The strong chiral symmetry breaking in Wilson's lattice version of QCD is discussed and interpreted as a necessary manifestation of the triangle anomaly. At strong coupling the effective hamiltonian acting in the s-wave hadron sector is found to describe a generalized antiferromagnet which is analyzed with the 1 2 S (= 1/N, N = N color ) expansion known in the theory of magnetism. Mesons emerge as spin waves: pseudoscalars as Nambu-Goldstone bosons, vectors as “dormant” Goldstone bosons. Current and dynamical quark masses are identified, such that m P 2 ∫ m(cur), m v≈2[ m(cur) + m(fyn)], and a fit to the particle spectrum gives m(dyn) = 390 MeV, m u,d(cur) = 5.4 MeV, m s(cur) = 140 MeV, m c(cur) = 1.07 GeV. Static baryons emerge with a mass m B = N[ m(dyn) + m(cur)] + a contribution which is argued to vanish in the continuum limit. Vector and axial vector currents are defined on the lattice and studied at strong coupling. The relations 1 = 3 5 g A γ ϱ(f π/m ϱ)(Z π/Z ϱ) 1 2 , Z π / Z ϱ = 3.0 are found to agree with experiment. The resolution of the U(1) problem at strong coupling is discussed.