Sveggo
@sveggo.bsky.social
He/Him
Professional lurker.
Anti-bigotry, Pro-LGBTQIA+, Refugees Welcome, Free Gaza and all that leftist jazz.
Professional lurker.
Anti-bigotry, Pro-LGBTQIA+, Refugees Welcome, Free Gaza and all that leftist jazz.
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If you’re looking for a present, he really likes bread
December 9, 2025 at 7:20 AM
If you’re looking for a present, he really likes bread
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#OtD 5 Nov 1921 German Jewish communist resistance fighter and nurse Marianne Prager-Joachim was born. A slave labourer for Siemens, she and others at the plant formed the Baum resistance group. She was executed in 1943 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1056...
November 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
#OtD 5 Nov 1921 German Jewish communist resistance fighter and nurse Marianne Prager-Joachim was born. A slave labourer for Siemens, she and others at the plant formed the Baum resistance group. She was executed in 1943 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1056...
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#OtD 1 Oct 1937 print worker and anarcho-syndicalist Anna Götze was arrested for the second time by Nazi authorities for her anti-fascist activities. She was sent to a concentration camp with her daughter but they escaped stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8150...
October 1, 2025 at 10:40 AM
#OtD 1 Oct 1937 print worker and anarcho-syndicalist Anna Götze was arrested for the second time by Nazi authorities for her anti-fascist activities. She was sent to a concentration camp with her daughter but they escaped stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8150...
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#OtD 30 Sep 1953 British communist boxer, Len Johnson, went for a drink at the Old Abbey Taphouse in Manchester, but was refused service because he was Black. Soon after, 200 people picketed the pub until the landlord agreed to stop discriminating. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1112...
September 30, 2025 at 7:40 AM
#OtD 30 Sep 1953 British communist boxer, Len Johnson, went for a drink at the Old Abbey Taphouse in Manchester, but was refused service because he was Black. Soon after, 200 people picketed the pub until the landlord agreed to stop discriminating. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1112...
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#OtD 27 Sep 1936 1000 uniformed fascist Blackshirts led by Oswald Mosley in Leeds, UK, were confronted by 30,000 anti-fascist locals who attacked them, pelted them with stones, hitting Mosley, and drowned out speeches by singing The Red Flag stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9965...
September 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
#OtD 27 Sep 1936 1000 uniformed fascist Blackshirts led by Oswald Mosley in Leeds, UK, were confronted by 30,000 anti-fascist locals who attacked them, pelted them with stones, hitting Mosley, and drowned out speeches by singing The Red Flag stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9965...
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#OtD 16 Sep 1973 Chilean communist folk singer and musician Victor Jara was murdered by Pinochet's troops following his US-backed coup a few days before. He was brutally tortured and shot over 40 times in the Chile Stadium stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8846...
September 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
#OtD 16 Sep 1973 Chilean communist folk singer and musician Victor Jara was murdered by Pinochet's troops following his US-backed coup a few days before. He was brutally tortured and shot over 40 times in the Chile Stadium stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8846...
Just remember:
A dead fascist is a good fascist.
A dead fascist is a good fascist.
September 11, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Just remember:
A dead fascist is a good fascist.
A dead fascist is a good fascist.
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#OtD 24 Aug 1945 legendary Black LGBTQ activist, sex worker, Stonewall rebellion participant, and co-founder of STAR (a radical org that provided shelter for homeless queer and trans youth) Marsha P. Johnson was born in New Jersey, US. Learn more: workingclasshistory.com/2019/05/13/e...
August 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
#OtD 24 Aug 1945 legendary Black LGBTQ activist, sex worker, Stonewall rebellion participant, and co-founder of STAR (a radical org that provided shelter for homeless queer and trans youth) Marsha P. Johnson was born in New Jersey, US. Learn more: workingclasshistory.com/2019/05/13/e...
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#OtD 18 Aug 1823 the Demerara rebellion (in modern-day Guyana) saw over 10,000 enslaved African people in the British colony go from plantation to plantation stealing weapons, locking up their enslavers and putting them in stocks. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8956...
