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2023-03-06 : 🪴 George Orwell :
Eric Blair (1903–1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was a British socialist writer, most famous for his … 2023-03-06 : 🪴 Isaac Deutscher :
Isaac Deutscher (1907–1967) was a Polish-Jewish Marxist writer who moved to the UK before the outbreak of WW2 (which … 2023-02-22 : 🎮 Monopoly :
Monopoly is a board game notorious for breaking families and friend groups apart. Games are generally pretty long, and … 2022-12-19 : 🪴 Matzpen :
Matzpen was an anti-Zionist Israeli socialist group active between 1962 and the early 1970s. They supported … 2022-12-08 : 🪴 Marcos Ana :
Marcos Ana (1920–2016) was a Spanish anti-fascist poet who was imprisoned for 23 years (1939–1962) during the Franco … 2022-12-08 : 🪴 Franco dictatorship :
The Franco dictatorship was a fascist dictatorship that ruled over Spain between 1939–1975, following its victory in the … 2022-10-24 : 🪴 Industrial Workers of the World :
The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), or the Wobblies, was an industrial union of the early 20th century that … 2022-09-08 : 🪴 Mexico’s Dirty War :
The Dirty War was a seven-year period in 1970s Mexico during which successive governments – in an ostensibly democratic … 2022-09-02 : 🪴 Frank Crosswaith :
Frank Crosswaith (1892–1965) was a Virgin Islands-born American Black socialist and trade union organiser. He moved to … 2022-08-28 : 🪴 A. Philip Randolph :
A. Philip Randolph (1889–1979) was a prominent socialist activist in the civil rights movement. Jacobin summarises his … 2022-08-07 : 🪴 Maryknoll sisters :
The Maryknoll sisters were an order of Catholic nuns from the USA who were doing missionary work in Central America and … 2022-08-06 : 🪴 St Louis Commune :
The St Louis Commune was an outpouring of the Great Railroad Strike that hit much of the USA in summer 1877. For 24 … 2022-08-06 : 🪴 Great Railroad Strike :
The Great Railroad Strike, a.k.a. the Great Upheaval, was a period of intense industrial action in the USA in 1877. The … 2022-08-05 : 🪴 Sumerian :
Sumerian is an extremely ancient language, believed to be a language isolate (or at least, no relatives of it are known … 2022-08-05 : 🪴 Ur :
Ur was an important Sumerian city-state in Mesopotamia. It seems to have been founded by 3800 BCE, enjoyed a couple … 2022-08-05 : 🪴 complaint tablet to Ea-Nasir :
The complaint tablet to Ea-Nasir is a clay tablet, written c. 1750 BCE by an unhappy customer named Nanni, and sent to … 2022-07-27 : 🪴 Somerton Man :
The Somerton Man is one of the most infamous unidentified bodies/unsolved murder investigations in Australia. A … 2022-07-25 : 🪴 Mau Mau rebellion :
The Mau Mau rebellion was a mass peasant uprising against the repressive British colonisation of Kenya. See that page … 2022-07-25 : 🪴 British colonisation of Kenya :
Britain exerted direct rule over Kenya between 1895 and 1963. The first few decades of their rule were characterised by … 2022-07-06 : 🪴 Deseret alphabet :
The Deseret alphabet was an alternative alphabet proposed for writing English by Mormons in Salt Lake City in the middle … 2022-05-17 : 🪴 Black Panthers :
The Black Panthers were a revolutionary socialist and Black liberationist organisation which was founded in Oakland, … 2022-05-04 : 🪴 silphium :
Silphium was a herb that existed in the ancient world, and was apparently used so much that the plant was driven into … 2022-05-03 : 🪴 W.E.B. Du Bois :
W.E.B Du Bois (1868–1963) was an African-American intellectual who is considered one of the pioneers of pan-African … 2022-05-02 : 🪴 Lucy Parsons :
Lucy Parsons (c. 1853–1942) was an American anarchist of mixed-race background. She was born in Texas, married a white … 2022-04-27 : 🪴 Benjamin Franklin :
Benjamin Franklin was a polymath and American revolutionary. He grew up in a Puritan community in Boston. He admired … 2022-04-24 : 🪴 Communist Party of Australia :
The Communist Party of Australia (CPA) was a Soviet-aligned communist party that existed in Australia for much of the … 2022-04-24 : 🪴 Haymarket Affair :
On 1 May 1886, a quarter of a million workers went on strike in Chicago, closing businesses and flooding the streets … 2022-04-24 : 🪴 Pullman Strike :
In 1894, the Pullman Palace Car Company decided to lay off numerous workers and dramatically cut the wages of many more … 2022-04-24 : 🪴 Eugene Debs :
Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926) was an American socialist. He was radicalised in the aftermath of the Pullman Strike, where … 2022-04-19 : 🪴 Boris Yeltsin :
