When Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers raise the Métis flag outside of their detachments on Manitoba’s provincial Louis Riel Day (in February) or the national Louis Riel Day (on November 16), not everyone forgives and forgets the prominent role the force played in his execution in Regina in 1885 after the Northwest Resistance.
In particular, Sismondi’s concept of capital, put forward in his 1819 book, New Principles of Political Economy, was a point of reference for Marx’s 1867 book, Capital Volume 1.
As Marx’s partner, Friedrich Engels, put it, “For socialism, which wants to emancipate human labour-power from its status of a commodity, the realisation that labour has no value and can have none is of great importance.”
In Keston Sutherland’s article, Marx in Jargon, he asserts that there is a misunderstood idea about Marx’s book Capital, due to certain English mistranslations, as he describes them, by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, and later Ben Fowkes.
Anna Mae Pictou Aquash was one of the most skilled warriors and dedicated community organizers in the Indigenous resistance movement, and because of this was targeted for repression by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The Mapuche have always believed that the world would end if they did not resist the colonizers, and have called on the spirits of their ancestors to aid them in battle.
How the Kanehsatà:ke Mohawk community stopped a police invasion and decommissioned the band council’s police force.
BC’s recent adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) through Bill 41 was the subject of a major corporate conference at the Vancouver Convention Centre on January 14th, 2020, focused on the expanded business opportunities that have supposedly been unlocked in the Declaration’s wake.
Contradictions are rife in the BC Supreme Court’s granting of a legal injunction against the Wet’suwet’en people and the BC government’s recent adoption of UNDRIP.
Land Back is truly a slogan whose time has come. A modern solution to a modern problem. How to boil down Indigenous sovereignty and liberation to its basic components. Memes, graffiti and tweets benefit from brevity. But the term Land Back, like everything else, has a certain ancestry.
A brief and incomplete overview of the history of squatting in Vancouver, with a PDF newsletter for download and youtube video links related to the Frances Street and Woodwards squats.
In October of 2003, a massive social revolt overthrew the President of Bolivia, forcing him to escape to the United States. The uprising was the culmination of 500 years of Indigenous resistance to colonization and an escalating cycle of Indigenous insurrections which have swept the country in the past four years, involving a variety of tactics.
An overview of Indigenous resistance history in Ecuador, from the 1530s to 2006, in light of the 2019 uprising
