Rebellious Daughters of History #4 by Judy Cox Harriet Tubman (1822-1913): Emancipation and Liberation Harriet Tubman was one of the greatest women to fight against slavery and women’s oppression. She will be familiar to many as a leader of the underground railway but this was only one chapter in her remarkable life. Harriet was born […]
Articles with tag “History & Political Theory”
Adelaide Knight and Nathalie Lemel
Rebellious daughters of history #3 by ,,Judy Cox Adelaide Knight – From suffrage to communism Adelaide Knight was born in 1871 and lived with her working class family on Kenilworth Road in Bethnal Green. After a childhood injury she used crutches or a stick for the rest of her life. In 1894 Adelaide married a […]
Frances Wright and Jeanne Deroin
Rebellious Daughters of History #2 by Judy Cox Frances Wright (1795 –1852) Wright was a Scottish-born lecturer, writer, freethinker, feminist, abolitionist. She mixed with radical thinkers and philosophers in Britain and the US. In 1825, she became the only woman to set up a utopian community, the Nashoba Commune, Tennessee. It was the only such […]
Sojourner Truth & Elisabeth Dmitrieff
Rebellious Daughters of History #1 by Judy Cox Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) was born a slave in New York and named Isabella Baumfree. She was bought and sold four times and subjected to harsh physical labour and violent punishments. In her teens, she was united with another slave with whom she had five children. Between 1826-27 […]
The working class and the left. What kind of party do we need
Recently a debate opened up in a pro-Syriza paper [EfSyn, The Journal of the Editors] and initiated by Journalist Tasos Pappas. It is a debate about the nature of the party that the left needs. In the aftermath of the Syriza capitulation and as the New Democracy right party is again in power. This is a response from the comrades of SEK.