Nothing like the sun

[nobrashfestivity]

Louise Bourgeois, 2006

more

[nobrashfestivity]

Huang-Rui

Oil on Canvas

[bolshevikforever]

two legends;

Fidel Castro and Malcom X

September 24,1960

at the historic Hotel Theresa in Harlem,New York

[bolshevikforever]

a 1950's american advertisement depicting a woman opening a bottle,treating basic competence as surprising for women and jokes that they normally need a man for simple household tasks

a 1955 soviet poster by artist Nina Vatolina,presenting glory to the soviet woman, as a competent, equal political actor and a deputy who serves the people.

[probablyasocialecologist]

Israel deliberately starting wildfires in southern Lebanon, firefighters say

Emergency services, residents and environmental groups say military dropping flares to destroy forests and crops

Firefighters and residents of south Lebanon have accused the Israeli military of lighting wildfires in the region, as forested areas burned down in blazes sparked by Israeli bombing. Environmental groups said the fires in recent weeks were part of a longstanding Israeli practice of targeting Lebanon’s natural environment. On Tuesday, the Israeli military dropped flares in a wooded area outside Khiam, in south Lebanon, sparking blazes. When firefighters attempted to extinguish the flames, a drone struck close by, forcing them to withdraw, said the head of the civil defence in the Nabatieh region, Hussein Fakih. “Most of our missions are now related to fires,” Fakih said. “There are enormous areas of woodland that have burned, I don’t have the exact figures, but in the areas close to the [frontline], around 30-40% of the land has been affected by fires.” The Israeli military has caused fires across south Lebanon, in particular in olive groves and on agricultural land, according to videos and testimony from emergency services, in the nearly two-months since the 17 June ceasefire that mostly ended fighting between Hezbollah and Israel.

[...]

According to environmental groups, the fires are part of a pattern of Israeli attacks against Lebanon’s environment that threaten the country’s woodlands and the biodiversity they support. Hisham Younes, the founder of Green Southerners, a Lebanese conservation organisation, said: “These are long-established woodlands, dominated by productive stone pine alongside oak. They perform critical functions. The wider area is also an important passage and resting ground for migratory birds.” Younes called the Israeli attacks an ecocide. “It is not about any single fire or attack, but a pattern of destruction that progressively erodes the ability of ecosystems to function, regenerate and sustain life. When those cascading effects also undermine livelihoods and people’s ability to return to and remain on their land, environmental destruction becomes inseparable from the wider transformation of the territory itself.”

[...]

It is not the first time Israeli forces have been reported to have set fires deliberately.In the summer of 2024, Israeli troops used trebuchets – medieval catapults – to fling flaming debris over its border wall with Lebanon, while the Lebanese army published photos of Israeli drones that carried hoses that doused forests in flammable materials. Health and environmental experts raised the alarm in February when Israeli planes dropped herbicides linked to cancer on farms in south Lebanon. Besides the environmental and health consequences of these fires, residents of south Lebanon have mourned the loss of the green spaces in the villages where they grew up.

12 August 2026

[kropotkindersurprise]

Why is Fidel Castro considered a hero across much of Africa?

Sean Jacobs explains how the former Cuban leader supported anti-colonial struggles and helped defeat South Africa's apartheid army in Namibia and Angola. [video]

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

May the ideology of plunder vanish, and the ideology of war will vanish too! May colonies disappear, may the exploitation of countries by monopolies disappear, and then humanity will have reached a true stage of progress! #FidelDijo #100AñosConFidel

Via Second Marquetalia - Bolivarian Army (Colombia)

[phobic-human]

Fidel Castro with fellow revolutionary rebels in Cuba, 1959.

(Photo credit: Universal History Archive)

[kvetchlandia]

Uncredited Photographer     German Revolutionary Karl Liebknecht Addressing a Crowd, Possibly During the Failed Spartakist Uprising, Berlin     c.1919

“For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.” Karl Liebknecht

As the Spartakist Uprising was being suppressed, Karl Liebknecht and his comrade and friend, Rosa Luxemburg, were murdered by the right wing Freikorps, many of whom soon became Nazis, at the behest of the Social Democrat Gustav Noske.

[hagiomoto]

[occidentalist]

There is a reason zionists are always at the scene of the crime barking like good dogs running cover for whatever imperialist project is currently being carried out every single time and without fail. Even the ones who like to masquerade as ‘progressive’ or ‘leftist’ or ‘decolonial’ zionists(as if you can be a decolonial coloniser in any serious capacity lol), even when they’re larping as the kind of people who might oppose imperialism, they are, as zionists, well aware that the zionist political project would have been impossible without imperialism, and its continued existence is entirely materially dependent on the continued political, military and economic dominance of the imperial core. So even if they’ll pay lip service to being opposed to imperialism as a nebulous, definition-free concept(<- usually to manufacture consent against Russia or the PRC), they understand that the actual imperialists are not merely convenient allies but the political force whose support makes the very existence of their emotional support ethnosupremacist colony possible.

They have an active and vested interest in the imperialists winning.

[athena5898]

(The Cradle)

Former Israeli occupation soldier now US police officer

Mexican-US native Melina Suarez abruptly left a personal vacation in October 2023 to enlist as a combat search and rescue occupation soldier in the Israeli army during the ongoing genocide in Gaza, according to Roya News.

During her deployment, Suarez spearheaded community fundraising campaigns in Oregon to amass military supplies for fellow occupation troops and drew widespread public attention after appearing in a photograph proudly displaying a prayer bead looted from a destroyed Palestinian home in Gaza.

Following her active military service, Suarez returned to the US and secured employment as a police officer with the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Police Department in Oregon.

[mysharona1987]

Shocking, how laughing and bragging about your war crimes on Instagram could end badly for you.

Like, most criminals are generally dumb.

I've heard enough True crime podcasts to understand that.

[nevver]

Staring at the Sun, Mirko Ilić

[fromthedust]

Robert A. McCabe (American, b.1934)

McCabe started taking photographs in 1939 with a Kodak Brownie given to him by his father, who published a tabloid newspaper in New York. He first visited Greece in 1954 and fell in love with it.

Rhodes - 1954

Sounion - The Temple of Poseidon

Sounion - 1955

Lindos - 1954

Mycenae - 1955

Kos - The Castle of the Knights - 1954

Santorini. Dust from the pumice quarries

[2seeitall]

Head of Aphrodite

Copy of 5th c. B.C. original. From the ancient Theatre at Corinth, 2nd c. A.C.

Archaeological Museum of Corinth, Greece

[nobrashfestivity]

The Guennol Stargazer, Anatolian marble female idol of Kiliya type, Chalcolithic period, circaa 3000 – 2200 b.c.

Unfortunately owned by a hedge fund manager after Turkey sued him and lost. Go steal it

[7pleiades7]

Garden Fresco, Villa of Livia – 30-20 BCE