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Labour Emancipation League
Labour Emancipation League
Abbreviation	LEL
Secretary	Aaron Moseley; Joseph Lane
Founders	Ambrose Barker; Tom Lemon; Joseph Lane; Frank Kitz
Founded	1881
Dissolved	1884
Split from	Stratford Dialectical and Radical Club
Merged into	Social Democratic Federation
Succeeded by	Socialist League
Headquarters	Mile End
Ideology	Socialism; Marxism; Chartism; Mutualism
	Politics of United Kingdom; Political parties; Elections;

The Labour Emancipation League was a socialist organisation in London.

The origins of the league lay in the 1880 split from the National Secular Society of the Stratford Dialectical and Radical Club around Ambrose Barker.^[1] In 1881, the club was forced to abandon its activities, although it remained in existence as the Homerton Socialist Society.

Barker and Tom Lemon from the society joined with Joseph Lane and Frank Kitz to hold regular public meetings in Mile End. These proved a success, and they formed the Labour Emancipation League to continue this work.^[2] The first secretary, Aaron Moseley, soon resigned and was replaced by Lane.

The league was influenced by Marxism, Chartism and Proudhonism. Its programme called for:^[3]

Equal direct adult suffrage

Direct legislation by the people

Abolition of the standing army

The people to decide on peace or war

Free secular and industrial education

Liberty of speech, press and meeting

Free administration of justice

The nationalisation of land, mines and transport

Society to regulate production and wealth to be shared equitably by all

The monopoly of the capitalist class to be broken and the means of production transformed into collective or public property

The League soon spread across the East End of London.^[3] In 1884, it joined H. M. Hyndman's Democratic Federation, which was consequently renamed the Social Democratic Federation and adopted much of the League's programme.^[4] However, in 1885 the East London branch of the SDF was one of several to split and form the Socialist League.^[5]

References

^ Quail 2019, pp. 34–35.
^ Quail 2019, pp. 37–38.
^ ^a ^b Quail 2019, pp. 38–39.
^ Quail 2019, pp. 49–51.
^ Quail 2019, pp. 52–53.

Bibliography

Quail, John (2019) [1978]. "2. The Labour Emancipation League". The Slow Burning Fuse: The Lost History of the British Anarchists. Oakland: PM Press. pp. 32–39. ISBN 9781629635828. OCLC 1042080070. Archived from the original on 28 October 2009.
Walter, Nicolas (27 January 2007). "Lane, Joseph, 1851-1920". Libcom.org. Retrieved 28 August 2021.