History of the Social-Democratic Federation / / Martin Crick.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Crick, Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

This book offers the first full analysis of the Social Democratic Federation's (SDF's) history and is essential reading for historians of the Labour Movement.The SDF was the pioneer of the Socialist revival in the 1880s, Britain's first avowedly Marxist party and an important component of the Communist Party of Great Britain. As such, it represents a crucial strand in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century English political history.Although critical, Dr Crick dismisses the stereotype of a sectarian and dogmatic organization attempting to force a foreign ideology onto an unreceptive audience. Blending the national picture with a detailed study of the party in Lancashire and Yorkshire, he reveals an organization whose members contributed far more to the formation of local politics than is generally realized. They produced a generation of working-class militants, pioneered forms of social protest and made available for the first time in English a number of Marxist classics.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements and Introduction -- PART I The Revival of Socialism -- Introduction -- I A Centre of Organisation -- II From Radicalism to Socialism: ‘A Collection of Oddities’ -- III A Lesson in Street Fighting -- IV To Make Twelve o’clock at Eleven -- V A Tiny Caravan of Missionaries -- PART II Reform or Revolution? -- Introduction -- VI The SDF and the Trade Unions -- VII Socialist Unity -- VIII The Labour Representation Committee -- IX The SDF in Lancashire -- X The SDF in Yorkshire and the Dewsbury By-Election of 1902 -- PART III ‘Left in the Centre5 - The Social-Democratic Federation 1901-16 -- Introduction -- XI Pro-Boers and Impossibilists -- XII The Right to Work -- XIII ‘Benevolent Neutrality’ - The SDF and the Labour Party -- XIV Towards Unity -- XV ‘A Call to Arms! ’ - The British Socialist Party -- XVI War and Revolution -- Epilogue -- Conclusion -- Appendix A Biographical Notes -- Appendix B SDF/BSP Municipal Election Results 1890-1913 -- Appendix C SDF/BSP/NSP Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1924 -- Appendix D Yorkshire Branches of the SDF 1884-1911 -- Appendix E Yorkshire Organisations Represented at the Socialist Unity Conference, Manchester, 1911 -- Appendix F Yorkshire Branches of the BSP -- Bibliography -- Index