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Dutt Salme
Salme Dutt Salme Dutt played a considerable part in role in the early development of the British Communist Party but she had been born on 29th August 1888 a subject of the old Russian Empire […]
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Duffy Peter
Peter Duffy Obituary from the Morning Star: “Peter Duffy, who has died in France aged 64, was, for the last several years of his life, the Paris correspondent of the Morning Star. He was […]
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Deegan Frank
Frank Deegan Deegan was born in Bootle in 1910, one of eleven children, to an Irish father and a mother born in Bootle of Irish parents. He left school at 14 and sold papers during […]
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Dawson Len
Len Dawson Dawson was an ETU lay official in Fleet Street and gained considerable support from the thousand members of the union’s `Press’ branch. He was secretary of the branch from the beginning of 1963 […]
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Dalton Clarry
Clarry Dalton Dalton came from Moston in Manchester and had joined the ETU in 1938. He and his two brothers, also electricians, had 70 years continuous membership of the union between them when Clarry […]
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Dennison Les
Les Dennison Born as an illegitmate baby in London on 19th June 1915 as Leslie Wiilet Brannen. He never knew his wealthy father who lived in Mayfair. When he was six months old, his mother […]
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Dickman Terry
Terry Dickman Dickman was a prominent member of the Young Communist League in the years prior to the Second World War and a star seller of its journal, `Challenge’ from when it first appeared in […]
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Dutt Rajani Palme
Rajani Palme Dutt Born in Cambridge in 1896, the youngest of three siblings, Dutt was a leading figure in the British Communist Party from the beginning and for most of his life. His mother was […]
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Dunman Jack
Jack Dunman Left: Dunman – right – canvassing Abingdon farmworkers in 1950 John Clement Dix Dunman was born into a comfortable middle class family on 5th February 1911 at Poole, Dorset. His father was Percy […]