It came from the pressures the working class exerted through armed resistance, strikes, and the imminent threat of socialist revolution.
NOT from wearing frog costumes and dancing with fancy cardboard signs in the street.
france 1905: we're gonna establish separation of church and state and stop funding the clergy :)
portugal 1911: take all their shit, expel religious orders, restrict public meetings, ban them from wearing religious clothing in public
mexico 1926:
In a small Newfoundland town, a mysterious sea creature appears and a hard-bitten fisherman must fight to protect his family, his community, and his vanishing way of life.
BELOW premieres October 8. Starring Josh Hartnett, Mackenzie Davis, Charlie Heaton, Ruby Stokes, Kaleb Horn, Rohan Campbell, and Willow Kean.
'Blue Heron' is the most acclaimed film of 2026, and director Sophy Romvari says its existence can be credited to grants provided by the Canadian government at both the script and production stages.
“I really did make exactly the movie I wanted to make.... When I started making work in Canada, I was not aware of the privilege of living in a country that has access to arts funding. The version of this film that I would’ve made within the American system would be very, very different — and I don’t know if that one would’ve gotten distribution.” https://t.co/3IJQEP8Mfn
Can't stand seeing this lumbering oaf of a woman but I can't deny that she would be extremely useful if the world she dreamt of was ever brought to pass. Just an incredible washerwoman. She'd be cranking that laundry bat around the wash basin 20 hours a day like a Frankenstein.