Ernie Roberts
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Ernest Alfred Cecil Roberts (20 April 1912 – 28 August 1994) was a
Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, was a co-founder of the Anti-Nazi League in 1977 and was the MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington
from 1979 to 1987.
Early life
Roberts left primary school in
Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers in 1957. Ideologically, he was on the left-wing of the Labour Party.[1]
Political career
After unsuccessfully contesting
Black British female MP.[2]
Personal life
Roberts married Joyce Longley in 1953, and had a son and two daughters, all of whom survived his death on 28 August 1994 at the age of 82.[1]
Books
- Workers' Control (Allen & Unwin 1973)
- 労働者支配制 (Workers' Control Japanese edition) (1975)
- Unemployment – The Facts (Part-author) (Spokesman Books)
- Humanising the Work-place (Part-author) (Crook & Helm)
- The solution is Workers Control (pamphlet) (Spokesman Books)
- Democracy in the Engineering Union (Part-author) (IWC)
- Strike Back (Autobiography, with forewords by Tony Benn and Arthur Scargill) (posthumously published 1994)
References
- ^ a b c Frank Allaun (31 August 1994). "Obituary: Ernest Roberts". The Independent. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
- ^ "Ernie Roberts". Working Class Movement Library. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
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