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	Harry Pollitt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		From 1924 to 1929 Pollitt was General Secretary of the National Minority Movement, a Communist-led united front within the trade unions.
		Pollitt was always loyal to the Soviet Union and to its ruler from 1929, Joseph Stalin, although he sometimes made private protests to the Soviets about some of their actions, particularly during the Great Purge of the 1930s.
		A plaque dedicated to the memory of Pollitt was unvelied by the Mayor of Tameside on the twenty-second of March 1995 outside Droylsden Library.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harry_Pollitt (453 words)

	Harry Pollitt
		Harry Pollitt became the Locomotive Superintendent of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MSandLR) in 1893, and continued many of the designs of his predecessor Parker.
		Pollitt resigned in 1900, and married an Australian lady at Marylebone Church.
		Pollitt's father, Sir William Pollitt was the General Manager of the MSandLR / GCR from 1886 to 1903.
	www.lner.info /eng/pollitt.shtml (115 words)

	Harry Pollitt - Blue Plaque
		Harry was one of six children, three of whom died in infancy.
		Aged 21 Harry was secretary of the Openshaw Socialist Society (OSS) and wrote a leaflet, 'Socialism or Socialist Reform' which showed his championing of Marxist doctrine that socialism requires capitalism to be ended, not merely improved, and to that end it needs a political and social revolution.
		Harry Pollitt was not amongst these and, in view of his difference of opinion, ceased to be General Secretary.
	www.tameside.gov.uk /leisure/new/bp_19.htm (1391 words)

	Joe Gormley, Harry Pollitt, Riobert Duckenfield, Joseph Raynor Stephens and other Manchester Politicians and Social ...
		Harry Pollitt was born on 22nd November 1890 and spent all of his formative years in Droylsden.
		In 1920 Pollitt was a cofounder of the British Communist Party and was to become its leader from 1929 to 1956.
		Pollitt was a dynamic orator and outspoken public speaker - he was arrested and served a prison sentence for seditious libel in 1925 and was actually deported from Belfast in 1933.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /celebs/politicians9.html (2749 words)

	CPGB Revisionism Part 1.
		Harry Pollitt remarks that there was a feeling among workers that trade union rights should be defended in order not to let the soldiers down when they returned from the War.
		Harry Pollitt puts this down to sectarianism and trying to relive the time just after the October Revolution when direct revolutionary agitation in defence of the Soviet Union was the order of the day.
		Harry Pollitt was elected General Secretary and he held this position until being elected General Secretary of the CPGB in 1929.
	www.oneparty.co.uk /html/wilfcpgb.html (11345 words)

	CPGB Revisionism Part 2.
		Harry Pollitt was forced to recognize that the united front policy proposed by Dimitrov was a tactic.However, in practice, the Party policy has always made the development of the CPGB conditional on the CPGB's relationship with social-democracy.
		Harry Pollitt in his report to the 15th Congress opened with an attack on the Chamberlain Government, saying that it was `betraying the national interest of the British people'.
		Pollitt's answer to this situation was not one of encouraging these working class political interests and democratic aspirations in a war against fascism.
	www.oneparty.co.uk /html/wilfcpgb2.html (11065 words)

	Communist Party of Britain - for peace and socialism
		HARRY POLLITT was one of the most popular as well as one of the greatest leaders the British working class has ever produced.
		Pollitt and others were sentenced to twelve months enough to keep them locked up during the period of the General Strike which took place in 1926.
		Harry Pollitt was a human, loveable man, with a great sense of humour and a seemingly endless store of stories having not only some important political point but also their highly amusing side.
	www.communist-party.org.uk /index.php?file=history&his=HarryPollitt.txt (1767 words)

