wet forest moon folklorist on Nostr: for context, the labor movement in the 1880s was not only influenced by anarchists ...

for context, the labor movement in the 1880s was not only influenced by anarchists and socialists, it was starting to be multiracial and multigender as well. the famous lucy parsons was married to albert parsons, one of the haymarket organizers unjustly hung by the state

the capitalists had to commit a lot of violence and do a lot of propaganda to suppress labor back then, and they did

https://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/2019/02/28/lucy-e-parsons/

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/haymarket-tragedy