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Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (via philosophybits) |
On this day, 3 January 1911, the famous Siege of Sidney Street took place in London, when a group of three exiled Latvian revolutionaries engaged in a gun battle with over 1,000 police and soldiers. Wanted for the killing of two police officers in an attempted jewellery heist the previous month, two of the gang were eventually killed when the house they were held up in caught fire, and Winston Churchill who was Home Secretary at the time refused to let firefighters put it out. The suspected leader of the gang, Peter Piatkow, aka “Peter the Painter” (pictured) was never found, became a working class hero in the East End and there are many competing theories as to what became of him, including questioning if he actually existed…
Historian Philip Ruff believes that Peter was a revolutionary named Jānis Žāklis.
More information here: https://libcom.org/history/peter-painter-janis-zhaklis-siege-sidney-street https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.1819457841572691/2177975462387592/?type=3
“They got you fighting a culture war to stop you fighting a class war”
Sticker spotted in San Antonio, Texas
Marvel Graphic Novel, Vol. 1 # 38 “the Silver Surfer: Judgment Day”, Written and Illustrated by John Buscema, with Interior Colors by Christie Scheele, Lettering by Phil Felix, and Dialogue written by Stan Lee. the cover artwork was Illustrated by John Buscema, with Colors painted by Joe Jusko*. *Joe is the biggest John Buscema fanboy I have ever met, and he proved it once again by having Tom Palmer Ink the Penciled artwork for the Softcover as a Commission!*
