The First Photograph of a Human Being: A Photo Taken by Louis Daguerre in 1838

American progressive, Salaam Bhatti, standing for election: "I spent a year in #Aberdeen, #Scotland...that's where I was radicalised!" International impact of NHS Scotland 👊🏼 substack.com/@salaambhatt...

Every country is in debt... So who are their creditors? The circular system government debt explained. youtu.be/qOCJH7Rdyn4?...

The right-wing taxation myth that underpins economic trategu in all UK parties, including Labour. The Laffer curve was wrong. youtu.be/lrO9VpQCXZU?...

Stamp produced to raise money refugees in Tarragona. By the end of 1938, there were some 700,000 Spanish and Catalan Republican refugees in Catalonia (prewar population 2.2 million) who had fled from Franco's terror. 400,0000 were in Barcelona (1.2 million pop).

Bad hasbara. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Memorial to the Jewish volunteers of the International Brigades. It plays with Star of David and the 3-point of the IB. Around 20% (about 7,000) of Brigaders were Jewish. Fossar de la Pedrera, the mass grave of the victims of the Franco regime in Barcelona, Montjüic cemetery

Israeli settlers carried out a new wave of violent attacks across several towns in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, injuring 17 Palestinian civilians, including five journalists.

As in the USA, so in the UK : Anti-immigrant poison in the well

Most of them were on a 3 game marathon this week with hardly any subs to replace them. Arteta should have had Mosquera, Hincapie, Norgaard and MLS on for Eze, Trossard, Calafiori and maybe Saka. Block them off from the midfield. We had no useful attacking sub so no need to keep attacking.

#Photography Martin Usborne, from his 'The Silence of Dogs in Cars'. /Magnum Photos

As Russian attacks continue, Ukrainian communities are preparing for winter. Natalia previously received a seed kit from WCK so she could grow fresh vegetables. Now, she's preserving them in the traditional Ukrainian way, ensuring she can still enjoy them in the cold months ahead. #ChefsForUkraine

idk who needs to hear this but the President of the United States of America is APPEALING a judges order forcing him to fully fund SNAP. Yes — DJT is appealing a ruling telling him to NOT starve his own people. Let that simmer.

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

A reminder, the new mayor of NYC is a Gunner (Gooner 😎) Congrats, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Good news from the nation's capital, where a jury has determined that chucking a wrapped sandwich at the chest of a federal officer is not a punishable misdemeanor. ✊🏼 Local hero sandwich guy ftw. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

This lovely milk label (1936-38) produced by the collectivised dairy industry of the CNT. Walking Museum of the Spanish Civil War.

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

In @nytopinion “For institutions tied to the Emirates, choosing to act” or speak out about the genocide in Sudan “would have an economic cost,” write three experts in global human rights. “Yet the cost of silence, of continuing business as usual, is infinitely greater.”

“History is a teachable, or learnable, moment. History is remembrance, or never forgetting & honoring our dead. Most important, history is possibility…those who collectively self-organize & take direct action can make history—a people’s history of courage & solidarity.” ~ @cbmilstein.bsky.social

HRW: At least 600 migrant workers employed by Saudi Arabian Baytur Construction Company have not received their salaries for at least eight months. The actual figure of unpaid workers could be significantly higher. www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

Why was Orwell’s wife, Eileen, written out of his story when she co-wrote Animal Farm? As a writer who was so ahead of his time on imperialism and totalitarianism, why did Orwell fail when it came to his attitudes to women? linktr.ee/empirepoduk

Happy days🎉gooner Mamdani tbrfootball.com/new-yorks-ne...

Most people using BLUESKY deserted TwiXXer in frustration at it's right wing bias - excellent research confirms it statistically. It's even worse when you see George Galloway still categorised as left wing.😵‍💫

⚡️ Ukraine war latest updates: Russian rebel group sabotages dozens of locomotives in attack on military logistics, HUR says According to the report and a video set to some jaunty music, the partisans set fire to dozens of trains used by Russian forces.

In depth explanation of the police massacre in Rio, Brazil last week. Below is a picture of the victims.

Seventeen South African mercenaries complain they're trapped, fighting in Donetsk, and not allowed to return home. As Reuters reports, S Africa's President did not state which side they were fighting for: I think everyone knows, but Ramaphosa dare not upset Putin.

