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How Sylvia Pankhurst fought tirelessly for working-class women and against fascism
RACHEL HOLMES explains how the socialist Pankhurst’s feminist internationalism developed through living in London’s exploited East End and opposing the rising tide of the far-right
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SYLVIA PANKHURST and Clara Zetkin were firm friends. They met in the early 20th century through the international Women’s Socialist Organisation.
Campaigning together for peace during the first world war, their working alliance became a close friendship. Zetkin dedicated some of her feminist writings to Sylvia.
As is well known, Zetkin, who was international secretary of the world’s largest socialist women’s organisation, proposed International Women’s Day at the second International Conference of Working Women in 1910 in response to mass strikes and protests by women workers in the US.
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