From ak-dispatches at lists.eggplantmedia.com Tue Nov 11 23:56:21 2008 From: ak-dispatches at lists.eggplantmedia.com (ak-dispatches@lists.eggplantmedia.com) Date: Tue Nov 11 23:58:21 2008 Subject: [AK-Dispatches] Haymarket Martyrs Executed By The State Today Message-ID: <491A1BA5.4090900@akpress.org> ANNIVERSARY OF THE EXECUTION OF THE HAYMARKET MARTYRS Today, November 11th, marks the 121st anniversary of the execution of August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel, anarchists and labor organizers who took part in the struggle for the 8 hour work day and the May Day uprising in Chicago in 1886. We've got a number of essential titles to give you more information about this part of our history (and another coming in December: "Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence in America"). To find out more about the Haymarket uprising visit http://libcom.org/history/articles/mayday-haymarket-martyrs/ LUCY PARSONS: FREEDOM, EQUALITY AND SOLIDARITY: WRITINGS AND SPEECHES 1878?1937 By Lucy Parsons "Lucy Parsons' writings are among the best and strongest in the history of US anarchism. Her long and often traumatic experience of the capitalist injustice system?from the KKK terror in her youth, through Haymarket and the judicial murder of her husband, to the US government's war on the Wobblies?made her not 'just another victim' but an extraordinarily articulate witness to, and vehement crusader against, all injustice." ?from the introduction, by Gale Ahrens http://www.akpress.org/2004/items/lucyparsonsfreedomequalitysolidarity THE HAYMARKET TRAGEDY By Paul Avrich We have a limited quantities of this paperback edition of Avrich's moving appraisal of the infamous Haymarket bombing (May 1886) and the trial that followed it. Get it while you can! "Critics have been asking, where are the studies in American working-class history that are also in the best literary tradition? Where among serious scholars today is the art of historical narrative? Here is the answer, in Paul Avrich's finest book."?Paul Berman, "Voice Literary Supplement" http://www.akpress.org/2004/items/haymarkettragedy HAYMARKET: A NOVEL By Martin Duberman A historically faithful novel, based on the lives of the anarchist labor organizer Albert Parsons, the best known of the 8 anarchists railroaded and killed by the State following the fateful demonstration in Haymarket Square in Chicago, 1886, and Lucy Gonzalez, the outspoken black woman with whom he fell in love. The novel tells the story of their lives together, of their growing political involvement, of their colorful circle of "co-conspirators," and of the events culminating in bloodshed and martyrdom. http://www.akpress.org/2003/items/haymarketanovel ****NEW FROM AK PRESS PUBLISHING **** AN ANARCHIST FAQ, VOLUME 1 By Iain McKay This exhaustive volume, the first of two, seeks to provide answers for the curious and critical about anarchist theory, history, and practice. More a reference volume than a primer, An Anarchist FAQ eschews curt answers and engages with questions in a thorough, matter-of-fact style. Having been an internet staple for over a decade, we are proud to offer this solicitously edited print version. 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