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  Socialist Labor Party of America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Renamed in 1877, the SLP was a confederation of small Marxist parties from throughout the United States, becoming the first nationwide Socialist party.
The SLP is the second oldest of the so-called "third parties" (the Prohibition Party being the oldest).
Always critical of both the Soviet Union and of the Socialist Party's "reformism," the SLP has been isolated from the majority of the American Left, and that isolation seems to be ever-increasing.
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 Socialist Party USA - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Socialist Party of the United States of America (SPUSA) is one of the heirs to the Socialist Party of America of Eugene V. Debs and Norman Thomas.
The Socialist Party USA is significant in American politics in that it is the only explicitly democratic socialist party in the United States.
The party rejects the practice of democratic centralism, meaning that its individual members are free to disagree publicly with party policy even after decisions have been arrived at.
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The Socialist Labor Party Hall, a two story flat roofed brick building with a gambrel-roofed single story rear hall, was constructed in 1900 by volunteers of the Italian community in Barre, Vermont as a meeting hall for the Socialist Labor Party, a political group dedicated to social and labor reform.
The basis of the Socialist labor movement involved some fundamental beliefs, including reduced hours and increased wages for workers, education of all children up to the age of 18, equal civil and political rights for all men and women, and workmen's compensation and insurance in case of an accident, sickness, old age or unemployment.
She urged large labor delegations to appear before bosses with their demands rather than to trust single or small groups of supposed union leaders who play for positions rather than the welfare of the workers they are suppose to represent.
www.uvm.edu /~histpres/HPJ/NR/barrelabor/statement.html   (1901 words)

  
 Socialist Party USA - Celebrating Over 100 Years As America's Voice For Democratic Socialism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The two merging groups were the Social Democratic Party of Eugene Victor Debs and the "Kangaroo" wing of the older Socialist Labor Party.
The SLP had its roots in the American circles of Marx's First International and the Workingmen's Party of America, and was primarily composed of immigrants in big cities.
In 1928, the Socialist Party revived as an independent electoral entity under the leadership of Norman Thomas, an opponent of World War I and a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union.
sp-usa.org /about/history/early-years.html   (698 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Socialist party (U.S. History) - Encyclopedia
In 1898 the Social Democratic party was formed by a group led by Eugene V. Debs and Victor Berger.
Two years later, Debs ran for president with the support of the more moderate wing of the Socialist Labor party, and in 1901 this group, led by Morris Hillquit, united with the Social Democratic party to form the Socialist party.
In 1919 this faction withdrew from the party, thereby substantially weakening it, and formed the Communist party of the United States.
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 ipedia.com: Socialist Labor Party of America Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Socialist Labor Party of America is the oldest socialist political party in the United States and the second oldest socialist party in the world.
It is an "impossibilist" party in its doctrines.
In the dispute which wracked the Second International as to the possibility of reforms being won through socialists entering capitalist governments the SLP was firmly on the side of the "impossibilists" which has stuck as a label of sorts applied to it and the Socialist Party of Great Britain.
www.ipedia.com /socialist_labor_party_of_america.html   (381 words)

  
 Socialist Labor party on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
During the 1880s a national organization was established and the party concentrated, unsuccessfully, on electoral politics.
The depression conditions of the 1890s brought it renewed strength, and, under the leadership of Daniel De Leon, a Marxist revolutionary, it emphasized militant labor activities and organized (1896) its own union.
The role of law in the rule of economics: a critical study of Ghana's labor laws.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/SocL1ab.asp   (329 words)

  
 SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY document downloads   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
These three letters exchanged between ths National Executive Committee of the Socialist Labor Party and the Board of Directors of the Socialistic Cooperative Publishing Association detail the issues of press centralization and party discipline that were part and parcel of the 1899 SLP split.
The May 1899 Correspondence between the SLP and the SCPA (document above) and this reply were sent to the sections and members of the party as background information along with a call for the membership to decide the issue with a vote.
Hillquit, a member of the SLP from 1888, was a leader of the so-called "Kangaroos" associated with the New Yorker Volkszeitung, a group which broke with the SLP over the issues of dual unionism and the perception of a dictatorial internal regime within the SLP.
www.marxists.org /subject/usa/eam/slpdownloads.html   (1452 words)

  
 Socialist Labor Party
SLP presidential candidates won 33,510 votes in 1904, 14,029 in 1908 and 29,213 in 1912.
The life of the Party organization was dominated by the necessity of maintaining a daily paper, a terrible task.
When the history of the labor movement and the Social Revolution will be written by future historians, his name will be mentioned with reverence as one who gave of the fullness of his truly wonderful mind and heart that the Disinherited of the earth might come into their own.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAsocialistL.htm   (1294 words)

  
 Socialism
After the death of Eugene Debs in 1926 Norman Thomas became the leader of the party and was its presidential candidate in 1928, 1932 and 1936.
Under the leadership of Michael Harrington, the Socialist Party Conference in 1968 passed a resolution endorsing Hubert Humphrey for president.
Lease somewhat unsexed herself by her indulgence in turbulent and inflammatory discourse at Cooper Union that all women are unfitted by Nature to participate in the excitement of political contests or to have a voice in the calm and deliberate discussions which ought always to attend upon the settlement of grave and serious governmental problems.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAsocialist.htm   (6201 words)

