Antifa InternationalHappy 135th birthday to Brighton legend and original antifa Harry Cowley!
#antifa, #brighton, #brightonantifascists, #harrycowley, #originalantifa, #wegowheretheygo, #cowleyclub
(via @workingclasshistory): On this day, 28 November 1919, Faye Schulman, photographer and Jewish resistance partisan, was born in Lenin, Poland (now Belarus). In 1942, the Nazis murdered 1,850 Jews in the Lenin ghetto, leaving only Faye and 25 others alive, making Faye take and develop photos of the massacre. Covertly she made copies of the photographs for herself. She soon fled and joined the partisan resistance, serving as a fighter and nurse. While on a raid in Lenin with her unit, Faye managed to retrieve her camera equipment, and then began documenting the resistance movement, developing her photos under blankets. "I want people to know that there was resistance. Jews did not go like sheep to the slaughter. I was a photographer. I have pictures. I have proof." Faye survived the war and moved to Toronto, Canada, living to the age of 101.
May her memory be blessing.
May her life be an example.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY THOMAS PAGE!
Page was born on September 29, 1910 in New York City and worked as a bootlegger and model during the Great Depression, then went on to become an organizer with the Unemployed Councils and joined the CPUSA. In April 1937 he traveled to Spain to fight the fascist Franco regime as a volunteer with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, returning after to the U.S. after being an injury 20 months later.
Page also served in the US Army during WWII, then took up photography and camera repair while working for the Bell Telephone Company after the war.
Page is one of the antifascist volunteers interviewed in the 1984 documentary The Good Fight (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_G_JkaTlBU).
#thomaspage, #originalantifa, #nopasaran, #abrahamlincolnbrigade
❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️USA soldiers were not the #OriginalAntifa, and to label them as such is insulting to other countries who lost soldiers years before.
Brian Jopek
Holyoke, Massachusetts: mural of John Brown (2023), painted by Case Maclaim.
#antifa, #johnbrown, #originalantifa, #holyoke, #casemaclaim
Pour one out for a real one. #Originalantifa Octavio Alberola has passed away at the age of 97. Via Marcolino Jeremais:
"Born into a deeply anarchist and rationalist family — his father was a teacher at the Ferrer i Guardia Modern School — Octavio experienced the horrors of the Civil War and exile, traveling through France and Mexico since the age of ten. It was in this exile that he absorbed liberal ideas, forged his character, and decided to devote his entire life to human emancipation.
He was associated with Juventude Libertária and CNT; participated in the July 26 Movement in Cuba. His struggle led him to found — as a representative of FIJL — the clandestine group Home Defense (1961-1965), which organized actions against Franco's regime and symbolic attacks with deep social and political content. In the mid-1960s, he founded the Group 1o de May (1966-1974), an internationalist anarchist alternative that denounced Franco oppression and terror with courage and determination. He was arrested in Belgium (1968) and in France (1974) he was arrested with 10 other companions for participating in the kidnapping of the director of the Bank of Bilbao in Paris, Baltasar Suárez, in protest against the execution of Salvador Puig Antich. He spent almost a year and a half behind bars for his steadfast commitment.
After Franco's death, he continued the democratic resistance: collaborated with CGT in Spain, COJRA in France, Radio Libertaire and various memory rescue initiatives, such as the review of Franco trials and support for libertarians in Cuba. He was an essayist, lecturer and a polyglot of critical thinking, able to debate quantum physics and art with the same passion with which he denounced social injustice. His life was a testimony of thought in action, of conscious rebellion, of an armed struggle contextualized by oppression, but always permeated by the ethical imperative of not harm innocent people."
#octavioalberola, #originalantifa, #rememberingmeansfighting, #spain, #nopasaran
89 years ago today, a loudspeaker van carrying UK fascist leader Oswald Mosley and a tiny contingent of his Blackshirts arrived in Tonypandy, Wales.
Mosley has hoped that his (loudly) broadcast message of hatred and division would attract new recruits. Instead, about 6000 Welsh antifascists pelted him and his bodyguards with rocks and debris as he attempted to address the crowd, forcing the fascists to turn tale and flee for their lives, after less than half an hour.
Full story here: https://voice.cymru/1005-2/
#antifa, #originalantifa, #battleofdewintonfield, #tonypandy, #wales
Happy May Day!
May's Antifa Action of the Month is to take the time to learn about the 100+ year history of the anti-fascist movement and take the lessons from our forebears that we can apply to today's fight against fascism!
Some starting points for you in this post here: https://bit.ly/161history
