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Fraser Harry
Harry Fraser Henry ("Harry") Balfour Fraser was born in Holloway, London, on 13th February 1906. He joined the Communist Party in 1926, during the General Strike. Harry worked as a clerk in immediate the […]
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Frankel Sol
Sol Frankel Solomon Frankel was born on 31 March 1914, one of nine children, to Polish-Jewish parents in Whitechapel. London. He left school at 14 and worked as a tailor in East End sweatshops. By […]
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Frankel Ben
Ben Frankel Benjamin Frankel was born in London on 31st January 1906. His parents met and married in England but were both immigrants. His father, Charles Frankel, had come from Warsaw, after completing military service […]
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Fenn Micky
Micky Fenn Born on January 11th 1938, Michael Fenn would become of the core group of leading shop stewards in the Royal Group of Docks, which famously had “Arise Ye Workers” emblazoned on its […]
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Fullard George
George Fullard Born in 1923, Fullard came from a politically active mining family in Sheffield. His father was a Communist Party member, blacklisted after organising a pit deputies’ strike at the Nunnery Colliery, who also […]
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Ferguson Aitken
Aitken Ferguson Born in 1891 in Glasgow – and named after his iron moulder father, Ferguson was a leading Scottish Communist, elected to the Party’s Central Committee at the 6th Congress in May 1924. He was re-elected […]
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Foster John (AEU)
John Foster My father-in-law John Foster (pictured below) was a prominent member of the AEU, originally Kingston District Secretary, and finally a National Organiser of the union. He was also a life-long member of the Communist […]
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French Sid
Sid French The first General Secretary of the small 1977 breakaway from the Communist Party, Sid French was born in 1920, to Ernie French, himself an active Communist, and Ethel Wilkinson, who came from a […]
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Fagan Hymie
Hymie Fagan Born to a Russian Jewish immigrant family in London’s east end in 1903, Hymie Fagan left school at 14 years of age to work in a carpet warehouse in Stepney. One observer on […]