1880s

1886: The Bay View Massacre

Steven. — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:09:31 +0000

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

David in Atlanta — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 06:18:02 +0000

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

Steven. — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:10:37 +0000

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.

1886: The Haymarket Martyrs and Mayday

Steven. — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:54:20 +0000

Originally a pagan holiday, the roots of the modern Mayday bank holiday are in the fight for the eight-hour working day in Chicago in 1886, and the subsequent execution of innocent anarchist trade unionists.

11. Robber Barons And Rebels

Steven. — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:10:45 +0000

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

libcom — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:30:37 +0000

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.