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> Albert Richard Parsons (June 24, 1848 - 11 November 1887) was a radical
> socialist activist, hanged under doubtful circumstances following a bomb
> attack on police at the Haymarket Riot.
Albert Parsons was a radical socialist? The Illinois Labor History School of Haymarket Falsification has captured Wikipedia too? Right, Wikipedia being the place where any fucking idiot who can figure out the "edit" button can add their "knowledge" to entries. Like this crap about an anarchist being a "radical socialist."
It is that time of year again. May Day. The Haymarket anniversary. I'm sure that the labor history dorks will be out at Waldheim cemetary in Chicago next week to do their usual bit to take the anarchism out of the Haymarket monument. They've been doing this bullshit for so many years that it's almost become an annual task for Chicago anarchists to challenge these fucktards and their liberal take on our anarchist history.
Fuck them.
The first week of May this year is rather special to me. It marks the 20th anniversary of me being an "official" anarchist. On May 2, 1986 I was arrested by Chicago's finest along with 35 other anarchists who were in Chicago to observe the centennial of Haymarket. I was a young, 21-year-old fresh-faced anarchist from Kansas. I hadn't expected to be arrested, so the police at the jail had a fun time threatening me--the student radical from suburban Kansas--with sodomy at the Cook County Jail. These pigs were veterans of the 1968 Chicago police riot and they had the attitude to match. My night in the Chicago jail was unpleasant, but I weathered it with a bunch of comrades, including a great bunch of queer anarchists. One of the Chicago papers ran a story the next day on our protest titled "A Magnificent Mile of Anarchy. 38 disciples of disorder held after protest" Yes, I was searched and handcuffed on the corner next to Watertower Place for simply being in the right place at the right time.
I was convicted of "Mob Action Against the State," which was a misdemeanor charge if you can believe it. The arrest, jail time and the court dates were annoying, but they helped set me on a 20 year path of anarchism and other activism.
I think I've done more than enough to other police departments around the world--by organizing protests--to return the favor that the Chicago police granted me in May 1986.
Remember Haymarket. Destroy the police, the courts, capitalism and all states.
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