History of the Socialist Movement

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• Articles about the history of the socialist movement
  • Arnold Petersen, The Soil and Roots of the Socialist Labor Party (1940)From SLP Golden Jubilee 1890-1940
  • Dallas Reynolds, The Origins of Socialist Industrial UnionismSep-Oct 2002 #115

• Reference
  • Arnold Petersen, Constitution of the United States : Founding of the Bourgeois Republic1937
  • Benjamin Franklin, "Private Property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society...."1789
  • Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1861
  • SLP Platform of 1889
  • Manifesto of the Industrial Unionists Convention, 1905
  • IWW-SLP Joint Resolution to the International Socialist Conference, 1907
  • SLP Resolution on Strikes, 1940
  • SLP Declaration of Fundamental Principles, 1940

• Related features of this site
  • The Workers' International Industrial Union (WIIU)
  • Selected articles from The People, the SLP periodical
  • A history of SLP leaflet distribution

• Related external links
  • Socialist Labor Party of Americaslp.org
  • Marx-Engels Internet Archivemarxists.org
  • Early American Marxism : Repository of Source Materialsmarxisthistory.org

• Locally contributed comments, opinions, notes....
  • M. Lepore, The Kangaroo Conspiracy Within the SLP 1886-1900
  • M. Lepore, De Leon Answered the Anti-Socialists