The Socialist League, was an offshoot from the more famous Social Democratic Federation (Britain's first socialist party).
The break from the Social Democratic Federation occurred in in 1884 by those opposed to the SDF leadership of the maverick socialist Henry Hyndman.
Those that split from the SDF to join the Socialist League included high profile socialists such as William Morris, Eleanor Marx, Ernest Belfont Bax, Sam Mainwaring, Edward Averling, Edward Carpenter and the artist Walter Crane.
The Socialist League established a monthly (soon weekly) journal entitled Commonweal in Feburaty 1885 with William Morris as editor.
However, by 1887 the Socialist League had taken a turn towards Anarchism and by 1889 the organisation had been captured by Anarchists as a result William Morris resigned as Editor of Commonweal in 1890 to be replaced by David Nicholl.
After the jailing of the editor of Commonweal, David Nicholl for his reporting of the Walsall Anarchist Plot and the role of police agent provocateurs in January 1892 the paper changed its name to the Anarchist.
The socialist League was finally dissolved in 1901
April 16, 1892
Socialist Co-operative Federation, 7 Lamb's Conduit Street, London WC
Club Autonomie, 6 Windmill Street, Tottenham Court Road, lectures every Wednesday at 8pm
International Club, 40 Berner Street, Commercial Road, lectures every Tuesday evening at 8pm
South London Socialist Society, 149 Manor Road South East London or communication should be addressed to F.A. Fox secretary
Commonweal Group, meets every Wednesday at 8pm at 145 City Road
Aberdeen Revolutionary Socialist Federation, meetings at Oddfellows small hall, Crooked Lane on Tuesday evenings at 8pm
Glasgow Socialist League meets in the Liberal Association rooms 20 at Adelphi Street S.S, every Friday evening at 8pm, lectures and discussions every Friday evening, First Friday in the month social evening. French class every Wednesday evening at 8.30pm in 105 London Street, fee voluntary to be devoted to the anarchist school
Hull Club Liberty, 1 Beets Court, Blanket Row
Leeds Anarchist Communist Group and International Group meets at Barley-corn Inn in Hope Street North Street every Friday at 8pm
Leicester - Room No7 Co-operative Hall, High Street. members meet on Friday at 8pm, Lecture in the Spiritualist Hall, Silver Street every Sunday at 6.30pm
Manchester, communications to 13 Shaftesbury Street, Chorlton on Medlock (C-on-M) Manchester
Newcastle Anarchist Communist Group - Open-air meeting every Sunday morning at the Quay. Discussion every Monday at 8:30pm in Lockhart's Cocoa Rooms, Bigg market.
Norwich, members meeting held every Tuesday at 8:30pm at 65 Pitt Street
Oxford, Temperance Hall 25 1/2 Pembroke Street, First Friday in every month at 8:30pm
Sheffield, Sheffield Anarchists meet every Wednesday evening and 63 Blonk Street, at 8pm. All letters and papers etc to be sent to W.G.Bingham 5 Earl street, Sheffield, Comrades please note
Walsall Socialist Club, 18 Goodall Street, Walsall meeting every night
Yarmouth, Socialist League Club, 56 Row, Marketplace. Open every evening. Business meeting Tuesday at 8pm. Singing practice Wednesday at 8:30pm, discussion class, Thursday at 8:30pm. Elocution class Friday at 8:30pm
Open-Air Propaganda Meetings
Aberdeen, Sunday Castle Street at 6:45pm
London, Sunday Regents Park 11:30am, Fountain, Great Eastern Street 11:30
Edinburgh, Sunday Leith Links at 2, Meadows at 6
Glasgow, Sunday evening Parkhead Cross in St George's Cross at 5pm
Leeds, Sunday Market Gates, Kirkgate at 11:30am and 7pm
Leicester, Sunday Russell Square at 10:45am and 6:15 and Humberstone Gate at 8pm
Liverpool, Landing stage Sundays at 11:30am and 3pm
Manchester, Sunday Phillips Park Gates at 11:30, Stevenson Square at 3pm.
Norwich, Saturday Haymarket 8pm Sunday Marketplace at 11am, 3pm and 7:30pm
Sheffield, Sunday Moonlith, Fargate at 11;30, West Bar at 11:30am, Newhall Road, Attercliffe at 11:30am, Grimethorpe at 11:30am, Rotherham 3pm, Woodhouse at 3pm, West Bar at 8pm, Attercliffe Road at 8pm.
Yarmouth, Sunday Priory Plain at 11am, Fish Wharf at 3, and Hall Quay at 7pm
