Feminism remains a source of debate on the left. What do women’s liberation and socialism have in common, and what keeps them apart? Kate Connelly looks at a sometimes difficult history and assesses where oppression comes from
Katherine Connelly
Kate Connelly is a writer and historian. She led school student strikes in the British anti-war movement in 2003, co-ordinated the Emily Wilding Davison Memorial Campaign in 2013 and is a leading member of Counterfire. She wrote the acclaimed biography, 'Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire' and recently edited and introduced 'A Suffragette in America: Reflections on Prisoners, Pickets and Political Change'.
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Leon Trotsky on the United Front – 1922
History
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Theory
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Review
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Sadism, Nazis and Swedish Trotskyism
Theory
Gramsci, photographed in 1933. Photo: Wikimedia commons.
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