Today in Labor History August 19, 1920: A peasant insurrection began in Tambov, USSR, over the confiscation of their grain. Led by Alexander Antonov, a former official of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, the Green Army uprising evolved into a guerrilla war against the Red Army, Cheka Units and the Soviet authorities. The Bolsheviks finally suppressed the revolt in June, 1921. 240,000 died in the rebellion and over 50,000 were imprisoned. They also used chemical weapons on the peasants. Dissident writer, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, wrote about it in a short story in his book, “Apricot Jam and other Stories,” (2010).

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #peasant #uprising #rebellion #revolt #russia #CivilWar #soviet #ussr #communism #tambov #fiction #writer #books #author @bookstadon

The Groupie by #vaevictisminiatures

Is it still cosplay if the character looks like you to begin with? ;)

This took me maybe 3 hours to paint, which is speedy in my book but probably not in yours. No contrast paints or shades were used.

#fantasyminiatures #miniature #minipainting #miniaturepainting #peasant #accidentalselfportrait

(Excuse the mess, it's hard enough to get a selfie with the correct expression as it is, and I have limited shelves I can put the camera onto for using the timer.)

Hungary, 1943. Hungarian society has been, and remains, generally pretty conservative. Here we see representatives of that conservatism, especially of this era: the peasantry, the military, and the church.

Source: Fortepan [204301] / Somlói Miklós dr.

#fortepan #Hungary #priest #solider #peasant

Ok, another one done! #Infidel #Tarot #fool #Tarotfool #krita #illustration #peasant #grimdark #jester #oraclecards #ttrpg #roleplaying #rpg #art #mastoart

Today in Labor and Writing History 7/15/1381: The authorities executed Peasants Revolt leader John Ball by hanging, drawing and quartering. They later stuck his head on a pike and left it on London Bridge. Ball was a radical roving priest who routinely pissed off the Archbishop of Canterbury. As a result, they imprisoned him at least three times and excommunicated him. He helped inspire peasants to rise up in June of 1381, though he was in prison at the time. Kentish rebels soon freed him. The revolt came in the wake of the Black Plague and years of war, which the government paid for by heavily taxing the peasantry. Furthermore, the plague had wiped out half the population.

Ball and his followers were inspired, in part, by the contemporary poem, “Piers Plowman,” (1370-1390) by William Langland. Ball put Piers, and other characters from Langland’s poem, into his own cryptic writings, which some believe were coded messages to his followers. Ball is mentioned in the poem, “Vox Clamantis,” (also 1380-1390) by John Gower:

“Ball was the preacher, the prophet and teacher, inspired by a spirit of hell,
And every fool advanced in his school, to be taught as the devil thought well.”

Ball was also the main character in the anonymous play, “The Life and Death of Jack Straw,” (1593), which is about the Peasants’ Revolt. And socialist, William Morris, wrote a short story called “A Dream of John Ball.” John Ball is also referenced several time in “The Once and Future King,” (1958) by T. H. White.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #peasant #revolt #rebellion #uprising #JohnBall #prison #rebels #executjion #poetry #fiction #novel #author #writer @bookstadon

Today in Labor History June 11, 1381: Wat Tyler’s Rebellion was going strong. Tyler led a Peasant revolt in England, from May to June 15, 1381. The uprising began in response to a new poll tax. However, Tyler called for property to be held in common and equality for all. The peasants also wanted the right to choose their employer, rather than to be tied to a specific landlord. The rebellion contributed to the end of serfdom.

Tyler’s Rebellion has been referenced in many works of music and literature. He is the protagonist in Pierce Egan the Younger's novel “Wat Tyler, or the Rebellion of 1381 (1841),” a radical text published as a propaganda piece during the Chartist movement, as an argument for a republican government. Charles Dickens invokes Wat Tyler’s name in “Bleak House” (1853). Tyler also appears as a sympathetic hero in “A Dream of John Ball” (1888) by the socialist writer William Morris. And he appears in Melville’s “Redburn” and in Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.”

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #WatTyler #rebellion #peasant #revolt #landlord #england #literature #fiction #writer #author #socialism #melville #MarkTwain #Dickens @bookstadon

Today in Labor History June 4, 1919: Trotsky banned the 4th Ukrainian Congress of Free Soviets with his Order #1824. He also sent troops to destroy the Rosa Luxemburg Commune near Provkovski, and declared the Ukrainian anarchist insurgent Nestor Makhno an outlaw. The Free Territory within Ukraine, also known as Makhnovia (after Nestor Makhno) lasted from 1918 to 1921. It was a stateless, anarchist society and it was defended by Makhno’s Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army (AKA the Black Army). Roughly 7 million people lived in the area. The peasants who lived there refused to pay rent to the landowners and seized the estates and livestock of the church, state and private landowners, setting up local committees to manage them and share them among the various villages and communes of the Free State.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #anarchism #ukraine #NestorMakhno #Revolution #soviet #communist #trotsky #insurrection #BlackArmy #peasant #commune

