![]() ![]() ![]() Up to 1907 all the Pankhursts were members of the ILP. So with the split, between Sylvia on one side and Christabel and her mother on the other, over their relationship to the labour movement. Antonia Raeburn is uncritical of the Pankhursts to such an extent that the major conflicts which rocked the WSPU are glossed over in a sentence or two. Unfortunately the book does no more than that. She describes the clashes with the police and the mass arrests the window smashing raids and the burning down of MPs’ houses the hunger strikes in prison and the brave resistance to the Cat and Mouse Act and the final period when, with warrants out for all the leaders of the movement, the militants were eventually forced into hiding. Its militant methods set it apart from the stuffy suffrage societies of the past.Īntonia Raeburn’s book gives us a vivid and detailed account of the activities of the ‘militants’ from 1905 to the First World War. Their Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), founded in 1903, marked a new era in the fight for votes for women. But though the vote had not been won, the movement was drained of its vitality by the turn of the century. ![]() The movement for women’s suffrage in Britain began as long ago as the 1860s. Transcribed by Christian Høgsbjerg, with thanks to Paul Blackledge. Kathleen Ennis: The Militant Suffragettes (July 1973)Įncyclopedia of Trotskyism | Marxists’ Internet Archiveįrom International Socialism, No. 60, July 1973, p. 25. ![]()
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