Page "Socialist Labour Party (UK, 1903)" Paragraph 6

" The question of the name of the new party required a little thought.

We were anxious not to created the impression which the official SDF was trying to encourage, that we were only the tools of the American SLP.

We thought of ' Republican Socialist Party ,' etc., etc.

It was Connolly who with characteristic directness proposed ' The Socialist Labour Party.

' ' It doesn't matter what you call yourself ,' he declared, ' you'll be dubbed the SLP anyway.

' And the SLP we became.