	Harry Wicks, the Meerut Trial and India
		When Harry left Bradford in 1931, the CP had the utmost difficulty in contacting India where the Meerut trial (4) was taking place.
		Harry Pollitt and George Aitken (5) took the decision to try to send out someone in the army garrisoning India.
		Harry was bothered because he had persuaded Jordan to come with him against the wishes of the boy's Catholic mother and, though in the YCL, he was not all that political.
	www.cix.co.uk /~jplant/revhist/supplem/wicksind.htm (2412 words)

	Tameside Advertiser - The 1950s
		Harry was born in Wharf Street in 1890 and joined the local Benson’s weaving mill in 1902.
		Harry became general secretary of the British Communist Party in 1929 and succeeded in attracting many new followers – membership reached the heights of 17,756 in 1939 – although he was considerably less successful in his repeated attempts to become an MP.
		Harry was also producing cartoons at this time for newspapers such as the Manchester Evening News before moving to Cornwall, and then onto London where he taught and also became involved in designing film sets for director Alexander Korda.
	www.tamesideadvertiser.co.uk /nostalgia/s/83/83453_the_1950s.html (1272 words)

	Stalin's British victims
		The most poignant story that Beckett tells is of Rose Cohen, co-founder of the CPGB and admired by the party leader, Harry Pollitt, who went to live in Moscow with her Russian husband in the late 1920s.
		So Pollitt and his fellow party leaders knew that old comrades were being despatched by Stalin, and thought some of them innocent enough to want to try and save them.
		In March 1938, three months after Rose received a bullet in the base of her skull, Pollitt declared in the Daily Worker that these trials of "political and moral degenerates" were a "mighty demonstration to the world of the power and strength of the Soviet Union".
	bussorah.tripod.com /stalbrit.html (1628 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Extracts \| Rose between thorns
		In 1926, the year of the general strike, Pollitt had already been identified by the Comintern as the man on whom the future of communism in Britain was going to depend.
		Pollitt wrote to the general secretary of the Comintern, Georgi Dimitrov, of his "very warm personal friendship" with Petrovsky and his confidence in his unwavering loyalty to Stalin and the international communist movement.
		Comintern officials started to suggest to other leading British communists that Pollitt was not as reliable as he ought to be, and they should think about replacing him.
	books.guardian.co.uk /extracts/story/0,6761,1246069,00.html (2062 words)

	Books \| The end of the affair
		It was 1929, the year Harry Pollitt, general secretary of the Communist party, contested a parliamentary byelection in Mick's backyard of Stepney, London.
		They were both at that election rally for Pollitt, he a curious neophyte, she a seasoned militant.
		Pollitt was now shouting back from the lectern, but Dutt was bellowing just as loudly and gesticulating.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5126208-99939,00.html (2521 words)

	The Limeliters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Apologies to the Limeliters, who sang the ballad of Harry Pollitt in their 1961 Grammy-nominated album "The Slightly Fabulous Limeliters," which begins:
		Harry Pollitt was a worker, one of Lenin's lads.
		In fact, Harry Pollitt, a founder and leader of the Communist Party of Great Britain, was merely jailed for a year.
	www.math.gatech.edu /~harrell/limeliters.html (98 words)

	Socialist Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		She was a founder member of the CPGB, close to the party leadership - indeed Harry Pollitt proposed marriage to her a number of times - and a trusted Comintern agent.
		Instead of Pollitt, she married Max Petrovsky, the Comintern representative in Britain, and in 1927 returned to Moscow with him.
		Privately, Harry Pollitt made representations to the Soviet authorities first on Petrovsky's behalf and then on Rose Cohen's, but the only effect was to increase Comintern doubts regarding his own reliability.
	www.socialistreview.org.uk /article.php?articlenumber=9081 (988 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - Harry Pollitt and D-Day - A2824986
		Harry went over in a glider that time on D-Day, and he has taken us over to France and shown us where he crashed, miles from where he should have been.
		Major Howard met us in France after the war and they had a good chat together, and said many men were lost at a place called Escoville.
		I did not know for sure I was pregnant when Harry came home in 1945 and did not see him for the whole 9 months afterwards.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A2824986 (415 words)

