In June 1964, Britain accepted proposals for democratic self-government in Botswana.

After the carnage of 1914 – 1918 the democratic reform of the Representation of the People Act 1918 instantly tripled the number of people allowed to vote in Britain from 7 to 21 million.

At the urging of Britain and King George, Greece adopted a much more democratic constitution in 1864.

" While he allowed for the possibility of peaceful transition in some countries with strong democratic institutional structures ( such as Britain, the US and the Netherlands ), he suggested that in other countries with strong centralised state-oriented traditions, like France and Germany, the " lever of our revolution must be force.

Republicans saw France as more democratic after its revolution, while Britain represented the hated monarchy.

James Keir Hardie was an early democratic socialist, who founded the Independent Labour Party in Great Britain

On the outbreak of World War II Patel supported Nehru's decision to withdraw the Congress from central and provincial legislatures, contrary to Gandhi's advice, as well as an initiative by senior leader Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari to offer Congress's full support to Britain if it promised Indian independence at the end of the war and install a democratic government right away.

The sections of the International that recognised the leadership of the International Secretariat remained optimistic about the possibilities for increasing the International's political influence and extended the entrism into social democratic parties which was already underway in Britain, Austria and elsewhere.

Many in the Chinese intellectual community believed that the United States had done little to convince the imperialist powers ( especially Britain, France, and Japan ) to adhere to the Fourteen Points, and observed that the United States itself had declined to join the League of Nations ; as a result they turned away from the Western liberal democratic model.

Between 1888 and 1889, democratic County Councils were established in Great Britain.

In 1991, with Labour still in opposition and a general election due by June 1992, he proposed the Commonwealth of Britain Bill, abolishing the Monarchy in favour of the United Kingdom becoming a " democratic, federal and secular commonwealth ", a republic with a written constitution.

The NDP have retained many of the socialist tendencies of the former CCF and remain to the left of some other social democratic parties in the Western world, such as Britain ’ s Labour Party.

A native of Geneva, he became one of the democratic leaders of the Geneva Republic, and in 1782 was forced to take refuge to the Kingdom of Great Britain, after the armed interference of France, the Kingdom of Sardinia and Berne in favour of the patrician party.

Public opinion, particularly in France and Britain, found it easy to side with democratic Finland, and demanded from their governments effective action in support of " the brave Finns " against their larger aggressor, the Soviet Union, particularly since the Finns ' defence seemed so much more successful than that of the Poles during the September Campaign.

Appeasement came to be seen as something to be avoided by those with responsibility for the diplomacy of Britain or any other democratic country.

In Britain, the road democratic government took seven centuries to traverse ...

Democracy and parliamentarism became increasingly prevalent in Europe in the years after World War I, partially imposed by the democratic victors, Great Britain and France, on the defeated countries and their successors, notably Germany's Weimar Republic and the new Austrian Republic.

Some non-Marxists theorise that this was because Britain was amongst the most democratic countries of Europe of the period, the ballot box provided an instrument for change, so a parliamentary, reformist socialism seemed a more promising route than elsewhere.

On 27 December 1998, he wrote, at the request of the democratic government of Chile, an official letter to the British prime minister Tony Blair stating that " the Chilean Government considers it an offence to its territorial sovereignty as a nation the fact of being deprived of the power to judge its own citizens " through the detention of Pinochet in Britain.

For example, one study reports that Germany was considered a democratic state by Western opinion leaders at the end of the 19th century ; yet in the years preceding World War I, when its relations with the United States, France and Britain started deteriorating, Germany was gradually reinterpreted as an autocratic state, in absence of any actual regime change.

It campaigned vigorously for the opening of a second front against Adolf Hitler's Germany, was consistently critical of the Churchill government's failings and argued that only a democratic socialist post-war settlement in Britain ( and Europe as a whole ) was viable.

Farage said: " We've got three social democratic parties in Britain — Labour, Lib Dem and Conservative are virtually indistinguishable from each other on nearly all the main issues " and " you can't put a cigarette paper between them and that is why there are nine million people who don't vote now in general elections that did back in 1992.

These ideas and experience of the workers movement in Britain were to develop a deeply rooted understanding in Kidron's writings that the revolutionary movement must be democratic in order to fit the working class to rule.

