“It was the I.W.W. boys who first kept the red flag flying on the battlefield of Mexicali, Mexico, and during the thickest of the fight we lost two brave I.W.W. boys …”
Author: historyiswhat
“On with the struggle! On with expropriation, for the benefit of all and not of the few!”
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War – Pedro Esteve (1912)
“Cursed, a thousand times cursed are the wars of conquest!”
“Far from being behind the times, these Mexican clamourers for land and liberty are in the very forefront of the battle.”
“… I intend to make some more foolish songs, although I realize that the class struggle is a very serious thing.”
“Authority burns with the dull yellow of phosphorus beside the sun of revolution.”
“A world of thoughts, feelings and passions like a hurricane opened up before my mental eye.”
“…the British militarists in Ireland knew well what they were doing — they were killing the two men who were the coolest, the most intelligent, and the most resolute enemies of oppression alive in Ireland.”
“Don’t go to Hell in Order to Give the Capitalists a Bigger Slice of Heaven”
“Our cause is yours: if you remain inactive while your brothers meet death embracing the Red Flag, you will give with your inaction a rude blow to the cause of the proletarian.”
“I who write have been as much to blame as any; let me shake off my blame by stirring you to awaken now.”
“…in our war-drunk age, with the patriotic frothing of the press, the brutality of the vigilantes and the general confusion of our life, Jefferson [prison] may yet prove a preferable retreat.”
“Were the retrogressive ideas of the Jewish Nationalists ever to materialize, the world would witness, after a few years, that one Jew is being persecuted by another.”
“Tremendous injustices and wrongs wilfully done are clearly seen; they exist and are at sight and have existed centuries before…”
“‘The War to end War,’ ‘the War for Democracy.’ What a lying face was hidden under the hideous mask of democracy.”
“The case of Palestine is an up-to-date instance of imperialism and its logical consequences.”
“The military power is the direct enemy of the working class and the support of the cowardly employing class.”
“And such forms can be realized only in narrow fields for varied purposes, or in vast fields for precise, well-defined and limited purposes.”
“Go over the pages of history, and in them you will find that in armed struggles in which the ruling classes have taken part, your role has always been that of cannon fodder…”
“… it is consoling, on the other hand, to see that the rich Yaqui region in the state of Sonora is under the control of the inhabitants of the area, the courageous, dignified and honorable Indians of the Yaqui tribe.”
“Superior! How can a marionette be superior simply because he drags around a sword and adorns himself with shiny ribbons like a circus clown?”
“The I.W.W. can never afford to gain in membership at the cost of sacrificed principles, or by appealing to the workers from the standpoint of immediate material benefits alone.”
