The Fabian Society, far from holding aloof from other bodies, urges its members to lose no opportunity of joining them and permeating them with Fabian ideas as far as possible.
Almost all organisations and movements contain elements making for Socialism, no matter how remote the sympathies and intentions of their founders may be from those of [...]

The Fabian Society does not claim to be the people of England, or even the -Socialist party, and therefore does not seek direct political representation by putting forward Fabian candidates at elections. But it loses no opportunity of influencing elections and inducing constituencies to select Socialists as their candidates.
No person, however, can obtain the support [...]

I.—THE MISSION OK THE FABIANS. The object of the Fabian Society is to persuade the English people to make their political constitution thoroughly democratic and to socialise their industries sufficiently to make the livelihood of the people entirely independent of private Capitalism.
II. —FABIAN INTEGRITY.
The Fabian Society endeavours to pursue its Socialist and Democratic objects with [...]

The Independent Labour Party as a national organisation was founded in January, 1893.
For some time previously the numbers of unemployed workmen had been rapidly increasing, wages in all industries had declined, and old age found one half of the industrial population in such an abject state of destitution that no resource was left to them [...]