Author: historyiswhat

“The Red Scarves attracted a big following around the ideas of revaluing Kanak culture, asserting power and reclaiming stolen Kanak land.”

“Kanak society at its origin is a classless society, relations of production and between men are linked to a philosophy that excludes all forms of domination, exploitation and oppression.”

“The appeal of the Zionists is the appeal of paranoia. But our survival as a people depends on loyalty to the essence of our cultural traditions: brotherhood and reconciliation.”

“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.”

“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.”