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Fenner Brockway

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Archibald Fenner Brockway, Baron Brockway (1 November 1888 – 28 April 1988), was a British anti-war activist and politician. [1]

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Ada Salter

Ada Salter, née Brown (20 July 1866 – 4 December 1942) was an English social reformer, environmentalist, pacifist and Quaker, President of the Women's Labour League and President of the National Gardens Guild.

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Ahmadiyya in the Gambia

Ahmadiyya is a religion in The Gambia under the spiritual leadership of the caliph in London.

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Alfred Salter

Alfred Salter (16 June 1873 – 24 August 1945) was a British medical practitioner and Labour Party politician.

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Anil Moonesinghe

Anil Moonesinghe (15 February 1927 – 8 December 2002) was a Sri Lankan Trotskyist revolutionary politician and trade unionist.

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Anti-nuclear movement

The anti-nuclear movement is a social movement that opposes various nuclear technologies.

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Anti-nuclear organizations

Anti-nuclear organizations may oppose uranium mining, nuclear power, and/or nuclear weapons.

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Anti-Stalinist left

The anti-Stalinist left comprises various kinds of left-wing politics critical of Joseph Stalin, of Stalinism as a political philosophy, and of the actual system of governance Stalin implemented as dictator of the Soviet Union.

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Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede

Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede (16 February 1871 – 23 March 1946), was a British politician, writer, and social activist.

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Asian Music Circle

The Asian Music Circle (sometimes abbreviated to AMC) was an organisation founded in London, England, in 1946, that promoted Indian and other Asian styles of music, dance and culture in the West.

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Baruch Hirson

Baruch Hirson (10 December 1921 – 3 October 1999) was a South African political activist and historian.

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Benn Levy

Benn Wolfe Levy (7 March 1900 – 7 December 1973) was a Labour Party Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and a successful playwright.

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Bessie Braddock

Elizabeth Margaret Braddock (née Bamber; 24 September 1899 – 13 November 1970) was a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Liverpool Exchange division from 1945 to 1970.

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Bristol Bus Boycott

The Bristol Bus Boycott of 1963 arose from the refusal of the Bristol Omnibus Company to employ black or Asian bus crews in the city of Bristol, England.

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British Council for Peace in Vietnam

The British Council for Peace in Vietnam was formed in April 1965 and later became the British Campaign for Peace in Vietnam.

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Brockway

Brockway may refer to.

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C. L. R. James

Cyril Lionel Robert James (4 January 1901 – 31 May 1989), who sometimes wrote under the pen-name J. R. Johnson, was an Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist.

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Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) is an organisation that advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament by the United Kingdom, international nuclear disarmament and tighter international arms regulation through agreements such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

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Cardiff East (UK Parliament constituency)

Cardiff East was a parliamentary constituency in Cardiff which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until it was abolished for the 1950 general election.

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Cardiff East by-election, 1942

The Cardiff East by-election, 1942 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Cardiff East on 13 April 1942.

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Clement Bundock

Clement James Bundock (20 January 1892 – 8 August 1961) was a British trade union leader, newspaper editor and political activist.

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Communist Party of Great Britain

The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was a British communist party which was the largest communist party in Great Britain, although it never became a mass party like those in France and Italy.

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Constituency election results in the United Kingdom general election, 1929

This is a complete alphabetical list of constituency election results to the 35th Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1929 general election, held on 30 May 1929.

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Conway Hall Ethical Society

The Conway Hall Ethical Society, formerly the South Place Ethical Society, based in London at Conway Hall, is thought to be the oldest surviving freethought organisation in the world and is the only remaining ethical society in the United Kingdom.

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Democratic socialism

Democratic socialism is a political philosophy that advocates political democracy alongside social ownership of the means of production with an emphasis on self-management and/or democratic management of economic institutions within a market socialist, participatory or decentralized planned economy.

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Dora Fabian

Dora Fabian (1901–1935) was a German socialist and anti-Nazi activist.

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Dyce Work Camp

Dyce Work Camp was set up in August 1916 at quarries north-west of Aberdeen, Scotland, to accommodate conscientious objectors who had been in prison for refusing military service in World War I. These men, mostly from England, had been released on condition that they performed "work of national importance" – breaking up granite rock to produce stone for road building.

