Communist Party

Connections

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politics Iris Murdoch
IM once said that she was a Communist from the age of thirteen; it was a natural allegiance in the thirties for anyone growing up in an idealistic and civic-minded milieu. Her early political thinking...
politics Elizabeth Taylor
Just after her mother's death and before her wedding, ET took the momentous step of joining the Communist Party . At this date she envisaged economic freedom as connected with freedom of speech, and with...
politics Pearl S. Buck
Though never a thorough-going pacifist, PSB worked in the 1930s with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom .
Conn, Peter. Pearl S. Buck. A Cultural Biography. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
185-6
As an anti-ideologue, she had the experience in the 1950s of being stigmatized as...
politics Evelyn Sharp
She was several times invited to stand for election to parliament, but replied that she did not think herself well suited to the necessary compromises of parliamentary politics.
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933.
199
She later wrote that she would...
politics Graham Greene
GG joined the British Communist Party on a whim for a period of about a month in 1925, probably paying dues of a shilling or so for his brief membership. This was an aberration, since...
politics Tillie Olsen
Before she left school Tillie parted company with her father over politics. He was now a leading Omaha Socialist; the Communists were accusing the Socialists of pandering to capitalism; Tillie sided with the Communists ...
politics Evelyn Sharp
ES was thoroughly in sympathy with the principles of the Russian Revolution, and was one of the founders of the British 1917 Club . She noted that the concept of equal sharing at the root...
politics Sylvia Pankhurst
The East London Federation of Suffragettes (ELFS), a radical, militant, working-class feminist organisation begun by SP and her supporters, held its first meeting at Bromley Public Hall, Bow Street, in East London.
Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press, 1996.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
politics Sylvia Pankhurst
Shortly after her release from Holloway , where she had been imprisoned for sedition, SP was formally expelled from the Communist Party of Great Britain .
Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press, 1996.
170, 216n123
Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan, 1967.
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politics Doris Lessing
DL became a member of the British Communist Party . The same year she visited the USSR as a delegate of the Authors' World Peace Appeal .
Norton-Taylor, Richard. “MI5 spied on Doris Lessing for 20 years, declassified documents reveal”. theguardian, 21 Aug. 2015.
Fishburn, Katherine. Doris Lessing: Life, Work, and Criticism. York Press, 1987, .
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politics Charlotte Despard
CD stood as a pacifist Labour candidate on 14 December 1918, for the constituency she knew best, in Battersea, in the first British election in which women were entitled to do so, and was...
politics Doris Lessing
DL was one of those who resigned their membership in the British Communist Party after the Hungarian Revolution was crushed, despite an appeal from Party officials to change her mind.
Maslen, Elizabeth. Doris Lessing. Northcote House, 1994.
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Norton-Taylor, Richard. “MI5 spied on Doris Lessing for 20 years, declassified documents reveal”. theguardian, 21 Aug. 2015.
Publishing Sylvia Townsend Warner
During the 1930s, STW and Valentine Ackland both wrote political critique for Time and Tide, the New Statesman, the News Chronicle, Woman Today (the paper of the World Women's Committee Against Fascism and War
Publishing Sylvia Pankhurst
In 1920, she published (again through the Workers' Socialist Federation ) Rebel Ireland: Thoughts on Easter Week 1916, which was reprinted from the original in the Workers' Dreadnought.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Sylvia Pankhurst
SP announced her departure from the Communist Party (from which she had been expelled) in an article written for the Dreadnought.
Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press, 1996.
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9 November 1989: Popular action began pulling down the Berlin...

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9 November 1989

Popular action began pulling down the Berlin Wall (erected in August 1961, which divided the city into eastern and western sectors).
Lagassé, Paul, editor. The Columbia Encyclopedia. 6th ed., Columbia University Press, 2000.

17 November 1989: Peaceful mass protests and strikes produced...

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17 November 1989

Peaceful mass protests and strikes produced the resignation of the Czech Communist Party , which had held power in what was then Czechoslovakia since 1948.
“Velvet Revolution: 15th Anniversary: November 17, 1989 - 15 years after”. Radio Praha (Radio Prague: The International Service of Czech Radio).

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