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Landis Harry
Harry Landis Harry Landis was born in Stepney in 1929, a place famed for its resistance to fascism, but he remembers taking refuge in his mother’s lap even at the age of ten when […]
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Jones David Ivon
David Ivon Jones D I Jones was born in 1883 in Aberystwyth, Wales. Jones was orphaned as a young child and brought up by his grandparents, but his grandmother also died when he was […]
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Kenton Rafa
Rafa Kenton She was married to Lou Kenton (see separate entry), former International Brigader, in 1941. During the 1940s, she was a full-time organiser for the London Young Communist League (YCL). At the London […]
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Lenehan Pete
Peter Lenahan Hailing from St Helen’s, Peter Lenahan was a leading shop-steward in the building industry on Merseyside in the 70s and 80s. As a long-term unemployed worker, he was on both the 1981 […]
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Rice Johnny
Johnny Rice Born on 24th August 1906, Johnny Rice was the son of a militant suffragette. In 1936 he was arrested by the Gestapo whilst working in Germany and was released following the […]
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Scanlon Hugh
Hugh Scanlon Hugh Parr Scanlon was born on 26th October 1913 in Melbourne, Australia, to parents who had emigrated from Britain. His mother brought him to Britain at the age of two after she […]
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Kline Laura
Laura Kline Born Yetta Leah Amias in 1917 in the east end of London, into a loving Jewish Orthodox home, she found `gentle rebellion’ from a young age. At 13 she cajoled her father, […]
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Lilley (Brammar) Pearl
Pearl Lilley Born in Cambridge in 1915, Pearl Brammar began working at the local Co-op from the age of fifteen. She was active in both the Labour League of Youth and the Shop Assistants’ […]
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Papaspyrou Glykeris
Glykeris Papaspyrou Known as `Papas’ to all and sundry who visited the Fairlight Lodge Hotel, some four miles from the town of Hastings in Sussex, he was the owner of the hotel which was […]
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Sheppard David
David Sheppard Dave Sheppard was secretary of the Leicester Communist Party during the 1960s, having been active in the city since the 1930s, during the course of which he stood as candidate for De […]