Weekly suffragette and later left-wing communist newspaper founded by Sylvia Pankhurst, first appearing as The Woman's Dreadnought in March 1914 and then as The Workers' Dreadnought in July 1917.
The Workers' Dreadnought
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 18 - 28 July 1917)
The 28 July 1917 issue of the Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 18).
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 19 - 4 August 1917)
The 4 August 1917 issue of the Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 19).
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 20 - 11 August 1917)
The 11 August 1917 issue of the Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 20).
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 21 - 18 August 1917)
The 18 August 1917 issue of the Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 21).
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 22 - 25 August 1917)
The 25 August 1917 issue of the Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 22).
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 23 - 1 September 1917)
The 1 September 1917 issue of the Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 23).
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 24 - 8 September 1917)
The 8 September 1917 issue of the Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 24).
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 25 - 15 September 1917)
The 15 September 1917 issue of the Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 25).
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 26 - 22 September 1917)
The 22 September 1917 issue of the Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 26).
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 27 - 29 September 1917)
The 29 September 1917 issue of the Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 27).
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 29 - 13 October 1917)
The 13 October 1917 issue of the Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 29).
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 30 - 20 October 1917)
Including: WW1, soldiers ask what they are fighting for, cost of living increases, federation notes, etc.
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 31 - 27 October 1917)
Including: Sylvia Pankhurst on the Labour Party, Parliament as we see it, etc.
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 32 - 3 November 1917)
Including: Dreadnought police raid discussed in Parliament, Sylvia Pankhurst on WWI soldiers, etc.
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 33 - 10 November 1917)
Including: food price increases and food control, women in Dublin, peace talks in parliament, Ceylon, etc.
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 34 - 17 November 1917)
Including: a military prisoner writes, Dreadnought raided again, Sylvia Pankhurst on the Bolshevik revolution, etc.
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 35 - 24 November 1917)
Including: IWW member jailed in Australia, women win the vote in New York state, Sylvia Pankhurst on WW1 weariness, etc.
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 36 - 1 December 1917)
Including: conditions in Wormwood Scrubs prison, Labour Party conference, Sylvia Pankhurst on poverty and food, advert for Workers Suffrage Federation "Old Cockney Fair", etc.
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 37 - 8 December 1917)
Including: political vs industrial action, Russia and WW1 by Sylvia Pankhurst, a miner's wife writes, "franchise bill" seeks removal of votes for conscientious objectors and impoverished women, etc.
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 39 - 22 December 1917)
Including: Replies to George Bernard Shaw's article on referendums, the franchise bill, the labour movement seeks continuation of war, old cockney fair review, etc.
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 40 - 29 December 1917)
Including: P.J. Dollan on life in prison, on not being a conscientious objector, Sylvia Pankhurst on imperialism, suggestions for 1918, Dr. Montessori and her educational principles, etc.
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 4 No. 48 - 23 February 1918)
Including: socialists and the war, National Labour Press raided, the schooling of the future by Sylvia Pankhurst, etc.
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 5 No. 1 - 30 March 1918)
Including: Irish labour movement, workplace struggle notes, John Reed's account of the Russian revolution, deaths of conscientious objectors in prison, etc.
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 5 No. 2 - 6 April 1918)
Including: engineers threaten to strike over conscription, Sinn Fein, Irish democracy, news, commentary etc.
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 5 No. 3 - 13 April 1918)
Including: Montessori education principles, shop steward movement in France, Sylvia Pankhurst on socialists and the war, oppositon to anti- sex worker legislation, Ireland, etc.
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 5 No. 4 - 20 April 1918)
Including: "the longer the war drags on the greater is the danger that it may end with a capitalist peace", the betrayal of Ireland, National Workers' Committee Conference, etc.
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 5 No. 5 - 27 April 1918)
Including: Serbian socialists and WW1, Sylvia Pankhurst on trade unions vs guild socialism, police seize issues of Dreadnought, news, etc.
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 8 No. 37 - 26 November 1921)
The 26 November 1921 issue of the Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 8 No. 37).
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 8 No. 38 - 3 December 1921)
The 3 December 1921 issue of the Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 8 No. 38).
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 8 No. 39 - 10 December 1921)
Contains part three of the first version of Pankhurst's "Communism and its Tactics", extracts from bourgeois economist Fredrick Bastiat's "Economic Sophisms" on the conflicting interests between producers and consumers (serving here as an indictment of capitalist production), part four of a text by Charles Brower on the historic background of the Communist Manifesto, and other content.
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 8 No. 41 - 24 December 1921)
Contains part four of version one of Pankhurst's "Communism and its Tactics", the sixth part of a text by Charles Brower on the background of the Communist Manifesto, part four of an older text by Kropotkin on revolution, and more.
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 8 No. 46 - 28 January 1921)
Contains part five of Pankhurst's "Communism and its Tactics," a critique of British-capitalist imperialism against then PM Lloyd George's calls for peace, and other content.
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 8 No. 47 - 4 February 1922)
Contains part six of Pankhurst's "Communism and its Tactics", a short story by socialist writer Anatole France, part eight of an older text by Kropotkin on revolution, and other content.
The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 8 No. 52 - 11 March 1922)
Contains the seventh and final part of the first version of Pankhurst's "Communism and its Tactics," part three of Kropotkin's "The Wage System," and other content.
Comments
Quit scabbing Fozzie; I'm on…
Quit scabbing Fozzie; I'm on strike until Steve retracts what he said about me being a "colonialist chauvinist" (i.e. for opposing Native American nationalism—which shouldn't be a controversial position among anarchists and other socialists) who is also supposedly spreading "Russian propaganda" by opposing Ukraine's ambitions to recapture Russophilic regions like Crimea (just like I oppose the military endeavors of Russia and all other capitalist states).
Hello Adri. Maybe explain in…
Hello Adri. Maybe explain in clear terms what I have done that you think is bad?
Hello Adri. Maybe explain in…
Lessening the effectiveness of our strike by scabbing! Once we win the retraction, and maybe also an actual wage of sorts (along with arrears), then we will go back to adding stuff to the archive. Until then, show some solidarity!
Once we win the retraction …
As a gesture of good faith, I've restored all of my submissions back to their original revisions. I will also refrain from posting a satirical list of demands from the fictional Libcom Workers' Union (a rank-and-file union of libcom contributors), in addition to a photo of the libcom penguin sitting on top of King Charles II's throne ordering libcom's volunteer-peasants to return to work. I do this in a spirit of reconciliation and out of a desire to end this strike amicably.
I can also resist anything…
I can also resist anything but temptation...
Thanks for the week-long…
Thanks for the week-long show of solidarity at least, but it seems that Steve is ignoring the LWU's legitimate grievances—not because he's clever or has read any Pope,[1] but because the libcomonarch is a bit of an ignorant snob. If you're wondering why I hadn't finished this already, it's partly because there are around 308 issues of the Workers' Dreadnought, not including the Woman's Dreadnought, and I wasn't sure if the site could handle all of that. When I was originally working on this, there also weren't any downloadable issues from the LSE like there are now; they only had images of each issue that one had to individually download and compile into a pdf.
1. 'Tis best sometimes your censure to restrain, / And charitably let the dull be vain: / Your silence there is better than your spite, / For who can rail so long as they can write?