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	Phil Piratin
		Philip Piratin was born in London on 15th May, 1907.
		Phil Piratin later wrote, "Tens of thousands of working class men and women had organized themselves for common struggle.
		Piratin's opposition to the Cold War and the
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUpiratin.htm (337 words)

	Phil Piratin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Philip Piratin (15 May 1907 – 10 December 1995), known as Phil Piratin, was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and one of their few Members of Parliament.
		Piratin was the son of a small local tradesman.
		Piratin was elected to represent Mile End, Stepney in the 1945 General Election.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phil_Piratin (278 words)

	Weekly Worker 656 - Thursday January 18 2007
		So Piratin is trying to rally the CPGB troops, to show them what is possible if you follow the Stepney example of effective community activism and give them a means by which to evade the ugly political clouds formed from the party’s defence of the indefensible in the shape of the Soviet Union.
		Piratin lost his parliamentary seat in 1950 (not helped by boundary changes), his share of the vote falling to 12.5%.
		Piratin himself became relatively disengaged from the party in the 1960s, preferring instead to concentrate on building up a number of successful businesses.
	www.cpgb.org.uk /worker/656/piratin.htm (1080 words)

	News \| Security Service release
		As the files reveal, Piratin was an incredibly active MP (366a) tabling hundreds of questions and championing thousands of constituency cases whilst also introducing the Safety of Employment Bill designed to make employers responsible for safety at work.
		In 1950 Piratin was declared bankrupt after losing a libel case, a development that prevented him seeking re-election.
		Piratin was never again a national political figure though he remained a committed communist working as circulation manager for the Daily Worker.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /releases/2005/highlights_sep/sep5/jewish.htm (424 words)

	Socialist Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Phil Piratin's famous victory in 1945 to become Communist Party MP for the Mile End constituency took place in an area where Jewish immigrants made up between 40 and 50 percent of the population.
		In fact Piratin's 1945 victory, and those of Communist Party (CP) candidates at local elections later that year, were the result of 15 years of campaigning on fundamentally working class issues.
		All the same, when Piratin, a young Jewish resident of Spitalfields, became a Communist a few years later he was struck by the CP's weakness and resolved to do something about it by finding issues that would allow the CP to relate to workers.
	www.socialistreview.org.uk /article.php?articlenumber=9767 (1399 words)

	News \| Security Service release
		As the files reveal, Piratin was an incredibly active MP (366a) tabling hundreds of questions and championing thousands of constituency cases whilst also introducing the Safety of Employment Bill designed to make employers responsible for safety at work.
		In 1950 Piratin was declared bankrupt after losing a libel case, a development that prevented him seeking re-election.
		Piratin was never again a national political figure though he remained a committed communist working as circulation manager for the Daily Worker.
	nationalarchives.gov.uk /releases/2005/highlights_sep/sep5/jewish.htm (432 words)

	Weekly Worker 657 - Thursday January 25 2007
		Piratin is desperate to provide himself with a history he doesn’t possess.
		Phil Piratin and other committee members strongly opposed Joe for wanting to fight the fascists on the streets, combined with conducting mass activity amongst unemployed workers.
		Phil Piratin and his side-kick, Greenblatt, were in fact both businessmen, not engaged in union work at all, but they supported King Street: Mosley’s march should not be opposed.
	www.cpgb.org.uk /worker/657/letters.htm (3461 words)

	Freeindiamedia.com, Express your impartial, radical, grassroot views on current issues. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Both had strong local bases, Gallacher in mining and Piratin in the community, where much work was done around housing and opposing attempts by Mosley's British Union of Fascists to grow.
		Even so, their peak performance of 102,780 votes nationally was when they targeted very specific seats in areas such as their industrial heartlands of South Wales at the 1945 election, when 22 CP candidates stood.
		In 1945, apart from the election of Gallacher and Piratin, CP leader Harry Pollitt got 45 percent of the vote in Rhondda East but was defeated by the Labour candidate.
	www.freeindiamedia.com /britain/04_apr_05_britain2.htm (1738 words)

	Socialist Unity
		Then it was Phil Piratin, Communist hero of the Jewish East End.
		Sixty years ago Piratin's victory came as the Labour Party was cementing its hegemony over the British working class.
		Piratin and Gallagher both built their success on years of solid campaigning in their communities, and in particular Phil Piratin had built his reputation fighting over housing issues.
	www.socialistunitynetwork.co.uk /voices/electionmeans.htm (1972 words)

