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War Commentary

This Is Not A War For Freedom! – War Commentary (1939)

“…the fact remains that such conditions existed in Germany six years ago, and then, far from exposing these crimes, the British Government was eagerly helping the Nazi regime to get on its feet with loans and raw materials.”

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Alexander Berkman Mother Earth

Observations and Comments on Legal Justice – Mother Earth (1912)

“It was demonstrated during the trial that all safety requirements were entirely ignored by the bosses. The owners of the factory were concerned solely with the question of profits.”

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Marie Louise Berneri War Commentary

The Abolition of Property – Marie Louise Berneri (1944)

“Both the means of production and consumption goods must be expropriated and put at the disposal of the whole community.”

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Akwesasne Notes Hank Adams Richard Oakes

Richard Oakes, Alcatraz and More – Hank Adams (1972)

“The death of Richard Oakes provides emphatic proof that there has been no ebb in the sickness and sea of violence which White America has maintained against Indian people throughout its history to sweep away the lives of our nameless and our renowned.”

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Chief Leschi

Nisqually Proclamation or “Statement of Facts” (1965)

“WHEREAS the United States Government has never, past or present, honored or protected in any way or manner the rights of the Indian people.”

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Akwesasne Notes Chief Leschi Ramona Bennett

Proclamation of the Puyallup Tribe on the Repossession of the Cushman Indian Hospital Lands (1976)

“…the PUYALLUP TRIBAL COUNCIL, being unable to succeed through these other routes of action, HEREBY RESORTS TO SELF-DETERMINATION AND EXERCISES ITS SOVEREIGN RIGHTS OF OWNERSHIP…”

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Ramona Bennett

Viewpoint of People Living on Puyallup River – Ramona Bennett (1970)

“They paved and polluted every inch of land and air they had contact with. As surely as they destroyed our mother earth, they destroyed her children.”

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Emma Goldman Mother Earth

Woman Without a Country – Emma Goldman (1933)

“Future historians will wonder at the peculiar phenomenon of American war psychology…”

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Freedom

The Tragic Week in Catalonia – Freedom (1909)

“…the Spanish Government decided to punish the Moors of the Riff country who had dared to oppose two mining companies which had obtained concessions from one of the Pretenders.”

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Alexander Berkman Bernard Lazare Emma Goldman Free Society

Some Early Anarchists on Zionism (1899-1939)

“You want to send us to Zion? We do not want to go…”

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Leonard Peltier

Statement by Leonard Peltier on the Sixth Anniversary of the FBI Attack (1981)

“My love for my people and all people of struggle are as strong as when I made the decision to devote my life to the struggle. There is no power on Earth that can or will force me to abandon this love.”

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Anna Mae Pictou Aquash Dino Butler

The Butler-Robideau Trial: The Rain of Terror – Peggy Berryhill (1976)

“Although the acquittal was a personal victory for the defendants, the unresolved issues of sovereignty, treaty rights and other unsolved murders remain.”

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Anna Mae Pictou Aquash Candy Hamilton

Jails are not a solution to problems – Anna Mae Pictou Aquash (1975)

“…arrest everyone, throw them in jail, and they feel that’s the end of the problem, and I don’t, that’s no solution to any problem.”

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K. C. Sinclair

Clarity Contra Complicity – K. C. Sinclair (2025)

“He had not been passive in the first place, so he was not breaking from his passivity, he was breaking from his complicity, as he himself told us.”

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Leonard D. Abbott Mother Earth

Let Us Make War Against War – Leonard D. Abbott (1914)

“Let us realize more and more clearly that the war worth fighting is not between countries, but between ideals of life.”

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General

War and the Aftermath – Freedom (1914)

“And all this ostensibly for the lives of two persons — one less than our Government is responsible for in Dublin!”

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Akwesasne Notes Malik

The Inuit of Greenland: A Brief History – Malik (1975)

“In return they received manufactured products, an exchange guaranteed to leave them at the bottom of the growing European capitalistic society.”

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Regeneración Ricardo Flores Magón

People of America – Ricardo Flores Magón (1911)

“You should refuse to give a single cent for the war.”

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Akwesasne Notes Anna Mae Pictou Aquash

Review of ‘The Life and Death of Anna Mae Aquash’ – Akwesasne Notes (1978)

“It is, in reality, an attempt at a history of AIM and also of the U.S. intelligence effort against Native people.”

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Akwesasne Notes Anna Mae Pictou Aquash

Anna Mae Lived and Died For All of Us – Boston Indian Council (1976)

“There were many years of growing pains before the BIC was to be able to stand on its own, but without women like Anna Mae, it would never have been possible.”

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Blast Mother Earth Rebekah E. Raney

The Meaning of Margaret Sanger’s Stand – Rebekah E. Raney (1916)

“Man, with all his intellect and sagacity, has chiefly succeeded in marring the very coating of the earth with the bleached corpuscles of his own sons.”

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HIWH Leonard Peltier

Leonard Peltier to be transferred to house arrest (2025)

“AIM is not an organization. AIM, as its name clearly says, is a movement. Within that movement organizations come and go. No one person or special group of people runs AIM. […] There are no followers in AIM. We are all leaders.”

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