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Philip Ruff

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Anarchist historian with a weakness for Latvia, good music and things that go bump in the night. Anarhistu vēsturnieks.

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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
RIP, Barry Pateman - even Valhalla needs a librarian! 💔 #absentfriends
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“‘Can you explain what exactly Situationism is all about?’ Wyckaert gave the questioner a severe look. Guy Debord stood up and said in French ‘We’re not here to answer cuntish questions’. At this he and the other Situationists walked out.” 🧐 pasttense.co.uk/2016/09/25/t...
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Today in London’s psychogeographical history: Situationist International‘s fourth conference opens, Limehouse, 1960.
Upon their arrival in the English capital, delegates were set the ‘psychogeographical’ task of locating the British Sailors Society, where the conference was to be held. The following r…
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The fabulous film "A Fistful of Dynamite" (1972) features James Coburn as a wanted Irish Republican explosives expert caught up in the Mexican revolution. One scene sees him reading a book by anarchist theoretician Michael Bakunin. 💣
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Anti. @antikalypse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"A delegation of the Spanish CNT went to Moscow, seeking Soviet aid against Franco. (They) took with them a long list of exiled or imprisoned anarchists and syndicalists, whose release and passage to Spain they requested of the Soviet government. (...) The CNT delegation went back to Spain alone."
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Anarchy in the USSR
Philip Ruff Anarchy in the USSR A New Beginning 1991 Print copies can be bought from anarchist publisher AK Press: www.akuk.com
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Max Nomad (born Maximilian Nacht, 1881-1973) is largely forgotten today. At various times an Anarchist, a Syndicalist and a Bolshevik, Nomad is best remembered for his association with Jan Wacław Machajski and the ideas of The Workers' Conspiracy (1908). theanarchistlibrary.org/library/edmu...
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Missing Latvians believed to have been in China, not Nepal eng.lsm.lv/article/poli...
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Missing Latvians believed to have been in China, not Nepal
China has officially confirmed that all 33 missing Latvian nationals were believed to be in Tibet at the time of the recent catastrophic floods and had not crossed the border back to Nepal, Edīte Medn...
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Anarchist artist Gerhard Seyfried (born in Munich, 1948). He became a prominent figure in the 1970s among the alternative and underground comic scenes of Berlin-Kreuzberg.
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I hate to kick a 97-year-man when he's down and in poor health, but sometimes truth must out...
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“Stalinism is a Marxist invention to save Lenin and Trotsky” freedomnews.org.uk/2026/01/08/s... 🦆
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“Stalinism is a Marxist invention to save Lenin and Trotsky” - Freedom News
Ignacio de Llorens has just published the first biography of the Russian anarchist Volin, a key figure in the creation of the first soviet and late…
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
You didn't want to be a Russian cop if these guys walked into your office. By the end of January, 1906, the Riga municipal police lost 110 officers to urban guerrilla attacks, more than a quarter of the entire police force. Jēkabs Dubelšteins, Ģederts Eliass, Jānis Žākle, Jānis Čoke.
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
30 August, 1918: Socialist Revolutionary Fanny Kaplan shot and seriously injured Lenin in Moscow. Kaplan considered Lenin a traitor to the revolution for disbanding the Constituent Assembly. She was shot by Kremlin Commandant Pavel Malkov on 3 September.
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Sad news. RIP, Ron.
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ex-Pussy Riot member Rita Flores says she cooperated with the FSB for nearly three years before escaping Russia theins.press/en/news/296386 #SpyCops
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Ex-Pussy Riot member Rita Flores says she cooperated with the FSB for nearly three years before escaping Russia
Former Pussy Riot member Rita Flores has stated that in February 2023, officers from the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) coerced her into cooperating…
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Anarchist air force? Nestor Makhno’s Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (1918-1920) captured and flew around 20 Nieuport and Sopwith aircraft on reconnaissance operations against the Bolsheviks and White Russian armies.
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
THE "NARVA IS NEXT" NARRATIVE - Why Foreign Media Keep Recycling the Unfounded Story That Russia Is Preparing to Attack Estonia #Baltics balticsentinel.eu/8527882/the-...
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THE "NARVA IS NEXT" NARRATIVE ⟩ Why Foreign Media Keep Recycling the Unfounded Story That Russia Is Preparing to Attack Estonia
Ever since the occupation of Crimea, speculation has periodically resurfaced that Narva is likely to be Russia’s next target. Yet the roots of this narrative lie not in Russia, but in a threat scenari...
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Drone was downed by Italian jet, search for debris continues eng.lsm.lv/article/soci... #Latvia #Baltics
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Drone was downed by Italian jet, search for debris continues
NATO fighters shot down a drone that had entered Latvian airspace over Rugāji parish in Balvi district early on Friday morning after a decision was taken that this was the safest response to...
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Who was the strangler?
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Wanna bet? 🤔
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Me, Mum and Dad, Big Brother and Sister - and the prefab we lived in until I was five-years-old. The prefabs, on the Bells Farm Estate, Druids Heath, Birmingham, were built by German POWs in 1945, assembled from sheets of asbestos. No "Health & Safety" in the 1950s!
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Distinguished historian Vestermanis dies aged 100 eng.lsm.lv/article/cult... #Latvia #Baltics
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Distinguished historian Vestermanis dies aged 100
The eminent historian, founder and long-time director of the 'Jews in Latvia' museum, Marģers Vestermanis, has died, the museum has announced.
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Any Russian 'little green men' will be neutralised, says Latvian Defence Minister eng.lsm.lv/article/soci... #Latvia #Baltics
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Any Russian 'little green men' will be neutralised, says Latvian Defence Minister
Currently, a direct military, conventional Russian attack on NATO is not possible, and stating this is not just an attempt to calm public fears of conflict, Latvian Defence Minister Raivis M...
