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Jameson Derek
Derek Jameson Perhaps a little peculiar to place within a collection of mostly interesting and admirable Communists and ex-Communists, Jameson is much more well-known for being notorious as the editor of the News of the […]
Month: April 2010
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Krasner Ray (Rachel)
Ray (Rachel) Krasner (Westland-Krasner) Rachel Krasner’s parents had come from Vilna in Lithuaniato Britainaround about 1902. Ray’s brother – the eldest of four sons and a daughter – was born there in 1901. (Krasner is […]
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Elliott Bob Cllr
Cllr Bob Elliott Robert S. Elliot was an unemployed miner and prominent member of the National Unemployed Workers Movement (NUWM). Along with Charlie Woods (see separate entry), he marched in the Tyneside contingent of the […]
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Knight Sam
Sam Knight Sam Knight was a founding member of the Communist Party in Wales. He had served in the First World War. A four-page article in the South Wales Evening Post of December 1st 1982, […]
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Evans Danny
Danny Evans Evans came into contact with the Communist Party more by accident than design. He was walking down a road in Cardiff, reading the Daily Worker as he went, when he was spotted doing […]
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Taylor Cleston
Cleston Taylor Cleston Taylor was born in St Catherine, Jamaica, in 1926. His father was a peasant farmer and his mother a housewife. Cleston attended school until the sixth form and then went to the United States in […]
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Fraser Harry
Harry Fraser Henry ("Harry") Balfour Fraser was born in Holloway, London, on 13th February 1906. He joined the Communist Party in 1926, during the General Strike. Harry worked as a clerk in immediate the […]
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Tarver John
John Tarver Pic: Tarver in about 1975-6 Born in 1930 into a middle-class family, Tarver joined the Communist Party on his 18th birthday in 1948. He had felt that the Soviet Union had made the […]