Sylvia Pankhurst
Pankhurst, Sylvia
Left communist, feminist and daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst.
Radical London & The Workers Dreadnought in the early 1920s - Claude McKay
Arriving in London from the US in 1919, West Indian writer McKay describes in these excerpts from his autobiography how he became involved in radical circles and worked on Sylvia Pankhurst's Workers Dreadnought paper.
From; A Long Way From Home, Claude McKay; Pluto Press, London 1985. Originally published in 1937.
Comments on Pankhurst's "The Communist Party: Provisional Resolutions towards a Programme"
An analysis of Sylvia Pankhurst's role in the conflicts surrounding the emergence of the British Communist Party.
1920: The Communist Party - Provisional Resolutions towards a Programme
Pankhurst's programme for the new British Communist Party was expressive of the "ultra-left" tendency that criticised working within the existing bourgeois structures of trade union bureaucracies and parliamentary parties. Lenin, in his counter-revolutionary manual "Left Wing Communism - An Infantile Disorder", defended such reformist policies as he criticised Pankhurst and other "ultra-lefts".
Anton Pannekoek's Letter to Sylvia Pankhurst
Pannekoek discusses the failings of the programme of the newly formed Irish Communist Party.
Anton Pannekoek's letter -
DEAR COMRADE,
