History of the socialist movement in the United States Day as the main workers holiday around the world (except in the United States, which celebrates Labor Day on the first Monday of September) and making the 8-hour day a worldwide objective by workers organizations and socialist parties worldwide. Under Socialist Party of America presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs, socialist opposition to World War I led to the governmental repression collectively known as the First Red Scare. The Socialist Party declined in the 1920s, but nonetheless often ran Norman Thomas for President. In the 1930s, the Communist Party USA took importance in labor and racial struggles while it suffered a
First Monday (journal) Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT), University of Maastricht. First Monday (journal) First Monday is a monthly peer-reviewed open access academic journal covering research on the Internet. The journal is sponsored and hosted by the University of Illinois at Chicago. It is published on the first Monday of every month. In 2011, the journal had an acceptance rate of about 15%. The journal has no article processing charges and no advertisements. According to the chief editor, Edward Valauskas, the journal emerged before the open access model emerged: “We didn’t call it open access in 1995 but we