Haymarket

Grant takes a turn at Chicago tragedy with the Haymarket Affair. In May 1886 a bomb was thrown, igniting a shootout that killed over a dozen people and changed the fight for workers' rights forever. Can equality be gained in a system run by those who profit from inequality? Are the voices of the dead louder than those of the living? While we don't know who started the fight, can we even know who won in the end?

Links!

• The "Revenge!" circular
• The handbills announcing the rally
• Haymarket: The Anarchist's Songbook, reviewed by Ada Grey
• (formerly) on-site memorial, police memorial, Martyrs' memorial
• The Lucy Parsons Project
• Gextra Life donations page, stream archive

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Logo by Marah

Music by Thylacinus

Haymarket: The Anarchist's Songbook by Alex Higgin-Hauser & David Kornfeld, excerpts used with permission