1920s: Communism vs. Reforms: Mistakes of the Communist Party in Ireland

Limerick United Trades and Labour Council, 1919 - The Limerick Soviet

Pankhurst exposes the reactionary role of the Communist Party of Ireland and gives some background information on the Limerick and Cork soviets.

Online version by http://www.af-north.org

From "Workers' Voice", Liverpool, 1974

Communism And Its Tactics - Sylvia Pankhurst

Pankhurst's communist vision - from her Workers' Dreadnought newspaper of 1921.

Hardie, Keir: The Forgotten Keir Hardie - Sylvia Pankhurst

This article by Sylvia Pankhurst, written in 1921 is a rejoinder to an appreciation by long-standing British Marxist and early member of the Communist Party, John B Askew. Sylvia argues that Hardie was always a class struggle politician and more influenced by Marx than many would have credited. Certainly her view is supported by a recent biography by Fred Reid (Keir Hardie: the Making of a Socialist) who shows that Hardie's early battles as an organiser for the Scottish miners convinced him of the centrality of class struggle and made him receptive to Marxist ideas.

The British Workers and Soviet Russia

Pankhurst discusses the responses of British workers to the Russian Revolution and Allied intervention via the trade unions and Labour Party.

PREFACE

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