"We are on a renewed mission to defeat #socialism.”
(Theresa May).
“I am going to fight #capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable & well fed while all around you people are starving.”
(Sylvia Pankhurst).
#JustSayin
(Theresa May).
“I am going to fight #capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable & well fed while all around you people are starving.”
(Sylvia Pankhurst).
#JustSayin
https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1464126940223315969
During WWI, Sylvia Pankhurst was horrified to see her mother, Emmeline, & sister Christabel become enthusiastic supporters of the war drive & campaign in favour of military conscription. She was opposed to the war, for which she was publicly attacked.
Blair would have hated her.
Blair would have hated her.
Sylvia's organisation attempted to defend the interests of women in the poorer parts of London. It set up "cost-price" restaurants to feed the hungry without the taint of charity. It also established a toy factory to give work to women who were unemployed due to the war.
She also worked to defend the right of soldiers' wives to decent allowances while their husbands were away, both practically, by setting up legal advice centres, & politically, by running campaigns to oblige the government to take into account the poverty of soldiers' wives.
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