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Rice Johnny
Johnny Rice Born on 24th August 1906, Johnny Rice was the son of a militant suffragette. In 1936 he was arrested by the Gestapo whilst working in Germany and was released following the […]
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Rodker Joan
Joan Rodker Joan Rodker was born in London on 1st May 1915, the daughter of the modernist poet, John Rodker, who later published James Joyce and salvaged the complete works of Sigmund Freud […]
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Robson Peter
Peter Robson Robson worked at the Lots Road Power station in Fulham and was a member of the ETU electricians union’s West Supply branch and a delegate from it to Fulham TUC. A […]
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Rowlands Ted
Ted Rowlands An engineering worker and shop steward for the AEU, Rowlands was an active Communist Party member in Newcastle. He stood as the Communist candidate for a Newcastle Council by-election in St. […]
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Ralph Johnny
Johnny Ralph Ralph was a champion cyclist and a committed Communist Party member. He was born on 6th October 1931 at Hammersmith hospital and his family lived locally in the Acton and Hammersmith area. His father […]
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Rice Ernie
Ernie Rice Rice was born in the 1920s. Later being married with a family, he was a Londondocker at Royal Docks. Rice was described by some as Jack Dash’s right hand man, not only […]
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Rosser-Hicks Mary
Mary Rosser-Hicks Mary Rosser was born in 1937 into a devout Roman Catholic family. Convent-educated, she moved in the late 1960s from Christian belief to Marxism, joining the Communist Party after being involved in […]
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Robinson Derek
Derek Robinson Born in 1927, Robinson joined the AEU as an apprentice at the Longbridge car plant in Northfield on the outskirts of Birmingham when he started work there during the height of the […]
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Rees Harry
Harry Rees Rees was a long-standing Communist Party member in Port Talbort, South Wales, probably at the very least from the 1930s to 1960s. Even at the age of eighty-one, he was selling the Daily […]
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Robertson Archie
Archie Robertson Archibald Harold Mann Robertson was born in 1886, the son of a bishop. He was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford, gaining the distinction of winning a first in philosophy and passing into […]