Socialist League
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Socialist League may refer to one of several organisations:
- Socialist League (Australia)
- Socialist League (Canada)Socialist League (Canada)The Socialist League was a Canadian Trotskyist group formed in 1974 by Ross Dowson and approximately twenty other former members of the League for Socialist Action after their faction was defeated at the 1973 LSA national convention. Dowson had previously been the leader of the LSA...
- Socialist League (Finland)Socialist League (Finland)The Socialist League is a Trotskyist organisation in Finland. It is affiliated to the International Socialist Tendency...
- Socialist League (Italy)Socialist League (Italy)The Socialist League was a tiny social-democratic party in Italy.Its leading members included Claudio Martelli and Bobo Craxi. In 1998 they joined the Italian Socialists and other Socialist components to form the Italian Democratic Socialists, of which Martelli was elected deputy leader in 1999.In...
- Socialist League (Sweden)Socialist League (Sweden)Socialist League was a Trotskyist organization in Sweden. SF was founded on December 15, 1979 when the 'Bolshevik Fraction' was expelled from the Communist Workers League...
- Socialist League (Venezuela)Socialist League (Venezuela)The Socialist League was a Venezuelan political party. It was established in 1973 in a split from the Revolutionary Left Movement, and merged into PSUV in 2007. The League was co-founded by Jorge Antonio Rodriguez; he was its Secretary General when he was murdered on 25 July 1976, having been...
- Socialist League (UK, 1885)Socialist League (UK, 1885)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...
, a split from the Social Democratic Federation associated with William Morris - Socialist League (UK, 1932)Socialist League (UK, 1932)The Socialist League was a socialist organisation in the United Kingdom.It formed in the 1932 as a split from the Independent Labour Party, opposed to that organisation disaffiliating from the Labour Party. It was led by Stafford Cripps. The League argued for drastic action to be taken by a future...
, a split from the Independent Labour Party associated with Stafford Cripps - Socialist Action (UK)Socialist Action (UK)Socialist Action is a small Trotskyist group in the United Kingdom. From the mid-1980s Socialist Action became an entryist organisation, attempting to take over other organisations, with members using code names and not revealing their affiliation....
, originally officially known as the Socialist League - Socialist League of PalestineSocialist League of PalestineThe Socialist League of Palestine was a political organization in Mandate Palestine. Established in 1936, it was connected to the left-Zionist Hashomer Hatzair movement. The Socialist League functioned as the urban ally of the Kibbutz Artzi movement. In 1946, the Socialist League and Kibbutz Artzi...