Sylvia Pankhurst

Saving the Boss - The Workers' Dreadnought (December 17 1921)

Short section from the Workers' Dreadnought (December 17 1921) on post-war German debt and hyperinflation, arguing against rhetoric of "saving Britain", "saving Europe", "saving civilization" as euphemisms for saving the capitalist system and preserving the state of the mass of workers as dependant wage slaves.

The Woman's/Workers' Dreadnought

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. Scans taken from LSE Digital Library Women's Rights Collection.

Labour Advice Bureau – Workers’ Dreadnought

Here is a sarcastic piece from Sylvia Pankhurst’s Workers’ Dreadnought paper in 1922, it was reprinted as follows in 1961 by the UK-based libertarian socialist group Solidarity in their Solidarity for Workers’ Power journal (vol.1, no. 8).

The British Anarchist Movement and the Russian Revolution

Submitted by Battlescarred on Jul 18 2017 15:04

A short account of how Britiish anarchists related to the Russian Revolution of 1917

Voting as Counter-Revolution – how the politicians who gave us the vote saw things 100 years ago

Submitted by Anti War on Jun 7 2017 12:33

A hundred years ago, the British ruling class decided to extend the vote to women over thirty and to working class men. By doing this they hoped to restore people's faith in parliamentary government and thereby counter any revolutionary tendencies inspired by the Russian Revolution. As Sylvia Pankhurst said in 1923: