Socialist League (UK, 1885)

Socialist League
Socialist League
	The cover of the Socialist League's manifesto of 1885 featured art by Walter Crane, a member of the group.
Abbreviation	SL
Leader	William Morris
Secretary	John Lincoln Mahon; (1884–1885); Henry Halliday Sparling; (1885–1886); Henry Alfred Barker; (1886–1888); Fred Charles; (1888); Frank Kitz; (1888–1890)
Founders	William Morris; Eleanor Marx; Ernest Belfort Bax; Edward Aveling;
Founded	27 December 1884
Dissolved	1901
Split from	Social Democratic Federation
Succeeded by	Bloomsbury Socialist Society
Headquarters	24 Great Queen Street, London
Newspaper	Commonweal
Membership (1887)	550
Ideology	Socialism; Anarchism;
Political position	Far-left
International affiliation	Second International
	Politics of United Kingdom; Political parties; Elections;

The Socialist League was an early revolutionary socialist organisation in the United Kingdom. The organisation began as a dissident offshoot of the Social Democratic Federation of Henry Hyndman at the end of 1884. Never an ideologically harmonious group, by the 1890s the group had turned from socialism to anarchism,^[1] and disbanded in 1901.

^ James C. Docherty. Historical dictionary of socialism. The Scarecrow Press Inc. London 1997. pg. 174