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Campaigns and events |
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CP/CENT/EVTS. This small series contains seven files in a single box, and relates to one-off events organised in the same period, including the 'Marx with Sparx' day festival for the Marx... (more...) |
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EC commissions and suchlike bodies |
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CP/CENT/COMM. Includes materials relating to the 1951, 1958, 1968 and 1978 versions of The British road to Socialism, together with those of the later policy documents (Facing up to the future,... (more...) |
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ETU ballot-rigging trial proceedings |
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CP/MISC/ETU. This series comprises verbatim transcripts of High Court case brought by John Thomas Byrne and Frank Chapple against Frank Foulkes and other Communist Party members re alleged ballot-rigging in the... (more...) |
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Executive Committee |
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CP/CENT/EC. Parties, like the CPGB, which were affiliated to the Communist International (or Comintern), were obliged to send transcripts of the deliberations of their leading bodies to the Comintern headquarters in... (more...) |
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Harry Pollitt papers |
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CP/IND/POLL. Harry Pollitt (1890-1960) was the CPGB's general secretary from 1929 to 1939 and 1941 to 1956. In the Stalinised communist party, the general secretary's role was a crucial one, which... (more...) |
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Industrial Department |
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CP/CENT/IND. For opponents of the CPGB, one of the most disturbing features of British communism was its alleged manipulation of trade union grievances to promote economic chaos. These were bogeys that... (more...) |
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International Department, International Affairs Committee and external relations |
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CP/CENT/INT. Records relating to the CPGB's international functions are of particular interest given the unique significance such associations had for a communist party. Even after the Comintern's dissolution, there was no... (more...) |
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J.T. and Molly Murphy papers |
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CP/IND/MURP. One of the most important of the CPGB's founding leaders, J.T. (John Thomas) Murphy, known as 'Jack', took on a number of key party responsibilities over the course of the... (more...) |
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John Gollan papers |
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CP/IND/GOLL. Long groomed as Pollitt's successor and attaining the general secretaryship of the CPGB in the difficult year of 1956, John Gollan (1911-1977) was to retain the position for some two... (more...) |
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Miscellaneous EC sub-committees & non-industrial advisory committees, etc. |
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CP/CENT/CTTE. Includes records for various ad hoc sub-committees or departments of the Executive Committee notably including the Parliamentary Department (CP/CENT/CTTE/01/01) which, in the late 1940s, oversaw the activities of the... (more...) |
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