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Monday, September 14, 2026
Ukraine's missile gap: Kyiv's struggle to close the ballistic divide . . . . . Poland warns of real threat after Russian drones strike Ukraine ~ 1 mile of its border . . . . . Russia admits it is striking 'everything and anything' in Ukraine . . . . . and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/09/monday-september-14-2026/
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Monday, September 14, 2026
Ukraine's missile gap: Kyiv's struggle to close the ballistic divide . . . . . Poland warns of real threat after Russian drones strike Ukraine ~ 1 mile of its border . . . . . Russia admits it is striking 'everything and anything' in Ukraine . . . . . and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/09/monday-september-14-2026/
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Monday, September 14, 2026
Ukraine's missile gap: Kyiv's struggle to close the ballistic divide . . . . . Poland warns of real threat after Russian drones strike Ukraine ~ 1 mile of its border . . . . . Russia admits it is striking 'everything and anything' in Ukraine . . . . . and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/09/monday-september-14-2026/
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Monday, September 14, 2026
Ukraine's missile gap: Kyiv's struggle to close the ballistic divide . . . . . Poland warns of real threat after Russian drones strike Ukraine ~ 1 mile of its border . . . . . Russia admits it is striking 'everything and anything' in Ukraine . . . . . and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/09/monday-september-14-2026/
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Monday, September 14, 2026
Ukraine's missile gap: Kyiv's struggle to close the ballistic divide . . . . . Poland warns of real threat after Russian drones strike Ukraine ~ 1 mile of its border . . . . . Russia admits it is striking 'everything and anything' in Ukraine . . . . . and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/09/monday-september-14-2026/
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The U.S. Military Is in a Historic Crisis. Good!
"Trump’s war on Iran has exposed the dismal state of U.S. military power. The Left should exploit that crisis by turning anti-war sentiments into anti-imperialist conclusions.
Most importantly, however, the goal of an anti-war movement should not be to persuade the bipartisan regime to lower its military budget or pursue a more humane foreign policy.
U.S. warmongering is not the product of poor policy decisions or politicians not feeling enough pressure from voters. The wars and militarism are the product of a capitalist system that incentivizes countries to wage war in service of their capitalists’ interests.
Actually bringing an end to constant war and militarism requires bringing an end to this very system.
The Iran war is just one example in a world situation that includes Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent proxy war, Israel’s genocide in Gaza and other offensives in pursuit of a “Greater Israel,” Trump’s “Donroe Doctrine” in Latin America, the rearmament of imperialist powers like Germany and Japan, and China’s rise as an economic and military challenger to U.S. hegemony.
Fortunately, that system has never been weaker. Let an anti-imperialist movement show what real “generational damage” to the war machine looks like."
https://www.leftvoice.org/us-military-historic-crisis/
#imperialism #capitalism #USA #Iranwar #military #politics #ICE #Palestine #latinamerica -
The U.S. Military Is in a Historic Crisis. Good!
"Trump’s war on Iran has exposed the dismal state of U.S. military power. The Left should exploit that crisis by turning anti-war sentiments into anti-imperialist conclusions.
Most importantly, however, the goal of an anti-war movement should not be to persuade the bipartisan regime to lower its military budget or pursue a more humane foreign policy.
U.S. warmongering is not the product of poor policy decisions or politicians not feeling enough pressure from voters. The wars and militarism are the product of a capitalist system that incentivizes countries to wage war in service of their capitalists’ interests.
Actually bringing an end to constant war and militarism requires bringing an end to this very system.
The Iran war is just one example in a world situation that includes Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent proxy war, Israel’s genocide in Gaza and other offensives in pursuit of a “Greater Israel,” Trump’s “Donroe Doctrine” in Latin America, the rearmament of imperialist powers like Germany and Japan, and China’s rise as an economic and military challenger to U.S. hegemony.
Fortunately, that system has never been weaker. Let an anti-imperialist movement show what real “generational damage” to the war machine looks like."
