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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 .

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

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.