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The Autobiographies of the Haymarket Martyrs
The life stories of eight working-class militants railroaded to prison or the gallows for the 1886 Haymarket bombing in Chicago. Written from prison, these accounts present a living portrait of the labor movement of the time, as well as the lives and ideas of these fighters for workers' rights.
Paperback
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260 pages
Published
August 1st 2001
by Pathfinder
(first published 1969)
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I found this book fascinating. It is not a very easy read; English was not the first language for most of these fellows. It is a critical piece of American history, however, for both students of American history and/or radical history, and for those who champion the First Amendment.
If you give a speech and someone gets excited by it and goes out and commits a terrible crime, and someone dies as a result, should you get the noose? Or is it solely the responsibility of the killer? I would argue it ...more
If you give a speech and someone gets excited by it and goes out and commits a terrible crime, and someone dies as a result, should you get the noose? Or is it solely the responsibility of the killer? I would argue it ...more
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