Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press, 1996.
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Communist Party
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Tillie Olsen | 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
... |
| politics | Sylvia Pankhurst | 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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| politics | Sylvia Pankhurst | Shortly after her release from Holloway
, where she had been imprisoned for sedition, SP
was formally expelled from the Communist Party of Great Britain
. Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press, 1996. 170, 216n123 Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan, 1967. 102 |
| politics | Doris Lessing | 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
. Norton-Taylor, Richard. “MI5 spied on Doris Lessing for 20 years, declassified documents reveal”. theguardian, 21 Aug. 2015. Fishburn, Katherine. Doris Lessing: Life, Work, and Criticism. York Press, 1987, . 9 |
| politics | Charlotte Despard | 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... |
| politics | Doris Lessing | 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. Maslen, Elizabeth. Doris Lessing. Northcote House, 1994. viii Norton-Taylor, Richard. “MI5 spied on Doris Lessing for 20 years, declassified documents reveal”. theguardian, 21 Aug. 2015. |
| 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 | 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 | 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... |
| 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. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| 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 |
Timeline
9 November 1989: Popular action began pulling down the Berlin...
National or international item
9 November 1989
Popular action began pulling down the Berlin Wall (erected in August 1961, which divided the city into eastern and western sectors).
Lagassé, Paul, editor. The Columbia Encyclopedia. 6th ed., Columbia University Press, 2000.
17 November 1989: Peaceful mass protests and strikes produced...
National or international item
17 November 1989
Peaceful mass protests and strikes produced the resignation of the Czech Communist Party
, which had held power in what was then Czechoslovakia since 1948.
“Velvet Revolution: 15th Anniversary: November 17, 1989 - 15 years after”. Radio Praha (Radio Prague: The International Service of Czech Radio).
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