After a period, Pankhurst was instructed to place the "Workers' Dreadnought" under the control of the party, which she refused to do. In particular, she criticised the Communist Party members of the Poplar Board of Guardians for agreeing to reduce outdoor Poor Law relief, which was cited as the reason for her expulsion from the CPGB in September 1921. While the idea of democratic centralism, newly accepted as the governing principle for the CPGB, would seem to suggest that she was in breach of discipline, "Labour Monthly" continued as the personal organ of R. P. Dutt and even received subsidies.