“The new State adopts intact the laws left by the old [British] administration, with the exception of the control of immigration set out in the White Paper of 1939.”
Category: Freedom
“…in Kenya hundreds are arrested or beaten or shot down for their part in the rising against imperialism.”
“…one may fairly say today we have more work under machinery than ever we had before its advent.”
“…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.”
“…obviously from the start it was clear that the only way what was then Palestine could become a Jewish State would be by genocide…”
“Production is, for us, the mere servant of consumption; it must mold itself on the wants of the consumer, not dictate to him conditions.”
“British industry is the work of the British nation — nay, of Europe and India taken together — not of separate individuals.”
“Events in Persia have moved with a rapidity which has startled political commentators.”
“But nowadays human suffering does not count unless it is related in secret documents.”
“Believers in the State, including the liberals, claim that this institution has as its chief aim the protection of human life and welfare. How true is such a claim?”
“…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.”
“Parliamentarism is the art of making sufferers have patience eternally.”
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War – E. Reclus (1898)
“What is there astonishing in war breaking out when the whole of society, as constitutions and institutions have created it, rests on hostile interests and that a rumbling struggle rages in the depths?”
“…Lilian pleaded guilty, remarking that ‘there seemed little to say, as her whole crime appeared to be that of telling the truth.'”
“It seems to me that our attitude is not to say who shall dominate in certain areas, but to put an end to domination in every area.”
“To safeguard their power to exploit the peoples — black, white, or yellow — they were quite prepared to make a slaughter-house of Europe.”
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The Avalanche – Clara Cole (1947)
“Conscription is the negation of defence, for armed peace presupposes war and is offensive.”
“As the earliest Anarchist criticisms of Zionism said — a new nationalism could only create a State and this would become more reactionary, as witness the decline of Italian nationalism into fascism.”
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Communism – Henry Glasse (1912)
“…but I also maintain it on the score of policy and on behalf of the strong themselves, because all men are weak at some period of their lives, and liable to become so at any time.”
