Tony Cactus
@cactusnetwork.bsky.social
Design educator / visual activist / zine producer / concerned human
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On this day 26 years ago, demonstrators blockaded and shut down the summit of the World Trade Organization in Seattle—demonstrating the power of direct action and horizontal, decentralized organizing.
Today, as federal mercenaries attack our communities, we need this reference point more than ever.
Today, as federal mercenaries attack our communities, we need this reference point more than ever.
Epilogue on the Movement against Capitalist Globalization
22 years after the victory against the World Trade Organization in Seattle, what can we learn from the networks that gave rise to that movement?
crimethinc.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
On this day 26 years ago, demonstrators blockaded and shut down the summit of the World Trade Organization in Seattle—demonstrating the power of direct action and horizontal, decentralized organizing.
Today, as federal mercenaries attack our communities, we need this reference point more than ever.
Today, as federal mercenaries attack our communities, we need this reference point more than ever.
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Just stumbled across this while rooting around the house.
Not opened it in years but feels very on the nose for right now
There’s a book to be written about radical politics in 2010, and where some of the most familiar names went
Not opened it in years but feels very on the nose for right now
There’s a book to be written about radical politics in 2010, and where some of the most familiar names went
November 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Just stumbled across this while rooting around the house.
Not opened it in years but feels very on the nose for right now
There’s a book to be written about radical politics in 2010, and where some of the most familiar names went
Not opened it in years but feels very on the nose for right now
There’s a book to be written about radical politics in 2010, and where some of the most familiar names went
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#OtD 30 Nov 1999 the WTO meeting in Seattle was disrupted by big protests as people blockaded streets to prevent it taking place. Police attacked violently, and rioting broke out downtown hitting headlines and sparking a global anti-capitalist movt stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1033...
November 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
#OtD 30 Nov 1999 the WTO meeting in Seattle was disrupted by big protests as people blockaded streets to prevent it taking place. Police attacked violently, and rioting broke out downtown hitting headlines and sparking a global anti-capitalist movt stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1033...
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#OtD 29 Nov 1947 the UN passed resolution 181 recommending partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. Approved by the US, USSR and others, it gave 56% of land to the Jewish state despite Jews being only 32% of the population. More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e86-...
November 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
#OtD 29 Nov 1947 the UN passed resolution 181 recommending partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. Approved by the US, USSR and others, it gave 56% of land to the Jewish state despite Jews being only 32% of the population. More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e86-...
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Breathless (A Bout De Souffle) is on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social at 9:00PM tonight (Saturday)
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Breathless (A Bout De Souffle) is on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social at 9:00PM tonight (Saturday)
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This is madness.
All books by Normal People and Conversations with Friends author Sally Rooney set to be withdrawn from sale.
The 34-year-old Irish author says: “The disappearance of my work from bookshops would mark a truly extreme incursion by the state into the realm of artistic expression.”
All books by Normal People and Conversations with Friends author Sally Rooney set to be withdrawn from sale.
The 34-year-old Irish author says: “The disappearance of my work from bookshops would mark a truly extreme incursion by the state into the realm of artistic expression.”
Sally Rooney books may be withdrawn from UK sale over Palestine Action ban, court told
Rooney has said she intended to use royalties from her work "to go on supporting Palestine Action."
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:38 AM
This is madness.
All books by Normal People and Conversations with Friends author Sally Rooney set to be withdrawn from sale.
The 34-year-old Irish author says: “The disappearance of my work from bookshops would mark a truly extreme incursion by the state into the realm of artistic expression.”
All books by Normal People and Conversations with Friends author Sally Rooney set to be withdrawn from sale.
The 34-year-old Irish author says: “The disappearance of my work from bookshops would mark a truly extreme incursion by the state into the realm of artistic expression.”
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NTS just played William Burrough's classic 'Thanksgiving Prayer', with its line "Thanks for 'Kill a Queer for Christ' stickers", & worth remembering that these were real, they were in support of Anita Bryant's "Save Our Children" campaign, and the exact same thing is happening to trans people today.
