Olive Watson
Olive Watson was an active Communist Party member from Blaydon, Northumbria, involved in the local Party women's group and the Co-operative Guild. She organised meetings of miners’ wives in the North East to protest at pit closure in the early 1960s.
She was a delegate to the Communist Party's 27th Congress at St Pancras Town Hall, in
Source: Daily Worker 3rd April 1961
Michael Walker
Paul Olive Born into a Jewish Communist family in Chelmsford, Essex, Olive attended King Edward VII grammar school in Chelmsford and read philosophy at Edinburgh University. He was involved with the anti-apartheid movement and […]
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