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The secret to successful protest<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The more I research the past the more I find parallels with the present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The women\u2019s suffrage movement in Great Britain comprised several different organisations, each of them with slightly different aims and with very different approaches. The two largest, the NUWSS (The National Union of Women\u2019s Suffrage Societies), founded by Millicent Fawcett, was a peaceful movement whose members were referred to as suffragists. The WSPU (The Women\u2019s Social and Political Union), founded and run on authoritarian grounds by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters, espoused \u2018direct action\u2019 which included on occasion storming the Houses of Parliament and vandalising buildings. This in turn spawned a breakaway group called the Women\u2019s Freedom League, who disapproved of the dictatorial way the WSPU was run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Confused? I certainly am. Although the different organisations did cooperate on occasion it can\u2019t have helped their cause to be so split in their aims and their methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n