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 Socialist League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Socialist League in Canada was a Trotskyist group founded in 1974 by Ross Dowson and was better known by the name of its newspaper, Forward
Socialist League was a Trotskyist organization in Sweden.
The Socialist League of Palestine was founded in 1936 by Hashomer Hatzair.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_League   (223 words)

  
 International Socialist Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The ISG is the result of the 1988 fusion of two organisations, the International Group and the Socialist Group.
Former members of the Socialist League established the International Group after the Socialist League moved away from the Fourth International in the mid-1980s.
The Socialist Group represented the political continuity of the Workers Socialist League which had broken from Gerry Healy's Socialist Labour League in 1973 and suffered a failed merger with the International-Communist League.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/International_Socialist_Group   (413 words)

  
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He remained a leading figure in the Socialist League for four years, but he was often unhappy in it, resigning after personal differences temporarily from the Council in 1885 and permanently from the League itself in 1889.
The Socialist League was itself yet another coalition, united at first mainly by hostility to Hyndman, and it soon developed parliamentarist and antiparliamentarist fractions, "which are pretty commensurate with the Collectivists and Anarchists", said Morris, who tried to hold the balance between them.
We revolutionary socialists desire to organise ourselves in such a manner as to render politics useless and the powers that be superfluous, i.e., that we aim at the abolition of the State in every form and variety.
recollectionbooks.com /bleed/Encyclopedia/LaneJoseph/josephlane.html   (8891 words)

  
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The latter was the progenitor of the Communist League (CL).
Scientific socialists, by their analysis of British contemporary capitalist society, understand that forces are at work which are in process of transforming the working class into an invincible revolutionary force, led by a strong vanguard party.
Socialist realism bases itself upon and further develops the finest achievements of bourgeois critical realism, overcoming in the course of this development the limitations of content and form of the latter in order to achieve a truthful, penetrating, developmental and powerfully moving treatment of reality.
harikumar.brinkster.net /CommunistLeague/WBBTHESEART1972.html   (5371 words)

  
 Pioneers of socialism
The Socialist League, a breakaway from the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), which was established in the 1880s by William Morris, Eleanor Marx, Edward Aveling and other pioneering socialists, was remarkably close to the Socialist Party in its ideas and aims.
The Socialist League was founded in 1884 after the resignation of a number of socialists from the SDF which had taken the position of working gradually for socialism through the winning of reforms, so-called stepping stones to socialism.
Parliament, according to the League, was a capitalist institution which would only be strengthened by reformist policies and which would subvert a socialist party from a body which campaigned for social revolution to a corrupt body which would inevitably campaign for election on a reformist programme.
www.worldsocialism.org /spgb/nov98/pioneer.html   (1052 words)

  
 Tom Maguire: Classical Marxist?
The generation of socialists who contributed most towards the construction of the huge trade unions and left-wing parties of the International, were those active in the 1880s as socialism was transformed from a sect into a real force.
In Britain, one of the most heroic figures in this generation was Tom Maguire, a journeyman and poet who helped to found the Leeds Socialist League, one of the first socialist societies in northern England.
Eleanor Marx of the Socialist League was invited onto the executive of the gas workers' union.
www.dkrenton.co.uk /research/maguire.html   (5130 words)

  
 Martin Upham: History of British Trotskyism (Chap.5)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The CL arrived in the Socialist League [46] at exactly the right time to advocate to a willing audience the case which came most naturally to it: the need for an industrial drive.
The Marxist League had failed to send delegates to the pre-conference of the International Communist League convened in July 1936 [93] but was sufficiently moved by the (“Geneva”) resolution on Britain to send three delegates to the national meeting of Bolshevik-Leninists on 11 October.
This was a significant achievement in the London-centred League.
www.marxists.org /history/etol/revhist/upham/05upham.html   (8686 words)

  
 Anarchist Communism in Britain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Regrettably, whist Socialist League branches distributed Freedom around the country there was a certain antipathy between the Leaguers and the Freedomites.
Alongside this was the heritage of Morris and Co within the broad socialist movement, which was asserting itself within the Socialist Labour Party, the British Socialist Party, (the successor of the SDF) and the Independent Labour Party.
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)