	The Early Years of the Communist Party of Great Britain - 1922-1925
		Harry Pollitt, Palme Dutt and Harry Inkpin, brother of Albert Inkpin, were selected to serve on the Commission.
		Pollitt went on: "There have been difficulties, there always will be, and we shall overcome them as we go along.
		Pollitt, although erring towards "pragmatism", was attempting to transform the units of the party through the struggle to build their influence in the class itself.
	www.newyouth.com /archives/historicalanalysis/britainireland/early_years_cpgb.asp?format=print (7071 words)

	From the Red Flag to the Union Jack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Pollitt condemned the National Government for "betraying the interests of the British people, surrendering strategic positions to the fascist states, and lowering Britain’s prestige in the eyes of the peoples of the world".
		In the event, Pollitt, Campbell and the party’s sole member of parliament, Willie Gallacher, stuck to their guns, and voted against the new line, although for some reason Pollitt then asked for Gallacher’s "no" vote to be recorded as a "yes".
		Pollitt said in a television interview in April 1956: "In 1939 1 thought it an anti-fascist war.
	www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/Newint/Redflag.html (5329 words)

	CHNN, No 4, October 1997: Report on Sources
		HARRY POLLITT IN AUSTRALIA (1960) — silent footage (20 seconds) of Harry Pollitt talking to reporters on his arrival in Australia; the film was sent as a fraternal gift by Australian comrades.
		HARRY POLLITT IN CHINA (1955) — a sound reportage (9 mins.) of the visit of Harry Pollitt and Bob Stewart to China in April/May 1955; they visit Peking, Shanghai, meet Mao Zedong and join the May Day celebrations on Tiananmen Square; the commentary is spoken by Daily Worker correspondent Alan Winnington.
		HARRY POLLITT IN MANCHESTER (1959) — silent footage (3 mins.) of the arrival of Harry Pollitt in the (Free Trade?) hall in Manchester on Sunday 22 February 1959 where a meeting against the Tory policies is held, followed by footage of the meeting itself; shot by Lewis McLeod for the Soviet newsreel.
	les.man.ac.uk /chnn/CHNN04CPF.html (1824 words)

	50 YEARS AGO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		There is a more sinister aspect to the grotesque posturings of Harry Pollitt and the Communist Party.
		Not for the first time, Moscow might suddenly change policy, catching Harry Pollitt and his friends on the wrong foot, again not for the first time.
		Pollitt and his Party it might truly be said that they touch nothing they do not degrade.
	www.worldsocialism.org /spgb/jul03/50agojul.html (240 words)

	ON THE ORIGINS OF REVISIONISM IN THE CPGB
		When Harry Pollit returned to the position of General Secretary after the German attack on the Soviet Union is political stranglehold over the Party had been greatly strengthened.
		Harry Pollitt was not the man to give this kind of leadership.
		Here I am reminded of a reference made in, I think it was Harry Pollitt's 'Serving My Time', to the cut and thrust of struggle at the Comintern among the East European parties seeming extreme and alien to the British Party delegates.
	website.lineone.net /~ncmlp/html/wilfrev.html (6155 words)

	Roberts - Limits of popular radicalism
		The Political Bureau's decision to expel Springhall was unanimously endorsed by the Executive Committee on 15/8/43.
		Pollitt was asked by the PB in June 1944 to write the booklet.
		According to Hymie Fagan, the party's National Election agent in 1945, Pollitt lost Rhondda because of the soldier's vote.
	www.ucc.ie /chronicon/robnts.htm (2599 words)

	Rochdale Observer - Farmer's fury at sheep deaths
		Mr Pollitt looks over some of the sheep which were killed in the attack.
		Harry Pollitt, of White Slack Farm, Higher Ogden, has been a farmer for 40 years and said he had never seen such appalling injuries on animals.
		The area where they were found is a popular spot for ramblers and Rochdale police are appealing for anyone who may have seen the attack to telephone 0161 872 5050.
	www.rochdaleobserver.co.uk /news/s/30/30746_farmers_fury_at_sheep_deaths.html (497 words)