  
 Socialist Labor Party Hall
The building was constructed in 1900 by volunteers of the Italian community as a meeting hall for the Socialist Labor Party, a political group dedicated to social and labor reform.
Labors leaders such as Eugene Debs and Samuel Gompers are known to have visited Barre and, although unconfirmed, likely spoke at the Hall.
The Socialist Labor Party Hall is located at 46 Granite St. It is undergoing restoration and is currently closed to the public.
www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/centralvermont/cv26.htm   (504 words)

  
 SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY publications   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Socialist Labor Party was predominantly a German-speaking organization in its earliest years.
This publication was at the center of the split of 1899, leaving the SLP in 1899 amidst many lawsuits on a political trajectory which ended with the formation of the Socialist Party of America in 1901.
Documentary Evidence Proving Correctness and Authenticity of the SLP Translation of Frederick Engels' Introduction to "Class Struggles in France" by Karl Marx and an Exposure of the "Communist" or Burlesque Bolsheviki...
www.marxists.org /subject/usa/eam/slppubs.html   (2139 words)

  
 All.info: Society and Social Sciences / Issues and Activism / Socialists /   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Socialist Party campaigns, with working class communities, against all the attacks of the government and big business from the privatisation of the NHS to the destruction of our environment.
The Socialist Labor Party of America SLP is the original party of socialism in the USA.
The Labor Party is a national organization consisting of affiliates from thousands of national unions, local unions, worker supportive organizations and indifvidual members.
allinfo.com /directory/Society_and_Social_Sciences/Issues_and_Activism/Socialists   (761 words)

  
 Labor Hall
Much of the construction work was done by Socialist Labor Party members in their limited free time after grueling ten hour, six day weeks of heavy labor in the quarries.
Italian socialists built the hall in 1900 to serve their community’s need for a meeting place but went well beyond that goal by organizing a choral society, a band, language classes, study circles, dances, theater, musical productions, and sporting events.
The Labor Hall continued to function under socialist stewardship during the 1930s, although less vigorously, until 1936 when it was sold at auction to the Washington Fruit Company to be used as a warehouse.
www.ptvermont.org /commentary/labor_hall.htm   (2098 words)

  
 SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY OF AMERICA (1876-1930) history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The SLP remained deeply divided between Lassalleans (who believed in the efficacy of political action the need to concentralte on electoral politics first and foremost) and Marxists (who believed that electoral politics was futile and that successful organization must take place in the realm of the trade unions).
This group initially attempted to circumvent the New York NEC of the SLP and to declare itself and its organ the official center of the organization in light of the interparty emergency that erupted in the Summer of 1899.
The SLP was not committed to joining the organization, but rather saw itself as the logical American representative of the revolutionary socialist program in America and sought to explain its specific views to the Comintern and return with the Comintern's specific views for the consideration of the SLP.
www.marxists.org /subject/usa/eam/socialistlaborparty.html   (2839 words)

  
 Facts About the Socialist Labor Party, Socialist Theory, Socialist Practice, Socialist Education, Socialist ...
The Socialist Labor Party (SLP) is the original party of socialism in America.
The Socialist Industrial Union program, as the SLP program is known, developed by Daniel De Leon (1852-1914), is a continuation of Karl Marx's ideas on a workers' government.
Membership in the SLP is open to any responsible person of good character who is (1) in basic agreement with the Party's principles and program, (2) willing to abide by its Constitution and majority decisions, (3) at least 18 years old, and (4) has severed all ties with other political parties.
www.slp.org /facts.htm   (714 words)

  
 Letter from James Plant to Cyril E. May
The SLP has always held the position that the class-conscious, socialist, working class should use the ballot and the might of its industrial organisations in the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a socialist society.
While you are entitled to hold a different perspective to Marx and the SLP on this question, you cannot be justified in distorting or misrepresenting the SLP stand by implying that the SLP does not attach much importance or significance to political action and the ballot.
After the break from the IWW some in the SLP, and many supporters who were not party members, argued against De Leoifs insistence that political action and the ballot was of vital importance in the struggle for emancipation.
libertariansocialism.4t.com /db/db020304.htm   (2209 words)

  
 SAMUEL JOHNSON: An Inventory of His Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society
Long active in local Socialist Labor Party organizations, Johnson served as treasurer (of the St. Paul section?) in the 1900s and 1910s and as state secretary in the 1930s and 1940s.
Socialist Labor Party materials include state executive committee minutes (1945-1948, 1950), St. Paul Section activity (organizer) reports (1946-1947), Minnesota state convention reports (1948, 1950), miscellaneous organizational files (1893-1951), and financial records and papers, including bank statements, financial reports and statements, Weekly People invoices and statements, and miscellaneous receipts (1894-1948).
Records of the Socialist Labor Party of Minnesota are in the Minnesota Historical Society manuscript collections.
www.mnhs.org /library/findaids/00529.html   (897 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Socialist Labor Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
From 1949 to 1989 the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party (HSWP) dominated the nation’s political life.
Labor Party (Israel): pictures related to the Labor Party
Labor Party (Australia) : pictures related to the Australian Labor Party
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 Handbook of Texas Online: SOCIALIST PARTY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Three Socialist parties have existed in Texas-the Socialist Labor party, Socialist party of Texas, and the Socialist Workers party.
The Socialist Labor party nominated candidates for governor from 1898 to 1914 (except for 1902) without polling more than 590 votes in any election.
In the 1970s the Socialist Workers party briefly flourished, fielding candidates in state elections from 1972 through 1978 and in national elections in 1972 and 1976.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/print/SS/was1.html   (311 words)

