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The Social Democratic Federation was a British socialist political party. The first socialist party in Britain, it was founded by H. M. Hyndman in 1881. Its members included William Morris, George Lan
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SDF founder Henry Hyndman
SDF election leaflet, 1896
Eleanor Marx
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Jenny Julia Eleanor Marx, sometimes called Eleanor Marx-Aveling and known to her family as Tussy, was an English writer, translator, activist, and the youngest daughter of Karl Marx. A key proponent o
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…The first socialist party in Britain, it was founded by H. M. Hyndman in 1881. Its members included William Morris, George Lansbury, James Connolly and Eleanor Marx. Many of its early leading members had previously been active in the Manhood Suffrage League. The SDF battled through defections of its right and left…
Eleanor Marx
Eleanor Marx (middle) with her two sisters - Jenny Longuet, Laura Marx, father Karl Marx (right) and Friedrich Engels
Eleanor Marx, pencil drawing by Grace Black (aka Grace Human) in 1881
Eleanor Marx (middle) with Wilhelm Liebknecht (left) and Edward Aveling (right) photographed in New York during their tour to America in 1886