#title Anti-Militarist resolution from the International Anarchist Congress of 1907 in Amsterdam
#LISTtitle Anti-Militarist Resolution from the Amsterdam Anarchist Congress of 1907
#date 1907
#source Retrieved on August 27, 2025, from The Complete Works of Malatesta, Vol. V, The Armed Strike: The Long London Exile of 1900–13, edited by Davide Turcato, translated by Andrea Asali
#lang en
#pubdate 2025-08-26T17:18:13
#authors Errico Malatesta, Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis, Christian Cornelissen, Pierre Ramus, René de Marmande, Georges Thonar
#topics anti-militarism
#notes Source: Congrès Anarchiste tenu à Amsterdam, Août 1907, p. 205–12

Anarchists, wanting the full liberation of humanity and complete freedom of the individual are, naturally, essentially, declared enemies of any kind of armed force in the hands of the State: army, gendarmery, police, magistrature.

They compel their comrades—and in general all men who aspire to freedom, to fight according to the circumstances and their own temperament, and with all means, from individual revolt, to isolated or collective refusal of military service, to passive and active disobedience and the military strike—for the radical destruction of the instruments of domination.

They express the hope that all people involved will respond to any declaration of war with insurrection.

They declare that they think anarchists will provide the example.

(This motion that bears the signatures of Malatesta, Marmande, Thonar, Cornélissen, Ramus and Domela Nieuwenhuis, is approved without discussion.)