Our History

We started in the 1990s as a reading circle when many individual activists gathered together to discuss what true capitalism means. At first, naively, we participated struggles for free trade agreements, especially for those that opened the markets in third world countries. However, the disappointments of Seattle and Doha made us aware of how unreliable governments are in promoting trade liberation.

We found that discontent with the present restricted economic system mistaken for capitalism is widely shared and decided to organize ourselves. Our disappointment of the Enron and Parmalat trials deepened our conviction that we need to do something. Consequently, in 2001 we took up arms to promote trade liberation.

Our first armed act, the attempt to burn the schools of Diaz and Pascoli accommodating anti-globalization activists during the G8 summit in Genoa, backfired. The police raided these schools and found the Molotov cocktails we had planned to use to lit up the buildings.

In 2003, after the reactionary decision by the European Union to implement the Kyoto Protocol enslaving all car and factory owners, we renamed ourselves as the Trade and Gas Emission Liberation Front.

The trial of Khodorkovsky of Yukos demonstrated us how states dictate the destinies of entrepreneurs, instead of heeding to the advice from their most capable citizens. Fortunately, sometimes politicians have been willing to adopt entrepreneurial advice, as they did with the laws against non-profit media product distribution in the Internet.

Russia has been one country where we have engaged in several attacks against judges and politicians trying to obstruct free trade with regulations or so-called corruption investigations, although even a child should know that it is corrupt to distort free trade, not to maximize profits.

We have also practiced cyber war against governmental institutions distorting free trade, including finance ministries, agricultural ministries, central banks and tax offices in several countries.

We sympathize all armed groups that promote trade liberalization. We even sent some of our activists for training in Colombia where paramilitaries promote free cocaine trade against the imperialist armed forces financed and trained by the US.

Arms are useful for fighting backward anti-capitalist values. During these years, we have showed our support to several armed groups that have helped opening mines, plantations, highways and construction sites where there formerly was only unproductive natural resources or backward traditional forms of production. We are happy that some governments are ready to deploy their armed forces at the request of multinationals having come to bring progress to undeveloped countries.