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I am reading a book titled, Heroes And Martyrs, by Howard Zinn. While I reading this book I learned about two Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti who were executed in the United States.

"At 3:00 P.M. on April 15,1920, a paymaster and his guard were carrying a factory payroll of $15,776 through the main street of South Braintree, Massachusetts, a small industrial town south of Boston. Two men standing by a fence suddenly pulled out guns and fired on them. The gunmen snatched up the cash boxes dropped by the mortally wounded pair and jumped into a waiting automobile. The bandit gang, numbering four or five in all, sped away, eluding their pursuers. At first this brutal murder and robbery, not uncommon in post-World War I America, aroused only local interest.

Three weeks later, on the evening of May 5, 1920, two Italians, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, fell into a police trap that had been set for a suspect in the Braintree crime. Although originally not under suspicion, both men were carrying guns at the time of their arrest and whenquestioned by the authorities they lied. As a result they were held and eventually indicted for the South Braintree crimes. Vanzetti was also charged with an earlier holdup attempt that had taken place on December 24, 1919, in the nearby town of Bridgewater. These events were to mark the beginning of twentieth-century America's most notorious political trial"

There is so much to say about this and I cannot cut and paste the entire article I read. However I encourage you to go to this website [link] and read the entire article. I do not know if Sacco and Franzetti were guilty or not. To my thinking that is not as interesting as the fact that these two men could not receive a fare trial. This trial was plagued with jingoism and racism. Sacco and Franzetti were Italian anarchists who spoke English with Italian accents.

If you read nothing, I beg you to read the following

"You have fought all the wars. You have worked for all the capitalists. You have wandered over all the countries. Have you harvested the fruits of your labors, the price of your victories? Does the past comfort you? Does the present smile on you? Does the future promise you anything? Have you found a piece of land where you can live like a human being and die like a human being? On these questions, on this argument, and on this theme, the struggle for existence, Bartolomeo Vanzetti will speak."

Anybody who has that to say in the 1920's in Capitalist society must be stopped.

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I am reading a book titled, Heroes And Martyrs, by Howard Zinn. While I reading this book I learned about two Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti who were executed in the United States.

"At 3:00 P.M. on April 15,1920, a paymaster and his guard were carrying a factory payroll of $15,776 through the main street of South Braintree, Massachusetts, a small industrial town south of Boston. Two men standing by a fence suddenly pulled out guns and fired on them. The gunmen snatched up the cash boxes dropped by the mortally wounded pair and jumped into a waiting automobile. The bandit gang, numbering four or five in all, sped away, eluding their pursuers. At first this brutal murder and robbery, not uncommon in post-World War I America, aroused only local interest.

Three weeks later, on the evening of May 5, 1920, two Italians, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, fell into a police trap that had been set for a suspect in the Braintree crime. Although originally not under suspicion, both men were carrying guns at the time of their arrest and whenquestioned by the authorities they lied. As a result they were held and eventually indicted for the South Braintree crimes. Vanzetti was also charged with an earlier holdup attempt that had taken place on December 24, 1919, in the nearby town of Bridgewater. These events were to mark the beginning of twentieth-century America's most notorious political trial"

There is so much to say about this and I cannot cut and paste the entire article I read. However I encourage you to go to this website [link] and read the entire article. I do not know if Sacco and Franzetti were guilty or not. To my thinking that is not as interesting as the fact that these two men could not receive a fare trial. This trial was plagued with jingoism and racism. Sacco and Franzetti were Italian anarchists who spoke English with Italian accents.

If you read nothing, I beg you to read the following

"You have fought all the wars. You have worked for all the capitalists. You have wandered over all the countries. Have you harvested the fruits of your labors, the price of your victories? Does the past comfort you? Does the present smile on you? Does the future promise you anything? Have you found a piece of land where you can live like a human being and die like a human being? On these questions, on this argument, and on this theme, the struggle for existence, Bartolomeo Vanzetti will speak."

Anybody who has that to say in the 1920's in Capitalist society must be stopped.