"In the year-by-year accounts of true history, conquest, subjugation through arms and robbery, and the reign of brute force are and have always been the ultimate victors. In blessed handbooks, on the other hand, there are endless love stories." False stories invented to weaken poor people, for the service of the powerful. In this real world, the victors are not "good, beautiful, and tender-hearted" nations, but those that have learned to be strong, rich, tough, and cunning. Political relations have their foundation and target in the great forces between societies. Legal orders are also included within those relations...

Violence being constitutive of politics, war, and law in general, it extends and sharpens all the more as the political basis of imperialist nationalism. Imperialist nationalism produces war and is established through violence. Without "the cannons, a very important part of the constitution," its domination is nothing. Imperialist nationalism is built upon legions of victims and rivers of blood, through unlimited violence, destruction, repression, imprisonment and deportation of populations, terrorism, and the denial and ruin of human rights as the political basis for the exploitation, pillage, acculturation, and liquidation of peoples and civilizations. Crimes against humanity, against peace, and against the very laws of war are its substance. These have been and continue to be the effective and necessary origin, foundation, development, and consequences of the nationalist-imperialist system of domination...

Los precedentes Cuadernos no han sido redactados en absoluto con propósitos académicos. Están dirigidos a todos aquellos que sintiendo que se les hiela el corazón, no esperan sentados la llegada de la primavera. Si poseen, a pesar de todo, cierto carácter complicado y abstracto, es en contra de la voluntad de su autor. A éste le hubiera gustado estar seguro de que no eran precisos; nunca los hubiera escrito. Pero, por desgracia, ante la confusión ideológica imperante, el autor ha llegado a pensar que sólo un considerable ejercicio de reflexión puede arrojar un poco de luz sobre la recurrente y deprimida situación social y política en la que nos encontramos...

The current situation of the Basque People in the occupied territories is the result of a long historical process of resistance to imperialism through successive strategic constellations, and its gradual reduction. The resulting regime has as its origin and foundation the destruction, contrary to freedom and international law, both temporal and timeless, of the independence of the Kingdom of Navarre and its remaining fueros (charters), the theoretical and practical negation of the freedom and the inherent and fundamental rights of self-determination and legitimate defense of all peoples...