Ludlow, Colorado, 1914: eleven thousand mine workers had been on strike for seven months against John D. Rockefeller’s ...

Foreword: In 1910, the socialist movement in America was spearheaded by the Socialist Party of America (SPA), founded in 1901 ...

When Eugene V. Debs first visited Butte on February 8, 1897, he was already a prominent labor union activist. He was a founder of the American Railway Union and was involved in the nationwide ...

As it must to all men, Death came last week to Eugene Victor Debs, Socialist. In Woodstock, Ill., there is a boys' school, a collection of retired farmers, a prison. In the prison in the year 1895 ...

Eugene V. Debs was born in Terre Haute on Nov 5, 1855. His revolutionary spirit lives in the global struggle for economic and social justice. While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there ...

In 1893, Debs played a key role in organizing the first modern industrial-scale union, the American Railway Union, where different workers within one industry came together across jobs and skill ...

That piece of history belongs to Eugene V. Debs, who ran on the Socialist Party ticket in 1920 — and garnered almost a million votes, or about 3 percent. The circumstances are obviously different.