People of the Revolution and the USSR
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Harry Pollitt Harry Pollitt
Stalin's personally approved CPGB General Secretary who led the party for 25 years
Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB)
1890–1960
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Sanzo Nosaka 野坂参三
International communist who founded the JCP, ran the Comintern's Pacific networks, and led the party for 24 years
Political and party leadership · Japanese Communist Party (JCP)
1892–1993
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Rajani Palme Dutt Rajani Palme Dutt
CPGB founding member, chief theoretician for half a century, and pioneer of Marxist historiography on India
Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB)
1896–1974
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Claudia Jones Claudia Jones
The Black feminist Marxist who pioneered intersectional analysis, and created the Notting Hill Carnival
Social movements and organizing · Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
1915–1964
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Eric Hobsbawm Eric Hobsbawm
Historian of revolution’s social foundations and later memory
Scholarship and theory · Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB)
1917–2012
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Robert W. Davies Robert W. Davies
The British economic historian who built the seven-volume chronicle of Soviet industrialisation
Scholarship and theory · Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB)
1925–2021
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Peter Fryer Peter Fryer
A communist journalist who chose the scene over the party line
Literature and arts · Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB)
1927–2006