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Rowan John
John Rowan John Rowan was Communist from his youth in the early 1950s and was Birmingham divisional organiser of AUEW-TASS in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He died suddenly on holiday in Ireland aged […]
Month: January 2010
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Pettman Gordon
Gordon Pettman Pettman was an active Kent Communist Party member, who became a long-standing elected parish councillor. When Gordon Pettman was only nine years old, he saw a farm worker and his six children thrown […]
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Rosen Tubby
“Tubby” (Maurice Israel) Rosen Born 1 September 1913, Rosen was a Communist councillor on Stepney Borough Council. He first became well-known in the East End of London as an organiser of the Stepney Tenants’ Defence […]
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Bennett Max
Max Bennett Max used to rise about 4am and serve breakfasts at his cafe in the Old Market in Wolverhampton (pictured) and after that spend the whole day in Communist activity. Max had inherited the cafe […]
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Fullard George
George Fullard Born in 1923, Fullard came from a politically active mining family in Sheffield. His father was a Communist Party member, blacklisted after organising a pit deputies’ strike at the Nunnery Colliery, who also […]
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Dunstan Robert (Dr)
Dr Robert Dunstan (1878-1961) Dunstan was a Communist who enjoyed wide support among Labour Party members in Birmingham in the 1920s, so strong that he gained national credibility. Even Poplar’s George Lansbury, who would later […]
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Roderick Cliff
Cliff Roderick Clifford Roderick was a Communist Party member in Port Talbort, South Wales who joined the Party in 1938. President of his local branch of Electricians Trades union for fourteen years, he was forced […]
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Piccirelli Carlo
Carlo Piccirelli Born on the 23rd April 1930 in the region of Abruzzo in Italy, Cafrlo Piccirelli’s father was called into the Italian army in 1942 but, instead, joined the Partisans. As fascist Italy began […]
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Ferguson Aitken
Aitken Ferguson Born in 1891 in Glasgow – and named after his iron moulder father, Ferguson was a leading Scottish Communist, elected to the Party’s Central Committee at the 6th Congress in May 1924. He was re-elected […]