Collected Short Book Reviews: These reviews first appeared first in the Morning Star at the time of publication of the books involved : “A Very British Strike” by Anne Perkins (MacMillan) […]
George Aitken George Sutherland Aitken, an engineering worker by trade, attended the Lenin School Moscow in 1927 and a member of the Central Committee from 1931. With the onset of fascism, and an increasing danger […]
Frank Jackson (1910-2004, Wales) Born in the Rhondda Valley in South Wales in 1910, Frank Jackson’s paternal grandfather, Abraham Zarchin, had emigrated from Georgia, then part of Russia, to escape the pogroms of the 1880s, […]
Len Jeffries An active Communist all his life, Len Jeffries was originally a coal-miner and later on a clerk, amongst other things. He took an active part in Cardiff in the Seamen’s Minority Movement. Len […]
Joyce Alergant Born around 1918, Joyce Alergant left school at the age of 14 to work as a shop assistant. After a period of unemployment, she worked in a Liverpool slum area where she saw […]
Bill Alexander Bill Alexander pictured in his youth, in Spain Bill Alexander was born one of seven […]
Gordon Jenkins Councillor Gordon Jenkins was a Neath butcher who became an elected Communist councillor. He was a member of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers and a delegate to Neath Trades Council. […]
Len Johnson Born on 22nd October 1902 in Manchester, the famous black boxer and life-long Communist, Len Johnson learned his craft in boxing booths. He eventually became the owner of his own booth – travelling […]
Evelyn Jones (née Taylor) Born in Northwich, Cheshire, Evelyn Mary Taylor went to the local school in Knutsford until she was l4. Among her earliest jobs was for the National Council of Labour Colleges, where […]
Phillip Bagwell Bagwell began working life as a school teacher but went to Regent Street Polytechnic in 1951, where he remained full time until 1977 and part time for another ten years. He was a prolific […]
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