“…the cure lies in removing the cause, which is poverty.”
Author: historyiswhat
“My uncle couldn’t believe that we had never been told of our heritage. He took us to a May Day celebration and showed us the Diego Rivera mural there honoring the Haymarket martyrs.”
“What more fitting time than the first of the beautiful month of May, when all nature has aroused from its long winter sleep, when birds are singing, flowers bursting and fields and forests are taking on their beautiful verdure…”
“In a position to influence the workers about him, he was an insistent voice urging them to extend their solidarity across the color line to the Indians.”
“…it is hard for the average Chicagoan, even the more enlightened one, to grasp the Mexican situation and its importance in relation to himself.”
“Unbeknownst to many, including many of today’s anarchists, May Day, through the Haymarket martyrs, also has a connection to Indigenous resistance.”
“The Gibraltar-Suez-Aden sea-route is the jugular vein of the British world-power, whose spectacular rise has been largely due to its brilliant sense for key strategic positions.”
“…one may fairly say today we have more work under machinery than ever we had before its advent.”
“For the obsolete and worn-out creeds of State worship and patriotism the workers are dragged to a senseless massacre.”
“The enemies of human liberty were never more powerful, heartless, and determined to throttle what little remaining freedom the common people possess than at the present time.”
“…the most mournful thing is this final in-surge of the Anglo-Saxon upon the last retreat of the North American Indian.”
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Notes on Colonialism – Freedom (1887)
“Then comes the French Government to protect the stolen goods, enclose the lands, and drive the tribes into the stony and barren uplands.”
“The revolutionary proletarians, after their heroic struggle against Spanish tyranny in favor of political independence, are now prepared to fight the politicians of Cuba and the United States in order to secure social emancipation and absolute liberty.”
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Another Little War – Freedom (1887)
“…of course it is the business of the government, the agent and swash-buckler of the ruling classes, to aid and abet them in the spoliation of uncivilised peoples.”
The Allies produced, sold and transported oil to the fascist countries before the war.
“There is a war of Fascist aggression in China, and in Spain, and a war against British Imperialism in Palestine.”
“The advent of Dictatorship and Fascism has resulted in appalling indifference to the most harrowing crimes.”
“Only a very few said peace did not matter, unless it was the peace of revolution.”
“No, not only Jews, but thousands of political dissenters have been tortured and done to death in the hideous concentration camps or on the block.”
“We anarchists want Cuba’s freedom, just as we want that of all peoples: we want true freedom, though. And for this we have fought and will continue to fight.”
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No War on Iran
“But no state is entitled to use justice for Iranians as a pretext for advancing its own ambitions for domination…”
– Amir Khadir
“When representatives of these governments assemble under the false presumption of alleviating conditions which they themselves created through their laws, we can say that this is the peak of brazen and heartless boldness.”