https://www.leftvoice.org/us-military-historic-crisis/
#imperialism #capitalism #USA #Iranwar #military #politics #ICE #Palestine #latinamerica -
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#southamerica #chiquita #usa #immigration #foreignintervention #imperialism #colonialism #fascism #dictTORSHIP #puppetregime #unionization #oligarchy #broligarchy #aristocracy #kakistocracy #plutocracy #criminal #crime #corrupt #traitor #corruption #treason #news #usnews #globalnews #policy #politics #uspol #uspolitics #globalpolitics #history #ushistory #worldshitory
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#southamerica #chiquita #usa #immigration #foreignintervention #imperialism #colonialism #fascism #dictTORSHIP #puppetregime #unionization #oligarchy #broligarchy #aristocracy #kakistocracy #plutocracy #criminal #crime #corrupt #traitor #corruption #treason #news #usnews #globalnews #policy #politics #uspol #uspolitics #globalpolitics #history #ushistory #worldshitory
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#southamerica #chiquita #usa #immigration #foreignintervention #imperialism #colonialism #fascism #dictTORSHIP #puppetregime #unionization #oligarchy #broligarchy #aristocracy #kakistocracy #plutocracy #criminal #crime #corrupt #traitor #corruption #treason #news #usnews #globalnews #policy #politics #uspol #uspolitics #globalpolitics #history #ushistory #worldshitory
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#southamerica #chiquita #usa #immigration #foreignintervention #imperialism #colonialism #fascism #dictTORSHIP #puppetregime #unionization #oligarchy #broligarchy #aristocracy #kakistocracy #plutocracy #criminal #crime #corrupt #traitor #corruption #treason #news #usnews #globalnews #policy #politics #uspol #uspolitics #globalpolitics #history #ushistory #worldshitory
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Western/European media channel: "Who can stop the Houthis?"
Me: LOL. My dude, I'm rooting for the Houthis. Get on the right side of this conflict. Oppose Western Imperialism.
I'm rooting for Iran and the Houthis. Western Imperialsim is long overdue to be overthrown.
#Iran #War #Energy #Oil #US #Imperialism #Capitalism #Europe #Houthis #Politics
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Putin would rather keep killing than admit he’s lost. As a winter of misery looms in Ukraine, Nato must step in | Simon Tisdall | The Guardian
> The Russian leader is ploughing on with his forever war – and each day is a crime against humanity. Western democracies cannot simply sit on their hands, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
And it's impossible to imagine that if he “wins” that he won't regroup and attack more people. Emperors don't do that.
Or that there will be peace in Ukraine. Those people have shown they will keep fighting.
Like Palestine, or whoever Trump picks on next.
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Putin would rather keep killing than admit he’s lost. As a winter of misery looms in Ukraine, Nato must step in | Simon Tisdall | The Guardian
> The Russian leader is ploughing on with his forever war – and each day is a crime against humanity. Western democracies cannot simply sit on their hands, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
And it's impossible to imagine that if he “wins” that he won't regroup and attack more people. Emperors don't do that.
Or that there will be peace in Ukraine. Those people have shown they will keep fighting.
Like Palestine, or whoever Trump picks on next.
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Putin would rather keep killing than admit he’s lost. As a winter of misery looms in Ukraine, Nato must step in | Simon Tisdall | The Guardian
> The Russian leader is ploughing on with his forever war – and each day is a crime against humanity. Western democracies cannot simply sit on their hands, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
And it's impossible to imagine that if he “wins” that he won't regroup and attack more people. Emperors don't do that.
Or that there will be peace in Ukraine. Those people have shown they will keep fighting.
Like Palestine, or whoever Trump picks on next.
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Putin would rather keep killing than admit he’s lost. As a winter of misery looms in Ukraine, Nato must step in | Simon Tisdall | The Guardian
> The Russian leader is ploughing on with his forever war – and each day is a crime against humanity. Western democracies cannot simply sit on their hands, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
And it's impossible to imagine that if he “wins” that he won't regroup and attack more people. Emperors don't do that.
Or that there will be peace in Ukraine. Those people have shown they will keep fighting.
Like Palestine, or whoever Trump picks on next.
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Putin would rather keep killing than admit he’s lost. As a winter of misery looms in Ukraine, Nato must step in | Simon Tisdall | The Guardian
> The Russian leader is ploughing on with his forever war – and each day is a crime against humanity. Western democracies cannot simply sit on their hands, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
And it's impossible to imagine that if he “wins” that he won't regroup and attack more people. Emperors don't do that.
Or that there will be peace in Ukraine. Those people have shown they will keep fighting.
Like Palestine, or whoever Trump picks on next.
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For the #silentsunday let's bring forward the silent return of one of the most cruel means of destruction by the modern capitalist States.
"Back to the killing fields? Anti-personnel mines return from the dustbin of history" https://www.alternatives-humanitaires.org/en/2026/03/31/back-to-the-killing-fields-anti-personnel-mines-return-from-the-dustbin-of-history/
Feeling threatened by the expansionism of their powerful neighbour – which is using anti-personnel mines on a large scale in its war against #Ukraine – #Poland, #Finland, #Lithuania, #Latvia and #Estonia have confirmed their disastrous decision to turn their back on the #OttawaTreaty. As regards Ukraine itself, the country has announced its intention to suspend its ratification of the treaty. As warfare surges in an increasingly lawless world, these ill-fated choices will inevitably be a death sentence for many civilians.
