“Whose Streets,” finished 2020!

It is apt that on this day in 1969, the Schools Action Union formed in London. The union recognised how schools are used as a tool of capitalist oppression, and took action (incl. strikes) to end corporal punishment, and bring control of schools into hands of students and workers

A friend just said to me "Are we supposed to be working during the coup?" and honestly it was the most American thing I've ever heard.

“Oh my heart!” This popped up my feed at such good timing... tablets reciting precise (almost poetic?) symptoms of anxiety and ašuštu in Assyria and Babylonia, a thread. thank you for this مـوضي

From a BPP Liberation School L.A. pamphlet I came across #bpp #blackpanthers

BREAKING: Bolivia has cancelled and returned the full sum of the US $346.7 Million IMF loan taken out by the coup regime, in rejection of IMF impositions on internal economic policy. As of February 2021, the loan had already racked up $24.3 Million in interest and commissions.

Meanwhile in #archaeology in #Iceland ... 😲🌋

how do you become one of those cats who lives at archaeological sites?

A marquetry of illusionistic polyhedra decorating the Court Casket of Newbattle Abbey, made in Nuremberg in 1565 at the workshop of The Master of Perspective. (more pics below)

I am not even being slightly hyperbolic when I call "critiques" of Palestinian resistance straight-up fascism. You're talking about a colonized & dispersed people under daily threat of genocide. To "critique" their resistance is to say "well why don't they just roll over and die"

Dr Alia Mossallam is an Egyptian historian, she was with her husband and children when the National Security Police arrested her at Cairo Airport yesterday. Alia received her PhD from LSE Government and her master's degree from SOAS University of London Write to the Egyptian government to #FreeAliaa

"Mysterious Redwood Forest with Bisexual Lighting" @ai_curio

irish mythology is so sick

‘We returned to our palaces, these Kingdoms, but no longer at ease here in the old dispensation, with an alien people clutching their gods.’ #DavidGraeber - a year today, may your soul rest in peace, as your thoughts play wild and free!

#OtD 5 Sep 1911 a UK-wide strike wave of schoolchildren was sparked when pupils in Llanelli, Wales walked out in sympathy with a boy who was disciplined by a deputy headmaster. Walkouts spread across the country to at least 62 towns and cities. libcom.org/history/childr…

Currently obsessed with this. It's the Res Gestae Divi Augustus, but it's an OIL PAINTING made by the French architect (and sometime archaeologist) Edmond Guillaume in 1862.

Another one by Gerda Taro. Two kids dressed up as militia fighters mucking about on a barricade in front of El Molino, El Parallel. Barcelona, August 1936. Just where I'm sitting now on a bench...

america basically a parking lot with an army

1/2.Today, thousands of #teachers demonstrated in #Iran. Mohammad Habibi, a unionist and a teacher who was fired by the govt. due to organizing, says some students participated in the #protest in solidarity. The following sign reads: rights aren’t given, they’re taken

On Christmas Eve 1855 enslaved teenagers from Loudon County, Virginia fended off slave patrollers as they made their escape to Philadelphia. This image, “A Bold Stroke for Freedom,” is housed in the Library of Congress.