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Sisterhood, solidarity and Sylvia
PHILIPPA CLARK explains why a statue to Sylvia Pankhurst is so important to keeping her legacy in the public eye and continuing to inspire a struggle that is far from won
Sylvia Pankhurst gives a speech in Trafalgar Square in 1932
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
IN THE words of the Fab Four, “It was twenty years ago today…” Or rather it was 20 years on April 10 1998 that the story of A Statue for Sylvia Pankhurst started.
I was showing some young friends around the sights of Westminster and we stopped in front of the memorial, adjacent to the House of Lords, to Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst and the women who were imprisoned and force-fed because of their determination to fight for the right of women to vote.
Sylvia, the socialist Pankhurst is notably absent.
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