#Haymarket riots

[nextwavefutures]

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…

[haymarketvtubestuff]

I love this interpretation of AE by @kaylasartwork and I'm glad I commissioned her for it!

[feline17ff]

Free Black History, Palestine, Socialism (and other) books on Haymarket

So, HaymarketBooks is a cool online bookstore that, while it does sell physical and digital books, it also offers a lot of free ebooks on subjects it thinks the public should be aware of.

Two categories I know of are Black History, after some racist law in the US that banned Black History resources

And Palestine, what with government media giving a super biased view of unfortunately

It’s in moments like these that we must turn to independent media and resource providers to educate ourselves on topics the government or other people don’t want us to learn about.

Now, here are all of Haymarket’s books they are offering for free, since their website doesn’t have a filter or sort by price option.

Here they are, 17 in total, as per 2nd Feb 2024 :)

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions by Omar Barghouti, 320 pages

1989, The Number by Kevin Coval and Nate Marshall, 23 pages

Inauguration by Idris Goodwin and Nico Wilkinson, 23 pages

The Anti-Inauguration by Anand Gopal, Owen Jones, et al., 40 pages

Commando by E'mon Lauren,

Human Highlight by Kevin Coval and Idris Goodwin

1919 by Eve L. Ewing

The New Authoritarians by David Renton

Socialist Strategy and Electoral Politics

The Brother You Choose by Susie Day

Can't Pay, Won't Pay by Debt Collective

Black Lives Matter at School by Jesse Hagopian and Denisha Jones

Palestine: A Socialist Introduction Edited by Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean

Light in Gaza Edited by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, et al., 280 pages

A Life of Activism by Howard Zinn, 81 pages

Our History Has Always Been Contraband Edited by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley, et al.

From the River to the Sea Edited by Sai Englert, Michal Schatz, et al.

While their website is limited when it comes to pricing options, it's not limited with free books, so you don't need to enter a single financial detail to download these books :)

Note: I haven't read any of these books yet so the tags are just based on their book descriptions

Other places for more free books:

Liberation Library

On the colonization and ethnic cleansing of Palestine

Sudan guide, not an ebook, but #keep eyes on sudan #free sudan

Happy reading! :)

[victusinveritas]

American police committing acts of violence against protesters and lying about it is indeed the origins of May Day.

[historybizarre]

In Chicago, 44 unions took to the streets on May 1, 1867, to celebrate the passage of an eight-hour workday law in Illinois. The next day, thousands of workers struck, staying home from work in an act of solidarity. Although the 1867 law was never enforced, the city's workers preserved the memory of their predecessors' short-lived victory. Years later, at its 1885 convention, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Assemblies (a predecessor to the American Federation of Labor, or AFL) selected May 1, 1886, as the date for a universal strike to press for an eight-hour workday.

[n0thingiscool]

Happy Fake Labor Day, America...

And ofc it has conservatives calling for the murder of innocent labor right's activists...

[thevalicemultiverse]

I dont know what labor day is and at this point im too afraid to ask.

Americans are just saying things.

Do you give birth?

then you cant wear white the day after.

Alice: [laughs] I do have to wonder if there are mothers who have tried to have their babies on Labor Day...

Victor: [chuckles] That would be funny...but no, I looked it up, and it's all about celebrating the accomplishments of labor unions and workers in the US. Like International Worker's Day, but on the first Monday in September instead of May 1st. [scrolling his phone] I have yet to figure out why you can't wear white after it, though.

[learnordo]

Only a week until Labor Day?

Where did this summer go? Next Monday is Labor Day already! It’s the un-official end of summer – but what do you know about Labor Day – other than it’s a good excuse to have a party or cook-out? Labor Day has some of its roots in the Haymarket Riot of 1886 in Chicago. So definitely NOT a party. And as the word riot implies, there was violence and several deaths. On May 4, 1886, workers from the…

[todaywecelebrate]

The Haymarket Affair

The Haymarket affair, also known as the Haymarket massacre, the Haymarket riot, the Haymarket Square riot, or the Haymarket Incident, was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The rally began peacefully in support of workers striking for an eight-hour work day, the day after the events at the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, during which one person was killed and many workers injured An unknown person threw a dynamite bomb at the police as they acted to disperse the meeting, and the bomb blast and ensuing retaliatory gunfire by the police caused the deaths of seven police officers and at least four civilians; dozens of others were wounded

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is a national trade union center that is the largest federation of unions in the United States. Find out more at aflcio.org

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), whose members are nicknamed "Wobblies", is an international labor union founded in Chicago in 1905. Find out more at iww.org

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (Teamsters) is a labor union in the United States and Canada formed in 1903. Find out more at teamster.org

[renthony]

Haymarket Books will offer the following e-books for free to download: “From Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation” by Keeanga Yamahtta, which explores why the Black Lives Matter movement is necessary; “Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice,” edited by Jesse Hagopian and Denisha Jones, which details how the Black Lives Matter movement has challenged institutional racism; and “1919” by Eve L. Ewing, a collection of poems depicting the Chicago race riots of 1919.

