Eleanor Marx
Karl Marx's daughter, Eleanor, played a major leading role in the early history of the Trade Union movement. She was active strike organiser and a member of the executive of the Gas Workers and General Labours' Union, one of a number of unions which later fused to form the General and Municipal Workers Union, which became the GMB. Fran Broady describes the life of Eleanor Marx and the early days of the Marxist organisation in the British labour movement. Eleanor Marx was born into the workshop and armoury of scientific socialism on the 16 January 1855. Her father Karl Manx was immersed in the...