Alas, the unthinkable is now happening.
Humanity’s propensity for self-destruction is as old as the history of warfare, mitigated only by attempts to regulate armed hostilities to protect non-combatants. What was once called the “landmine epidemic” – which peaked in the 1980s and 1990s with nearly 30,000 new victims each year – was one of its most insidious and barbaric manifestations, but also one of the most ignored or neglected.
By signing the treaty, Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Ukraine had solemnly committed to “never, under any circumstances […] use anti-personnel mines” nor “develop, produce, otherwise acquire, stockpile, retain or transfer to anyone, directly or indirectly, antipersonnel mines” (Article. 1 of the Ottawa Treaty).
Withdrawing from the treaty or suspending obligations in regard to it are a blatant breach of the good faith that is vital among the signatory states, with immense symbolic and practical repercussions. Beyond being an insult to the treaty’s other parties, this renunciation will be endured – by the more than 600,000 survivors of these weapons worldwide and the families of those who did not survive – as a betrayal and an open wound, since it was explicitly in their name that states pledged to eliminate anti-personnel mines from their arsenals.
#FuckTheWarmongers #CrimesAgainstHumanity #war #imperialism #nato #InternationalHumanitarianLaw
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For the #silentsunday let's bring forward the silent return of one of the most cruel means of destruction by the modern capitalist States.
"Back to the killing fields? Anti-personnel mines return from the dustbin of history" https://www.alternatives-humanitaires.org/en/2026/03/31/back-to-the-killing-fields-anti-personnel-mines-return-from-the-dustbin-of-history/
Feeling threatened by the expansionism of their powerful neighbour – which is using anti-personnel mines on a large scale in its war against #Ukraine – #Poland, #Finland, #Lithuania, #Latvia and #Estonia have confirmed their disastrous decision to turn their back on the #OttawaTreaty. As regards Ukraine itself, the country has announced its intention to suspend its ratification of the treaty. As warfare surges in an increasingly lawless world, these ill-fated choices will inevitably be a death sentence for many civilians.
Alas, the unthinkable is now happening.
Humanity’s propensity for self-destruction is as old as the history of warfare, mitigated only by attempts to regulate armed hostilities to protect non-combatants. What was once called the “landmine epidemic” – which peaked in the 1980s and 1990s with nearly 30,000 new victims each year – was one of its most insidious and barbaric manifestations, but also one of the most ignored or neglected.
By signing the treaty, Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Ukraine had solemnly committed to “never, under any circumstances […] use anti-personnel mines” nor “develop, produce, otherwise acquire, stockpile, retain or transfer to anyone, directly or indirectly, antipersonnel mines” (Article. 1 of the Ottawa Treaty).
Withdrawing from the treaty or suspending obligations in regard to it are a blatant breach of the good faith that is vital among the signatory states, with immense symbolic and practical repercussions. Beyond being an insult to the treaty’s other parties, this renunciation will be endured – by the more than 600,000 survivors of these weapons worldwide and the families of those who did not survive – as a betrayal and an open wound, since it was explicitly in their name that states pledged to eliminate anti-personnel mines from their arsenals.
#FuckTheWarmongers #CrimesAgainstHumanity #war #imperialism #nato #InternationalHumanitarianLaw
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For the #silentsunday let's bring forward the silent return of one of the most cruel means of destruction by the modern capitalist States.
"Back to the killing fields? Anti-personnel mines return from the dustbin of history" https://www.alternatives-humanitaires.org/en/2026/03/31/back-to-the-killing-fields-anti-personnel-mines-return-from-the-dustbin-of-history/
Feeling threatened by the expansionism of their powerful neighbour – which is using anti-personnel mines on a large scale in its war against #Ukraine – #Poland, #Finland, #Lithuania, #Latvia and #Estonia have confirmed their disastrous decision to turn their back on the #OttawaTreaty. As regards Ukraine itself, the country has announced its intention to suspend its ratification of the treaty. As warfare surges in an increasingly lawless world, these ill-fated choices will inevitably be a death sentence for many civilians.
Alas, the unthinkable is now happening.
Humanity’s propensity for self-destruction is as old as the history of warfare, mitigated only by attempts to regulate armed hostilities to protect non-combatants. What was once called the “landmine epidemic” – which peaked in the 1980s and 1990s with nearly 30,000 new victims each year – was one of its most insidious and barbaric manifestations, but also one of the most ignored or neglected.