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Eltham College

Eltham College is an independent school situated in Mottingham in south-east London.

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English-language press of the Communist Party USA

During the nine decades since its establishment in 1919, the Communist Party USA produced or inspired a vast array of newspapers and magazines in the English language.

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Ernst Oswald Johannes Westphal

Ernst Oswald Johannes Gotthard Gotthilf Westphal (1919-1990), was a South African linguist and a world expert in Bantu and Khoisan languages.

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Eton and Slough (UK Parliament constituency)

Eton and Slough was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Frank Ridley

Francis Ambrose Ridley, usually known as Frank Ridley (22 February 1897 – 27 March 1994) was a Marxist and secularist of the United Kingdom.

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Frank Wise (British politician)

Edward Frank Wise CB (3 July 1885 – 5 November 1933) was a British economist, civil servant and politician.

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Fred Barton (politician)

Fred Barton (1917–17 December 1963) was a British socialist politician.

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Frederic Mullally

Frederic Mullally (25 February 1918 – 7 September 2014) was a British journalist, public relations executive, and novelist.

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Freedom Defence Committee

The Freedom Defence Committee was a UK-based organisation set up on 3 March 1945 to "uphold the essential liberty of individuals and organisations, and to defend those who are persecuted for exercising their rights to freedom of speech, writing and action."Orwell, Sonia and Angus, Ian (eds.). The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell Volume 4: In Front of Your Nose (1945-1950) (Penguin) Chaired by Herbert Read, with Fenner Brockway and Patrick Figgis as vice-chairmen, the Committee's secretary was Ethel Mannin.

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Friday Night, Saturday Morning

Friday Night, Saturday Morning was a television chat show with a revolving guest host.

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George Orwell bibliography

The bibliography of George Orwell includes journalism, essays, novels and non-fiction books written by the British writer Eric Blair (1903–50), either under his own name or, more usually, under his pen name George Orwell.

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George Stone (politician)

George Stone (1907–2001) was a British socialist journalist.

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Guy Clutton-Brock

Arthur Guy Clutton-Brock (5 April 1906 – 29 January 1995), generally known as Guy Clutton-Brock, was an English social worker who became a Zimbabwean nationalist and co-founder of Cold Comfort Farm.

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H. N. Brailsford

Henry Noel Brailsford (25 December 1873 – 23 March 1958) was the most prolific British left-wing journalist of the first half of the 20th century.

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Hilda Selwyn-Clarke

Hilda Alice Selwyn-Clarke (1899 – 1967) was a British socialist activist.

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HM Prison Liverpool

HM Prison Liverpool (formerly Walton Gaol) is a category B/C local men's prison in Walton, Liverpool, England.

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Homage to Catalonia

Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War.

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Hull University Labour Club

Hull University Labour Club (HULC) is a Hull University Union society for University of Hull students who support the Labour Party.

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Ian Walters

Ian Homer Walters (9 April 1930 – 6 August 2006) was an English sculptor.

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Ignatius K. Musaazi

Ignatius Kangave Musaazi (1905–1990) formed the first political party in Uganda, namely the Uganda National Congress (UNC) party on Sunday 2 March 1952.

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ILP Contingent

The British Independent Labour Party sent a small contingent to fight in the Spanish Civil War.

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Independent Labour Party

The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a British political party of the left, established in 1893, when the Liberals appeared reluctant to endorse working-class candidates, representing the interests of the majority.

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Index of Malawi-related articles

This page list topics related to Malawi.

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International Revolutionary Marxist Centre

The International Revolutionary Marxist Centre was an international association of left-socialist parties.

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James Grigg

Sir Percy James Grigg, KCB, KCSI, PC (16 December 1890 – 5 May 1964), better known as Sir James Grigg, was a British civil servant who was unexpectedly moved, at the behest of then-Prime Minister Winston Churchill, from being the Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the War Office to become Secretary of State for War, the political head of the same department during the Second World War.

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James Hanratty

James Hanratty (4 October 1936 – 4 April 1962), also known as the A6 Murderer, was a British criminal who was one of the final eight people in the UK to be executed before capital punishment was effectively abolished.

