workingclasshistory:

On this day, 1 January 1974, the UK Conservative government implemented the three-day week to save electricity, the generation of which had been severely restricted by industrial action by coalminers. An overtime ban by miners seeking a 35% pay increase had slashed production, and they launched an all out strike in February. All non-essential businesses were limited to 3 consecutive days’ consumption, and television had to stop broadcasting at 10:30 PM. The miners ended up bringing down the government and winning their pay increase.
Pictured: Miners on the overtime ban in Mansfield, January 1974 https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1888918441293297/?type=3

customer569330:

The BRAIN BATS of VENUS _ Basil Wolverton

howieabel:

“I was born in a bourgeois community and had some of the better things in life, but I found that there were more people starving than there were people eating, more people that didn’t have clothes than did have clothes, and I just happened to be one of the few. So I decided that I wouldn’t stop doing what I’m doing until all those people are free.” – Fred Hampton

supergameboytwo:

borghest:

What’s up with claymation

The clay just does that by itself and they start filming it

probablyasocialecologist:

“Some may view these actions as violent, but be not mistaken. We acted from our hearts and never threatened human life nor personal property,” Montoya said. “What we did do was fight a private corporation that has run rampant across our country, seizing land and polluting our nation’s water supply. You may not agree with our tactics, but you can clearly see their necessity in light of the broken federal government and the corporations they represent.”

Though Reznicek and Montoya saw themselves as acting within the Catholic Worker tradition, their uncompromising stance on the efficacy of property destruction alienated even some within the broader movement. Nevertheless, the pair never expressed outward doubt or remorse about committing their acts, even as oil continued to flow through the pipeline.

“I am not going to choose fear,” Montoya said in 2017 to an audience of eco-activists in Minnesota, many of them old enough to be her parents or grandparents. “I’m looking at centuries in prison — and I feel more free.”

rattle-my-stars:

blackedoutbanana:

joofers-the-red-deactivated2022:

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

‘U.S. imperialism will surely be defeated [in Vietnam]!’

Via PROLETARIAN ART-SOCIALIST REALISM

suddenlyoranges:

reblog to scare apple