#OtD 28 Feb 1921 revolutionary sailors aboard two battleships in Kronstadt, Russia approved a 15-point declaration following the repression of strikes in Petrograd by the Bolsheviks, demanding the gains of the revolution be protected stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9994...
I've had the pleasure of playtesting Taylor's game 3 times the last few years. So excited for this to be published and for people to engage with the challenge of car-free transit.
The "Land and Freedom" boardgame on Rally the Troops.
What a great way to start the weekend, playing Land and Freedom with Natalia and @pijusk.bsky.social and catching up on all things #wargaming!
I will blame the communists for our loss who were obvisouly more concerned with the counter-revolution rather than fighting the fascists in the south.😜
#OtD 20 Feb 1895 Black abolitionist and advocate for women's rights who escaped slavery, Frederick Douglass, died in Washington DC aged 77. More information, sources and map: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1119...
#OtD 16 Feb 1936 left-wing Popular Front won elections in Spain. But in five years of the republic, Morocco was never freed from colonial domination. The Republic eventually paid for this when Franco used Moorish troops against them in the Civil War stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8777...
#OtD 15 Feb 1851 African-Americans and abolitionists (including Lewis Hayden, pictured) raided a Boston court to rescue imprisoned runaway enslaved person, Frederick Jenkins, and smuggled him to freedom in Canada stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8659...
For me one of most powerful military photographs (as opposed to civilians etc) of Spanish Civil War. Three Republican soldiers by Robert Capa looking through ruined Governer's Palace during freezing Battle of Teruel, 3 Jan 1938. Published 5 days' later in Ce Soir as in 2nd image
Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text
@joedewhurst.bsky.social and I are play testing The Nights of King Ludd today. A manufacturer was assassinated, oaths were broken, signal rockets were fired ... but Fortune did not favor us this time. In the end, only one Mill was left smoldering, our compatriots banished to exile in Australia.
#OtD 4 Feb 1892 Catalan communist and son of a shoemaker Andreu Nin was born in Tarragona. He was later a leading figure in the Spanish civil war, during which he was arrested and executed under the supervision of Russian NKVD agents stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1042...
We have eleven badges left for Circle DC, April 10-12, 2026. We would love to see YOU there but you will need to grab a badge ASAP!
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Here are my most anticipated historical board games to be released in 2026!
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With Minneapolis on my mind, here some time and place in the good state of Minnesota, a freight wagon tagged with "Abe Lincoln Brigade" in remembrance of the 2800 Americans who fought against fascism in Spain in the International Brigades. Artist is Impeach Alb.
BBC/Granada series on the Spanish Civil War includes interviews with some living participants. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#OtD 3 Jan 1994 Jewish Ukrainian revolutionary, Leah Feldman, died in London. Born in 1899, she joined the Makhnovist army in Ukraine, raised money for the anti-Nazi resistance in Germany and joined the Spanish resistance to Franco stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1070...
Happy New Year! The Players Aid is an essential resource for anyone interested in historical games, and they just published an interview we did covering my game on the Russian Civil War. 😊
Our interview with Alex Knight designer of Hammer and Sickle: Hunger and Utopia in the Russian Civil War, 1918-1921 from GMT Games. theplayersaid.com/2025/12/29/i...
#OtD 25 Dec 1837 the Africans and Native Americans who formed Florida's Seminole nation defeated a vastly superior US invading army bent on cracking this early rainbow coalition and returning the Africans to slavery stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9721...
#OtD 21 Dec 1919 Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman were deported from the US alongside 247 fellow worker activists, anarchists and radicals on board the SS Buford bound for Russia stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9360...
Infographic by @fbiodiversidad.bsky.social showing the continued remarkable recovery of Iberian lynx, up to 2,401 animals last year. Catalonia with pressure from reactionary farmers is not stepping up in bringing back this beautiful native feline.
Basque republican troops, Boga-boga company, with their Ikurriña flag. Monte de San Pedro, 15 December 1936. Mainly EAJ-PNV members, many fishermen. I don't know original photographer. Beautifully colourised by Julius Backman on Instgm
#OtD 7 Dec 1928 Noam Chomsky, legendary American linguist, radical, social critic, activist and member of the @IWW union was born in Philadelphia. Chomsky contributed the foreword for our first book, available here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/wor...
#OtD 5 Dec 1955 the Montgomery bus boycott began, four days after arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to vacate her seat in the "coloured" section of a segregated bus to a white passenger. The successful campaign helped spur the civil rights movement stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1050...
#OtD 2 Dec 1859 US abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia for his leadership in a plot to incite an armed rebellion against slavery stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1265...
Can't wait to dig into this Summit Award winner! @djackthompson.bsky.social @sdhistcon.bsky.social
#OtD 26 Nov 1920 the Red Army attacked its allies, the Makhnovists in Ukraine, after the latter defeated the Whites. Russian troops attacked in Crimea and Huliaipole, and arrested and executed many. Rebel leader Nestor Makhno managed to escape. More: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
#batalladores2025. Tierra y libertad de @alexknight.bsky.social. Victoria anarquista. #boardgames
#OtD 20 Nov 1975 Spain's fascist dictator, General Franco, whose 1936 coup led to the Spanish Civil War, died. He killed 150-400k people. After his death, a workers' assembly and strike movement escalated as militant workers encountered democracy: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9316...
Photo report by Robert Capa on Republican prisoners at the Argeles camp in France, March 1939. "Miguel Largo is a Catalan peasant. He thought once to have passed his life peacefully on the strip of land his family have cultivated for generations. Now he's living in a hole in the sand."
#OtD 12 Nov 1918 in Kursk, Ukraine, a conference began which led to the formation of the Nabat Confederation, one of the most important anarchist groups in the world at that time stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8428...
