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Premiered on 9 Mar 2025 Ella Rule, chair of the CPGB-ML gives a presentation to celebrate International Working Women’s day 2025.

Ella Rule gives the real and uncensored history of Sylvia Pankhurst, her family and background, hers fathers role in the formation of the Independent Labour Party, her More and sisters fight for the rights of women to have the Vote.

And most importantly Sylvia’s struggle against all injustice, for property rights for married women, against racism, against colonialism, for freedom for India and later Abyssinia - Ethiopia, and along the way her realisation that all workers and oppressed must struggle for their own freedom, and that path lay along the direction of socialism.

Organising among the working women and the working people of East London, she founded the Women’s Dreadnaught, with a circulation of 20,000, and after WW1, in the time of the great socialist stirring of the British Masses, the Red Rising, she changed her organisation’s name to the Worker’s dreadnaught.

Journeying to Moscow to meet Lenin at the Second Congress of the communist international, she was persuaded to lead her organisation to join in forming the young communist party - the CPGB - with William Gallagher and others, and to affiliate to Labour: “in order to support it as a rope supports a hanged man”.

However falling in love with an Italian anarcho-socialist, she criticised the Soviet Union’s centralised economic planning, and in stead joined to Italy to take part in the bienno-rosso: the Red two years, in Turin, and other cities where workers had taken effective power of their cities and workplaces - until drowned in blood by the rise of Mussolini.

Sylvia withdrew from the movement, concentrating on campaigning for womens maternity and children’s rights, before journeying to Ethiopia where she made important contributions to the development of Ethiopia and its civil institutions, after Ethiopia had managed to rid itself of Italian Colonialism.

Ella’s article on Sylvia Pankhurst can be read here: https://www.lalkar.org/article/4641/t...

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