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Fabian Society
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Fabian Society The Society took its name from the Roman dictator Fabius, nicknamed ‘Cunctator’, or delayer. It was founded in 1884 by a group of middle‐class intellectuals to further ‘the reconstruction of Society in accordance with the highest moral principles’, but
gradually. Its first pamphlet,
Why are the Many Poor?, made it plain that the highest principles were socialist. Shortly afterwards Sidney
Webb and Bernard
Shaw, its most famous members, joined. It survives, the most senior of all Britain's socialist organizations.
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FABIAN SOCIETY: Government must regulate the Internet, says Fabian Report.
M2 Presswire; 3/30/1999; 684 words
; M2 PRESSWIRE-30 March 1999-FABIAN SOCIETY: Government must regulate the Internet, says Fabian Report (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...new Report, The Net Effect, from the Fabian Society. This turns on its head the emerging...
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Fabian Society report highlights challenge to close the digital divide - Healey.
M2 Presswire; 7/3/2001; 700+ words
; ...3 July 2001-UK Government: Fabian Society report highlights challenge to close...Welcoming the publication of the Fabian Society's report, 'Beyond Access...Exclusion', John Healey said: "The Fabian Society report gives us a timely...
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Fabian Society goes sex-mad.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 8/31/2006; 548 words
; WHAT WOULD George Bernard Shaw say? The Fabian Society's youth arm, The Young Fabian Society, is sexing up. Tonight's annual...I don't think the early members of the Fabian Society would mind too much. Who knows what...
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Fabian Society General Secretary Endorses "Save Zimbabwe" Campaign.
News Wire article from: Africa News Service; 9/12/2002; 692 words
; ...Jacobs, General Secretary of the Fabian Society, the internationally renowned left...mandate of the Zimbabwean people. The Fabian Society is one of the world's...the Labour Party ever since. The Fabian Society has remained at the heart...
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Fabian Society set to ditch its Clause IV after 115 years
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/20/1999; ; 673 words
; THE FABIAN Society, Britain's oldest...possible. Section 2 of the society's constitution commits its...Paul Richards, the Blairite Fabian who is proposing the move...constitution are two very different societies. In reality, we are modernising...opposition from some of the society's ...
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YOUR VIEWS: The case for curbing consumption.(A Better Choice of Choice by Roger Levett, the Fabian Society)
Magazine article from: Chemist & Druggist; 8/23/2003; 700+ words
; The Fabian Society's latest report makes interesting reading...Labour Party-affiliated think tank, the Fabian Society, was issued to highlight its...choice of schools to pensions policy. The Fabian report has been written for the Government...
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Fabian Society reception.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Chemist & Druggist; 10/11/2003; 672 words
; Lloydspharmacy supported this year's Fabian Society reception at the Labour Party conference. As well as musician Billy Bragg and former Fabian Society general secretary Michael Jacobs, Lloydspharmacy...
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Letter: Fabian Society not a charity
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/17/1998; ; 249 words
; ...May) it is implied that, as a political think-tank, the Fabian Society is in contravention of its charitable status. This would be...it not for the fact that we are not a charity. Michael Jacobs Fabian Society, London SW1
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Speech by the Foreign Secretary at the Fabian Society.
M2 Presswire; 3/11/2005; 700+ words
; ...Government: Speech by the Foreign Secretary at the Fabian Society(C)1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:10032005...Let me thank you, Sunder [Katwala], and the Fabian Society for organising this event today. I also want to thank...
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News: Fabian Society attacks government over compulsion.
Magazine article from: Pensions Week; 9/27/2004; 628 words
; Left wing think-tank, the Fabian Society, has lambasted the government over its policy on compulsion...Johnson, the new secretary of state for work and pensions, the society's research director Richard Brooks outlined why compulsion...
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Fabian Society
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Fabian Society, a society founded in 1884 consisting of socialists who advocate a ‘Fabian’ policy, as opposed to immediate...rather than by direct power. The first two Fabian tracts were Why are the Many Poor...
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Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen , 1778-1852, Russian explorer, b. Sarema, Estonia. A graduate of the...Alexander I, Peter I, and Traversay islands. Before returning to Kronstadt, he explored Fiji and the Society Islands.
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Fabianism
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...intellectuals created the Fabian Society. It has never had more...functioning of their society needed a new, independent...Bernstein and Lenin was the Fabian call for the professional...economic policy along Fabian lines. The founder of...
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George Douglas Howard Cole
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...in social causes, and joined the Fabian Society. He attempted to reconcile syndicalism...Magdalen College. Elected to the Fabian executive in 1915, he rebelled...to head the quasi-independent Fabian Research Bureau. During the next...
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Sidney James Webb
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...English social reformer and a leading Fabian Socialist, a historian of social...University. In 1885 Webb joined the Fabian Society and soon became a dominating influence...1910 the Webbs decided that the Fabian policy of working through the existing...
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