History of the socialist movement in the United Kingdom

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Socialism in the United Kingdom
Ideologies Agrarian socialism Bennism Black radical tradition Chartism Christian socialism Corbynism Democratic socialism Eco-socialism Ethical socialism Guild socialism Marxism (Centrist · Humanist · Marxism–Leninism · Trotskyism) Owenism Republicanism Revolutionary socialism Ricardian socialism Utopian socialism
Principles Anti-capitalism Anti-imperialism Anti-racism Environmental justice Equality Equality of opportunity Fairness Freedom Justice Peace Progress Radical democracy Redistribution Sustainability State intervention Social justice Solidarity
Intellectuals Ali Anderson Barmby Berger Bhaskar Blakeley Carpenter Cockshott Cole Dobb Eagleton Fisher Gibson Gilroy Hall (Charles) Hall (Stuart) Harvey Hatherley Hill Hobsbawm Hodgskin Jessop Jones Mainwaring Marx Miéville Miliband Monbiot More Morris Orwell Owen Rowbotham Russell Seymour Sivanandan Tawney Thompson Thorn Ward Wells Williams Winstanley
Works The Communist Manifesto News from Nowhere The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius The Future of Socialism The Making of the English Working Class The Country and the City Ways of Seeing Towards a New Socialism Capitalist Realism The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It
History British left History of the Labour Party (UK)
Political figures Abbott Attlee Benn Bevan Burgon Corbyn Crow Fisher Foot Galloway Hardie Harney Hyndman Inkpin Jones Lansbury Livingstone Long-Bailey Maclean McDonnell Meltzer Pankhurst Pollitt Scargill Schneider Skinner Sultana Taaffe Tatchell Webb (Beatrice) Webb (Sidney) Wilson
Parties (Current UK parties - Defunct UK parties) Social democracy Co-operative Party Labour Party (UK) Socialism Breakthrough Party Left Unity (UK) Socialist Labour Party (UK) Socialist Party GB Socialist Party Socialist Workers Party (UK) Transform TUSC Communism Communist Party of Britain Communist Party Britain-ML Communist Party GB-ML Communist Party GB-PCC New Communist Party of Britain RCG Revolutionary Communist Party RCPB-ML Northern Ireland People Before Profit Sinn Féin Scotland Scottish Labour Scottish National Party Scottish Socialist Party Wales Plaid Cymru Welsh Labour
Organisations UK Trade unions ICTU STUC TUC (Wales TUC) RMT Unite the Union Other IPPR Left Book Club Momentum The World Transformed
Media New Left Review New Statesman Novara Media Race & Class Socialist Worker The Socialist Tribune
Related topics Communism in the United Kingdom Hard left Soft left Politics in the United Kingdom New Left Miliband–Poulantzas debate
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Development Age of the Enlightenment French Revolution Revolutions of 1848 Socialist calculation debate Socialist economics
Ideas Calculation in kind Collective ownership Cooperative Common ownership Critique of political economy Economic democracy Economic planning Equal liberty Equal opportunity Free association Freed market Industrial democracy Input–output model Internationalism Labour-time calculation Labour voucher Material balance planning Peer‑to‑peer economics Production for use Sharing economy Spontaneism Social dividend Social ownership Socialism in one country Socialist mode of production Soviet democracy Strike action To each according to his contribution/needs Vanguardism Workers' self-management Workplace democracy
Models Communalism Socialist planned economy Decentralized planning Inclusive Democracy OGAS Project Cybersyn Soviet-type Market socialism Lange model Mutualism Socialist market economy Socialist-oriented market Participatory economics
Variants 21st-century African Arab Agrarian Anarchism Authoritarian Blanquism Buddhist Chinese Christian Communism Democratic Democratic road Digital Ethical Ecological Evolutionary Feminist Fourierism Free-market Gandhian Guild Islamic Jewish Laissez-faire Liberal Libertarian Marhaenism Market Marxism Municipal Nationalist Nkrumaism Owenism Popular Reformism Religious Revolutionary Ricardian Saint-Simonianism Scientific Sewer Social democracy State Syndicalism Third World Utopian Yellow Zionist
Intellectuals More Campanella Paine Saint-Simon Buonarroti Saint-Just Owen Fourier Cabet Leroux Sue Blanqui Proudhon Greeley Herzen Bakunin Marx Engels Wallace Lavrov Lassalle Saltykov Chernyshevsky Tolstoy Michel Morris Jones Kropotkin Carpenter Sorel Bellamy Kautsky Wilde Plekhanov Ferrer Dewey Wells Du Bois Gorky Goldman Landauer Berkman Luxemburg Russell Pannekoek Rocker Einstein Keller Pankhurst Volin Lukács Korsch Polanyi Vanzetti Bordiga Serge Gramsci Sacco Day Marcuse James Orwell Guérin Montseny Sartre Bookchin Zinn Castoriadis Thompson Ward Chomsky Fotopoulos Newton Wolff Ali Öcalan Hampton Žižek West Hedges Graeber Varoufakis Saito
Politicians Gracchi Brothers Mazdak Roux Babeuf Blanc Hong Bebel Bernstein Malatesta Debs Markievicz Connolly Gandhi Liebknecht Blum Martov Trotsky Kerensky Attlee Spiridonova Makhno Tito Nagy Durruti Gerhardsen Erlander Douglas Senghor Allende van der Lubbe Kreisky Mitterrand Nasser Mandela Dubček Manley Palme Che Gorbachev Lula Corbyn Sankara Chávez Marcos Sánchez Ocasio-Cortez
Organizations International socialist organizations Socialist parties
Related topics Anarchism Capitalism Communist society Criticism of capitalism Criticism of socialism Economic calculation problem Economic system French Left Left-libertarianism Libertarianism List of socialist economists Market abolitionism Marxist philosophy Nanosocialism Progressivism Socialism and LGBT rights Socialist calculation debate Socialist Party Socialist state Workers' council
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Socialism in the United Kingdom is thought to stretch back to the 19th century from roots arising in the English Civil War. Notions of socialism in Great Britain have taken many different forms from the utopian philanthropism of Robert Owen through to the reformist electoral project enshrined in the Labour Party that was founded in 1900 and nationalised a fifth of the British economy in the late 1940s.