Which Side are You On? From Haymarket to Now

Authors

  • Don Mitchell Department of Geography, Maxwell School, Syracuse University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v7i1.810

Keywords:

Haymarket Affair, class struggle, radical geography, free speech, Haymarket Martyrs, radicalism

Abstract

This essay explores the relationship between the Haymarket Affair, class struggle, and a radical geography of free speech. Rather than focusing on the events of Haymarket itself, it examines how what the Haymarket Martyrs were struggling for – and why control of place and space was so crucial to that struggle – is deeply connected both to the radical strategies of organizations like the Industrial Workers of the World and to contemporary progressive and radical protest movements.

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How to Cite

Mitchell, D. (2015). Which Side are You On? From Haymarket to Now. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 7(1), 59–68. https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v7i1.810

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 1 (2008): Special Issue: Class Struggles and Geography: Revisiting the 1886 Haymarket Square Police Riot

Section

Research

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