Autonomie und SolidaritätSmash the Computers!
CLODO -Committee for Liquidation or Subversion of Computers-
-A new film charts the brief rise and disappearance of the French direct action group CLODO, a collective of IT workers who believed that computerisation was being used as a tool of capital.-
"Explosions were not uncommon in southern Europe during a surge of anticapitalist violence in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But CLODO were more playful than Action Directe or the Red Brigades, says Thomas Dekeyser, co-director—with fellow academic Andrew Culp—of Machines in Flames, a new documentary about their exploits. CLODO sent interviews of themselves to magazines and compelled newspapers to reprint the messages they left at crime scenes. They did not anchor themselves in theory. Unlike other radical militant groups of the time and place, their attacks never killed anyone.
