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Strike (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
Cast: Maksim Shtraukh, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Mikhail Gomorov, I. Ivanov, Ivan Klyukvin, Aleksandr Antonov, Yudif Gliser, Vera Yanukova, Vladimir Uralskiy. Screenplay: Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein, Ilya Kravchunovsky, Valerian Pletnev. Cinematography: Vasili Kvatov, Vladimir Popov, Eduard Tisse. Art direction: Vasiliy Rakhov.
Subtle as a sledgehammer, Sergei Eisenstein’s first feature film, Strike, demonstrates the dangerous ability of motion pictures to annihilate thought. With a torrent of images, almost as formidable as the fire hose blasts that mow down the protesting strikers in the fifth “chapter” of the film, the 27-year-old Eisenstein demonstrates a mastery of technique: fast-paced editing, frame-crowding action, provocative close-ups, and powerful montage. The film concludes with a bloodbath – the “liquidation” of the strikers in their homes, intercut with scenes of cattle being slaughtered in an abattoir – that makes the Odessa Steps massacre sequence in Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925) look like a Sunday picnic. The film veers from documentary realism in the factory scenes, to gross – or perhaps Grosz, as in George Grosz – caricature in its portrayal of the capitalist bosses as fat cigar-smoking men in silk top hats, to a baroque expressionism in the scenes involving the spies and provocateurs who betray the workers. Eisenstein never slackens for a moment – it’s an exhausting film. Is it a great film? That’s one for the debaters, a conflict between those who believe in art as a servant of truth and those who believe in art as pure form. I can admire its technical virtues and historical significance, and even admit that it plays on my political sympathies for workers over capitalist bosses, while worrying that the effect of the film is to valorize a dangerous suppression of reason, the unhinged anti-humanism that ultimately betrayed the very revolution Eisenstein supported.
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Max Odrezin, a newspaper striker, sits at his closed stand at the Eighth Ave. and 59th St. station, during subway newsboys strike, March 12, 1945.
Photo: Tom Watson for the NY Daily News
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Miri (@mstalionsaudio.bsky.social)
Portland Community College is officially on strike for the first time in its history!
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📢 Unite & Win at Work: an in-person EWOC training for NYC!
An affordable New York starts with talking with your co-workers to demand what you deserve. This training will help you build the skills and get the resources you need to win.
📍March 21 at 1 p.m. in Brooklyn.
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The Tale of Two Cities according to Stephi and Heiko - Part 566
For those who need public transportation, the last couple of weeks have been a trying time. There have been some strikes as the workers are negotiating for more money and better working conditions.
These negotiations are rarely smooth and often lead to strikes, sometimes for a day or two, sometimes even longer. Since the economy is not that well these days, workers and employers are very divided about the outcome of these negotiations.
Strikes are often only take place in certain cities or areas. Cologne and Munich as big cities are most often part of these strikes. That’s when you see pictures like today’s. The first picture shows an empty underground station. A sight you usually only see during a strike day. The second picture was take this Friday in Cologne and shows a depot, where the strikers put sup a stand.
On these days, life is kinda different. There might be some more cars on the streets
But you see less people and life feels to slow down. This usually happens every other year around march. I am pretty lucky as I usually go by bike.
Are there sometimes strikes in your country/ area? Do you see or feel the consequences of them?
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Iranian strike on Dubai International Airport: four injured and massive evacuation
Dubai, United Arab Emirates – February 28, 2026. In a dramatic new chapter of regional escalation in the Middle East, Dubai International Airport (DXB), one of the busiest in the world, was hit by Iranian strikes this Saturday. According to an official statement from the Dubai Media Office and Dubai Airports, an “incident” caused minor damage to an area of Terminal 3 (concourse), which was…
Iranian strike on Dubai International Airport: four injured and massive evacuation
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Chagos: The Deal Britain Couldn’t Walk Away From?
The accord, considered by certain individuals a crucial requisite, has been made intricate by fluctuating U.S. aims and domestic political division.
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#IDF Declares ’#Defensive #Alert’ as #Trump Considers #Attack on #Iran
IDF Declares ‘Defensive Alert’ as Trump Considers Attack on Iran | K U L T ™
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#Trump’s Advisers Prefer #Israel to Strike #Iran First, #Politico Reports
Trump’s Advisers Prefer Israel to Strike Iran First, Politico Reports | K U L T ™
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WORKERS AT the Early Learning Centre Toy Shop, in Cork, have been on strike since early December. Management at the Cork store, have refused to recognise the workers’ union, Mandate, or to negotiate on pay and conditions. So far the strikers, all women, have been able to maintain a highly effective picket on the shop. Workers Solidarity spoke to the workers in January as the sales got underway. The shop was, once again, empty of customers.
-> Over the busy Christmas and New Year period, you have had a big effect. Few people seem to have passed the picket line?
It has been massive. Yeah. We reckon that there has been over a quarter of a million in losses at the shop, for the sake of £150 divided by six workers, a week. We’re out nearly five weeks now and it’s possible that something will be happening in the Labour Court. Hopefully they’ll do something in our favour, and that it won’t be just for the employer.
-> That’s the problems with the Labour Court.
lt’s a problem getting anything there. It’s a challenge.
-> How many of you are out on strike?
[[MORE]]Well, there’s six of us that work all the time in there, permanently, but two of the staff that were taken on for the Christmas came out also, because they wouldn’t pass a picket.
