Anarchism & Indigenous Peoples

“Fascism, that is, a politico-economic state where the ruling class of each country behaves towards its own people as for several centuries it has behaved to the colonial peoples under its heel…”

– Bart de Ligt, an anarchist from the Netherlands, The Conquest of Violence, 1937


“No Olympics on Stolen Native Land” + “Sabotage the Systems of Social Control”, Vancouver, Coast Salish Territory, 2010

What’s the Métis connection to May Day and anarchism? Not only did the Chicago Haymarket anarchists write about and organize an event in solidarity with the 1885 Northwest Resistance, but Honoré Jaxon, who was Louis Riel’s secretary (and a social movement organizer himself), moved to Chicago and joined the movement there.

– M. Gouldhawke

Image from the Haymarket Scrapbook

Tecumseh’s speech to Governor Harrison at Vincennes, Indiana Territory (August 12, 1810)

Colonization, by Jean Grave (1893)

History of Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh longshoremen, 1863–1963, from wikipedia

The Mexican People are Suited to Communism, by Ricardo Flores Magón (1911)

The Mexican Revolution, by Voltairine de Cleyre (1911)

Carranza’s Doom – Enrique Flores Magón (1916)

The Pacification of the Yaqui – Librado Rivera (1927)

Algeria: The Kabyle Mentality, by Sail Mohamed (1951)

How to Survive in the Jungle, by James Herndon (1971)

Anarchism and the National Liberation Struggle, by Alfredo M. Bonanno (1976)

Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom, by Fredy Perlman (1983)

Anti-Imperialism, Nationhood and National Liberation, by Kuwasi Balagoon (1984)

Against Imperialism: International Solidarity and Resistance – Endless Struggle (1990)

Non-Western Anarchisms: Rethinking the Global Context, by Jason Adams (2002 ?)

Say No to the War of Fear, by Subcomandante Marcos of the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (2003)

Colonization, Self-Government and Self-Determination in British Columbia, by Insurgent-S (2003)

The Unconquered Mapuche, by M. Gouldhawke (2005)

Locating An Indigenous Anarchism, by Aragorn! (2005)

Bows and Arrows Hall, by Past Tense Vancouver (2009)

Audio interview with Wade Crawford from Six Nations of the Grand River (2010)

From Protest to Resistance: A Report on the Campaign Against the 2010 Olympics, by Zig Zag (2010) | PDF

Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870–1940, edited by Steven Hirsch and Lucien van der Walt (2010) | PDF

Bows and Arrows, by Past Tense Vancouver (2012)

Preview: “Working on the Water, Fighting for the Land”, by Tania Willard and the Graphic History Collective (2014)

Visions of a Radical Labour Movement, by Amber Gross and Molly Swain (2015)

“Come O Lions! Let Us Cause a Mutiny:” Anarchism and the Subaltern, by Tariq Khan (2015)

Mexican Workers in the IWW and the Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM), by Devra Anne Weber (2016)

Black Anarchism: A Reader, by the Black Rose Anarchist Federation (2016)

Gord Hill, Indigenous Artist and Anarchist, An Interview by CrimethInc (2017)

Civilization vs Solidarity: Louise Michel and the Kanaks, by Carolyn J. Eichner (2017)

The Futures Past of Internationalism: A Conversation with Benita Parry, from Viewpoint Magazine (2018)

Autonomously and with Conviction: A Métis Refusal of State-Led Reconciliation, by Tawinikay (2018)

At Our Expense, by Molly Swain (2019)

Communization and Decolonization, by Ediciones Inéditas (2019)

Fire Walk With Me: a report back from the indigenous anarchist convergence (2019)

Indigenous Anarchist Convergence – Report Back, by Indigenous Action (2019)

Fitz St. John: A Longshoreman’s Longshoreman, by the ILWU (2020)

Reconciliation is Dead, by Tawinikay (2020)

In the Navajo Nation, Anarchism Has Indigenous Roots, by Cecilia Nowell (2020)

Unknowable: Against an Indigenous Anarchist Theory, by Klee Benally, Ya’iishjááshch’ilí (June 2021)



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