Socialist Key Thinker

Anthony Giddens

Third Way Thinker (20th Century) Author of Beyond Left and Right (1994)

Tony Blair

New Labour Prime Minister 1997-2007

Karl Marx

Author of The Communist Manifesto (1848) Edited by Friedrich Engels

Vladimir Lenin

Leader of the Russian Bolshevik Party Communist dictator of the USSR (1917-1924)

Rosa Luxemburg

Leader of German Spartacist League Killed 1919

Beatrice Webb

Key early democratic socialist thinker Wrote The Cooperative Movement in Great Britain

Bernie Sanders

Senator of Vermont Presidential candidate in 2016 and 2020 And all-round class act

Clement Attlee facts and stats

Democratic Socialist Leader of Labour Party 1935- 1955 Labour PM (1945-1951) Believed in public ownership, redistribution of wealth, nationalisation, heavy military spending Created NHS 1944 Butler Act- free education for all

Tony Benn facts and stats

Democratic Socialist Left wing MP of the Labour Party 47 years from 1950 Refused Viscount to sit in Commons Wrote Arguments for Socialism (1980) Encouraged decentralisation and democratisation of the Labour Party Nationalisation, public ownership, anti- big businesses Parliamentary system would fail to bring equality Wanted reform for House of Lords

Edmund Bernstein

Early German revisionist thinker Wrote Evolutionary Socialism (1898)

Anthony Crosland

Social democracy thinker (Twentieth century) Labour Minister Wrote The Future of Socialism (1965)

Jeremy Corbyn facts and stats

Labour MP from 1983, party leader from 2015-219 Campaigned against PFIs Higher tax for the rich Cut tuition fees Living wage Defeated in 2017, gained seat and defeated in 2019, stepped down