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Landis Harry
Harry Landis Harry Landis was born in Stepney in 1929, a place famed for its resistance to fascism, but he remembers taking refuge in his mother’s lap even at the age of ten when […]
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Lenehan Pete
Peter Lenahan Hailing from St Helen’s, Peter Lenahan was a leading shop-steward in the building industry on Merseyside in the 70s and 80s. As a long-term unemployed worker, he was on both the 1981 […]
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Lilley (Brammar) Pearl
Pearl Lilley Born in Cambridge in 1915, Pearl Brammar began working at the local Co-op from the age of fifteen. She was active in both the Labour League of Youth and the Shop Assistants’ […]
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Lilley Sam
Sam Lilley Samuel (always known as Sam outside of academic circles) Lilley was born in Belfast on 25th June 1914. His father, William Edwin Campbell Lilley, who married Lizzie Shaw in September 1913, worked […]
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Loeffler Frank
Frank Loeffler Frank Loeffler was born in Oxford in 1920 to a father, George, a chemist who originated in Germany. George took his wife and Frank’s future mother, Elizabeth, to leave England at the […]
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Lowman Pete
Pete Lowman Born on 9th Apr 1943, Pete Lowman was an official of the National Union of Hosiery and Knitwear Workers Union and subsequently NUKF&ATU (the merged union resulting from the link up with […]
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Levine Albert
Albert Levine Of an eastern European background, Levine was born in the East End of London. Having joined the Communist Party, he was active in the defence of Cable Street against Oswald Mosley's fascists. […]
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Liddiard Frank
Frank Liddiard Liddiard was born on the 8th of August 1922 and, in his youth, lived at Egham, a small place on the River Thames, next to Runnymede. His father worked on the Southern […]
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Lighthill Pat
Pat Lighthill Patricia Lighthill was a Clerkenwell barmaid from an Irish background who married a taxi driver. She was a key figure in the Clerkenwell branch of the Communist Party in the […]
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Lyons Danny
Danny Lyons The long-term London docker and Communist Party activist, was a member of the non-official Port London Dockworkers Liaison Committee. Writing in the Communist Party’s weekly journal, `Comment’, in 1966 on planned changes […]