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Eddie Adams Adams left school in 1951 and. By his own account, was a “bit of a rough neck” in his teenage years, being a member of the Moorhouse Boys gang. This recruited from former […]
Eddie Adams Adams left school in 1951 and. By his own account, was a “bit of a rough neck” in his teenage years, being a member of the Moorhouse Boys gang. This recruited from former […]
Harry Soderberg G. A "Harry" Soderberg was a Communist party member in its earliest days and became London organiser of the National Unemployed Workers' Committee Movement (NUWCM), which had been established on 15th April 1921 […]
Frank Spark Born in 1874, Spark was a long-standing and foundation Communist Party member from Mortlake, Richmond, Surrey. He started work at the age of thirteen and became involved in the labour movement aged […]
Sid Staden Born in 1923, Sid, like his father before him, was a lighterman, who "drove" barges around the London docks. It was in this tough world that he became a trade unionist and […]
Mina and Bob Holland Wilhelmina, or "Mina", and Robert Holland were a husband and wife team who were foundation members of the Communist Party. Originally from Tyneside, both took part in several hunger […]
Les Stannard Lesley Francis Stannard was born on 7th August 1919 in Deptford. He joined the Co-operative movement’s “Comrades Circle” (a kind of less edgy alternative to the Woodcraft Folk) at the age of […]
Constance Haverson Probably born Gladys Constance Haverson in 1899, she was a granddaughter of the then future Labour Party leader, George Lansbury. A member of the British Communist Party, she studied at the […]
Ben Murray Born Frederick Murray on 19th July 1895 in Enniskillen, he lived outside Aughnacloy, where his father was an RIC sergeant of a Methodist background. Having emigrated to Canada at the age […]
Hambis Mitchell Mitchell was a leading personality in the Greek Cypriot community in Britain, who was in charge of 'The Vema' newspaper which largely followed Communist lines. During the 1950s and 1960s, the British […]
Murray Williams Williams was a Communist miner in the Rhondda, South Wales, who was described by the Daily Worker, on his death, as one of Wales’ “outstanding Working Class Leaders”. For three decades […]
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