American Socialist leader, presidential candidate and legend Eugene V. Debs was born November 5, 1855. Debs campaigned against US participation in WWI and was sentenced ten years in jail for a speech he gave. He had his sentence commuted by president Warren G. Harding in December, 1921 but died in 1926 of cardiovascular issues that were a result of his time in prison. Debs was the Socialist candidate for president of the United States five times, one of those runs being in 19

Photo with American leftist icons Eugene V. Debs (right rear) and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (right front) taken in Minersville, PA, USA May...

On June 16, 1918 the great US Socialist leader Eugene V,. gave his famous speech in opposition to World War I and in favour of peace and...

Striking portrait of American Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs for the cover of the leftist magazine The Liberator, May 1919 The previous...

The Lenin Children's Home in Orenburg After the devastation of the First World War, the triumph of the Bolshevik Revolution saw the lands...

On September 18, 1918 American Socialist leader, presidential candidate and legend Eugene V. Debs gave his famous and stirring statement...

Eugene V. Debs addresses a crowd, 1910 -- Daily LIFT #532 The burning question of the hour is that of unity and by this I mean the unity...