“Black people have always figured out ways to teach our history in spaces beneath, beyond, and betwixt the machinations of people like Ron DeSantis,” Ewing said. “The only thing he ever got right in his life was understanding how insurgent our stories really are, how threatening to the status quo of a nation built on theft.”

The company is also looking to provide Florida residents with more “radical books” to distribute to young people in the state.

[vintagegeekculture]

What do you feel is the most influential science fiction novel in the 1900's?

In terms of real world effects, the most important scifi novel of the turn of the century was one that is almost never read today: Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward." Its impact in its own time was colossal. A novel about a modern day American who wakes up in the year 2000, he discovers it is a socialist utopia. Only Ben-Hur and Uncle Tom's Cabin were bigger bestsellers in the US. The book was the center of an entire political movement, centered on clubs and reading societies of the book.

It's not well read today, despite being one of the three best selling books of the 19th Century, for several reasons. The first is that there was a conscious attempt to scrub the history of American socialism after the Red Scare (the Haymarket Riots are a holiday in every country except the one where it happened), certainly, but more importantly, the book is incredibly boring and didactic, with conversations about the economy and factory production. Imagine if Fry from Futurama mostly asked questions about factory production and you get the idea. Reading it, you start to understand why scifi writers sugar things up with fistfights and chases.

Nonetheless, the book was so widely read that it was the basis for hundreds of socialist clubs all over America and the US actively involved in politics, and also in the UK and China (where it was translated during the early 20th Century of US/China friendship). It's view of futuristic urban planning centered on green spaces for recreation led to the Garden City Movement in the UK, which changed UK urban planning. It's very likely that if you're British, you live in a Garden City, or close to one.

A lot of writers predict something, but Bellamy's "Looking Backward" was so influential that people actually brought what it predicted into existence. For instance, it had public cafeterias, which were a reality in the USSR, and a key characteristic of political and social life there.

[haymarketvtubestuff]

Commissioned @beedokart for a funny idea.

[crimethinc]

Happy May Day!

People have observed May Day as a festival of abundance for millennia. A century and a half ago, it became a workers' holiday expressing solidarity with the anarchist organizers in Chicago who were put to death in retaliation for the Haymarket riot.

They were fighting for a world without capitalism or the state—as we do today.

http://crimethinc.com/podcast/1

[radicalgraff]

“Haymarket was a riot”

Seen in Paris during the riotous 1 May 2023 demonstration

[kvetchlandia]

Monument to the Haymarket Martyrs, Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois( 1893)     Uncredited and Undated Photograph

It was the judicial murder of the Haymarket Martyrs, radicals and union activists, that brought May Day to be the International Workers Holiday.  Strikes had been held in numerous cities across the United States beginning on May 1, 1886, calling for decent wages and recognition of workers’ unions.  Some of those demonstrations became violent as a result of attempts by police and bosses to suppress them.  On May 4, 1886 in Haymarket Square, Chicago, a demonstration was held to protest the police killing of striking workers at the McCormick Reaper Works the day before.  At that demonstration, a bomb was thrown at cops, probably by a paid provocateur.  The police then rioted, beating the crowd.  Eight prominent labor activists and anarchists were rapidly arrested and charged with murder.  During a rushed trial, seven of the men, some of whom who hadn’t even been present at the demonstration, were convicted of murder, based on largely fabricated evidence or no evidence at all.  Six were sentenced to death and one to 15 years in prison.  Four of those men were hanged and one committed suicide on his way to the gallows.  The two survivors were ultimately pardoned when the murderous farce of the trial was made known.  The Second International declared May Day the International Workers Holiday in 1904, commemorating the General Strike that began in several US cities on May 1, 1886 and which culminated in the violence at Haymarket Square four days later.

Happy May Day, everyone.  Solidarity forever.

[rederiswrites]

This May Day--International Worker's Day--it's worth noting that the international labor movement was deeply affected by the Haymarket Incident of Chicago (1886). Protests against long work hours, as well as police brutality against workers the day before, became a riot after an unknown individual set off a bomb behind police lines. In the wake of the riot, eight men were convicted of conspiracy, most of whom hadn't even been at the riots and none of whom had solid evidence tying them to the explosion. Four were hung, one committed suicide, and the rest served life sentences.

The riot and the hangings brought international protest, and affected the international labor movement strongly, leading in part to the establishment of International Worker's Day--which the US does not recognize.