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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Sam Bornstein and Al Richardson, War and the International (1986) pp. 136–140
- ↑ M. Stenton and S. Lees, Who's Who of British MPs Vol. IV (Harvester Press, 1981)
- 1 2 "Labour Holds Neath: Communist Loses Deposit", Manchester Guardian , 17 May 1945
- ↑ "Elections Test Future of Welsh Party", The Observer , 11 February 1945
- 1 2 3 "Trotskyism in May 1945: Down with the Churchill Coalition! Labour to Power on a Socialist Programme!", Socialist Appeal , 15 April 2005
- ↑ Jim Higgins, Ten Years for the Locust
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