	Tower Hamlets
		You can't expect them to know who Phil Piratin was, so for their benefit I'll enlighten them.
		Phil was a community campaigner in the area, and gained his reputation in the fight against Mosley and rachmanite private landlords, elected as an MP for Mile End in 1945, he lost his seat due to Boundary changes in 1950.
		Phil Piratin was elected to Stepney Council in 1937 - for the Spitalfields East ward.
	www.vote-2006.co.uk /index.php?topic=30.135 (1719 words)

	indymedia beirut \| With Respect’s victory ‘a new dawn has truly broken over the east \| 07.05.2005 16:44
		Not since 1945 has a party to the left of Labour in England won a seat in parliament.
		Then it was Phil Piratin, Communist hero of the Jewish East End.
		Sixty years ago Piratin’s victory came as the Labour Party was cementing its hegemony over the British working class.......
	beirut.indymedia.org /fr/2005/05/2643.shtml (228 words)

	Passenderweise Piraten Moderatorin .Phil Piratin - - info
		The Communist Phil Piratin was elected first to Stepney Borough Council in 1937, and then to Parliament in 1945.
		The CPGB had its own charismatic leaders within the London district, such as Phil Piratin, secretary of the Stepney branch who was later to be elected as a communist councillor in 1937 and Member of...
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	Our Flag Stays Red: Phil Piratin: LW books
		Its author was Communist MP for Stepney from 1945 to 1950, and played a leading role in the events described in the book — which are an important part of twentieth-century working-class history.
		Phil Piratin is standing behind Atlee, just to the right.
		Piratin and Gallacher arriving on the first day of the new parliament in 1945.
	www.lwbooks.co.uk /books/archive/our_flag.html (83 words)

	George Galloway v Phil Piratin
		Phil Piratin was the CPGB M.P for Mile End in the 1940's.
		George Galloway is a reality TV star, who lives in an expensive villa in Portugal.
		This would be a very embarrasing landslide for Piratin.
	uselectionatlas.org /FORUM/index.php?topic=46965.msg1018307 (223 words)

	CHNN, No 11, Autumn 2001: Features
		Working closely with Phil Piratin, later to become one of the two Communist MPs elected in the general election of 1945, he then put his professional knowledge to good use as the Secretary of the Stepney Tenants Defence League.
		Shapiro is conspicuous by his absence from Breakfast with Mao, but Winnington's gratuitous sneer that one of the "foreign friends who flocked to Chinaan East Londoner, was called 'holier than Mao' by a woman veteran of the International Brigade" [11] surely refers to him.
		Inevitably, Shapiro's once warm relations with the party at home in Britain were also affected, given that the great majority of British communists supported the CPSU (it is noteworthy though that Shapiro claimed that during his visit to China in 1960 Harry Pollitt endorsed the Chinese Party's views [13]).
	les1.man.ac.uk /chnn/CHNN11MSC.html (2395 words)

	Graham Stevenson: M to Q - Compendium of Communist Biography by surname
		Piratin was elected to Stepney borough council in 1937 and was chairman of the borough's Communist Party.
		Phil Piratin was elected as MP for the Mile End constituency, of which Stepney was the major part, in the 1945 General Election.
		Piratin was defeated when he stood for re-election in 1950 in the atmosphere of an increasingly beliggerent cold war.
	graham.thewebtailor.co.uk /archives/000088.html (21288 words)

	politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Saturday markets update, 3rd September 2005
		Piratin was closely involved in the Stepney rents strikes of the 1930’s and joined the Communist Party after attending the infamous Olympia rally addressed by Mosley.
		Ths picture went around the world and of course Piratin was identified, causing J Edgar Hoover to have kittens, as Truman would be shortly telling thenew Prime Minister about the plans to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
		Piratin lost his seat on the council and when Stepney became one parliamentary seat in 1950 came in third behind Labour and the Conservative.
	politicalbetting.com /index.php/archives/2005/09/03/saturday-markets-update-3rd-september-2005 (6059 words)

	icehousebooks (author: Piratin, Phil) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Phil Piratin was a key figure in the defence of East Londoners from Mosley`s fascists.
		PIRATIN, PHIL Our Flag Stays Red, Thames Publications, London, 1948.
		PIRATIN, PHIL Our Flag Stays Red, Thames, London, First, 1948.
	www.icehousebooks.co.uk /A_piratinphi.htm (184 words)

