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In August 2023, the locks were glued at the catholic chaplaincy issued to Birckbeck, SOAS and UCL.
Why did I do this? Because I could and it was easy. All it required was a hood, some two pound fifty superglue quickly applied to the slit of the lock head, and the silence of night. It looked like I was taking a piss, and indeed, I was taking the piss.
And that was all I was doing. In the context of the conditions of social war in which pure anti-authoritarianism began, the last half of the nineteenth century, my action was almost nothing. Yet I could do it, could wave my tits in their face, and show them they were not there by our consent. Even for the day or two they had to prop their door open because they couldn’t fix it properly. Yet it was not a true imposition of my free humanity on their commands. To do that, I would have had to turn the place to ashes.
Why am I saying this? Why can’t we live and let live, and be tolerant? You can understand an objection to the university, but shouldn’t people be free to think whatever they think?
To this I respond, of course they should be free to think what they think. But they should think it in the ashes of the building dependent on commerce, acres of land taken from you or I, years of enslavement we must go through in the factories they invest in. They should think it independent of the forced hand of the vulnerable, which reaches towards the church basket in the face of milleniae of hellfire. Surely this is worse than the threat of a prison. Or in the face of exclusion from the “right” to truth that the church has, as the belief in god is the only rupture allowed from the universal predictability of reality, if one does not wish to face the actual threat of imprisonment doled out by the ever present psychologist/psychiatrist.
In the same way a fascist may think what they want to think, in the ashes of the state, workplace, institution, party or militia that make fascism more than just a personal idiocy, or move towards these. And it is not the case that we are different sections of society, that have to tolerate each other: we are two, and identity is opposed on us to distract us from this fact. There is the one who has violence in monopoly, and the one who must persue violence secretly. That is all. We can have no toleration of the side which monopolises violence, such as the chaplaincy depends upon.
And because this aspect of religion – the sole legalised insanity – when existing through force is the same as the university existing through force. God is the ultimate teacher figure, he who through his immortality maintains a different substance category of knowledge to you with your finite span. And his role is to teach people that there will always be a boss and always someone who can speak better for you about your own life. This is precisely why our debts go to people who are paid to claim he exists.
I have also graffiti’d, on multiple occasions, the scientology headquarters located on tottenham court road next to these universities. I have no clear recollection of the dates and how many times I have done this. On the same night, multiple banks and the luxury hotel at russel square had their locks glued,and cctv all over the City of London financial district was blinded with spray paint, but the church action was more interesting to me.
Gossip
I would also like to describe, briefly and for gossip, the recent situation at the student’s union at soas. This and in particular the seperate actions of new “ceo” Irfaan Zaman need to be described in great depth. However, I can focus on the situation of the student “representatives”, who have been parachuted in from one of three soas islamic societies known for its salafi politics, a particular hardright understanding of the religion. We understand this from the members of the other Islamic societies, but other than them, a grand taboo has fallen over the discussion of this. A concerted campaign was organised by this society to vote en bloc for “islamic governance” (one of them managed a youth religious society across london, concerned presumably primarily with sexual abstainence and clean living, and the other, an ex member of the banking and finance society, keeps a large saudi flag on his desk).
What this naturally looks like is that, when a student was being dragged out by security for putting up a poster stating the university director’s role in the killing and torture of Arthur Muhamelwa and Mthokozisi Ntumba, they encouraged the gaurds, as they didn’t want “libel” on their walls. And because, fundamentally, the idea of the boss and unquestioning belief dominates everything they are. This is of no ultimate relevance, as student union representatives and representative politics in general are a fraud, pale imitations of the roman tribunes they are based on who carried with them the threat of revolt (not that the tribunes were more powerful than you and I either, or anything other than parasites like any student rep). Yet propagandistically, their obedience is superb to the institution: they carry out their little role with gusto.
Yet at least I have triggered the soas activists, who, in their endless faith in formal politics and their total lack of genuine feeling, would hate their representatives to be rightwing christians, yet have no concern for rightwing islam. I applaud the actions of some of them in recoiling, at least personally, against the invitiation of a Hindutva nationalist politician to campus by another of the student reps (now suspended for alleged sexual assault), but remind them the ball was in their court to have done something to them. Religion will be waved in front of our noses every day on the grounds of the campus we are dragged to by necessity, until we learn to strike quickly and anonymously, and the various chaplains are in an office on the third floor I believe.
Yet it will have no value to get rid of religion, and keep the moral bosses, and the mortal planners of your soul.
