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Shawn Gude

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You’ve Been Lied to About the 1963 March on Washington

It’s popularly remembered as a moderate demonstration. In fact, it was the culmination of a mass, working-class movement against racial and economic injustice.

by Shawn Gude, William P. Jones via Jacobin on August 28, 2022
Eugene Debs Believed in Socialism Because He Believed in Democracy

Eugene Debs’s unswerving commitment to democracy and internationalism was born out of his revulsion at the tyranny of industrial capitalism.

by Shawn Gude via Jacobin on September 2, 2020
Eugene Debs Was an American Hero

He forced the country to engage in a three-year conversation about the meaning of free speech that shaped policy and law after World War I.

by Shawn Gude, Ernest Freeberg via Jacobin on June 16, 2020
The Socialist Party in New Deal–Era America

The 1930s Socialist Party is often seen as a marginal force, but its successes laid the groundwork for the next generation of organizing.

by Shawn Gude, Jack Altman via Jacobin on October 1, 2019

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Painting imagining John Brown (bearded man embracing Black child), being escorted by authorities.

Eugene Debs’s Stirring, Never-Before-Published Eulogy to John Brown at Harpers Ferry

In 1908, Eugene Debs eulogized John Brown as America's "greatest liberator," vowing the Socialist Party would continue Brown's work. We publish it here in full.

by Eugene V. Debs via Jacobin on October 1, 1908

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