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Matthews Joseph
Joseph Matthews Born in 1895, Matthews joined the Communist Party in 1920. In the post second war era, he was an activist in the Worthing branch in the Sussex district of the Party. […]
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McMinn Joan
Joan McMinn Joan Paterson was a Communist Party activist who later married and adopted her husband’s name of McMinn, by which she was most known in Party circles. She was for a long […]
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MacDonald Minnie
Minnie MacDonald Minnie had been class-conscious from childhood but when she started work at fourteen in 1918 in a boot factory – and was later transferred to a retail branch – the very idea […]
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McKenna Bernard
Bernard McKenna McKenna was born in 1916 in Manchester into a desperately poor family, from Irish-English stock. The seventh child, he was the first to survive infancy. For most of his childhood his father was […]
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McLennan Mary
Mary McLennan Mary Reid was born in 1928 and brought up in poverty during the 1930s in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. Such an upbringing fuelled her desire to change the world and she met […]
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Morely Iris
Iris Morley (Jacob) Iris Vivienne Morley was born on the 10th May 1910 at Carshalton, Surrey, the daughter of Colonel Lyddon Charteris Morley CBE and Gladys Vivienne Charteris Braddell. She studied at RADA and appeared […]
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Metelmann Henry
Henry Metelmann Henry Friedrich Carl Metelmann was born on Christmas Day in 1922 in a working-class town near Hamburg, the only son of Fritz, a railway worker who was a staunch socialist, and […]
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MacLaurin Griff
Griff MacLaurin Griffith Campbell MacLaurin was a New Zealander who became a Communist in Britain and died fighting in Spain in 1936. MacLaurin – or Mac to his friends – and his family lived in Remuera, […]
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Mankowitz Wolf
Wolf Mankowitz Born Cyril Wolf Mankowitz on 7th November 1924 in Bethnal Green, he was educated at East Ham Grammar School. His father, Solomon Mankowitz, was an émigré Russian Jewish immigrant. Being a second-hand book dealer, […]
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Merrells H
H. Merrells A leading figure in the British National Minority Movement (NMM) electricians’ section, Merrells attended the 5th Congress of the Red International of Labour Unions (RILU) in Moscow in the 1930s.