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	Workers Socialist Federation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Workers Socialist Federation was a socialist political party in the United Kingdom, led by Sylvia Pankhurst.
		The WSF supported the 1916 Irish Rising and became a leading proponent of improved social welfare while continuing agitation for a universal franchise.
		Under her guidance, the WSF at first refused to join a unified British Communist Party as they proposed to affiliate to the Labour Party (which was ultimately not permitted by the Labour leadership), and to stand in elections.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Workers_Socialist_Federation (702 words)

	Workers World [Sam Marcy]: The Yugoslav Socialist Federation (Sept. 3, 1992)
		This worker from Croatia, whose mother was a Slovene, won the confidence of the workers in Serbia and the other republics.
		However, the collapse of the USSR and Eastern Europe in particular shook the foundations of the Socialist Federation of Yugoslavia and dealt a blow to the communist and class-conscious workers.
		Nevertheless, the socialist federations held on, notwithstanding internal erosion and the growth of centrifugal tendencies in the republics.
	www.workers.org /marcy/1992/sm920903.html (1863 words)

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		Workers increasingly took up the ideas of syndicalism or anarcho- syndicalism, which were developed at the turn of the century.
		They believed that the reason most workers were not revolutionaries was that their unions were reformist and dominated by a bureaucracy that took the initiative away from the rank and file members.
		Its aim was the formation of a national federation "for the co-ordination and extension of the collectivist movement and also to ensure an equitable distribution of the produce of the land, not only between the collectives but for the whole country".
	www.spunk.org /texts/places/spain/sp000336.txt (14389 words)

	cpgb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The party was founded in 1920 after the Third International decided that greater attempts should be made to establish communist parties across the world.
		The CPGB was formed by the merger of three smaller Marxist parties, including the British Socialist Party, the Workers' Socialist Federation and the Communist Unity Group of the Socialist Labour Party.
		Initially the CPGB tried to channel its activities through the Labour Party which at this time operated as a federation of left-wing bodies.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /CPGB.html (837 words)

	Workers World [Sam Marcy]: How imperialism broke up Yugoslav Socialist Federation (June 11, 1992)
		They forget that their riches come from the sweat and blood of the workers in every one of these republics and that they became industrialized only because of the socialization of the means of production and centralized planning.
		The establishment of the socialist federation of Yugoslavia was a historic victory.
		Yugoslavia was expelled from the Cominform in 1948 and thereafter isolated from the socialist camp.
	www.workers.org /marcy/1992/sm920611.html (3656 words)

	Socialist History Project
		Its constitution permitted socialist and labour groups to join as organizations, and to press for their own views to be adopted by the party as a whole.
		William Paul, also of the SLP, warned that the workers "judge us by the company we keep, and in the moment of crisis, when the indignant masses rise to sweep the Labour Party away, we may be swept away too" (quoted in Kendall, p.
		In June 1920 the Workers’ Socialist Federation and seven smaller groups formed the Communist Party (British Section of the Third International) on an antiLabour Party, anti-parliamentary action platform.
	www.socialisthistory.ca /Essays/British_LP_1.htm (1678 words)

	Workers Struggles
		Workers are particularly angry over the 22 percent increase in the cost of fuel, which will lead to higher bus and motorised rickshaw fares.
		Workers also called for a reduction in food prices, an end to public service cuts, protection of pensions and retirement funds, an increase in base salaries and cost-of-living wage rises to match the rate of inflation.
		Workers were seeking 24 percent but the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union has reduced the claim to 20 percent.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/jan2003/lab-j11_prn.shtml (1441 words)

	Encyclopedia: Workers' Socialist Federation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Russian Revolution and renamed itself again, this time as the Workers' Socialist Federation.
		Labour Party (which was ultimately not permitted by the Labour leadership), and to stand in elections.
		Whatever the rights of her case, Pankhurst reorganised her group of supporters as the Communist Workers Party, affiliated to the Communist Workers International (KAI, also known as the Fourth International) although it was now a very small party and fated to dissolve by %20%20%20%201924%20was%20a%20%20%20leap%20year%20starting%20on%20Tuesday%20(link%20will%20take%20you%20to%20calendar).%20%20%20...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Workers%27-Socialist-Federation (629 words)

	Sylvia Pankhurst biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sylvia 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.
		This unity was to be short-lived and when the leadership of the CPGB proposed that Sylvia hand over the Workers Dreadnought to the party rather than retain it as a personal organ she revolted.
		As a result she was expelled from the CPGB and moved to found the short-lived Communist Workers Party.
	sylvia-pankhurst.biography.ms (393 words)

	Weekly Worker 396 Thursday August 23 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Both the British Socialist Party and the Communist Unity Group - the main organisations participating in the 1st Congress of CPGB over July 31-August 1 1920 - were committed to standing parliamentary candidates as a form of revolutionary propaganda.
		The resolution on parliamentary action had been included on the agenda mainly to facilitate merger with Sylvia Pankhurst’s Workers’ Socialist Federation, now illegitimately called the Communist Party (British Section of the Third International), which was against revolutionary parliamentarianism as a matter of principle.
		He thought the best policy to adopt towards that particular objective was to demonstrate inside the House of Commons that, so far as the working class were concerned, there was nothing to be hoped for in that chamber.
	www.cpgb.org.uk /worker/396/ourhistory.html (955 words)

	Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		She agitated for social facilities for the wives and children of enlisted working-class men, became more of a pacifist during the war and spoke on anti-conscription platforms when concription was to be enacted.
		The WSF was only one of a number of groups in Britain that furthered socialism.
		A study of the international socialist movement, In the Red Twilight, was not completed and was not published in its original form, though the first part appeared as a serial in The New Times and Ethiopia News (1936).
	www.iisg.nl /archives/en/files/p/10765900full.php (5783 words)

	Socialist Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But she was also a socialist who devoted her huge energies to improving life for working class women and men.
		Sylvia was expelled from the WSPU in 1913 for speaking at a meeting for workers from Dublin locked out by their employers.
		This is a great account of the big struggles of pre-war Britain and the life of a talented socialist who had the courage to defy all morals and prejudices of her society.
	www.socialistreview.org.uk /article.php?articlenumber=8629 (614 words)

	Socialist Unity by Jean Jaurès (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Representatives of nearly all the organisations, the French Workers Party, the Central Revolutionary Committee, the Possibilist fraction (Broussists), independent Socialists who accepted collectivism or communism, deliberated there amicably; the recollection of the long and bitter struggles of the past were nearly abolished.
		The Socialist group of the new Chamber numbers none but Socialists, and all the Socialists in the Chamber, whether they belong to the French Workers’ Party, the Revolutionary Socialist Party, the Federation of Socialist Workers of the Seine, the Revolutionary Socialist Workers party, or the Independents, are members of it.
		They maintain, firstly, that it would be dangerous to directly summon to a national congress all the Socialist groups without the control of the organisations, because we should run the risk of putting the direction of our party and the interpretation of its doctrine into the hands of inexperienced men.
	www.marxists.org /archive/jaures/1899/unity.htm (2472 words)

	Weekly Worker 388 Thursday June 14 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the name of ‘revolutionary purity’ the SLP leadership ensured that all compromises on this were rejected and made into a barrier preventing unification. Sylvia Pankhurst’s WSF was not only against Labour Party affiliation, but all parliamentary activity too, even after Lenin and the Bolshevik leadership in Russia made clear their support for such tactics.
		A national convention is to be held to establish the Communist Party to which all organisations, branches of organisations, groups, and local societies accepting the three cardinal principles of unity (dictatorship of the proletariat, the soviet system, and the Third International) are to be invited to send delegates.
		The participation of the WSF delegates was stated to be conditional upon a referendum of their membership now being taken.
	www.cpgb.org.uk /worker/388/ourhistory.html (1746 words)

	Books
		In other words, they were not democrats who were campaigning for votes for all women but, whether intentionally or not, people whose policy would have strengthened the political power of the propertied class by increasing the proportion of capitalist voters at the expense of working class voters.
		The WSF was one of the organisations involved in the founding of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1921.
		The Workers' Dreadnought continued to appear until 1924 and was a valuable source of information and documentation on the opposition groups in Russia, including those who argued—as indeed did Pankhurst herself—that Russia was heading for state capitalism not socialism.
	www.worldsocialism.org /spgb/nov99/booknov.html (751 words)

	The burial of the CPGB
		The B.S.P. was the direct descendant of the Social-Democratic Federation (S.D.F.) founded in 1883 (or more strictly in 1881 as the Democratic Federation), renamed Social-Democratic Party (S.D.P) in 1908, and enlarged with some left members of the Independent Labour Party and some local socialist clubs and organisations to become, in 1911, the British Socialist Party...
		There may be criticisms of the WSF and its activities, but its ability to fight can not be in doubt, Klugmann in his «official» history of the CPGB characterises Sylvia Pankhurst, who came from the middle class, as a person difficult to get along with (like so many members of her class).
		Sylvia Pankhurst was, of course, the leading spirit in the Federation, and she had a remarkable gift of extracting the last ounce of energy, as well as the last penny, from everyone with whom she came in contact, to help on the work and activities she directed from Old Ford Street.
	www.sinistra.net /lib/upt/comlef/coso/cosoecibee.html (3532 words)

	AIMS AND PRINCIPLES OF WORKERS SOLIDARITY FEDERATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		(4) Mass action and revolution by us the workers and the poor is the way to defeat capitalism and the state and all forms of oppression.
		(8) The role of the WSF is not to "lead" or rule the masses but to educate and organise the toiling masses to make the revolution by and for themselves.
		Our movement has historically attracted millions world-wide, because it serves the needs of the workers and poor, not the power- seekers and exploiters.
	struggle.ws /africa/wsfother/wsf_aims.html (264 words)

