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Eugene V. Debs gives his antiwar speech in Canton, Ohio
Marlene Martin

The speech that made Debs Convict No. 9653

One hundred years ago, Eugene V. Debs gave one of the most famous speeches in the history of the socialist tradition, opposing war and capitalism.

June 15, 2018
Tom Twiss

A speech that resonates 100 years later

Socialists and activists are planning a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Eugene V. Debs’ antiwar speech in Canton, Ohio.

June 4, 2018
Jess Melvin

U.S. complicity in a genocide in Indonesia

Recently released documents provide new and damning evidence of Washington's role in the slaughter of communists in Indonesia.

November 22, 2017
Jewish refugees aboard the St. Louis in 1939
Annie Levin

The American tradition of refusing refugees

Donald Trump's ban on Muslim refugees is part of a shameful history that includes U.S. government policies to block European Jews fleeing the Nazis.

January 31, 2017
James Plested

Capitalism still breeds war

The Battle of the Somme during the First World War took place 100 years ago, but the scale of carnage is even greater today.

July 28, 2016
John Riddell

Liebknecht’s historic appeal against world war

A German revolutionary's stand 100 years ago resounded across Europe and gave new impetus to socialist antiwar currents.

December 2, 2014
Colin Wilson

It seemed like the end of everything

On the anniversary of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan, the story of one survivor recalls the horrors of those mass murders.

August 13, 2014
Obituary: Marek Edelman

A legacy of resistance

Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, passed away on October 2 at the age of 90.

October 12, 2009
Hanna Lévy-Hass

I will remember everything I have seen

In Diary of Bergen-Belsen, Hanna Lévy-Hass gives a never-read-before look at Nazi internment as told by a Jewish resistance fighter.

September 3, 2009