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Cave Cissie
Cissie Cave Cissie was a cleaner in the offices of the Guernsey State electricity department during the 1940s. A stalwart collector for the Daily Worker, she sent a shilling (12 old pence) every week to […]
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MacDonald Theodore
Theodore MacDonald Professor Theodore Harney MacDonald, or Theo, as so many knew him, may be remembered best by our readers as the author of Hippocrates in Havana, Schooling the Revolution, and the more recent […]
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Williams John (JS)
John (Jack) Samuel Williams Known throughout his life as 'J.S' or 'Jack Williams the Communist', he was born in Bethseda, Caernarvonshire in 1900. He and his father moved down to the South […]
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Maher John
John Maher John Maher was born in Cappamore, County Limerick, but came to London as a young man and settled in Kilburn. He married May, his wife of 46 years who was ten years […]
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Watson Bill
Bill Watson Bill Watson was born in Irlam in 1944 to a working-class family. His father worked as a bricklayer and his mother worked on a farm as well as in munitions factories during the […]
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Marks Beattie
Beattie Marks Born in October 1902, she was a foundation member of the Communist Party and from 1921, she worked in a full-time capacity for the Party. In a tribute to her on her 50th […]
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Wild Bessie
Bessie Wild Bessie Berry got involved in the Communist Party in her mid to late 20s in the early 1930s. She and Sam Wild (see separate entry) met during the course of Party […]
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Encyclopedia of Communist Biographies
Ackland Mary Valentine
Mary Valentine Ackland The poet and Communist, Mary Ackland (pictured left), was born in London in 1906 to a wealthy family. She was briefly married at the age of 19 to Richard Turpin but this […]