Colourised photo of a tram collectivised by the anarchist CNT trade union. Bottom of Plaça Catalunya in front of Café Zurich, 1936. Note the Hotel Colon controlled by the PSUC (Pro-soviet communist) in the background. Transport was collectivised in Barcelona throughout the war.

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"The operating mode of all these groups was the same, assembling and deploying an armed unit under the sole control of the strongman that could intimidate political opponents, religious minorities, and the official military and law-enforcement bodies of a weakened state."

Vilken väg ska civilsamhället välja? Det räcker inte med att beklaga sig över det som varit. Nu gäller det att säga vad man vill – och samtidigt välja väg. Är det tjänsteleverans eller rättigheter som står i fokus?  globalbar.se/2026/01/vilk...

This was great. Thank you so much for having me on, @aaronrosspowell.com. It was great delving into this with you.

Trump conjures threats, whips up fear, voices resentments, blames sinister forces, then offers himself as vindication—and we liberals were woefully unprepared for its power.

"Democrats...need to break out of a fateful dynamic: during Trump 2.0, misdeeds and scandals are following each other in such rapid succession that neither the press nor the public ever seem to get to focus on one. Impeachment can concentrate minds and slow down political time."

We are liberals who mean it, who won't throw trans people or immigrants or women under the bus. Who are building a pipeline of young liberal talent. Who are publishing a vision for a liberal 21st century after the Trump era. Support us. www.liberalcurrents.com/support-us/

Vad är det för nonsens? Att USA inte kan förklara sitt agerande i rättsliga termer betyder inte att det är juridiskt otydligt utan att rättslig grund saknas.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Serbien: Presidenten tar makten över militären Serbiens president och auktoritära ledare Aleksandar Vučić försöker nu formellt och juridiskt att ta kontroll över Serbiens militär, skriver @vladlau.bsky.social

In case you're think Grok isn't being blatantly antisemitic, here's a few more posts from Grok on this topic.

Inom manosfären samlas män som har tröttnat på feminismen och vill se mannen som samhällets hjälte igen. Förklaringsmodellerna stämmer väl överens med det högerextrema narrativet.

Efter namnpubliceringen på ministern: Moderaternas partisekreterare ringde och pressade tidningen. www.etc.se/inrikes/m-ch...

Meanwhile in Russia: in an Orwellian fashion, head of RT Margarita Simonyan urges the deletion of inconvenient information from history books and inducing neighboring countries to erase information about being oppressed by Tsarist Russia and the USSR. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GQ0...

Mycket bra av @mymlan.bsky.social!

For anyone who still thinks the mainstream is a bulwark against the far right or that the liberal hegemony cannot accommodate authoritarianism, the eagerness of Labour MPs in the UK to crackdown on democratic rights should be a wake up call www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Eight-thousand upvotes for a baseless conspiracy theory about Trump stealing the 2024 election. It's stupid when right-wingers claim Biden stole 2020. It's just as stupid when left-wingers claim Trump stole 2024. Biden won legitimately. So did Trump. www.reddit.com/r/50501/comm...

1 July 1902 | A Polish Jew, Wigor Rabinowicz, was born in Białobrzegi. A shoemaker. In #Auschwitz from 11 December 1941. No. 23999 He perished in the camp on 11 April 1942.

SD:s vitbok skulle visa hur långt de kommit. Istället anmäler de folk på så fort någon öppnar pärmarna. Deras idé om transparens är som att sätta upp glasdörrar på garderoben, fylla den med gamla bruna uniformer och sen få nervsammanbrott när någon råkar titta in. Herregud vad de kämpar.

"Så många barn och familjer utan hem som behövde snabb hjälp. Vi ger så mycket hjälp vi kan, men tvingas svika andra", säger Åsa Romson om flyktingmottagandet hösten 2015. Men ingen "tvingades" – tvärvändningen var ett politiskt val.

Serbien: Vapenexport och geopolitiskt dubbelspel Serbien vägrar införa sanktioner mot Ryssland. Samtidigt exporterar landet vapen till Ukraina och Israel. Nu har Serbiens regering tillfälligt stoppat vapenexporten. Kan Serbien klara balansgången mellan öst och väst, frågar sig @vladlau.bsky.social

"On a plain reading of Mississippi’s H.B. 1193, I cannot say that Richárd was seized from his home, sent to a concentration camp, and killed because he was Jewish, and white Hungarian Christians wanted to kill him and steal his things for that reason."

