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The untold story of CP’s impact and influence
Britain’s Communists: The Untold Story, by John Green (Artery Publications, £12.50)

I am not, and never have been, a communist but over the years I have worked closely with “the party.” 

In Aberdeen, in the 1970s, the local anarchist group and the Young Communist League often found that, unlikely as it might seem, they were natural political allies. 

I was particularly impressed that  the Communist Party kept important groups like CND alive during its quiet years and ran the tenants’ association in the roughest part of town.

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