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Help to mark the birthday of legendary communist and civil rights activist Claudia Jones this weekend
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Winston Pinder at Claudia Jones's grave
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IT ONCE was a forlorn mound of earth that lay next to Karl Marx’s tomb in London’s Highgate Cemetery, unmarked and unadorned.
Few people were aware that it contained the ashes of communist civil rights leader Claudia Jones who died prematurely in 1964 at the age of 49.
It was only as a result of the efforts of a group of community activists that a gravestone was finally erected 20 years later following a fundraising campaign.
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