Om jag känner mig gammal och krasslig nån dag kan jag alltid påminna mig själv om att jag är två år äldre än Alex Jones. "We're winning", indeed...

The Swedish prince and copycat designer Carl Philip has released a new range of luxury scarves. There's just something about them... I don't know. Something about the design's negative space? Not sure what it is.. oh.

If you’re looking for a present, he really likes bread

#OtD 5 Nov 1921 German Jewish communist resistance fighter and nurse Marianne Prager-Joachim was born. A slave labourer for Siemens, she and others at the plant formed the Baum resistance group. She was executed in 1943 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1056...

#OtD 1 Oct 1937 print worker and anarcho-syndicalist Anna Götze was arrested for the second time by Nazi authorities for her anti-fascist activities. She was sent to a concentration camp with her daughter but they escaped stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8150...

#OtD 30 Sep 1953 British communist boxer, Len Johnson, went for a drink at the Old Abbey Taphouse in Manchester, but was refused service because he was Black. Soon after, 200 people picketed the pub until the landlord agreed to stop discriminating. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1112...

#OtD 27 Sep 1936 1000 uniformed fascist Blackshirts led by Oswald Mosley in Leeds, UK, were confronted by 30,000 anti-fascist locals who attacked them, pelted them with stones, hitting Mosley, and drowned out speeches by singing The Red Flag stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9965...

#OtD 16 Sep 1973 Chilean communist folk singer and musician Victor Jara was murdered by Pinochet's troops following his US-backed coup a few days before. He was brutally tortured and shot over 40 times in the Chile Stadium stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8846...

Just remember: A dead fascist is a good fascist.

#OtD 24 Aug 1945 legendary Black LGBTQ activist, sex worker, Stonewall rebellion participant, and co-founder of STAR (a radical org that provided shelter for homeless queer and trans youth) Marsha P. Johnson was born in New Jersey, US. Learn more: workingclasshistory.com/2019/05/13/e...

#OtD 18 Aug 1823 the Demerara rebellion (in modern-day Guyana) saw over 10,000 enslaved African people in the British colony go from plantation to plantation stealing weapons, locking up their enslavers and putting them in stocks. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8956...

#OtD 17 Aug 1795 around 40 enslaved people in the Dutch colony of Curaçao rebelled, starting a mass revolt on the island. The rebellion lasted over a month until the leaders were killed, but it forced the granting of new rights to the enslaved stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8856...

#OtD 10 Aug 1680 the Pueblo Revolt (aka: Popé's Rebellion) began in the Spanish colonial province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México as the Indigenous Pueblo people rose up against the colonizers. 400 colonisers were killed and the remaining 2000 expelled stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1258...

#OtD 2 Aug 1944 4000 Roma people in Auschwitz resisted being taken to the gas chambers. They armed themselves with sticks and crowbars, and barricaded the doors, women in particular fighting the SS with hands and nails. They were overcome and murdered stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9169...

#OtD 30 Jul 2006 Murray Bookchin died at age 85. Bookchin was an American libertarian socialist and founder of social ecology and libertarian municipalism. Read a remembrance here: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1029...

#OtD 22 Jul 1895 musician August Agbola O'Browne, the only Black person believed to have participated in the 1944 anti-Nazi Warsaw uprising, was born in Lagos, Nigeria. He fought under the codename "Ali" in the Iwo battalion, and later moved to Britain stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9481...

#OtD 19 Jul 1936 a crowd freed the prisoners at the women's prison in the Carrer de la Reina Amàlia, Barcelona, Spain, and the anarchist women's organisation Mujeres Libres decided to demolish the building; it was torn down in August workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e...

#OtD 17 Jul 1921 workers in Civitavecchia, Italy, set up a local battalion of the militant anti-fascist group the Arditi del Popolo. Maritime, coal, and cement workers formed the backbone of the org, which kept fascists at bay for several months stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8890...

#OtD 4 Jul 1913 Black Spanish Civil War fighter, concentration camp survivor and electrician, Carlos Greykey, was born in Equatorial Guinea. He moved to Barcelona, fought against fascism, then fought the Nazis in France, then survived Mauthausen. More: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1043...

Greta Thunberg isn't brave. It's that we are cowards.

#OtD 21 May 1914 around 200 suffragettes descended on Buckingham Palace, London, to give a petition to the king demanding votes for women. They battled 2000 police. 60 women and 2 men were arrested, most of whom were later imprisoned. Commemorated here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

#OtD 21 May 1913 a bomb exploded at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh, Scotland, set by suffragettes. It caused no casualties but caused some damage. A note was left reading: “How beggarly appears argument before defiant deed. Votes for women.”' stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9413...

#OtD 19 May 1918 the Hungarian 6th infantry regiment of Ujvideck at Pecs refused to go to the trenches. Instead they attacked the barracks and municipal buildings and cut telephone wires before occupying the railway station, resisting for 3 days stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9126...

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Did he uncover the pedophiles in the organization? Did he give back the wealth they stole from indigenous and poor people? No? Then fuck him. youtu.be/ifl8mCM2SZ8?...

So while you were screaming about trans people playing in sports you never watch, drag queen story hours for kids you don't have, pride parades in cities you never visit, a bunch of white, straight men wrecked the world economy in just a couple of weeks. Was the taste of liberal tears worth it?

