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On April 7, 1917, the day after Congress declared war on Germany, an emergency convention of the Socialist Party took place in St. Louis. It declared the war "a crime against the people of the United States" [60] and began holding anti-war rallies. Socialist anti-draft demonstrations drew as many as 20,000 people. [61]
The councils of action took control of essential transport and other duties. [204] When the strike ended, the miners were locked out and remained locked out for six months. Bevan became a Labour MP in 1929. In January 1924, the Labour Party formed a minority government for the first time with Ramsay MacDonald as prime minister. The Labour Party ...
Fenner Brockway identified three early democratic socialist groups during the English Civil War in his book Britain's First Socialists, namely the Levellers, who were pioneers of political democracy and the sovereignty of the people; the Agitators, who were the pioneers of participatory control by the ranks at their workplace, and the Diggers ...
Giddens defines socialism as "the pursuit of ideas of social cooperation, universal welfare, and equality—ideas brought together by a condemnation of the evils and injustices of capitalism". For Giddens, socialism depends on a belief in "group action and participation" as well as "collective responsibility for social welfare". [229]
The Bolsheviks (Russian: большевики, bolsheviki; from большинство, bolshinstvo, 'majority'), [a] led by Vladimir Lenin, were a far-left faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks [b] at the Second Party Congress in 1903.
The first Red Scare was a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of far-left movements, including Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events; real events included the Russian 1917 October Revolution, German Revolution of 1918–1919, and anarchist bombings in the U.S.
Libertarian socialism, sometimes called left-libertarianism, [269] [270] social anarchism [271] [272] and socialist libertarianism, [273] is an anti-authoritarian, anti-statist and libertarian [274] tradition within socialism that rejects centralised state ownership and control [275] including criticism of wage labour relationships (wage ...
Since the 19th century, the United States government has participated and interfered, both overtly and covertly, in the replacement of many foreign governments. In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. government initiated actions for regime change mainly in Latin America and the southwest Pacific, including the Spanish–American and Philippine–American wars.