Copy of a letter from
Silvio Corio to the Syndicalist
Workers Federation (SWF) about their forthcoming Conference, with mention of
Richard Pankhurst:-
New Times and Ethiopia News [headed
paper]
(Weekly)
Editor: E.
Sylvia Pankhurst
Oct. 8 ‘53
Dear Com. Green,
Many thanks for
notification of Conference. If you could
favour me with the date when it will effectively be held I should be grateful.
I will attend – if permitted – merely as an observer. And – if you have no
objection – I will take with me Richard.
He is very interested in the Labour Movement of today. Before long his book on
Wm. Thompson will be published by Messrs. Watts & Co. It should have
appeared already but these people are so slow. He is now teaching Economics for
the W.E.A. at Woolwich, thanks to his Ph.D. degree. He wants to know, at first
hand, the opinions of English workers of today. A few days ago I had a letter
from Alan Smith quite favourable to your work. You know him of course.
Best wishes,
Sincerely,
S. Corio
The
New Times and Ethiopia News was begun by Silvio Corio and Sylvia Pankhurst in response
to Mussolini’s attack on Ethiopia and continued as an anti-fascist
and anti-imperialist paper until the mid
1950s.
A short biography of
Silvio Corio can be found at www.libcom.org – not much about his last years. This correspondence
may fill the picture out a little.
See also “The
North East London Anarchist Group: A short history ... founded in
1946”, <http://www.libcom.org/history/north-east-london-anarchist-group>
by Nick Heath. This mentions Alan Smith and
Peter Green as well as Corio himself (also Mario Mantovani), as in letters in
the set currently being published here.
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