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Wilkes Stan
Stan Wilkes Born in 1936 in Coventry and evacuated during the blitz to the family hometown of Newcastle-on-Tyne, Stan Wilkes was a YCL activist, certainly by the time Fidel Castro entered Havana with his […]
Month: December 2010
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Symons John
John Symons Born in 1932, Symons was made branch secretary of the Plymouth Communist Party after only a year's membership in 1964. At the Devon and Cornwall District Congress of the Party in […]
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Bond Bessie
Bessie Bond Bessie was born in Glasgow in 1900, where her trade union activity began as soon as she went into paid work. She and her sister, after talking secretly to fellow workers […]
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Bramley Norma
Norma Bramley Norma was a Nottingham Young Communist League activist in the early 1960s. She took part in the Youth March against German bases in 1961 that went from formerly heavily bombed Coventry to […]
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Bland Bill
Born on April 28th 1916, Bland paid a visit to the Soviet Union at the age of 21, in 1937, and thereafter dedicated his entire life and activity to the advancement of socialism and communism. […]
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Bridges George Senior
George Bridges SeniorAn engineering worker, Bridges was a member of the AEU. (Not to be confused with his son and namesake, who was London District Secretary of the YCL in the 1960s.) Bridges […]
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Balshaw Bill
Bill Balshaw A building worker by trade, Balshaw was the Guernsey (Channel Islands) Communist Party secretary in the 1960s and 1970s. He worked closely with Norman Le Brocq (see separate entry), the Jersey Communist […]