“The Red Scarves attracted a big following around the ideas of revaluing Kanak culture, asserting power and reclaiming stolen Kanak land.”
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Kanak Society – Jimmy Ounei (1982)
“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.”
“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.”
