Communist Party

DL became a member of the British Communist Party . The same year she visited the USSR as a delegate of the Authors' World Peace Appeal .

SB 's political activities included steady opposition to France's colonial war in Algeria, and lifelong support for socialism and feminism. Elaine Showalter has written that SB 's feminist credentials stem from her writing, and...

DL was one of those who resigned their membership in the British Communist Party after the Hungarian Revolution was crushed, despite an appeal from Party officials to change her mind.

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.

Just after her mother's death and before her wedding, ET took the momentous step of joining the Communist Party . At this date she envisaged economic freedom as connected with freedom of speech, and with...

Shortly after her release from Holloway , where she had been imprisoned for sedition, SP was formally expelled from the Communist Party of Great Britain .

Though never a thorough-going pacifist, PSB worked in the 1930s with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom . As an anti-ideologue, she had the experience in the 1950s of being stigmatized as...

STW and Ackland, believing that Communism was the only defence against Fascism, joined the Communist Party .

WM and her husband hosted a Writers' Circle in their flat in Prague. The members of the Circle were young Czech writers, and discussions were often as much about Czech politics as about work-in-progress...

HSW was recruited into the British Communist Party while she was still a member of the Labour Party ; she remained a Communist Party member for the rest of her life.

IM once said that she was a Communist from the age of thirteen; it was a natural allegiance in the thirties for anyone growing up in an idealistic and civic-minded milieu. Her early political thinking...

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

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.

SP announced her departure from the Communist Party (from which she had been expelled) in an article written for the Dreadnought.

During the 1930s, STW and Valentine Ackland both wrote political critique for Time and Tide, the New Statesman, the News Chronicle, Woman Today (the paper of the World Women's Committee Against Fascism and War