Author: historyiswhat

“There is a quite serious revolutionary movement among the peasants in northern Mexico, and the republican government is unable to master it.”

“He pointed to the black flag and said this is the first time that emblem of hunger and starvation has been unfurled on American soil. It represents that these people have begun to reach the condition of starvation of the older countries.”

“To those persons who may regard these aspirations as merely sentimental or utopian, I invite their attention to the operation of our capitalistic system, as outlined by Marx and others.”

“In this system we’re in, things aren’t right. We can’t all be rich and it takes a lot of poor people to make one person rich. I don’t agree with the system — I am basically a socialist-minded person.”

“Try as they would, the Metis could not get titles to their lands, while the government alienated large blocks of lands to speculators”

“From leading one of British Columbia’s earliest strikes to fighting against low wages and racist bosses, some pivotal moments in Indigenous labour history.”