Debates between the Socialist Party of Great Britain and other groups were of particular importance in bringing the party case to an outside audience without the sometimes off-putting rhetoric of platform speaking, or the one-sidedness of educational talks. It was in fact the only Marxist group in Britain (in Germany, the Communist Party of Germany engaged in such debates) that would share a platform to debate against those from the far right such as Probyn, Goulding and Raven Thompson from the British Union of Fascists and Denis Pirie from the National Front.