By signing the treaty, Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Ukraine had solemnly committed to “never, under any circumstances […] use anti-personnel mines” nor “develop, produce, otherwise acquire, stockpile, retain or transfer to anyone, directly or indirectly, antipersonnel mines” (Article. 1 of the Ottawa Treaty).
Withdrawing from the treaty or suspending obligations in regard to it are a blatant breach of the good faith that is vital among the signatory states, with immense symbolic and practical repercussions. Beyond being an insult to the treaty’s other parties, this renunciation will be endured – by the more than 600,000 survivors of these weapons worldwide and the families of those who did not survive – as a betrayal and an open wound, since it was explicitly in their name that states pledged to eliminate anti-personnel mines from their arsenals.
#FuckTheWarmongers #CrimesAgainstHumanity #war #imperialism #nato #InternationalHumanitarianLaw
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For the #silentsunday let's bring forward the silent return of one of the most cruel means of destruction by the modern capitalist States.
"Back to the killing fields? Anti-personnel mines return from the dustbin of history" https://www.alternatives-humanitaires.org/en/2026/03/31/back-to-the-killing-fields-anti-personnel-mines-return-from-the-dustbin-of-history/
Feeling threatened by the expansionism of their powerful neighbour – which is using anti-personnel mines on a large scale in its war against #Ukraine – #Poland, #Finland, #Lithuania, #Latvia and #Estonia have confirmed their disastrous decision to turn their back on the #OttawaTreaty. As regards Ukraine itself, the country has announced its intention to suspend its ratification of the treaty. As warfare surges in an increasingly lawless world, these ill-fated choices will inevitably be a death sentence for many civilians.
Alas, the unthinkable is now happening.
Humanity’s propensity for self-destruction is as old as the history of warfare, mitigated only by attempts to regulate armed hostilities to protect non-combatants. What was once called the “landmine epidemic” – which peaked in the 1980s and 1990s with nearly 30,000 new victims each year – was one of its most insidious and barbaric manifestations, but also one of the most ignored or neglected.
By signing the treaty, Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Ukraine had solemnly committed to “never, under any circumstances […] use anti-personnel mines” nor “develop, produce, otherwise acquire, stockpile, retain or transfer to anyone, directly or indirectly, antipersonnel mines” (Article. 1 of the Ottawa Treaty).
Withdrawing from the treaty or suspending obligations in regard to it are a blatant breach of the good faith that is vital among the signatory states, with immense symbolic and practical repercussions. Beyond being an insult to the treaty’s other parties, this renunciation will be endured – by the more than 600,000 survivors of these weapons worldwide and the families of those who did not survive – as a betrayal and an open wound, since it was explicitly in their name that states pledged to eliminate anti-personnel mines from their arsenals.
#FuckTheWarmongers #CrimesAgainstHumanity #war #imperialism #nato #InternationalHumanitarianLaw
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For the #silentsunday let's bring forward the silent return of one of the most cruel means of destruction by the modern capitalist States.
"Back to the killing fields? Anti-personnel mines return from the dustbin of history" https://www.alternatives-humanitaires.org/en/2026/03/31/back-to-the-killing-fields-anti-personnel-mines-return-from-the-dustbin-of-history/
Feeling threatened by the expansionism of their powerful neighbour – which is using anti-personnel mines on a large scale in its war against #Ukraine – #Poland, #Finland, #Lithuania, #Latvia and #Estonia have confirmed their disastrous decision to turn their back on the #OttawaTreaty. As regards Ukraine itself, the country has announced its intention to suspend its ratification of the treaty. As warfare surges in an increasingly lawless world, these ill-fated choices will inevitably be a death sentence for many civilians.
Alas, the unthinkable is now happening.
Humanity’s propensity for self-destruction is as old as the history of warfare, mitigated only by attempts to regulate armed hostilities to protect non-combatants. What was once called the “landmine epidemic” – which peaked in the 1980s and 1990s with nearly 30,000 new victims each year – was one of its most insidious and barbaric manifestations, but also one of the most ignored or neglected.
By signing the treaty, Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Ukraine had solemnly committed to “never, under any circumstances […] use anti-personnel mines” nor “develop, produce, otherwise acquire, stockpile, retain or transfer to anyone, directly or indirectly, antipersonnel mines” (Article. 1 of the Ottawa Treaty).
Withdrawing from the treaty or suspending obligations in regard to it are a blatant breach of the good faith that is vital among the signatory states, with immense symbolic and practical repercussions. Beyond being an insult to the treaty’s other parties, this renunciation will be endured – by the more than 600,000 survivors of these weapons worldwide and the families of those who did not survive – as a betrayal and an open wound, since it was explicitly in their name that states pledged to eliminate anti-personnel mines from their arsenals.
