Socialists had a really good election
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 11/06/2020 - 7:38pmRepublicans lost the White House. Democrats lost seats in Congress.
However somebody had reason to celebrate Tuesday. Socialists.
Republicans lost the White House. Democrats lost seats in Congress.
However somebody had reason to celebrate Tuesday. Socialists.
Tuesday May 2, 1916
From The New York Times: Thousands March Singing Marseillaise
Wednesday April 18, 1906
From the Appeal to Reason: George Shoaf on Idaho Frame-Up, Part I
Wednesday April 11, 1906
Wilshire's Magazine: Editorial Calls for General Strike
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Friday March 17, 1916
From The Masses: "Do You Believe in Patriotism?" Part I
In the March issue of The Masses, various Socialist writers respond to the question, "Do you believe in Patriotism?" Today Hellraisers features the answers to that question from two prominent Socialist women, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Sara Bard Field. Tomorrow's edition will feature the responses of John Sloan and Charles Erskine Scott Wood. K. R. Chamberlin also offers an artistic answer to the question:
Artist K. R. Chamberlain on Patriotism
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Friday February 9, 1906
Greensboro, North Carolina - Interview with Mother Jones
The Daily Industrial News of Greensboro published the following interview with Mother Jones in its February 7th edition:
MOTHER JONES TELLS OF HER MISSION IN LIFE
-----Noted Socialist Visits Greensboro and Chats Most Entertainingly of Her Work,
Her Purpose and the Tactics She Invariably Pursues.
-----"Mother" Jones, the noted socialist who is to speak in Labor Union Hall on tomorrow night, came to this city two days ago. She was seen by a Daily Industrial News reporter last night, and talked freely of her life and work.
So many people picture "Mother" Jones as a kind of Carrie Nation who wields her hatchet against governments instead of saloons that the sight of the real woman fairly takes away the breath.
The best description of "Mother" Jones is her own soubriquet "mother," and when to that wholesome-hearted out-reaching motherliness is added humor, even mischievousness, jollity, and "spunk" immeasurable the reality is almost approached.
To reach it quite, however, would be impossible, for "Mother" Jones is one of those indescribable little persons who always just eludes description and analysis. Classify her as a woman fighter and striker, and her tender, sweet gentleness comes up in contradiction. Classify her as the woman with heart so exquisitely sympathetic and pitying that it aches for every hurt suffered by a fellow creature and the picture of the intrepid woman marching at the head of a great army of workmen baffles one.
Clinton wins by cornering the market on superdelegates, Sanders concedes, and the Sanderistas decide that "real" socialism isn't worth their time because the "real" socialists, i.e. the sectarians, are too hung up on doctrinal purity. Maybe they'll vote for Clinton or maybe they'll write in Sanders or maybe they'll stay home or something like that.
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Tuesday December 28, 1915
From the Appeal to Reason: Socialist Legislators from Three Nations Seek to End the War
From the Christmas Day edition of the Appeal comes the news that Socialists from the legislative bodies of Great Britain, Germany, and the United States have asked for an end to the war now raging in Europe:
Socialists Ask to End War in Parliament of Three Nations
-----Great BritainOn December 8, 1915, Philip Snowden, Socialist member of House of Commons, called upon the British Prime Minister for a statement as to the possibility of ending the war. This was Asquith's reply made in Parliament:
If proposals of a serious character for a general peace are put forward by the enemy governments either directly or through a neutral power they will be discussed by the allied governments.
Asquith thinks it is a sign of weakness for his country to begin peace negotiations. If that view is taken by all seriously and adhered to nothing but death of all the soldiers at the front could possibly end the war. Somebody must begin. Why not Great Britain?