What is behind the label? A plea for clearness - Sylvia Pankhurst Sylvia Pankhurst discusses the necessity of looking beyond such labels as 'anarchist', 'socialist'…
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.
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…
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…
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.
1920s: Communism vs. Reforms: Mistakes of the Communist Party in Ireland Pankhurst exposes the reactionary role of the Communist Party of Ireland and gives some background…
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…
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.