History: The Socialist Party of the United States of America was formally organized at a unity convention in Indianapolis in 1901. The two merging groups were the Social Democratic Party of Eugene Victor Debs and the "Kangaroo" wing of the older Socialist Labor Party. From the beginning the Socialist Party was the organization for American radicals. Its membership included Marxists of various kinds, Christian socialists, Zionist and anti-Zionist Jewish socialists, foreign-language speaking sections, and virtually every …showed first 75 words of 650 total…

…showed last 75 words of 650 total…realized for everyone who wants to work. Campaign Reform: The Socialist Party supports the public financing of candidates for public office as long as this funding extends to the candidates of alternative political parties. They call for the closing of the loophole sanctioned by the Supreme Court under which candidates can spend an unlimited sum of their personal wealth on their own campaigns. They also call for equal access to media for all political parties.