‎"MORRIS, WILLIAM.‎
‎Chants for Socialists.‎

‎London, Socialist League Office, 1885. 8vo. Uncut unopened. Very light miscolouring to first and last leaf, otherwise fine and clean. 16 pp.‎

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‎Second edition, second impression, here expanded with a seventh poem ""Down Among the Dead Men"", of Morris collection of poems to inspire and mobilize people to embrace socialism and fight against the exploitation in capitalist systems. It is considered the first poetic contribution to the modern Socialist Movement and the first edition was described by Buxton Forman as ""one of the rarest Socialist items"". The Socialist League was a British socialist organization founded in 1884 by William Morris and others who were dissatisfied with the direction of the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), the leading socialist organization in Britain at the time. The Socialist League was formed as a breakaway group from the SDF due to internal disagreements about strategy, particularly over parliamentary politics. The League emphasized direct action and sought to build a mass movement of workers to overthrow capitalism. Lemire, The Socialists League Leaflets and Manifestoes, no. 27. ‎