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Communist Party
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Sylvia Townsend Warner | 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 |
| 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. |
| 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, 1996. 173 |
| 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, 1988. 55 Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Introduction”. Letters: Sylvia Townsend Warner, edited by William, 1908 - 2000 Maxwell, Chatto and Windus, 1982, p. vii - xvii. xiv |
| politics | Harriet Shaw Weaver | 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. Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970. 359 |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| politics | Sylvia Townsend Warner | STW
and Ackland, believing that Communism was the only defence against Fascism, joined the Communist Party
. Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora, 1988. 55 |
| 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 | Willa Muir | |
| 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 | Simone de Beauvoir | 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... |
| politics | Iris Murdoch | 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... |
| politics | Elizabeth Taylor | 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... |
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.
Murphy, Dervla. Through the Embers of Chaos. J. Murray, 2002.
xvi
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.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
396
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.
Ascherson, Neal. “Wedgism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 14, 23 July 2009, pp. 13-15. 13
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.
Zhang, Shu Guang. Economic Cold War: America’s embargo against China and the Sino-Soviet alliance, 1949-1963. Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Stanford University Press, 2001.
50
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.
Ascherson, Neal. “Wedgism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 14, 23 July 2009, pp. 13-15. 13
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, 8 Mar. 2011.
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.
Weigand, Kate. “A Radical Activist, Rediscovered”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
26
, No. 1, Jan.–Feb. 2009, pp. 13-14. 13-14
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...
By : The British Communist Party had been severely...
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By summer 1957
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.
Anderson, Perry. “The Age of EJH”. London Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2002, pp. 3-7.
6
Laqueur, Thomas. “Lectures about Heaven”. London Review of Books, 7 June 2007, pp. 3-8.
8
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.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson, editors. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1995. Third edition, Longman, 1996.
219
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.
Gittings, John. “Zhang Chunqiao”. Guardian Unlimited, 13 May 2005.
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.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
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.
The Nobel Foundation,. Nobel E-Museum.
Beaumont, Peter. “Anna Walentynowicz, whose sacking led to the rise of Solidarity”. The Observer, 11 Apr. 2010.
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.
Murphy, Dervla. Through the Embers of Chaos. J. Murray, 2002.
xvi-xvii
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