I am delighted to share this short video where I talk about Sylvia Pankhurst's tours of North America in 1911 and 1912 and the extraordinary manuscript that she wrote about her experiences in which she explores questions of race, sex and class, capitalism and democracy - and which has been published now for the first time. It was extremely special to be able to film this interview in the Lord Morpeth pub on the Old Ford Road, right next door to where the headquarters of Sylvia Pankhurst's East London Federation of Suffragettes stood. In the video, I argue that Pankhurst's experiences in America fundamentally influenced her decision to set up this radical suffragette organisation.
If you like what you hear, you can delve deeper by buying Sylvia Pankhurst's book here.
Thanks to Chris Browne from Pluto Press for the filming
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