Socialist Party leader Eugene V. Debs delivers his famous antiwar speech in Canton, Ohio, on June 16, 1918. This photograph was used as Exhibit No. 17 by the prosecution in Debs’ sedition trial.

The Socialist Party leader looked out on a crowd of 1,200 gathered among ... vibrant in the Midwest — and continues to shape American heartland ... movement in the history of ...

The Socialist Party had been formed in 1901 by a merger of the Social Democratic Party of America which had been founded by Eugene V. Debs in 1898 and a splinter group of members of the Socialist ...

At the founding meeting of the Socialist Party of America, the historic unity conference assembled at Indianapolis in July, 1901, only eight of the 128 delegates were women. None spoke on women’s ...

The SLP describes its program as Marxist-De Leonist, after Karl Marx and American socialist Daniel De Leone (1852-1914). The Party's Cleveland branch was organized in 1877, and at that time local ...