#Lucy Parsons

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"Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination." - Lucy Parsons

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"Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out." -Lucy Parsons, quoted in The Chicago Tribune, 1883

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Milestone Monday

On this day, November 11 in 1887, four convicted anarchists, German-American businessman George Engel (b. 1836), German-American printer Adolph Fischer (b. 1858), and American journalists and activists Albert Parsons (b. 1848) and August Spies (b. 1855), were executed as a result of the Haymarket Affair, the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. A fifth conspirator, Louis Lingg (b. 1864) committed suicide in his cell the day before his execution.

The bombing had left one person dead and several workers injured, and ensuing retaliatory gunfire by the police caused the deaths of seven police officers and at least four civilians, with dozens of others wounded. The incident was the climax of the social unrest among the working class in America known as the Great Upheaval.

Among supporters of the labor movement, the trial was widely believed to have been unfair, and even a serious miscarriage of justice. The progressive governor of Illinois John Peter Altgeld noted that the state "never discovered who it was that threw the bomb which killed the policeman, and the evidence does not show any connection whatsoever between the defendants and the man who threw it." Albert Parsons and Adolph Fischer were not even present during the bombing. They along with Parson's wife and fellow activist Lucy Parsons (c. 1851–1942) and their two children were at Zepf's Hall nearby and heard the blast. Lucy urged Parsons to flee the city, which he did, eventually laying low in Waukesha, Wisconsin where he worked as a laborer and stayed with the family of Daniel Hoan, the future Socialist mayor of Milwaukee. There he remained until June 21, but afterward turned himself in to stand in solidarity with his comrades who had been arrested.

Lingg, Spies, Fischer, Engel, and Parsons were buried at the German Waldheim Cemetery by what is now the Haymarket Martyrs' Monument. In 1889, a commemorative nine-foot bronze statue of a Chicago policeman by sculptor Johannes Gelert was erected in the middle of Haymarket Square.

The images shown here are from:

The Rise and Fall of Anarchy in America by George N. McLean, published in Chicago & Philadelphia by R. G. Badoux & Co. in 1888.

Anarchy and Anarchists by Michael J. Schaack, published in Chicago by F. J. Schulte & Company in 1889.

Twenty-fifth Anniversary, Eleventh of November, Memorial Edition: Souvenir Edition of the Famous Speeches of Our Martyrs published in Chicago by Lucy Parsons in 1912.

View more Milestone Monday posts.

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[simplepotatofarmer]

since it's black history month, i wanted to share the works of lucy parsons! she was a black woman, an activist, and an anarchist and i think everyone should take a look at her essays. anarchism is often overtaken by white voices so i think it's important to remember people like lucy who contributed so much.

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Will you deny that your jails are filled with the children of the poor, not the children of the rich? Will you deny that men steal because their bellies are empty?… this is your society, judge altgeld; you helped create it, and it is this society that makes the criminal… and if the workers unite to fight for food, you jail them too.. no. So long as you preserve this system and its ethics, your jails will be full of men and women who choose life to death, and who take life as your force them to take it. Through crime. -Lucy Parsons

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It's time to explore the origins, history, and diversity of Black Anarchism.

The list of artists used is in the outro.

Introduction - 0:00 Pre-Colonial African "Anarchism" - 0:58 What is Anarchism? - 4:09 The Rise of Black Power - 6:53 The Rise of Black Anarchisms - 11:05 Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin - 11:08 Martin Sostre - 14:03 Kuwasi Balagoon - 17:06 Ojore Lutalo - 19:47 Ashanti Alston - 22:15 Anarchist People of Colour - 25:08 Anarkata - 28:48 African Anarchism - 30:49 Conclusion - 34:40

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I went to see the haymarket martyrs' memorial

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Lucy Parsons, Black anarchist and worker's rights activist (described by the Chicago PD as "more dangerous than a thousand rioters") died on March 7th, 1942.

Lucy fought tirelessly for the rights of the poor in the face of an increasingly oppressive industrial economic system.

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The Red May Day and the Green May Day

The Red May Day and the Green May Day: the politics of the environment and the politics of labour. New post.

As May Day approached this year I finally got round to a small project I’d been meaning to do for a few years now. This was to read Peter Linebaugh’s book The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day, which is a collection of pieces he has written over the years—some pamphlets, some articles—for and about May Day. Peter Linebaugh is a radical American historian, probably…

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Could they ever understand the dreams of another world that didn't trouble the distinction between state, law, settler, and master ? Or recount the struggle against servitude, captivity, property, and enclosure that began in the barracoon and continued on the ship, where some fought, some jumped, some refused to eat. Others set the plantation on fire, poisoned the master. They had never listened to Lucy Parsons; they had never read Ida B. Wells. Or envisioned the riot as a rally cry and refusal of fungible life. Only a misreading of the key texts of anarchism could ever imagine a place for wayward colored girls.

from Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman