Mary and Percy Higgins, a couple from Tameside, were active politically on the left, first in the Labour Party and then in the Communist Party, from the early 1930s to the end of their respective lives. Mary was born Mary Boardman on 22 August 1914 in Failsworth, of working-class parents. Her mother ran a hardware [...]
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Betty Tebbs: “I’ve always been a revolutionary!”
Posted in Anti-Nuclear, Communism, Feminism, Trade unions, Workers' Rights, tagged Bury, Greater Manchester, Prestwich, Radcliffe on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Betty Tebbs joined her first trade union at 14, lost her first husband in WWII and spent her entire life working for rights for women and workers, global peace and justice and nuclear disarmament.
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