ABSTRACT
When the war came, the British Socialist Party (B.S.P.), like most socialist parties of the belligerent countries, hauled down the red flag. From the Salford Conference onwards, the B.S.P. was definitely ranged with the left wing of what remained of the Socialist International. Upon the secession from the B.S.P., Hyndman, William Thorne, Dan Irving, Hunter Watts, H. W. Lee, J. Jones, John Stokes, and Joseph Burgess, formed the National Socialist Party. The formation of the Labour Party in 1900 by trade unionists and socialists rendered it possible for intellectuals to come in touch with the mass of trade unionists. The Scottish members of the Social Democratic Federation, who seceded in 1903, formed, after the model of the American Socialist Party, an organisation of their own which was practically but a branch of the American Party. In 1903 several Scottish branches seceded, in 1905 some London branches followed suit and formed separate organisations.
