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	Social Democratic Federation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Social Democratic Federation (SDF) was established as Britain's first organised socialist political party by H.
		On February 27, 1900, Hyndman and the SDF met with the ILP, the Fabian Society and trade union leaders at the Memorial Hall in Farringdon Street, London.
		In 1907, he renamed the group the Social Democratic Party, and in 1911 established a new group, the British Socialist Party (BSP).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_Democratic_Federation (703 words)

	Social Democratic Party (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		From 1907, the "Social Democratic Party" was also the official name of the Social Democratic Federation.
		The Social Democratic Party (SDP) was a political party of the United Kingdom that existed nationwide between 1981 and 1988.
		This proved to be unpopular, and the party was re-named the Liberal Democrats in October 1989, as had been originally proposed at the September 1988 conference by the party's Tiverton branch.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_(UK) (3034 words)

	Social Democratic Federation
		The Social Democratic Federation (SDF) became the first Marxist political group in Britain and over the next few months Hyndman was able to recruit trade unionists such as Tom Mann and John Burns into the organisation.
		Although the membership was never very large, the Social Democratic Federation continued and in February 1900 the group joined with the Independent Labour Party, the Fabian Society and several trade union leaders to form the Labour Representation Committee.
		The Social Democratic Federation was so close to the old Radical movement that the miner could accept it without misgivings despite the fact that it was essentially English, inspired by Marx's best-known English disciple, H. Hyndman, and with little Scottish blood in its hierarchy at the outset.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Psocial.htm (1361 words)

	Old American Red Groups
		Social Democratic Federation: Founded in 1936 at New York City by the right-wing "Old Guard" of the Socialist Party over disagreements with SP leader Norman Thomas.
		Social Democratic Party of America: Founded in 1897 at Chicago by Eugene V. Debs at a convention of the American Railway Union, of which he was president.
		Social Democrats USA: Ex-leftist group formed in 1973 when former members of the Independent Socialist League (ISL) and the Social Democratic Federation succeeded in seizing the Socialist Party of America's National Committee, pulling it to the right.
	reds.linefeed.org /past.html (6069 words)

	Socialist Party
		The two merging groups were the Social Democratic Party of Eugene Victor Debs and the "Kangaroo" wing of the older Socialist Labor Party.
		The Socialist Democratic had been organized in 1898 by veterans of the Pullman strike of the American Railway Union, led by Debs, and was largely composed of American-born workers.
		At the riotous Democratic Party Convention in Chicago in 1968, Realignment Socialists were present as delegates, and Bayard Rustin, having lost his old pacifist and radical orientation, served in effect as a fl floor manager for Humphrey.
	www.course-notes.org /parties/socialist.htm (1542 words)

	Party Politics in Iceland, 1963 to 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Social Democrats also lost their spot in the government, as the Independence and Progressive Parties formed a coalition that is still in place.
		The Social Democratic Party was involved in roughly half of the coalitions between 1963 and 1999.
		In 1979, the Social Democrats held the position of Prime Minister in a caretaker capacity; this was the only Prime Minister who was a member of neither the Independence nor Progressive Parties.
	www.janda.org /ICPP/ICPP2000/Countries/2-ScandinaviaBenelux/22-Iceland/Iceland63-00.htm (1866 words)

	Social Democratic Federation
		In British history, a socialist society, founded as the Democratic Federation in 1881 and renamed in 1884.
		It was led by H M Hyndman (1842–1921), a former conservative journalist and stockbroker who claimed Karl Marx as his inspiration without obtaining recognition from his mentor.
		The SDF organized meetings and marches for the unemployed that led to some clashes with police in central London in 1886 and 1887.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0025263.html (258 words)

