The Haymarket Martyrs and Occupy Wall Street
Submitted on December 14, 2011
By Charles Sullivan - Dissident Voice
On November 11, 1887 four great men, all of them anarchists, were hanged from a gallows erected inside Chicago’s Cook County Jail...The Haymarket martyrs...were accused of inciting violence against the Chicago police force that, acting at the behest of prominent businessmen, frequently beat and murdered unarmed strikers with impunity. No police officer was ever tried, much less convicted, for their crimes against workers attempting to democratize the workplace. This theme should sound a familiar refrain to modern protesters.
