Written for the fiftieth anniversary of the Haymarket executions, this pamphlet recounts the 1886 eight-hour strike in Chicago, the bomb, and the trial and hanging of Parsons, Spies, Fischer, Engel and Lingg, then sets beside them the case of Sacco and Vanzetti. William Z. Foster’s introduction frames both as frame-ups by capitalist forces.
A short, openly partisan document of 1930s American radicalism, valuable for how the left told its own history. Download the free EPUB.