The May 4, 1886 bombing that shook the world

On May 4, 1886, someone threw a bomb in Chicago’s Haymarket Square.

Timothy Messer-Kruse, author of The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks, and Leon Fink, editor of the recently released Workers in Hard Times both recently appeared on Chicago’s WBEZ radio to discuss the Haymarket bombing, anarchism and the labor and radical political movements of the 1880s and beyond.

WBEZ 91.5 Curious City — After Haymarket: Anarchism on trial and a city in search of its soul

You can also hear Messer-Kruse take issue with the Wikipedia entry about the Haymarket affair in this 2012 interview on NPR’s Morning Edition.


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