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Bertha Sokoloff

As she was growing up in a closely knit Jewish family in the East End of London, poverty and fatherlessness shaped the radical spirit of my mother Bertha Sokoloff, who has died aged 98. Her […]

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Jean & Maurice Styles

Jean Esther Styles was born on October 19th 1927; she joined the Communist Party in 1947. As branch secretary for the Streatham Communist Party in the mid-1960s, she formally engaged in correspondence with the national YCL […]

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Phillip Spratt

Philip Spratt Spratt, born in 1902, was a writer who had joined the Communist Party and was sent to India by it to aid the development of a local Communist Party and trade union movement. […]

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Scott Bernard

Bernard Scott Born in 1923, Bernard Scott was born in the inner-city community of Armley in west Leeds and lived in the city all his life. After leaving school, he became a librarian. During the […]

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Steer, Bernie

Bernie Steer A measure of how sensitive were docks strikes is shown by the revelations that came when cabinet papers covering 1970 were released under the 30-year rule at the start of 2001. It seems […]

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Stubbs Dick

Dick Stubbs Richard Stubbs was born in April 1909 to a mother who was a former Belfast mill worker. His father was a Lancashire tin smith father, who moved the family to Cheltenham sto seek […]

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Sloan Pat

Pat Sloan  Born Patrick Alan Sloan on the 19th May 1908 in Northumberland, his father was a manager of an electrical power company. Pat Sloan graduated with a First in Economics from Cambridge University. He […]

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Smith John Maynard

  John Maynard Smith Smith was born in 1920 to a well-off family; on leaving school, joined the Communist Party when he began an engineering degree at Trinity College Cambridge. He was an aeronautical engineer […]

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Shephard Bill

Bill was born to a working class family in Petts Wood, Kent. He spent his national service with the RAF in Malaya. He returned home in 1948 to a job in advertising and began attending […]

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Seabrook Dick

  Dick Seabrook Richard "Dick" Seabrook joined the Communist Party in 1931. He and his brother Alfred were both active in the Chelmsford Communist Party probably from its conception around 1933. Dick was a boot […]