Social Democratic Party banner
Not Only
The Right To Work
But The
Right To Leisure
This SDP banner seems to have a portrait of Karl Marx in the centre, if so this would surely be the earliest…Read more…
The First May Day – 1890
The First May Day – History Today
In London there was a much smaller demonstration on May 1st supported by those purists who preferred to meet the hopes of the most radical at the Paris Congress for…Read more…
Socialist League Branches and Meetings April 1892
The Socialist League, was an offshoot from the more famous Social Democratic Federation (Britain’s first socialist party).
The break from the Social Democratic Federation occurred in in 1884 by…Read more…
Birthplace of socialist Wales – First SDF Branch
First Social Democratic Party branch in Wales – The village of Waunafon, between the towns of Brynmawr, BlaenavonRead more…
Sudbury Social Democratic Federation – Suffolk 1890
Socialism came to rural towns and villages by numerous routes, the famous Clarion vans, The non-conformists, the trade unions, and in the case of Sudbury in Suffolk, via the silk weavers, who’s factory owners had moved their premises out of London to&n…Read more…
Edmonton – Social Democratic Federation Banner
Edmonton, (London Borough of Enfield)
Social Democratic Federation (SDF) BannerRead more…
West Ham Municipal Elections 1893: Now and then.
On General election day May 7, London UNISON organiser, Karen Westwood, was representing Labour outside a polling station in Ilford North, when an elderly man bought photocopies of an election leaflet, featuring his Grandfather and gave her a copy. Kar…Read more…