
Month: January 2010


Robertson Archie
Archie Robertson Archibald Harold Mann Robertson was born in 1886, the son of a bishop. He was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford, gaining the distinction of winning a first in philosophy and passing into […]

Johnson Charley
Charley Johnson This piece is by Charlie Johnson himself I was born in a little terraced house at 39, Elbow Street, Old Hill, Staffordshire, on 19th July 1924 the youngest of four. One died in infancy […]

Robinson Ron
Ron Robinson Born in 1932, Robinson was a member of the Jersey Communist Party during the 1950s and 1960s. He was a plasterer and member of the Transport & General Workers Union. As the […]

Jones Walter (Cllr)
Walter Jones (Cllr) Walter Jones won a seat as a councillor as a Communist Party candidate in Risca, a small town that is today part of the Newport conurbation, lying at the south-eastern edge of […]

Rosen Harold and Connie
Harold and Connie Rosen Born in Brockton, Massachusetts to Jewish parents on June 25 1919. At the age of two, he came to the East End of London with his mother and siblings. His mother […]

Evans John
John Evans Evans was a member of the Communist Party in Battersea and chair of the highly vigorous Battersea Tenants’ Association. This even made a film in 1961, entitled “H only for House”, a reference […]

Jacques Martin
Martin Jacques Martin Jacques was born in October 1945 in Coventry and raised there by Communist Party parents. He joined the Young Communist League Communist Party in 1961 when he was still just 15 and […]

Russell Ralph
Ralph Russell Ralph Russell was born on 21st May 1918 in Hammerton in North Yorkshire. He joined the Communist Party at the age of 16, when he was a scholarship boy at Chigwell School in […]

Edwards Jack
Jack Edwards Born in Liverpool on 3 January 1914 into a family of socialists, Jack worked as a motor mechanic after leaving school and, as a member of the Young Communist League, was on […]