Sylvia Pankhurst

An archive of texts and documents by and about Sylvia Pankhurst on libcom.org.

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Notes from Pankhurst on Lenin's Pamphlet ("Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder)

Some notes from Pankhurst on Lenin's pamphlet "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder, which…

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Socialism - Sylvia Pankhurst

Article by Pankhurst describing her vision of a socialist society. The article appeared in the Vol. 10 No. 19 (28 July 1923) issue of the Workers…

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What Socialism Is Not - Sylvia Pankhurst

Article by Pankhurst describing what socialism is not, in which she emphasizes the importance of worker councils as the main instruments of…

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Manifesto of the Unemployed Workers' Organisation

The Manifesto of the Unemployed Workers' Organisation, as it appeared in the Workers' Dreadnought on 7 July 1923 (Vol. 10 No. 16). The UWO split…

Saving the Boss - Sylvia Pankhurst

Short article from the Workers' Dreadnought (17 December 1921) on the crisis of post-war German debt and hyperinflation. The article argued…

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…

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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…

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The British Anarchist Movement and the Russian Revolution

A short account of how British 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

A hundred years ago, the British ruling class decided to extend the vote to women…

Sylvia Pankhurst demonstrating against British policy in India, 1932

Sylvia Pankhurst reader

An extensive compilation of the political writings of left communist Sylvia Pankhurst on class, women, communism and fascism.

Commemorative stamp depicting Harry Pollitt and the boycott

Dockers boycott SS Jolly George, 1920

A short account of UK dockworkers who in May 1920 refuse to load a ship carrying armaments bound for use against the revolution in Russia.

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Solidarity for workers' power #1.08

The eighth issue of Solidarity for workers' power with articles on the opposition to nuclear arms, reprinted advice from Sylvia Pankhurst and…