Thora Silverthorne, also known as "Red Silverthorne", was a nurse, a healthcare activist, and a lifelong member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. She is most known for her service to the Intern
The Communist Party of Great Britain was the largest communist organisation in Britain and was founded in 1920 through a merger of several smaller Marxist groups. The party first gained prominence whe
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.