	Guide to the Social Democratic Federation of America Records 1933-1956 Tamiment 011 Processed by Tamiment staff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Social Democratic Federation of America (SDF) was organized in 1936 after the split in the Socialist Party between the Old Guard and the Militants.
		The Social Democratic Federation of America (SDF) was organized in 1936 after the split in the Socialist Party ranks between the Old Guard and the Militants.
		In 1938 and 1939, the SDF conducted a vigorous campaign in support of the release of Fred E. Beal who was serving a 17 to 20 year prison term for being convicted of murdering a police chief during the 1929 Gastonia, North Carolina, textile workers strike.
	dlib.nyu.edu:8083 /tamwagead/servlet/SaxonServlet?source=/sdf.xml&style=/saxon01t2002.xsl&part=body (2300 words)

	Democratic Socialism in Britain published by Pickering & Chatto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Old Worlds for New, published when British guild socialism was at its zenith, reveals that Penty made a wide range of proposals for the design of the post-industrial society that he saw as the successor to possessive individualism.
		In the 1930s, all but a Marxist at a time when democratic socialism seemed unable to stand up to the Fascist dictators, he opposed the reformist State on the grounds that it could only be the executive committee of the wealth- owning classes.
		The New Fabian Essays contain papers on the recent past and the future prospects of British socialism that were written in that transitional period of revision and reappraisal.
	www.pickeringchatto.com /democraticsocialism.htm (1484 words)

	Twentieth Century Press/ Social-Democratic Federation pamphlets (1890-1928) By year of publication (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Liquor municipalisation :is it contrary to the objects and principles of socialism :a verbatim report of a public debate between Mr John H. Roberts (convener of the National Independent Temperance Party) and Mr Harry Quelch (editor of "Justice") at Carlisle, on Wednesday, Nov. 30th, 1904 (revised by the debaters)
		Socialism and the survival of the fittest / by J. Connell
		Socialism and sanity :a challenge to the Labour movement in the light of important changes taking place in the structure of capitalism, and the call for a new socialist strategy
	www.wcml.org.uk /holdings/sdf_20thc_bydate.htm (1807 words)

	Reference Documents for the Social Democratic Front
		When we adopted this concept of democratic socialism we envisaged it to be a means of furthering the individual’s right to self-determination at all levels, eliminating dictatorship and catalysing autonomy.
		SDF Educational Policy provides full-scale universal primary education program, which will permit all Cameroon citizens up to the age of 16 to obtain basic knowledge capable of fighting poverty.
		The SDF has a policy on sustainable environmental management, a policy whereby the forests are exploited with concurrent rejuvenation and the safeguard of the progress of the desert southwards.
	www.sdfparty.org /english/references/367.php (7746 words)

	Labour Party - LoveToKnow 1911
		1856) from the socialist organization known as the Social Democratic Federation (founded 1881), was formed at Bradford, with the object of getting independent candidates returned to parliament on a socialist programme.
		Meanwhile in 1899 the Trade Union Congress instructed its parliamentary committee to call a conference on the question of labour representation; and in February 1900 this was attended by trade union delegates and also by representatives of the Independent Labour party, the Social Democratic Federation and the Fabian Society.
		In June of that year the Miners' Federation, returning 15 members, joined the Independent Labour party, now known for parliamentary purposes as the "Labour Party"; other Trades Unions, such as the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, took the same step.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Labour_Party (280 words)

	IALHI News Service: British Social Democrats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		It derived its inspiration from Marx and was an important influence on the developing labour movement at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century.
		However, the old view of the SDF among historians was that it was a narrow dogmatic sect with a limited understanding of socialist theory.
		The SDF are found to have developed their ideas over time and adapted them to changing conditions.
	www.iisg.nl /~ialhi/news/i0303_9.php (220 words)

	A Collection Of Oddities: The Bradford Branch of the Social-Democratic Federation
		In that defeat lies the clue to subsequent Labour historiography, whereby the SDF was relegated to the margins.
		The SDF was impressed by the encouraging progress of its Bradford branch and the Federation's annual conference for 1906 was held in the city Charlie Glyde was able to report that the six Bradford delegates to the ILP conference had strict instructions to vote for fusion, a further tribute to Hartley's efforts in that direction.
		The SDF was the pioneer of the socialist revival in Britain and its presence in Bradford, the stronghold of the ILP, is a reminder of that fact.
	www.bradfordhistorical.org.uk /antiquary/third/vol05/oddities.html (6980 words)

