Students of left-wing history may have heard of the “Pittsburgh Manifesto” — the 1883 statement that launched the American anarchist and syndicalist movements. The document, drafted by renowned anarchist-socialists including Albert Parsons, Johann Most and August Spies, would set the scene for the bloody Haymarket repression three years later. What’s less well-remembered is exactly where … Continue reading Mapping the birth of U.S. anarchism