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Joe Hill
In November of 1915, the labor leader and songwriter Joe Hill was about to be executed after a highly dubious conviction for murder in Salt Lake City, Utah. Hill, born Joel Emmanuel Hägglund in Gävle, Sweden, immigrated to the United States in 1903. He struggled to find work and lived for a time in several different states. Eventually, he joined the International Workers of the World (IWW) a Marxist labor union that aimed to unite workers across all industries. Hill was notable for writing songs that were sung by IWW members during strikes. While in jail, Hill wrote the following in a telegram to prominent socialist Bill Haywood, the General Secretary of the IWW:
Goodbye Bill. I die like a true rebel. Don’t waste any time mourning. Organize! It is a hundred miles from here to Wyoming. Could you arrange to have my body hauled to the state line to be buried? I don’t want to be found dead in Utah.
The phrase “Don’t mourn. Organize!” became popular among members of the IWW, and is still occasionally used by Marxists and other Leftists. While we may vehemently disagree with the politics of Joe Hill and the IWW, the slogan is highly appropriate for White Nationalists today.
Over the past week, a dark cloud has been hanging over our movement, as President Trump is weighing whether to betray his white populist base and abandon his avowed “America First” principles by involving the United States in Israel’s War against Iran. This could easily lead to disaster for Trump and open a clear path for the Left to retake power. Just a short time ago, the Mestizo rioters in Los Angeles were doing their best to drum up support for Trump’s domestic agenda of immigration enforcement and mass deportations. However, the Orange Man has seemingly done his best to squander this golden opportunity, and rather than pressing forward with his popular America First program, we are now seemingly on the brink of yet another unpopular Jewish war that is not in America’s national interest.
It is easy to mourn this lost opportunity, and despair about Trump’s foolishness and dishonesty, but we must not mourn. We must organize.
If the Israel Lobby gets its wish, and America enters their war, it will not be because there is widespread popular support for their position. Instead, it will be because the Jews were better funded and better organized than the antiwar faction of the mainstream Right, and certainly better funded and better organized than explicit white racialists like those of us at Counter–Currents.
Realistically, any serious effort to secure a future for our people on this continent will take decades. Further, it is not going to be a smooth ride to victory, and there will be plenty of setbacks along the way. The potential collapse of Trump’s political coalition due to war with Iran would be one such setback. If that’s the case, then so be it. We need to take stock of the situation and learn from it. Trump is not and never has been one of us, and unlike Zionists, we White Nationalists lack the power and influence to bend him to our will. This episode brings home the need for an organized White lobby that can bring elected officials to heel.
To make this hope into a reality we need strong and viable institutions that will organize racially conscious white people and chart a course to victory built on a foundation of bold, uncompromising truth. Counter-Currents can be one such institution, but only if we receive the financial support necessary to enable us to reach our full potential.
Other races are organized in defense of their own group interests, and it is imperative that we whites do the same. If you are angry, like I am, about the present inability of whites to pressure Donald Trump and other politicians into doing what’s best for our people, the solution is simple: Don’t mourn. Organize!
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I have to say it again: the old socialists and communists of 100 years ago and even 50 years ago (like Joe Hill) were people with views very similar to ours today. Most would agree with us even on racial issues. Liberals are our common enemy. Liberalism is a vile anti-civilization ideology for the benefit of the financial and media elite.
I agree, the early 1900s labor movement was generally pro-White and anti-immigration. Before that, we had the great Dennis Kearney raising hell about the Chinese in California. I also have great respect for the Mine workers in West Virginia who went to war against the Baldwin-Fells agency in the 1920s. The group Hill was involved with might not have been out friends necessarily, as they were internationalists sympathetic to Marxism and the Bolsheviks. Bill Haywood ended up going to Moscow.
If we thought of our nation, and not an abstraction like “the workers of the world” as One Big Union, we’d be a lot better off.
Internationalism did not mean anti-white politics, preference for people of color, or multiculturalism. It meant quite simply the political cooperation of labor parties and worker unions in various white countries. If they didn’t want Whites killing each other in WWI-type wars, we have nothing to fault them for. It was the elites and the rich big bourgeoisie (Joos!) who were cosmopolitan in the sense of today’s liberals or wokeists back then while most socialists were also nationalists in some sense or another.
Dave Chambers: The phrase “Don’t mourn. Organize!”… is highly appropriate for White Nationalists today…
Organizing is essential, and the longer we dillydally, arguing among ourselves about how to organize, the more urgent is the necessity. Whenever I encounter a serious question about the future of our race, I ask myself “WWWLPD?” — then search for an answer from Dr. Pierce. I found the following by him from more than two decades ago. His advice to us could have been written today: “WLP90: What We Can Do” at nationalvanfuard.org.
