On this day, 25 May 1926, Ukrainian Jewish anarchist Shalom Schwartzbard approached Symon Petliura on Rue Racine in Paris’ Latin Quarter and asked him, “Are you Mr. Petliura?” before shooting him five times shouting “This for the pogroms; this for the massacres; this for the victims.” When police arrived, Schwartzbard told them “I have killed a great assassin.” Petliura had been Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian Army during the Russian Revolution and ensuing civil war during which approximately 50,000 Jews were murdered in pogroms (including 14 members of Schwartzbard’s family). Schwartzbard, who previously took part in the Russian revolution as a member of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of the Ukraine (aka the Makhnovists), was put on trial for Petliura’s murder. He was acquitted after the jury decided Petliura got what he deserved. For more information on Shalom Schwartzbard’s revolutionary life, read his biography here: https://libcom.org/history/schwartzbard-shalom-1886-1938 https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1434914983360314/?type=3

I'ma still order my shit through them tho

On this day, 29 March 1986, anti-fascists got wind of a secret meeting which was due to take place in the small Dutch town of Kedichem to reunify two fascist political parties: the Centrum Partij and Centrum Democraten. They initially threw a smoke bomb into the hotel where the meeting was taking place, however it accidentally set the curtains on fire and within minutes the building went up in flames, causing the fascists to have to flee into the rioting outside. The proposed merger didn’t take place. We have anti-fascist merch available in our online store to help fund our work. Check it out here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/anti-fascist https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1386898041495342/?type=3

Activist: Not even for a second.

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Anyway if billionaires actually wanted to help the first thing they need to do is let go of their control and pay god damn taxes.

Have you seen this?

we are in an unprecedented situation. this entire epidemic has been mishandled from the WH at every turn, and there actually is a way for democrats to come out of this on top. but if you run to the right of republicans here you will be fucking demolished for generations.

February 10 2020, Paris - Climate activists invaded the headquarters of BlackRock, a financial multinational that is influencing France’s government to privatize their pension system, and that heavily invests in the fossil fuel industry. Protesters blockaded themselves inside and redecorated the offices, destroying their awards and throwing them in the trash. The social struggle and climate struggle are one! [video]

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Franz Lazi - Mount Etna, 1968

— Aisling McCrea, No Man Is An Island?

A breathtakingly sequined velvet evening cape entitled “Apollo of Versailles”, Schiaparelli, 1938.