workingclasshistory:On this day, 4 November 1913, the “People’s Army” - a community militia formed t
workingclasshistory:On this day, 4 November 1913, the “People’s Army” - a community militia formed to resist police repression of demonstrations of the East London Federation of Suffragettes who were fighting for women’s rights and working class emancipation, had its first paramilitary assembly and gun drill in Victoria Park, London. Sylvia Pankhurst, a left communist and daughter of famous suffragette Emmeline, was a key organiser of both ELFS and the People’s Army. This is an extensive compilation of her writings: https://libcom.org/library/sylvia-pankhurst-reader https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1254346541417160/?type=3 -- source link
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