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Doris Lessing
British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer, and short story writer (1919–2013)
Christopher Hitchens
English American author and journalist (1949–2011)
William Morris
British textile artist, author, and socialist (1834-1896)
Joe Strummer
British singer, musician and songwriter (1952–2002)
Sylvia Pankhurst
English feminist and socialist (1882–1960)
John Maynard Smith
British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1920-2004)
E. P. Thompson
British historian & peace activist (1924-1993)
Harold Laski
British academic (1893-1950)
Stephen Spender
English poet and man of letters (1909–1995)
Christopher Hill
British historian (1912–2003)
Robert Wyatt
English recording artist; musician, songwriter, singer (1945-)
Anthony Blunt
British art historian and Soviet spy (1907-1983)
Guy Burgess
British-born radio producer, intelligence and Foreign Office officer and double agent
Donald Maclean
British diplomat and spy (1913–1983)
Corin Redgrave
British actor (1939–2010)
Ewan MacColl
British folk singer, songwriter, communist, labour activist, actor, poet, playwright, and record producer (1915–1989)
Arthur Scargill
British trade unionist
Melita Norwood
British civil servant and spy for the Soviet Union (1912–2005)
Sylvia Townsend Warner
English writer, poet, activist (1893-1978)
Alan Bush
British composer, musician, and educator (1900-1995)
Harry Pollitt
British communist (1890–1960)
Joan Littlewood
British theatre director and actress (1914-2002)
Cornelius Cardew
English composer and improviser
Clare Frewen Sheridan
British artist (1885-1970)
Hewlett Johnson
English priest and Stalinist theorist (1874–1966)
Beatrix Campbell
English writer and activist
Benjamin Frankel
British composer
George Nathan
British International Brigade volunteer (1895–1937)
Dora Montefiore
suffragette, socialist, writer (1851–1933)
Albert Meltzer
English anarcho-communist (1920–1996)
Alexei Sayle
English comedian
Bob Crow
British trade union leader
John Cornford
British writer (1915–1936)
George Derwent Thomson
British classical scholar and philosopher (1903–1987)
Ash Sarkar
British journalist and writer
Joan Beauchamp
British communist
Rodney Hilton
British historian (1916-2002)
John Lewis
philosopher, Unitarian minister and Marxist from Great Britain
Ralph Winston Fox
British historian and writer (1900–1936)
Kay Beauchamp
British activist (1899-1992)
John Goodwyn Barmby
British utopian socialist (1820–1881)
Christian Darnton
British composer (1905-1981)
Montagu Slater
British writer (1902–1956)
Hugh Sykes Davies
English poet, 1909-1984
Stewart Farrar
British writer (1916–2000)
Felicia Browne
British artist (1904–1936)
Laurence Bradshaw
British painter and sculptor (1899–1978)
Fred Copeman
British soldier
Aaron Samuel Liberman
Lithuanian revolutionary, author in Hebrew
Freda Utley
English activist and author
Sam Lesser
Spanish Civil War veteran and Daily Worker/Morning Star journalist (1915-2010)
A. L. Lloyd
Folk musician and song-collector
Norah Smyth
Suffragette