SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC LABOUR PARTY, 1893-1896.—The report recounts the political triumph of the party. Inspired by the example of Belgium arrangements were in progress for a general strike to force the hand of the Government in granting manhood suffrage and breaking the power of the nobles. In 1895 an attempt was made to stir up strife [...]

The Fabian Society discards such phrases as “the abolition of the wage system,” which can only mislead the public as to the aims of Socialism. Socialism does not involve the abolition of wages, but the establishment of standard allowances for the maintenance of all workers by the community in its own service, as an alternative [...]

The Fabian Society endeavours to rouse social compunction by making the public conscious of the evil condition of society under the present systeim This it does by the collection and publication of authentic and impartial statistical tracts, compiled, not from the works of Socialists, but from official sources. The first volume of Karl Marx’s ” [...]

In view of the fact that the Socialist movement has been hitherto inspired, instructed, led, and suffered for by members of the middle class or ” burgeoisie,” the Fabian Society, though not at all surprised to find these middle-class leaders attacking with much bitterness the narrow social ideals current in their Own class, protests against [...]

The Fabian Society, in its relations with the Press, makes no such distinction as that indicated by the phrase, ” the Capitalist Press.” In England all political papers without exception are conducted with private capital under the control of the owners °f the capital.
Some of them profess Socialist opinions, others Conservative opinions, others Liberal and [...]

The Fabian Society does not suggest that the State should enforce any monopoly of industry as against private enterprise or individual initiative, but simply that it should make the livelihood of the people and their access to the sources of production completely independent of both. The freedom of individuals to engage in industry independently of [...]

Socialism, as understood by the Fabian Society, means the organisation and conduct of the necessary industries of the country and the appropriation of all forms of economic rent of land and capital, by the nation as a whole, through the co-ordinate agency of the most suitable public authorities, parochial, municipal, local, national (Irish, Scotch, or [...]

The preparation for the General Election of last year absorbed a great part of the funds and occupied much of the attention of the organisation. Even so, we could afford to run no more than four candidates to the poll; but these were financed entirely by the money of the S.D.F., and the record of [...]

The early years of the S.D.F., from 1881 to 1887, were perhaps the years of most active and successful propaganda. A mere handful of men with small means and no influential backing kept the whole country in constant agitation on such questions as the Unemployed, Thrift, Emigration, Strikes, etc., doing their utmost to prove to [...]

BY a stupid recommendation of the Organising Committee, each section of the British delegation was invited to prepare a separate report. As might have been expected the result is a ridiculous attempt of each to glorify its own little dung heap. The Trade Unionists presented no report. Here is the final result, which tries to [...]