Life of Albert R. Parsons, with brief history of the labor movement in America.
Submitted by working class s... on Jan 26 2013 20:08
A biography of anarchist, labor activist, newspaper editor, and Haymarket martyr - Albert Parsons. Written by his wife, Lucy Parsons.
1886: The Bay View Massacre
Submitted by Steven. on Jul 24 2007 14:09
The little known history of the massacre that occurred in Milwaukee, when 7,000 building workers and 5,000 Polish workers demanded the eight-hour work day.
The deadly stand-off between workers and the National Guard was the culmination of events that began on Saturday May 1, 1886.
A historical marker, pictured above, is located at Russel and Superior on Jones Island in Bay View. It commemorates the Bay View Massacre.
The Pittsburgh Proclamation of 1883
Submitted by David in Atlanta on Jun 17 2007 06:18
The proclamation of the 1883 Congress of the anarchist International Working Peoples' Association, taken from the English edition of Freiheit, 27 December 1890, by Johann Joseph Most.
Comrades!
In the Declaration of Independence of the United States we read: "When in a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security."
A history of Mayday
Submitted by Steven. on Oct 13 2006 15:10
An article looking at the ancient pagan roots of Mayday, through the Haymarket martyrs to International Workers Day and the UK anti-capitalists in the late 1990s.
A short history of May Day
Submitted by Steven. on Sep 11 2006 09:54
The history of the world holiday on the 1st May - May Day, or International Workers Day, held in commemoration of four anarchists executed for struggling for an 8-hour day.
Originally a pagan holiday, the roots of the modern May Day bank holiday are in the fight for the eight-hour working day in Chicago in 1886, and the subsequent execution of innocent anarchist workers.
11. Robber Barons And Rebels
In the year 1877, the signals were given for the rest of the century: the blacks would be put back;
the strikes of white workers would not be tolerated; the industrial and political elites of North and
South would take hold of the country and organize the greatest march of economic growth in
human history. They would do it with the aid of, and at the expense of, black labor, white labor,
To tramps, the unemployed, the disinherited, and miserable, by Lucy Parsons
Submitted by libcom on Dec 9 2005 10:30
Yet your employer told you that it was overproduction which made him close up. Who cared for the bitter tears and heart-pangs of your loving wife and helpless children, when you bid them a loving "God bless you" and turned upon the tramper's road to seek employment elsewhere? I say, who cared for those heartaches and pains? You were only a tramp now, to be execrated and denounced as a "worthless tramp and a vagrant" by that very class who had been engaged all those years in robbing you and yours...
An article by Lucy E. Parsons in anarchist magazine Alarm, October 4, 1884. Also printed and distributed as a leaflet by the International Working People's Association.
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