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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] |
