Back Federació Socialista Democràtica Catalan Social Democratic Federation German Federación Socialdemócrata Spanish فدراسیون سوسیال دموکرات Persian Fédération sociale démocratique French 사회민주연맹 Korean Den sosialdemokratiske føderasjon (Storbritannia, 1881) NB 社会民主联盟 (英国) Chinese
Social Democratic Federation | |
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| Leader | Henry Hyndman |
| Founded | 1881 |
| Dissolved | 1911 |
| Preceded by | Manhood Suffrage League |
| Succeeded by | British Socialist Party Socialist Party of Great Britain |
| Headquarters | London |
| Newspaper | Justice |
| Ideology | Socialism Marxism[1] Lassallism (After 1880s)[2] |
| Political position | Left-wing[3] |
The Social Democratic Federation (SDF) was established as Britain's first organised socialist political party by H. M. Hyndman, and had its first meeting on 7 June 1881. Those joining the SDF included William Morris, George Lansbury, James Connolly and Eleanor Marx. However, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx's long-term collaborator, refused to support Hyndman's venture. Many of its early leading members had previously been active in the Manhood Suffrage League.[4]
The SDF battled through defections of its right and left wings to other organisations in the first decade of the twentieth century before uniting with other radical groups in the Marxist British Socialist Party from 1911 until 1920.
- ^ Crick, Martin (1994). The History of the Social-Democratic Federation. Keele University Press. p. 8-9. ISBN 1853310913. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
- ^ Crick, Martin (1994). The History of the Social-Democratic Federation. Keele University Press. p. 24. ISBN 1853310913. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
Moreover, after the 1880s both Hyndman and the SDF adopted the Lassallean road to Socialism via the ballot box.
- ^ Crick, Martin (1994). The History of the Social-Democratic Federation. Keele University Press. p. 24. ISBN 1853310913. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
- ^ Martin Crick, The History of the Social-Democratic Federation, pp. 20–21.