-> What are you looking for?
Our main crib, really, is that in six years we’ve got on average only 10p per year rise on our hourly rate. If you came into this job tomorrow, even with no qualifications and with no experience in retailing, you would get the same money as any of us. Even those of us who are here for six years. As well as this, we’re two pounds an hour underpaid to the trade rate in Cork, that’s the union rate. We joined the union in May, and the company won’t recognise us. They refuse to recognise the union. Basically, there is to be no pay increase this year, and we’ve been told by our own manager, inside, that we won’t be getting the next one until 1997. More than likely that will be under ten pence an hour again. On top of this, we’re doing a lot more than we should as shop assistants. They expect us to unload the articulated lorries that pull up with supplies. There could be anything between seven and ten pallets a week. That stuff has to be taken upstairs. We have to clean the place and also do the lock-up and security. We’re asked to read course books — distance learning books — also, once a month. There’s nothing extra for any of that.
-> There’s also the issue of pensions?
All the British workers are in their pension scheme. We’re here six years. They say it’s very hard for an Irish pension company to take us on and that the tax system here is a bit different to theirs. Excuses. Being fobbed off again. Also, everything is set by sales targets and they’re set artificially. They’ve opened shops in Limerick and Waterford recently, lets say, on both sides of us here in Cork. So in Cork, obviously, we’ve lost customers to both Waterford and Limerick — people that would previously have shopped here. But, then, they keep upping the targets for this store here, which means you can’t achieve them. You don’t get a bonus, you don’t get a wage increase, because you’re not making this target all the time. But the target has never actually come down, even though they’ve opened these other stores. No allowance is made for that. That kind of thing.
-> Who is setting these targets? Is it management in the shop in Cork?
Personnel management within the stores itself. It would actually be set from Swindon in England, at Head Office. They set them for each individual store. Each shop gets a budget every year to work through. That’s being kept down all the time. Bonuses come from that. You get nothing as a result. I got one bonus — £8 for a year’s work, and my next one was £32 for another year’s work, before tax and PRSI! You get nothing at Christmas, just one card between everybody in the shop. A mass-produced card. Your name isn’t even mentioned on it.
-> And what about The Early Learning Centre Toy Shops? Is it a big company?
There’s two hundred and nine shops in the chain. They are a multinational.
-> You mentioned they had other shops in Ireland?
They have a massive problem with staff turnover everywhere. It got so bad in England that they had to an ‘Exit’ interview — which means you have to give your reasons for why you are leaving. They know there is a problem. But they don’t want to listen either. Look at the reasons we have here. We’re here six years. The job situation here is different to in England. You can walk out more easily there. It doesn’t work like that in this country. You just have one job.
-> The picket has been well supported by the public. What other support have you got?
It was a very bad time to go out. Christmas is a very rushed time of the year. And, in fairness, people from Marks & Spencer came over to us with collections and things like that, and we really appreciate that. Dunnes Stores and Roches Stores staff also held collections at Christmas for us. We appreciate that. We also like to thank the people from Socialist Worker, who’ve been great bringing coffee and tea. And even a few people in the street — it may only be a pound or two — but they say, here get a cup of coffee. Fantastic. It was worth a million pounds to us.
SHORTLY AFTER the strike began at the Early Learning Centre, workers at the nearby Marks & Spencer (M&S;) branch, on Patrick’s Street in Cork, said they would join the picket during their lunch break to show their support for the strikers. Management at the Early Learning Centre found out about this. They contacted their own Head Office in Swindon, who, in turn, contacted M&S;‘s Head Office, also in England. M&S; in England then sent a memo to the M&S; shop in Cork ordering the workers there not to join the picket at the Early Learning Centre. Who says the bosses don’t stand together? The M&S; workers, in Cork, told their own management where to get off — they joined the picket!
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Letting whoever know that I won’t be on here at all tomorrow for the strike! Stay safe out there!!
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This will be my last post for the next few days. As part of the strike, I am leaving until February 27th. I may check my notifications but I will not scroll tumblr or post anything new. Two of my accounts will post because of queue but that’s it. Have a good few days!
If anyone who works at tumblr happens to be reading this, please know we are doing this to protest the company shapes inc. We as a userbase feel their ads are predatory and as far as I’m aware, reporting them has done nothing. We want the ads to leave tumblr. The userbase is very anti-ai so seeing a company promoting making bots of characters, oc’s, and actual real people is concerning.
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More than 200 political prisoners in Venezuela launch hunger strike
More Than 200 Political Prisoners in Venezuela Launch Hunger Strike Over Amnesty Law
Published: February 23, 2026 | A significant protest is unfolding within Venezuela’s prison system, where over 200 individuals classified as political prisoners have begun a hunger strike. Their action directly challenges a newly enacted amnesty law, arguing that its provisions deliberately exclude many of them…
More than 200 political prisoners in Venezuela launch hunger strike
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Hezbollah vows resistance after deadly Israeli strike
🔥 Latest News: Hezbollah vows resistance after deadly Israeli strike
📰 Check out the details:
Hezbollah warned Saturday that it would have no choice but to fight on after an Israeli strike on targets in Lebanon killed eight of its operatives.
Lebanon’s government has vowed to disarm Hezbollah, but Israel insists it retains the right to defend itself by striking the Iran-backed militant group.
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