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“The name of this man? Louis Riel. His crime? He called out his brethren, the Canadian half-breeds, to arms; he has unfurled the sacred standard of human freedom and independence.”

“We are thus forced to recognize that each individual, while remaining totally free in his actions, can only act in common, and by this very fact becomes a libertarian communist.”

“The patriotic aberration that, though it is murder to kill when you are dressed in citizen’s clothes, it is heroic and glorious to slaughter wholesale when you put on a soldier’s uniform.”

“…we openly declare ourselves determined opponents of all nationalistic sectionalism or patriotism, and the militarism preached and supported by our one enemy, the Capitalist Class.”

Here I’ve collected links to several texts by Sicilian anarchist Alfredo Maria Bonanno, originally translated into English from the Italian and published by his Scottish anarchist comrade Jean Weir as separate pamphlets or booklets, but now presented together in one convenient location.

“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”