#OtD 14 Apr 1816 using the temporary freedom from work and cover of permitted gathering for festivities, enslaved people in Barbados rose up on the night of Easter Sunday in what became known as Bussa's rebellion stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8535/bussa’s-rebellion

#OtD 12 Apr 1938 German print worker & anarchist Anna Götze jailed by Nazi authorities for work against the regime. Moved to the Ravensbrück concentration camp with her daughter, they were fortunately able to escape and survive the war stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8366...

#OtD 8 Apr 1950 anti-fascist guerrilla Josep Lluis Facerias aka 'Face', blew up the Lonja police station in Barcelona, Spain. He was part of the militant underground resistance to the right-wing dictatorship of General Franco stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1076...

#OtD 7 Apr 1760 Tacky's rebellion of ~100 enslaved Akan and Coromanti people from now-Ghana broke out in the then-British colony of Jamaica. It was eventually repressed by British and maroon troops, but further uprisings were sparked which lasted months shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Risken med "det kan aldrig hända här"-mentaliteten är att vi gravt underskattar hur många det är som har en inre längtan att vara lägervakter.

#OtD 27 Mar 1943 gay anti-fascist Willem Arondeus led a group in bombing the Amsterdam Public Records Office that Nazis used to identify Dutch Jews. Arrested, before his execution, Arondeus wanted it to be known that "homosexuals are not cowards." stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

Nada is actually the subject of our current T-Shirt of the Month. The design includes two women (a worker and a partisan) and the words "Nada koja ne umire", which means "Hope Which Never Dies" (Nada also being the Croatian word for 'Hope'). Get yours: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...

#OtD 22 Mar 2007 Hans Schmitz, lifelong German anarchist and antifascist, died. Jailed in 1937 for fighting Nazis in the streets, he was conscripted into the Wehrmacht but joined other former resistance members to sabotage war efforts stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

#OtD 21 Mar 1973 the Mental Patients Union was formed in London. They argued that like workers joining unions, mental health patients needed to organise as well, putting forward a list of 24 demands to improve their conditions stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

#OtD 19 Mar 1935 the 1935 Harlem Uprising took place in NYC when Black people rebelled against police after rumours of brutality. Police banned a demonstration, and protests escalated, causing $200 million in damages, while three Black people were killed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

#OtD 12 Mar 1933 the British Union of Fascists met to hear its leader Oswald Mosley speak in Manchester. However, the meeting had to be stopped and Mosley rescued by police when it was attacked by anti-fascists stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8...

#OtD 7 Mar 1921 the repression of the Kronstadt Rebellion against the Bolsheviks, demanding worker self-governance and freedom for socialist prisoners began. It was brutally crushed by the Red Army led by Trotsky and hundreds were executed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1...

Nästa steg i Trumps strafftulls-debacle: De företag och branscher som mutar och fjäskar för honom kommer få undantag utmejslade. Han vore allvarligt talat en dålig affärsman om han inte berikade sig själv kortsiktigt utan att tänka på de långsiktiga konsekvenserna.

#OtD 3 Mar 1921 the first issue of the Kronstadt Izvestia, bulletin of rebel sailors, soldiers and workers of Kronstadt who had risen up against the Bolshevik regime to defend the principles of the revolution, was published. Learn more here: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1...

#OtD 1 Mar 1912 Emmeline Pankhurst and 148 other suffragettes were arrested in London after breaking windows to attract attention to women's suffrage. Following a march they attacked stores across the West End, as well as Downing Street stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8...

#OtD 1 Mar 1921 16,000 people met in Kronstadt, Russia, which passed a 15-point resolution condemning the new Bolshevik dictatorship and calling for all power to the soviets and freedom of press and assembly for workers and peasants stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8...

Vladimir Zelenskyj är Stellan Skarsgårds bästa roll hittills...

Every pope that doesn't root out the pedophiles from the organization and gives back all the wealth they stole from indigenous and poor people deserves this. Even if they did some other good things. youtu.be/ifl8mCM2SZ8?...

#OtD 22 Feb 1943 three German White Rose activists, Christoph Probst, Hans and Sophie Scholl, were executed by guillotine for urging the overthrow of the Nazi government. As the blade fell, Hans called out "Let freedom live!" More on anti-Nazi youth: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-edelwe...

#OtD 21 Feb 1919 British suffragette and anti-war-activist Alice Wheeldon died of influenza aged 53. Her health had been broken by a stint in prison after she was framed by MI5 for a bogus plot to assassinate the PM stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

Crisitunity (plural crisitunities) (informal, rare) A crisis from which some good may come, and which may therefore be perceived as an opportunity. Example below.

The interesting thing about DeepSeek is not that it's a potential spy app, censored by the Chinese government. It's that it popped the AI bubble. 2 months, 1 000 GPUs and $5,6 millions to do the same thing as the tech bros have spent billions and billions of dollars on. And it's open source.

#OtD 12 Jan 1881 teacher, socialist and radical suffragist Mary Eleanor Gawthorpe born. Imprisoned several times for her activities and was badly beaten, suffering serious internal injuries after heckling Winston Churchill in 1909 stories.workingclasshistory.c...