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E. T. KingsleyEugene Thornton Kingsley (1856 - December 9, 1929) was a founder and leader of the Socialist Party of Canada – and an editor of the Western Clarion – newspaper, one of the most prominent left wing publications in Canada before World War I. He ran for Parliament in the riding of Vancouver City in the 1908 and 1911 Canadian federal elections as a candidate of the Socialist Party of Canada and in the 1926 Canadian federal election in the riding of Vancouver Centre as a candidate of the British Columbia Independent Labour Party. He also ran for the British Columbia Legislative Assembly in the 1907 and 1909 provincial elections in Vancouver City provincial district as a Socialist Party of British Columbia candidate. He served as editor of the Western Clarion from 1903 until 1908 and was later active in the British Columbia Federated Labour Party where he served as a vice-president and eventually the British Columbia Independent Labour Party. In 1919, he edited the weekly paper, Labour Star, which survived for a few months. Early life Accident and radicalization Life in British Columbia The Nanaimo socialists left the SPBC in 1902 and established the Revolutionary Socialist Party of Canada. The Party's platform was the most radical platform drafted in Canada at the time. It called for the destruction of capitalism and said ' the pathway leading to our emancipation from the chains of wage slavery is uncompromising political warfare against the capitalist class, with no quarter and no surrender.'
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