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Yates Steve
Steven R Yates Steve Yates was a London electrician and Communist Party member who died fighting to defend Madrid from Franco's Fascist's on 9th November 1936 in the Casa del Campo urban park, west of the centre of […]
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Iliffe Jack
Jack Iliffe Jack Illiffe was a Communist Party activist during the 1930s who spoke regularly in Leicester's Market Place. When he appeared in court, following a Blackshirts’ meeting, he described himself as a propagandist. […]
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Ogden Dennis
Dennis Ogden Dennis Ogden worked in the Soviet Union from 1955 as a translator for the Moscow based Foreign Languages Publishing House. From 1959 to the end of 1962 he was Moscow correspondent for […]
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Oldershaw Tom
Tom Oldershaw A carpenter by trade Oldershaw was a member of the Battersea Number 2 branch of the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers. He seconded a motion to the local Trades Council to establish an Aid to Spain committee […]
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Olive Paul
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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O’Hara Roger
Roger O'Hara The full-time secretary of Merseyside Communist Party from 1970 to 1980, he succeeded Tom Cassin, who held the role for just a year and Gerry Cohen before him, who was the incumbent […]
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Lubetkin Berthold
Berthold Lubetkin Berthold Romanovich Lubetkin (14 December 1901 — 23 October 1990) was a Russian émigré architect who pioneered modernist design in Britain in the 1930s. His work includes the Highpoint housing complex, London Zoo […]
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Knight Mary
Mary Knight Knight was a leading Communist Party and Labour Party member in Rusholme in Manchester, where she was a councillor up to the 1920s. She had been a member of the long established […]
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Fairburn Ron
Ron Fairburn Fairburn was born in Leeds in 1923. His father was a maintenance engineer at Leeds Steelworks and Ron's first job when he left school at fourteen was in a gentleman's outfitters. […]
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Littlewood Joan
Joan Littlewood Director of a theatre in a state of perpetual revolution and passionate creator of art and fun (though she never did get her people's palace) Joan Littlewood, who has died aged 87, […]