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James Maxton

James Maxton (22 June 1885 – 23 July 1946) was a Scottish left-wing politician, and leader of the far-left faction of the Independent Labour Party.

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Jeanne Hoban

Jeanne Hoban (3 August 1924 in Gillingham, Kent – 18 April 1997 in Sri Lanka), known after her marriage as Jeanne Moonesinghe, was a British Trotskyist who became active in trade unionism and politics in Sri Lanka.

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John Beckett (politician)

John Warburton Beckett (11 October 1894 – 28 December 1964) was a leading figure in British politics between the world wars, both in the Labour Party and in fascist movements.

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John Langdon-Davies

John Eric Langdon-Davies (18 March 1897 – 5 December 1971) was a British author and journalist.

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John McNair (British politician)

John McNair (October 1887–18 February 1968) was a British socialist politician.

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John Paton (British politician)

John Paton (8 August 1886 – 14 December 1976) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom, and a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 to 1964.

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Jomo Kenyatta

Jomo Kenyatta (– 22 August 1978) was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964 and then as its first President from 1964 to his death in 1978.

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José Brocca

José Brocca (Professor José Brocca Ramón), 1891–1950, was a pacifist and humanitarian of the Spanish Civil War, who allied himself with the Republicans but sought nonviolent ways of resisting the Nationalist rebels.

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July 1930

The following events occurred in July 1930.

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Katharine Glasier

Katharine Glasier (25 September 1867 – 14 June 1950) was an English socialist politician, journalist and novelist.

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Labour and Socialist International

The Labour and Socialist International (LSI; German: Sozialistische Arbeiter-Internationale, SAI) was an international organization of socialist and labour parties, active between 1923 and 1940.

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Labour Leader

The Labour Leader was a British socialist newspaper published for almost one hundred years.

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Lancaster (UK Parliament constituency)

Lancaster was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1867, centred on the historic city of Lancaster in north-west England.

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Lancaster by-election, 1941

The Lancaster by-election, 1941 was a parliamentary by-election for the British House of Commons constituency of Lancaster, Lancashire on 15 October 1941.

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League against Imperialism

The League against Imperialism (Ligue contre l'impérialisme et l'oppression coloniale; Liga gegen Kolonialgreuel und Unterdrückung) was a transnational anti-imperialist organization in the interwar period.

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Leyton East (UK Parliament constituency)

Leyton East was a parliamentary constituency in the Municipal Borough of Leyton, then part of Essex but now in Greater London.

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Lillian Mary Harris

Lillian Mary Harris, better known as Lillian Thring, was an English militant suffragette active in Australia and England from the early 20th century until a few years before her death in 1964.

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List of books with anti-war themes

Books with anti-war themes have explicit anti-war messages or have been described as having significant anti-war themes or sentiments.

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List of close election results

This is a list of close election results at national and state level.

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List of life peerages (1958–1979)

This is a list of life peerages in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created under the Life Peerages Act 1958 from the time the Act came into effect to 1979, grouped by prime minister.

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List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1929

This is a complete list of Members of Parliament elected to the 35th Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1929 general election, held on 30 May 1929.

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List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1950

These representative diagrams show the composition of the parties in the 1950 General Election.

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List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1951

These representative diagrams show the composition of the parties in the 1951 General Election.

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List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1955

These representative diagrams show the composition of the parties in the 1955 General Election.

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List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1959

These representative diagrams show the composition of the parties at the 1959 general election.

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List of Parliamentary constituencies in Buckinghamshire

The ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, which includes the unitary authority of Milton Keynes, is divided into 7 Parliamentary constituencies – 1 Borough constituency and 6 County constituencies.

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List of Parliamentary constituencies in Essex

The county of Essex (which includes the unitary authorities of Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock) is divided into 18 Parliamentary constituencies (sub-classified into six of borough type and twelve of county status affecting the level of expenses permitted and status of returning officer).

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List of peace activists

This list of peace activists includes people who have proactively advocated diplomatic, philosophical, and non-military resolution of major territorial or ideological disputes through nonviolent means and methods.

