“The oppressive egoism of the civilized, of Westerners, and their freedom to use and abuse will shatter when it comes up against the brutal equality of the barbarian world. […] England will find out what it costs to get rich by civilizing other peoples.”
-Ernest Cœurderoy, Hurrah!!! ou la Révolution par les Cosaques (1854)
Zines
When Wars Converge, by K. C. Sinclair (2026)
Fascism, Militarism and Anarchism: A Tale of Three Ukrainians, by K. C. Sinclair (2026)
The Downward Spiral of Militarism / Clarity Contra Complicity, by K. C. Sinclair (2025)
Anarchism and Revolutionary Defeatism, by K. C. Sinclair (2025)
Mankind & the State / The Morals of Extermination, by Marcus Graham & Lewis Mumford (1946-1959)
The Abolition of Property, the State and Imperialism, by Marie Louise Berneri (1941-1948)
Articles
In reverse chronology
What's Fascism? What's Democracy? [on Second Sons and anti-Indigenous racism] (2026)
When Wars Converge, by K. C. Sinclair (2026)
Canada’s role in the disastrous ‘War on Terror’ should not be celebrated, by Owen Schalk (2026)
Against Artificial Intelligence and Transhumanism, by History Keeps Happening (2026)
'Everything changed': The human cost of 25 years of US wars, by Hanna Duggal & Alia Chughtai (2026)
The U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders”, by Nick Turse (2026)
Why is Israel's military presence growing in Syria?, by Cathrin Schaer & Omar Albam (2026)
How Canada’s elite are selling Mark Carney’s militarization agenda, by Martin Lukacs (2026)
Fascism, Militarism and Anarchism: A Tale of Three Ukrainians, by K. C. Sinclair (2026)
How Canada‑Cuba relations must navigate the dangers of the U.S. embargo, by Luiz Leomil (2026)
Canada buying $892-million in weapons for Ukraine from U.S. stockpile, by Steven Chase (2025)
German Arms Exports: No More Rules?, by Emily Sherwin & Marie Joslyn (2025)
Ukraine votes against lifting U.S. embargo on Cuba for first time, by Ukrinform (2025)
U.S. Aid to Israel in Four Charts, by the Council on Foreign Relations (2025)
With Wounded Knee Medals, Admin Suggests There’s Valor in Genocide, by Johnnie Jae (2025)
Challenging Ukraine’s Mine Ban Treaty “Suspension”, by Human Rights Watch (2025)
Five Canadian soldiers suspended after Nazi salute video emerges, by Murray Brewster (2025)
How Nazi Collaborators Are Celebrated in Wartime Ukraine, by Marta Havryshko (2025)
Anarchism and Revolutionary Defeatism, by K. C. Sinclair (2025)
Guano and the Rise of the American Empire, by Mauricio Betancourt (2024)
Three Genocides, by Eyal Weizman (2024)
Bad Memory, by Jewish Currents (2023)
Mussolini’s Colonial Inspiration, by Matthew Wills (2022)
NATO and its links with Nazism, by Ronald Ángel (2022)
Ukraine is Arming the Myanmar Military, by Justice for Myanmar (2021)
How Canada helped kill an anti-imperialist hero [Patrice Lumumba], by Cassandra Kislenko (2021)
The Specificity of Imperialism, by Salar Mohandesi (2018)
How the Nazis Were Inspired by Jim Crow, by Becky Little (2017)
Don't Cry for Us Ukraina!, by Mubeyyin B. Altan (2016)
Canada’s secret war in Iraq, by Richard Sanders (2008)
The Myth of Benevolence, by Milan Rai (1995)
Canada’s Mission in Gulf War Stirring Controversy at Home, by Mary Williams Walsh (1991)
Anti-Imperialism, by Albert Meltzer (1987)
NATO Fighter Planes Invade Innu Territory, from Open Road (1987)
Innu Campaign Against the Militarization of Ntesinan, by Ben Michel (1986)
Anti-Imperialism, Nationhood and National Liberation, by Kuwasi Balagoon (1984)
Anarchism and the National Liberation Struggle, by Alfredo M. Bonanno and Jean Weir (1976)
The Morals of Extermination, by Lewis Mumford (1959)
Military Adventure in Kenya, by Albert Meltzer (1952)
‘Helping Africans’, by Albert Meltzer (1948)
Malaya, by Albert Meltzer (1948)
Constitutions for Syria, by Albert Meltzer (1947)
Mankind and the State, by Marcus Graham (1946)
Franco Must Thank Churchill, by Marie Louise Berneri (1944)
Russia’s Reactionary Policy in Italy, by Marie Louise Berneri (1944)
American Imperialism Exposed, by Marcus Graham (1943)
The Yankee Peril, by Marie Louise Berneri (1943)
National Independence, by Albert Meltzer (1942)
India’s Struggle for Freedom is Our Struggle, by War Commentary (1942)
Anarchists Uphold the Empire, from The Word (1942)
Fascism: What Is It?, by F. A. Ridley (1941)
East and West of Suez, by F. A. Ridley (1941)
The “Blessing” of Empire, by War Commentary (1939)
“What Are We Fighting For?”, by Vernon Richards (1939)
The “Advantages” of British Imperialism, by Reginald Reynolds (1939)
Anti-Fascism: Capitalist or Socialist?, by Vernon Richards (1938)
Capitalist Peace, by Ethel Mannin (1938)
Those Who Make War Possible, by Spain and the World (1938)
Neither Your War Nor Your Peace!, by the Surrealist Group (1938)
Nationalism and Culture, by Rudolf Rocker (1937)
The Right of Peoples to Determine Themselves, from Solidaridad Obrera (1936)
Rampant Fascism in America / Lynching and Law and Order, by Marcus Graham (1935)
Murderous Humanitarianism, by some surrealists (1934)
Attention! Fascism Installed in Tunisia, by Nguyen Nam (1933)
Declaration of the Korean Revolution, by Shin Chaeho (1923)
The Roundup, by Enrique Flores Magón (1917)
Teaching Liberty to Santo Domingo, by Emma Goldman (1917)
The Irish Flag, by James Connolly (1916)
Concerning Atrocities, by James Peter Warbasse (1915)
The African Roots of War, by W. E. B. Du Bois (1915)
Anti-War Manifesto, by The Anarchist International (1915)
Our Foreign Policy, by Errico Malatesta (1914)
Why They [Venezuelans] Oppose Civilization, by Why? (1913)
War and the Aftermath, by Freedom (1914)
The War and the Anarchists, by Errico Malatesta (1912)
The Moroccan War, by Erich Mühsam (1911)
Kōtoku Shūsui, Imperialism: Monster of the Twentieth Century (1901)
To the Cuban People, by Errico Malatesta (1900)
The War Spirit, by Lizzie M. Holmes (1898)
An Appeal for Justice, by Louis Riel (1885)
War and the State, by Mikhail Bakunin and James Guillaume (1870)
What is Fascism? What is Democracy?
