Julia 🤝

I’m not sure where you have your information from but in the early days of Nazi rule (1933-34) after arresting communists and other opponents they did regularly just destroy and or raid their personal possessions.

Richard Evans’ the third reich in power has detail on this era of SA activity

Literal Brownshirt behaviour

Bad news for Quebecers: I just overheard some clueless tourists look at the Quebec flag that flies from a building next to Brandenburg gate in Berlin and say “oh must be israel”

I’m giving away a signed & framed linocut print of The Mary Wallopers to raise funds for Gaza Go Bragh.

www.idonate.ie/raffle/Print...

The raffle will be running over on iDonate until the 17th and I’ll cover postage to anywhere in the world.

Share with everyone and anyone!

Gaza Starvation Photos Tell a Thousand Lies Hamas propaganda exploits seriously ill children, and Western media go along.

The editors who published this should go straight to The Hague. I mean literally, according to the terms of international law such as it exists.

under late Capitalism we only have working situationships. all meaningful relations of labor have been slowly degraded into temporary exchanges of services just to keep up with your rent

Revolution as Realpolitik "Revolution as Realpolitik" published on 18 Dec 2025 by Brill.

@remarksist.bsky.social and I have translated Florian Wilde’s biography of KPD chairman Ernst Meyer, pupil of Luxemburg, champion of inner-party democracy and leading theorist of the united front tactic. Out in December:
brill.com/display/titl...

I spent €12 on worthless Weimar-era hyperinflation money

Heidi #Reichinnek sprach heute Abend kurz nach der Abstimmung vielen Menschen aus der Seele🔥

#bundestag #merz #niewiedercducsu

a letter from Engels with the folioing text highlighted: "and in ten years this sleepy Canada will be ripe for annexation - the farmers in Manitoba, etc., will demand it themselves. Besides, the country is half-annexed already socially - hotels, newspapers, advertising, etc., all on the American pattern. And they may tug and resist as much as they like; the economic necessity of an infusion of Yankee blood will have its way and abolish this ridiculous boundary line — and when the time comes, John Bull will say "Amen" to the matter."

bad news for marxist defenders of Canadian independence.

Friedrich Engels writing from Montreal in 1888

hard to describe the kind of freak I am besides telling you that reading this kind of sentence literally gives me a rush of exhilaration

have you ever lived a single day as a woman

Guy on the train was obviously bothered by my talking (looking at me muttering under his breath) but it was unclear to me whether it was because I was talking about Ernst Meyer and communism/the communist party of Germany in the 1920s or because I have an annoying accent/ voice. The duality of life

Isn’t this simply true? A world where there is less economic growth _is_ a more zero sum world. We can’t avoid distributional struggles when the pie isn’t growing. The already rich and wealthy have been winning these struggles for 45 years.

I consider myself vey tolerant of national differences but the way that germans transliterate "Zinoviev" is where I draw the line. "Sinowjew" looks insane

John Brosio, Dinosaurs Eating CEO (2013)

Dreaming of a Red Christmas Warren Beatty's Reds (1981) and the radical lives behind it

My latest post is about Warren Beatty's 1981 film Reds and the witness testimonies that make it the greatest historical drama in 20th century cinema (IMHO) archiverats.substack.com/p/dreaming-o...

Gladiator park and then gladiator World

Ah but Jonny it’s sunny! Got to get some vitamin D on those!

What?

Guy doing bus driver training in a big bendy bus blocked 2 lanes of traffic and 3 other busses from going anywhere for like 6 minutes. I would die of embarrassment

I don’t have a video because I was busy trying to stuff a whole bottle of wine in my purse without anyone noticing with the expectation that we were about to be kicked out of the function (we weren’t, people just backed away from us a bit lol)

Every day I regret that I don’t have a video of the time my friends shouted down Wes Streeting at an event by just chanting “scum” progressively louder and louder until he had to address the disruption

Walter Gropius's monument in Weimar to the victims of the far-right Kapp Putsch of March 1920. Me for scale

Can't believe this question came up in my citizenship test. Props to the German Federal Government for giving the Motor City their dues.

Berlin people!
Jacobin @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social are having a pub quiz Christmas party on Friday!
it is still possible to sign up (both to come and to register your team if you want to compete) through the link on this page. (Quiz bilingual de/en) jacobin.de/artikel/weih...

A Christmas tree with just lights and a red Soviet start toper

Same tree with 20 felt ikea robins, a few felt pigeons and 30 other small white birds

Christmas tree before and after. (+50 birds)

Your interior decoration is objectively top-tier. This person is mad that your floor is lived-in real hardwood and not millennial grey laminate.

Imagining Liam neeson and Alan Rickman promoting the Michael Collins film like how Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo have been promoting Wicked