#FuckTheWarmongers #CrimesAgainstHumanity #war #imperialism #nato #InternationalHumanitarianLaw
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Sunday, September 13, 2026
Russian attacks kill 11, injure 96 across Ukraine as Odesa comes under mass overnight strike . . . . . Hybrid War Probe: Explosion at Bulgarian ammunition depot supplying Ukraine sparks massive fire . . . . . Russian region offers record $18,000 reward for recruiting foreigners to fight in Ukraine . . . . . and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/09/sunday-september-13-2026/
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Sunday, September 13, 2026
Russian attacks kill 11, injure 96 across Ukraine as Odesa comes under mass overnight strike . . . . . Hybrid War Probe: Explosion at Bulgarian ammunition depot supplying Ukraine sparks massive fire . . . . . Russian region offers record $18,000 reward for recruiting foreigners to fight in Ukraine . . . . . and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/09/sunday-september-13-2026/
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Sunday, September 13, 2026
Russian attacks kill 11, injure 96 across Ukraine as Odesa comes under mass overnight strike . . . . . Hybrid War Probe: Explosion at Bulgarian ammunition depot supplying Ukraine sparks massive fire . . . . . Russian region offers record $18,000 reward for recruiting foreigners to fight in Ukraine . . . . . and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/09/sunday-september-13-2026/
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Sunday, September 13, 2026
Russian attacks kill 11, injure 96 across Ukraine as Odesa comes under mass overnight strike . . . . . Hybrid War Probe: Explosion at Bulgarian ammunition depot supplying Ukraine sparks massive fire . . . . . Russian region offers record $18,000 reward for recruiting foreigners to fight in Ukraine . . . . . and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/09/sunday-september-13-2026/
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Sunday, September 13, 2026
Russian attacks kill 11, injure 96 across Ukraine as Odesa comes under mass overnight strike . . . . . Hybrid War Probe: Explosion at Bulgarian ammunition depot supplying Ukraine sparks massive fire . . . . . Russian region offers record $18,000 reward for recruiting foreigners to fight in Ukraine . . . . . and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/09/sunday-september-13-2026/
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@ajsadauskas Some more history from Wikipedia:
"The Parramatta Female Factory is a National Heritage Listed place and has three original sandstone buildings and the sandstone gaol walls. The Parramatta Female Factory was designed by convict architect Francis Greenway in 1818 and the only female building authorized by Governor Lachlan Macquarie. It comprises the 1821 Matron's Quarters and Administration and Stores Building, the 1821 Female Hospital and the 1826 3rd Class Female Penitentiary. It is the first female factory in the penal colony of New South Wales, and is located at 5 Fleet Street, North Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. It was one of 13 female factories in the colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land.
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"The factory was the destination for many of the convict women sent as prisoners to the colony of NSW. Over 9,000 names have been recorded as passing through the factories, of which an estimated 5,000 went through Parramatta.
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"The first stone was laid by Governor Macquarie in 1818 and the women were transferred from the old factory in 1821. The factory was built using convict labour from locally quarried sandstone and was completed in 1821 at the cost of £4,778.
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"The Parramatta Female Factory was multi-purpose. It was a place of assignment, a hospital, a marriage bureau, a factory, an asylum and a prison for those who committed a crime in the Colony. The reason it is called a factory is because it manufactured cloth - linen, wool and linsey woolsey. It was also the site of the colony's first manufactured export producing 60,000 yards (55,000 m) of woven cloth in 1822.The women also did spinning, knitting, straw plaiting, washing, cleaning duties and if in third class, rock breaking and oakum picking.
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"In October 1827, the factory was the site of women rioting as a response to a cut in rations and their poor conditions. The matron, Mrs Raine, had resigned and she had to be rescued. Ann Gordon began her work as the factory's new matron and superintendent with her first task being to negotiate with the women who had escaped from the building. She was able to persuade them to return, but the disputed ration of bread and sugar remained. In less than an hour over 100 women escaped en masse and proceeded into the town where 40 soldiers and the threat of guns brought them back. They returned with a plunder of foodstuffs and when the ringleaders were confined, they released them. This was the first of the riots. Other riots at the factory occurred in 1831, 1833, 1836 and 1843.
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"By 1842 the factory accommodated 1,203 women as well as children. With the end of convict transportation to the colony, in 1848 the site was reassigned as a Convict Lunatic and Invalid Asylum."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parramatta_Female_Factory
#history #AustralianHistory #Britain #colonialism #capitalism #imperialism #Australia #NSW -
@ajsadauskas Some more history from Wikipedia:
"The Parramatta Female Factory is a National Heritage Listed place and has three original sandstone buildings and the sandstone gaol walls. The Parramatta Female Factory was designed by convict architect Francis Greenway in 1818 and the only female building authorized by Governor Lachlan Macquarie. It comprises the 1821 Matron's Quarters and Administration and Stores Building, the 1821 Female Hospital and the 1826 3rd Class Female Penitentiary. It is the first female factory in the penal colony of New South Wales, and is located at 5 Fleet Street, North Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. It was one of 13 female factories in the colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land.
