“Against the ‘alternative’ solutions proposed by the ecologists, we see the only way to approach the problem of ecological devastation is within the context of the subversion of all the relations and values on which the capitalist system is based.” Continue reading Against Ecology – Pierleone Porcu (1988)

“In the ’70s and ’80s, Saskatchewan’s left was chronicled by two formidable magazines: New Breed and Briarpatch. This is the story of how they made grassroots media in Saskatchewan.” Continue reading Métis militancy and Saskatchewan media

“Were I not an Anarchist of long standing, the Parliamentarian Congress in London would have made me one…” Continue reading Louise Michel on the Congress (1896)

“It is useless for the ruling class to stand on the shore of discontent and attempt to force this tide back to its depths of poverty, for it swells up from the hearts of the people.” Continue reading The Workers and War – Lucy Parsons (1912)

“We ask our friends: if it were a matter of liberating Trieste, would they go if the only way of doing so would be enlisting under the King’s colors or under Imbriani’s?” Continue reading For Candia – Errico Malatesta (1897)

“…for the founding of free peasant communes, familiarizing the working rural masses with true communist life…” Continue reading Basic Principles of the Organization of the Union of Anarchists of Gulyai-Polye (1919)

“In the struggles to come, one will not find such generous scruples any more, because with each popular defeat, the crowd is bled like the beasts of the slaughterhouse; what one will find, will be implacable duty.” Continue reading Prison Song – Louise Michel (1898)

“Humanity isn’t craving hard toil ten hours of every twenty-four, but rather leisure to grow and expand, and for every two hours labor full two hours’ results.” Continue reading “Timid” Capital – Lizzie M. Swank (1886)

“…the next revolution, if it is guided by Socialist principle, must necessarily drive them to Communism, and Communism drive them to Anarchy.” Continue reading The Necessity of Communism – Freedom (1887)

“Many really sincere and radical people are as yet puzzled by the position the anarchists take, namely: The abolition of all governments.” Continue reading Abolition of Government – Lizzie M. Swank (1886)

“The name of this man? Louis Riel. His crime? He called out his brethren, the Canadian half-breeds, to arms; he has unfurled the sacred standard of human freedom and independence.” Continue reading A Martyr – The Alarm (1885)

“We are thus forced to recognize that each individual, while remaining totally free in his actions, can only act in common, and by this very fact becomes a libertarian communist.” Continue reading Anarchy and Communism – Le Drapeau Noir (1883)

“The patriotic aberration that, though it is murder to kill when you are dressed in citizen’s clothes, it is heroic and glorious to slaughter wholesale when you put on a soldier’s uniform.” Continue reading Why War? – The Blast (1916)

“…we openly declare ourselves determined opponents of all nationalistic sectionalism or patriotism, and the militarism preached and supported by our one enemy, the Capitalist Class.” Continue reading The Deadly Parallel – Industrial Workers of the World (1917)

Here I’ve collected links to several texts by Sicilian anarchist Alfredo Maria Bonanno, originally translated into English from the Italian and published by his Scottish anarchist comrade Jean Weir as separate pamphlets or booklets, but now presented together in one convenient location. Continue reading Intro to Insurrectionary Anarchism

“There is a quite serious revolutionary movement among the peasants in northern Mexico, and the republican government is unable to master it.” Continue reading A Correction – Peter Kropotkin (1912)

“He pointed to the black flag and said this is the first time that emblem of hunger and starvation has been unfurled on American soil. It represents that these people have begun to reach the condition of starvation of the older countries.” Continue reading The Black Flag – The Alarm (1884)

“To those persons who may regard these aspirations as merely sentimental or utopian, I invite their attention to the operation of our capitalistic system, as outlined by Marx and others.” Continue reading Plea for Anarchy – Albert Parsons (1886)

“In this system we’re in, things aren’t right. We can’t all be rich and it takes a lot of poor people to make one person rich. I don’t agree with the system – I am basically a socialist-minded person.” Continue reading Medric McDougall: Metis Elder and Organizer (1988)

“Try as they would, the Metis could not get titles to their lands, while the government alienated large blocks of lands to speculators” Continue reading We Do Take Exception to This Term “Rebellion” – Malcolm Norris (1962)

