Cecil John L'Estrange Malone was a British politician and pioneer naval aviator who served as the United Kingdom's first Communist member of parliament.
Lt. Cecil Malone (rear row, 3rd from r.) with other pioneering officers of the RFC in 1913, including Charles Samson of the HMS Ben-my-Chree
The British Socialist Party published the paperback edition of Malone's experiences in Soviet Russia early in 1920.
Communist Party of Great Britain
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.
The CPGB's General Secretary, Harry Pollitt, gives a speech to a large crowd outside the British Museum in support for the Aid to Russia Fund, 1941
CPGB poster supporting the British war effort against Nazi Germany during WWII
Harry Pollitt gives a speech to workers in Whitehall, London, 1941
William Alexander, representing to Politburo of the CPGB receives applause from the Presidium of the Fifth Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, East Berlin, 16 July 1958.
