Great Anarchists - Lucy Parsons
Channel: Great Anarchists
Date: 2020-09-10

By Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper.
Read by Barbara Graham and Jim Donaghey.

Born to an enslaved woman in 1851, Parsons explored class conflict through the prism of the American Civil War. A keen advocate of independent labour organising in the late nineteenth century, Parsons was active in the Knights of Labor and the anarchist International Working People’s Association. In 1905 she joined the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). She wrote regularly for the anarchist-socialist press and lectured across America, refusing to be cowed by police bans or arrests for riot that followed as a consequence of her defiance. Parsons spearheaded the defence campaigns for the accused of the Haymarket Square bombing, and frequently referred to the injustice of the trial to spotlight the steeliness of capitalist ‘slavocracy’. 

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The Great Anarchists pamphlet series is published by Dog Section Press and Active Distribution. For more details see: http://dogsection.org/press/parsons and https://www.activedistributionshop.org/shop/pamphlets-booklets/4839-great-anarchists-parsons.html


Great Anarchists 1-10 now also available in collected form as a book: 
https://dogsection.org/press/great-anarchists/
https://www.activedistributionshop.org/shop/books/5033-great-anarchists.html

Music by Them’uns - https://soundcloud.com/user-178917365

[Subtitles corrected for accuracy November 2020]