Rob Hargreaves
Rob Hargreaves is a Manchester activist.
Dan Ross supporters, 2024
Communist gathering
Manchester CPB and YCL gathered at the Leningrad memorial in St Peter’s Square May 9 2021 to commemorate the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany on May 9th 1945.
Gtr. Manchester branch sec. Eddy Redmond spoke of the vital part played by the Soviet Union in defeating fascism, and the tremendous sacrifice of the Soviet people.
Flowers were placed around the memorial, where Sarah Green from the YCL read the poem ‘Winner’ by Nobel laureate Boris Pasternak.
Members of the International Brigades Memorial Trust were in attendance. Rob Hargreaves spoke to those gathered, and reminded us that the early warning signs of fascism evident in the Spanish civil war were largely ignored by the British establishment and public. It was the communists who raised the alarm and heralded the call to arms that saw over 2,300 volunteers from Britain and a total of over 35,000 worldwide rush to defend the Spanish Republic between 1936 and 1939.
We were also joined by representatives of the Awami Workers Party, the Communist Party of Spain (PCE), the Tudeh Party of Iran, Greek Communist Party (KKE)
IBMT with communists
Stuart Walsh, Rob Hargreaves, Paul Ward, Evan Pritchard.
CP member
Rob Hargreaves is a member of the Communist Party of Britain in Manchester.