Author: historyiswhat

Tributes to, interviews with and films by Mi’gmaw filmmaker Jeff Barnaby.

“If the Canadian government gets its way, military training in Goose Bay, Labrador will soon be making life intolerable for the Indigenous people of the area.”

“Fascism is the natural child of bourgeois ‘democracy'”

“America will have to eliminate its competitors and that is a job the boys will be sure to get. That of conquering new markets for American capitalists, of preserving the American empire with a strong army and navy.”

“We, as Anarchists, cannot take part, in my opinion, in the wars of Capitalism. There is only one war in which we can fight with any chance of success, and that is the class war…”

“These editors are trying to numb the powerful revolutionary energies that exist, and to convert them into an electoral flock.”

“Informed and inspired by Gustafsen Lake rebels and year-long trial, NYM Vancouver begins organizing against BC treaty process.”

“The poor class, by virtue of encountering material wealth hoarded by the rich, is forced to depend on them. If the poor man wants to work the land, he has to rent himself out for a determined price that is called the wage and which represents an abrogated part of what he produces with his arms.”

“What could be so important that revolutionaries would join the most reactionary elements in their respective countries, free thinkers would fraternise with priests, socialists and trade unionists would put class antagonisms on hold, anti-militarists would demand that a government call the citizens to arms and force them to go to war, anarchists would collaborate with the State?”

As Marx’s partner, Friedrich Engels, put it, “For socialism, which wants to emancipate human labour-power from its status of a commodity, the realisation that labour has no value and can have none is of great importance.”