Thanks so much to u/EvanStonePhotography for initially posting about this yesterday! I went back to my footage of that incident and was able to see from a different angle as this guy points a gun at protesters, press, and police outside his vehicle as he tries to flee.
The women pictured are Auschwitz prisoners Roza Robota, Ala Gertner, Ester Wajcblum, and Regina Safirsztajn. While imprisoned at Auschwitz, they were forced to work as slave laborers in the Unio munitions plant, manufacturing weapons for the Wermacht. They took advantage of this position to smuggle explosives into the camp in order to set in motion a plan which would come to fruition on this day in history.
On October 7th, 1944, the Sonderkommando (Jewish prisoners who operated the crematoria facilities) of Auschwitz II used weapons that Polish partisans had hidden in the grass near the fences, as well as the explosives that these women had smuggled into the camp, (which they typically transferred over to the Sonderkommando via the bodies of the dead from their own block) to stage an uprising. These Sonderkommando barricaded themselves inside the crematoria/gas chamber buildings, from which they were able to kill several SS, and ultimately suicide bomb the buildings, cutting the camp's lethal capacity in half, never to be restored.
May October 7th forever be remembered as a day when oppressed people break out of their concentration camp to attack their oppressors. May October 7th forever be remembered as a day of resistance.
French Youth Take the Streets against a Bleak Future
Thousands of teenagers have taken the streets of France, clashing with police as they demonstrate against the deplorable conditions in their high schools and a rapidly collapsing future.
Our correspondents in Paris explore the situation in detail.
https://crimethinc.com/France2026
The unrest among young people in France is a promising sign, shifting attention from the seemingly unstoppable rise of the extreme right to the question of what people can do on a grassroots basis to defend themselves and assert their interests against the state and the capitalists who control it.
“A day after the president said his super PAC, would pay for the ads, which had drawn bipartisan backlash, officials said that he meant moving forward. A new taxpayer-funded ad aired Tuesday.”
Fuck Trump.