“…in the industrialised countries of Europe and America industry has reached a stage in its development where we should no longer be struggling to establish our right to a job…”
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“But something must be done, for as long as the recurrent desire for Arab unity struggled with the political and economic handicaps the West had left them with, anything might happen to the precious oil supplies — even the dreaded Communism.”
“They proclaimed their principles during the terrible year spent on the threshold of death; they proclaimed them on the scaffold, and they hailed the day on which they died for those principles as the happiest of their lives.”
“Anarchism is not the struggle for better wages, more gadgets and full-employment.”
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The Israeli Crisis – Freedom (1949)
“It is outrageous that the British should add to the sufferings of Jewish refugee immigrants; and it is outrageous that Arab families should be rendered homeless by the partitioning of disputed territories.”
“Far from being behind the times, these Mexican clamourers for land and liberty are in the very forefront of the battle.”
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Malaya – Albert Meltzer (1948)
“… it is unfortunately true that colonisation and humanitarianism can never mix, and the only way the coloniser has ever established himself is by quickfire and ruthless wiping out, such as Andrew Jackson undertook.”
“Those who imagine that racial laws are exclusively something German or South African have yet to come across the most peculiar racial laws of ‘our’ mandate, Palestine.”
“On the other hand, there is no doubt that the majority of Zionists regard the Arabs in the same way as other colonisers have regarded other ‘native inhabitants’…”
“She died as she lived, an honest, upright woman, worthy of the highest and finest traditions of Anarchism.”
“They protest now against the domineering spirit of the Germans, but as a matter of fact they are all ‘Germans.'”
“…the next revolution, if it is guided by Socialist principle, must necessarily drive them to Communism, and Communism drive them to Anarchy.”
“We, as Anarchists, cannot take part, in my opinion, in the wars of Capitalism. There is only one war in which we can fight with any chance of success, and that is the class war…”
“…considering the impossibility, at least for the ordinary workman, of verifying in time who is the real aggressor, practically means that Kropotkin’s ‘anti-militarist’ ought always to obey the orders of his government.”
