Author: historyiswhat

“Many really sincere and radical people are as yet puzzled by the position the anarchists take, namely: The abolition of all governments.”

“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.”

“We are thus forced to recognize that each individual, while remaining totally free in his actions, can only act in common, and by this very fact becomes a libertarian communist.”

“The patriotic aberration that, though it is murder to kill when you are dressed in citizen’s clothes, it is heroic and glorious to slaughter wholesale when you put on a soldier’s uniform.”

“…we openly declare ourselves determined opponents of all nationalistic sectionalism or patriotism, and the militarism preached and supported by our one enemy, the Capitalist Class.”

Here I’ve collected links to several texts by Sicilian anarchist Alfredo Maria Bonanno, originally translated into English from the Italian and published by his Scottish anarchist comrade Jean Weir as separate pamphlets or booklets, but now presented together in one convenient location.