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Lewis D H

September 23, 2010 admin 0

  D H Lewis  Lewis was a member of the South Hendon branch of the Communist Party, which was first formed in July 1942. Only five of its sixteen branch committee members had any previous […]

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Lewis Mabel

January 26, 2010 admin 0

Mabel Lewis   Mabel Lewis was a 1950s Communist County Councillor for Glamorgan County Council in the seat at Mountain Ash, long a Communist strong-hold in Wales.   Mabel was first elected in the 1930s; […]

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Lewis Lou

January 19, 2010 admin 0

Lou Lewis Lewis joined the Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Operative Workers (AUBTW) as soon as he began his bricklaying apprenticeship after leaving school in the mid-1950s.  He became a leading figure in the rank […]

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Jones Lewis

September 19, 2008 admin 0

Lewis Jones Pic: Jones is on the left, welcoming A Griffiths after his 1936 release from prison, when the latter had been imprisoned over an anti-fascist demo in Tonypandy   Author and Communist councillor, he […]

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Lewis Dr John

September 19, 2008 admin 0

Dr John Lewis In the 1930s, Lewis gave up his place as a Unitarian minister in Ipswich to take on the task of building a national network of Left Book Club discussion groups.   During […]

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Whilton Lewis

September 20, 2008 admin 0

Lewis Whilton A life-long Communist, Whilton was a shop steward and branch secretary in Cannock for the AEU. He worked at English Electric, later GEC, in Stafford. Whilton died aged 83 in 1995. Source: Morning […]