	Harry Quelch
		Quelch was elected to the executive of the SDF in 1883 and remained a loyal supporter of H.
		Quelch now became an increasing important member of the Social Democratic Federation and in 1886 he left his job in the warehouse and became the paid editor of the party's journal, Justice.
		On 27th February 1900, Quelch represented the Social Democratic Federation at the meeting in London that established a Labour Representation Committee (LRC).
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUquelch.htm (586 words)

	glossary2.html
		He was a member of the Social Democratic Federation from 1884 to 1889, the year he was elected to the London County Council.
		Easley served as secretary of the National Civic Federation (1900-1903) and as chairman of its executive council (1904-39).
		Tobin was elected president of the Teamsters (from 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters; and from 1910, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen, and Helpers) in 1907 and moved to Indianapolis; he served in that office until 1952.
	www.history.umd.edu /Gompers/glossary2.html (1286 words)

	Church Socialist League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Church Socialist League was founded in 1906 following an address by the Labour MP Keir Hardie at Mirfield, with the initial aim of furthering the socialism of the Independent Labour Party and Social Democratic Federation within the Church.
		Socialism is the fixed principle, according to which the community should own the land and capital collectively, and use them co-operatively for the good of all.
		Members shall co-operate as far as possible to secure the consideration of social questions at their various Ruridecanal and Diocesan Conferences, and the election of Socialists on these and other representative bodies.
	www.anglocatholicsocialism.org /churchsocialist.html (459 words)

	editsep
		Therefore we say that those who know that socialism alone is the remedy and yet make alliances with those who are not Socialists, with the object of realising certain reforms that cannot, even if realised, benefit the workers, are betraying the cause of labour.
		This had countless victims and one of these was the language of socialism which was corrupted by its association with state oppression.
		A democratic system organised solely for needs would bring not just a sane way to live but a world-wide celebration of all that is best in being human.
	www.worldsocialism.org /spgb/sep04/editsep.html (1570 words)

	George Bernard Shaw / Biography
		Shaw now joined the Social Democratic Federation and its leader, H. Hyndman, introduced him to the works of Karl Marx.
		Shaw became an active member of the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), and became friends with others in the movement including William Morris, Annie Besant,Walter Crane, Edward Aveling and Belfort Bax.
		The Fabian Society rejected the revolutionary socialism of the Social Democratic Federation and were concerned with helping society to move to a socialist society "as painless and effective as possible".
	www.cooperativeindividualism.org /shawgbbio.html (874 words)

	How the British Labour Party was formed
		Some socialists from groups like the Social Democratic Federation were also reluctant to support a party of labour on the grounds that it would be limited to labour representation in Parliament and would not be socialist!
		The model Social Democratic party was the German Social Democratic Party, which was based on Marxism.
		By the 1890s the SDF was declining in favour of the Independent Labour Party.
	www.marxist.com /britain-formation-lp201202.htm (3045 words)

	SP USA History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In 1956 the Socialist Party and the Social Democratic Federation reunited, under pressure from the Socialist International (which both groups were affiliated.) A right-wing group in the SDF opposed the merger, and established the Democratic Socialist Federation.
		The Debs Caucus had a valid claim to recognition as a voice of Socialism, for it included the former National Chairman Darlington Hoopes, the Socialist ex-Mayor of Milwaukee Frank Zeidler, and many of the state and local SP organizations, including Wisconsin, Illinois, California, and locals in Philadelphia, Washington DC, and New York City.
		In the Democratic primaries the Shachtmanites supported Henry Jackson, a hawk and a strong supporter of Israel (the latter having become a litmus test for the Shachtmanites).
	sp-usa.org /spri/sp_usa_history.htm (2839 words)

