Joseph Lane

Joseph Lane (2 April 1851 – 3 September 1920) was an English libertarian socialist campaigner.

Biography Lane was born on 2 April 1851 in Benson, Oxfordshire, England, to Thomas Lane, who was a cordwainer, and Mercy Lane (née Warner). Lane had very little education, beginning farm work at a young age. As a boy he also took a keen interest in politics and attending election meetings. He moved to London and at the age of 15 began work as a carter. In the early 1870s he was involved in the Land Tenure Reform Association and the republican movement. He died in East Ham, Essex on the 3 September 1920 aged 69. On his death he was described as a shopkeeper.

Publications

An Anti-Statist, Communist Manifesto (1887)