Alex Knight
@alexknight.bsky.social
Award-winning game designer of Land and Freedom (Blue Panther), Hammer and Sickle (GMT P500), John Brown, and more! https://www.gmtgames.com/p-1081-hammer-and-sickle.aspx
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Alex Knight
@alexknight.bsky.social
· Nov 21
Hammer and Sickle is now up for pre-order from GMT! An easy-to-learn asymmetric game on the Russian Civil War. Anarchists, Bolsheviks, New Nations, and Whites compete through negotiation, bluffing, and managing their unique powers. www.gmtgames.com/p-1081-hamme...
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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.
December 13, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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.
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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
December 12, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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
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#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...
December 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
#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...
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#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...
December 5, 2025 at 10:40 AM
#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...
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#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...
December 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM
#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
November 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Can't wait to dig into this Summit Award winner! @djackthompson.bsky.social @sdhistcon.bsky.social
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#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/...
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
#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/...
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November 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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#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...
November 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
#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...
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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."
November 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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."
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#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...
November 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
#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...
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War Story: Occupied France is the winner of this year's @sdhistcon.bsky.social Summit Award!
Huge congratulations to @djackthompson.bsky.social, Dave Neale, @kwanchai.bsky.social and the whole team here at Osprey Games 👏👏👏
Read more and find the other amazing finalists https://bit.ly/4qWpgbk
Huge congratulations to @djackthompson.bsky.social, Dave Neale, @kwanchai.bsky.social and the whole team here at Osprey Games 👏👏👏
Read more and find the other amazing finalists https://bit.ly/4qWpgbk
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
War Story: Occupied France is the winner of this year's @sdhistcon.bsky.social Summit Award!
Huge congratulations to @djackthompson.bsky.social, Dave Neale, @kwanchai.bsky.social and the whole team here at Osprey Games 👏👏👏
Read more and find the other amazing finalists https://bit.ly/4qWpgbk
Huge congratulations to @djackthompson.bsky.social, Dave Neale, @kwanchai.bsky.social and the whole team here at Osprey Games 👏👏👏
Read more and find the other amazing finalists https://bit.ly/4qWpgbk
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Had an amazing time demoing Cross-Bronx Expressway for two tables at @sdhistcon.bsky.social this morning. Thanks to @alexknight.bsky.social, @yoyoni.bsky.social, and Justin DeVries (and, not pictured, @mirikuski.bsky.social, Damani Pant, and Nathaniel James) for playing!
November 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Had an amazing time demoing Cross-Bronx Expressway for two tables at @sdhistcon.bsky.social this morning. Thanks to @alexknight.bsky.social, @yoyoni.bsky.social, and Justin DeVries (and, not pictured, @mirikuski.bsky.social, Damani Pant, and Nathaniel James) for playing!
A celebration of the Summit Award, highlighting board games that matter and push the boundaries (like past winners by @fredserval.bsky.social and @downtowntbrown.bsky.social), and what winning it for an anti-fascist game like Land and Freedom means in this climate. sdhist.com/alex-knight-...
Alex Knight: What the Summit Award means to me – SDHist
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November 4, 2025 at 1:32 AM
A celebration of the Summit Award, highlighting board games that matter and push the boundaries (like past winners by @fredserval.bsky.social and @downtowntbrown.bsky.social), and what winning it for an anti-fascist game like Land and Freedom means in this climate. sdhist.com/alex-knight-...
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We have a new Conflicts of Interest Online post, where designer @alexknight.bsky.social writes about what receiving the 2024 Summit Award has meant to him. Check it out here: sdhist.com/alex-knight-...
November 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
We have a new Conflicts of Interest Online post, where designer @alexknight.bsky.social writes about what receiving the 2024 Summit Award has meant to him. Check it out here: sdhist.com/alex-knight-...
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Statement of support from historians at Columbia University and Barnard College. Thank you for your solidarity!
We recognize in the case of Rutgers historian Mark Bray a threat to us all
We, the undersigned historians at Columbia University and Barnard College, write to express our profound dismay at the events involving historian Professor Mark Bray, a scholar of anti-fascist politic...
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October 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Statement of support from historians at Columbia University and Barnard College. Thank you for your solidarity!
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#OtD 16 Oct 1859 abolitionists led by John Brown, including Black people recruited by Harriet Tubman, raided a federal armoury in Harpers Ferry, WV, to get weapons to arm enslaved people. Several were killed, and Brown later executed for treason stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8828...
