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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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Alex Knight @alexknight.bsky.social · 4d

Definitely need to try this!

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 15d

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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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 15d

#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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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Sep 26

#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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Dan Bullock @danbullock.bsky.social · Sep 25

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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Alex Knight @alexknight.bsky.social · Sep 21

Spanish anarchists (SCW veterans) were the first allied troops to march into a liberated Paris.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Sep 15

#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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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · Aug 30

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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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Aug 21

#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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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · Aug 20

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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SDHistCon @sdhistcon.bsky.social · Aug 13

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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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Aug 12

#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/...

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Jan (he/him) | Let's Play History @letsplayhistory.bsky.social · Aug 10

"Spaniens Himmel breitet seine Sterne über unsere Schützengräben aus"

Time to save the republic in Alex Knight's awesome semi-cooperative card-driven wargame "Land and Freedom". Players fight the clerical-monarchist-fascist coup while vying over political control and social revolution.

#wargaming

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Alex Knight @alexknight.bsky.social · Aug 4

Love @benmandelker.bsky.social 's enthusiasm for this game! I'm currently working on some updates and improvements for a possible second (English) edition of Land and Freedom. Anyone who'd like to play test, hit me up and I'll invite you to my discord server. youtu.be/sW60RF7EZVs?...

Obsessed with... Land and Freedom

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Ben Mandelker @benmandelker.bsky.social · Jul 27

You all know I’m a #boardgame addict; so here are some #boardgames that I’m obsessed with lately:

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OBSESSED: Our 6 Biggest Gaming Addictions of 2025 (So Far!)

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Aug 1

#OtD 1 Aug 1902 Lola Iturbe was born in Barcelona. A maid and seamstress from childhood, she was a lifelong anarchist involved in the @CNTsindicato uprisings in 1933 and 1934, the 1936 revolution, and the founding of the Mujeres Libres feminist group stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8045...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Jul 25

#OtD 25 Jul 1934 Nestor Makhno, leader of the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine during the Russian revolution of 1917 and co-author of the Organisational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists, died in exile in Paris at the age of 44 shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/no-...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Jul 24

#OtD 24 Jul 1936 days after the start of the civil war, Buenaventura Durruti left Barcelona with an armed column and headed for Zaragoza which was occupied by the fascists. His workers' militia advanced and saved the Aragon front. More about the war: workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Jul 19

#OtD 19 Jul 1936 after a right-wing coup by General Franco, workers across Spain took up arms and launched a social revolution. The ensuing civil war pitted the working class against Spanish capitalists, German Nazis and Italian fascists. More in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Jul 17

#OtD 17 Jul 1936 the Spanish Civil War began with a coup in Morocco as right wing generals rose up against the Republican govt. The coup was smashed by the working class, and full-scale revolution would break out in the coming days. Learn more in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Jul 14

#OtD 14 Jul 1896 Spanish anarchist, rail mechanic and Civil War fighter, Buenaventura Durruti, was born. Involved in strikes, uprisings and bank robberies across Europe and Latin America, he was killed during the civil war. 500k attended his funeral stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8575...

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Alex Knight @alexknight.bsky.social · Jul 13

Moderados ganaron. 🥴

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · Jul 13

No Pasarán". Cristóbal Arteche, 1936

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Alex Knight @alexknight.bsky.social · Jul 13

Estoy emocionado de haber conseguido por fin mi copia de Tierra y Libertad! ¡No pasarán! #MasQueOca #JuegosdeMesa

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · Jul 12

Iconic shot encapsulating euphoria of revolutionary summer of 1936, La Rambla in front of Boqueria market. Recently we've learnt it's by Barcelona photographer Antoni Campañà and her name was Ana Garbín and was 21. She died in exile in France, 1977, anarchist and Catholic. Colourised: JuliusBackmaan

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