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Kenton Rafa

Rafa Kenton She was married to Lou Kenton (see separate entry), former International Brigader, in 1941. During the 1940s, she was a full-time organiser for the London Young Communist League (YCL).   At the London […]

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Kline Laura

Laura Kline   Born Yetta Leah Amias in 1917 in the east end of London, into a loving Jewish Orthodox home, she found `gentle rebellion’ from a young age. At 13 she cajoled her father, […]

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Kingscott Len

Les Kingscott   The Chairman of a Joint Shop Stewards Committee at a Birmingham motor factory joined the Communist Party in March 1961. As he explained in the Daily Worker, "I joined after many, many […]

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Kitson Dave

David Kitson   Born Ian David Kitson on 25th August 1919, he studied mechanical engineering at Howard College, Durban, graduating in 1942. Kitson served as a sapper with the South African army on foreign tours […]

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Keyworth Flo

Flo Keyworth Florence Keyworth, who worked for a marathon 42 years as a highly skilled journalist on the Morning Star and its predecessor the Daily Worker, died aged 91 in 2010. She was a superb […]

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Kahn Joe

Joe Kahn Joe Kahn was born on the 24th February 1916 in London to Russian-Jewish immigrants. He left school at 15 and worked in a number of jobs before becoming a warehouseman. He joined the […]

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Kellher Bill

Bill Kellher   Kellher was a locally well-known Brodsworth miner who was a delegate to the Yorkshire Area Council of the NUM.   He lived at 17 Riveria Mount, Doncaster, and was a Communist council […]

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Kane Johnny Cllr

  Councillor Johnny Kane Johnny Kane was a Communist County councillor for Renton, in the Vale of Leven, from the 1940s until his death in the late 1950s. Described by local history sources as “one […]

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Kiernan Victor

Victor Kiernan   Born Victor Gordon Kiernan in Manchester on 4th September 1913, his interest in languages was developed as a boy since his father worked for the Manchester Ship Canal as a translator of […]

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Krasner Ray (Rachel)

Ray (Rachel) Krasner (Westland-Krasner) Rachel Krasner’s parents had come from Vilna in Lithuaniato Britainaround about 1902. Ray’s brother – the eldest of four sons and a daughter – was born there in 1901. (Krasner is […]