Joseph Lane (2 April 1851 – 3 September 1920) was an English libertarian socialist campaigner.
[1] Lane had very little education, beginning farm work at a young age.
In the early 1870s he was involved in the Land Tenure Reform Association and the republican movement.
[1][2] In 1881 he was involved in producing the anarchist journal Freiheit and the weekly newspaper The Radical.
1884 saw the Labour Emancipation League merge with the Democratic Federation to form the Social Democratic Federation before seceding to join the newly formed Socialist League.