“Not only has there never been such a thing as riotology, but it seems that unless the concept of the riot is exaggerated, there never can be. The limits of the riot itself guarantee this.”
Author: historyiswhat
“… the riot is currently the only movement of thought faster than alienation.”
“I am a Prisoner of War. A war that has been waged against the Indigenous Peoples of this land for hundreds of years. My people have never surrendered to a foreign government. “
“For many years we have received promises instead of human rights. Promises instead of justice. We are here to say the people cannot live on promises.”
“Tragically, this economic system does not merely limit itself to the effect it has on how people make their living, but spills over and imprints its values and principles on every aspect of our lives”
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Métis and RCMP Relations
When Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers raise the Métis flag outside of their detachments on Manitoba’s provincial Louis Riel Day (in February) or the national Louis Riel Day (on November 16), not everyone forgives and forgets the prominent role the force played in his execution in Regina in 1885 after the Northwest Resistance.
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Protect Sqeq’petsin – Stop TMX
“Secwépemc land defenders convicted for protecting ancestral lands. There is No Justice in a justice system based on legal fiction”
“The occupation was the latest in a series of actions prostitutes and supporters have taken to make the British Columbia government lift a recently imposed injunction against soliciting, and to decriminalize prostitution.”
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Capital as Automatic Subject
In particular, Sismondi’s concept of capital, put forward in his 1819 book, New Principles of Political Economy, was a point of reference for Marx’s 1867 book, Capital Volume 1.
“Here at last the world of nature and things makes direct contact with the human being who is again in the fullest sense spontaneous and natural.”
“Against the miserabilists (i.e., those who defend the domination of misery), we maintain a ‘return to traditional values’: generalized class-warfare!”
Marx’s choice might not have been coincidence, given that Le Trosne’s last determinant of value was commodities themselves.
“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.”
“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.”
“Were I not an Anarchist of long standing, the Parliamentarian Congress in London would have made me one…”
“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?”
“…for the founding of free peasant communes, familiarizing the working rural masses with true communist life…”
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Prison Song – Louise Michel (1898)
“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.”
“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.”
“…the next revolution, if it is guided by Socialist principle, must necessarily drive them to Communism, and Communism drive them to Anarchy.”
“Many really sincere and radical people are as yet puzzled by the position the anarchists take, namely: The abolition of all governments.”
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A Martyr – The Alarm (1885)
“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.”
