
Part One: The Haymarket Affair: The Bomb & the Eight-Hour Workday
Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
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The Lirond Vir Verin and the Second Amendment
The lirond vir verin were a group that we kind of can't leave out, because the labor organizers were organizing themselves into armed formations. It was the leftest militia movement in response to the right wing militias that had been forming and in response to all the strikers getting murdered. And so they would march in anarchist parades. When the laws wouldn't allow rifles, theread they would like march in formation alongside the parades. They'd hub these like mock battles where they'd run around and practice fighting at the picnics. But none of them could compete in numbers or sheer coolness with the lerond virverin,. which was the education and defences ation
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