August 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
#OtD 18 Aug 1823 the Demerara rebellion (in modern-day Guyana) saw over 10,000 enslaved African people in the British colony go from plantation to plantation stealing weapons, locking up their enslavers and putting them in stocks. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8956...
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#OtD 17 Aug 1795 around 40 enslaved people in the Dutch colony of Curaçao rebelled, starting a mass revolt on the island. The rebellion lasted over a month until the leaders were killed, but it forced the granting of new rights to the enslaved stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8856...
August 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
#OtD 17 Aug 1795 around 40 enslaved people in the Dutch colony of Curaçao rebelled, starting a mass revolt on the island. The rebellion lasted over a month until the leaders were killed, but it forced the granting of new rights to the enslaved stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8856...
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#OtD 10 Aug 1680 the Pueblo Revolt (aka: Popé's Rebellion) began in the Spanish colonial province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México as the Indigenous Pueblo people rose up against the colonizers. 400 colonisers were killed and the remaining 2000 expelled stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1258...
August 10, 2025 at 6:26 AM
#OtD 10 Aug 1680 the Pueblo Revolt (aka: Popé's Rebellion) began in the Spanish colonial province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México as the Indigenous Pueblo people rose up against the colonizers. 400 colonisers were killed and the remaining 2000 expelled stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1258...
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#OtD 2 Aug 1944 4000 Roma people in Auschwitz resisted being taken to the gas chambers. They armed themselves with sticks and crowbars, and barricaded the doors, women in particular fighting the SS with hands and nails. They were overcome and murdered stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9169...
August 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
#OtD 2 Aug 1944 4000 Roma people in Auschwitz resisted being taken to the gas chambers. They armed themselves with sticks and crowbars, and barricaded the doors, women in particular fighting the SS with hands and nails. They were overcome and murdered stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9169...
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#OtD 30 Jul 2006 Murray Bookchin died at age 85. Bookchin was an American libertarian socialist and founder of social ecology and libertarian municipalism. Read a remembrance here: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1029...
July 30, 2025 at 9:55 AM
#OtD 30 Jul 2006 Murray Bookchin died at age 85. Bookchin was an American libertarian socialist and founder of social ecology and libertarian municipalism. Read a remembrance here: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1029...
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#OtD 22 Jul 1895 musician August Agbola O'Browne, the only Black person believed to have participated in the 1944 anti-Nazi Warsaw uprising, was born in Lagos, Nigeria. He fought under the codename "Ali" in the Iwo battalion, and later moved to Britain stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9481...
July 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
#OtD 22 Jul 1895 musician August Agbola O'Browne, the only Black person believed to have participated in the 1944 anti-Nazi Warsaw uprising, was born in Lagos, Nigeria. He fought under the codename "Ali" in the Iwo battalion, and later moved to Britain stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9481...
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#OtD 19 Jul 1936 a crowd freed the prisoners at the women's prison in the Carrer de la Reina Amàlia, Barcelona, Spain, and the anarchist women's organisation Mujeres Libres decided to demolish the building; it was torn down in August workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e...
July 19, 2025 at 6:40 AM
#OtD 19 Jul 1936 a crowd freed the prisoners at the women's prison in the Carrer de la Reina Amàlia, Barcelona, Spain, and the anarchist women's organisation Mujeres Libres decided to demolish the building; it was torn down in August workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e...
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#OtD 17 Jul 1921 workers in Civitavecchia, Italy, set up a local battalion of the militant anti-fascist group the Arditi del Popolo. Maritime, coal, and cement workers formed the backbone of the org, which kept fascists at bay for several months stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8890...
July 17, 2025 at 10:55 AM
#OtD 17 Jul 1921 workers in Civitavecchia, Italy, set up a local battalion of the militant anti-fascist group the Arditi del Popolo. Maritime, coal, and cement workers formed the backbone of the org, which kept fascists at bay for several months stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8890...
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#OtD 4 Jul 1913 Black Spanish Civil War fighter, concentration camp survivor and electrician, Carlos Greykey, was born in Equatorial Guinea. He moved to Barcelona, fought against fascism, then fought the Nazis in France, then survived Mauthausen. More: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1043...
