May , 2025

A prosperous black community was destroyed in Oklahoma today barely a century ago. On 31 May 1921, the Black citizens of Tulsa, Oklahoma, were besieged. For two days, a white mob launched an anti-Black pogrom in the city.

The Mexican Revolution did not end when the fighting stopped in 1920.

In fact, the most radical phase of the Revolution began more than a decade later, when Lázaro Cárdenas was elected President in 1934.

80 years ago, the Allies had won. But imperialism abroad, and fascist elements in Europe, remained.

On this day in 1945, the Allies won the Second World War in Europe.

Interwar Vienna was a centre of radical political experimentation Wohnhausanlage Frederich-Engels Platz in Vienne, built 1930-33. Attribution: Thomas Ledl From 1918 until 1934, Vienna was the most left-wing city in the world.