I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.

At about the end of the First World War Sylvia Pankhurst began living with Italian anarchist Silvo Corio and moved to Woodford Green for over 30 years. She had a very close personal relationship with anti-war Labour politician Keir Hardie. This unity was to be short-lived and when the leadership of the CPGB proposed that Pankhurst hand over the Workers Dreadnought to the party Sylvia Pankhurst revolted.

Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (5 May 1882 – 27 September 1960) was an English campaigner for the suffragist movement in the United Kingdom.