The Socialist Party of Washington was the Washington state section of the Socialist Party of America, an organization originally established as a federation of semi-autonomous state organizations.
George Boomer, formerly of "Equality" colony, was the first representative of the WPA on the Socialist Party's National Committee.
This 1897 ad by Debs' Social Democracy of America states that "one of the States of the Union, to be hereafter determined, shall be selected for concentration of our members and the introduction of cooperative industry."
Radical newspaper publisher Dr. Hermon Titus, a former Baptist preacher, was a key factional leader in the SPW in the first decade of the 20th century.
Hermon Titus's Seattle weekly, The Socialist, rallied the revolutionary socialist "Reds" of the Socialist Party of Washington. It was also declared the official organ of the left wing Socialist Party of Nebraska.
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The Social Democracy of America, later known as the Cooperative Brotherhood, was a short lived political party in the United States that sought to combine the planting of an intentional community with
Eugene V. Debs addresses the founding convention of the Social Democracy of America in Chicago, June 15, 1897
SDA membership card issued September 17, 1897