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Bert Pearce (Welsh Communist Party) Papers
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Bert Pearce (Welsh Communist Party) Papers

  • GB 0210 PEARCE
  • Fonds
  • 1884-2002 (mainly 1940-1990) (accumulated [1950]-2002, mainly 1960-1984)

The fonds comprises papers accumulated by Bert Pearce including the minutes and papers of the Communist Party Great Britain, 1921-1998, Communist Party Wales, 1884-2002, and the Democratic Left, 1978-1999. Also included are papers relating to elections, devolution in Wales and Scotland, industry, miners strikes, anti-apartheid, international affairs, peace movement, Peoples March for Jobs, and the poll tax campaign. The accumulated papers reflect Bert Pearce's life work for the Communist Party in Birmingham and Wales, as well as the active part he played in the campaigns listed above. The archive does not contain personal material.

Pearce, Bert

CPGB Congress

The group contains papers relating to the Communist Party of Great Britain Congress, nos. 27-43, 1961-1991, including printed congress reports, resolutions and amendments, speeches, notes by Bert Pearce and related documents. The amount of material available varies from one congress to another.

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Publications

The group contains publications and material relating to publications, including CPGB pamphlets, magazines and accumulated publications, 1921-1998, drafts of the British Road to Socialism 1958-1989, papers relating to the People's Press Printing Society, 1978-1984, and to the Marxism Today editorial board, 1978-1990.

Communist Party Wales pamphlets

The file includes pamphlets published by the Communist Party Wales and the Communist Party Great Britain, pamphlets relating to Wales and pamphlets by Harry Pollitt, John Gollan, Bert Ramelson, William Gallacher and T. E. Nicholas.

Pollitt, Harry

Pamphlets

The file comprises accumulated publications, including a copy of Lenin (V. I. Ulyanov), Ogiz State Publishing House of Political Literature, 1939, and Idris Cox, Y Maniffesto Comiwnyddol, 1948, with various pamphlets relating to the NUM and the South Wales Miners, trade unions, and Communism.

Lenin, Vladimir IlĂ­ch, 1870-1924

Research

The file comprises earlier editions of The British Road to Socialism (1958 and 1978), a draft version (1967), and articles and newspaper cuttings relating to politics.

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