Mayday and Anarchism
Subtitle: Remembrance and Resistance From Haymarket to Now
Edition: Pmplt edition
Publisher: Kate Sharpley  Library
Published: 2004-03-03
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Format: Pamphlet
Number of pages: 30
ISBN-13: 9781873605530
Subjects: Political science & theory; Latin America - General; History; History - General History; History: World; Latin America; History / Latin America; Anarchism; May Day
First sentence: Friends, - The speakers of the evening not having arrived I shall entertain you a few minutes.
Description: This pamphlet shows the history of Mayday, and the differing ways in which Anarchists have responded to its call. It includes pieces on: The Haymarket affair and its aftermath, The idea of Mayday from the 1890s to the 1940s and Reclaiming Mayday in recent times.

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Table of contents: title: 2004 Introduction: Looking Forwards, Looking Backwards; title: 1886 August Spies’ Speech at the Haymarket; title: 1886 Trial Speech of Adolph Fischer; title: 1886 Trial Speech of Louis Lingg; title: 1890 Primo Maggio (The First of May), Pietro Gori; title: 1890s Anarchist Mayday: London in the 1890s,  John Quail; title: 1893 Extracts from Altgeld's Reasons for Pardoning the Haymarket Anarchists; title: 1895 A Crime and its Results, William Holmes; title: 1907 The First of May and the General Strike, Mother Earth; title: 1928 The First of May: Symbol of a New Era in the Life and Struggle of the Toilers, Nestor Makhno; title: 1945 May First, Luigi Bertoni; title: 1947 A Cry in the Dark: May Day in Unredeemed Spain, National Committee of the CNT; title: 1973 1886 – First Of May – 1973: A Day of Protest and Social Awareness, Anarchist Groups of Chile; title: 1978 To Latin American Comrades: 1886 – First of May – 1978, Libertarian Latin American Coordination; title: 1983 May Day Leaflet, Reading Anarchists; title: 2000 A Mayday over MayDay, Bash Street Kids; title: What is Anarchism? A Definition