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14, [2] pages.Paper wrapper age-toned and a little soiled, split at centre-fold and nearly detached. Pages age-toned and somewhat brittle with light stain to lower margins. A few short ink lines to margins to highlight text otherwise text clean. Previous ownership initials in pencil to front cover.
Sets out the general programme of the People's Convention.
The People's Convention was a conference that was proposed and promoted by the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1940–1941. Its advocates attempted to persuade Labour Party and trade union members that the then British government was solely for the rich, and was dominated by those who had adopted a policy of appeasement towards the Nazi regime
The Convention was the initiative of the Hammersmith Trades Council and Labour Party and Denis Nowell Pritt, Member of Parliament for North Hammersmith, who had both been expelled from the Labour Party in 1940. It was backed by leading members of the CPGB and many of the founder members were members of… Read More