Britain's Road to Socialism proposes that socialism can be achieved in Britain by the working class leading the other classes in a popular democratic anti-monopoly alliance against monopoly capital, and implementing a left-wing programme of socialist construction.

Plenge believed that ethnic solidarity ( volksgemeinschaft ) would replace class division and that " racial comrades " would unite to create a socialist society in the struggle of " proletarian " Germany against " capitalist " Britain.

In 1845 Marx and Engels visited the leaders of the Chartists, a socialist movement in Britain, using the trip as an opportunity to study in various libraries in London and Manchester.

In the late 19th century, the Social Gospel movement arose ( particularly among some Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists and Baptists in North America and Britain ,) which attempted to integrate progressive and socialist thought with Christianity in faith-based social activism, promoted by movements such as Christian Socialism.

In Die Welt, a communist newspaper published in Stockholm the exiled communist leader Walter Ulbricht opposed the allies ( Britain representing “ the most reactionary force in the world ”) and argued: “ The German government declared itself ready for friendly relations with the Soviet Union, whereas the English-French war bloc desires a war against the socialist Soviet Union.

In Britain, the journal New Left Review was founded in 1960, representing a theoretical synthesis of a revisionist, humanist, and socialist Marxism, departing from orthodox Marxist theory.

His agitations for a united socialist front of all parties of the left ( including the Communist Party of Great Britain ) led to his brief expulsion from the Labour Party in March to November 1939 ( along with Stafford Cripps and C. P.

Reg is a committed socialist, and during the late 1980s, having finally having had his fill of Thatcher's Britain he defected to the Soviet Bloc.

Although a socialist, he had not at this time adopted the Marxist views that he would be known for in later life, and unlike many of his friends did not join the Marxist Communist Party of Great Britain, although did contribute to the party's publication, Labour Monthly.

The Australian novels are individual hymns to that country, with subtle disparagement of the mores of the USA ( Beyond the Black Stump ) and overt antipathy towards the post World War II socialist government of Shute's native Britain ( The Far Country and In the Wet ).

Morris was a designer of wallpaper and patterned fabrics, a writer of poetry and fiction, and a pioneer of the socialist movement in Britain.

While active as a socialist in Great Britain, Connolly was the founding editor of The Socialist newspaper and was among the founders of the Socialist Labour Party which split from the Social Democratic Federation in 1903.

Kaufman is a member of the Jewish Labour Movement, formerly Poale Zion, a socialist group with the Labour party in Britain, has become one of the leading critics of Israel.

The Independent Labour Party ( ILP ) was a socialist political party in Britain established in 1893.

Sharing the free-love ideals of the earlier social movements — as well as their feminism, pacifism, and simple communal life — were the utopian socialist communities of early-19th-century France and Britain, associated with writers and thinkers such as Henri de Saint-Simon and Charles Fourier in France, Robert Owen in England, and, perhaps most far-reachingly, the German composer Richard Wagner.

In the late 19th century, the Social Gospel movement arose ( particularly among some Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists and Baptists in North America and Britain ,) which attempted to integrate progressive and socialist thought with Christianity to produce a faith-based social activism, promoted by movements such as Christian Socialism.

As Labour under Tony Blair embraced the Third Way and moved away from its traditional socialist roots, most Trotskyist tendencies in Britain that employed the tactic of entrism have left Labour and either run candidates under their own banner, such as the Socialist Party, or joined electoral coalitions such as the Scottish Socialist Party or the Socialist Alliance.

A much later split produced the Socialist Party of Great Britain, Britain's oldest existing socialist party, and the Socialist Labour Party.

The early twentieth century saw a number of socialist groups and movements in Britain.

In Britain, the Labour Party, ( at first the Labour Representation Committee ) was established by representatives of trade unions together with affiliated socialist parties, principally the Independent Labour Party but also for a time the avowedly Marxist Social Democratic Federation and other groups, such as the Fabians.

The parliamentary leaderships of the socialist parties of Germany, France, Belgium and Britain each voted to support the war aims of their country's governments, although some leaders, like Ramsay MacDonald in Britain and Karl Liebknecht in Germany, opposed the war from the start.

The Socialist Standard is a monthly socialist magazine published without interruption since September 1904 by the Socialist Party of Great Britain.