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List of people from Slough

This is a list of notable people who are current or former residents or associates of the town of Slough in the English county of Berkshire.

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List of public art in the London Borough of Camden

This is a list of public art in the London Borough of Camden.

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List of United Kingdom MPs: B

Following is an incomplete list of past and present Members of Parliament (MPs) of the United Kingdom whose surnames begin with B. The dates in parentheses are the periods for which they were MPs.

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List of vegetarians

This is a list of notable people who have adhered to a vegetarian diet at some point during their life.

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Margaret Hills

Margaret Hills (née Robertson 1882 – 1967) was a British teacher, suffragist organiser, feminist and socialist.

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Movement for Colonial Freedom

The Movement for Colonial Freedom was a political civil rights advocacy group founded in the United Kingdom in 1954.

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Nancy Cunard

Nancy Clara Cunard (10 March 1896 – 17 March 1965) was a writer, heiress and political activist.

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No More War Movement

The No More War Movement was the name of two pacifist organisations, one in the United Kingdom and one in New Zealand.

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No-Conscription Fellowship

The No-Conscription Fellowship was a British pacifist organization which was founded in London by Fenner Brockway and Clifford Allen on 27 November 1914, after the First World War had failed to reach an early conclusion.

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Norman Pannell

Norman Alfred Pannell, FCIS (17 April 1901 – 8 March 1976) was a British finance manager and politician who became a Liverpool Conservative Party Member of Parliament.

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Norwich (UK Parliament constituency)

Norwich was a borough constituency which was represented in the House of Commons of England from 1298 to 1707, in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 until it was abolished for the 1950 general election.

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Operation Coldstore

Operation Coldstore, sometimes spelled Operation Cold Store, was the code name for a covert security operation carried out in Singapore on 2 February 1963 which led to the arrest of over 100 people, who were detained without trial under the Preservation of Public Service Security Ordinance (PSSO).

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Patricia Angadi

Patricia Clare Angadi (née Fell-Clark, 23 September 1914 – 26 June 2001) was a British portrait painter and novelist, perhaps best remembered for introducing the Beatles to Ravi Shankar.

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Peace News

Peace News (PN) is a pacifist magazine first published on 6 June 1936 to serve the peace movement in the United Kingdom.

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Philip Noel-Baker

Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, (1 November 1889 – 8 October 1982), born Philip John Baker, was a British politician, diplomat, academic, outstanding amateur athlete, and renowned campaigner for disarmament.

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Prime Minister's Questions

Prime Minister's Questions (often abbreviated to PMQs and officially known as Questions to the Prime Minister) is a constitutional convention in the United Kingdom, currently held as a single session every Wednesday at noon when the House of Commons is sitting, during which the Prime Minister spends around half an hour answering questions from Members of Parliament (MPs).

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Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom

This article about records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom and of England includes a variety of lists of MPs by age, period and other circumstances of service, familiar sets, ethnic or religious minorities, physical attributes, and circumstances of their deaths.

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Red Lion Square

Red Lion Square is a small square in Holborn, London.

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Republicanism in the United Kingdom

Republicanism in the United Kingdom is the political movement that seeks to replace the United Kingdom's monarchy with a republic.

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Rhodesian mission in Lisbon

The Rhodesian mission in Lisbon (Missão da Rodésia em Lisboa), the capital of Portugal, operated from September 1965 to May 1975.

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Right Opposition

The Right Opposition (Pravaya oppozitsiya) was the name given to the tendency made up of Nikolai Bukharin, Alexei Rykov, Mikhail Tomsky and their supporters within the Soviet Union in the late 1920s.

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Robin Brockway

Robin Brockway (born 17 April 1981 in Shrewsbury) is a British actor.

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Shiv Dayal Batish

Shiv Dayal Batish (better known as S.D. Batish; 14 December 1914 – 29 July 2006) was an Indian singer and music director born in Patiala, India to a Brahmin family.

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Sinclair Charles Wood

Sinclair Charles Wood OBE (c. 1897 – 26 July 1984), was a British Advertising Director and a Liberal Party politician.

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Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet

Sir Anthony John Charles Meyer, 3rd Baronet (27 October 1920 – 24 December 2004) was a British soldier, diplomat, and Conservative and later Liberal Democrat politician, best known for standing against Margaret Thatcher for the party leadership in 1989.

