EUGENE VICTOR DEBS (1855-1926) was one of the greatest and most articulate advocates of workers’ power to have ever lived. During the early years of the labor movement in the United States, Debs was far ahead of his times, leading the formation of the American Railway Union (ARU) and the American Socialist Party.
Debs was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, on November 5, 1855. He left home at 14 to work on the railroad and soon became interested in union activity. As president of the American Railway Union, he led a successful strike against the Great Northern Railroad in 1894. Two months later he was jailed for his role in a strike against the Chicago Pullman Palace Car Company. While in jail, Socialist and future Congressman Victor Berger talked with Debs and introduced him to the ideas of Marx and socialism. When he was released from prison, he announced that he was a Socialist.
He soon formed the Social Democratic Party, which eventually became the Socialist Party in 1901. He became their perennial presidential candidate. He ran on the Socialist ticket in 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920 when he received his highest popular vote—about 915,000 (3.4%)—from within a prison cell. He had been arrested once again, this time for “sedition”; because he opposed World War I. Many Socialists were imprisoned during this time because they felt that the war was being fought for the profits of the rich, but with the blood of the poor. Debs was fortunately released in 1921.
Debs died in Elmhurst, Illinois, on October 20, 1926, but he is remembered to this day by countless labor activists from all over the political spectrum. The Eugene V. Debs Foundation works to continue his legacy into the 21st century…
To learn more about Debs and his life, read Stephen Marion Reynolds’ Biography of Eugene V. Debs for a full accounting of his life and times.
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Had to visit relatives yesterday. The old folks again repeating the slur for Russians that we have over and over again at the coffee table. I think one reason they love doing this extra-much now is the way I have voiced my opinion againts it in the past. They put real emphasis to it now, it feels like bullying. It is like it’s tied to their identity (and I suppose it is).
Also all the war mongering, nato loving, zenophobic talking points you coul dream of all in one visit.
This always puts a knot in my stomach for days after and lands me in a state of doom. These people raised me, they are shit people.
I’m sorry. Family can be the worst. I love my family more the longer it has been since I last saw them.
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i think it’s because of my age and that i mostly knew what went down with the previous three seasons beforehand, but i can’t stop fuming and being shocked at blowback’s afghanistan season
one of the things is that the US never claimed to be about women’s rights in trying to destroy cuba, or korea. but Afghanistan, a country that was better off 60 fucking years ago under a dipshit autocrat, these texan dipshits who funded antifeminism in afghanistan since 1979, who sold the country to patriarchal gangsters twice----they say they were there for the women. it makes my skin fucking crawl
That description of Malalai Joya standing in the parliament and seeing just like a list of names of warlords who mutilated and tortured innocent people and women in particular, feels like a scene from a racist western political cartoon.
Like “The ‘democratic’ Afghan parliament” and then a row of bearded caricatures with a list of their crimes next to them, except its of course not a caricature or political cartoon, but real life, and the west actually tried to promote it as legitimate and good.
Really hard to respect my coworkers when I feel second hand embarrassment whenever they work hard
As long as they don’t expect me to work as hard I’m good. They’ll come around to my way of thinking (lazy) eventually.
I’ve served in every single struggle session. I’ve lost accounts. I’ve lost comrades. And for what? So you can send me a
just now? YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT I’VE SACRIFICED FOR TRUTH.Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
IOF are now claiming their tanks weren’t blown up by Hamas fighters and that the video of the guy running up and putting a bomb on one before hitting it with an RPG was staged. The reality is that one of the tank’s crew members was just trying to charge his new Samsung Galaxy S8.
I really love this emote of kim
he just so fucking coolMy cat is crying in another room and I’m ignoring him, so he is literally creeping closer and closer around the corner until he’s just out of view and crying while peeking at me 🙄
Actually, you’re not allowed to cum until I tell you toI posted a link to Lockheed Martin’s lost of college partnerships to an Instagram story calling for people to pressure colleges to break contracts, and my comment was deleted by instagram and now I’m banned from commenting on the post til tomorrow. This has never happened to me.
In my work group chat I shared links to Doctors Without Borders, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. And then instructions how to get our employer to match donations. If I get any blowback for that then I didn’t want to work there in the first place.
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