November 28, 2025 at 8:36 AM
NTS just played William Burrough's classic 'Thanksgiving Prayer', with its line "Thanks for 'Kill a Queer for Christ' stickers", & worth remembering that these were real, they were in support of Anita Bryant's "Save Our Children" campaign, and the exact same thing is happening to trans people today.
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Happy 60th birthday to Björk
youtu.be/bOrGYzNUBVM
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Bjork - Big Time Sensuality - Rare Night Version
YouTube video by contron
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November 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Happy 60th birthday to Björk
youtu.be/bOrGYzNUBVM
youtu.be/bOrGYzNUBVM
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In 1889, schoolkids in Britain held a nationwide wave of school walkouts, taking to the streets to demand shorter hours, less homework, less corporal punishment and free education. We have now mapped lots of these & built a timeline on our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/tag/15377/18...
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
In 1889, schoolkids in Britain held a nationwide wave of school walkouts, taking to the streets to demand shorter hours, less homework, less corporal punishment and free education. We have now mapped lots of these & built a timeline on our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/tag/15377/18...
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
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#OtD 17 Nov 1983 six Indigenous and mestizo people founded the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico. So if you know five people who think like you, start a group! Learn more about the Zapatistas in these books: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
November 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
#OtD 17 Nov 1983 six Indigenous and mestizo people founded the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico. So if you know five people who think like you, start a group! Learn more about the Zapatistas in these books: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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It's time for our 2026 CSA- Community Supported Art! Sign up and get 12 exclusive limited edition screenprints delivered to your mailbox through the year. justseeds.org/project/csa/
November 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
It's time for our 2026 CSA- Community Supported Art! Sign up and get 12 exclusive limited edition screenprints delivered to your mailbox through the year. justseeds.org/project/csa/
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#OtD 14 Nov 1990 six weeks after the unification of Berlin, the social democrat city government evicted a large anarchist squat using 1000s of police on Mainzer Strasse, Friedrichshain, following hours of street-fighting stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8614...
November 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
#OtD 14 Nov 1990 six weeks after the unification of Berlin, the social democrat city government evicted a large anarchist squat using 1000s of police on Mainzer Strasse, Friedrichshain, following hours of street-fighting stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8614...
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#FallFriday The Fall released Jerusalem plus Big New Prinz as a single on this day in 1988 youtu.be/fx7x8km8d-c
November 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
#FallFriday The Fall released Jerusalem plus Big New Prinz as a single on this day in 1988 youtu.be/fx7x8km8d-c
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🚨 NEW POST: the scheme that inspired our postwar 'streets in the sky' - the Justus van Effen Estate in Rotterdam, Michiel Brinkman's masterpiece of the early 1920s. (New photos by @matthew-cook.bsky.social added.)
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November 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
🚨 NEW POST: the scheme that inspired our postwar 'streets in the sky' - the Justus van Effen Estate in Rotterdam, Michiel Brinkman's masterpiece of the early 1920s. (New photos by @matthew-cook.bsky.social added.)
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municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/h...
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Fifteen years ago: following pressure from New Scotland Yard, the website of Fitwatch, one of the founders of Netpol, was suspended "for a minimum of twelve months" for "attempting to pervert the course of justice" www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/11/4...
Fitwatch website suspended for "attempting to pervert the course of justice" - UK Indymedia
Following contact from New Scotland Yard, the Fitwatch website and domain name (www.fitwatch.org.uk) have been suspended for a minimum of twelve months for "attempting to pervert the course of ju...
www.indymedia.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Fifteen years ago: following pressure from New Scotland Yard, the website of Fitwatch, one of the founders of Netpol, was suspended "for a minimum of twelve months" for "attempting to pervert the course of justice" www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/11/4...
