Sylvia Pankhurst

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Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (; 5 May 1882 – 27 September 1960) was an English feminist, socialist, activist, artist and writer. The youngest daughter of two founding members of the Independent Labour Party (ILP), she with her mother and sister Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst formed the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) at their home. Following encounters with women-led labour activism in the United States, Sylvia worked to organise working-class women in London's East End. This, together with her refusal in 1914 to enter into a wartime political truce with the government, caused her to break with the suffragette leadership of her mother and sister. Pankhurst welcomed the Russian Revolution and conferred in Moscow with Lenin. But as an advocate of workers' control, she rejected the Leninist party line and criticised the Bolshevik regime. Pankhurst was vocal in her support for Irish independence; for anti-colonial struggle throughout the British Empire; and for anti-fascist solidarity...

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