George Lansbury was a British politician and social reformer who led the Labour Party from 1932 to 1935. Apart from a brief period of ministerial office during the Labour government of 1929–31,he spent his political life campaigning against established authority and vested interests,his main causes being the promotion of social justice,women's rights,and world disarmament.
The Poplar Rates Rebellion,or Poplar Rates Revolt,was a tax protest that took place in Poplar,London,England,in 1921. It was led by George Lansbury,the previous year's Labour Mayor of Poplar,with the support of the Poplar Borough Council,most of whom were industrial workers. The protest defied government,the courts,and the Labour Party leadership. George Lansbury would later go on to be the leader of the Labour Party.
Rajani Palme Dutt was a British political figure,journalist and theoretician who served as the fourth general secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain during World War II from October 1939 to June 1941. His classic book India Today heralded the Marxist approach in Indian historiography.
Harry Pollitt was a British communist who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) from July 1929 to September 1939 and again from 1941 until his death in 1960. Pollitt spent most of his life advocating communism. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist,Pollitt was an adherent particularly of Joseph Stalin even after Stalin's death and disavowal by Nikita Khrushchev. Pollitt's acts included opposition to the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War and Polish–Soviet War,support for the Spanish Republicans during the Spanish Civil War,both support for and opposition to the war against Nazi Germany,defence of the communist coup in Czechoslovakia,and support for the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary.
The Workers' Socialist Federation was a socialist political party in the United Kingdom,led by Sylvia Pankhurst. Under many different names,it gradually broadened its politics from a focus on women's suffrage to eventually become a left communist grouping.
Noreen Branson was a British communist activist,historian,founder of Revolt newspaper,and a life-long member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). In 1931 she married fellow communist and International Brigadeer,Clive Branson,and in 1934 she carried out a mission for Harry Pollitt to smuggle funding to Indian communists resisting the British colonial occupation of India. Noreen Branson was most known for her work as a historian,working as a researcher for the Labour Research Department,collaborating with historians Eric Hobsbawm and Roger Simon,and writing the 3rd and 4th volumes of the CPGB's official history.
Shapurji Dorabji Saklatvala was a communist militant and British politician of Indian Parsi heritage. He was the first person of Indian heritage to become a British Member of Parliament (MP) for the UK Labour Party and was also among the few members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) to serve as an MP.
Bow and Bromley was a constituency in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Located in the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar in London,it was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act for the 1885 general election and returned one Member of Parliament (MP) until it was abolished for the 1950 general election.
Thomas Alfred Jackson was a founding member of the Socialist Party of Great Britain and later the Communist Party of Great Britain. He was a leading communist activist and newspaper editor and worked variously as a party functionary and a freelance lecturer.
Alfred Augustus Watts (1862–1928),also known as A. A. Watts,was a British communist.
Charles William Key,PC was a British schoolmaster and Labour Party politician. Coming from a very working-class background,the generosity of a family friend made it possible for him to get a start in life and train as a teacher;he entered politics through Poplar Borough Council,and was elected to Parliament to replace George Lansbury. Serving in junior posts during the Attlee government,he remained in Parliament until the age of 80.
Minnie Lansbury was an English leading suffragette and an alderman on the first Labour-led council in the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar,England.
The 1912 Bow and Bromley by-election was a by-election held on 26 November 1912 for the British House of Commons constituency of Bow and Bromley. It was triggered when the Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP),George Lansbury,accepted the post of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds as a technical measure enabling him to leave Parliament.
The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was the largest communist organisation in Britain and was founded in 1920 through a merger of several smaller Marxist groups. Many miners joined the CPGB in the 1926 general strike. In 1930,the CPGB founded the Daily Worker. In 1936,members of the party were present at the Battle of Cable Street,helping organise resistance against the British Union of Fascists. In the Spanish Civil War,the CPGB worked with the USSR to create the British Battalion of the International Brigades,which party activist Bill Alexander commanded.
Nellie Frances Cressall (1882–1973) was an East End suffragette and labour activist.
Samuel March was a British trade union official and Labour Party politician active in the Poplar area of London.
Ferdinand Louis Kerran was a British political activist,prominent in the labour movement.
Marian Ramelson (1908–1967) was a 20th-century communist,political activist and historian. Ramelson was the first British representative to greet the People’s Republic of China after its establishment in 1949. Ramelson wrote The Petticoat Rebellion:a century of struggle for women's rights concerning the suffrage movement published in 1967.
Max Samuel Levitas was an Ireland-born British communist activist and councillor,prominent in the East End of London for many years. The brother of communist activist Maurice Levitas,Max Levitas was a member of the Young Communist League and later the Communist Party of Great Britain.
An election to the County Council of London took place on 8 March 1928. The council was elected by First Past the Post with each elector having two votes in the two-member seats. The Labour Party made slight gains at the expense of the Municipal Reform Party,which nonetheless retained a substantial majority.