October 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
#OtD 16 Oct 1859 abolitionists led by John Brown, including Black people recruited by Harriet Tubman, raided a federal armoury in Harpers Ferry, WV, to get weapons to arm enslaved people. Several were killed, and Brown later executed for treason stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8828...
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#OtD 26 Sep 1919 during the Russian revolution, the anarchist Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine ended months of retreat and turned in a successful surprise attack on the pursuing counter-revolutionary White Army of Gen Denikin. Learn more: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
September 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
#OtD 26 Sep 1919 during the Russian revolution, the anarchist Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine ended months of retreat and turned in a successful surprise attack on the pursuing counter-revolutionary White Army of Gen Denikin. Learn more: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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NEW EPISODE! I chat with @gregisonthego.bsky.social about his excellent zine RULEBOOKS FOR RADICALS, his work, and finding design inspiration in dire times. We only got sidetracked on Process Era 76'ers for a tiny bit, but GDDD is never a slave to the algorithm. www.buzzsprout.com/1993070/epis...
Radical Rulebooks with Greg Loring-Albright, PhD - Game Design Deep Dive
Greg Loring-Albright is the designer of Ahoy, Keep the Faith, and co-designed Bloc by Bloc: Uprising with T.L. Simmons. Moreover, he teaches Game Studies and Game Design at Harrisburg University. We d...
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September 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
NEW EPISODE! I chat with @gregisonthego.bsky.social about his excellent zine RULEBOOKS FOR RADICALS, his work, and finding design inspiration in dire times. We only got sidetracked on Process Era 76'ers for a tiny bit, but GDDD is never a slave to the algorithm. www.buzzsprout.com/1993070/epis...
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#OtD 15 Sep 1954 Veterans of the Abraham @LincolnBrigade – US volunteers in the Spanish Civil War – were brought before the Subversive Activities Control Board as the government attempted to classify them as a subversive organisation stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8742...
September 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
#OtD 15 Sep 1954 Veterans of the Abraham @LincolnBrigade – US volunteers in the Spanish Civil War – were brought before the Subversive Activities Control Board as the government attempted to classify them as a subversive organisation stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8742...
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Drawings by Felicia Browne:, the first British person and only woman to die fighting in the Spanish Civil War. Killed while taking part in an operation to dynamite a rebel train on the Aragón front on 25 August 1936. Her drawings were sold in London to raise money for Spanish relief.
August 30, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Drawings by Felicia Browne:, the first British person and only woman to die fighting in the Spanish Civil War. Killed while taking part in an operation to dynamite a rebel train on the Aragón front on 25 August 1936. Her drawings were sold in London to raise money for Spanish relief.
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#OtD 21 Aug 1944 the Maquis uprising took place in Paris where more than 4000 Spanish exiles took up arms against the occupying Nazi regime. Spanish civil war veterans were also the first external troops to enter the capital to liberate it stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9351...
August 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
#OtD 21 Aug 1944 the Maquis uprising took place in Paris where more than 4000 Spanish exiles took up arms against the occupying Nazi regime. Spanish civil war veterans were also the first external troops to enter the capital to liberate it stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9351...
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Basque militia fighters, Alegia, Gipuzkoa, 1936. Photo by Pascual Marín. Beautifully colourised by Julius Backmaan (Instgr). How young they are. Most don't even seem to be armed. Given the village fell shortly after in early August 1936, I shudder to think of their fate.
August 20, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Basque militia fighters, Alegia, Gipuzkoa, 1936. Photo by Pascual Marín. Beautifully colourised by Julius Backmaan (Instgr). How young they are. Most don't even seem to be armed. Given the village fell shortly after in early August 1936, I shudder to think of their fate.
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Tickets are on sale now for SDHistCon Summit 2025, to be held from Nov. 7-10 in San Diego: tabletop.events/conventions/.... More information on the event: sdhist.com/sdhist-summi.... Hope you can join us for it!
August 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Tickets are on sale now for SDHistCon Summit 2025, to be held from Nov. 7-10 in San Diego: tabletop.events/conventions/.... More information on the event: sdhist.com/sdhist-summi.... Hope you can join us for it!
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#OtD 12 Aug 1936 after the French government shut the border with revolutionary Spain, the first international volunteers who were going to join the fight against the fascists began crossing the Pyrenees mountains on foot shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
August 12, 2025 at 4:10 AM
#OtD 12 Aug 1936 after the French government shut the border with revolutionary Spain, the first international volunteers who were going to join the fight against the fascists began crossing the Pyrenees mountains on foot shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...