Boris Yeltsin was President of Russia between July 1991 and the end of 1999 – initially with Russia still being a … 2022-04-19 : 🪴 collapse of the USSR :
The collapse of the USSR took place in fairly dramatic fashion over the course of 1989–1991, following attempts by … 2022-04-18 : 🪴 Inca Empire :
The Inca Empire was the empire, its capital in the city of Cusco, that controlled much of modern-day Peru, Ecuador, … 2022-03-20 : 🪴 McCarthyism :
“McCarthyism” is often used to describe the period of intense repression of leftists in the US that occurred … 2022-03-20 : 🪴 US repression of leftists :
At many times in its history, the US has embarked on a vicious crackdown of the Left (socialists, anarchists, trade … 2022-02-25 : 🪴 1965 coup in Indonesia :
Let’s begin by establishing the context, before the coup. In the late 1940s, Indonesia was a newly independent … 2022-02-25 : 🪴 Indonesian Communist Party :
The Indonesian Communist Party (PKI, after its Indonesian initials) is the oldest Communist Party in Asia, founded in … 2022-02-10 : 🚊 Robert Risson :
As chairman of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board between 1949–1970, Robert Risson played a critical role in … 2022-02-01 : 🪴 London Bridge :
London Bridge is the name of a series of bridges in London that have been built in roughly the exact same spot. The … 2022-01-31 : 💬 Vergonha :
From the nineteenth century onwards, with the rise of universal public education, the French state embarked on a policy … 2022-01-23 : 🪴 settlement of the Americas :
It’s believed that humans first arrived in the Americas approximately 20,000 years ago, having come across … 2022-01-20 : 🪴 Builders Labourers’ Federation :
The Builders Labourers’ Federation was a trade union in Australia which represented construction workers. Although it … 2022-01-20 : 🪴 Juanita Nielsen :
Juanita Nielsen was a Sydney activist-journalist from a wealthy family who was murderered in 1975. In life she was known … 2022-01-17 : 🪴 1808 mystery eruption :
It is believed that a few years before the 1815 Mount Tambora eruption that caused the Year Without a Summer, there was … 2022-01-16 : 🪴 Plague of Justinian :
The Plague of Justinian was the first major outbreak of plague in the Mediterranean Basin. It severely affected … 2022-01-16 : 🪴 volcanic winter of 536 :
A volcanic eruption, possibly in El Salvador, Iceland, or somewhere in North America, is believed to have caused a … 2022-01-16 : 🪴 Year Without a Summer :
1816 is referred to as “the year without a summer” because temperatures in eastern North America and western … 2021-08-25 : 🪴 COINTELPRO :
COINTELPRO was a secret program of the FBI to disrupt and break up (mostly) radical left-wing organisations, … 2021-08-25 : 🪴 1985 MOVE bombing :
On 13 May 1985, Philadelphia police bombed a building inhabited by 13 members of the “anarcho-primitive” … 2021-07-18 : 🪴 alcohol in Victoria :
This page is a quick history of alcohol licensing laws in Victoria, and some of their social impacts. A number of these … 2021-07-18 : 🪴 King O’Malley :
King O’Malley was a prominent politician in Australia in the first couple of decades after Federation. He is … 2021-02-19 : 🪴 Children of Llullaillaco :
In 1999, three Incan child mummies were found near the summit of a dormant volcano on the Argentina–Chile border, … 2020-06-10 : 🪴 Semipalatinsk Test Site (“The Polygon”) :
Between 1949 and 1991, this was the main place where the Soviet Union tested their nuclear weapons. The test site itself …
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“Argentina’s World Cup 1978: When FIFA Backed a Junta” 2022-11-23 :
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“Joe Hill Was Killed For Singing Labor’s Song” 2022-11-12 :
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“The End of the Road to Serfdom” by Cory Doctorow 2022-09-30 :
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“The Queen is dead, but her colonial legacy lives on in Israel-Palestine” 2022-09-15 :
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“The 1929 Loray Mill Strike Was a Landmark Working-Class Struggle in the US South” 2022-09-07 :
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“The Workers Who Seized the Means of Production” 2022-08-30 :
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“Ghost Markings: European Droughts Reveal Hunger Stones & Hidden Henges” 2022-07-31 :
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“Melbourne’s Fitzroy hides a past as a hub for the Aboriginal civil rights movement” 2022-07-11 :
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“How Australia’s version of Roe v Wade, a little-known court case, set a national precedent for reproductive rights” 2022-06-15 :
