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The story of Sylvia Pankhurst

Sylvia
by
Susan Carlyle, Sean Matgamna
2022
Pamphlet
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44 pages
ISBN
978-1-909639-61-4

Of the famous suffragette family Pankhurst — Emmeline, Christabel, Adela — Sylvia became the pioneer communist who organised the East End of London, where many working class men also lacked the vote. The pamphlet recounts the contrasting evolutions of the "votes for ladies" of Christabel and Emmeline, and of Sylvia's working-class organising.

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Table of Contents 
  • Women in capitalist society
  • The early women’s suffrage movement
  • The opposition to women’s suffrage
  • The Pankhursts
  • The Women’s Social and Political Union
  • The Great Unrest
  • WSPU breaks with the labour movement
  • Sylvia Pankhurst and the WSPU
  • Working in the East End
  • Sylvia breaks with the WSPU
  • The East London Federation of the Suffragettes
  • Women and men fight for the vote
  • The impact of World War One
  • The Workers’ Suffrage Federation
  • The WSF and the Russian Revolution
  • Bolshevik
  • Looking back
  • Epilogue
Related / Further reading 

Video presentation by Jill Mountford: "Red Suffragette and Scourge of the Empire"

"An anti-Jewish pogrom in East London", from Sylvia Pankhurst's paper Woman's Dreadnought, 26 May 1917

The story of votes for women, by Jill Mountford; and part two

Sylvia Pankhurst: an organiser for working-class women, by Jill Mountford

Review of Patricia Romero's biography of Sylvia Pankhurst

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