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"The factory was the destination for many of the convict women sent as prisoners to the colony of NSW. Over 9,000 names have been recorded as passing through the factories, of which an estimated 5,000 went through Parramatta.
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"The first stone was laid by Governor Macquarie in 1818 and the women were transferred from the old factory in 1821. The factory was built using convict labour from locally quarried sandstone and was completed in 1821 at the cost of £4,778.
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"The Parramatta Female Factory was multi-purpose. It was a place of assignment, a hospital, a marriage bureau, a factory, an asylum and a prison for those who committed a crime in the Colony. The reason it is called a factory is because it manufactured cloth - linen, wool and linsey woolsey. It was also the site of the colony's first manufactured export producing 60,000 yards (55,000 m) of woven cloth in 1822.The women also did spinning, knitting, straw plaiting, washing, cleaning duties and if in third class, rock breaking and oakum picking.
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"In October 1827, the factory was the site of women rioting as a response to a cut in rations and their poor conditions. The matron, Mrs Raine, had resigned and she had to be rescued. Ann Gordon began her work as the factory's new matron and superintendent with her first task being to negotiate with the women who had escaped from the building. She was able to persuade them to return, but the disputed ration of bread and sugar remained. In less than an hour over 100 women escaped en masse and proceeded into the town where 40 soldiers and the threat of guns brought them back. They returned with a plunder of foodstuffs and when the ringleaders were confined, they released them. This was the first of the riots. Other riots at the factory occurred in 1831, 1833, 1836 and 1843.
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"By 1842 the factory accommodated 1,203 women as well as children. With the end of convict transportation to the colony, in 1848 the site was reassigned as a Convict Lunatic and Invalid Asylum."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parramatta_Female_Factory
#history #AustralianHistory #Britain #colonialism #capitalism #imperialism #Australia #NSW -
@ajsadauskas Some more history from Wikipedia:
"The Parramatta Female Factory is a National Heritage Listed place and has three original sandstone buildings and the sandstone gaol walls. The Parramatta Female Factory was designed by convict architect Francis Greenway in 1818 and the only female building authorized by Governor Lachlan Macquarie. It comprises the 1821 Matron's Quarters and Administration and Stores Building, the 1821 Female Hospital and the 1826 3rd Class Female Penitentiary. It is the first female factory in the penal colony of New South Wales, and is located at 5 Fleet Street, North Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. It was one of 13 female factories in the colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land.
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"The factory was the destination for many of the convict women sent as prisoners to the colony of NSW. Over 9,000 names have been recorded as passing through the factories, of which an estimated 5,000 went through Parramatta.
...
"The first stone was laid by Governor Macquarie in 1818 and the women were transferred from the old factory in 1821. The factory was built using convict labour from locally quarried sandstone and was completed in 1821 at the cost of £4,778.
...
"The Parramatta Female Factory was multi-purpose. It was a place of assignment, a hospital, a marriage bureau, a factory, an asylum and a prison for those who committed a crime in the Colony. The reason it is called a factory is because it manufactured cloth - linen, wool and linsey woolsey. It was also the site of the colony's first manufactured export producing 60,000 yards (55,000 m) of woven cloth in 1822.The women also did spinning, knitting, straw plaiting, washing, cleaning duties and if in third class, rock breaking and oakum picking.
...
"In October 1827, the factory was the site of women rioting as a response to a cut in rations and their poor conditions. The matron, Mrs Raine, had resigned and she had to be rescued. Ann Gordon began her work as the factory's new matron and superintendent with her first task being to negotiate with the women who had escaped from the building. She was able to persuade them to return, but the disputed ration of bread and sugar remained. In less than an hour over 100 women escaped en masse and proceeded into the town where 40 soldiers and the threat of guns brought them back. They returned with a plunder of foodstuffs and when the ringleaders were confined, they released them. This was the first of the riots. Other riots at the factory occurred in 1831, 1833, 1836 and 1843.
...
