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Socialist Party Of Great Britain Members
This is a list of notable current and former members of the Socialist Party of Great Britain. Where available, their term of membership is indicated. * A. S. Albery (1904) *E. J. B. Allen (1904–1906) *Alexander Anderson (1904–1926) * Moses Baritz *Robert Barltrop *Dan Billany (1931–1933) * John Bird (1950s) *Adam Buick (1962–) * F. K. Cadman (1904–after 1931) * Jim D'Arcy (1943-1991) *Jack Fitzgerald (1904–1929) * R. M. Fox * Alec Gray (1904–after 1911) *Edgar Hardcastle (1922–1991) *Horace Hawkins (1904–1905) *George Hicks (1904, 1908–1910) * Thomas A. Jackson (1904–1909) *Albert E. Jacomb (1904–1942) * Jack Kent (1904–1908) * Con Lehane (1904–1906) *Joan Lestor * Henry Martin (1904–1905, 1908–1911) * Cyril May (1940-1991) *Valentine McEntee (1904–1905) *Hans Neumann (1904–1911) * John Rowan *David Ramsay Steele (1960s) * George Walford * Laurie Weidberg * Harry Young (1940–1991) References {{reflist * Socialist Party of Great Britai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socialist Party Of Great Britain
The Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB) is a socialist political party in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1904 as a split from the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), it advocates using the ballot box for revolutionary purposes and opposes both Leninism and reformism. It holds that countries which claimed to have established socialism had only established "state capitalism" and was one of the first to describe the Soviet Union as state capitalist. The party's political position has been described as a form of impossibilism. History Origins The SPGB was founded in 1904 as a split from the Social Democratic Federation (SDF) to oppose the SDF's reformism and as part of a response to that organisation's domination by Henry Hyndman (which also led to the SPGB's aversion to leadership). This split was also partly a reaction to the SDF's involvement in the Labour Representation Committee, which went on to found the Labour Party. It mirrored the split that led to the fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Kent (politician)
Jack Kent (1870 in Lambeth, London – 1946) was a British politician and an important figure in the early history of the Socialist Party of Great Britain. Kent was a well-known member of the Social Democratic Federation, being a writer for ''Justice'' from 1897 and a speaker and lecture secretary. In 1902 he was on the SDF Executive Committee and was delegate for West Ham Central during the 1902 SDF Conference. He was not originally an impossibilist but came over after the 24 April meeting, revealing the manoeuvrings of Hyndman clique. Kent was working as a clerk at Whitbreads brewery when he helped found the Socialist Party of Great Britain in June 1904. He was variously an indoor and outdoor speaker, a writer for the '' Socialist Standard'', Party delegate to the Amsterdam Congress of the Second International in August 1904, secretary of Romford Division branch in 1904–1905, an Executive Committee member in 1905–1906 and finally Treasurer in 1907–1908. Kent resigned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Young (socialist)
Harry Young (28 February 1901 – 1995) was a British socialist activist. Born in Stoke Newington, Young attended a socialist Sunday school in Islington. He worked in a large number of jobs and, at various times, joined the Herald League, the British Socialist Party (BSP), and the Industrial Workers of the World, while still a teenager. Inspired by the October Revolution, he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain soon after its foundation, in 1920. He was soon appointed as national organiser of its associated Young Communist League (YCL), and in 1921 became the youngest member of the party's executive committee. The following year, he was appointed as the YCL's representative in Moscow, attending the Fourth Congress of the Comintern. On returning to the UK, he served as editor of the English language edition of ''Communist International'', and then as manager of the Collets Bookshop on Charing Cross Road. In 1937, Young resigned from the CPGB, unhappy that he felt it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurie Weidberg
Laurie E. Weidberg (died 1986) was a socialist writer and speaker based in Manchester and London. Early life Weidberg was raised in Manchester in petty-bourgeois Jewish family with strict religious ideas. In the 1930s, at the age of seventeen, he developed an interest in leftist Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy. Left-wing politics typically involve a concern for those in soci ... politics. He attended a meeting of Stafford Cripps's Labour Party (UK), Labour Party splinter group, but quickly became disillusioned with the speakers (including a young Barbara Castle) whom he judged to be motivated more by self-interest than genuine concern for the betterment of society. Career After about a year of perusing literature from various left-wing groups, he stumbled upon the Socialist Party of Great Britain's journal, ''The Socialist Standa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Walford
George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States * George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States * George V, King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 1910-1936 * George VI, King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 1936-1952 * Prince George of Wales * George Papagheorghe also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George Harrison, an English musician and singer-songwriter Places South Africa * George, Western Cape ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa * George, Missouri * George, Washington * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Characters * George (Peppa Pig), a 2-y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ramsay Steele
David Ramsay Steele (born 23 June 1944) is the author of ''The Mystery of Fascism: David Ramsay Steele's Greatest Hits'' (2019, a collection of 23 previously published articles), ''Orwell Your Orwell: A Worldview on the Slab'' (2017, a study of George Orwell's beliefs), ''Atheism Explained: From Folly to Philosophy'' (2008, a popular exposition of atheism) and ''From Marx to Mises: Post-Capitalist Society and the Challenge of Economic Calculation'' (1992, an exposition of the economic calculation problem). Since 1985, he has been Editorial Director of Open Court Publishing Company. In 1997, he co-wrote with Michael R. Edelstein ''Three Minute Therapy: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life,'' a psychological self-help book based on Albert Ellis's rational emotive behavior therapy, re-released in paperback, 2019. In 2013, he co-wrote with Michael R. Edelstein and Richard K. Kujoth ''Therapy Breakthrough: Why Some Psychotherapies Work Better than Others,'' a study of cognitive-behavio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rowan (psychologist)
