Fenner Brockway, a leading British democratic socialist of the Independent Labour Party, wrote in his book Britain's First Socialists:

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

In Britain, the democratic socialist tradition was represented in particular by the William Morris ' Socialist League, and in the 1880s by the Fabian Society, and later the Independent Labour Party ( ILP ) founded by Keir Hardie in the 1890s, of which George Orwell would later be a prominent member.

When that organization broke apart, she attempted to join the left-leaning Independent Labour Party through her friendship with socialist Keir Hardie but was initially refused membership by the local branch of the Party on account of her sex.

There were attempts in the United Kingdom to found a Popular Front against the National Government's appeasement of Nazi Germany, between the Labour Party, the Liberal Party, the Independent Labour Party, the Communist Party, and even rebellious elements of the Conservative Party under Winston Churchill, but they failed mainly due to opposition from within the Labour Party but incompatibility of Liberal and socialist approaches also caused many Liberals to be hostile.

* Third camp ; the independent socialist view of war and peace policy Berkeley, Calif.: Independent Socialist Committee, 1965 Independent Socialist Committee pamphlet # 2

By 1914 Sylvia had many disagreements with the route the WSPU was taking: while the WSPU had become independent of any political party, she wanted an explicitly socialist organisation tackling wider issues than women's suffrage, aligned with the Independent Labour Party.

James Keir Hardie, Sr. ( 15 August 185626 September 1915 ), was a Scottish socialist and labour leader, and was the first Independent Labour Member of Parliament elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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

James Maxton ( 1885 – 1946 ) was a Scottish socialist politician, and leader of the Independent Labour Party.

Neil Maclean ( 1875 – 12 September 1953 ) was a Scottish socialist and a Independent Labour Party and later Labour Party Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Govan in Glasgow.

A committed socialist, he joined the Independent Labour Party ( ILP ).

He emigrated to the West Coast of New Zealand in 1906, already a committed socialist, influenced by Scottish left-wing thinkers such as Keir Hardie and Bob Smillie ( both members of the Independent Labour Party ).

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 gathering, held in Salford also drew some Independent Labour Party branches and groups adhering to the Clarion newspaper, alongside individuals and representatives of smaller socialist groups.

On 13 April 1914 a meeting was convened by the International Socialist Bureau between representatives of three of Britain's leading socialist organisations — the BSP, the Independent Labour Party, and the Fabian Society.

During his time in London Barnes became an active member of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers ( serving as its General Secretary ), a committed member of the co-operative movement, and a keen if moderate socialist, which led him to join the Independent Labour Party on its foundation in 1893.

Tribune was set up in early 1937 by two left-wing Labour Party Members of Parliament ( MPs ), Stafford Cripps and George Strauss, to back the Unity Campaign, an attempt to secure an anti-fascist and anti-appeasement United Front between the Labour Party and socialist parties to its left which involved Cripps's ( Labour-affiliated ) Socialist League, the Independent Labour Party and the Communist Party of Great Britain ( CP ).

Internationally, PSOP was an affiliate of the London Bureau of left-wing socialist parties, which also included the British Independent Labour Party and the Spanish Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM ).

This was a reformist party, although more explicitly socialist than the previous such organizations in the province ( see Winnipeg Labour Party, Manitoba Independent Labour Party, Manitoba Labour Party, Labour Representation Committee ).

Previously, the moderate socialist party had reunited with the Independent Social Democrats who had seceded during the war, while as a kind of counterpoise the bourgeois parties in the government coalition had formed a " working agreement " in the Reichstag with the German People's Party.

The daughter of James Lee, a miner ( who later gave up work in the mines to run a hotel ) and Euphemia Grieg, she inherited her father's socialist inclinations, and like him joined the Independent Labour Party ( ILP ).

Independent authors assert that bribes or " donations " for admission to kindergartens compete in amount with university admissions while authorities refute the accusation.

Past writers for Hot Press have included ninth President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins, the authors of BAFTA award-winning Father Ted, Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews, Sunday Times television reviewer Liam Fay, author and Daily Telegraph columnist Neil McCormick, the late Bill Graham, The Sunday Business Post US correspondent Niall Stanage, Irish Examiner soccer correspondent Liam Mackey, The Irish Times columnist John Waters, food writer John McKenna, Sunday Independent journalist Declan Lynch and The Guardian football writer, Football Weekly regular Barry Glendenning and Daily Mail writer Jason O ' Toole.

The Independent Gay Forum is an organization that sponsors a website featuring free access to articles and opinions penned by gay conservative, center-right Independent and libertarian gay authors.

The Independent Gay Forum became a significant online site for U. S. lesbian and gay authors that endorsed limited-government conservative or libertarian alternatives to what they saw as the ' impractical ' center-left bias that ' characterizes ' lesbian and gay identity and politics.

The W3C is also developing new authoring languages, such as DIAL ( the Device Independent Authoring Language ), which aid authors in creating Web sites that can be used on the huge variety of mobile devices available today.

