Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Anil Moonesinghe, Ted Grant, Tony Cliff, Jeanne Hoban, Jock Haston, Denzil Dean Harber, Gerry Healy, T. Dan Smith, John Lawrence, Duncan Hallas, Maurice Brinton, Syd Bidwell, Betty Hamilton, Stan Newens, Bill Hunter, Mildred Gordon, Sam Bornstein, Charlie Van Gelderen. Excerpt: The Honourable Anil Moonesinghe Anil Moonesinghe (15 February 1927 8 December 2002) was a Sri Lankan Trotskyist revolutionary politician and trade unionist . He became a Member of Parliament, a Cabinet Minister, the Deputy Speaker of Parliament and a Diplomat . He authored several books and edited newspapers and magazines. He was Chairperson and General Manager of a State corporation. He briefly held the honorary rank of Colonel . Background and Education Moonesinghe was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka (then called Ceylon ), on 15 February 1927. A member of the family of Anagarika Dharmapala (who named him 'Anil Kumar'), he was brought up with Buddhist and Sinhalese nationalist values, as well as an abhorrence of the colonial power, Britain . He went to school at Royal College, Colombo, an elite institution which produced many radicals as well as civil servants and bourgeois politicians, where he won his colours in athletics . During the Second World War he organised a brigade of boys to aid the Japanese if they landed on the island and earned himself the nickname 'Rommel ' at school. Later he became influenced by communism (he wrote in praise of the Red Air Force ) and specifically by Trotskyism. He went on to University College, Ceylon (which later became University of Ceylon ), where he excelled in athletics, representing his University at the All India Universities Athletic Meet, which was held regularly in those years, in Lahore in 1944. He won an exhibition to the University of London and went to Br...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 1944) Members: Anil Moonesinghe, Ted Grant, Tony Cliff, Jeanne Hoban, Jock Haston, Denzil Dean Harber. To get started finding Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 1944) Members: Anil Moonesinghe, Ted Grant, Tony Cliff, Jeanne Hoban, Jock Haston, Denzil Dean Harber, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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82
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Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1155486676
Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 1944) Members: Anil Moonesinghe, Ted Grant, Tony Cliff, Jeanne Hoban, Jock Haston, Denzil Dean Harber
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Anil Moonesinghe, Ted Grant, Tony Cliff, Jeanne Hoban, Jock Haston, Denzil Dean Harber, Gerry Healy, T. Dan Smith, John Lawrence, Duncan Hallas, Maurice Brinton, Syd Bidwell, Betty Hamilton, Stan Newens, Bill Hunter, Mildred Gordon, Sam Bornstein, Charlie Van Gelderen. Excerpt: The Honourable Anil Moonesinghe Anil Moonesinghe (15 February 1927 8 December 2002) was a Sri Lankan Trotskyist revolutionary politician and trade unionist . He became a Member of Parliament, a Cabinet Minister, the Deputy Speaker of Parliament and a Diplomat . He authored several books and edited newspapers and magazines. He was Chairperson and General Manager of a State corporation. He briefly held the honorary rank of Colonel . Background and Education Moonesinghe was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka (then called Ceylon ), on 15 February 1927. A member of the family of Anagarika Dharmapala (who named him 'Anil Kumar'), he was brought up with Buddhist and Sinhalese nationalist values, as well as an abhorrence of the colonial power, Britain . He went to school at Royal College, Colombo, an elite institution which produced many radicals as well as civil servants and bourgeois politicians, where he won his colours in athletics . During the Second World War he organised a brigade of boys to aid the Japanese if they landed on the island and earned himself the nickname 'Rommel ' at school. Later he became influenced by communism (he wrote in praise of the Red Air Force ) and specifically by Trotskyism. He went on to University College, Ceylon (which later became University of Ceylon ), where he excelled in athletics, representing his University at the All India Universities Athletic Meet, which was held regularly in those years, in Lahore in 1944. He won an exhibition to the University of London and went to Br...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 1944) Members: Anil Moonesinghe, Ted Grant, Tony Cliff, Jeanne Hoban, Jock Haston, Denzil Dean Harber. To get started finding Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 1944) Members: Anil Moonesinghe, Ted Grant, Tony Cliff, Jeanne Hoban, Jock Haston, Denzil Dean Harber, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.