The Company Fabienne ( Fabian Society ) is one think tank --> founded British think tank in 1884.

Of Socialist mobility and reforming, it will be recipient during creation of the workers party in 1900 and also of the recasting of this one in the Nineties with the New Labor .

The Fabienne Company or Company of Fabiens is a British socialist intellectual movement of which the goal is to rather promote the socialist cause by average reformists and progressive than revolutionary. It is especially known for its initial activity at the end of the 19th century and the First World War.

Similar companies also exist in Australia (the Australian Fabian Society), in Canada (the Douglas-Coldwell Foundation) and in New Zealand.

The group was primarily made of intellectuals resulting from the English middle-class. Among its notable members appear: Bernard Shaw, Walter Cranium, Edith Nesbit, George Orwell, Emmeline Pankhurst, H.G. Wells, Sinclair Lewis, Annie Besant, Graham Wallas, Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb.

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