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Lucy Parsons, la ribelle

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Si ricorda troppo spesso Lucy Parsons come “moglie di” Albert Parsons, una delle vittime della repressione del caso diHaymarket Square, giustiziato l’11 novembre 1887. Ora la sua lunga vita di lotta non testimonia che la nascita di un potente movimento sociale e sindacale negli Stati Uniti. Ne fu infatti un’attrice di primo ordine, sviluppando un anarco-sindacalismo che associava anticapitalismo, antirazzismo e antisessismo.

Nascita di una militante anarchica

Lucy è nata nel 1853 nel Texas. Meticcia, secondo la sua testimonianza, di un padre indiano Creek e di una madre messicana, senza dubbio anch’essa di origini afro-americane. Orfana a tre anni, un’infanzia da schiava. Incontra Albert Parsons nel 1870, un vecchio soldato confederato pentito. Si sposano illegalmente – le leggi razziste del Texas proibiscono il matrimonio “interrazziale”. Militante contro il razzismo, Albert è esposto: è minacciato di impiccagione, si prende una pallottola nella gamba. Sua moglie e lui temono per la loro vita e fuggono Waco per Chicago, nel 1873.
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A Word to Tramps

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Lucy E. Parsons (1884)

A word to the 30,000 now tramping the streets of this great 
city, with hands in pockets, gazing listlessly about you at the 
evidences of wealth and pleasure of which you own no part, not 
sufficient even to purchase yourself a bit of food with which to 
appease the pangs of hunger now gnawing at your vitals. It is 
with you and the hundreds of thousands of others similarly situ- 
ated in this great land of plenty, that I wish to have a word. 
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To tramps, the unemployed, the disinherited, and miserable (en/fr)

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By Lucy E. Parsons (1884)

A word to the 35,000 now tramping the streets of this great city, with hands in pockets, gazing listlessly about you at the evidence of wealth and pleasure of which you own no part, not sufficient even to purchase yourself a bit of food with which to appease the pangs of hunger now knawing at your vitals. It is with you and the hundreds of thousands of others similarly situated in this great land of plenty, that I wish to have a word.
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To tramps, the unemployed, the disinherited, and miserable (en/fr)

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By Lucy E. Parsons (1884)

A word to the 35,000 now tramping the streets of this great city, with hands in pockets, gazing listlessly about you at the evidence of wealth and pleasure of which you own no part, not sufficient even to purchase yourself a bit of food with which to appease the pangs of hunger now knawing at your vitals. It is with you and the hundreds of thousands of others similarly situated in this great land of plenty, that I wish to have a word.
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Aux vagabonds, aux chômeurs, aux déshérités, aux miséreux… (fr/en)

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Originalement publié dans le numéro du 4 octobre 1884 du journal anarchiste Alarm, ce texte fut distribué sous forme de tract par l’International Working People’s Association, organisation anarchiste dont le but était de reprendre là ou la première AIT (1864-1877) s’était arrêtée, et à laquelle appartenaient Albert Parsons (compagnon de Lucy), August Spies, et d’autres anarchistes emprisonnés et exécutés à la suite de la tentative insurrectionnelle de Haymarket à Chicago en 1886.
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