Gerry Cohen
As a YCL full-time worker, he was Midlands District Secretary and then, in 1953, the National Organiser. Cohen (pictured below in the early 1970s) then became Midlands Daily Worker correspondent, and then began work for the Communist Party as the Lancashire and Cheshire District Organiser, Merseyside Area Secretary, North West District Secretary, London District Secretary, retiring from full-time work in 1985.
Eve is pictured on the right in the 1950s at a National Assembly of Women meeting Eve Cohen Eve Cohen was born into a poor Jewish family in Liverpool in 1919. She left grammar school […]
Eric Cohen Eric Cohen was born in 1912 to Jewish parents who came to Liverpool from Russia at the beginning of the century. After school he trained and became a chartered accountant but joined the […]
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