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How the Communist Party has been making history for 100 years
MARY DAVIS previews a new history of the CP and its many struggles over the decades

A HISTORY of the Communist Party from 1920-2020 is long overdue. This new book, published today, is not it. 

It doesn’t even pretend to complete the work started by James Klugmann and Noreen Branson who between them charted the party’s history up to 1951.

Instead, this volume, produced for the centenary of the Communist Party, is thematic. 

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