Communist Party

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Publishing Sylvia Pankhurst
In 1920, she published (again through the Workers' Socialist Federation ) Rebel Ireland: Thoughts on Easter Week 1916, which was reprinted from the original in the Workers' Dreadnought.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Family and Intimate relationships Christabel Pankhurst
CP publicly announced that Sylvia Pankhurst 's East London Federation would no longer be attached to the WSPU .
Marcus, Jane, editor. “Introduction / Appendix”. Suffrage and the Pankhursts, Routledge and Kegan Paul, pp. 1 - 17, 306.
315
Family and Intimate relationships Christabel Pankhurst
In January 1914, CP called Sylvia to Paris to demand that Sylvia's East London Federation should break its ties to the WSPU . Although their mother's suffragist impulse had originally grown in close relation to...
politics Sylvia Pankhurst
The East London Federation of Suffragettes (ELFS), a radical, militant, working-class feminist organisation begun by SP and her supporters, held its first meeting at Bromley Public Hall, Bow Street, in East London.
Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press.
41-3
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
politics Sylvia Pankhurst
Shortly after her release from Holloway , where she had been imprisoned for sedition, SP was formally expelled from the Communist Party of Great Britain .
Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press.
170, 216n123
Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan.
102
Textual Production Sylvia Pankhurst
SP edited the weekly paper of the East London Federation of Suffragettes , the Women's Dreadnought, named with some panache after a state-of-the-art British battleship.
Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press.
68-9, 104, 185
Strachey, Lytton. Queen Victoria. Harcourt Brace.
73-4
Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan.
44, 109
Harrison, Royden et al. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check List. Harvester Press.
603
Dancyger, Irene. A World of Women: An Illustrated History of Women’s Magazines. Gill and Macmillan.
112
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press.
37
Textual Production Sylvia Pankhurst
Publishing through the Workers' Socialist Federation , SP released Housing and the Workers' Revolution: Housing in Capitalist Britain and Bolshevik Russia.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Sylvia Pankhurst
SP announced her departure from the Communist Party (from which she had been expelled) in an article written for the Dreadnought.
Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press.
173
Residence Sylvia Pankhurst
Released from prison under the Cat and Mouse Act to regain her health after a hunger strike in 1913, SP went to live with Jessie Payne and her husband (both shoemakers) in Old Ford Road...
Family and Intimate relationships Sylvia Pankhurst
From this point the East London Federation of Suffragettes dropped its connection with the WSPU. In 1916, on hearing about an anti-conscription rally organized by Sylvia, Emmeline Pankhurst cabled from America: Strongly repudiate Sylvia's foolish...
politics Sylvia Pankhurst
The East London Federation of Suffragettes was renamed the Workers' Suffrage Federation in March 1916, to indicate its double focus on suffrage and activism for peace. In May 1918 it was renamed the Workers' Socialist Federation
Family and Intimate relationships Tillie Olsen
They shared their involvement in Communist politics. Communists, however, did not recognize the prohibitions of bourgeois morality and Tillie continued to make love with other men besides her husband.
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press.
67, 65
By her twenty-third birthday...
politics Tillie Olsen
Before she left school Tillie parted company with her father over politics. He was now a leading Omaha Socialist; the Communists were accusing the Socialists of pandering to capitalism; Tillie sided with the Communists ...
Material Conditions of Writing Tillie Olsen
After marrying Abe Goldfarb at a time of near-starvation for many American workers, the future TO wrote dramatic and publishable journalism under the pseudonym of T(h)eresa Landale in support of the Communist Party .
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press.
64
Material Conditions of Writing Tillie Olsen
TO 's Communist and anti-fascist journalism became more mainstream once the USA had entered the Second World War.

Timeline

November 1945: In a post-war treaty the Kingdom of Yugoslavia...

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November 1945

In a post-war treaty the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was reconstituted as the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia.

8 September 1946: London Communists encouraged three hundred...

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8 September 1946

London Communists encouraged three hundred homeless families to form the first squat, by occupying houses in Kensington and Bloomsbury.

June 1948: Yugoslavia, although ruled by a Communist...

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June 1948

Yugoslavia, although ruled by a Communist government under Marshall Tito , was expelled from the Cominform , the Russian-dominated arbiter of European Communist parties.

1 October 1949: At Tiananmen Square in Beijing (Peking),...

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1 October 1949

At Tiananmen Square in Beijing (Peking), Mao Zedong (or Mao Tse-Tung) proclaimed the People's Republic of China.

December 1950: British Prime Minister Clement Attlee flew...

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December 1950

British Prime Minister Clement Attlee flew to Washington, DC, apparently seeking to deflect US President Harry S. Truman from a possible plan to use nuclear weapons against CommunistNorth Korea.

8 March 1952: The British Labour Party discontinued its...

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8 March 1952

The British Labour Party discontinued its endorsement of International Women's Day, because of the then close ties of the festival with the Communist Party .
Barclay, Katie. “Women’s History Month: International Women’s Day!”. Women’s History Network Blog.

December 1955: Black activist Claudia Jones, threatened...

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December 1955

Black activist Claudia Jones , threatened with deportation from the USA to her native Trinidad for violating anti-Communist laws, arrived in London, where she spent her nine remaining years.

14-25 February 1956: The Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist...

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14-25 February 1956

The Twentieth Congress of the SovietCommunist Party sowed the seeds of de-Stalinization. It opened with a report from Khrushchev critical of Stalin , and closed with his revelation of some selected truths about Stalin's regime.

By : The British Communist Party had been severely...

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By summer1957

The British Communist Party had been severely reduced in numbers in face of anxieties about the political behaviour of the Soviet Union following the Hungarian Revolution of the previous October-November.

1961: The Electrical Trades Union was expelled...

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1961

The Electrical Trades Union was expelled from the both the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the Labour Party amid allegations of malpractice and ballot-rigging on the part of its Communist leadership.

1965: In China the movement which became the Cultural...

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1965

In China the movement which became the Cultural Revolution was launched, apparently by Zhang Chunquiao and Jiang Qing (wife of Mao Zedong or Tse-tung ), aimed at first against senior Communist Party figures.

23 April 1966: The Daily Worker, newspaper of the British...

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23 April 1966

The Daily Worker, newspaper of the British Communist Party , issued its last number under this title; the next, of 25 April, was entitled the Morning Star.

1974: African American activist Angela Davis published...

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1974

African American activist Angela Davis published Angela Davis: An Autobiography.

August 1980: Lech Walesa, an electrician who some years...

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August 1980

Lech Walesa , an electrician who some years before this had lost his job at the Gdansk shipyards for trade union activity, led a strike which escalated into a revolution.

February 1986: Slobodan Milosevic became leader of the Communist...

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February 1986

Slobodan Milosevic became leader of the Communist Party in Yugoslavia.

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