TRIBUTES have been paid to a Leeds communist who has died at the age of 89.
Harvey Wagenheim joined the Young Communist League as a young man in the 1940s. His parents, Sam and Chloe, were communists who moved to Leeds from north-west England. His grandparents came to Britain from Lithuania.
After leaving school he worked for 20 years in the tailoring industry including for Burton’s at a time when Leeds was recognised as the heart of the industry worldwide.
Charles Lubselski pays tribute to a lifelong communist and supporter of the Daily Worker and Morning Star
Maggie Bowden was a trailblazing campaigning lawyer at Birnberg and Thompsons, women’s organiser of the Communist Party, and general secretary of Liberation
The EIS president who defended Marxist politics in the 1980s fought Thatcherite educational policies while organising Teachers for Peace rallies and ensuring Morning Star circulation in Scotland’s pit villages and factories, writes JOHN FOSTER
In an address to the Communist Party’s executive at the weekend international secretary KEVAN NELSON explained why the communists’ watchwords must be Jobs not Bombs and Welfare not Warfare