In 1979, former Soft Machine drummer Robert Wyatt joined the Communist Party of Great Britain and cut a string of idiosyncratic yet impassioned socialist pop.

A BLUE plaque will be unveiled in Rhondda on Friday June 6 in honour of social campaigner Annie Powell, who was elected communist mayor of Rhondda in 1979, soon after Conservative Margaret Thatcher ...

Frustrated, Sylvia refused to participate in the founding conference of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) in July 1920. Instead, she changed the name of the WSF to the Communist Party ...

Rachel Reeves has replaced a portrait of Margaret Thatcher’s chancellor with a picture of one of the founding members of the Communist Party of Great Britain. On the eve of the Government’s ...

In 1983, he joined what was the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), only to be expelled a couple of years later, he says, for challenging the dominant line of the leadership. With the CPGB’s ...

RONNIE KASRILS pays tribute to Ruth First, a fearless fighter against South African apartheid, in the centenary month of her birth THE formation of the Communist Party of Great Britain’s Ellesmere ...

the Communist Party. He cared deeply about the rights of the working class, in India and in Britain, and believed that only socialism - and not any imperialist regime - could eradicate poverty and ...

One of the few men who can claim to have called the turn on the gyrations of Communist foreign policy over the last ... the Russians would buy time from Hitler if an agreement with Great Britain and ...