title: The Red Suffragette: Sylvia Pankhurst
start: 2018-02-16
start time: 19:30
end time: 21:00
venue: UCL Institute of Education
city: London
country: GB
coordinates: 51.523, -0.1279
tags: femiagenda femiagendalondon feminism feminisminlondon feminismo feminismus feministevents womenrights
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"I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving." - Sylvia Pankhurst
Learn about and celebrate the great socialist and feminist organiser Sylvia Pankhurst at Workers' Liberty's February London Forum.
2018 marks a century since the first great victory of the women's suffrage movement: the 1918 Representation of the People Act.
Sylvia Pankhurst broke with the 'respectable' wing of the women's suffrage movement, and threw herself into organising a socialist movement of working-class women in London's East End for real equality and freedom.
Socialist activist and writer Jill Mountford will give a presentation on the Red Suffragette, and introduce a discussion the lessons we can learn from her work today.
After the meeting, join us for pizza in the bar.