  
 Joseph Lane   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Lane signed both the statement explaining the split, To Socialists, and the Manifesto of the Socialist League, and he joined the Council of the new organisation.
The Socialist League produced a leaflet, For Whom Shall We Vote ?, concluding : "Do not vote at all !") At the second annual conference in July 1886, the antiparliamentarist policy was reaffirmed, but the parliamentarist fraction began to turn into a faction, working secretly to win branches over to a parliamentarist policy.
But in May 1889 he quietly resigned from the Socialist League, and in November 1889 he just as quietly ceased to be named as publisher of The Commonweal.
recollectionbooks.com /bleed/Encyclopedia/Walter/joelane.htm   (3600 words)

  
 The Emergence of Modern Irish Socialism 1885-87   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Moreover, the libertarian socialism of the Socialist League remained influential within Dublin socialism until, arguably, the arrival of 'new unionism' and the subsequent establishment of branches of the Independent Labour Party in the mid-1890s.
The Socialist League in Britain formed in December 1884 as a breakaway from the SDF.
In April 1886, the Dublin Socialist League was instrumental in bringing William Morris to Dublin and, among other meetings, he spoke on socialism to a packed meeting of the Saturday Club.
struggle.ws /rbr/rbr3_irish.html   (2812 words)

  
 RED GROUPS OF THE UK
Socialist Campaign Group: The SCG is the chief organizational base of the democratic socialist wing of the Labour Party.
Socialist Party of Great Britain: Founded in 1904, the Socialist Party of GB is one of the oldest political parties in the UK, even older than the Labour Party.
Socialist Party: The SP was originally founded by a former member of the Trotskyist Revolutionary Communist Party, Ted Grant, in the 1970’s around the publication Militant.
reds.linefeed.org /ukgroups.html   (3213 words)

  
 Socialist League
Socialist League published a manifesto written by William Morris and Ernest Belfort Bax that advocated revolutionary international socialism.
However, William Morris was disappointed by the slow growth of the organisation.
Britain's economic problems in the 1880s helped to revive interest in the Socialist League.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUleague.htm   (709 words)

  
 Page Trotskyist History
The RIL was formed in November 1984 as the British section of the ITC by a group of comrades all of whom had been members of the Workers Socialist League until their expulsion in May 1983 and of the Workers Internationalist League (WIL) until its splits in January 1984 and Summer 1984.
The Workers Socialist League was formed in 1974 as a result of the expulsion by the Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP) of the Oxford based opposition led by  Alan T., Tony R., and John L..
While there has been considerable discussion in TILC and in the ITC and elsewhere on the history of the Socialist Labour League/ Workers Revolutionary Party in the context of the crisis of the Fourth International, a summary of the main points pertinent to the development of the Workers Socialist League is necessary.
home.igc.org /~itobr/history/trothist1.html   (11227 words)

  
 Groves: Socialist League   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Reg Groves, born in 1908, joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in the mid-1920s and was a member of the Balham Group, a number of CPGB members critical of the party leadership in the early 1930s.
In the meantime he wrote material for the Socialist League and was elected to its executive in 1936.
The dissolution of the Socialist League can be regarded then, as an act of immolation on the altar of the “United Front”, or as an of murder.
www.marxists.org /history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol1/no1/socleag.html   (4609 words)

  
 International Stamps --> Info and Comparisons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
When it was founded in the Summer of 1984 the ITC was essentially the continuation of the earlier Trotskyist International Liaison Committee, whose largest section had been the Alan Thornett-led Workers Socialist League in Britain.
In Britain its supporters are active in the Socialist Alliance and the Democracy Platform of that grouping.
The split was co-ordinated by the American section, the Socialist Workers Party, and included the British section under Gerry Healy and the French Parti Communiste Internationaliste (PCI).
www.crashdatabase.com /computers/67/international-stamps.html   (1194 words)

  
 Google Directory - Society > Politics > Socialism > Youth and Student
Socialist Zionist youth movement affiliated with the left wing Meretz party in Israel as well as the kibbutz movement.
The youth section of Socialist Action, YSA is in sympathy with the United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USFI).
Left-social democratic nation-wide youth wing of the Socialist Party USA with chapters in schools and cities across the country.
www.bush2004.com /directory/politics/Socialism/Youth_and_Student   (334 words)

  
 Socialist Party
As the socialist went to press UCU leaders accepted a revised offer of 13.1% over three years, with 15.5% for non-academic staff.
We campaign for a socialist society free from the horrors of war and poverty.
Shows how socialists campaign for a better world today, and explains a new, socialist world is possible.
www.socialistparty.org.uk   (1157 words)

