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Fabian Society
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Fabian Society, a society founded in 1884 consisting of socialists who advocate a ‘Fabian’ policy, as opposed to immediate revolutionary action. One of its instigators was Thomas Davidson (1840–1900). The Fabians aimed to influence government and affect policy by permeation rather than by direct power. The first two Fabian tracts were
Why are the Many Poor? (1884) by W. L. Phillips, a house painter and one of the few working-class members, and
A Manifesto (1884) by G. B.
Shaw, who also edited
Fabian Essays in socialism (1889), with contributions by S.
Webb, Sydney Olivier, and A.
Besant. The society itself continued to attract a distinguished membership of politicians, intellectuals, artists, and writers, ranging from Keir Hardie, Ramsay Macdonald, and G. D. H.
Cole to E.
Carpenter, E. Nesbit, R.
Brooke, and the painter Walter Crane. The society was named after Quintus Fabius Maximus (d. 203 bc), nicknamed
Cunctator or ‘the Delayer’ (who became dictator after Hannibal's victory at Trasimene); hence the expression ‘Fabian tactics’.
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FABIAN SOCIETY: Government must regulate the Internet, says Fabian Report.
M2 Presswire; 3/30/1999; 692 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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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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Fabian Society goes sex-mad.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 8/31/2006; 533 words
; WHAT WOULD George Bernard Shaw say? The Fabian Society's youth arm, The Young Fabian Society, is sexing up. Tonight's annual...know. I don't think the early members of the Fabian Society would mind too much. Who knows what...
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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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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; 629 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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CBI dismisses Fabian Society's call for four new bank holidays
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/14/2001; ; 552 words
; ...such thing as a free lunch". The Confederation of British Industry said recommendations by the Labour- affiliated Fabian Society to bring bank holiday entitlements into line with much of continental Europe could endanger economic prosperity...
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 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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NEW BROOM OR OLD HAT?; The Record's Joan Burnie says the royals will be sleeping easy and sitting just as pretty as the Fabian Society report contains nothing new.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 7/16/2003; 435 words
; Byline: JOAN BURNIE THE Fabian Society may think these proposals are radical but there is little here to worry Her Majesty or Prince Charles. The Fabians are hardly...
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 "Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)")
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Fair play should make us think about fair pay; the wednesday essay: Inequality is firmly back on the political agenda, following the report on social mobility by former Cabinet minister Alan Milburn. Here Sunder Katwala, general secretary of left-wing think-tank the Fabian Society, looks at the widening wealth gap and argues that a more equal society could benefit us all.
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 7/29/2009; 700+ words
; ...Cardiff today to discuss new Fabian research, published by the...make the case for a fairer society can learn from it. Equality...their subtitle: Why Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better. They...neighbours. A fairer and more equal society would be good for us all...
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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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