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Jim Fyrth, Communist party and trade union tutor, labour historian |
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CP/IND/MISC/14/11: Notes (notebook with loose notes enclosed) for CPGB members' schools, including the national party school, 1944, Paddington branch school, 1940-41, London district branch secretaries' schools, 1942, 1944; subjects include political economy, wartime political issues and functions of party secretaries. CP/IND/MISC/14/12: Newsletters and circulars of Ex-Services CND Group, 1985-1987. CP/IND/MISC/14/13: Letter to CPGB Headstone (Harrow) raising concerns over the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, 23.9.68. CP/IND/MISC/14/14: Anti-war pamphlet published by students at University College, Exeter (members of the Student Christian Movement, Anti-War Society and Socialist Society), 1936. TS statement on war produced by the Socialist Society, UCE, attempting to reconcile CP and non-CP points of view, 12.10.39; with explanatory notes by Fyrth, 1987. CP/IND/MISC/14/15: Notes for lectures at CPGB national party schools, 1949; subjects include 'problems of political economy', 'Marxism the science of socialism', 'the nature and origins of capitalism', 'imperialism and the crisis of capitalism', 'socialist economy', the economic position of Britain today; also notes for national school for colonial cadres, 9.4.49. CP/IND/MISC/15/1: CPGB North West London area committee reports and draft resolutions in run-up to the special party congress, April 1957, with explanatory notes by Fyrth, 3.3.87; subjects include the Reasoner, inner-party democracy, British Road to Socialism; with memoranda and letters to Max Egelnick, area organiser, from Fyrth. |
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Julius Jacobs, b1906, Communist, furnishing trades worker, secretary of London Trades Council |
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CP/IND/MISC/15/2: TSS and cuttings of articles including a short autobiographical note, 1950s-1980s. CP/IND/MISC/15/3: Notes for lectures on the CP and the Labour movement, Labour Party affiliation, trade union history, classes and class society, etc.; notes for lectures on British Trotskyism apparently missing, 1960s-1970s. CP/IND/MISC/15/4: File regarding building trade unions including union documents regarding amalgamations and transfers of engagements, drafts of pamphlets on CP building policy, 1974-75. CP/IND/MISC/15/5: Miscellaneous papers regarding building industry: TS article on the Lump; spoof circular to party officials enjoining them to appear responsible and respectable at lobby of parliament, 1970s. CP/IND/MISC/15/6: Notebook of visit to Guernsey, 1979. |