“Industrial Socialism”: Bill Haywood’s 1911 Run for Socialist Party Leadership. Online Presentation. April 17, 7 p.m. EST.

Militant traditions and revolutionary Socialist activity in the United States long predate 1917’s Russian Revolution. Traditions exemplified by William D. Haywood. Join Matt Siegfried from Revolution’s Newsstand as we explore the background to a key fight in U.S. Socialist history; Haywood’s run for the Socialist Party’s leading National Executive in December, 1911 as part of a larger, organized left-wing, working-class campaign to capture the Party from its reformist, middle-class leadership. We’ll follow the story from 1910’s Socialist International Congress to which Haywood was a delegate, through his resounding 1911 win, to the Socialist Party’s infamous Section 6 Article II, and Haywood’s 1913 recall from leadership and his, and many others, subsequent withdrawal from Party activity.

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