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29: 217:. However, Wicks and the remnants of the former Marxist League soon left and formed the Socialist Anti-War Federation. In 1940, this group dissolved and he joined the Independent Labour Party. 427: 58: 407: 432: 372: 214: 321: 80: 116: 16:
This article is about the British socialist activist. For the American communist and Cominterm representative to Australia, see
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which later worked within the Labour Party. He also chaired the British Committee for the Defence of
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The Communist League split with the tendency opposed to joining the ILP continuing as the
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At the end of the Second World War, Wicks joined the Labour Party and became active in
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defending Trotsky's right to asylum and calling for an international inquiry into the
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International Trotskyism, 1929-1985: A Documented Analysis of the Movement
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Fighting Fascism: the British Left and the Rise of Fascism, 1919-39
96:(16 August 1905 – 26 March 1989) was a British socialist activist. 221: 22: 119:(CPGB). After studying with A. E. Reade, he came to support 378:
A veteran Trotskyist remembers: interviews with Harry Wicks
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In 1936, Wicks and several others signed a letter to the
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Not long before his death he wrote an autobiography,
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Keeping My Head: The Memoirs of a British Bolshevik
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Keeping My Head: The Memoirs of a British Bolshevik
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