MARY DAVIS says the centrality of the Jewish community and the Communist Party to anti-fascism in the 1930s is too often overlooked on the left
Introducing history's radical women
Socialist historian Michael Herbert previews a course on radical women that he will be teaching in Salford in the spring: “Radical women: from women Levellers to the suffragettes.”
Millicent Fawcett, who founded the National Union of Women's Suffrage, speaks at the Suffragette Pilgrimage in Hyde Park, in July 1913
A 1936 confrontation with Mosley’s BUF became part of a wider international struggle, with local activists later joining the fight against fascism in the Spanish civil war. TONY FOX tells the story ahead of a 90th anniversary commemoration event
GEORGE WHITE explains why Unite’s Lancashire area activists committee believes co-ordinated recruitment in an area defined by particular kinds of employment and linked by a major transport artery could provide a model for organising the unorganised
Voters have delivered a stay of execution for Labour and exposed limits to Reform’s advance. But will Burnham offer a political alternative rather than just a different face at the top, asks ANDREW MURRAY
Calls for a Universal Basic Income are a red herring, argues the Full Marx editorial team — socialists should fight for Universal Basic Services
SEVIM DAGDELEN warns that Germany’s military resurgence and revival of old hostilities towards Russia have dangerous implications for Europe and beyond
IN MARCH I will begin teaching a 10 week course on radical women which begins with the women Levellers who challenged authority and tradition in the 1640s and ends with the suffragettes who also challenged authority and tradition before the first world war.
The aim of the course is to bring into the light the contribution made by women, both to general radical movements for social and political justice and to movements to advance the interests of women.
Socialist feminist historian Sheila Rowbotham once wrote a book called Hidden from History in which she highlighted how often women had been written out of radical history. Fifty years later this is still too often the case, with many women activists, and the movements they led, remaining in the shadows.
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