Bill Brain
William Thomas Edward Brain (1891 – 1961) was a British socialist activist.
Born in
Many members of the SLP were inspired by the October Revolution in Russia, with some forming a Communist Unity Group, aiming to form a single, national, communist party. Brain did not join the Communist Unity Group, but he nevertheless attended the founding conference of the Communist Party of Great Britain, representing the Birmingham SLP.[1]
Brain joined the new party, and at its third congress, in 1921, he was elected to its executive committee. He became the party's Birmingham organiser, served on the British Bureau of the
Brain's last stint on the CPGB executive was in 1927, after which he remained in the party, but was less prominent.[1] He stood in the 1929 Leeds South East by-election, but took only 4.2% of the vote, against a single opponent.[4]
References
- ^ S2CID 225166906.
- ISBN 0905679105.
- ^ Boughton, John (1981). WORKING-CLASS POLITICS IN BIRMINGHAM AND SHEFFIELD, 1918-1931 (PDF). Coventry: University of Warwick. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
- ISBN 978-1349814671.