The connections between the Chicago anarchists and the Metis rebellion may seem like historical footnotes. Indeed, they have been largely overlooked. However, they should be viewed as integral parts of anarchist praxis at the time and reveal more deep understandings of the importance of Indigenous land defense within active working-class anarchist circles than is sometimes assumed.
Anarchists rarely adhere to a statist conception. From the inception of political Zionism, this national question arises among libertarians and provokes fierce debates. These controversies flare up with the course of events. At the birth of the State of Israel, anarchists took an official stance. They rejected the war in the Middle East and, apparently, the creation of a new state. However, the experience of the kibbutzim, which echoes the images of the agricultural collectives of revolutionary Spain, arouses strong sympathy.
Robert Graham Robert Graham is a Canadian anarchist writer and historian. He is the scholarly editor of Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, a worldwide anthology published in three volumes, from 2005 to 2012. Also have a look at his blog where he shares texts that are […]
Conference delivered in Cologne (Germany) by the Secretary General of the IWA, Fidal Gorron Canoyra, on November 15 and 15, 1986.
This tension between the critique of the modern state and its authoritarian conception of public health, on the one hand, and the reactionary content of the ideological program of the anti-sanitary measures mobs, on the other, is still active today in the « trucker » movement.
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