Kolektivo Kamina Libre Chilean anarchist materials collection (Ms.2024.010)

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From Libros Latinos, the collector and vendor:

"The "Kolektivo Kamina Libre" was and is a reference in the anarchic movement in Chile, and a particularly insurrectional vein of anarchism. This group was formed in 1995 within the High Security Jail in Santiago, its members were part of the political-military party MAPU-Lautaro (ironclad opponents of the Pinochet government), and were arrested and convicted for actions of political violence. After breaking with their ideological matrix they approached libertarian ideas in prison, developing a wide literature with topics as diverse as animal liberation, revolutionary violence, economics, etc.

"These writings were smuggledout of prison in a clandestine manner and reproduced widely among Anarko-punks, vegan and secret societies. Several sociologists and students of Chilean anarchism, the National Intelligence Agency (ANI) and police organizations link the "Kamina Libre" as an important theoretical-practical axis within the last two decades of anarchic struggle. After 12 years of incarceration, the last member of the group was released, several of his former members have continued to have problems with the law, two of them were accused of being the leaders of an illicit terrorist association, and another former member of the KL was prosecuted and convicted for assaulting a bank and the murder of a police officer. Their texts to this day are persecuted, criminalized and shown as evidence, so access to these documents is difficult, not only over the years, but also because they have been lost in continuous raids and repressive blows."