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The battles of the past can inform today’s struggles
As the Communist Party marks its 100th anniversary year, TOM MORRISON looks to one of its most influential periods in the ’60s-70s where grassroots alliances were key
ordon McLennan, Communist candidate for St Pancras, John Gollan, general secretary, and Bert Ramelson, head of the industrial department, at the Communist Party Conference in 1974
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THE most successful period of the Communist Party — now in its centenary year — in living memory is the 1960s, stretching into the mid-70s.
At this time, the CP, while not a mass party, nevertheless exerted mass influence in industrial politics.
Bert Ramelson was elected to the post of industrial organiser in 1965 and because of the impact of the industrial department under his leadership, he became the bogeyman of government and the capitalist press alike.
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