Kathryn Dodd, ed. A Sylvia Pankhurst reader.

Contents

INTRODUCTION: The politics of form in Sylvia Pankhurst’s writing

PART I

WOMEN, CLASS AND POLITICS, 1907-16

‘The potato pickers’

‘Pit brow women’

The Suffragette (extract)

‘Our paper: The Woman’s Dreadnought’

‘A minimum wage for women’

‘Beware the CD Acts!’

‘How to meet industrial conscription’

‘Our equal birthright’

‘Human suffrage’

PART II

REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNISM, 1917-24

‘The Lenin revolution: what it means to democracy’

‘Look to the future’

‘The election’

‘You are called to the war’

‘Towards a communist party’

‘A constitution for British soviets. Points for a communist programme’

‘Co-operative housekeeping’

‘Soviet Russia as I saw it in 1920: the Congress in the Kremlin’

Writ on Cold Slate

‘Freedom of discussion’

‘To Lenin, as representing the Russian Communist Party and the Russian Soviet Government’

‘The truth about the Fascisti’

‘What is behind the label? A plea for clearness’

‘Women members of Parliament’

‘Capitalism or Communism for Russia?’

PART III

WOMEN AND CITIZENSHIP, 1930-35

Save the Mothers (…) (extract)

‘Women’s citizenship’

PART IV

REMAKING SOCIALIST-FEMINISM, 1931-35

The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst (extract)

The Suffragette Movement (extract)

The Home Front (extract)

‘In the Red Twilight’ (extract)

PART V

ANTI-FASCISM AND ETHIOPIA, 1936-53

‘Our policy [on the invasion of Ethiopia by fascist Italy]’

‘Three great powers betrayed us’

‘The fascist world war’

‘Our policy [on the democratic ideal]

‘The conspiracy against world peace’

‘Fascism As It Is’ (Chapter 39: ‘Women under the nazis’)

Ethiopia and Eritrea. The Last Phase of the Reunion Struggle, 1941-52 (with R. K. P. Pankhurst, extracts)

APPENDIX

Books, pamphlets and newspapers published by E. Sylvia Pankhurst and select bibliography of works on Pankhurst