Terror on the Streets of New York, Take One

Thank you for a wonderful article. May we expect ???Terror on the Streets Of New York, Take Two????
Regards,
Olafur Kjartansson, Iceland

Thank you for a wonderful article. May we expect ???Terror on the Streets Of New York, Take Two????
Regards,
Olafur Kjartansson, Iceland

This article doesn't say WHY some of these people were killed. King Umberto had just before his assasination ordered troops to fire on peaceful protesters, killing dozens. William McKinley started a war with Spain because of an attack by Cuban Nationalists, then annexed Guam, Cuba, and the Phillipenes. When the US comes in and kills an Empress or Tsar, it is celebrated, when an anarchist does it, he is bastardized.

The Haymarket bomb only killed 1 officer, the rest were killed by friendly fire, and the police killed many workers. The reason May Day is significant is because it is a day to honor 8 anarchists, some of whom weren't even at the rally, who were arrested and sentenced to death, 5 were hung.

"Like the anarchists, who never developed a coherent vision for a society without state power"
Are you kidding? Has the author ever read any Kropotkin. The vision for an Anarchist society was laid down 40 years before the Gaelleanist bombings. Economic and social plans had already been laid out.

This also ignores the vast social movement Anarchism was at the time which he speaks of. The Anarchist labor union in Spain (CNT) had 1.54 million members in 1934. The Italian anarchist labor union (USI) had 400,000 members, the American Syndicalist union (IWW) has 100-200 thousand members. The Portugese anarchist labor union had 40,000 members though it was an illegal organization living under a military dictatorship. Anarchism, at the height of the labor movement, was a massive ideology.

With the beggining of the Alter Globalization movement there has been an upsurge in anarchist activity. There are groups in (that I know of) America, Canada, Mexico, Ecuador, Cuba, Spain, Portugal, Russia, Estonia, Romania, Kahjackstan, South Africa, France, the UK, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Moldolva, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, China, Uganda, Lithuania, Latvia, Belgium, Netherlands, Venezuala, Nicuragua, Albania, Argentina, Peru, Armenia, Japan, Morocco, Hnduras, Hungary, Norway, Sweden, Australia, Finland, Turkey, Iceland, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Poland, Denmark, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Slovenia, Nigeria, Israel, Palestine, Kenya, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herezgova (sp?), Kosovo, Uruguay, India, Korea, Malaysia, Nepal, Czech Republic, Ukraine, New Zealand, Lebanon, Colombia, Bolivia, Chile, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Taiwan, and Indonesia. the source for the groups is ayp.subvert.info (Anarchist Yellow Pages).

History is so short. I grew up in New York, and until I read this article, I had no idea about the 1920 attach. Back then it wasn't a terrorist attach, but a "nut job" I'm sure. As we move forward in history, we need "victims" to justify a major war that has nothing to do with our suffering or those who hurt the most.