A hundred and five years since the Tulsa massacre, killing hundreds, destroying dozens of city blocks. Letter which appeared in the 23 March 1922 edition of The Black Dispatch.

Article about the idea of 'social equality' and the American left-liberal magazine The Nation, from the 18 November 1921 edition of US paper The Afro-American. @thenation.com

Student League for Industrial Democracy and National Student League joint leaflet, ‘Strike Against War’, from 13 April 1934, promoting a campaign that would mobilize tens of thousands of people.

Love these birds with the enormous feet.

Despite taking place so long ago, there's much that feels familiar in Ross Luxemburg’s detailed descriptions of Stolypin’s regime in the aftermath of the defeat of the 1905 Revolution in Russia.

Those who don't pay attention to history are doomed not to notice all the ways we're in the middle of repeating it already.

I think I was seven when The Dukes of Hazzard was broadcast in Australia. Dad had an attitude and opinions but at the time I had no idea about the whole Confederacy of it all. Plus I think Dad thought Boss Hogg was an amusing, cleaned up version of typical Southern political figures.

Race politics in early 20th century Australia, indentured labour, White Australia, efforts to violently dominate Indigenous peoples… Excerpt from James A. Burke on ‘Australia's Laws Against Asiatics’, from the March 1921 issue of The New York Times Current History. @nytimes.com

Moments in the internationalisms of struggles against white supremacy. In the present day struggles against the Israeli state are also frequently struggles against Jewish supremacists. From the 'International Notes' section of the March 1921 issue of Advocate of Peace through Justice.

Excerpt from Griffith Taylor's 'The Evolution and Distribution of Race, Culture, and Language', in the January 1921 issue of Geographical Review. doi.org/10.2307/207857

I recently wrote that those seeking to organise policy around race purity and supremacy become obsessed with birth rates and ultimately eugenics. Article from the 21 October 1921 edition of The Church Record, an Australian newspaper “issued fortnightly in connection with the Church of England”.

Israel in Lebanon. Excerpt from Oxfam’s 14 May 2026 ‘The Gaza Playbook: How Israel’s Gaza script is playing out in Lebanon’. www.oxfam.org/en/research/... @oxfaminternational.bsky.social

True social conservatism normalises secrets, guarded by privacy meaning silence and whispering, in a constant negotiation of the possession and transference of information across a violently enforced hierarchical social terrain.

Once upon a time, believe it or go Ripley yourself, being anti-antifascist was supposed to mean having a different account of how fascism and capitalism relate, and more to the point of how struggles against the latter could most effectively oppose the former.

I know there's problems with sanctions and more broadly supply chains and every aspect of global political economy organised around the petro-dictatorships and such, but they control the Strait, shouldn't the streets be just saturated in official pro-Iran merch?

"Whatever position you took in all those discussions of his ink, I just don't think it was an invitation to get one yourself in solidarity and yes, even if someone online is asking if it 'really really' means Nazi stuff... And yes, even if you promise to have it removed twenty years later..."

Thread on aspects of colonialism and the rhetoric and practice of the White Australia project between 1900 and 1914.

The ALP and militarism (and politically-hegemonic racism) in Australia, discussed in an excerpt from the 'Editorial Notes' of the November 1908 issue of The Advocate of Peace.

Excerpt on the hantavirus; over decades Dr. Ho Wang Lee isolated the virus, developed diagnostic criteria, then developed a vaccine. From ‘Zoonotic Diseases—An Interview with Karl M. Johnson, M.D.’, in the September 2001 issue of Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. doi.org/10.1089/1530...

In the 14 January 1911 issue of The British Medical Journal, there's an obituary for Dr T.E. MacDonald, who studied tropical diseases in Australia and New Zealand, then travelled from China to Egypt before returning to Australia to a life based on white supremacy and firearms. @bmj.com

All warnings about content, about Jewish-Israelis raping with impunity and being treated as heroes. youtube.com/shorts/sqqZw...

There were minutes between the opening of the first federal Parliament in Australia and politicians starting the work of racism. Two excerpts from Hugh H. Lusk's 'Chinese Exclusion in Australia', in the March 1902 issue of The North American Review. @northamerreview.bsky.social

The materiality of the fictive. Excerpt from Raymond David Dalton's 2000 University of Huddersfield PhD dissertation, 'Labour and the Municipality: Labour Politics in Leeds 1900-1914'.

By 1999, some in the Jewish-Israeli mainstream had already been arguing that the Israeli Supreme Court should overtly legalise ALL forms of torture.

Remember when the UN Security Council gave Trump the deed to Gaza and how ever since prominent people in the Israeli government have talked as if the destruction of everything in Gaza is a precursor to what will be an extremely profitable real estate development?

