“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

These differing views however relate to more than just terminology. Different words can mean essentially the same thing in different contexts, while the same word can have more than one meaning. Continue reading The Exchange Relation of Commodities in Capitalist Society

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)

“We unconditionally condemn all capitalist wars, with whatever sophisms it may be sought to defend the one or the other set of pirates and exploiters as more ‘libertarian.’ We unalterably hold that war is the game of the masters, always at the expense of the duped workers.”
– Alexander Berkman (1914) Continue reading Against Militarism, Imperialism, and Wars between States

In Keston Sutherland’s article, Marx in Jargon, he asserts that there is a misunderstood idea about Marx’s book Capital, due to certain English mistranslations, as he describes them, by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, and later Ben Fowkes. Continue reading Room for Critique

“In the villages there are no police, and, for the same reason, order reigns in them. There are no rich people, so there is no need for police.” Continue reading The Death of the Bourgeois System – Ricardo Flores Magón (1915)

“This was the first revolutionary error. By maintaining the government, its old bourgeois structure was respected and around it the whole weight of the bureaucratic apparatus that it had sustained up to that point.” Continue reading Controllers and Controlled – Lucía Sánchez Saornil (1937)

“In particular, some socialists … sneer at the ‘dream’ of anarchism. Yet I have found that it is not a dream, but something aspects of which have been realized in the autonomy of the villages inherited from our ancestors.” Continue reading The Facts of Anarchy – Itō Noe (1921)

“There is nothing to it
As the Bible says
‘All politicians are liars’
Therefore, if ye would be ‘saved’
Save yourselves” Continue reading The Politician is Not My Shepherd – Covington Hall (1933)

“The only value that political activity has to the working class is from the standpoint of agitation and education. Its educational merit consists solely in proving to the workers its utter inefficacy to curb the power of the ruling class and therefore forcing the workers to rely on the organization of their class in the industries of the world.” Continue reading The IWW and Political Parties – Vincent St. John (1910)

“It is a lie that the government has pacified the Yaquis.” Continue reading The Pacification of the Yaqui – Librado Rivera (1927)

“The Mexican people are learning through long and cruel experience that freedom is never handed down from those on the higher steps of the social ladder.” Continue reading Carranza’s Doom – Enrique Flores Magón (1916)

Anna Mae Pictou Aquash was one of the most skilled warriors and dedicated community organizers in the Indigenous resistance movement, and because of this was targeted for repression by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Continue reading Anna Mae Pictou Aquash: Warrior and Community Organizer

“The federal government chose to prosecute us because we will not betray our culture, our identity. The federal government chose to prosecute us because we chose not to betray the People.” Continue reading I Believe in the Laws of Nature – Anna Mae Pictou Aquash’s Statement to the Court of South Dakota (1975)

For our peoples, the cops and prison guards are a roadblock along the way to freedom and restoring relations, but also an occupying army serving the settler colonial state Continue reading By All Means, Anti-Politics

“Readers are welcomed to criticize this paper and assist us in formulating an objective concept of the international context of our struggle for self-determination” Continue reading Palestinians and Native People are Brothers – Native Study Group (1976)

“The Gitxsan will be fighting unjust injunctions in the courts and on the land. We are asking for support, as we continue to stand up for the Gitxsan-Wet’suwet’en Alliance.” Continue reading Gitxsan Resistance

“We were able to see it because we were members of an oppressed group of people and knew what was in front of us had to be cleared up.” Continue reading From DuBois to Fanon – C.L.R. James (1967)

Links to articles about and interviews with Lee Maracle, as well as articles she herself wrote. Continue reading Remembering Lee Maracle

“The RCMP attempted to come in to Coyote Camp and failed, for the first time since they were walked out by our Haudenosaunee relatives. We will not allow it. We can not. Our responsibilities are too great. ” Continue reading Coyote Camp – Gidimt’en Frontline

A couple of centuries before Marx wrote his book Capital, Henry Hudson suffered a mutiny by his crew and was abandoned and cast adrift at sea, in the Bay that fellow colonizers would later name in his honour. Continue reading Doctrine of the Corpse Betrayed by its Spirit

“Mike Gouldhawke on capitalism, colonialism, and how we can use Marx’s concept of value as a tool for understanding and changing our current social conditions.” Continue reading Head Hits Concrete

“The violence our people suffer at the hands of the colonizers is all connected and continues today as fervently as it did when they landed on the shores of this continent. Tabï misiyh. All our love and rage to Jared’s family.” – Gidimt’en Checkpoint (@Gidimten) Continue reading Justice for Jared Lowndes

“Spectacular and futile condemnations of race prejudice. In reality, a colonial country is a racist country.” Continue reading Racism and Culture – Frantz Fanon (1956)

“As supporters on the outside sprang into action, calling on the government to #FreeThemAll, prisoners faced up to the reality of 24-hour lockdowns, no more family visits, an already failing health-care system, and terrible food. The hunger strikes started not long after.” Continue reading “Chip away at it” – A year of COVID-era hunger strikes in Canadian prisons

Audio interview from 2010 with Wade Crawford (Oneida/Haudenosaunee) from Six Nations of the Grand River, talking about his participation in the “Oka Crisis” and other struggles (interview from the Vancouver Media Coop, with a song clip, as chosen by Wade) Continue reading Audio interview with Wade Crawford from Six Nations of the Grand River (2010)

“As we mark the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba, we, the undersigned, join together to reaffirm our commitment to the Palestinian people’s struggle for justice, return, and liberation.” Continue reading Solidarity with Palestine

“Vancouver MP and junior minister for Indian Affairs Stephen Owen caused controversy in early February, 2002, when he compared young natives in Canada to Palestinian militants.“ Continue reading Indigenous Intifada: Federal MP Compares Natives to Palestinians (2002)

We spoke about the Commune and colonialism, moving from Paris to the exile of Communards like Louise Michel in “New Caledonia,” to the Red River Resistance of 1869-70 in what would eventually become a part of “Canada.” Continue reading The Commune and Colonialism

On Indigenous land defence & the care that builds the solidarity that strengthens the blockade. Continue reading Building Blocks

A review of Métis scholar Allyson Stevenson’s book, Intimate Integration, about the ’60s Scoop. Continue reading The ‘60s Scoop and everyday acts of elimination

“Does this rising generation know that those who inaugurated the eight-hour day were put to death at the command of capital?” Continue reading May Day & the Haymarket Martyrs

History keeps getting older. But sometimes to preserve is to destroy. Continue reading Unnatural System