Sylvia Pankhurst
Left communist, feminist and daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst.
Our point of view - Sylvia Pankhurst
Explanation of the principles of the Workers' Dreadnought group, and their reasons for joining the Communist Party of Great Britain.
What is the difference between ourselves and the Communist Party?
Our differences are partly of principle, partly of practical utility.
As to the second, we believe that we can do useful work for Communism by continuing the Workers' Dreadnought, and we do not admit the right of anyone to stop us.
Open letter to Lenin - Sylvia Pankhurst
Open letter from Sylvia Pankhurst and the Workers' Dreadnaught to Lenin, accusing the Third International parties of abandoning communism.
To Lenin, as representing the Russian Communist Party and the Russian Soviet Government.
The truth about the Fascisti - Sylvia Pankhurst
Pankhurst examines the rise of Italian fascism from foundations laid by social democracy.
The Daily Herald, the Labour Party organ with unexampled treachery to the cause of the workers, and to all that makes for progress, has attempted to whitewash the White Terror of the Fascisti, which holds Italy in its grip today.
Women members of parliament - Sylvia Pankhurst
Sylvia Pankhurst argues that the election of women to parliament won't overcome the bankruptcy of parliamentary politics.
The return of eight women to Parliament marks an advance in public opinion. People have realised at last that women are persons with all the human attributes, not merely some of them and that women have an equal right with men to take part in making the social conditions under which they live.
What is behind the label? A plea for clearness - Sylvia Pankhurst
Sylvia Pankhurst discusses the necessity of looking beyond such labels as 'anarchist', 'socialist' and 'communist', and engaging with the actual content of their ideas.
Men and women call themselves Socialists, Communists, Anarchists, Individualists, thinking they thus explain their views to themselves and others. Yet question them, but a little; you will discover how few of them have any clear conception of what they mean by their labels.
Capitalism or communism for Russia? - Sylvia Pankhurst
Sylvia Pankhurst discusses how the implementation of the New Economic Policy had merely intensified, rather than abolished, capitalism in early 1920s Russia.
The appeal which we publish on our front page from the Workers' Group of Russia, reveals the struggle still continuing there between the opposing ideals of capitalism and communism. Capitalism is still in the ascendant. In Russia, the cue of its protagonists is no longer to sing the praises of private enterprise and the right of every man to do as he likes with his own.
Radical London & The Workers Dreadnought in the early 1920s - Claude McKay
Arriving in London from the US in 1919, West Indian writer McKay describes in these excerpts from his autobiography how he became involved in radical circles and worked on Sylvia Pankhurst's Workers Dreadnought paper.
From; A Long Way From Home, Claude McKay; Pluto Press, London 1985. Originally published in 1937.
Comments on Pankhurst's "The Communist Party: Provisional Resolutions towards a Programme"
An analysis of Sylvia Pankhurst's role in the conflicts surrounding the emergence of the British Communist Party.
1920: The Communist Party - Provisional Resolutions towards a Programme
Pankhurst's programme for the new British Communist Party was expressive of the "ultra-left" tendency that criticised working within the existing bourgeois structures of trade union bureaucracies and parliamentary parties. Lenin, in his counter-revolutionary manual "Left Wing Communism - An Infantile Disorder", defended such reformist policies as he criticised Pankhurst and other "ultra-lefts".
Anton Pannekoek's Letter to Sylvia Pankhurst
Pannekoek discusses the failings of the programme of the newly formed Irish Communist Party.
Anton Pannekoek's letter -
DEAR COMRADE,
