#OtD 23 Oct 1956 a spontaneous nationwide revolt broke out across Hungary which saw thousands organise themselves into workers' councils and militias demanding not a transition to capitalism but rather a socialism controlled by the working class itself stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9607...
As the world clutches its collective pearls at the looting in France, I think back to the CNT blocs in the streets of Paris chanting "tout est a nous, rien n'est a eux, tout ce qu'ils ont ils nous l'ont vole."
Nothing is theirs, everything is ours. Everything they have they've stolen from us.
Peasants arriving Plaça Catalunya, Barcelona in the summer of 1936 to volunteer for the militias, before heading for the Aragón front. I don't know the photographer or the date. Bayer sign in the background.
🚨"Where's the governor, Kathy Hochul? Where's mayor Mamdani? Where's AOC? Where are the people that are supposed to protect us!?" - Protesters CALL OUT politicians who are allowing ICE to rampage across NYC
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#OtD 5 Oct 1789 thousands of women in Paris, angry over the high price and scarcity of bread, ransacked the city armoury for weapons and besieged the Palace of Versailles in one of the opening salvos of the French revolution shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
If you’re thinking about doing this, Flock cameras record the WiFi and Bluetooth signatures of nearby devices. Let’s all be safe as we ruin flocks agenda!
Credit @all_powerful_leftist
It is the task of all comrades to think, study and prepare - and to do so with all speed and thoroughly because the times are "dynamic" and we must be ready for what might happen.
- Errico Malatesta
To condone ferocious anti-human feelings and raise them to the level of principle as a tactic for a movement... is both evil and counter-revolutionary.
Errico Malatesta
#OtD 30 Sep 1918 a small unit of 36 Ukrainian revolutionaries in the anarchist Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine engaged in their first battle, crushing a much superior counter-revolutionary German force in the village of Dibrivki. Learn more: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...
#OtD 12 Sep 1948 two Spanish anarchists from the underground resistance movement flew a small plane with the intention of dropping bombs on dictator Francisco Franco as he attended a fishing boat regatta in San Sebastian. However they had to turn back stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8440...
Octavia E. Butler’s novel “Parable of the Talents” depicts a dystopian United States run by Christian Nationalists. Their slogan is “Make America Great Again.” Published in 1998, many years before Trump’s political career, but this poem in the book prophesied Trump. (Poem from @zymplex.bsky.social)
Today marks the anniversary of the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest labor uprising in U.S. history, fought in Logan County, West Virginia. Explore related titles at pmpress.org.
Anarchist air force?
Nestor Makhno’s Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (1918-1920) captured and flew around 20 Nieuport and Sopwith aircraft on reconnaissance operations against the Bolsheviks and White Russian armies.
#OtD 22 Aug 1944 Polish revolutionary Maria Oneker died during the Warsaw uprising against Nazi occupation. She was the leader of the women's unit of the 104th Company of Syndicalists which fought under the red and black flag of anarcho-syndicalism stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9451...
#OtD 8 Aug 1936 the French govt closed the border with revolutionary Spain, forcing those wanting to join the fight against fascism to cross the Pyrenees mountains. Thousands still came from around the world to aid the Spanish workers and peasants workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e...
Another ex-serviceman was arrested under the UK Terrorism Act outside Westminster Magistrates Court for saying “I support Palestine Action, and I urge you all to support Palestine Action.”
He was among 152 arrested for a range of alleged crimes, facing up to 14yrs in prison.
#OtD 1 Aug 1921 Sid Hatfield, the pro-union chief of police of Matewan, WV, was assassinated by Baldwin-Felts detectives. He had helped defend striking miners from B-F agents the previous year, killing several. Books and commemorative items here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
#OtD 25 Jul 1934 Nestor Makhno, leader of the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine during the Russian revolution of 1917 and co-author of the Organisational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists, died in exile in Paris at the age of 44 shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/no-...
90 years ago today began the Spanish Revolution where workers captured the fields and factories—forging a model of workers control that has inspired revolutionaries around the world for generations. 🏴❤️🖤