Communist Party

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

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...

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. She later wrote that she would...

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 ...

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...

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...

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.

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

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 .

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 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.

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