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Feminism fanns långt innan ens Sovjet dök upp på scenen, så där rök den TS rakt i sopphinken.
I History Today kan du läsa om suffragetter som gick vidare till att bli fulländade kommunister:
https://www.historytoday.com/miscell...ame-communists
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In 1916, Sylvia Pankhurst and her East London Federation of Suffragettes hosted a Christmas party for local children. Pankhurst described the scenes at her headquarters on 400 Old Ford Road in her 1932 memoir of the war years*The Home Front. Fellow suffragette Norah Smyth disguised herself as Father Christmas and greeted a crowd of more than 900 children. Meanwhile, children wearing ‘red caps of liberty’ led a procession of young suffragettes adorned with flowers. Among these parading suffrage activists, Pankhurst wrote, were ‘the two pretty Cohens, one as slender as the lily she represented and the other, Nellie, my secretary, glowing ripe as a peach’.
Three years before this pageant, Pankhurst had established a branch of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) in London’s East End that proved, to the extreme consternation of Sylvia’s mother Emmeline and sister Christabel, a ceaseless font of radical politics. Sylvia’s creation of ties with socialist organisations such as the Herald League brought her into conflict with the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) leadership. In 1913, her appearance on a platform in support of Irish workers active in that year’s famous Dublin lock-out – a large scale industrial dispute in the Irish capital – acted as the final catalyst that lead Christabel to break the formal tie between the main body of the WSPU and Sylvia’s East London branch. Expelled from the parent organisation in 1914 and thus free to pursue an independent path, the East London Federation of Suffragettes argued that women's suffrage was just one step in a road towards emancipation that necessarily entailed socialist transformation.
