The Social Democratic Workers' Party was a socialist political party in the Netherlands existing from 1894 to 1946. Originating from a split in the prior Social Democratic League, the party was a pred
A plaque in Zwolle commemorating the founding of the SDAP
A political poster of the SDAP. It reads: The Reds call, strengthen the SDAP
A famous cartoon by Albert Hahn in the socialist paper Het Volk. It reads: "The whole machinery stops, if your mighty hand wills it so"
A political poster of the SDAP by Albert Hahn. It reads: "Sign the People's Petition for Universal Suffrage"
Pieter Jelles Troelstra
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Pieter Jelles Troelstra was a Dutch lawyer, journalist and politician active in the socialist workers' movement. He is most remembered for his fight for universal suffrage and his failed call for revo
Social Democratic Workers' Party (Netherlands)
…elections. They were afraid that the parliamentary work would drift the socialists away from what socialism was really about. A minority of members led by Pieter Jelles Troelstra tried to prevent this, and later left the party in order to found a new party. The foundation of a new party was controversial within the socialist…
Portrait of Troelstra, 1926
Pieter Jelles Troelstra (about 1912)
Swedish Social Democratic leader Hjalmar Branting (right) and Pieter Jelles Troelstra (left) during the 1917 Stockholm Peace Conference.
Statue of Pieter Jelles Troelstra in Utrecht