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Fink Sid

 Sid Fink Sidney Fink was a Jewish Communist, probably one of three cadres sent by the British Communist Party to an OMS Liaison Service course in Moscow in January 1936. This was the Comintern EC’s […]

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Frazer Jack

Jack Frazer   John Norman Frazer was a Communist electrician, who joined the Communist Party in 1939.   He became the Secretary of the Party’s electrical advisory in the 1940-50s, taking over from Jack Hendy […]

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Foulkes Frank

Frank Foulkes   Foulkes was born in 1899 and joined the Electrical Trades Union as an apprentice. He served as shop steward, branch official, district official, area full-time official and National Organiser.   He held […]

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Francis Ben

Ben Francis Ben Francis was born in South Wales in 1897 and, on leaving school, he worked in coal mining until he served in army in the First World War. He was gassed while serving […]

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Flannery Blanche

Blanche Flannery Blanche was born in 1921 as Blanche Howson. The family loved in Sheffield, where her mother was an office cleaner for a steel firm. The Howsons lived in John Street, Sheffield, which was […]

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Fairley John

John Fairley   Born in Kirkintilloch, near Glasgow, John was an outstanding pupil at the nearby Lenzie primary and Lenzie academy. He studied politics at Edinburgh University, where he joined the Communist Party, graduating from […]

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Fyrth Jim

Jim Fyrth Jim Fyrth taught for many years at Birkbeck College, University of London, in its Department for Extra Mural Studies.   During the Second World War he served in the army, when he was […]

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Fineberg Joe

Joe Fineberg Joe Fineberg (sometimes Feinberg) was born in Poland in 1886. He became a prominent working class member of the British Socialist Party’s East of LondonJewish section, the “Jewish Social Democratic Organisation”, or JSDO. ) […]

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Fuhr Joe

Joe Fuhr Joseph Henry Fuhr was born in Walworth, Southwark, South London, on 20th December 1913. He joined the Communist Party in the 1930s and was arrested in a demonstration against the Blackshirts in Trafalgar […]