Jag kommenterar i DN Jimmies Åkessons försök att låtsas som att nazismen endast gäller SD:s förflutna. www.dn.se/sverige/expo...

Över 400 palestinier har dödats vid stationer för nödhjälp i Gaza sedan slutet av maj, enligt FN. Unicefs talesperson liknar dödandet av hjälpsökande i Gaza vid "Hungerspelen". Att använda mat som vapen utgör ett krigsbrott. Varför ingriper inte omvärlden?

On June 14, millions protested Trump’s authoritarianism in the “No Kings” rallies — facing violent police crackdowns and far-right attacks. An assassination, shootings, and hit-and-runs marked a dangerous spike in political violence fueled by Trump’s rhetoric. Democracy is at risk.

Harold and Kumar will return! A new sequel in the stoner comedy film franchise is on the way from the creators of Cobra Kai, with John Cho and Kal Penn expected to reprise their roles. Via THR: bit.ly/4n71zuI

Christian nationalist movements are working to criminalize dissent, impose religious rule, & rewrite federal policy. Faith as a Weapon exposes how these ideologies are no longer fringe but embedded in Trump’s inner circle, backed by billionaires, & aligned under a shared goal: a theocratic America.

Thrilled that my article on women's activism in PRR parties has been published open access today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 💫 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... This is my favourite article from my PhD thesis. I love the topic, its findings, and the literature it draws on. A quick 🧵:

“Huh, that’s odd, but there must be some kind of reason for it, right?” said one of the sources, who frowned as they took in the sight of the overdressed DHS chief adjusting the quiver of arrows she wore over her back. theonion.com/no-one-...

He’s TACOing on his TACO.

This is really going backward

🚨Stephen Miller gets his way. Just a few days after Ag. Sec. Rollins convinced Trump to briefly back down, quotas and indiscriminate raids are back. Farms, restaurants, and hotels are now subject to ICE raids again, with intense pressure on ICE to hit 3,000 arrests a day. Miller remains in charge.

17 June 1932 | A French Jewish boy, Daniel Belchatowski, was born in Paris. In September 1942 he was deported from Drancy to #Auschwitz and after the selection murdered in a gas chamber.

What a flop! Sad! Watch the team react to Trump's depressing parade now.

It is important to understand that Trump's idea has always been that trade deals are a unilateral exercise in his setting a price: he is doing trade deals with himself in his own head

MAGA did not invent the ideological war against cities. The condemnation of cities as sites of danger, heresy, diversity, hedonism, cosmopolitanism, inauthenticity — that’s been with us for about as long as settled agriculture.

It is peak “Brussels Bubble” for the EU to celebrate 40 years Schengen rather than address that Schengen is “melting before our eyes.”

Orbán’s propagandist and former Fidesz candidate Georg Spöttle turned out to have maintained a close relationship with the Russian military intelligence service. vsquare.org/germany-hung... Quelle surprise!

This family’s presence here for 27 years has hurt no one. #OnYourSide www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/w...

I decided to take the paywall off of this one. It's a few days old, but it gives the right context. Donald Trump is doing all of this BECAUSE HE'S LOSING. This is not his final and inexorable triumph. It's the last desperate gasp of a failing strongman. www.tracinskiletter.com/p/the-taco-r...

Definitely need the National Guard to quell this... insurrection of... line dancing?

Self-described "centrists" don't represent the views of most people, but even if they did, the argument that they shouldn't be harshly criticized because to do so is to take an extreme position just ignores the history of "mainstream" opinions. www.aaronrosspowell.com/p/hate-can-b...

Gathering of fascists in Moscow, Elon Musk's father in attendance

Interesting CJEU judgement: ”A third-country national who enters the European Union in an unauthorised manner cannot be penalised for facilitation of unauthorised entry solely because he or she is accompanied by his or her minor child”. curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/...

“With all of these deportations going on, I can’t help but feel like he’s breaking his campaign promise,” said Jillian Beamer, a three-time Trump voter theonion.com/maga-vo...