Labour Party (USA)

Labour Party Social Democratic Labour party
Abbreviation	LP, SDLP
Leader	Greg Casar
Founder	Henry George Eugene V. Debs
Founded	4 June 1901
Headquarters	Washington DC
Ideology	Social Democracy Democratic Socialism Progressivism Laborism Georgism Factions Agrarian Socialism Co-operativism
Political position	Center Left to Left-Wing
Religion	Secular
National affiliation	Popular Front
Colors	Rose-Red
House of Representatives	133 / 435
Senate	31 / 100

The Labour Party, officially the Social Democratic Labour Party of America, is a political party in the United States of America. The party would be co-founded by Henry George and Eugene V. Debs on June 4th, 1901. Currently, its headquarters are in Washington DC, however conventions are often times hosted in various cities such as Chicago and Detroit. The party is a center-left to left-wing party that believes in Social Democracy, Democratic Socialism, Progressivism, and Georgism, whilst factions within the party believe in Agrarian Socialism and the use of Cooperatives. The Party currently has 133 members in the House of Representatives, including 9 members of its associate party, Bloc Acadie, and 31st members in the Senate, including 2 members of Bloc Acadie. Formerly a Big Tent Socialist and Georgist party, the party would be reorganized under a more moderate Socialist Progressive light under the leadership of various leaders such as George Norris, Upton Sinclair, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Henry Wallace to become more appealing. The party itself has most appeal amongst working class workers in the rust belt whilst simultaneously often times competing with the People's Party and the Reform Party over rural farmers. .

History

<nowiki>The History of the Labor Party largely begins in the Gilded Age, where a rise in Progressivism combined with the relative poor working conditions amongst many as well as the rise in income inequality had led to many left-wing, progressive, and reform movements to become increasingly popular amongst the people. Various cities had been crammed with pollution, overcrowdedness, as well as poor living conditions for families, forced to be compacted in small apartment tenements, without sewage, water, etc. Numerous issues amongst working class Americans, with terrible work quality and efficiency would exist throughout the Gilded Age, as income inequality continued to skyrocket across the American nation. It would be this that various reform movements would begin to rise up, one of them being Georgism, a political movement, that advocated for the creation of a Land Value Tax in order to drive down land costs and to ensure that land could be developed without accumulating property taxes, land speculation would be prevented, and that the goverment would have more money to lower other taxes. Many Georgists believed that in turn, the government could use this extra money to also increase social spending for the poor and needy. Other political movements that came to rise would be the rise of left-wing movements, such as Socialists, Democratic Socialists, and Marxists, who advocated for, among other things, more proletarian control in order to effectively establish worker welfare and to ensure that the working class would control the means of production, although unlike other Socialist movements they largely agreed to exist within the democratic process. These two groups, the Georgists and the Broad Socialist Groups, would unite together into the United Labor Party, nominating Henry George for mayor of New York in 1886. Despite all odds, George would succeed in the elections, defeating Democrat Hewitt and Republican Roosevelt in the elections. His term is widely considered to be one of the best terms in the city's history, as in his two terms as mayor, he clamped down on Corruption, led an investigation on political machines, as well as implemented many social and economic policies that succeeded in lifting many out of poverty by implementing government jobs, as well as implemented a city Land Value Tax to replace Property Taxes, as well as instituting a law banning tenements, fixing the city sewage and waste issues, increasing the rights and quality of workers by forcing through factorial control systems and raising the city minimum wage. His term saw income inequality drop, and many lifted out of poverty. From his success as mayor, he would run for governor of New York, succeeding with the help of voters from New York City. From there, he would largely continue policies that worked in New York City, implementing a state Land Value Tax to replace Property taxes, increasing quality and rights of workers, amongst many others. His success as governor would attract the attention of many, as his popularity continued to grow.

Around this time, the Social Democratic Party of America would be formed as striking railway workers of the American Railway Union would launch, at that point, one of the largest strikes in American history. This party would attract many socialist movements throughout the United States, and quickly grow in traction, however soon found itself in cooperation with the United Labor Party in New York under Henry George. In 1901, the SDPA and the ULP would merge into the Labor Party, which essentially united the various left-wing labor movements in the United States under one banner.

Electoral History

Presidential

Year	Candidate	Result
1904	Endorsed Theodore Roosevelt	Won
1908	Eugene V. Debs/Ben Hanford	Lost
1912	Eugene V. Debs/Emil Seidel	Lost
1916	Allan L. Benson/George Ross Kirkpatrick	Lost
1920	Parley P. Christensen/Eugene V. Debs	Lost
1924	Robert M. La Folette/Burton K. Wheeler	Lost
1928	Upton Sinclair/Norman Thomas	Lost
1932	George Norris/Franklin D. Roosevelt	Won
1936	George Norris/Franklin D. Roosevelt	Won
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt/Henry A. Wallace	Won
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt/Henry A. Wallace	Won
1948	Henry A. Wallce/Glen H. Taylor	Won
1952	Glen H. Taylor/Wayne Morse	Lost
1956	Vincent Hallinan/Darlington Hoopes	Lost
1960	Endorsed Liberal Party	Won
1964	Endorsed Liberal Party	Won
1968	Robert F. Kennedy/William Guy	Won
1972	Michael Harrington/Irving Howe	Won
1976	Michael Harrington/Irving Howe	Won
1980	Michael Dukakis/Caesar Chavez	Lost
1984	Carl Gershman/Michael Dukakis	Lost
1988	George McGovern/Tom Kahn	Lost
1992	George McGovern/Tom Kahn	Won
1996	George McGovern/Al Gore	Won
2000	Al Gore/Penn Kemble	Won
2004	Al Gore/Penn Kemble	Won
2008	Endorsed Liberal Party	Lost
2012	Dennis Kucinich/Robert Reich	Lost
2016	Bernie Sanders/Elizabeth Warren	Won
2020	Bernie Sanders/Elizabeth Warren	Won
2024	Greg Casar/Mark Pocan	Won