With an introduction by A.M. Simons, Charles Kerr translates the reports of mayors of the Guesdist ‘Parti Ouvrier’ from their French party press. This was published before the creation of the U.S. Socialist Party in 1901 as disparate groups of US socialists looked abroad for examples that weren’t the Socialist Labor Party.

Socialists in French Municipalities Translated from Official Reports by Charles H. Kerr. Charles H. Kerr Publishers, Chicago. 1900.

Contents: Socialists in French Municipalities by A.M. Simons, The Municipality of Roubaix by Felix Chabrouilland, The Municipality of Lille by Mayor G. Delory, The Municipality of Ivry by Mayor F. Roussel, The Municipality of Montlucon by Mayor F. Constans. 32 pages.

The Charles H Kerr publishing house was responsible for some of the earliest translations and editions of Marx, Engels, and other leaders of the socialist movement in the United States. Publisher of the Socialist Party aligned International Socialist Review, the Charles H Kerr Co. was an exponent of the Party’s left wing and the most important left publisher of the pre-Communist US workers movement.

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