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Sylvia Pankhurst, a British militant suffragette, left communist and anti-fascist was arrested 100 years ago for breaking windows in East End of London during a protest.  Sylvia was a member and campaigner of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) and wrote The Suffragette: The History of the Women’s Militant Suffrage Movement. She became critical of the WSPU’s campaign to legalize voting for educated women of the upper social classes, who felt they were best able to handle the vote, equally with men. Sylvia openly disagreed, and in notable contrast, believed in universal suffrage for men and women of all social classes. In 1914 she broke with the WSPU to set up the East London Federation of Suffragettes (ELFS), which over the years evolved politically and changed its name accordingly, first to Women’s Suffrage Federation and then to the Workers’ Socialist Federation.
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Sylvia Pankhurst, a British militant suffragette, left communist and anti-fascist was arrested 100 years ago for breaking windows in East End of London during a protest. 

Sylvia was a member and campaigner of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) and wrote The Suffragette: The History of the Women’s Militant Suffrage Movement.

She became critical of the WSPU’s campaign to legalize voting for educated women of the upper social classes, who felt they were best able to handle the vote, equally with men. Sylvia openly disagreed, and in notable contrast, believed in universal suffrage for men and women of all social classes.

In 1914 she broke with the WSPU to set up the East London Federation of Suffragettes (ELFS), which over the years evolved politically and changed its name accordingly, first to Women’s Suffrage Federation and then to the Workers’ Socialist Federation.

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