“From leading one of British Columbia’s earliest strikes to fighting against low wages and racist bosses, some pivotal moments in Indigenous labour history.” Continue reading Indigenous labour struggles

“We intend to change things. As Natives, we have awakened, we are awakening to our plight after a hundred years of slumber. We intend to take some action.” Continue reading What is the New Breed? (1969)

In 1611, English sea captain Henry Hudson suffered a mutiny by his crew and was abandoned and cast adrift in the North American bay that colonial officials named in his honour.  Continue reading Doctrine of the Corpse Betrayed by its Spirit

Tributes to, interviews with and films by Mi’gmaw filmmaker Jeff Barnaby. Continue reading Remembering Jeff Barnaby

“If the Canadian government gets its way, military training in Goose Bay, Labrador will soon be making life intolerable for the Indigenous people of the area.” Continue reading NATO Fighter Planes Invade Innu Territory – Open Road (1987)

“Fascism is the natural child of bourgeois ‘democracy'” Continue reading Manifesto of the Anarchist Federation on War (1943)

“America will have to eliminate its competitors and that is a job the boys will be sure to get. That of conquering new markets for American capitalists, of preserving the American empire with a strong army and navy.” Continue reading The Yankee Peril – Marie-Louise Berneri (1943)

“We, as Anarchists, cannot take part, in my opinion, in the wars of Capitalism. There is only one war in which we can fight with any chance of success, and that is the class war…” Continue reading Is This the Last War? – W.T. Crick (1915)

“These editors are trying to numb the powerful revolutionary energies that exist, and to convert them into an electoral flock.” Continue reading The Political Socialists – Ricardo Flores Magón (1912)

Marx’s choice might not have been coincidence, given that Le Trosne’s last determinant of value was commodities themselves. Continue reading The Social Interest and its influence on Capital

“Informed and inspired by Gustafsen Lake rebels and year-long trial, NYM Vancouver begins organizing against BC treaty process.” Continue reading What is the Native Youth Movement? (2002)

“The poor class, by virtue of encountering material wealth hoarded by the rich, is forced to depend on them. If the poor man wants to work the land, he has to rent himself out for a determined price that is called the wage and which represents an abrogated part of what he produces with his arms.” Continue reading Class Struggle – Ricardo Flores Magón (1911)

“What could be so important that revolutionaries would join the most reactionary elements in their respective countries, free thinkers would fraternise with priests, socialists and trade unionists would put class antagonisms on hold, anti-militarists would demand that a government call the citizens to arms and force them to go to war, anarchists would collaborate with the State?” Continue reading While the Carnage Lasts – Errico Malatesta (1915)

As Marx’s partner, Friedrich Engels, put it, “For socialism, which wants to emancipate human labour-power from its status of a commodity, the realisation that labour has no value and can have none is of great importance.” Continue reading The Labour-Power Theory of Capital

“We are the rightful and legal owners of the land. Therefore, we reclaim all the resourceful land that has traditionally been ours, with the exception of that ‘owned’ by private individuals.” Continue reading We Have Endured, We Are Indians – Pit River Indian Council (1970)

“All this, together with the journalistic campaign made in its support, will create in South American countries a warlike mentality conducive to the imperialist affairs of their rulers, a morbid state of mind, refined by the suspicions and hatreds that are awakened, and predisposed to the outbreak of war.” Continue reading The Arming of Nations – La Antorcha (1923)

“The outbreak of war – the most solemn denial of the principle “si vis pace para bellum” [if you want peace, prepare for war] – was therefore received with the idea that with one evil, a greater evil would be avoided in the future.” Continue reading Armed Peace – Revista Liberal (1921)

“We have no sympathy whatever with the ‘libertarians’ – be they Socialists, Anarchists or what not – whose philosophic internationalism somersaults into rankest chauvinism the moment it is put to the practical test.” Continue reading If We Must Fight, Let It Be For The Social Revolution – Mother Earth (1914)

“Our voices as anti-militarists, as Anarchists and free thinkers must be raised much louder and more powerfully in all the countries where burns the torch of the war, and also where the torch is still to be lit.” Continue reading To the Anti-Militarists, Anarchists, and Free Thinkers – Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis (1915)