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“The War in Ukraine Is a Colonial War” 2022-04-27 :
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“The Left Has a Long, Proud Tradition of Opposing War” 2022-04-25 :
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“‘Dole bludger’ narrative has always been destructive and that's why some people like using it” 2022-04-24 :
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“Carpets, books, and jewelry: Why looting was central to the Nakba” 2022-03-20 :
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“The Red Scare Scarred the Left — But Couldn’t Kill It” 2022-03-20 :
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“Never on a Sunday: Western Australia’s long history of banning fun” 2022-02-25 :
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“The marvel of the Pilbara cooperative movement” 2022-02-23 :
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“Cincinnati Built a Subway System 100 Years Ago–But Never Used It” 2022-02-01 :
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“Aboriginal Tent Embassy — ‘the guys who woke up Australia’ — marks its 50th anniversary” 2022-01-23 :
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“Animated Changes in Population 10000 BCE to Present” 2022-01-02 :
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“Book review – Evita Burned Down Our Pavilion” 2021-12-15 :
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“Lachlan Macquarie was a slave owner and he wasn't the only one. It's time to update the history books” 2021-11-28 :
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“That Weirdo Announcer-Voice Accent: Where It Came From and Why It Went Away” 2021-10-11 :
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“Robert Menzies wouldn’t recognise the Liberal Party's employment policies today” 2021-09-11 :
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“Declassified documents show Australia assisted CIA in coup against Chile’s Salvador Allende” 2021-08-30 :
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“‘I was on a list to be terminated’ – Sue Dobson, the spy who helped to end apartheid” 2021-08-20 :
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“How South African apartheid was ended” 2021-08-17 :
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“Juanita Nielsen’s suspected killer Eddie Trigg confessed the murder to an undercover agent inside jail” 2021-08-16 :
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“At the brink of a new world system: imperialism, race and caste” 2021-08-10 :
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“I’m a Luddite. You should be one too” 2021-08-07 :
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“Ethel Rosenberg was convicted of espionage and executed in 1953. But did she really deserve to die?” 2021-08-05 :
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“Pandemic Shoppers Are a Nightmare to Service Workers” 2021-07-31 :
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“Juanita Nielsen's suspected murder brought Arthur King back to Kings Cross after his terrifying ordeal” 2021-07-26 :
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“Right-Wing Operation Condor Murderers Should Be in Jail” 2021-07-18 :
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“‘Devil devil’: The sickness that changed Australia” 2021-05-27 :
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“‘Inconceivable’: why has Australia’s history been left to rot?” 2021-05-21 :
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“The Cuyahoga River Caught Fire at Least a Dozen Times, but No One Cared Until 1969” 2021-05-13 :
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“What We Did: How the Jewish Communist Left Failed the Palestinian Cause” 2021-04-10 :
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“MLK Was a Radical Who Hated Not Only Racial Subordination But Class Exploitation” 2021-04-03 :
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“Why Easter is called Easter, and other little-known facts about the holiday” 2021-03-22 :
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“If Australia’s Unions Don’t Organize Unemployed Workers, They’re Digging Their Own Graves” 2021-03-02 :
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“The Anti-Colonial Revolt Was Key to Lenin’s Vision of Revolution” 2021-03-02 :
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Jessica Smith is a socialist and a feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.
Jessica Smith is a socialist and a feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.