Harry Pollitt

Harry Pollitt 1890 1960 was a leading British communist trade unionist and anticolonial revolutionary most famous for serving as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain CPGB Pollitt spent most of his life advocating communism and was particularly inspired by the political beliefs of both Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin Pollitt was a lifelong opponent of both fascism and British colonialism using his position as a communist leader to organise CPGB activists to secretly smuggle funding to both communist resistance in Nazi Germany and Indian communists resisting British colonialism Description above from the Wikipedia article Harry Pollitt licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia