Harry Wicks
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Harry Wicks (16 August 1905 – 26 March 1989) was a British socialist activist.
Born in
Elected to the executive of the
The Communist League split with the tendency opposed to joining the ILP continuing as the
In 1936, Wicks and several others signed a letter to the
Wicks began working with C. L. R. James of the Marxist Group, helping James write World Revolution, his 1937 history of the Communist International, and in 1938 their tendencies merged to form the Revolutionary Socialist League. However, Wicks and the remnants of the former Marxist League soon left and formed the Socialist Anti-War Federation. In 1940, this group dissolved and he joined the Independent Labour Party.
At the end of the Second World War, Wicks joined the Labour Party and became active in
Not long before his death he wrote an autobiography, Keeping My Head: The Memoirs of a British Bolshevik, with the help of Logie Barrow.
References
- ISBN 082231066X(p. 451)
- ISBN 071908055X(p. 163)
Sources
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Sam Bornstein and Al Richardson, Against the Stream, Socialist Platform, 1986
- Sam Bornstein and Al Richardson, War and The International, Socialist Platform, 1986
- Harry Wicks, Keeping My Head: The Memoirs of a British Bolshevik, Socialist Platform, 1992.