Communist Party

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

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...

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 .

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.

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.

VA and Warner joined the Communist Party , believing, like many of their contemporaries, that Communism offered the best or only defence against encroaching Fascism.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

FOC worked as a teaching assistant while she studied for her MFA, but she put most of her energies into her potential future as a writer. She applied for several college teaching positions, just...

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 .

TO 's Communist and anti-fascist journalism became more mainstream once the USA had entered the Second World War.

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