The 20th of november, in Paris, a feminist protest against violence against women, was attacked by a group of fascists. The protest was peaceful and there were families with children present, but a group of fascists decided to attack, using belts and throwing chairs.
This attack was quickly pushed back by the crowds and the fash were sent off running.
It’s clear where the far-right stands when it comes to women’s rights.
Murals from the tomb of Menna, who was Scribe of the Fields of the Lord of the Two Lands, probably during the reign of Thutmose IV, in the 18th dynasty
On this day, 21 November, 1897, revolutionary Jewish textile worker Mollie Steimer was born in Russia. She emigrated to New York in 1913 and was radicalised while working in a garment factory. For producing leaflets opposed to the US invasion of revolutionary Russia, Steimer was sentenced to 15 years’ prison, but she maintained her political activity and was arrested eight more times while on bail during her appeal before she was deported to Russia.
In Russia Steimer continued her revolutionary activity and was arrested by the Bolsheviks and sentenced to two years’ exile in Siberia. At this point she and her partner went on hunger strike and were eventually deported instead to Germany. Steimer continued her activism until her death aged 82.
This is a short biography: https://libcom.org/history/mollie-steimer-1897-1980-paul-avrich https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1859010294284112/?type=3
Finally getting around to reading this after snagging a copy on a trip to Chicago *thinks* four and five years ago and huh, you know guys, I think the Schwarzenegger movie took some liberties with this.
Shame there’s no way to update this story and do a more faithful, more modern adaptation. I mean, c’mon, “Guy can’t pay his family’s medical bills, so he goes on a dystopian game show where he’s hunted by a surveillance state and the fascist killers they employ to win the money” How is *that* prescient?