"By 1842 the factory accommodated 1,203 women as well as children. With the end of convict transportation to the colony, in 1848 the site was reassigned as a Convict Lunatic and Invalid Asylum."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parramatta_Female_Factory
#history #AustralianHistory #Britain #colonialism #capitalism #imperialism #Australia #NSW -
@ajsadauskas Some more history from Wikipedia:
"The Parramatta Female Factory is a National Heritage Listed place and has three original sandstone buildings and the sandstone gaol walls. The Parramatta Female Factory was designed by convict architect Francis Greenway in 1818 and the only female building authorized by Governor Lachlan Macquarie. It comprises the 1821 Matron's Quarters and Administration and Stores Building, the 1821 Female Hospital and the 1826 3rd Class Female Penitentiary. It is the first female factory in the penal colony of New South Wales, and is located at 5 Fleet Street, North Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. It was one of 13 female factories in the colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land.
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"The factory was the destination for many of the convict women sent as prisoners to the colony of NSW. Over 9,000 names have been recorded as passing through the factories, of which an estimated 5,000 went through Parramatta.
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"The first stone was laid by Governor Macquarie in 1818 and the women were transferred from the old factory in 1821. The factory was built using convict labour from locally quarried sandstone and was completed in 1821 at the cost of £4,778.
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"The Parramatta Female Factory was multi-purpose. It was a place of assignment, a hospital, a marriage bureau, a factory, an asylum and a prison for those who committed a crime in the Colony. The reason it is called a factory is because it manufactured cloth - linen, wool and linsey woolsey. It was also the site of the colony's first manufactured export producing 60,000 yards (55,000 m) of woven cloth in 1822.The women also did spinning, knitting, straw plaiting, washing, cleaning duties and if in third class, rock breaking and oakum picking.
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"In October 1827, the factory was the site of women rioting as a response to a cut in rations and their poor conditions. The matron, Mrs Raine, had resigned and she had to be rescued. Ann Gordon began her work as the factory's new matron and superintendent with her first task being to negotiate with the women who had escaped from the building. She was able to persuade them to return, but the disputed ration of bread and sugar remained. In less than an hour over 100 women escaped en masse and proceeded into the town where 40 soldiers and the threat of guns brought them back. They returned with a plunder of foodstuffs and when the ringleaders were confined, they released them. This was the first of the riots. Other riots at the factory occurred in 1831, 1833, 1836 and 1843.
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"By 1842 the factory accommodated 1,203 women as well as children. With the end of convict transportation to the colony, in 1848 the site was reassigned as a Convict Lunatic and Invalid Asylum."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parramatta_Female_Factory
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@ajsadauskas Some more history from Wikipedia:
"The Parramatta Female Factory is a National Heritage Listed place and has three original sandstone buildings and the sandstone gaol walls. The Parramatta Female Factory was designed by convict architect Francis Greenway in 1818 and the only female building authorized by Governor Lachlan Macquarie. It comprises the 1821 Matron's Quarters and Administration and Stores Building, the 1821 Female Hospital and the 1826 3rd Class Female Penitentiary. It is the first female factory in the penal colony of New South Wales, and is located at 5 Fleet Street, North Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. It was one of 13 female factories in the colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land.
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"The factory was the destination for many of the convict women sent as prisoners to the colony of NSW. Over 9,000 names have been recorded as passing through the factories, of which an estimated 5,000 went through Parramatta.
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"The first stone was laid by Governor Macquarie in 1818 and the women were transferred from the old factory in 1821. The factory was built using convict labour from locally quarried sandstone and was completed in 1821 at the cost of £4,778.
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"The Parramatta Female Factory was multi-purpose. It was a place of assignment, a hospital, a marriage bureau, a factory, an asylum and a prison for those who committed a crime in the Colony. The reason it is called a factory is because it manufactured cloth - linen, wool and linsey woolsey. It was also the site of the colony's first manufactured export producing 60,000 yards (55,000 m) of woven cloth in 1822.The women also did spinning, knitting, straw plaiting, washing, cleaning duties and if in third class, rock breaking and oakum picking.
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"In October 1827, the factory was the site of women rioting as a response to a cut in rations and their poor conditions. The matron, Mrs Raine, had resigned and she had to be rescued. Ann Gordon began her work as the factory's new matron and superintendent with her first task being to negotiate with the women who had escaped from the building. She was able to persuade them to return, but the disputed ration of bread and sugar remained. In less than an hour over 100 women escaped en masse and proceeded into the town where 40 soldiers and the threat of guns brought them back. They returned with a plunder of foodstuffs and when the ringleaders were confined, they released them. This was the first of the riots. Other riots at the factory occurred in 1831, 1833, 1836 and 1843.
