Talk:Socialist League (UK, 1885)

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Shikanyan quote
 346. The reference is to the Social Democratic Federation (see Note 300) and the Socialist League.

The Socialist League was formed in December 1884 by a group of English socialists who had left the Social Democratic Federation. Its organisers included Eleanor Marx, Ernest Belfort Bax, William Morris and others. 'The Manifesto of the Socialist League' (see The Commonweal, No. 1, February 1885) proclaimed that its members advocate 'the principles of Revolutionary International Socialism' and '... seek a change in the basis of Society ... which would destroy the distinctions of classes and nationalities'. The League set itself the task of establishing a national workers' party adhering to international stand, assisting the trade union and cooperative movements. In its initial years the League and its officials took an active part in the workers' movement. However, in 1887 the League's leadership split into three factions (anarchist elements, the 'parliamentarians' and the 'antiparliamentarians'); its links with the day-to-day struggles of the English workers were gradually weakened and there was a growth in sectarianism. In 1889–90 the League fell apart.

– Irina Shikanyan, Notes to Marx-Engels Collected Works: Volume 47, pg. 595, fn. 346. If needed for reference. czar 03:01, 1 March 2022 (UTC)