Exclusive of the Socialist Labor Party, which is allied with the Workers’ International Industrial Union, or Detroit I.W.W., the three major divisions of American Socialist forces are the ...

The American Civil War from 1861 to 1865 and the Reconstruction era that followed completed the revolution, smashing the 254-year-old system of slavery in the American South and transforming ...

Back then — however surprising it may seem today — the American Socialist Party was indeed part of our political reality and, in 1904, it had come out in favor of compulsory national health ...

The writing is on the wall — and it’s not even being hid or denied any longer. “The Socialist Party stands for the abolition of every form of domination and exploitation, whether based on ...

His book—ostensibly a history of the Socialist Party of America (SPA), which existed formally from 1901 to 1972—reconsiders the successes and, mostly, failures of socialist organizing from the ...

Party affiliation was emphasized, but political issues receded into the background in the years after Reconstruction. This was a time when the class struggle erupted in such battles as the Great ...

How do we establish a successful Socialist Party of America, which would run candidates, not only in local and Congressional elections but also in the Presidential elections? The most important aspect ...

For most of the 20th century, much of the South embraced the party, whose ideological identity—like that of its foil, the Republicans—was forged by the deepest conflicts in American history.

Even when Howells called himself a socialist in the late 1880s, he continued to vote Republican, although he thought the party was corrupted. Howells’s socialism originated in an ethical crisis.