Stratford Dialectical and Radical Club

Stratford Dialectical and Radical Club
Notice for the Stratford Dialectical and Radical Club, c. 1881, advertising an upcoming series of lectures at The Telegraph pub; note Lemon and Barker as President and Secretary respectively.
Abbreviation	SDRC
Secretary	Ambrose Barker
Founders	Tom Lemon Ambrose Barker
Founded	1880 (1880)
Dissolved	c. 1884 (1884)
Split from	National Secular Society
Merged into	Social Democratic Federation
Headquarters	Stratford, London
Ideology	Socialism Radicalism
Political position	Left-wing
Politics of United Kingdom Political parties Elections

The Stratford Dialectical and Radical Club was a late nineteenth-century radical club based in Stratford, East London. Founded in 1880 by disaffected members of the National Secular Society who wished their organisation would involve itself in the social and political issues of the day rather than merely argue against the existence of God, it became one of the first openly socialist societies in London.^[1] Although it only existed for a few years, the club attracted high-profile lecturers, including Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin, and is considered by scholars to illustrate a shift in popular perspective from religious dissent to socialist political theory.