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An analysis of BBC news coverage over the last 4 years shows a shameless bias against Vladimir Putin, with BBC reporters insisting on calling the Special Military Operation in Ukraine “an invasion”
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
An analysis of BBC news coverage over the last 4 years shows a shameless bias against Vladimir Putin, with BBC reporters insisting on calling the Special Military Operation in Ukraine “an invasion”
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#OtD 10 Nov 2010 50k students and supporters marched in London against the tripling of university fees and the abolition of EMA grants. Breaking away from the official demo, 1000s of people occupied and trashed the governing Tory HQ at Millbank stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8238...
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
#OtD 10 Nov 2010 50k students and supporters marched in London against the tripling of university fees and the abolition of EMA grants. Breaking away from the official demo, 1000s of people occupied and trashed the governing Tory HQ at Millbank stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8238...
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#OnThisDay in London herstory, 1909: Suffragettes Amelia Brown & Alice Paul hide in the gallery at the Guildhall, smash glass panes in the banqueting hall & invade the mayor’s banquet for the Cabinet & Prime Minister, shouting “Votes for women!”.
November 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
#OnThisDay in London herstory, 1909: Suffragettes Amelia Brown & Alice Paul hide in the gallery at the Guildhall, smash glass panes in the banqueting hall & invade the mayor’s banquet for the Cabinet & Prime Minister, shouting “Votes for women!”.
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Memorial to the Jewish volunteers of the International Brigades. It plays with Star of David and the 3-point of the IB. Around 20% (about 7,000) of Brigaders were Jewish. Fossar de la Pedrera, the mass grave of the victims of the Franco regime in Barcelona, Montjüic cemetery
November 9, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Memorial to the Jewish volunteers of the International Brigades. It plays with Star of David and the 3-point of the IB. Around 20% (about 7,000) of Brigaders were Jewish. Fossar de la Pedrera, the mass grave of the victims of the Franco regime in Barcelona, Montjüic cemetery
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This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media.
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media.
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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“The essential services we need to survive used to be owned by us: the UK public. Our public services have been sold off to private corporations over whom we have no control.”
@kmilb.bsky.social, author of Radical Abundance, interviewed on @neweconomics.bsky.social
neweconomics.org/2025/10/radi...
@kmilb.bsky.social, author of Radical Abundance, interviewed on @neweconomics.bsky.social
neweconomics.org/2025/10/radi...
Radical abundance: how to build an alternative to capitalism
Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Keir Milburn and Frances Northrop
neweconomics.org
November 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“The essential services we need to survive used to be owned by us: the UK public. Our public services have been sold off to private corporations over whom we have no control.”
@kmilb.bsky.social, author of Radical Abundance, interviewed on @neweconomics.bsky.social
neweconomics.org/2025/10/radi...
@kmilb.bsky.social, author of Radical Abundance, interviewed on @neweconomics.bsky.social
neweconomics.org/2025/10/radi...
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This video is brilliant: buff.ly/1zyTWmM
Seems a total slam dunk that owners of private jets should pay fuel duties. Doesn't it?
The answer is annoying.
Thread:
Seems a total slam dunk that owners of private jets should pay fuel duties. Doesn't it?
The answer is annoying.
Thread:
Private jets don't pay fuel tax. Now I don't either.
You pay fuel duty. Why don’t billionaires? This week, we launched WeWingAnyCar.com to help you qualify for the same tax breaks that private jets get.
Because tax loopholes shouldn’t just be for…
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November 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM
This video is brilliant: buff.ly/1zyTWmM
Seems a total slam dunk that owners of private jets should pay fuel duties. Doesn't it?
The answer is annoying.
Thread:
Seems a total slam dunk that owners of private jets should pay fuel duties. Doesn't it?
The answer is annoying.
Thread:
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
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Flood alert for high tide this afternoon at Bankside (outside Tate Modern) check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/target-area/...
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Flood alert for high tide this afternoon at Bankside (outside Tate Modern) check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/target-area/...