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Warning issued after bears reported in Rīga suburb eng.lsm.lv/article/soci... #Latvia #Baltics 🐻
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Warning issued after bears reported in Rīga suburb
Riga City Council has issued a warning about a possible sighting of a female bear with cubs in the Imanta area on Saturday, July 25th.
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Latvian honorary consulate building in Sloviansk destroyed by Russian strike eng.lsm.lv/article/poli... #Ukraine #Latvia
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Latvian honorary consulate building in Sloviansk destroyed by Russian strike
On Friday, July 24th, Russia carried out an airstrike on the city of Sloviansk in Ukraine's Donetsk region, which destroyed the building of the Latvian honorary consulate.
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"I want to thank Looby-Loo and Teddy, who have always been there for me" Just to be clear, a leadership election with only one candidate is called a COUP.
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Today in 1789, the French Revolution began - 900 revolutionaries and a regiment of French Guards stormed the Bastille in Paris, the symbol of Royal oppression. Poster: a celebration of Bastille Day organised by French anarchist exiles in London, Friday 14 July, 1893.
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Happy 250th Birthday, America! 🦝 Celebrating a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic white males who didn't want to pay their taxes.
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
#OTD 1 July 1876, Michael Bakunin died in Bern, Switzerland, aged only 62. It was Bakunin, in his arguments with Marx, who first defined anarchism as a separate political movement, and not just part of the package-deal-left. I wish more "anarchists" would bother to read him. 🏴
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"Peter the Painter, the legendary Latvian anarchist terrorist who defied Winston Churchill and to whom Filips Rufs dedicated a formidable book (available in English and Latvian) is being honoured on France Culture (Radio France)" - Nicolas Auzanneau www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
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Peter the Painter : qui es-tu ?
Voici un homme célèbre pour : son absence ! Et dont on n'est pas même pas sûr qu’il ait vraiment existé ! Il était letton, anarchiste et voulait tout faire péter. Il s’appelait Peter, Peter the Painte...
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Does Max Stirner lie headless in his grave? freedomnews.org.uk/2026/06/26/d... @freedompress.bsky.social
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Does Max Stirner lie headless in his grave? - Freedom News
The incredible story of a skull — and a Berlin landmark that survived Nazism and the Cold War ~ Maurice Schuhman ~ In 2006, in response to my…
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Russia preparing possible ‘provocation’ in Baltic states or Poland, sources say Kremlin may attempt to test Nato cohesion as Russia comes under growing pressure from Ukraine, according to sources from two countries www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... #Latvia #Baltics #Poland
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Russia preparing possible ‘provocation’ in Baltic states or Poland, sources say
Kremlin may attempt to test Nato cohesion as Russia comes under growing pressure from Ukraine, according to sources from two countries
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"Līgo" / "Jāņi" is the Midsummer festival, celebrated in Latvia on 23-24 June. In pagan times, Jānis was the God of Summer, fertility, and the Summer Solstice. Christianity demoted him to "Saint John". But the ancient pagan rituals remain in the modern celebrations. Priecīgus Līgo svētkus!
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
UFO spotted over Moscow
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Celebrating the Latvian midsummer festival in Sigulda, 1935. #Latvia #Baltics 🍻
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Baltic pro-Russian activists flee to Belarus, embark on propaganda mission www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-e... #Baltics
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Baltic pro-Russian activists flee to Belarus, embark on propaganda mission
Antanas Kandrotas, who is currently on trial in Lithuania and unexpectedly travelled to Minsk in early May, has surfaced...
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I need to start a new campaign - to keep me out of bookshops! 🧐
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
New think-tank urges: be more Baltic eng.lsm.lv/article/poli... @edwardlucas.bsky.social #Baltics #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania
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New think-tank urges: be more Baltic
With the slogan "Be More Baltic", the "Baltic International Security Centre" (BISC) think-tank was unveiled in Brussels on Wednesday, June 3, Latvian Radio reports.
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
And on Bakunin's birthday, don't forget the anarchist fighters in Ukraine who are still resisting Russian military occupation. 🌻
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Happy birthday Michael Bakunin, father of modern anarchism, born 30 May, 1814. 🏴
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Security experts dismiss media speculation about Russian attack on Baltic states news.err.ee/1610039380/s... #Baltics #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania
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Security experts dismiss media speculation about Russian attack on Baltic states
Estonian security experts have dismissed claims circulating in the Western media that Russia is preparing to attack the Baltic states in the near future, arguing the coverage does not critically asses...
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
What’s going on in Baltics with falling drones and Russian threats against Latvia? www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl9Z... #Baltics #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania
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What’s going on in Baltics with falling drones and Russian threats against Latvia?
YouTube video by Re:Baltica
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Ⓐ Anarchist Federation News 🏴 @anarchistfederation.net · 17/05/2026
Ariane Gransac is dead: a life that was intense, rebellious and anarchist
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Ariane Gransac is dead: a life that was intense, rebellious and anarchist
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
RIP dear Compañera. 🏴
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I live near the port when I'm in Rīga, so I see these ships roll in. This one is just an accident waiting to happen. eng.lsm.lv/article/econ... #Latvia #Baltics
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Biggest cruise ship in Rīga port's history to call on Friday
On Friday, May 22, the Mein Schiff Relax, a ship operated by the German cruise line TUI Cruises, will make its first call at the Port of Rīga. This is the largest cruise ship scheduled to visit this s...
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
John Lennon on the cover of the Rolling Stone, 21 January, 1971.
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