"Pray for me." 🙏🏻 This was the last TikTok post from a 24-year-old Iraqi, one of hundreds of Arab mercenaries lured by Russian recruiters with promises of $20,000 bonuses & $2,800/month. 💰 The reality: they are deceived, given minimal training, and sent into "meat grinder" assaults. 🪦

Drones targeted the thermal power plant in Volgorechensk in Russia's Kostroma Oblast - locals reported at least 3 explosions at the facility. The governor claimed the attack was "repelled," but emergency services were "addressing the aftermath at energy infrastructure facilities." 📹Exilenova+

Entire villages have been abandoned as the junta continues to deliberately target civilian homes with violence Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/thou...

⚡️🔥 A refinery caught fire in Belarus. A diesel processing plant caught fire at the Belarusian oil refinery Naftan. The Novopolotsk refinery is one of two oil refineries in Belarus. On June 3, 2022, Naftan was added to the sanctions list of all European Union countries.

This week, I'm reporting from the Westbank, #Palestine, where aggressive settlers and the Israeli army are suffocating villagers. This story is from Masafer Yatta, where the film No Other Land was recorded. Read! open.substack.com/pub/fgeerdin...

In his victory speech, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social quoted Eugene V. Debs. More than 100 years ago, in 1908, Narayan Krishna - India's first socialist - campaigned for Debs on the "Red Special"-train in Chicago. indiasworld.in/indias-first...

Interesting section in this interview on the reforms which decentralised & energised local government in Ukraine. "it really impressed me that in Ukraine, in the midst of a war, over the course of 5 years, they rammed through this really democratic process" www.decodingtrolls.net/p/podcast-cu...

When I talk about how the history of progressive/radical movements is tied to a history of intimacy this is what I mean. Socialism is always both a theory of economic redistribution and a chance to hang out!!

This year's Edinburgh Radical Book Fair has started! On Saturday at 4pm, I'm chairing 'Divergent: Weird pride, unruliness & outsider wisdom' with @cjdebarra.bsky.social and @acaciathorns.bsky.social (frank r. jagoe can't attend in person, unfortunately). #WeirdPride @lighthousebks.bsky.social

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

A freed Palestinian detainee shared a harrowing testimony of abuse inside Israel’s infamous Sde Teiman detention camp. He described being forced to sit while settlers, including children, urinated on him, and was later subjected to sexual abuse by soldiers.

“The Gaza of maps and memories is gone, replaced by a monochrome landscape of rubble stretching flat and still…. there's almost nothing left to orient you here, or identify the neighbourhoods that once held tens of thousands of people”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Great piece of journalism from Robert Swift detailing the Israelis who believe their government is committing genocide and how speaking up about it affects their careers and personal lives "You feel like an alien walking the streets of Tel Aviv" www.thenational.scot/news/2560002...

The only differences between the vast majority of billionaires & you are inherited wealth & enormous good luck. Most self-made billionaires [the ones not born to ruby mines or friends on the IBM board] are v clear on that. Those same actual achievers give their money away. The irony here is…

On Nov 22, Ukrainians worldwide light candles to honour #Holodomor victims - an act of defiance in occupied regions where russia bans remembrance. Memory is resistance. Read how courage persists despite repression: khpg.org/en/1608815225

🔥 Enemy logistics are on fire: the “Freedom of Russia” resistance movement burned dozens of locomotives in Russia. 🚂 The targets of the strikes were locomotives that Russians use to supply weapons, ammunition, and equipment during the fighting against Ukraine.

"One way to survive is to go ‘underground’. The goal of narrative podcast Russia Underground is to shed light on the artists, journalists, booksellers, actors, NGO workers, activists and others involved in the country’s secret resistance." I've not yet listened, just bookmarking...

New in Advance Articles: Transformations in Russian Activism: Navigating Identity and Solidarity in Russia’s Anti-War Movement by Vlada Baranova #Russia #activism #feminism #decoloniality 👉 doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Borders in the 21st century—Vol. 2025 of The BIG_Review explores policy, poetry, and resistance. From EU–Ukraine relations to the US–Mexico wall, this issue is packed with critical insight. 🔗 journals.uvic.ca/index.php/bi... #BIGReview #MigrationPolicy