“But something must be done, for as long as the recurrent desire for Arab unity struggled with the political and economic handicaps the West had left them with, anything might happen to the precious oil supplies — even the dreaded Communism.”
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“They proclaimed their principles during the terrible year spent on the threshold of death; they proclaimed them on the scaffold, and they hailed the day on which they died for those principles as the happiest of their lives.”
“Let us not forget on May Day, Labor Day, to honor the memories of all our martyred dead, whose struggle, sufferings and death have made possible even the agitation for better things for the workers.”
“Anarchism is not the struggle for better wages, more gadgets and full-employment.”
“The best politician operating on the social organism is like a well-meaning and intelligent mechanic trying to cut out your appendix with a rusty bread-saw.”
“In plain words, a pact was formed during the War between British imperialism and Jewish nationalism, of which the Arabs were to be the victims.”
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The April Uprising in Iraq (2004)
“…the Iraqi people are putting the world’s most powerful and technologically advanced army in serious difficulty.”
“The latest stunt of the boss is to use the moving picture shows as an instrument to mould the minds and ideas of the workers.”
“The American and Canadian workers also join in the joy of the Mexican proletarian for that triumph, although all deplore the loss of that star who was called Stanley.”
“Did Ambroise Lépine not play an equally important role as Riel in 1870 in Manitoba?”
“Life must never become a habit, you said. It must be a triumph, it must be a consecration.”
“The ‘doing away with war’ must be predicated upon the presumption that it must be done outside the magic circle of overlords and their stooges…”
“So in opposing war, he is no more a non-resistant than the opportunist revolutionist.”
“That struggle is one which cannot be waged by environmentalists alone.”
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Into the Green – Black Flag (1989)
“But voting green, getting parties to adopt green policies, or adopting the word green to a middle class programme isn’t doing anything about ecology, any more than green capitalist concerns.”
“Therefore our chain is your chain. The problem of hunger is universal.”
“That the spirit of perverse cruelty to persecute and humiliate human beings for no other offence except that they lead their own lives, is making itself felt even today, no one familiar with the activity of our moral censors can possibly deny.”
“… the soldier is always a soldier, obliged to show up when called and fight for the purpose which the government wants to make him fight for.”
“… the United States Government perpetrates outrages in Santo Domingo and Haiti of the same nature.”
“Now aren’t we proud to raise our sons and daughters ready to stab us in the name of patriotism?”
“They go to bed thinking of the cobweb, they dream of the cobweb and dress up in a hurry to go in search of the cobweb.”
“It seems that what has been chosen to be called Fate has a taste for being ironic and sarcastic.”
