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COMMUNISTS from four branches of the Communist Party of Britain (CPB) in north-west England gathered in the home town of Harry Pollitt, the party’s general secretary from 1929 to 1939 and from 1941 until 1956 and chair until his death in 1960, to commemorate his eventful life — a life which included imprisonment for alleged conspiracy to publish seditious libels and incite mutiny.
Members of Manchester, East Lancashire, Merseyside and Preston branches of the CPB, along with representatives of the International Brigades Memorial Trust and the Young Communist League, gathered in Droylsden, where Pollitt was born.
Pollitt was born on November 22 1890, and died on June 27 1960, aged 69.
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