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Sir Frederick Mills, 1st Baronet

Sir Frederick Mills, 1st Baronet, DL (23 April 1865–22 December 1953) was a British iron and steel manufacturer and Conservative Party politician.

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Slough (UK Parliament constituency)

Slough is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Tan Dhesi, a member of the Labour Party, since the 2017 UK general election.

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Socialist League (UK, 1932)

The Socialist League was an organisation inside the British Labour Party, which brought together about 3,000 intellectuals who wanted to push the Labour Party outside the National Government (1931-1940) to the left.

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Socialist Party of Great Britain debates

Debates between the Socialist Party of Great Britain and other groups were of particular importance in bringing the party case to an outside audience without the sometimes off-putting rhetoric of platform speaking, or the one-sidedness of educational talks.

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Spilling the Spanish Beans

Spilling the Spanish Beans is an article, in two parts, by George Orwell, that first appeared in the New English Weekly of 29 July and 2 September 1937.

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Stephen Hobhouse

Stephen Henry Hobhouse (5 August 1881 – 2 April 1961) was a prominent English peace activist, prison reformer, and religious writer.

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Sybil Morrison

Sybil Morrison (2 January 1893 – 26 April 1984) was a British pacifist and a suffragist as well as being active with several other radical causes.

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T. D. Benson

Thomas Duckworth Benson (1857–1926), known as T. D. Benson, was a British socialist activist.

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Tony Gilbert (activist)

David "Tony" Gilbert (1914–1992), known to his contemporaries as "Tony," was a British political activist.

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Unendorsed Labour candidates, 1931

At the British general election of 1931, 25 candidates closely connected to the Labour Party stood for election without the party's official endorsement, primarily as a result of disagreements over changes in the party's rules introduced shortly before the election.

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United Kingdom general election records

United Kingdom general election records is an annotated list of notable records from United Kingdom general elections.

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United Kingdom general election, 1931

The 1931 United Kingdom general election was held on Tuesday 27 October 1931 and saw a landslide election victory for the National Government which had been formed two months previously after the collapse of the second Labour government.

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United Kingdom general election, 1964

The 1964 United Kingdom general election was held on 15 October 1964, five years after the previous election, and thirteen years after the Conservative Party, first led by Winston Churchill, had entered power.

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Upton (UK Parliament constituency)

Upton (strictly the Upton Division of West Ham) was a parliamentary constituency in the Borough of West Ham in the South-West of Essex (now East London), which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.

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Upton by-election, 1934

The West Ham Upton by-election of 1934 was held on 14 May 1934.

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Vera Wentworth

Vera Wentworth born Jessie Alice Spink (1890 – 1957) was a British suffragette.

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War Resisters League Peace Award

Since 1958, the "War Resisters League", the pacifist group founded in 1923, has awarded almost annually its War Resisters League Peace Award to a person or organization whose work represents the League's radical nonviolent program of Gandhian action.

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War Resisters' International

War Resisters' International (WRI) is an international anti-war organization with members and affiliates in over thirty countries.

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Westminster Abbey (UK Parliament constituency)

Westminster Abbey was a constituency in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Westminster Abbey by-election, 1924

The Westminster Abbey by-election, 1924 was a parliamentary by-election held on 19 March 1924 for the British House of Commons constituency of Westminster Abbey in London.

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White feather

A white feather has been a traditional symbol of cowardice, used and recognised especially within the British Army and in countries of the British Empire since the 18th century, especially by patriotic groups, including some early feminists, in order to shame men who were not soldiers.

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William Anderson (British politician)

William Crawford Anderson (1877 – 25 February 1919) was a British socialist politician.

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World Revolution (book)

World Revolution, 1917–1936: The Rise and Fall of the Communist International was written by the black Trinidadian Marxist C. L. R. James and published in 1937 by Secker and Warburg.

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Archibald Fenner Brockway, Archibald Fenner Brockway, Baron Brockway, Baron Brockway, Brockway, Fenner, Fenner Brockway, Baron Brockway, Lord Fenner Brockway.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenner_Brockway

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