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Socialism in the United Kingdom is thought to stretch back to the 19th century from roots arising in the English Civil War. Notions of socialism in Great Britain have taken many different forms from the utopian philanthropism of Robert Owen through to the reformist electoral project enshrined in the Labour Party that was founded in 1900 and ...
The Socialist Movement was a left-wing grouping in the United Kingdom which grew out of the Socialist Conferences held in Chesterfield, Sheffield and Manchester in the years following the defeat of the 1984–1985 miners' strike. [1]
By 1842, socialism "had become the topic of a major academic analysis" by a German scholar, Lorenz von Stein, in his Socialism and Social Movement. [ 44 ] [ 90 ] Chartism , which flourished from 1838 to 1858, "formed the first organised labour movement in Europe, gathering significant numbers around the People's Charter of 1838, which demanded ...
In 1997, Militant Labour changed its name to the Socialist Party, [5] and the Militant newspaper was renamed The Socialist. In March 2009, the Socialist Party was invited to participate in No to EU – Yes to Democracy (No2EU), a left-wing alter-globalisation coalition by the RMT union leader Bob Crow, for the 2009 European Parliament elections ...
The British Socialist Party (BSP) was a Marxist political organisation established in Great Britain in 1911. Following a protracted period of factional struggle , in 1916 the party's anti-war forces gained decisive control of the party and saw the defection of its pro-war right wing.
History of socialism in the United Kingdom. Add languages. Add links. Article; Talk; English. Read; Edit; View history; ... History of the socialist movement in the ...
The Socialist Labour Party was a socialist political party in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1903 as a splinter from the Social Democratic Federation (SDF) by James Connolly , Neil Maclean and SDF members impressed with the politics of the American socialist Daniel De Leon , a Marxist theoretician and leading figure of the Socialist ...
The Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB) is a socialist political party in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1904 [ 2 ] as a split from the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), it advocates using the ballot box for revolutionary purposes and opposes both Leninism and reformism .