  
 1896: The Socialist Labor Platform
The Socialist Labor party of the United States, in convention assembled, reasserts the inalienable right of all men to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Again, through the perversion of democracy to the ends of plutocracy, labor is robbed of the wealth which it alone produces, is denied the means of self-employment, and by compulsory idleness in wage slavery, is even deprived of the necessaries of life.
Prohibition of the employment of children of school age and of the employment of female labor in occupations detrimental to health and morality.
projects.vassar.edu /1896/slpplatform.html   (632 words)

  
 laborhall
A Grand Re-Opening Celebration for the Socialist Labor Party (SLP) Hall in Barre, Vermont, was held on September 2, 2000 in the Hall.
From 1900 to 1935, the SLP Hall served a variety of community social, political and cultural functions, and was the receiving station for 35 children from Lawrence, Massachusetts, during the Bread and Roses Strike of 1912.
Now the SLP Hall is a proud contributor to the ongoing development of downtown Barre, a "designated downtown" under Vermont law and thus eligible for special funding and technical assistance.
www.ptvermont.org /success/laborhall.htm   (852 words)

  
 Guide to the Socialist Labor Party Records,1877-1907
Despite the fragmentation or paucity of some types of records, the collection as a whole documents many facets of the Party's development, organization, thought, and tactics, as well as its contribution to the labor and socialist movements in a turbulent era of industrial change and of social and economic stress in the United States.
Founded in 1877, the Socialist Labor Party (SLP) developed into the foremost socialist organization in the United States at the turn of the century and was the first American Marxist party to maintain its existence over a long span of years.
Clippings pertain to the labor and socialist movements, and particularly to the activities of the SLP, including its debates, conventions, party philosophy, agitation and speaking tours and political campaigns.
rmc.library.cornell.edu /EAD/htmldocs/KCL05168.html   (479 words)

  
 1896: Socialism
The party had been founded in Philadelphia in 1876 andwas led by the fiery Daniel De Leon, a prickly Marxist who rejected any alliance with Populists or other "reformers." The SLP's small voter base was concentrated in a few cities, primarily in the Northeast.
From prison, Debs ran for president on the Socialist Party of America ticket in 1920 and won 3.5 percent of the vote.
It has believed that the party stood for the abolition of industrial slavery, and found justification for this belief in the undeniable fact that a large proportion of the active, non-office-seeking element of the party sincerely desired and labored for the triumph of the fundamental ideas of social reconstruction contained in the platform.
projects.vassar.edu /1896/socialism.html   (1219 words)

  
 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Socialist Labor Party
But given Blair's unprecedented success as the man who led Labor to victories in 1997 and 2001, his rivals within the party are unlikely to abandon him heading into elections expected next spring.
Following Aznar's defeat in the polls by the Socialist Labor Party, many Spanish journalists are now infuriated, accusing the prime minister of trying to "censure and manipulate" them.
In a related development, Spanish deputy of the Socialist Labor Party (PSOE), Consuelo Romi, told Arab daily "asharq Al-Awsat," illegal immigration must be dealt with as a priority issue in Moroccan-Spanish relations and that the European Union should get involved to find an adequate solution.
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 Tony McCristal, Industrial Socialist Labor Party, anti-conscription election leaflet, c.1919
At the annual conference of the New South Wales Labor Party in 1918, a move to strengthen the position of the New South Wales trade unions in the ALP, was narrowly defeated.
What the fledging Industrial Socialist Labor Party had not been able to achieve through the ballot box, it achieved by raising the spectre of a major split in the Labor Party.
Once the Federal ALP had adopted a socialist objective, there was no real reason for the continued existence of the Industrial Socialist Labor Party, by the end of 1921 it existed in name only.
www.takver.com /history/myunion/myunionp23.htm   (419 words)

  
 Taiwan Labor Party (Laodongdang) Taiwan Labour Party Workers' Party
The Labor Party advocates socialism, upholds social justice, supports the oppressed and underprivileged and demands an equitable distribution of social resources in order to achieve the full development of both society and its individual members.
The Labor Party is opposed to bourgeois democracy, which inevitably leads to oligopoly (rule by the rich) and a government which represents only business interests.
The Labor Party calls for a peaceful resolution of the conflict between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, ending the state of civil war and cross-Straits military crises, moving gradually towards reunification with a high degree of autonomy for Taiwan.
www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Senate/6173/lp-en.htm   (403 words)

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