	Anti Essays : Free Essays on Socialism Essay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In 1956 the Socialist Party and the Social Democratic Federation reunited, under pressure from the Socialist International (with which both groups were affiliated).
		Socialism will establish a new social and economic order in which workers and consumers will take responsibility for and control of production, and residents will take responsibility for and control of their homes, schools, and local government.
		For these reasons they call for social ownership and democratic control of productive resources, for a guarantee to all of the right to participate in societal production, and to a fair share of society's product, in accordance with individual needs.
	www.antiessays.com /essay.php?eid=2089 (752 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia â“ Free Online Encyclopedia for Reference, Research, Facts
		In 1881 he founded the parent organization of the Social Democratic Federation, which in 1911 became the British Socialist party, with Hyndman as chairman.
		Hyndman reorganized the Social Democratic Federation in 1920.
		Among his works are The Historical Basis of Socialism (1883), The Economics of Socialism (2d ed.
	www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:Hyndman (110 words)

	Equivocal Feminists - Cambridge University Press
		It reassesses the history of the SDF, exploring for the first time SDF ideas and practice on issues such as marriage and 'free love', women and work, and the suffrage, as well as the attitudes taken to women and their potential as socialists.
		Dr Hunt shows how the SDF came to officially equivocate on the woman question and how this shaped what it meant to be a socialist woman in the following years.
		The SDF and the Woman Question: The Theory and Practice of the Party on Aspects of the Woman Question: 4.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/print.asp?isbn=0521554519&print=y (302 words)

	Marxists Writers Archive
		Co-founder of the German Social Democracy with Wilhelm Liebknecht in 1869.
		Believed that democratic control of all industries and services must be held by workers organised into industrial unions.
		Became pessimistic about the prospects for socialism by the end of World War Two, but was later to become a supporter of Mao.
	marxists.anu.edu.au /archive (2248 words)

	Anarchist Communism in Britain
		Examples of the returning strength of the movement can be seen in the secession of a group from the Social Democratic Federation in Plymouth, the majority of whom set up an Anarchist Communist group in 1910, and a similar secession from the industrial unionist Industrialist League in Hull in 1913.
		Their wilful failure to translate this into the establishment of a national organisation was a disaster, as International Socialism (the precursor of the Socialist Workers Party) was able to build on this territory abandoned by Solidarity (and by the Anarchist Federation of Britain).
		The Anarchist Federation of Britain (AFB) had slowly emerged in the aftermath of the political dead-end and decline of the Committee of 100 and the growing new radicalism of the1960s, with its founding conference in Bristol in 1963.
	flag.blackened.net /af/org/issue42/acbrit.html (6732 words)

	Harry Quelch
		The British Social-Democratic organisation was formed in 1884 and was called the Social Democratic Federation.
		Socialism is again raising its head in Britain, getting through to the masses and growing irresistibly despite the rank opportunism of the British near-socialist intelligentsia.
		When the party was split in 1916 it became the organ of the minority of social-chauvinists; it continued publication until 1925.
	marx2mao.phpwebhosting.com /Lenin/HQ13.html (881 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		At that time there were several overlapping organisations with associated periodicals - The Social Democratic Federation with Justice and Today,the Fabian society with the Practical Socialist and Our Corner, the Socialist League with the Commonweal, and so on.
		Meanwhile Charlotte Wilson wrote an account of anarchism in the fourth Fabian tract,What Socialism is,which was published in June 1886, and led the anarchists at a joint socialist meeting which supported parliamentary socialism by a two-to-one vote,at Anderton's Hotel in London in September 1886.
		At first it was described as a journal of Anarchist Socialism, but in June 1889 it became a "Journal of Anarchist Communism"; it has always represented the mainstream tradition of anarchism, through giving a voice to differing views.
	www.spunk.org /library/pubs/freedom/sp000606.txt (471 words)

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