Communist Party

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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.
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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.
Material Conditions of Writing Cecily Mackworth
CM was in Berlin when fire was set to the Reichstag or parliament on 27 February 1933. This caused political panic and gains for the young Adolf Hitler . It was understood that the Nazis
Occupation Flannery O'Connor
FOC worked as a teaching assistant while she studied for her MFA,
Gooch, Brad. Flannery. Little, Brown and Co.
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but she put most of her energies into her potential future as a writer. She applied for several college teaching positions, just...
Occupation Pearl S. Buck
PSB taught at a number of Chinese universities. Early in her first marriage (as well as entertaining for her husband and beginning to write seriously) she taught intermittently from 1925 at Nanjing University (which was...
politics Sylvia Pankhurst
After 1918 SP was the honorary secretary of the Workers' Socialist Federation (her former suffrage organisation). Politically transformed by the Russian revolution, she had ceased to believe that suffrage and the electoral process held any...
politics Charlotte Despard
CD stood as a pacifist Labour candidate on 14 December 1918, for the constituency she knew best, in Battersea, in the first British election in which women were entitled to do so, and was...
politics Sylvia Pankhurst
Deeply involved in the political struggles among labour groups in Britain between 1917 and 1924, SP was ultimately unsuccessful in achieving her goals. At a June 1920 conference, the Workers' Socialist Federation reconstituted itself as...
politics Sylvia Pankhurst
The competing labour groups had resolved themselves into the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), and SP 's attempts to develop the CP (BSTI) into a left-wing faction of the party had failed. Much of...
politics Graham Greene
GG joined the British Communist Party on a whim for a period of about a month in 1925, probably paying dues of a shilling or so for his brief membership. This was an aberration, since...
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 ...
politics Valentine Ackland
VA and Warner joined the Communist Party , believing, like many of their contemporaries, that Communism offered the best or only defence against encroaching Fascism.
Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora.
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Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Introduction”. Letters: Sylvia Townsend Warner, edited by William Maxwell, Chatto and Windus, p. vii - xvii.
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politics Evelyn Sharp
She was several times invited to stand for election to parliament, but replied that she did not think herself well suited to the necessary compromises of parliamentary politics.
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head.
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She later wrote that she would...
politics Evelyn Sharp
ES was thoroughly in sympathy with the principles of the Russian Revolution, and was one of the founders of the British 1917 Club . She noted that the concept of equal sharing at the root...
politics Hannah Arendt
During her first marriage, HA criticised the German women's movement for interesting itself in social, or women's issues without considering the broader political causes and consequences which made them of concern to men as well...

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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