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#OtD 18 Mar 1911 on the 40th anniversary of the Paris commune, the first International Women's Day was held in Europe for women's rights and suffrage. The date was later moved to 8 March stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

our girl louise 🫶🏻

« Saint-Just aux armées »
Engraving by P. Jonnard, after the drawing by Faizan, 19th century. (antoine-saint-just.fr/iconographie...)

this one really captures how young he was </3

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Portrait of Saint-Just, done after the pastel by Angélique Louise Maillard. (Charles Jalabert, 1847)

#OtD 9 Jan 1905 Louise Michel, Paris Communard, teacher, revolutionary and national hero who was exiled to prison in New Caledonia for years, died in Marseille, France stories.workingclasshistory.c...

"... for in every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the people." from the speech that was used to unfairly jail Debs: www.marxists.org/archive/debs...

Black and white photo of Eugene Debs

On Christmas Day 1921, the American socialist leader Eugene V. Debs was released from the Atlanta Penitentiary after his 10 year sentence for opposing WWI was commuted. While in prison, Debs ran for president a fifth time in 1920 and received over 919k votes.

Glad to finally get my hands on the special Musée Carnavalet 1793-4 French Revolution exhibit book 😊🫶🏻

Les Tricoteuses jacobines, gouache de Jean-Baptiste Lesueur, 1793, musée Carnavalet. titre les tricoteuses de Robespierre 3 femmes une debout mains aux hanches les deux autres assises tricotent

Je fais un petit fil sur les tricoteuses pour répondre à x questions
(dans le contexte de la sortie sexiste et antiféministe de l'avocat au procès Mazan)

les tricoteuses est à l'origine le nom donné aux femmes révolutionnaires militantes
des femmes qui allaient écouter les séances de l'assemblée

#OtD 16 Dec 1871 teacher and revolutionary, Louise Michel, was put on trial in France after the crushing of the Paris commune for trying to overthrow the government and other offences. She was sentenced to exile in New Caledonia. More about the commune: shop.workingclasshistory.com/...

During John Brown’s trial, the Commonwealth of Virginia introduced the provisional antislavery constitution he wrote. But Brown refused to repudiate his handiwork or allow his lawyers to discredit his mission by using the insanity defense. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Sur les écrits de Saint-Just, Rimbaud et Louise Michel Dans ce billet, je voulais discuter un peu des similitudes entre les écrits de Saint-Just, Arthur Rimbaud, et Louise Michel. La présidente ...

Recently, I wrote a short piece on my blog en français about the similarities between the poems of Saint-Just, Rimbaud, and Louise Michel. danslescieux.blogspot.com/2024/10/sur-...

Wrong link. This one should work:
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Le nouveau site ObjetsPol (Objets politiques au siècle des Révolutions) est ici : objetspol.inha.fr/s/objetspol/...

un portrait du jeune révolutionnaire, Louis-Antoine Saint-Just, qui est représenté avec des cheveux châtain et un manteau bleu

« Tous les arts ont produit des merveilles: l'art de gouverner n'a produit que des monstres. » - St Just, Discours sur la Constitution à donner à la France (13 avril 1793)

Un beau compte rendu de l'exposition 1793-1794 du Musée Carnavalet à lire et à voir sur les carnets d'Arnaud Maïsetti (@amaisetti.bsky.social).
arnaudmaisetti.net/spip/journal...

some more antoines from around paris (+versailles 🫣)

genuinely the only valid reaction to this movie

Thad to the Bone The unflinching radicalism of Thaddeus Stevens

Thaddeus Stevens died on this day in 1868. “My life has been a failure," he had said.

“Retributive justice is sometimes slow, but it is always sure,” Congressman J.M. Broomall eulogized. “The memory of Thaddeus Stevens needs no monument." #history #skystorians

www.eriereader.com/article/thad...

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.