	Reg Groves: The Balham Group (Chap.1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The German question was one of several contentious issues raised, and there, in a conversation with Harry Pollitt, Stewart Purkis identified himself with Trotsky’s views.
		You have asked me how far I go with The Communist, I go with it all the way,’ [2] – that was to bring, a few weeks later, his and Bill Williams’ expulsion from the party.
		Nor did we suspect, then, that R. Palme Dutt’s defence of the book against labour and socialist critics was aimed also at the majority of the British Communist Party’s leaders who saw the party as a militant wing of the reformist labour movement, not as an independent alternative to it.
	www.marxists.org /history/etol/document/balham/bg02.htm (3415 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Touch sensitive
		Last month, Jano Williams was lying in bed listening to Home Truths when all of a sudden she heard the song, Harry was a Bolshie.
		This caused her a huge amount of excitement, because it was her mother who wrote it.
		The song, about Harry Pollitt, was written in 1935 when Elin Williams was an active communist.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/hometruths/20050627_bolshie.shtml (122 words)

	The Origins of British Trotskyism
		With the decline and isolation of the Party due to the ultra-left policies of the "Third Period", the members of the Balham Group came into opposition to the CP leadership on a series of questions.
		At a London aggregate in which the issue of Germany was raised, Stewart Purkis identified himself with Trotsky's views and was confronted by Party's General Secretary Harry Pollitt.
		The expelled comrades issued an appeal against their expulsions to delegates attending the British party congress in November, but were denounced by Pollitt, who urged delegates "to go away from this Congress full of contempt, hatred and loathing for the miserable gang of counter-revolutionaries."[16] It was the crossing of the Rubicon for these comrades.
	www.marxist.com /History/origins_of_british_trotskyism.html (2235 words)

	The Ballad Of Harry Pollitt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Harry Pollit was a worker, one of Lenin's lads
		I'm Harry Pollitt please, I'm Harry Pollitt please
		Well, the verdict it was guilty, Harry said "Ah, well" (note 1)
	www.whitegum.com /songfile/BALLADHP.HTM (429 words)

	David Turner's Home Page
		It shows the memorial plaque, at London's Golders Green Crematorium, of Harry Pollitt (General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1929-39 and 1941-56), along with adjacent plaques commemorating other leading British Communists (George Allison, John Gollan, Albert Inkpin and Arthur Horner).
		This is a tribute (by Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council) to Harry Pollitt, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1929-39 and 1941-56.
		These are webpages which give (unfortunately rather garbled) versions of the lyrics to Harry was a Bolshie, a song satirising Harry Pollitt, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1929-39 and 1941-56.
	www.canterbury.u-net.com /page10.html (539 words)

	amlibby
		What is difficult to grasp is why Pollitt should want to help the would-be lover of an anarchist.
		In real life Pollitt turned down George Orwell in 1936 when that socialist writer wanted to ‘get out there’.
		Hardheaded and Stalinist, Pollitt wasn’t interested in people’s girlfriends – he wanted the courageous International Brigades to succeed.
	www.arasite.org /amlibby.html (457 words)

	PAST ITS PEAK:
		From 1929, the chairman of the party was Harry Pollitt, an activist in the Boilermakers Union and a key figure in the 1919 strike which stopped the Jolly George, a ship bound for Poland with weapons to use against the Red Army in Russia.
		Harry Pollitt wrote an obsequious letter to the secretary of the Labour Party, Morgan Phillips, stressing the common position of the CP and Labour.
		Each of these dissidents was encouraged by the 'Australian letter': a message from the Australian CP accusing the British party of betraying the basic ideas of Marxism.
	pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk /isj77/renton.htm (4916 words)

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