Chuck
Cursory check of Socialist Worker doesn't indicate that the ISO is
hiding the anarchism of Parsons.
http://www.socialistworker.org/2004-2/516/516_04_Haymarket.shtml
>...Chicago's hollow monument to labor's struggle *
... of labor when a symbol of revolution is used in a scheme for gentrification and tourist dollars. On September 14, a statue finally appeared on Haymarket Square in Chicago to honor the labor radicals who were executed a over century ago for advocating anarchism and revolution
Novel chronicles the leaders of Haymarket ****
http://www.socialistworker.org/2004-1/497/497_09_Haymarket.shtml
Novel chronicles the leaders of Haymarket Review by Alex Billet
| April 30, 2004 | Page 9 Martin Duberman, Haymarket: A Novel. Seven
Stories Press, 2004, 330 pages, $24.95. MARTIN DUBERMAN'S Haymarket: A
Novel chronicles the lives of Lucy and Albert Parsons, leaders of the
militant workers' movement ...
(Any better than Zinn's play on Marx?) http://www.socialistworker.org/2004-1/497/497_09_Haymarket.shtml
From the immediately below. "The Chicago Tribune warned, "Every lamppost in Chicago will be decorated with a communistic carcass to prevent incendiarism."
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http://www.socialistworker.org/2003-1/451/451_08_MayDay.shtml
>...Chicago--with its thriving left wing labor movement--was the
center of battle. There, members of the anarchist International
Working People's Association like Albert Parsons and August Spies were
organizing within the unions and developing a following among workers.
When Parsons was 13 years old, he fought on the Confederate side of the Civil War, but would later publish a Negro-rights newspaper called The Spectator. He moved to Chicago in 1873 and became a member of the Knights of Labor. Spies was the editor of a German-language newspaper, Arbeiter Zeitung, and an eloquent speaker.
In Chicago, workers set the day for a strike for the eight-hour day--May 1. The bosses were also preparing. The Employers' Association of Chicago bought a machine gun. The Chicago Tribune warned, "Every lamppost in Chicago will be decorated with a communistic carcass to prevent incendiarism."
On May 1, 1886, 400,000 workers nationally marched for an eight-hour day. Some 190,000 were on strike. In Chicago, most industries were paralyzed. By May 3, the strike had spread, with stronger sections of workers sending pickets to draw out weaker sections. It became, in the words of some, "the second Declaration of Independence."
-- Michael Pugliese