For inspiration & morale, here’s a thread of pics of magnificent resistance women through the ages... #resist #NoPasarán #COVID19 #QuarantineLife #ToriesOut #StopFascism

Josina Machel, a FRELIMO fighter in the liberation war against the Portuguese during the 1960-70s. A national hero in Mozambique. #resist #ALutaContinua #Mocambique

Marina Ginestà in possibly the most famous photo from the Spanish Civil War, taken in Barcelona in July 1936.
#NoPasarán #resist #StopFascism #ALutaContinua

The above pic is iconic, but here’s a less known shot from the same moment. At just 17 yrs, this was the only time Marina held a rifle during the war - she was a translator & reporter for PSUC, the Catalan communists. #resist #NoPasarán #StopFascism #Spain

This is Asia Ramazan Antar, a Kurdish fighter in the YPJ in northern Syria. Escaping an arranged marriage, she joined the YPJ to fight patriarchal oppression and was killed in action at just 19 yrs old in Manbij, August 2016. #resist #patriarchy #feminism #ALutaContinua

The YPJ is mainly a Kurdish force but they have some foreign volunteers. This is Anna Campbell, a British anarchist & feminist who fought for the YPJ and was killed in action in Afrin, Syria, in March 2018. #ALutaContinua #Syria #anarchism #feminism #NoPasarán

The formidable Sara Ginaite, a Lithuanian Jewish resistance leader in WWII. She established a partisan unit named “Death to the Occupiers” in 1943 at just 19 yrs old, and fought the Nazis to liberate Vilnius and Kaunas. #resist #NoPasarán #ALutaContinua

Kathleen Cleaver, a Black Panther Party leader, at home in San Francisco, 1968. #resist #BlackLivesMatter

A militia fighter says goodbye to her son, on the Estremadura front during the Spanish Civil War... The government archive doesn’t record her name or the date, but it’s likely 1936. #NoPasarán #Spain #resist #ToriesOut

A photo by Hans Namuth from the Estremadura front during the Spanish Civil War, Sept 1936. #NoPasarán #Spain #resist #ToriesOut

This unnamed woman joined the militia to search for her son in the wake of the failed uprising at the Montaña Barracks in Madrid, July 1936. #resist #Spain #NoPasarán #ToriesOut

Pritilata Waddedar was a Bengali revolutionary who fought against the British occupation of India. Injured in an attack in September 1932, she took cyanide to avoid capture. She was just 21 yrs old. @AyoCaesar #resist #NoPasarán #anticolonial #India

Resistance fighter Simone Segouin at the liberation of Paris, August 1944, wearing her distinctive shorts. Just 18 yrs old at the time, she still lives in France. #resist #ToriesOut #ALutaContinua #NoPasarán

Members of the French Forces of the Interior in Brittany, Aug 1944. #resist #StopFascism #ToriesOut

Antifascist partisans in Pistoia, Italy, December 1944. #NoPasarán #resist #StopFascism

The liberation of Milan, April 1945.
#StopFascism #resist #ToriesOut #JohnsonMustGo #crooks

Constance Markiewicz under arrest in Dublin after the Easter Rising of 1916. She was one of the last Republican rebels to hold out in St Stephen’s Green. #Ireland #resist #NoPasarán

Cumann na mBan (“Women’s Council”) fighters during the Easter Rising of 1916 - Linda Kearns, Eithne Coyle and Mae Burke. #resist #Ireland #NoPasarán #ALutaContinua

Cumann na mBan still exists, though long proscribed by the UK government as a terrorist organisation. In this pic by Colman Doyle, a CnamB fighter fires at British soldiers in Belfast, 1972. #resist #NoPasarán #Ireland #ToriesOut

Zohra Drif, an FLN fighter during the Algerian War of Independence, seen here under arrest in October 1957.
#resist #NoPasarán #ALutaContinua #Algeria #France

Young Bosnian Serb partisan Milja Marin in a photograph from the winter of 1943-44 that became an icon of Yugoslav propaganda (“Kozarčanka”). #StopFascism #NoPasarán #resist #ToriesOut #ALutaContinua

Some of the many thousands of female volunteers during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. #resist #NoPasarán #ALutaContinua

This is the astonishing Freddie Oversteegen, who joined the Dutch resistance to fight the Nazi occupiers at just 14 years old. With her sister, she blew up bridges and railways, and killed Nazi soldiers. #resist #NoPasarán #WWII #resistance

Vilma Espín, chemical engineer and a leader of the Cuban Revolution, fighting in the Sierra Maestra. #resist #NoPasarán #Cuba #CubaLibre

Captain Lakshmi, doctor and commander of the Rani of Jhansi Regiment of the Indian National Army, fighting against the British colonists during WWII. #resist #India #anticolonial #resistance #NoPasarán

Iesha Evans in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, July 2016, in the instantly iconic pic by Jonathan Bachman. The ludicrously fashy stormtroopers about to arrest her are supposedly “police”. #resist #AltonSterling #BlackLivesMatter

The struggle continues. Heather Heyer put her life on the line to #StopFascism in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug 12th 2017. She was murdered by a neo-Nazi. #ALutaContinua #RIP #resist #NoPasarán #BlackLivesMatter

There is more about some of these magnificent women in this thread

#resist #NoPasarán

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