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Five years ago on this day in Cuba, small groups of protesters took to the streets to demand better living conditions. In the days that followed, thousands of Cubans from dozens of other cities spontaneously joined the protest movement. July 11, 2021 was not just a cry against hunger or shortages; it was the moment when thousands of people realized that, faced with a state turned into an oppressive overseer, the only way out is to stop looking at the power. The protests in Cuba left us with anarchism’s oldest and most forgotten lesson: that all authority, however much it disguises itself as ideology, can only sustain itself through obedience and repression. ...

In 2022, we published 2,000 french and 2000 german copies of the first edition of our book “ How to defend yourself during a police interrogation. ” Since then, the content of our practical guide has continued to spread, taking many forms, such as a workshops we conduct, an “interrogation” supplement for the role-playing game Blade in the Dark and translations into English , and Spanish . The book has now also been reissued in French by Éditions du Commun under the title “ A Short Guide to Self-Defense During Interrogations, ” as well as an audiobook version , a radio spot , a self-print brochure version on infokiosques.net , and posters illustrating the “ broken record ” strategy. ...