Workers' Socialist Federation

Workers' Socialist Federation
LeaderSylvia Pankhurst
Founded1914
Dissolved1924
Split fromWomen's Social and Political Union
Preceded byEast London Federation of Suffragettes
Workers' Suffrage Federation
Succeeded byCommunist Party (British Section of the Third International)
NewspaperWorkers' Dreadnought
IdeologyLeft communism
Revolutionary socialism
Industrial unionism (later)
Political positionFar-left
International affiliationCommunist Workers International

The Workers' Socialist Federation was a socialist political party in the United Kingdom, led by Sylvia Pankhurst. Under many different names, it gradually broadened its politics from a focus on women's suffrage to eventually become a left communist grouping.