The Equinox … A Journey into the Supernatural (1967)
Filmed on a budget of only $6,500, this cult classic is notable for its eye-popping stop-motion animation, and is a showcase for the innovative work of visual-effects artist Dennis Muren. The plot of Equinox was loosely inspired by the mythos of H.P. Lovecraft, and this film went on to inspire Sam Raimi’s 1981 film, The Evil Dead.
Deep within the woods and canyons of California, four teenagers happen upon an ancient book containing the secrets of a strange, malevolent world that coexists with that of mankind…
A recent study published in the peer-reviewed journal JAMA Internal Medicine confirms that not only does Ivermectin not help you recover from/fight off COVID-19, but you may end up with some pretty severe side effects.
In addition to the fact that
ivermectin didn’t work, people who took it had more side effects than
those who didn’t, and sometimes those side effects were severe,
including heart attacks, anemia and diarrhea that led to shock.
“The
higher incidence of side effects with ivermectin in our study raises
concerns about the widespread use of this drug outside clinical trial
setting,” lead researcher Dr. Steven Lim told CNN in an email.
“The
public should understand that the highly touted safety profile of
ivermectin is related to its use as an anti-parasitic drug. The use of
ivermectin as an antiviral in COVID-19 is a totally different ball game,
with notable differences in dosing, duration and mechanism of actions,”
wrote Lim, an infectious-disease specialist at Raja Permaisuri Bainun
Hospital in Perak, Malaysia.
On this day, 20 February 1988, 20,000 people in Manchester marched against Margaret Thatcher’s homophobic section 28 law, which made it illegal for public bodies to “promote” homosexuality, which included banning schools teaching the “acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship”. The law was abolished in 2003, although later Conservative prime minister David Cameron voted against the complete scrapping of the ban. Current Conservative prime minister Boris Johnson voted in favour of scrapping section 28, although he had previously compared gay marriage to bestiality in a book he published, and referred to gay men as “tank-topped bumboys” while working as a journalist.
Learn more about homophobia and the struggle against it in the 1980s in our podcast episodes 27-29 about Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners. Find it on every major podcast app or on our website: https://workingclasshistory.com/2019/06/10/e23-25-lesbians-gays-support-the-miners/https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1925324120986062/?type=3
On this day, 21 February 1848, the Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels was published. Translated into over 200 languages, and widely read by workers across the world, it remains one of the most influential texts ever written. Its chapter 1 begins with a note on history:
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
“Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes…
"The modern bourgeois [capitalist] society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones.”
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