A constitution for British soviets. Points for a communist programme - Sylvia Pankhurst
Pankhurst outlines her vision of how a system of soviets might be applied to Britain.
The capitalist system must be completely overthrown and replaced by the common ownership and workers' control of the land, the industries of all kinds and all means of production and distribution.
Parliament must be abolished and replaced by a system of Soviets formed by delegates from the industries, the homes, the regiments and the ships.
You are called to the war - Sylvia Pankhurst
Article in Workers' Dreadnought opposing the involvement of the Allied nations in the Russian Civil War.
Wake up! Wake up! Oh, sleepy British people! The new war is in full blast, and you are called to fight in it; you cannot escape; you must take part!
Look to the future - Sylvia Pankhurst
Sylvia Pankhurst discusses the limitations of the increased suffrage of the Representation of the People Act 1918.
Votes for women. Sex disability not removed
The election - Sylvia Pankhurst
Anti-parliamentary article published in Workers' Dreadnought on the day of the 1918 British general election.
'No, I'm not going to vote', said a poor woman in a 'bus, 'the British Government would take the blood from your heart'. In those bitter words she summed up her attitude towards the empty political balderdash, which now issues in prolific streams from the mouths of Parliamentary candidates and their supporters, and all but fills the newspapers.
The Lenin revolution: what it means to democracy - Sylvia Pankhurst
Sylvia Pankhurst announces the Russian Revolution and discusses its relevance to the situation in Britain.
'Anarchy in Russia', say the newsagents' placards. The capitalist newspapers denounce the latest Russian Revolution in unmeasured terms, and even the working men and women in the street too often echo their angry denunciations.
The Future Society - Sylvia Pankhurst
Sylvia Pankhurst outlines how socialism and communism will only come from a total break with capitalism.
The words Socialism and Communism have the same meaning. They indicate a condition of society in which the wealth of the community: the land and the means of production, distribution and transport are held in common, production being for use and not for profit.
Towards a Communist party - Sylvia Pankhurst
Sylvia Pankhurst discusses the problems of regroupment facing British left groups, and the proposals to affiliate to the Communist International.
In The Call of February 12th Albert Inkpin, secretary to the BSP, gives an account of private unity negotiations to form a Communist Party of the four organisations which at present declare affiliation to the Third or Communist International, inaugurated at Moscow.
Co-operative housekeeping - Sylvia Pankhurst
Sylvia Pankhurst describes her experience of daily life in a co-operative home.
I haven't described our Co-operative home to you. It is built round a square garden and there is another garden round it. There is also a garden on the roof. The dining- room and kitchen are on the top floor. The school nursery, crèche, and children's garden is at the end of the block of buildings.
Soviet Russia as I saw it in 1920: the Congress in the Kremlin - Sylvia Pankhurst
Sylvia Pankhurst's report to Workers' Dreadnaught, on her attendance at the Second Congress of the Communist International, in Moscow, 1920.
Almost immediately after my arrival at the Djelavoi Dvor, a message came: 'Lenin has sent for you to come at once to the Kremlin.'
Freedom of discussion - Sylvia Pankhurst
Article on the necessity of free, open discussion within the CPGB, and the need for Workers' Dreadnaught to remain independent of the party Executive.
Movements, like human beings, grow and develop from stage to stage and pass through many crazes and illnesses. The Communist Party of Great Britain is at present passing through a sort of political measles called discipline which makes it fear the free expression and circulation of opinion within the Party.
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