	Communist Party Phils -- Internet's Best Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A journalist and Russellian from Rochester, New York, Phil Ebersole, State unity would complement national plurality: a double emphasis which served to legitimate both the republican governments and the Communist Party.
		A journalist and Russellian from Rochester, New York, Phil Ebersole, Just the power to charmActually, the communist party in Iran, the Tudeh, was weak and had actually opposed Mossedegh as a puppet of the British.
		A journalist and Russellian from Rochester, New York, Phil Ebersole, Actually, the communist party in Iran, the Tudeh, was weak and had actually opposed Mossedegh as a puppet of the British.
	ethernetreader.info /communist-party-phils.html (4376 words)

	George Galloway v Phil Piratin
		Phil Piratin was the CPGB M.P for Mile End in the 1940's.
		George Galloway is a reality TV star, who lives in an expensive villa in Portugal.
		This would be a very embarrasing landslide for Piratin.
	www.uselectionatlas.org /FORUM/index.php?topic=46965.0 (164 words)

	Tours of Scotland, my native homeland.
		Gallacher was elected to represent East Fife in the 1945 General Election.
		In the House of Commons Gallacher associated with a group of left-wing members that included fellow Communist Party member, Phil Piratin, and John Platts-Mills, Konni Zilliacus, Lester Hutchinson, Ian Mikardo, Barbara Castle, Sydney Silverman, Geoffrey Bing, Emrys Hughes, D. Pritt, Leslie Solley and William Warbey.
		Gallacher's opposition to the Cold War and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) made him an unpopular figure in post-war England and he was defeated when he stood in the 1950 General Election.
	www.visitdunkeld.com /william-gallacher.htm (441 words)

	Crisis of Working Class Political Representation
		Galloway has proudly stated that this is the first time in 60 years that a left party has won a Parliamentary seat from Labour.
		The last time was when Phil Piratin won a seat in Stepney in 1945, only the second time in British history that the Communist Party had ever won a seat in the Commons.
		Experience has shown how extraordinarily difficult it is for a left group to break the electoral grip of the Labour Party – even in one or two seats, let alone everywhere.
	www.socialist.net /crisis-of-working-class-political-representation.htm (2421 words)

	Squadism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The criticism of militant anti-fascism's use of violence by more popular front oriented anti-fascists has precendents in the 1930s.
		Then, official Communist Party of Great Britain leaders (for example, Phil Piratin) used similar rhetoric against those such as Joe Jacobs, who advocated a more violent approach.
		In Italy, militant anti-fascists the Arditi del Popolo (people's squads) pursued a similar policy and was suppressed by the Communist Party of Italy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Squadism (233 words)

	The Battle of Cable Street
		The other tendency around Phil Piratin favoured more cautious "trade union work" in keeping with the Popular Front line.
		Phil Piratin went on to become MP for Stepney from 1945-50, although it was on a programme to the right of Labour.
		For example, Piratin; N. Branson, History of the Communist Party of Great Britain 1927-41, Lawrence and Wishart, 1985; N. Branson and M. Heinemann, Britain in the Nineteen Thirties, Panther, 1973.
	www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/History/Cable.html (3272 words)

	Communist Party of Britain - for peace and socialism
		One of the heroes of that period was the Chairman of Stepney Communist Party, Phil Piratin.
		He became a councillor and he was able to exert a lot of influence amongst the non-Jewish councillors as well.
		I was just one of a number of people who, as a result of what happened at Cable Street, felt that we had to do something to defeat fascism, to take up arms against it.
	www.communist-party.org.uk /index.php?file=history&his=cs_interviews_as.txt (981 words)

	Willie Gallacher's story, by William Gallacher, 1919
		In 1935 Gallacher was elected MP for West Fife after six years involvement in the miners' struggles.
		He continued to represent the constituency until 1951 and for a long time was the only communist MP in the House of Commons, until he was joined by Phil Piratin in 1945.
		Gallacher was chairman of the Communist Party until 1956, when he became president, a post which he held until 1963.
	sites.scran.ac.uk /redclyde/redclyde/rc128.htm (251 words)

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