Today in Labor History May 31, 1838: Kentish peasants clashed with British troops in the Battle of Bosendon Wood. Sir William Courtenay led the uprising. Courtenay had previously run for public office and spent time in a lunatic asylum. He built up a large local following in the previous four years with his millenarian preaching and demonstrations against the New Poor Law of 1834. On May 29, 1838, he led a march through town, with a loaf of bread on a pole (a local symbol of protest). They continued protesting for the next two days, alarming the town’s wealthy elites. When the authorities tried to arrest Courtenay, he shot and killed a constable. The authorities quickly mustered a small army. Courtenay had a gun and a sword, but his followers had only sticks. Courtenay managed to kill a Lieutenant in the ensuing battle, but was promptly killed by other soldiers, who also killed eight of his followers.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #peasant #uprising #revolt #massacre #ClassWar #poverty #uk #britain

Today in Labor History May 30, 1431: Teenage peasant soldier and crossdresser, Joan of Ark, was burned at the stake by an English tribunal, in part for the “blasphemy” of wearing men’s clothes. After her arrest, her male attire was taken from her and she was forced to sign a document (which she may not have understood) declaring she would no longer cross dress. But when her captors returned her men’s attire, to test her will, she promptly put the clothes back on. During her trial, she vowed, 'For nothing in the world will I swear not to arm myself and put on a man's dress.'" Twenty-fiver years later, Pope Callixtus III declared her a martyr. In 1909, they beatified her and they granted her sainthood in 1920. She rose to prominence during the Hundred Years’ War, which was essentially a feud between competing monarchies (French and English) that left the peasants poor, hungry and at risk of being slaughtered. England had been winning the war and had almost gained control over France when Joan of Ark decided to intervene. She had been having religious visions and was convinced that only she could turn things around for France. She travelled to Chinon to meet King Charles, disguised as a male soldier, which later led to charges of cross-dressing. Convincing the King to turn the conflict into a religious war, she led his troops in the Battle of Orleans. By many contemporary accounts, it was her military advice that won the battle. However, by her own words, she never killed a man, preferring to carry the banner “forty times better” than a sword. In the centuries after her death, she became legendary.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #peasant #JoanOfArc #transvestite #crossdress #transphobia #catholic #poverty #feminism

Today in Labor History May 30, 1381: Tax collector John Bampton sparked the Peasants’ Revolt in Brentwood, Essex. The mass uprising, also known as Wat Tyler’s Rebellion, or the Great Rising, began because of attempts to collect a poll tax. However, tensions were already high because of the economic misery and hunger caused by the Black Death pandemic of the 1340s, and the Hundred Years’ War. During the uprising, rebels burned public records and freed prisoners. King Richard II, 14 years old, hid in the Tower of London. Rebels entered the Tower and killed the Lord Chancellor and the Lord High Treasurer, but not the king. It took nearly six months for the authorities to suppress the Peasants’ Revolt. They slaughtered over 1,400 rebels. Roughly 600 years later, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher tried again to impose a poll tax on Britain’s working class. It also sparked a revolt which brought an end both to the tax and Thatcher’s regime.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #peasant #revolt #rebellion #PollTax #thatcher #WatTyler #pandemic #plague #massacre #execution

DENNIS: What I object to is that you automatically treat me like an inferior ...

ARTHUR: Well ... I AM king.

DENNIS: Oh, very nice. King, eh! And how d'you get that? By exploiting the workers! By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the social and economic differences in our society! If there's EVER going to be any progress ...

#constitutional
#peasant
#MontyPython

Because someone had to post it. Might as well be me.

Today in Labor History April 17, 1996: Brazilian police attacked 2,000 landless peasants, killing 19 and wounding 69. Over 1,000 would be killed in similar protests throughout the 1990s.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #peasant #massacre #brazil

Today in Labor History February 10, 1892: Four farmworkers were executed during the repression following the January 8 uprising in Jerez, Andalusia, setting off new waves of violence. In January, hundreds of farm workers calling for "social revolution," took over Jerez. On September 24, 1893, anarchist Paulí Pallàs tried to assassinate Catalonia Captain General Arsenio Martínez Campos during a military parade in Barcelona in retaliation for the state repression of the Jerez uprising.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #peasant #uprising #revolt #prison #execution #anarchism #andalucia #atentat #assassinaton #barcelona

#Medieval paintings of peasant homes are examined to reveal what the inside of a #peasant hovel of the #MiddleAges looked like.

https://www.medievalists.net/2023/01/medieval-homes/

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not sure how much #Mexico as a state had to do with this development of this: likely as inhibitory as facilitative.

#university #educated #peasant are the terms I'm batting for :D

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/mexico-devises-revolutionary-method-to-reverse-semiarid-land-degradation/

Saw this and thought I would share it. Apparently, if I give a billionaire some money I can get quality conversations on Twitter. 🤔So, what does that say about are peasant, semi-illiterate, non-blue accounts then? #peasant #twitter

I saw this a moment ago on #hellsite. I think it's a little demonstration of my conjecture that constant 49/51 voting splits reflect an uneasy balance of sociopaths to neurotypicals.

There are many more sociopaths in the population than DSM or popular belief would indicate, in my #peasant #armchair opinion.

What will tonight's #georgia #runoffga reveal...?

That a #peasant may become #king does not render the kingdom #democratic.

Enough reverie. Cultural consumption today. Morning amble soundtrack was #Peasant by #RichardDawson, followed by #TheGlassTrunk. Bit of a fan. Work rest of today.
Podcast: #TheGatheringStorm on #BabySeaClowns - would be fascinating if it wasn’t so terrifying
Book: #GrimmTales by Philip Pullman. Now want more #FolkStory collections.
Telly: #NightSky on th’Amazons. Really enjoying it, three episodes in.

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