Social Credit

Social Credit is an economic theory and a social movement which started in the early 1920s. The Canadian social credit movement was by far the most notable, but the ideas also gained some lesser success in other countries. One such country was New Zealand, where the Social Credit Party gained several seats in the national parliament, with 21% of the total votes at one election. In England, the Kibbo Kift, a small breakaway from the Boy Scout movement, transformed itself into the Green Shirt Movement for Social Credit, a political uniform-wearing paramilitary mass-movement, that marched, demonstrated and agitated in the 1930s for the introduction of a Social Credit system.

Groups influenced by Social Credit

Australia

• Australian League of Rights
• Douglas Credit Party

Canada

Federal political parties:

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• Social Credit Party of Canada/Canadian social credit movement
• Ralliement créditiste
• Abolitionist Party of Canada/Christian Credit Party
• Global Party of Canada

Provincial political parties:

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• Alberta Social Credit Party
• British Columbia Social Credit Party
• Manitoba Social Credit Party
• Social Credit Party of Ontario
• Ralliement créditiste du Québec
• Social Credit Party of Saskatchewan

Organizations:

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• Pilgrims of Saint Michael
• Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform
• See also: Prosperity Certificate

New Zealand

• Country Party (New Zealand)
• New Zealand Democratic Party
• New Democratic Party (New Zealand)
• Real Democracy Movement
• Social Credit Party (New Zealand)

United Kingdom

• Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland