Arnold Henderson Henderson was born in January 1911 and educated at Balshagray and Hamilton Crescent Schools, Glasgow. For some three decades from 1945, he was a Communist councillor on Dumbarton Town Council, and a Communist County councillor […]
Stewart Gilmour Stewart Gilmour was a Communist Party member from the small paper-making village of Leslie in Fife, Scotland. He was re-elected to the council in April 1961, having being previously been a Communist […]
Mervyn Hearne Hearne lived in Taff Ely, where he was the Communist Party candidate for Gilfach Goch Ward in 1976, a ward he had previously stood in. The branch secretary of the Britannic Lodge of […]
George Halkett George Halkett was a Communist County Councillorin the Vale of Leven * during the 1930s and 1940s. Halkett Crescent in Alexandria’s Rosshead Estate was built in the early 1960s and is named after the […]
Mike Cooley (pictured in 1961) was born in Ireland and became a well-studied professional engineer. From the 1960s, he was active in the AESD, the draughtsmen’s union that led to TASS, the technical workers. For a short […]
Norman Berry Norman Berry was a leading activist for the Communist Party in Halifax and a well known fighter for the working class in the town. He had been an officer in army but found he […]
Richard Maybin Richard Maybin, who died of pneumonia just short of his 70th birthday in 2010, played a crucial role at key times for his union, his party and his daily paper. He was an activist […]
Cyril Morton Born in May 1932 and educated at Cafield secondary school in Sheffield and then at Rotherham college of technology, Morton was strongly associated with the Communist Party in Sheffield, having joined it […]
George Wake Born in around 1923, Wake joined the Communist Party in 1951 after having been expelled from the Labour Party. He was secretary of the Communist Party’s Barking branch and a member of South […]
Hughie McIntyre Hughie McIntyre was a Communist County Councillor for Bonhill in the Vale of Leven, West Dunbartonshire, for over 20 years until he was defeated in 1952. In December 1935 he had ousted […]
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