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"By 1842 the factory accommodated 1,203 women as well as children. With the end of convict transportation to the colony, in 1848 the site was reassigned as a Convict Lunatic and Invalid Asylum."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parramatta_Female_Factory
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Halt the Deployment of South Korean Troops to the Strait of Hormuz
Below, we publish the statement from the South Korean group March to Socialism — member of this initiative of…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #Imperialism #iran #Korean #SouthKorea
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Saturday, September 12, 2026
Investigation: Inside Russia's FSB prison system in Crimea . . . . . Half a million Russian troops killed since start of full-scale invasion of Ukraine . . . . . Russian forces executed 2 Ukrainian POWs near Dobropillia . . . . . and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/09/saturday-september-12-2026/
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Saturday, September 12, 2026
Investigation: Inside Russia's FSB prison system in Crimea . . . . . Half a million Russian troops killed since start of full-scale invasion of Ukraine . . . . . Russian forces executed 2 Ukrainian POWs near Dobropillia . . . . . and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/09/saturday-september-12-2026/
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Saturday, September 12, 2026
Investigation: Inside Russia's FSB prison system in Crimea . . . . . Half a million Russian troops killed since start of full-scale invasion of Ukraine . . . . . Russian forces executed 2 Ukrainian POWs near Dobropillia . . . . . and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/09/saturday-september-12-2026/
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Saturday, September 12, 2026
Investigation: Inside Russia's FSB prison system in Crimea . . . . . Half a million Russian troops killed since start of full-scale invasion of Ukraine . . . . . Russian forces executed 2 Ukrainian POWs near Dobropillia . . . . . and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/09/saturday-september-12-2026/
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Saturday, September 12, 2026
Investigation: Inside Russia's FSB prison system in Crimea . . . . . Half a million Russian troops killed since start of full-scale invasion of Ukraine . . . . . Russian forces executed 2 Ukrainian POWs near Dobropillia . . . . . and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/09/saturday-september-12-2026/
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#BananaRepublicans in #NorthCarolina go south. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-senate-nominees-rally-features-prayer-by-convicted-sex-offender_n_6aa4918be4b09fd4319f693f
The so-called #FamilyValues of the #Republican Party after being remade by #DonaldTheDeplorable #Trump are: #SexualAssault , #Pedophilia , #WhiteSupremacy , #Fascism , #Imperialism , #Ignorance and #Corruption.
#VoteBlue *no matter who* in the #midterms to #SaveAmerica.
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#BananaRepublicans in #NorthCarolina go south. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-senate-nominees-rally-features-prayer-by-convicted-sex-offender_n_6aa4918be4b09fd4319f693f
The so-called #FamilyValues of the #Republican Party after being remade by #DonaldTheDeplorable #Trump are: #SexualAssault , #Pedophilia , #WhiteSupremacy , #Fascism , #Imperialism , #Ignorance and #Corruption.
#VoteBlue *no matter who* in the #midterms to #SaveAmerica.
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#BananaRepublicans in #NorthCarolina go south. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-senate-nominees-rally-features-prayer-by-convicted-sex-offender_n_6aa4918be4b09fd4319f693f
The so-called #FamilyValues of the #Republican Party after being remade by #DonaldTheDeplorable #Trump are: #SexualAssault , #Pedophilia , #WhiteSupremacy , #Fascism , #Imperialism , #Ignorance and #Corruption.
#VoteBlue *no matter who* in the #midterms to #SaveAmerica.
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#BananaRepublicans in #NorthCarolina go south. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-senate-nominees-rally-features-prayer-by-convicted-sex-offender_n_6aa4918be4b09fd4319f693f
The so-called #FamilyValues of the #Republican Party after being remade by #DonaldTheDeplorable #Trump are: #SexualAssault , #Pedophilia , #WhiteSupremacy , #Fascism , #Imperialism , #Ignorance and #Corruption.
#VoteBlue *no matter who* in the #midterms to #SaveAmerica.
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#BananaRepublicans in #NorthCarolina go south. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-senate-nominees-rally-features-prayer-by-convicted-sex-offender_n_6aa4918be4b09fd4319f693f
The so-called #FamilyValues of the #Republican Party after being remade by #DonaldTheDeplorable #Trump are: #SexualAssault , #Pedophilia , #WhiteSupremacy , #Fascism , #Imperialism , #Ignorance and #Corruption.
#VoteBlue *no matter who* in the #midterms to #SaveAmerica.
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From Monthly Review Newsletter
'Trumpism is, among other things, the War on Terror coming home, a twenty-first century version of what Aimé Césaire called the imperial “boomerang effect.”'
https://monthlyreview.org/9781583670255/ -
From Monthly Review Newsletter
'Trumpism is, among other things, the War on Terror coming home, a twenty-first century version of what Aimé Césaire called the imperial “boomerang effect.”'
https://monthlyreview.org/9781583670255/
