“…they hate conscription? Don’t force them to join the army!!”
-Mikhail Bakunin, Letters to a Frenchman on the Present Crisis (1870)
“I personally am also critical of forced recruitment, but I would say I have a compromise position because I see the need to confront the evil with the tools we have.”
-Dmitry Petrov (Ilya Leshy), (a former anarchist shamefully turned statist soldier), Russischer Anarchist verteidigt Ukraine: “Wir kämpfen gegen Putins Regime“, Taz.de (2023)
If We Must Fight,
Let’s Fight for the Most Glorious Nation,
Insubordination
Links
About Face: Veterans Against The War
Palestine Children’s Relief Fund
Articles
In reverse chronology
When Wars Converge, by K. C. Sinclair (2026)
She for Him: Ukraine’s Women Leading the Resistance to “Busification”, by Marta Havryshko (2026)
Millions of Ukrainian Men Are Fleeing a Cruel Conscription System, by Dan Storyev (2026)
Russian deserters struggle to win asylum in Germany, by Daniil Sotnikov (2026)
Fascism, Militarism and Anarchism: A Tale of Three Ukrainians, by K. C. Sinclair (2026)
Ukraine’s conscription crisis is getting increasingly bloody, by Branko Marcetic (2026)
As US Bombs Iran, ICE Is Deporting Iranian Americans Into Danger, by Etan Mabourakh (2026)
U.S. deports dozens of migrants to Ukraine amid war, by Ximena Bustillo & Polina Lytvynova (2025)
Clarity Contra Complicity [on Aaron Bushnell’s act of refusal], by K. C. Sinclair (2025)
‘Dozens’ of Ukraine soldiers deserted while training in France, by Agence France-Presse (2025)
Lithuania extends term of military conscription, by Konstantin Eggert (2024)
Latvia reintroduces compulsory military service, by Grzegorz Szymanowski (2023)
The Columbia Eagle mutiny, by Working Class History (2019)
Sweden reintroduces military draft, this time including women, by Jan M. Olsen (2017)
Mutiny in Victoria, by Victoria Resists (2016)
To Praise Ginger Goodwin Is to Revere a Radical, by Mark Leier (2014)
‘We Gotta Get Out of this Place:’ Music, Memory and the Vietnam War, by Brian Mattmiller (2006)
I Support The Occupation Of Iraq, But I Don’t Support Our Troops, from The Onion (2005)
So I Started Fighting For My People, by John Waubanascum Jr. (1976)
To Immigrate Or Infiltrate? [on US deserters to Canada], by Richard Ogar (1970)
GIs and Revolution, from The Black Panther (1969)
Neither Your War Nor Your Peace!, by The Surrealist Group (1938)
The Durruti Column Responds to the Militarization Decree, by Buenaventura Durruti (1936)
Militians, Yes! But Soldiers, Never!, by various Spanish anarchist militias (1936)
On the March, by Ricardo Flores Magón (1917)
The Barricade and the Trench, by Ricardo Flores Magón (1915)
The Revolutionist and War, by Anna Strunsky (1915)
The War They Never Fought, by Harry Kemp (1913)
To the Conscripts, from l’anarchie (1906)
Rebellion of the Soldier, by Manuel González Prada (1906)
The Conscripts Strike, by Louise Michel (1881)
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)