In these pages, Eugene V Debs speaks out on capitalism and socialism, anti-immigrant chauvanism, use of the courts for union busting, the Russian revolution and international working-clas solidarity, and Rockefeller's massacre of striking miners at Ludlow, Colorado.
An introduction by James P Cannon, a founding leader of the communist movement in the United States, assesses the life and legacy of the pioneer socialist agitator and labo leader, jailed for opposing World War I.