Better might be supporting Iran's right to defend itself from US and Israeli aggression, since they live in the shadow of what happened in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, knowing that a genocidal settler-colonial state, Israel, has nuclear weapons pointing at Tehran. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Two excerpts on settler and IDF violence in the West Bank, from the 26 April 2026 Data Friendly Space report, ‘Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) Crisis Situation Analysis’ covering the period from 20-26 April 2026. reliefweb.int/report/occup...

When I hear these US right-wing 'anti-Zionists', I start sounding like a Zionist myself. "They're really anti-Semites, you can smell it on them", I'll probably start misusing the word 'trope' the next time someone says a lunatic like Candice Owens is even slightly ok...

I don't know, it's just an idea I heard somewhere but do you think possibly the people of the Middle East have a right to defend themselves?

Controversial, but I think if you use a house of worship as a place to sell the property of other people violently stolen as part of settler-colonial expansion, it's ok if people protest at that house of worship, and you probably chose to do it there to hide behind fake religious persecution claims.

From the introduction to the 2022 book, Jews of Iran: A Photographic Chronicle, by Hassan Sarbakhshian, Lior B. Sternfeld and Parvaneh Vahidmanesh.

Early Israeli Labor Party moves to initiate policies which would make occupation de facto permanent, pursuing settler-colonial expansion, de facto annexation. From Avi Shlaim's 'Israel and the Occupied Territories' in the October 1973 issue of The World Today. 1973. www.jstor.org/stable/40394...

Thinking again about the fairly systematic attacks on Zach Polanski’s opposition to bigotry and Jewishness.

Back in 2004, Derrida wrote that: "I do believe, without the slightest sense of European nationalism or much confidence in the European Union as we currently know it, that we must fight for what the word Europe means today."

Disingenuous attempts to smear Zach Polanski as an anti-Semite remind me of what David H. Wice wrote of Zionism in ‘Reform Judaism and Zionism: II. A Non-Zionist Interpretation’, which appeared in the 1949 Hebrew Union College Press collection, Reform Judaism: Essays by Hebrew Union College Alumni.

Has anyone translated Lyotard's La Guerre des Algériens: Écrits 1956–63 into English?

Obviously states serve particular interests within management of the reproduction of capitalist social relations in general and of the self-expansion of capital in particular...

Excerpt from a history of pink in Bologna, Ferruccio Quercetti’s 2021 University of Glasgow PhD dissertation, ‘Shock Antistatico: early Bolognese punk (1977-1980) and the Long Seventies’. doi.org/10.5525/gla....

A few times since I've been on this site, I've cited or excerpted articles from Freedomways. Well, Lauren Eglen's book The Heart of the Collective: Black Left Feminism, Women’s Intellectual History, and Freedomways Magazine, 1930-1985 should be released later this year by UNC Press.

Borderline amazing how little 'mainstream' coverage there has been of the Zionist-crowdfunded threat to Professor Marandi; has there been any at all? orinocotribune.com/terror-alarm...

Speaking of completely different things that were actually in the inherently dumb category of "sex scandal", many years ago I knew of an elected politician who was 'caught' seeing someone other than his wife, the media made a big thing about it for a couple of days, calls for resignation, etcetera.

Today I saw someone refer to someone being in, or close to, or maybe complicit in, a "sex scandal" - because of a connection to Epstein. Is that language people generally use? Or was this just...I don't know, someone accidentally slipping into inappropriate media lingo? "Sex scandal"...?

Here's an excerpt from US Naval Lieutenant Robert B. Chadwick II's 1997 United States Naval Academy Master's thesis, 'Lebanon: The Uncertain Road to Reconstruction'.

Imagine if you were one of the Rothschildren now, still rich sure but nowhere remotely in world domination territory but your name still gets thrown around by weirdos every single day like you're the secret power behind the imposition of bedtime. Probably an odd feeling.

Sinead O'Connor writing in Socialist Worker (Ireland) in March 1992.

In the '60s, '70s and '80s Tories didn't pretend to be worried about anti-Afrikaan prejudice when they wanted trade with the Apartheid regime; UK Conservatives just called the ANC 'terrorists' and refused to do anything to oppose or even acknowledge the system of racist oppression and exploitation.

1988. Excerpt from Jack Hirschman's 1988 poem, 'The New Palestine Arcane' , which appeared in the September/October 1988 issue of The American Poetry Review. jstor.org/stable/27779...

A thread on strategies and rhetoric of those trying to maintain an white supremacist Apartheid regime in South Africa in the late '80s.