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Lee Hymie

Hymie Lee Born 1902, as Hyman Lieberman, he joined the Communist Party in 1923 and was active in the Young Communist League and as an organiser of Manchester Young Comrades League (the Party’s organisation for […]

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le Brocq Norman

. Norman le Brocq   Born in Jersey in 1922, Norman le Brocq is famed in the Channel Islands for his participation in the resistance to German occupation in the Second World War. This was […]

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Lawton Gilbert

Gilbert Lawton John Gilbert Lawton, on leaving school, went to work on his local newspaper. He joined the Communist Party in the 1930s. He was soon in London, on the Daily Worker, covering stunts organised […]

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Law Chris

Chris Law A long-time AEU stalwart and Communist in Sheffield, Chris Law took part in his first strike in 1932 at the age of 16 years, when the Sheffield Star newspaper cut its commission to […]

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Lazarus Abe

  Abe Lazarus Abe Lazarus was born, from a Jewish background, in Chiswick in 1911 and joined the Communist Party at Hammersmith in 1930. He played a key role in the Firestone strike in 1933 […]

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Langton Win

Winifred Langton Born in Plaistow, in east London, one of six children on May 20th 1909. Three of her siblings had earlier died in the 1902 smallpox epidemic. Her mother was a working class suffragette […]