Going back in time!!
This video from a film about the First World War is called Sylvia Pankhurst in “Oh! What A Lovely War” (1969). It says about itself:
Anti-war speech by Sylvia Pankhurst (Vanessa Redgrave).
By Paul Donovan in Britain:
Monday 25th November 2013
A new biography of Sylvia Pankhurst shows how her activism was grounded in the struggle for working-class rights says PAUL DONOVAN
Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist And Scourge Of Empire
by Katherine Connelly
(Pluto Press, £13)
This excellent book from Katherine Connelly examines the life of political activist Sylvia Pankhurst from her early days in the suffragette movement to fighting colonialism and fascism in the 1930s and ’40s.
One of its particular strengths is that the author appears grounded in the struggle of progressive movements. As a result, she manages to bring home just how parallel many of the battles fought by Sylvia Pankhurst in…
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