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Active in a variety of women's organizations including the Women's Trade Union League, the NUWSS and the National Anti-Sweating League. A socialist and was active in the Fabian Society. (1865-1953)
Appointed secretary of the Fabian Society, a Socialist debating group. Member of the Independent Labour Party. Served on the Labour Representation Committee (named the Labour Party after 1906) and held the post for the next fourteen years. (1857-1955)
Member of the Fabian Society and founding member of the Union of Democratic Control (UDC), the most important of the anti-war organizations during the First World War. Wrote Political Ideals: Roads to Freedom. (1872-1970)
Member of the Labour Party. Served as prime minister from 1945-51. Presided over a number of social reforms, including establishment of the National Health Service and nationalization of some industries, services and the Bank of England. (1883-1967)
Member of the Fabian Society. Wrote a two-volume book about Robert Owen in which he argued that Owen was the founding father of both socialism and spiritualism. (1856-1910)
Member of the Fabian Society, a Socialist debating group. Was a supporter of sexual liberation. Wrote his six-volume Studies in the Psychology of Sex. The books, published between 1897 and 1910 were controversial and banned for several years. (1859-1939)
Long-time member of the Fabian Society. Became Labour correspondent for the Manchester Guardian and was professor of social and political theory at University College in Oxford. (1889-1959)
Apostle of Karl Marx. Formed Britain's first socialist political party, the Social Democratic Federation. Favored demand for universal suffrage and the nationalization of the means of production and distribution. (1842-1921)
Joined the Social Democratic Federation and began contributing articles to its journal, Justice. Helped form the Socialist League and was the main contributor to the party's journal, Commonweal. Includes excerpts from his writings. (1834-1896)
Youngest daughter of Karl Marx. Advocated "Revolutionary International Socialism" and in 1885 helped organize the International Socialist Congress in Paris. Became active in trade unions. (1855-1898)
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