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Arthur MacManus
Arthur MacManus was the first chairman of the Communist Party of Great Britain from 1914-1919. He was instrumental in the party's formation, as well as being a member of the executive committee of the Third International.
Arthur MacManus was one of those deported to Edinburgh in 1916 following the dispute at Beardmores engineering works and was one of the leaders of the Clyde Workers' Committee during the first world war. He was originally a member of the Socialist Labour Party and a vociferous anti-conscription and anti-war agitator throughout the 1914-1918 period.
Following his death, Arthur MacManus' ashes of were interred in the wall of the Kremlin in Moscow in recognition of his role as a pioneer of communism.
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