I think that the people who complain that I never give solutions to the problems I present are looking at the world a little differently than I am. When they say, “Tell us how to get from here to there,” what they really want me to tell them is a safe, easy, and painless way to get from here to there: a quick and sure way. And, of course, I cannot tell them that, because there is no such way. We have gotten ourselves into a really bad mess, and it inevitably will cost us an enormous amount of blood and suffering to recover from it — if we are able to recover at all. I don’t talk much about the specifics of the blood and suffering because, for one thing, that will come a bit later, and we don’t want to get too far ahead of ourselves.
For another thing, in these soft and comfortable times, most people just can’t cope with really hard concepts. I had a letter a couple of days ago from a listener who said that he agreed with most of my broadcast, but that I was too “extreme” in talking about remedies. He thought that my suggestion that welfare mothers should be sterilized was horrible — “over the top” was the expression he used — and that it certainly would turn off people who otherwise would be receptive to my vision of the future.
Well, all I can say to that is that if he finds the thought of sterilizing welfare mothers to be “over the top,” he’ll have a hard time coping with the terrible reality which lies ahead of us. He’s like one of those gentle and civilized folks who appreciates the bacon he eats with his breakfast but can’t bear to think about the bloody details of how the bacon got from the pig happily rooting in the farmyard to his plate. Sterilizing welfare mothers will be one of the kinder and gentler things we will be obliged to do.
Anyway, there’s not much point in debating such remedies now, because we’re not yet in a position to implement them, and we don’t want to get too far ahead of ourselves. We need merely to understand that our struggle will be long and difficult and will involve many things so far “over the top” that they would cause our more comfortable and civilized listeners to swoon if we got into the details now.
The specific remedies that we want to talk about in detail are the things that we actually can do — or begin doing — now. And the thing that I have spoken about over and over again is communication. Nothing else that we try to do has any chance of getting us from here to there unless we first have acquired the ability to communicate effectively with our people. He who controls the means of communication with the public controls the future.
And as I have said at least 50 times in these broadcasts, that is why the Jews, as soon as they began arriving in the United States in the 1890s, began establishing themselves in our mass media. They didn’t buy up farmland. They didn’t try to get a monopoly in the railroad or steamship business. They didn’t try to build a strong position for themselves in the munitions industry or in kitchen appliances. Instead they began buying up our big-city newspapers. By the beginning of the last century they owned the New York Times. They acquired the Washington Post at a bankruptcy sale during the Great Depression. As soon as the motion picture business began showing its products in theatres, the Jews swarmed into Hollywood and elbowed out all of the Gentiles except Walt Disney; they had to wait until he died to take over the Walt Disney Company. In the 1920s they began taking over the radio broadcasting industry. When commercial television came on the scene at the end of the Second World War, they controlled it from the beginning.
None of this was an accident. From the beginning they knew what they were doing. They understood that in order to control and corrupt and exploit our society, they must first control the channels of communication. It was as instinctive as a tick finding its way from the tall grass onto a passing dog and burrowing in. It is why they are working so strenuously now to censor the Internet and to persuade the government to enact legislation against “speech crime.” In America they still are playing a double game, with some Jews pretending to be supporters of the First Amendment while other Jews are busy persuading the lemmings that the First Amendment ought to be abolished, but in every country where “speech crime” legislation has been enacted since the Second World War, the Jews are solidly in favor of that legislation and are the most active agitators for the prosecution of “speech criminals,” the suppression of banned books, the rigid censorship of the Internet, and every other means to keep dissidents from challenging the Jews’ control of the flow of information to the public.
So again, our very specific plan for getting from here to the kind of White world we want is to break the grip of our people’s enemies on the flow of information and ideas and to develop our own media for communicating with the people. That may sound prosaic. It may sound dull because it doesn’t involve marching in the streets or shooting, but it is absolutely necessary. By itself, of course, it is not enough. But it is the first step. We must be able to inform our people, we must be able to motivate our people, we must be able eventually to move our people — but first we must be able to communicate effectively with them. Without effective and continuing communication, nothing else is possible. And, difficult as it is to fight the lies of the Jews when they already have such a grip on the minds of the lemmings through their media control, it is possible for us also to communicate. By directing our efforts toward the two or three per cent. of our people who still are able to think for themselves, rather than toward the lemmings, we are beginning to make a small difference. Through these radio broadcasts and our books and the music we distribute to young people, we are informing people and influencing their thinking, and the Jews hate it.
Let me give you a very specific example of why it is so important to be able to communicate with the people….
Read more of this at the link above.
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