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the orcas sunk another yacht in the strait of Gibraltar on Sunday. this time it was a 49 foot (15 metre) vessel. there have been over 700 incidents since May 2020 and in Spain, there's reports of them happening "daily." at least one species is attempting to put the rich at the bottom of the ocean and i think that's neat.

Elizabeth Kirkman Fitzhugh, Militant Mary

November 13, 1914

Helen Mcfarlane was a radical journalist, admired by Karl Marx, who was the first translator of the Communist Manifesto into English. But why did she vanish from history?

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a period drama must be in want of a feisty heroine who finds love at last.

But our heroine, Helen Macfarlane was no fictional character and her life would have shocked Jane Austen's smocks off.

Helen was the very first translator of the Communist Manifesto. Not the one we know today, but a version that carries her own unique voice.

Her version begins: "A frightful hobgoblin stalks throughout Europe. We are haunted by a ghost, the ghost of Communism..."

She was moonlighting as a revolutionary journalist, writing under the male pen-name 'Howard Morton' in the fiery pages of 'The Red Republican', one of the very earliest Socialist newspapers.

Socialist Worker

Helen Macfarlane—hobgoblins, spectres and the fight for working class independence

We shouldn’t forget the life and work of Scottish revolutionary socialist Helen Macfarlane, writes Judy Cox

Just a reminder for people who may not know, in light of protestors at UCLA being shot in the face with rubber bullets— rubber bullets are not bullets made of rubber. They are metal bullets encased in rubber.

Despite being called “non-lethal” or sometimes “less lethal”, they are well known to cause death and permanent disability.

Here’s a photo showing their size— these are actual rubber bullets used during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.

Do not let them downplay the severity of what they are subjecting this students to for standing against genocide. Stay safe and stay educated.

Deliberate actions caused by and funded through Biden