Sylvia Pankhurst and Democracy
Author: Susan Carlyle and Sean MatgamnaCommunism and democracy in the work of the great feminist.The development of industrial society threw masses of women into the factories. Whole industries, like...
View ArticleSylvia Pankhurst: an organiser for working-class women
Author: Jill MountfordHaving been expelled from the suffragette organisation the Women's Social and Political Union by her mother Emmeline and sister Christabel, in 1914 Sylvia Pankhurst launched a...
View Article1917: an anti-Jewish pogrom in London
By Sylvia PankhurstThe following account by Sylvia Pankhurst is of a police-sponsored pogrom against Jewish immigrants in London’s East End is taken from an issue of Women’s Dreadnought from 26 May...
View ArticleSylvia Pankurst
Author: Jo from London"Votes for ladies" or working-class women's self-organisation?In History at school, we are often given very distinctive impressions of the women’s suffrage movement – that there...
View ArticleSylvia Pankhurst: The Red Suffragette
Download pdf.Biographer Patricia Romero ("Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical", Yale University Press) is bewildered by Sylvia Pankhurst's support for the Bolsheviks. But Sylvia knew what she was...
View ArticleManifesto of the Revolutionary Socialist Party of Ireland, 1919
A manifesto published by the small Revolutionary Socialist Party in Ireland in 1919, and reprinted in the international communist press.Introduction: In 1919 it looked to many - to Lenin and Trotsky,...
View ArticleThose who refused to fight
Author: Jim JeppsEvery time I see the establishment line up to commemorate the “glorious” dead of the First World War I can’t help but think of Siegfried Sassoon’s words: “The Great Ones of the Earth...
View ArticleBooks on war and revolution
War and revolution has been a theme of 2014. Workers’ Liberty comrades recommend some books on that theme, all readily available, and ideal for reading over the holiday period.War and revolution has...
View ArticleSylvia Pankhurst: Red Suffragette and Scourge of the Empire
Author: Jill MountfordAn International Women's Day 2017 presentation by Jill Mountford.An International Women's Day 2017 presentation by Jill Mountford.facebooktwittergoogle+whatsappemailprintMarxist...
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