“…considering the impossibility, at least for the ordinary workman, of verifying in time who is the real aggressor, practically means that Kropotkin’s ‘anti-militarist’ ought always to obey the orders of his government.” Continue reading Anti-Militarism: Was It Properly Understood? – Errico Malatesta (1914)

“The slogan of the revolutionaries is this: The present war is waged for the benefit of the rich. Let us fight to the death here, rather than die in the European trenches.” Continue reading On the March – Ricardo Flores Magón (1917)

“But when a country arms itself to the teeth, conscripts its men, organises its production according to war needs. it is folly to hope that war will not follow.” Continue reading American Imperialism versus German Imperialism – Marie-Louise Berneri (1941)

“The propaganda of the socialist-internationalists, in advising desertion in the case of war, is the most logical consequence of this doctrine.” Continue reading Rebellion of the Soldier – Manuel González Prada (1906)

“Philosophical considerations on the circulation of life, illustrated by modern colonial politics.” Continue reading Concerning the Beginning of the End – Tiempos Nuevos (1912)

“We want to be militians for freedom, but not soldiers in uniform. The army has proven to be a danger to the people: the popular militias alone protect public freedoms…” Continue reading Militians, Yes! But Soldiers, Never! – Spanish anarchist militias (1936)

“Enough is enough! It is necessary to destroy the army and privileges; but for that it is necessary, it is of indispensable necessity, that you enlighten yourself, that you understand and conquer your rights.” Continue reading Down with Wars! – Isolina Bórquez (1914)

“This country’s soldiers and henchmen of all sizes have nothing to envy. Just ask the women and children of Ludlow, Colorado.” Continue reading Echoes of War – Estella Arteaga (1916)

“The anarchist idea, in my humble view, can never be accepted by the ruling classes, by the privileged classes in general.” Continue reading Anarchists Who Are All Talk? – Estela Arteaga / No More Charades! – Lucia Norman (1916)

“Therefore, our class interests demand that we never go to the battlefields to fight for a Country that is not ours but of the rich who are the ones that own everything, and that when circumstances force us to shoulder arms let it be to fight against the present institutions…” Continue reading For Our Country! – Enrique Flores Magón (1916)

“…these are the first skirmishes of the coming Great European Social Revolution, as a natural consequence of the stupid war that the greed of the old world exploiters has brought about.” Continue reading Skirmishes – Juanita Arteaga (1916)

“Repression and persecution gives rise to the revolution. That is an inevitable law.” Continue reading Armed / The Conscious Workers – Juanita Arteaga (1916)

“An anarchist newspaper denounces war as a crime, as there can be no greater crime than to make human beings kill each other to sustain exploitation and tyranny.” Continue reading Sarcasm – Ricardo Flores Magón (1917)

“The principle that the government has invoked to drag the people into the abyss could not be more pleasing: that of liberty. ” Continue reading The War – Ricardo Flores Magón (1917)

The documentary film and books that I have chosen here are some of the Native-created media that have moved me the most over the years, strongly influencing my thinking, writing, and action. Continue reading Indigenous persistence reading list

In other words, looking after each other to such an extent that individuals couldn’t accumulate wealth at the expense of others. Continue reading Divide While Anything Remains

“Other Chicago anarchists were also interested in the ‘Indian Question'” Continue reading Anarchists and the Wild West – Franklin Rosemont (1986)

Personally, I’m disappointed to see that someone else is disappointed by critical thinking around state nationalism, particularly European and subsidiary settler colonial nationalisms. Continue reading A Response To A Response About Militarism, Nationalism And War

The Swiss historian and political economist Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi wrote in his 1819 book New Principles of Political Economy, “The solitary man could only labour together with land and animals; but in society the rich man could make the poor man labour.” Continue reading Capital as Automatic Subject

As everything has an end, its end is the first quality, the first determination, the first negation of everything.
It is through its end that everything begins. Continue reading Finally, Teleology – Library of Riots (1994)

“Every increase in the fighting force by one State directed against its subjects causes uneasiness to the neighbouring State and compels it to increase its army, too.” Continue reading Should Labor Be Patriotic? – Lyov Tolstoy (1894)