this is an addendum to last night's post on the nyu strike and it's transinstitutional valences.
today is November eleventh. before that meant veterans' day, it meant something else. 123 years ago today the anarchist and socialist organizers and leaders of the movement for the eight hour day in Chicago, Albert Parsons, August Spies, George Engel, and Adolph Fischer were hanged.
We ought to remember the haymarket "martyrs," ought to remember Peter Linebaugh's insights about the ways that the gallows, like the prisons, function as instruments of class struggle from above, of labor discipline and primitive accumulation.
also, let's remember Spies' last words: "There will be a time when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today!"
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