On November 11, 1887, four anarchists were hanged, after being found guilty of murder of a cop in Chicago's Haymarket Square, though the prosecutor admitted that they were actually tried for being anarchists.
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The Haymarket affair is often talked about as part of the struggle for the eight-hour workday. While technically true, the eight men that were tried were not mere reformers, they were anarchists fighting for the destruction of capitalism and the State.
“…the system of wages is the root of the present social iniquities…”—August Spies, Haymarket martyr
“The universal misery, the ravages of the capitalistic hyena have brought us together in our agitation, not as persons, but as workers in the same cause.”—Louis Lingg, who committed suicide in his cell by biting down on a blasting cap the night before the execution
“I hit upon the ballot box; for it had been told me so often that this was the means by which workingmen could better their condition. I took part in politics with the earnestness of a good citizen; but I was soon to find that the teachings of a ‘free ballot box’ ARE A MYTH, and that I had again been duped. I came to the opinion that as long as workingmen are economically enslaved they cannot be politically free.”—George Engel, Haymarket martyr
“…if every working man had a bomb in his pocket, capitalistic rule would soon come to an end.”—George Engel, Haymarket martyr
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