The 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.

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Workers Dreadnought

Women's Dreadnought

Sylvia Pankhurst

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The Workers' Dreadnought (December 10 1921)

Contains part three of the first version of Pankhurst's "Communism and its Tactics", extracts from bourgeois economist Fredrick Bastiat's "Economic Sophisms" on the conflicting interests between producers and consumers (serving here as an indictment of capitalist production), part four of a text by Charles Brower on the historic background of the Communist Manifesto, and other content.

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wd_12101921.pdf (7.39 MB)

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The Workers' Dreadnought (December 24 1921)

Contains part four of version one of Pankhurst's "Communism and its Tactics", the sixth part of a text by Charles Brower on the background of the Communist Manifesto, part four of an older text by Kropotkin on revolution, and more.

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wd_12241921.pdf (7.58 MB)

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The Workers' Dreadnought (January 28 1922)

Contains part five of Pankhurst's "Communism and its Tactics," a critique of British-capitalist imperialism against then PM Lloyd George's calls for peace, and other content.

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wd_01281922.pdf (7.47 MB)

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The Workers' Dreadnought (February 4 1922)

Contains part six of Pankhurst's "Communism and its Tactics", a short story by socialist writer Anatole France, part eight of an older text by Kropotkin on revolution, and other content.

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wd_02041922.pdf (7.58 MB)

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The Workers' Dreadnought (March 11 1922)

Contains the seventh and final part of the first version of Pankhurst's "Communism and its Tactics," part three of Kropotkin's "The Wage System," and other content.