The Leiston Communist Party was a branch of the

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founded in 1933 and included members such as Paxton Chadwick and A. L. Morton One of their first actions took place in February 1934 when they organised for the Norwich to London Hunger March. They also took part in the Burston Strike School. From 1935 the Leiston Communist Party organised a Popular front where they managed to defeat the well entrenched

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majority on the local council. This unity continued for many years, and together they produced their own radical publication the ‘Leiston Leader’ with a circulation of 300-500 copies, and raising aid together for a variety of causes, but most importantly for the Spanish Civil War. Due to its popularity in the area

Leiston Leiston ( ) is a town and civil parish in the East Suffolk (district), East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. It is close to Saxmundham and Aldeburgh, north-east of Ipswich and north-east of London. The town had a population of 5,508 at th ...

was nicknamed " Little Moscow".

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