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WILLIAM ZAK; MICHAEL CARRITT; MAURICE RECKITT; MICHELL RAPER; RAYMOND WONG; REGINALD GROVES; PURAN CHANDRA JOSHI; DENNIS ELLWAND; ERNST TOLLER |
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William Zak; Michael Carritt; Maurice Reckitt; Michell Raper; Raymond Wong; Reginald Groves; Puran Chandra Joshi; Dennis Ellwand; Ernst Toller
The collection continues with a mixture of historical analyses, including William Zak's unpublished account of the Black Sea Mutiny of 1919 and Reginald Groves' The Workers and Peasants Revolt of 1381 (1927). Also contained are notes documenting British relationships with Indian communists during the inter-war period (Michael Carritt and Puran Chandra Joshi). Additionally, there is the TS copy of Michell Raper's Radio 4 play, Sunday in the Square (1974) and Dennis Ellwand's unpublished polemic on the Thatcher government, That' cher lot, or, Britain Under the Hammer, c1989. |
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Labour History Archive and Study Centre |
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BROWSING 1-9 OF 9 RESULT(S) IN WILLIAM ZAK; MICHAEL CARRITT; MAURICE RECKITT; MICHELL RAPER; RAYMOND WONG; REGINALD GROVES; PURAN CHANDRA JOSHI; DENNIS ELLWAND; ERNST TOLLER |
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William Zak, 1906-1973, Communist and furnishing trade union activist |
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CP/IND/MISC/3/1: Unpublished TS account (216pp) of the Black Sea mutiny of the French fleet, led by Andre Marty in 1919. |
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Michael Carritt, undercover Communist and Indian civil servant |
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CP/IND/MISC/3/2: MS notes (photocopies) of meetings with Communist leaders while a British official in India, 1936-1937. They form an occasional record of meetings between leading Indian Communists. The meetings dealt with both organisational and political matters and were held out of doors, on Calcutta's open midan. The notes were used at the time for the preparation of reports to the international Communist movement and its press, Inprecorr in particular. |
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Maurice Reckitt, 1888-1980, Christian socialist |
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CP/IND/MISC/3/3: TS memoir of G.D.H. Cole, the Labour Research Department and the National Guilds League 1914-1924, n.d. |
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Michell Raper, playwright |
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CP/IND/MISC/3/4: TS of the radio play Sunday in the Square recorded 20.12.74 for Radio 4 and produced by Joe Burroughs. The subject is Bloody Sunday, 1886. |
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Raymond Wong, Communist guerrilla, Hong Kong |
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CP/IND/MISC/3/5: TS memoirs: part 1 describes the East River Column and its rescue of Allied prisoners of war during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong; part 2 describes the ERC's collaboration with US forces, 1943-1945. |
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Reginald Groves, pioneering British Trotskyite and labour historian |
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CP/IND/MISC/3/6: TS account of The Workers and Peasants Revolt of 1381 (9pp), signed and dated July 1927. |
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Puran Chandra Joshi, b1907, secretary, Communist Party of India |
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CP/IND/MISC/3/7: TS draft of Indian Communism - years of formation - 1917-1925. An outline for discussion (60pp), written during the 1950s. The draft focuses particularly on the role of M.N. Roy: 'A life's experience has driven me to the conclusion that Roy's ideological outlook, political line and organisational methods were contrary to the principles of Marxism and Leninism.' |
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Dennis Ellwand, retired Communist Party national treasurer |
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CP/IND/MISC/3/8: TS of That' cher lot, or, Britain Under the Hammer, unpublished polemic on the Thatcher government, with covering letter to Gordon McLennan 3.3.89. |
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Ernst Toller, 1893-1939, German socialist, poet and playwright |
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CP/IND/MISC/3/9: TS Ankunft in Africa (in German) with MS annotation on final page. |
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