Screws cars paint-stripped & tyres slashed (39) April 13th - Tory Club Smashed & Cop 4 4 Torched by × Unruly Anarchists (39) April 15th - Arson and damage against Mitie vehicles (40) April 30th - Fishponds: Security firm Avon and Somerset Guarding is attacked (41) June 22nd - 6 vehicles at UKBA crime team building torched & Tascor transporters smashed by Bristol: FAI / Borderless Solidarity Cell (41) August 7th - Antifascist attack against County Sports Club (43) August 27th - Portishead: Major arson of police firearms training building and attack on security service vehicles by Angry Foxes Cell in collaboration with ACAB (44) August 30th - Brislington: Barclays firebombed by FAI / Improvised Guerrilla Formation (46) December 5th - Hotwells: City council mobile CCTV vans attacked (52) December 17th - EDF Vehicle burnt out against Hinkley Point by Mutant Cell (52) December 24th - Clifton: Catholic Cathedral attacked with graffiti by Queers Gone Wild (53) December - 20-25 SUVs and 4x4s sabotaged by The Bureau of Radical Adjustment, Ava Rage Cell / FAI (54) 2014 January 8th - Bath: Showroom, 4x4 and cars torched by ELF/FAI Perennial Resistance (55) January 10th - Parkway: Attack against Vinci, Life Sciences Centre by FAI Insurgents: Bristol North (56) February 11th - Clifton: Arson attack on Royal Marine Reserves by Mutiny Group of FAI (59) April 29th - EDL Chris Pugh’s car vandalised and fascist hang-out smashed (61) May 22nd - Yate: Incendiary attack at Yate Magistrates Court by FAI – Conscience & Fury (62) June 11th - 4 Arsons against cellular transmission infrastructure by Live Wires FAI/ELF (64) June 30th - St George: Four vehicle fires by FAI/ELF Rogue Fire Brigade (68) August 29th - Speedwell: Attack on Army Cadet base for NATO by Random Anarchists (70) August 30th - Filton: Incendiary attack against Arms Development Centre in the context of the NATO Summit by FAI “Sacco & Vanzetti” Circle of Propaganda by Life & by Deed (71) September 6th - Keynsham: Burning of police vehicles by Uncivil Disobedients / FAI (73) Articles of Interest April 22nd 2011 - Battle of Stokes Croft: Eye witness/local resident report (75) April 29th 2011 - Stokes Croft 2 - Cops 0: Stokes Croft riots again (78) May 16th 2011 - Uncontrollable young comrades of Stokes Croft imprisoned (79) October 21st 2011 - Letter from clandestinity by Huw ‘Badger’ Norfolk (82) November 16th 2011 - The Factory evicted by police, bailiffs and Delta Security (84) January 1st 2012 - Police attack NYE prison solidarity demo (85) April 18th 2012 - Happy Birthday Demo for fugitive Badger (86) September 21st 2013 - Thoughts on the Anarchist Witchunt by Bristol ABC (86) December 5th 2013 - Fuck Indymedia and the Anarcho-Left (88) July 27th 2014 - Two further arrests for FAI/ELF actions in Avon & Somerset (90) August 28th 2014 - Police investigating the incendiary anarchists raid Bristol IMC (91) October 15th 2014 - Collective statement against police harassment (93) October 16th 2014 - Cops at the door – some Bristol anarchists respond (94)