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Lucy Parsons — ink portrait
§ The minds · 1851–1942 · United States · Organiser

Lucy Parsons

More dangerous than a thousand rioters

Labour agitator and IWW founder.

Progressive Syndicalist →
Economic−80
SocialistMarket
Governance−26
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Social+70
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The fiery labour organiser and IWW co-founder whose lifelong agitation for workers' power made her, in police words, 'more dangerous than a thousand rioters.'

social

Radical on race, sex and class — far ahead of her era.

economic

Workers' control through militant industrial organisation.

governance

Direct action against bosses and the state alike.

Notable for
  • Co-founded the IWW
  • Decades of labour agitation
  • Champion of the dispossessed
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