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| | About Sylvia Pankhurst |
 | | Sylvia’s strategy, which linked class and gender, did nt find favour with the most famous of the suffragette organisations, the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), to which she belonged and to which the East London Federation was affiliated. |
 | | Sylvia, almost alone among the white left, rallied to its cause and launched in 1936 the first edition of the “New Times and Ethiopia News”, a weekly paper which remained in circulation for 20 years and which, at its height sold 40,000 copies weekly. |
 | | We believe that Sylvia’s strategy, based as it was on an alliance between class and gender, did far more to win the vote for all women than the more elitist and ultimately diversionary politics of her mother and elder sister. |
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