With racism and war on the rise, and democracy in retreat, the question of fascism, and of its relationship to democracy, becomes all the more important to tackle head-on.
Racialized groups (in overlapping categories such as migrant, Indigenous and/or non-white citizen) are increasingly being scapegoated and targeted for violence and repression, but this is not entirely without historical precedent.
Fascism is a particular form of totalitarianism (as both an ideology and a social structure) originating in Europe and growing out of democratic colonialism, militarism and World War I, the Great War for colonies.
It is crucial to remember that fascism did not invent oppression and not all forms of oppression are fascist; rather fascism is one particular oppressive tendency that grew out of others and influences them in turn. Fascism didn’t invent concentration camps or ethnic cleansing, it picked up where the paragons of democracy had left off and ran with it. Fascism cannot be understood apart from an understanding of militarism and colonialism (itself a form of imperialism).
Long before fascism took the stage, the North American settler colonies of the United States and Canada, and their European parent colonial empires, those of France and Britain, had already been born from and then maintained by the totalitarian oppression of non-white peoples, both at “home” and around the world. Democracy and imperialism, like their child, fascism, have always been based on the exclusion, exploitation and extermination of non-citizens (and even de jure citizens who do not belong to the dominant ethnicity).
The 20th century Italian and German fascists, late bloomers that they were, took inspiration from their colonial predecessors in both Europe and North America, and were given material support by the democratic powers as they set about regaining and expanding colonies of their own in Africa and Eastern Europe.
Fascist Italy, upon taking power in 1922, inherited a modest pre-existing colonial empire from democratic (monarchical) Italy, consisting primarily of Eritrea, Somalia and Libya. The fascists looked forward to enlarging the empire. They felt they had been cheated out of promised territory in WWI, calling it the “mutilated victory.”
The Nazis were bitter about Germany’s loss in the First World War, including the loss of their African colonies, where Germany had committed the first genocide of the 20th century against the Herero and Nama peoples.
The militarism and colonialism of WWI was a breeding ground for more of the same or even worse versions of the same. The rise of fascism, in its time, was seen by some in North America and Europe as a development of the racial oppression within the democratic regimes, rather than a sharp break from it.
“The Italian fascisti provoked parallels to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) as early as 1922, even before Mussolini became the Fascist head of the Italian state,” notes Anna F. Duensing, regarding the response of the Black American press to the rise of fascism, as outlined in her chapter of the 2023 book, ‘Fascism in America.’
Before Aimé Césaire wrote of the “colonial blowback” (known in the anglosphere as the “imperial boomerang”) in 1950/1955, indeed before World War II had even broken out, other writers such as Nguyen Nam and George Padmore had already pointed to the colonialist origins of fascism.
Throughout the 1930s, the democracies, being capitalists and colonizers themselves, capitulated to fascist maneuvers such as Italy’s genocidal occupation of Libya and invasions of Ethiopia and Albania; the fascist coup in Spain; Nazi Germany’s annexation of part of Czechoslovakia; and Japan’s invasion of China; all of which took place before the Second World War broke out. The totalitarian Union of Soviet Socialist Republics also signed a non-aggression pact with fascist Italy and continued to supply it with oil while it committed genocide against Libya and invaded Ethiopia and Albania.
Italian and German fascism re-inspired, re-invigorated and profited the already racist democrats and totalitarians of the Americas, Europe and Asia, regardless of the fact that it all eventually led to the conflagration of WWII. The result of that war also did not spell the end for colonialism, nor did it preclude the reintegration of certain German and Japanese fascists into the democratic realm of America and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
It’s also important to remember that fascism is not the domain of state actors alone. Like settler colonialism, it involves the rabble, whose autonomous actions serve their own purposes, while simultaneously being of potential benefit to the State. The rabble can be deputized for the State’s purposes when useful, including acceptance or defence of their violent activity, be it autonomous or otherwise. At the other times, the rabble can come into conflict with liberal or even conservative elements of the State.
Democratic colonialism, the father of fascism, has repeatedly proven unwilling or unable to properly discipline its wayward child, rekindling the question of the possibility of a third kind of society, neither democratic nor totalitarian, instead based on mutuality and freedom for all oppressed peoples and classes.
-Ed., Sep.2026
Our coasts will be defended (from fascists) by our brave mariners