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Book SynopsisJohn Horner and the Communist Party is a biography of a leading trade unionist and activist who became disillusioned with the Communist Party.
Known for creating the modern Fire Brigades Union during the Second World War, John Horner (1911-1997) resigned from the Communist Party in 1956. Formerly one of the Partyâs leading members, he afterwards refused to speak or write about his communist past. Hornerâs silence left him forgotten, but Hornerâs daughter, Rosalind Eyben, has remedied this through her engrossing account of how and why John Horner and Pat, his wife, became communist, and the events that led them to resign from the Party. She pieces the story together from a wide range of sources, including Hornerâs own lively unpublished memoir of his early years. The narrative occasionally diverges from the historianâs voice to deliver personal reflections on the author's communist childhood and on what her father told her shortly before his death about his shame and gui
