Socialist League (UK, 1885)
Late 19th century revolutionary socialist group in the United Kingdom / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Socialist League was an early revolutionary socialist organisation in the United Kingdom. The organisation began as a dissident offshoot of the Social Democratic Federation of Henry Hyndman at the end of 1884. Never an ideologically harmonious group, by the 1890s the group had turned from socialism to anarchism,[1] and disbanded in 1901.
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Socialist League | |
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Abbreviation | SL |
Leader | William Morris |
Secretary | John Lincoln Mahon (1884–1885) Henry Halliday Sparling (1885–1886) Henry Alfred Barker (1886–1888) Fred Charles (1888) Frank Kitz (1888–1890) |
Founders | |
Founded | 27 December 1884 (1884-12-27) |
Dissolved | 1901 (1901) |
Split from | Social Democratic Federation |
Succeeded by | Bloomsbury Socialist Society |
Headquarters | 24 Great Queen Street, London |
Newspaper | Commonweal |
Membership (1887) | 550 |
Ideology | |
Political position | Far-left |
International affiliation | Second International |
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