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Jones Walter (Cllr)
Walter Jones (Cllr) Walter Jones won a seat as a councillor as a Communist Party candidate in Risca, a small town that is today part of the Newport conurbation, lying at the south-eastern edge of […]
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Jacques Martin
Martin Jacques Martin Jacques was born in October 1945 in Coventry and raised there by Communist Party parents. He joined the Young Communist League Communist Party in 1961 when he was still just 15 and […]
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Jackson Frank (b1910 Wales)
Frank Jackson (1910-2004, Wales) Born in the Rhondda Valley in South Wales in 1910, Frank Jackson’s paternal grandfather, Abraham Zarchin, had emigrated from Georgia, then part of Russia, to escape the pogroms of the 1880s, […]
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Jackson John
John Jackson Jackson was a Glasgow bookfolder and Branch Secretary for the 141 member strong Proven Communist Party in the early 1960s. He lived on the largest council housing estate in Proven, which contained 29,000 […]
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Jackson T A
T.A. Jackson The British working-class intellectual, Thomas Alfred Jackson, was born in Clerkenwell, London, in 1879. Tommy Jackson – always TA to the world – he is remembered as the working-class autodidact. As […]
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Jacobs Julie
Julie (Julius) Jacobs Julie Jacobs, born in 1906, was a long-standing Communist, furnishing trades worker and NUFTO official, and the charismatic leader of the London Trades Council from 1945 to 1952. As such he wrote […]
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James Tommy
Tommy James Tommy (T H) James was born in 1898 and began work in 1912 at Rotherham Main Colliery. After a spell in the army during world war one, he found himself unemployed and […]
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Januszewicz Mikola
Mikola Januszewicz A member of the Communist Party of Britain on his death and he had also been a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, before he left over its late revisionism. During […]