Les Thompson
Born in Jarrow, Thompson was a submariner in World War Two, escorting Soviet shipping convoys to Murmansk.
A life-long Communist, he was an active trades unionist in the post-war period, becoming AEU District Secretary in Swindon.
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Gibson Les
Les Gibson Gibson was born in Fulham in September, 1913 and left school at 14, in 1927, and for the next seven years he prepared wild fowl in a department store, Barkers of Kensington, where […]
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Thompson Dave
Dave Thompson Dave Thompson, a Merseyside leader of the 1966 seafarers’ strike, died on August 9 2017 in Bangor hospital. Age 79 he was a member of Liverpool, then Crouch End, branches of the Communist […]
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Thompson Harry (Leicester)
Harry Thompson (Leicester) Born 26th April 1907, Harry Thompson was a miner and active in the General Strike in the North East, where he first made contact with the Communist Party. Unemployment forced […]
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