Communist Party

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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...

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 .

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.