Socialist National Defence League
The
Socialist National Defence League, later renamed the
National Democratic Party, was a
political party in
Britain. It was founded in
1915 as a split by the
right-wing of the
British Socialist Party, primarily over issues raised by the
First World War. They supported "the eternal idea of
nationality" and aimed to promote "
socialist measures in the war effort".
The party included H. G. Wells and Robert Blatchford, and achieved ten MPss in the 1918 election, but moved even further to the right, and many of its members eventually joined the Conservative Party.