Eleanor Marx was a pragmatic person of actions and deeds and she was an organizer..

Before my book, the most common assessment of Eleanor Marx is "Yes, she's great but basically she's in the shadow of her father." Absolute bollocks. ….

When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner conscio….

The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day..

The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day - it's people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a….

My maternal family are South African and when I was small and my parents separated my mother and I went back to South Africa. So for me the emergence….

Eleanor [Marx] was involved in the 1889 Paris congress resolution that established May Day as an annual demonstration of the international solidarity….

The trade unions in the UK are campaigning around zero-hours contracts, which isn't about feminism, but it's a feminist issue. Women are affected by ….

Eleanor Marx was her father's first biographer. All subsequent biographies of Karl Marx, and most of Engels, draw on her work as their primary source….

Many of us have had that experience of being in love with someone and then they end up being your enemy and there's a stranger in your bed..

One of the key things about the entitlement and power of patriarchy, but also within feminism, is not that it's wilful nastiness. But you can't ask f….

A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always bang up aga….

People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts..

Men want to destroy the women: you've become bigger than me, people love you more, you have a public platform, that's my space you're taking up. I ca….

All of us are many different people over time. We have our childhood selves, people that we remember, but they're very different to our adult selves ….

We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary..

For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history..

The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not ….