Our next meeting is on March 22, 2026...Click here for details

Our next meeting is on March 22, 2026...Click here for details

The original socialist party in baltimore

We are a local chapter of the Socialist Party USA, which continues the work of the original Socialist Party of America (1901-1972). The Socialist Party of America was active in Maryland over one hundred years ago, contesting Gubernatorial elections from 1903 to 1938 and Presidential elections from 1904 to 1948. In the 2020s, we have inherited the tradition of Socialist candidates advocating for a socialist society. Click here to learn more about the history of the Socialist Party in Baltimore, and how we are continuing the tradition now.

The Socialist Party strives to establish a radical democracy that places people's lives under their own control – a classless, feminist, socialist society free of racism, sexism,  homophobia or transphobia, in which people cooperate at work, at home,  and in the community.

Socialism is not mere government ownership, a welfare state, or a repressive bureaucracy. Socialism is a new social and economic order in which workers and consumers control production and community residents control their neighborhoods, homes, and schools.  The production of society is used for the benefit of all humanity, not for the private profit of a few. Socialism produces a constantly renewed future by not plundering the resources of the earth.