Sylvia Pankhurst

Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960) is a political woman British.

Girl of the Feminist Emmeline Pankhurst, feminist itself, Sylvia Pankhurst was leader of the suffragettes. Sylvia Pankhurst (and his/her Adela sister in Australia) joined the Komintern like member of the Gauche Communist (running opposed to Lénine on its left). Chapter 9 of the infantile Maladie is devoted to him and treats also its newspaper the Workers Dreadnought (weekly body of the working socialist Federation). In a country which has a long tradition of democratic rights and Parlementarisme, Pankhurst was opposed so that the Communist party takes part in the elections (see on this question: the letter of Lénine to S. Pankhurst in the infantile disease ). This group refused very compromised or frontism with " groups; middle-class man of gauche". Exclude from the International Communist in 1921, it is in particular close to Anton Pannekoek.

Several times imprisoned for its activism, she also lived according to her convictions, and refused to marry.

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Sylvia Pankhurst
the letter of Lénine in Sylvia Pankhurst. * Mary DAVIS. Sylvia Pankhurst." With life in Politics" Radical;. Pluto Near, London and Sterling (the USA), 1999. 158 p. Préface of Richard Pankhurst, wire of Sylvia Pankhurst.

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