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Comrade Sak
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THIS is a very readable account of the life of Shapurji Saklatvala — Sak — who was first a Labour and then a Communist MP for Battersea North in south-west London during the 1920s.
In Comrade Sak, author Marc Wadsworth traces his rise to national prominence during the first world war through the Independent Labour Party and his later adherence to the newly formed Communist Party of Great Britain.
Wadsworth doesn't dwell on Saklatvala’s lifelong committent to the Communist Party although, as he rightly states, he was offered and resisted all kinds of inducements to leave it, including the possibility of a high position in the Labour party. Yet he resisted all these enticements.
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