Jan Marsh's opening biography entitled "A Well-Crafted Life" immediately situates May at the centre of the socialist movement of the day among individuals such as Annie Besant, Eleanor Marx, George Bernard Shaw, and Henry Halliday Sparling, and at social and political events organized by the
Socialist League (later the Hammersmith Socialist Society) and the New Drama movement of the day.
He founded the
Socialist League in 1884, publishing his influential socialist utopian novel News from Nowhere in 1890.
It was also apparent in the pro-war position of many Jewish socialists, who formed the Jewish
Socialist League (JSL), while Hillquit received the backing of some immigrant Orthodox Jews, who normally shunned the socialists.
Back home, he joined Venezuela's
Socialist League and drove a bus for the Caracas Metro company.
In fact, as Loudon reveals, Sanders got his start in radical communist circles in the early 1960s as a student at the University of Chicago, where he joined the Young People's
Socialist League (YPSL), which is the "democratic socialist" youth wing of the Socialist Party USA.
Although born in New York of Irish parentage, William Joyce became a fervent British nationalist, joining the Union of Fascists, before forming his own British National
Socialist League.
Its roots in the British radical tradition rubbed uneasily alongside the marxisms of the CPGB, and elements in the
Socialist League. Viewed in this light, the ILP's continuing advocacy of Trotsky's asylum plea becomes a means of analysing how the party navigated the dangerous political landscape of the 1930s and its complicated relationship with the Soviet Union and with marxism.
It details his law education; his membership in the
socialist League for Industrial Democracy and association with prominent progressives; his work to resurrect Oregon's Democratic Party and as a state legislator to enact civil rights and labor reform measures; how he bought and published three newspapers; his views on the Vietnam War and communism; his teaching at Padjadjaran U.
Before the First and Second World Wars, the ILP,
Socialist League and Fabians were amongst the groups who generated Labour's ideas.
Later, increasingly aware of the foreboding growth of Nazism he became a leading member of the
Socialist League and associated with leading Marxists.
The
Socialist League, the Social Democrats, the 'state socialists or collectivists or Fabians' are taking the wrong approach, she argues, and their direction will result in 'Law here there and everywhere but Freedom nowhere'.
In 1885, British socialism underwent a key early schism when William Morris, Eleanor Marx, and other important leaders split from Hyndman and the Social Democratic Federation to form the
Socialist League and its newspaper, the Commonweal.