July 4, 2025 at 10:55 AM
#OtD 4 Jul 1913 Black Spanish Civil War fighter, concentration camp survivor and electrician, Carlos Greykey, was born in Equatorial Guinea. He moved to Barcelona, fought against fascism, then fought the Nazis in France, then survived Mauthausen. More: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1043...
Greta Thunberg isn't brave.
It's that we are cowards.
It's that we are cowards.
June 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Greta Thunberg isn't brave.
It's that we are cowards.
It's that we are cowards.
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#OtD 21 May 1914 around 200 suffragettes descended on Buckingham Palace, London, to give a petition to the king demanding votes for women. They battled 2000 police. 60 women and 2 men were arrested, most of whom were later imprisoned. Commemorated here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
May 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
#OtD 21 May 1914 around 200 suffragettes descended on Buckingham Palace, London, to give a petition to the king demanding votes for women. They battled 2000 police. 60 women and 2 men were arrested, most of whom were later imprisoned. Commemorated here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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#OtD 21 May 1913 a bomb exploded at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh, Scotland, set by suffragettes. It caused no casualties but caused some damage. A note was left reading: “How beggarly appears argument before defiant deed. Votes for women.”' stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9413...
May 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
#OtD 21 May 1913 a bomb exploded at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh, Scotland, set by suffragettes. It caused no casualties but caused some damage. A note was left reading: “How beggarly appears argument before defiant deed. Votes for women.”' stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9413...
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#OtD 19 May 1918 the Hungarian 6th infantry regiment of Ujvideck at Pecs refused to go to the trenches. Instead they attacked the barracks and municipal buildings and cut telephone wires before occupying the railway station, resisting for 3 days stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9126...
May 19, 2025 at 10:55 AM
#OtD 19 May 1918 the Hungarian 6th infantry regiment of Ujvideck at Pecs refused to go to the trenches. Instead they attacked the barracks and municipal buildings and cut telephone wires before occupying the railway station, resisting for 3 days stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9126...
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#OtD 29 Apr 1945 the body of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was dumped in Milan's Piazzale Loreto, where partisans were massacred by the Gestapo the previous year. His body was attacked by the crowd until it was hung up. More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-...
April 29, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Did he uncover the pedophiles in the organization?
Did he give back the wealth they stole from indigenous and poor people?
No? Then fuck him.
youtu.be/ifl8mCM2SZ8?...
Did he give back the wealth they stole from indigenous and poor people?
No? Then fuck him.
youtu.be/ifl8mCM2SZ8?...
Nuclear Assault - Hang the Pope (Live)
YouTube video by Andres Camino
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April 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Did he uncover the pedophiles in the organization?
Did he give back the wealth they stole from indigenous and poor people?
No? Then fuck him.
youtu.be/ifl8mCM2SZ8?...
Did he give back the wealth they stole from indigenous and poor people?
No? Then fuck him.
youtu.be/ifl8mCM2SZ8?...
So while you were screaming about trans people playing in sports you never watch, drag queen story hours for kids you don't have, pride parades in cities you never visit, a bunch of white, straight men wrecked the world economy in just a couple of weeks.
Was the taste of liberal tears worth it?
Was the taste of liberal tears worth it?
April 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
So while you were screaming about trans people playing in sports you never watch, drag queen story hours for kids you don't have, pride parades in cities you never visit, a bunch of white, straight men wrecked the world economy in just a couple of weeks.
Was the taste of liberal tears worth it?
Was the taste of liberal tears worth it?
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#OtD 14 Apr 1816 using the temporary freedom from work and cover of permitted gathering for festivities, enslaved people in Barbados rose up on the night of Easter Sunday in what became known as Bussa's rebellion stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8535/bussa’s-rebellion
April 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
#OtD 14 Apr 1816 using the temporary freedom from work and cover of permitted gathering for festivities, enslaved people in Barbados rose up on the night of Easter Sunday in what became known as Bussa's rebellion stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8535/bussa’s-rebellion