Justice (newspaper)

The Justice was the central organ of the Social Democratic Federation (SDF ), the first socialist party in Britain, or their successors. It was published from 1884 until 1925.

History

The Justice appeared as a weekly newspaper and contributed as the central organ of the SDF subtitled " Organ of the Social Democracy". She had over the years of their appearance changing a period of four to twelve pages, most editions have eight sides.

Editors of the newspaper were especially known members and officials of the SDF. The first editor in chief was C. L. Fitzgerald. It followed him the SDF Chairman Henry Hyndman, who brought the blade to his controversial line. Others were Ernest Belfort Bax, who wrote numerous articles already under Hyndman, Henry Hyde Champion, Harry Quelch and Henry W. Lee as the last editor in chief. Especially Hyndman the sheet dominated for years. In almost every issue he published columns that were published with a larger line spacing than other products. Hyndman birthdays were announced big in the newspaper and the death of his first wife, who had little political significance, was treated on several pages. Law was the popular column published for decades in every issue Topical Tattle, in which an author under the pseudonym Tattler the political and social happenings entertaining summarized and commented. Compared with other sheets of the British labor movement, the Justice had a very high proportion of articles on topics of foreign policy.

In the wake of the First World War, the Justice split. The blade turned away from the SDF successor organization to the British Socialist Party and became the central organ of the National Socialist Party. 1925, the weekly newspaper was renamed the Social Democrat and appeared as a monthly until 1933.

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