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• @calendsofapril@kolektiva.social 2026-07-31 19:11

  The Haymarket martyrs fought and died for the 8-hour work day. They were revolutionary anarchists, executed in 1886 in retaliation for their labor organizing and activism. “Anarchism is on trial!” declared the prosecutor in the Haymarket trail, as reported by August Spies in his address to the court at his sentencing. August adds further that “the representatives of the State ... themselves have fabricated most of the testimony which was used as a pretense to convict us; to convict us by a jury picked out to convict!” The echoes of Haymarket reverberate in the Prairieland trials with convictions and extreme sentencing blatantly intended to send a message of repression. Which is why the Haymarket martyrs have never been far from my mind during the trials of the Prairieland defendants. And the quote in this illustration in particular. I am filled with grief, anger, and resolve for each life lost and for each life that the State tries to destroy as it treads on the sparks of a fire it can never put out. I keep the fire of liberation burning in my heart. Always. I am filled with hope – and even joy, even in these times – to see it burning in the hearts of my comrades. 3/4 #AugustSpies #anarchism #laborHistory #history #historyOfAnarchism #Haymarket #HaymarketAnarchists #HaymarketMartyrs

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