“Conscription is the negation of defence, for armed peace presupposes war and is offensive.”
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The Avalanche – Clara Cole (1947)

“Conscription is the negation of defence, for armed peace presupposes war and is offensive.”
“I returned and found my people hurting also. Hurt by the same White government I was fighting for.”
“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.”
“In the colonies of the British Empire fascism is already established.”
“The future belongs to us and to our social philosophy. For it is the only social ideal that teaches independent thinking and direct participation of the workers in their economic struggle.”
“…having studied the correspondence — I consider the Arabs’ case to be indisputable, the alternative proposition, which is that our promises were ambiguous, is hardly to our credit.”