  
 The Emergence Of Modern Irish Socialism 1885-87 - Ireland / Britain History of anarchism - Anarkismo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The historian Fintan Lane on the early socialist and libertarian movement in Ireland in the 1880's
The early socialist and libertarian movement in Ireland in the 1880's
Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere.
www.anarkismo.net /newswire.php?story_id=26&media_type=TEXT   (3013 words)

  
 A Summary Description of the papers of Jimmy Deane
He joined the Militant Group in 1937 and was the co-founder of the Liverpool branch of the Workers' International League in 1939.
He was one of the founders of the Revolutionary Socialist League in 1956 and was appointed as its first General Secretary.
Although he returned to Britain he did not resume his active role in the Trotskyist movement: he remained loyal to his political beliefs, however.
www.warwick.ac.uk /services/library/mrc/ead/325col.htm   (392 words)

  
 In Defence of Marxism
Scottish Socialists on the verge of a split
The Scottish Socialist Party is being torn apart by an internal wrangle that was sparked off back in 2004 by a dispute between its leading figure, Tommy Sheridan, and the News of the World newspaper about his personal life.
All genuine socialists back the SSP against attacks by the state, but questions need to be asked of why the party has reached this sorry state.
www.marxist.com   (1394 words)

  
 Young People's Socialist League
Meanwhile, the United Nations will debate whether to renew the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in May. This global agreement, signed long ago, was meant not only to stop the spread of nuclear arms to new countries, but committed the declared nuclear states (the U.S., Britain, France, Russia and China) to dismantling their own nuclear arsenals.
Of course, the U.S. has flagrantly violated this treaty, keeping over 5,000 nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert, while the Bush administration publicly contemplates a first use policy against "rogue states" like North Korea and Iran.
The Tom Mooney Local of the Socialist Party (western MA) held a discussion group meeting last Wednesday.
www.ypsl.org /cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id=10   (577 words)

  
 Nazi Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Soon, mirroring Stalin's terror in the Soviet Union, an estimated army of about 100,000 spies and infiltrants operated throughout Germany, reporting to Nazi officials the activities of any critics or dissenters.
Most ordinary Germans, happy with the improving economy and better standard of living remained obedient and quiet, but many political opponents, especially communists and socialists, were reported by omnipresent eavesdropping spies, and put in prison camps where they were severely mistreated, and many tortured and killed.
Initially, the United Kingdom could do little to come to the rescue of its European allies and Germany subjected Britain to heavy bombing during the Battle of Britain.
nazi-germany.iqnaut.net   (2821 words)

  
 Trotskyist Parties and Organizations of the World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Socialist Left Force (Fuerza de Izquierda Socialista, FIS), Peru
Socialist Action Group (SAG), Australia, split from SA added May 05
Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores, PST), Uruguay
www.broadleft.org /trotskyi.htm   (806 words)

  
 Socialist Action   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Below is a sampling of socialist and working class links.
 Socialist Popular Convergence Party – a current within (Paraguay)
Workers Organization for Socialist Action - close to the FI (S. Africa)
www.socialistaction.org /links.htm   (116 words)

  
 Jay's Great Britain Leftist and 'Progressive' Links
International Socialists: The Scottish Section of the Committee for a Workers' International Party
The Kate Sharpley Library and Documentation Centre - "is dedicated to researching and restoring the history of the anarchist movement and regularly publishes information on lost areas of anarchist history.
London Hazards Centre - "is a resource centre for Londoners fighting health and safety hazards in their workplace and community.
www.neravt.com /left/directory/countries/britain.htm   (1154 words)

  
 William Morris, 1834-1896, English Socialist and Artist, Manuscripts
William Morris, 1834-1896, English Socialist and Artist, Manuscripts
Fragment of a letter to May Morris upon Morris' death
In our Online Catalogue (OPC) you'll find many books and brochures on William Morris.
www.iisg.nl /archives/morris   (62 words)

  
 Global DOCUMENT index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Socialist Purpose: To Educate the Working Class– by Frank Lovell, Bulletin in Defense of Marxism, publication of the Fourth Internationalist Tendency
The Socialist Opposition to the American Bourgeoisie, by James P. Cannon, 1951, from Trotskyism in the United States, Paul Le Blanc.
Revolution and Counter Revolution in Portugal – the 1975 document that laid the groundwork for the founding of the Bolshevik Tendency of the USFI and later the IWL(FI) – by Nahuel Moreno
www.marxists.org /history/etol/document   (3444 words)

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