Communist Party

GG joined the British Communist Party on a whim for a period of about a month in 1925, probably paying dues of a shilling or so for his brief membership. This was an aberration, since...

JK 's adoptive mother (my mum), Helen Kay , was (like her husband) a white Communist Party activist. She came from Lochgelly in Fife, where her father was a miner, and...

JK 's adoptive father, John Kay , a Glaswegian and a draughtsman by trade, left this job to become a full-time Communist Party worker. Years later he stood as Communist candidate for the Gorbals/Queen's...

RL met the businessman and would-be artist Wogan Philipps while living in Newcastle with her first husband. Becoming a lifelong Communist and a farmer during the Spanish Civil War, Philipps was the only Communist Party

DL was one of those who resigned their membership in the British Communist Party after the Hungarian Revolution was crushed, despite an appeal from Party officials to change her mind.

DL became a member of the British Communist Party . The same year she visited the USSR as a delegate of the Authors' World Peace Appeal .

DL 's father, Norman Levy , was the twin youngest child of Lithuanian immigrants. He was a teacher and an anti-apartheid campaigner: a Communist , a member of organizations like the banned African National Congress

CM was in Berlin when fire was set to the Reichstag or parliament on 27 February 1933. This caused political panic and gains for the young Adolf Hitler . It was understood that the Nazis

The group of urban radical and liberal intellectuals who set up their community in the mountains of New England is led by a general who is discontented with the world and has a desire for...

Willa and Edwin Muir left Prague after about three years, shortly before the Communist Party , which had overthrown the elected government, closed Czechoslovakia's borders to foreigners or foreign travel.

WM and her husband hosted a Writers' Circle in their flat in Prague. The members of the Circle were young Czech writers, and discussions were often as much about Czech politics as about work-in-progress...

IM was offered a scholarship to continue her studies in the United States, but was unable to accept, as she was denied a visa on the grounds of her former involvement with the Communist Party

IM once said that she was a Communist from the age of thirteen; it was a natural allegiance in the thirties for anyone growing up in an idealistic and civic-minded milieu. Her early political thinking...

At the same time as applying for her place at Newnham, she kept her options open by applying for a lectureship at Sheffield University and a place at Vassar in New York State, as...

FOC worked as a teaching assistant while she studied for her MFA, but she put most of her energies into her potential future as a writer. She applied for several college teaching positions, just...