John Rowan (31 March 1925 – 26 May 2018) was an English author, counsellor, psychotherapist and clinical supervisor, known for being one of the pioneers of humanistic psychology and integrative psychotherapy. He worked in exploring transpersonal psychology, and wrote about the concept of subpersonality. Rowan was a qualified individual and group psychotherapist (UKAHPP and UKCP), a Chartered counseling psychologist (BPS) and was an accredited counsellor ( BACP). He worked in private practice in London. He described his therapeutic approach as humanistic, existential, authentic, relational and transpersonal. He was an exponent of the idea of the dialogical self, a later development of subpersonalities theory. Early life Rowan was born in Wiltshire on 31 March 1925. He started his life at the Old Sarum Airfield, Salisbury where his father was a squadron leader in the British Royal Air Force. Consequently, his childhood was spent in a number of different air force station ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Neumann
Hans Neumann (a.k.a. Hans Newman) (18??–1919(?)) was a founding member of the Socialist Party of Great Britain. Neumann had previously been very active in the Social Democratic Federation, being a public speaker for that party and secretary of its Chelsea & Fulham branch in 1897. Neumann was a well-known early Impossibilist, being a victim of the expulsions of April 1904 which led to the foundation of the Socialist Party of Great Britain in June. A notable indoor and outdoor speaker for the SPGB (billed as Newman), he was also an enthusiastic writer for the ''Socialist Standard'', translated foreign-language articles (including the pamphlets based on Kautsky’s ''The Class Struggle (Erfurt Program)'') and was the author of the Party song (“The World for the Workers”). From 1904 to 1909 he was on the Executive Committee and from 1909 to 1911 was Treasurer. Herbert Morrison described his encounters with Neumann in his 1960 autobiography as follows: Neumann often spoke at o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentine McEntee
Valentine la Touche McEntee, 1st Baron McEntee CBE (16 January 1871 – 11 February 1953) was an Irish-born Labour Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom. Background McEntee was born in Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire) near Dublin, the son of William Charles McEntee, a physician, and Catherine, daughter of Valentine Burchell. Career McEntee was a carpenter by trade. From 1896 to 1899, like Con Lehane, he was a member of James Connolly's Irish Socialist Republican Party. After a brief stay in the United States he moved to London and became a member of Social Democratic Federation (SDF), whence he went on to help found the Socialist Party of Great Britain in June 1904. So far as is known McEntee was not at all active in the SPGB. He resigned on 4 March 1905 after he was nominated as parliamentary candidate for the Labour Representation Committee (predecessor of the Labour Party). After leaving the SPGB McEntee joined the Independent Labour Party. By 1908 he was back in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril May (socialist)
Cyril Ernest May (1 December 1920 – 8 October 2003) was a British socialist. He joined the Socialist Party of Great Britain in 1940 and in 1944 became one of the party's accredited speakers. In 1950 he was running speakers' classes. He was one of the most formidable orators of the 1940s and 1950s, when outdoor public speaking was at its peak. He was one of the main voices for the Socialist Party of Great Britain, and could command audiences in Hyde Park of more than 1,000. As central organiser of the party, he arranged meetings, debates, conferences and dances. On behalf of the party in both 1960 when he gave radio interviews and 1970 he visited the companion party World Socialist Party of the United States The World Socialist Party of the United States (WSPUS) is a socialist political organization that was established in Detroit, Michigan as the Socialist Party of the United States in 1916 and which operated as the Socialist Educational Society i ... in Boston. In 1991 he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Martin (socialist)
Henry Martin (c. 1864–1951), also known as Harry Martin, was a British socialist. Martin was one of the most notable of the impossibilists in the Social Democratic Federation (being expelled in April 1904), and helped found the Socialist Party of Great Britain later that year. A member of its first Executive Committee (1904–1905), Martin was expelled on 8 April 1905 owing to his joining an unemployed rights association. He rejoined the Party on 6 November 1906 and left again, only to rejoin on 19 June 1908. He was then a speaker for the Party (1909–1911), an Executive Committee member (1911) and briefly Lambeth branch secretary (1911) before finally resigning over the WB of Upton Park affair in 1911. The issue at stake was essentially whether socialist MPs should vote for reforms, the dissidents taking the stance that they never should. He was a member of the anti-reform Provisional Committee of 1911 and subsequently long-term organiser of the Socialist Propaganda League (a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Lestor
Joan Lestor, Baroness Lestor of Eccles (13 November 1931 – 27 March 1998) was a British Labour politician. Early life Lestor was educated at Blaenavon Secondary School, Monmouth; William Morris High School, Walthamstow and the University of London. She became a nursery school teacher and a member of the Socialist Party of Great Britain, but resigned from the latter over the Turner Controversy. She became a councillor in 1958 on the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth and later the London Borough of Wandsworth. She served on London County Council, losing in Lewisham West at the 1961 election, but winning a by-election to represent Wandsworth Central from 1962 until 1964. Parliamentary career Lestor contested Lewisham West in 1964 and was elected Member of Parliament for Eton and Slough in 1966. She was briefly a junior minister from 1969–70 with responsibility for nursery education. In March 1974 she became the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