	Jack White : Irish Anarchist who organised Irish Citizens Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He put forward the idea of a workers militia to protect picket lines from assaults by both scabs and the flguards of the Dublin Metropolitan Police.
		This was a movement, based on workers and small farmers, that was well to the left of the IRA.
		The Congress is best known for bringing 200 Belfast Protestant workers to the republican Wolfe Tone Commemoration that year and for the scandalous attack on them by Sean McBride's IRA men who were determined that no 'red' banners would be seen at their Catholic day out in Bodenstown.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/ws/ws50_jack.html (1353 words)

	Ireland's OWN: History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He became active in Socialist and trade union circles and became secretary of the Scottish Socialist Federation.
		In late 1894 — at the invitation of the Scottish Socialist, John Leslie — Connolly went to Dublin in May 1896 as paid organiser of the Dublin Socialist Society.
		In The Workers' Republic newspaper, Connolly published articles on guerrilla warfare and continuously urged the group known as The Irish Volunteers for their inactivity.
	www.irelandsown.net /jamesconnolly.htm (837 words)

	Finnish Socialist Federation, Records
		At its peak, from 1912 to 1914, it had an average membership of 13,000 and was the largest foreign-language federation in the Socialist Party of the United States.
		The left wing, mostly from the West and Midwest, separated from the Socialist Party and remained independent until 1922 when it affiliated with the Workers Party of America.In 1927 the Finnish chapters of the Workers Party were reorganized into the Finnish Workers Federation.
		The Finnish Socialist Federation collection is the physical property of the Immigration History Reseach Center, University of Minnesota.
	www.ihrc.umn.edu /research/vitrage/all/fa/ihrc711.html (276 words)

	The Rebirth of British Trotskyism - On the fusion of a group leaving the Workers Socialist League with the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sean Matgamna’s Workers Fight (ejected from the Cliffites in 1971) had just joined with the Workers Power group (a 1975 vintage I.S. expulsion) to form the International-Communist League (I-CL), while covering up differences on the Russian question (Workers Power is state capitalist), the Labour Party and Ireland.
		Although flawed by its attachment to WSL workerism and hence hostile to the iSt’s regroupment perspective, it nonetheless demanded recognition of the principled approach to the Cuban Revolution taken by the Revolutionary Tendency in the American SWP.
		On the question of the slogan of a workers government the document took the position of Trotsky, who spelt this out in discussions with leaders of the then-revolutionary American SWP: "…the dictatorship of the proletariat, that is the only possible form of a workers’ and farmers’ government." Thus point 7 of the conclusion states:
	www.bolshevik.org /history/ICL/Rebirth%20of%20British%20Trotskyism.html (7655 words)

	McKay Intro
		The various groups which came together to form the Workers Party of America in December 1921 sprang mainly from the left wing of the Socialist Party milieu.
		The pre-war Socialist Party was an ideologically incoherent broad church.
		However, serious consideration of the political basis on which revolutionary work should be carried out among fl workers largely took place as a result of the Theses on the Negro Question passed by the Comintern's fourth congress.
	workersaction.org.uk /McKay_intro.htm (994 words)

	The Enemy Within.
		The anti-fascist camp is not only restricted to communists, and workers, but is rather made up of all organisations and individuals who oppose fascism and want to fight against it.
		Stalin had viewed this as a threat to the unity of the socialist camp, but could do nothing to remove the Titoite revisionists, who after purging the Marxist-Leninists from the party maintained a firm grip on state power.
		Parties which claim to defend the interest of the workers, but do not make the principle of the dictatorship of the proletariat their foundation and starting point are outright revisionist parties, as far as Marxist-Leninist are concerned.
	www.oneparty.co.uk /html/tcrevw03.html (4761 words)

	"Left-Wing" Communism in Great Britian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		There are several political parties and organisations (the British Socialist Party [35], the Socialist Labour Party, the South Wales Socialist Society, the Workers’ Socialist Federation [36]), which desire to form a Communist Party and are already negotiating among themselves to this end.
		The Workers’ Socialist Federation was a small organisation which emerged from the Women’s Suffrage League and consisted mostly of women.
		At the Communist Party’s Congress in January 1921, the South Wales Socialist Society and the Workers’ Socialist Federation, which had assumed the names of the Communist Workers’ Party and the Communist Party respectively, united with the Communist Party of Great Britain under the name of the United Communist Party of Great Britain.
	www.marxists.org /archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/ch09.htm (3208 words)

	The founding of the Communist Party of Great Britain
		The vast majority of its original 4,000 membership was derived from the fusion of small propaganda groups and societies: the British Socialist Party, sections of the Socialist Labour Party, the Communist Unity Group and the Workers Socialist Federation.
		These militant workers, steeled in the war years and inspired by revolution, were determined to establish a Bolshevik Party in Britain that would lead to a victorious conquest of power by the working class.
		But it is able to direct 400,000 workers in the Commonwealth." The CP was to play a similar function using the National Minority Movement as a lever in the British trade unions.
	www.marxist.com /History/founding_CPGB.html (2659 words)

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