Independent analysis of multiple sites with thousands of adolescents found behavior modification to be more effective then treatment as usual, a therapeutic milieu, and as effective as more psychologically intense programs such as transactional analysis with better outcomes on behavioral measures ; however, these authors found that behavior modification was more prone to leading to poor relationships with the clients.

The institute's Independent Policy Forum series of seminars has featured historians Joyce Appleby and Robert Conquest ; economists Roger Noll, Peter Bauer Gary Becker and James M. Buchanan ; legal scholars Alex Kozinski, Richard Epstein, David D. Cole, and Randy Barnett ; foreign policy experts Lawrence Korb, Daniel Ellsberg, George Shultz, Michael Scheuer, and Gen. William Odom ; criminologists Gary Kleck, and James Q. Wilson ; authors Gore Vidal, P. J. O ' Rourke, George Gilder, Shelby Steele, Michael Crichton and Czesław Miłosz.

Independent art schools granting degrees must, naturally, follow this with academic accreditation by the appropriate regional group.

MIT operates on a 4 – 1 – 4 academic calendar with the fall semester beginning after Labor Day and ending in mid-December, a 4-week " Independent Activities Period " in the month of January, and the spring semester beginning in early February and ending in late May.

Administered by the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning, the State Board for Community and Junior Colleges, and the Mississippi Association of Independent Colleges, the Halbrook Award was awarded to Blue Mountain College for maintaining and achieving a high academic standard for student athletes which promotes high graduation rates.

Independent schools, as compared with maintained schools, are generally characterised by more individual teaching ; much better pupil-teacher ratios at around 9: 1 ; longer teaching hours ( sometimes including Saturday morning teaching ) and homework, though shorter terms ; more time for organised sports and extra-curricular activities ; more emphasis on traditional academic subjects such as maths, classics and modern languages ; and a broader education than that prescribed by the national curriculum, to which state school education is in practice limited.

Independent primary schools are called preparatory schools, preparing pupils not for admission to a university as in the United States, but to an independent secondary school, which admit pupils taking into account their academic achievement as measured by the Common Entrance Exam.

Although the university primarily plays in NCAA Division II, three sports play as Division I members at the National Collegiate level in certain sports: the women's ice hockey team plays in Division I and is a member of College Hockey America ( CHA ); Men's volleyball competes as a Division I team as member of the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association ( MIVA ); and the women's gymnastics team will be competition in the 2012-13 academic year as Division I program with the Midwest Independent Conference ( MIC ).

* Independent academic research-based critiques of the GEF

He also took part in the Independent Students Union and was active as a member of the academic branch of Solidarity.

The school is a member of the Lake Michigan Association of Independent Schools, the Illinois Coalition of Nonpublic Schools, the Cum Laude Society, the National Honor Society, and many other academic organizations.

Southern Vermont College is a member of the Association of Vermont Independent Colleges ( AVIC ) and the Vermont Campus Compact, affiliated with the national association of colleges that include community service, hands-on learning and civic engagement as part of their academic requirements.

In a review by David V. Barrett in The Independent, Blood and Mistletoe was described as being more " academic and more than three times the length " of The Druids, although Barrett argued that despite this it was still " very readable ", even going so far as to call it a " tour de force ".

After his short career as an academic, he worked as a journalist on The Independent, the New York Evening Post and The Nation.

Independent studies can be done within an SDL class or in an open period, and can be used to gain academic credit.

As a selective Independent school it admits pupils based on academic selection.

The Independent Schools Inspectorate commented that the school is a world-renowned centre for excellence in its field that allows students to excel ïn their skill and love of dance and they progress to positions with major ballet companies around the world ... Elmhurst provides a full academic day in conjunction with a full vocational course in ballet and dance training.

These students ' societies and clubs can be categorized into six main groups: Campus media, Faculty and academic societies, Hall students ' association, Sports clubs ( forming the Sports Association, HKUSU ), Cultural clubs ( forming the Cultural Association, HKUSU ) and Independent clubs ( forming the Independent Clubs Association, HKUSU ).

The Mustangs compete in the NAIA through the Association of Independent Institutions ( AII ); the college will join the Wolverine – Hoosier Athletic Conference starting in the 2012-13 academic year.

Part of the Lubbock Independent School District, the school is known for its academic program and for the fact that it has produced a number of talented musicians, vocalists, businessmen, and scientists over the years ( including Buddy Holly and The Crickets, Natalie Maines, Ralna English, and Mac Davis ).

The Anglo-Chinese School ( Independent ) publicity material for the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme additionally emphasises that IB students guilty of serious violations of academic dishonesty, if male, may be caned.

St Anne's is one of the top academic schools and its leavers write the Independent Examination Board exams.

Though this technically can be fulfilled with an Independent Study Project, most if not all students opt to participate in performing ensembles or take classes during the academic day to complete their requirement.

Its athletic teams as well as academic, literary, debate and thespian clubs, nicknamed the Cavaliers, compete in the Georgia Independent School Association.