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organisées par les Archives départmentales de la Seine-Saint-Denis les 29 et 30 novembre à Bobigny, Paris: Départment de la Seine-Saint-Denis/Fondation Gabriel Peri, 2007. A review will appear in the first issue of Twentieth Century Communism. CROSSING BOUNDARIES: Crossing Boundaries: women’s organising in Europe and the Americas, 1880s-1940s. Under this title papers have been published from a recent international colloquium at Uppsala University. Of particular interest to historians of communism are the papers by Karen Hunt (‘Transnationalism in practice: the effect of Dora Montefiore’s international travel on women’s politics in Britain before World War 1’ and Joan Sangster, ‘Political tourism, writing and communication; transnational connections of women on the left, 1920s-1940s’. The editors are Pernilla Jonsson, Silke Neunsinger and Joan Sangster and the other contributors are Ulla Wikander and E. Sue Wamsley. For online access and ordering details, go to: http://publications.uu.se/abstract.xsql?dbid=8149 THE FAR LEFT IN BELGIUM AND CANADA: Proceedings have been published from a colloquium held at the Free University of Brussels in 2005: Anne Morelli and José Gotovitch, eds, Contester dans un pays prospère. L’extrême gauche en belgique et au Canada, Peter Lang, 2007, ISBN 978-90-5201-309-1. Other contributors include Francine Bolle, Marc Comby, Francis Dupuis-Déri, Jacques Gillen, Jill Hanley, Rik Hemmerijckx, Alain Lemaitre, Julie Maeck, Sean Mills and Eva Schandevyl. THE CPGB ARCHIVE MICROFILMING PROJECT: The Labour History Archive and Study Centre (LHASC) in conjunction with the Communist Party Archive Trust and Microform Academic Publishers are undertaking a project to microfilm the Communist Party of Great Britain Archives. This is part of the ongoing preservation and widening access to collections undertaken by LHASC. As part of this process sections of the CPGB archive collection will be unavailable for researchers while being microfilmed. The majority of this work will take place from the 1 December 2007 and it is hoped that the project will be finished in approximately six months. However in order to be able to provide a more accurate timetable of the process a sample batch will be sent for microfilming. The following material will be unavailable for researchers beginning the week commencing 5 November for at least 2 weeks: CP/CENT/EC, CP/CENT/PC and CP/CENT/COMM. It is hoped that we will be able to ensure a quick turn around time and apologise for any inconvenience caused to researchers during this project. Any researchers wishing to use the CPGB archive are advised to continue to check the website http://www.phm.org.uk for regular updates and fuller timetables and to contact archive staff if arranging a visit. THE KICK INSIDE: Editor of The Rotten Elements blog Lawrence Parker has selfpublished a new pamphlet The Kick Inside: Revolutionary Opposition in the CPGB, 1960- 1991 which attempts to document the various ‘revolutionary’ factions, schisms and breakaways which emerged from within the British Communist Party within those four decades. £4.00 (plus £1.15 UK p&p), pp75. Order details from: vorzeida@yahoo.co.uk 2
Contents ANNOUNCEMENT New journal: Twentieth Century Communism: a journal of international history . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Twentieth Century Communism subscription form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 SEMINAR REPORT ‘Syndicalism and Revolutionary Communist Trade Unionism in Wales and the Wider World’, Norry La Porte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 THESIS REPORTS The Communist Party of Great Britain and Anti-Racist Politics, 1948-1981, Evan Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Something Wicked This Way Comes: the Russian delegation at the 1931 congress, CAJ Chilvers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 RESEARCH NOTE Regional Membership Figures for the Communist Party of Great Britain, from 1945 to 1989, Harold Carter and Gabriel Silkstone-Carter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 FEATURES Monty Johnstone, (1928-2007), Francis King . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 An interview with Monty Johnstone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Ruth Frow, (1922-2008), Nick Mansfield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Interviews with Ruth Frow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Grassic Gibbon’s Internationale, John Manson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 REVIEWS Gidon Cohen, The Failure of a Dream. The Independent Labour Party from Disaffiliation to World War II, reviewed by Ian Bullock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Allison Drew, Between Empire and the Revolution. A Life of Sidney Bunting, 1873-1936, reviewed by Irina Filatova . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Jim Riordan: The Last British Comrade Trained in Moscow: The Higher Party School, 1961–1963, reviewed by Joni Krekola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 3
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