Anarchists, Anticolonial Action and Indigenous Solidarity

A Reader

This book is meant as a tool of reflection on difficult questions that very few texts are courageous enough in taking on. Answers are tentative and incomplete. How can we, as anarchists, find affinity and develop solid relationships with Indigenous accomplices while avoiding pitfalls of problematic power dynamics? What course of anticolonial attack can we engage in, if we are to uphold the idea of solidarity while also preserving our autonomy?

The six texts in this compilation were written in the span of the last decade. They reflect on lived experiences on the frontlines and question how non-indigenous anarchists relate to indigenous-led struggles against the state and industry on colonized land. Hopefully, they offer us some direction to cultivate a stronger culture of conflictuality. Themes explored touch on identity politics and leftism, leadership and the legitimacy of indigenous authority, and combative means against the extractive and energy industries in Canada. They propose methods that are at the confluence of an anarchist practice and an anticolonial critique.

The texts are written by non-Indigenous anarchists active in British Columbia, and are all in their own way a testament to the influence of the text Accomplices not Allies published by Indigenous Action in 2014.

Mossy Oak | 2024 | 97 pages