… Mara Cagol Memorial Library …
As the Arm The Spirit Issuu Site does not allow for downloads any longer, I’m starting to put some material, old and new, up on the Internet Archive, as the IA does allow for downloading.
Here is what is up on the Internet Archive as of April 4, 2020:
“The Split Of The Weather Underground / Struggling Against White And Male Supremacy” .. 1977 … 44 pages
“The Tupamaro Guerrillas / The Structure and Strategy of the Urban Guerrilla Movement” … 1972 … 203 pages
“Action Directe / Ultra Left Terrorism In France 1979 – 1987” … 181 pages
“Build A Revolutionary Resistance Movement / Communiques From The North American Armed Clandestine Movement 1982 – 1985” … 1985 … 56 pages
“Terrorism In Germany / The Struggle For What?” … 1988 … 95 pages
“Burn It Down Anarchism Activism and the Vancouver Five 1967 – 1985” … 2016 … 278
pages
“Herstory Of Revolutionary Cells And Rote Zora” … 16 pages
“Writings Of The Vancouver Five” … 46 pages
“Towards People’s War For Independence And Socialism In Puerto Rico: In Defense of Armed Struggle” … 1979 … 100 pages
“Europe’s Red Terrorists: The Fighting Communist Organizations” … 1992 … 255 pages
Resistance Means Attack! A Selection Of Communiques 1992 – 1995 … 45 pages
Arm The Spirit / Autonomist / Anti-Imperialist Journal / No. 17 – Winter 1999 / 2000 … 64 pages
The Vancouver Five A Story Of Struggle To Protect The Earth … 1986 … 140 pages
Off The Pigs! The History And Literature Of The Black Panther Party … 1976 … 419 pages
Three Essays By Action Directe Prisoners … 2001 … 36 pages
Anti-Fascist Resistance In France / Solidarity With Imprisoned French Anti-Fascists / Documents From The Francs Tireurs Partisans … 1999 … 12 pages
Resistance: Documents And Analysis Of The Illegal Front, No. 9 … 1985 … 16 pages
De Pie Y En Lucha … Fall 1981 / Winter 1982 … 78 pages
Bulletin – Long Live FALN … 1980 … 16 pages
Endless Struggle, No. 12, Spring / Summer 1990 … 36 pages
Antifascism In Canada … 1996 … 48 pages
Devrimici Sol, No. 3, March 1994 … 40 pages
Arm The Spirit, No. 16, Fall 1993 … 36 pages
Reality Now, Number 8, Winter 1988 / Spring 1989 … 84 pages
La Lotta Di Classe E Il Motore Della Storia / Class Struggle Is The Motor Of History … 1989 … italian / english … 21 pages
Message To The Black Movement / A Political Statement From The Black Underground 
/ Coordinating Committee – Black Liberation Army … 1975 … 36 pages
Osawatomie, Autumn 1975, No. 3 … Weather Underground Organization … 32 pages/
Political Statement Of The George Jackson Brigade … November 1977 … 28 pages
Front, No. 2, June 1992 … 124 pages
Ligne Rouge, No. 15, July 1985, 30 pages
The Heart Attacked: Terrorism And Conflict In The Italian State … 1989 … 306 pages
L’internationale, No 5, March 1984 … 16 pages
Textos para el DEBATE en el movimiento revolucionario europeo Seleccion y traducciones: PCE(r) Partido Comunista de Espana (reconstituido) … 1987 … 132 pages
On The Black Liberation Army … 28 pages
Enemies Of The State An Interview With Anti-Imperialist Prisoners David Gilbert, Laura Whitehorn, Marilyn Buck … 76 pages
500 Years Of Indigenous Resistance … 60 pages
SDS / WUO Students For A Democratic Society and the Weather Underground Organization … 44 pages
Arm The Spirit, August – December 1992, Number 14 / 15 … 36 pages
Resistance / Documents And Analysis Of The Illegal Front, Issue No. 7, Spring 1984 … 100 pages
… on Mara Cagol …
From “Strike One To Educate One Hundred”:
On June 4, 1975 during a search for Chianti wine magnate Vittorio Gancia, kidnapped a few days earlier, a carabinieri patrol surprised Mara Cagol and other BR comrades in a farmhouse near Acqui. A brief firefight broke out in which Mara was badly wounded, captured, and then executed on the spot by the carabinieri. At first Mara’s identity was not known by police but BR quickly acknowledged that the Gancia kidnapping was their operation and that the woman comrade killed at Acqui was Mara.
On June 5, 1975, the BR published a brief message honoring the fallen Mara, who had been the political-military commander of the Turin BR column formed in early 1974 and co-founder of the BR. The full text of the BR message:
BR MESSAGE ON THE DEATH OF “MARA”
To the comrades of the organization, to sincerely revolutionary forces, to all proletarians. MARGHERITA CAGOL, “MARA,” communist leader and member of the executive committee of the Red Brigades, has fallen in combat. Her life and her death are an example that no fighter for liberty can ever forget. Founder of our organization, “MARA” gave an inestimable contribution of intelligence, self-denial and humanity to the birth and growth of workers autonomy and the armed struggle for communism. Political-military commander of a column, “MARA” was able to victoriously lead several of the most important operations of the organization.
The liberation of one of our commanders from the prison at Casale Monferrato speaks for all of them. We cannot permit ourselves to shed tears over our dead, but must learn from them the lesson of loyalty, consistency, courage and heroism!
War, in the last analysis, decides the question of power: revolutionary class war. And this war has a price: a high price certainly, but not so high as to make us prefer the slavery of wage labor, the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie in its fascist or social-democratic variants. It is not the vote that decides the question of power; freedom is not conquered with a ballot. Let all sincere revolutionaries honor the memory of “MARA,” reflecting on the political teaching which she was able to give through her choice, her work, her life. That a thousand arms may reach out to grasp her rifle! We, as a last salute, say to her: “Mara, a flower has bloomed, and the Red Brigades will continue to cultivate this flower of freedom until the final victory!”
ARMED STRUGGLE FOR COMMUNISM
June 5, 1975
RED BRIGADES
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… footage: Red Dragon Print Collective … the clandestine publishing arm of the Weather Underground Organization … published “Prairie Fire: The Politics Of Anti-Imperialism” (1974) and “Osawatomie” (6 issues from 1974 to 1976) …
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