workingclasshistory:

On this day, 10 September 1943 in Piombino, Italy, a popular uprising took place against the Nazis who occupied the city following the Italian fascist surrender. Piombino was a working class steel town with a great libertarian tradition and a tradition above all of revolutionary syndicalism. Among the anarchists who took part in the uprising was Adriano Vanni. More info in this pamphlet on Italian partisans: https://libcom.org/history/anarchist-partisans-in-italian-resistance
Pictured: partisans in nearby Florence the following year https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1207313496120465/?type=3

unknought:

unknought:

I really wish The Matrix had switched the colors of the pills.

Because then we would live in a world where misogynist men urge each other to “take the blue pill” in reference to a movie created by two trans women.

holy shit

the-last-girl-scout:

Learn Socialism 35-39 / 87

https://www.facebook.com/LearnSocialism/

The collection as a free PDF

classichorrorblog:

Halloween II
Directed by Rick Rosenthal (1981)

I think  Michael Dougherty threw in an Exorcist reference! I think that is the statue of Pazuzu to the right of the explosion! 

egypt-museum:

King Ramesses III Smiting his Enemies

On this ostracon, at the top right and below the royal cartouche of Ramesses III (r. ca. 1186-1155 BC), we read “He who crushes foreign lands and sacrifices chiefs”. Faithful to the conventions of the war stories of the Ramesside period, the pharaoh represented conquered, in fact, by himself the innumerable crowd of enemies, gripping by the hair a bunch of Asiatics (recognizable by the code of racial stereotypes conveyed by the images Egyptians of the time: elongated beard, long hooked nose and receding forehead).

The ostracon has a very balanced composition. The scene is structured with long red lines (red is the draft for the draftsman of ancient Egypt), one of which, essential, traces the diagonal of the arms of the king. The nine faces of the enemies (perhaps an echo of the “Nine Bows” designating the traditional enemies of Egypt) and the four arms, legs and torsos, suggest a group of prisoners facing the only victorious king. The details are drawn with a gesture of surprising firmness and regularity. The draftsman was probably based on a temple pylon relief that showed the king slaughtering enemies, defending Egypt against the forces of chaos that constantly threaten it.

Now in the Art and History Museum, Brussels. E 7359

trash-fuckyou:

City of the Living Dead (1980) 

theancientwayoflife:

~ Mosaic of a Gazelle in a Medallion.

Culture: Roman

Date: A.D. 1st-2nd century

Medium: Stone and mortar

theancientwayoflife:

~ Stamnos with lid.

Artist: The Chicago Painter

Culture: Greek

Period: Classical

Date: ca. 450 B.C.

Place of origin: Greece, Attica, Athens

Medium: Ceramic, Red Figure