Opinion of the (original) Chicago Eight

[TNF]

In 1886, August Spies, Samuel Fielden, Adolph Fischer, George Engel, Louis Lingg, Michael Schwab, Oscar Neebe and Albert Parsons were blamed for and ultimately convicted of masterminding the Haymarket bombing of May 4. Engel, Fischer, Parsons, and Spies were ultimately hanged for the crime (Fielden, Schwab, and Neebe were granted clemency and Lingg committed suicide the day before he was to be hanged) of holding heterodox political views. To this day, we celebrate the 1st of May as International Labor Day, commemorating the fight for the 8 hour day and in remembrance of the martyrs of the Haymarket Affair.

I think the answer to this is a fairly obvious one - these men were undoubtedly Freedom Fighters and should be honored as such.

[Torie]

Unless there was an issue about whether they actually did it, sounds like they were murderers to me, killing innocent people. Maybe there is a circumstance where that might be justifiable, but I can't think of one off hand, and certainly not in this instance. So HP's who are burning like hot cakes on a griddle in hell, to the extent there is a hell.

[TNF]

Unless there was an issue about whether they actually did it, sounds like they were murderers to me, killing innocent people. Maybe there is a circumstance where that might be justifiable, but I can't think of one off hand, and certainly not in this instance. So HP's who are burning like hot cakes on a griddle in hell, to the extent there is a hell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair#Legal_proceedings

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Regardless if they did it or not, I wouldn't call them FFs.