Alec J. M. Gray was a British

socialist Socialism is an economic ideology, economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse Economic system, economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership. It describes ...

. A railway clerk, Gray is believed to have been a member of the

Independent Labour Party The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a British political party of the left, established in 1893 at a conference in Bradford, after local and national dissatisfaction with the Liberal Party (UK), Liberals' apparent reluctance to endorse work ...

Martin Crick. ''The History of the Social Democratic Federation'', p. 91 before helping found the

Socialist Party of Great Britain The Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB) is a small socialist political party in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1904 as a split from the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), it advocates using the ballot box for revolutionary purposes and ...

in June 1904. Gray was a writer of some note for the ''

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'' until 1908, served on the executive committee (1904–1905, 1907–1911) and was the Party's second Treasurer (1905–1907).

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