Ruth Styles
Ruth Styles is a leading member of the Communist Party of Britain.
Communist candidates
In 2024 the Communist Party of Britain ran 12 candidates for London Assembly: Ross Crawford, William Dry, Bernard Green, Anita Halpin, Arnes Ramic, Ross Leonard, Laura Miller, Mike Squires, Robin Talbot, Paul Whitehouse, Ruth Styles, Ben Woodward.[1]
'Can Culture be a Force for Change?'
Circa 2024.
2023 CPB Executive committee
November 6, 2023.
Our 57th Congress elected the following comrades to our new 35 member Executive Committee, the body tasked with driving forward the growth of our Party over the next two years:
• Nisar Ahmed • Georgina Andrews • Mollie Brown • Ron Brown • Sean David Cannon • Judith Cazorla-Rodenas • Ben Chacko • Andy Chaffer • Tony Conway • James Crossley • Mary Davis • Lorraine Douglas • Nigel Flanagan • Alex Gordon • Robert Griffiths • Richard Hebbert • Victoria Holmes • Johnnie Hunter • Hugh Kirkbride • Mark Jones • Gawain Little • Ben Lunn • Stephanie Martin • Roger McKenzie • David Morgan • Kevan Nelson • Helen O'Connor • Christiane Ohsan • Liz Payne • Ruth Pitman • Dan Ross • Carol Stavris • Keith Stoddart • Ruth Styles • Jonathan White
Communists in the People's Assembly
Communist Party of Britain, January 15, 2022.
Communist Party members attended the national conference of the People's Assembly on Saturday.
Over 300 delegates from all over Britain participated and spoke in the conference, including Communist Party members, while activists of the London Communist Party hosted a stall and spoke to attendees about our vision for building the broad democratic movement for progressive change in Britain.
Conference motions focused on developing local groups, campaigning against public sector cuts and supporting the strikes, as well as the right to food and campaigning to save the NHS.
Tony Conway, Ruth Styles, Mark Jones, Sean David Cannon, Bill Greenshields, Moz Greenshields, Robin Talbot.
CPB chair
At the January 2022 Communist Party of Britain executive committee meeting Ruth Styles was elected CPB chair.[2]
CPB Organisation Committee
At the January 2022 Communist Party of Britain executive committee meeting Andy Chaffer, Lorraine Douglas, Robert Griffiths, Jonathan Havard, Phil Katz David Morgan, Ruth Styles, Liz Payne, David Pettifor, Ruth Styles, Johnnie Hunter, Nick Wright were appointed to the CPB Political Committee.[3]
CPB Political Committee
At the January 2022 Communist Party of Britain executive committee meeting Andy Bain, Mollie Brown, Ben Chacko (Alternate member), Tony Conway, Lorraine Douglas, Alex Gordon, Robert Griffiths, Johnnie Hunter, Kevan Nelson (Alternate member), Carol Stavris, Ruth Styles were appointed to the CPB Political Committee.[4]
CPB Executive Committee
At the Communist Party of Britain’s 56th congress on November 6-7 2021 the following executive committee was elected Nisar Ahmed, Sonya Andermahr, Andy Bain, Mollie Brown, Andrea Burford, Sean David Cannon, Ben Chacko, Andy Chaffer, Tony Conway, Mary Davis, Lorraine Douglas, Alex Gordon, Bill Greenshields, Moz Greenshields, Robert Griffiths, Jonathan Havard, Richard Hebbert, Johnnie Hunter, Bernadette Keaveney, Tam Kirby, Hugh Kirkbride, Gawain Little, Sarah McDonough, David Morgan, Tommy Morrison, Kevan Nelson, Evan Pritchard, Carol Stavris, Ruth Styles, Robin Talbot, Jade Welburn.[5]
2014 CPB Executive Committee
Andy Bain, Ben Chacko, Andy Chaffer, Tony Conway, John Foster, Pauline Fraser, Alex Gordon, Moz Greenshields, Bill Greenshields, Robert Griffiths, Tim Gulliver, Anita Halpin, Zoe Hennessy, Steve Johnson, Bernadette Keaveney, Thomas Kirby, Eleanor Lakew, Martin Levy, Peter Middleman, Tommy Morrison, Mark O'Neill, Liz Payne, Ben Stevenson, Graham Stevenson, Joanne Stevenson, Ruth Styles, Anita Wright, Nick Wright.[6]
Comrades
Ruth Styles and Mary Adossides of the Communist Party of Britain.
Centenary conference
Communist Party of Britain centenary conference August 1, 2020
Anti-racism and anti-fascism
- Chair: Ruth Styles Communist Party executive committee
Speakers:
- Moshfiqur Noor Bangladeshi Workers’ Council
- Tony Conway Convenor Communist Party of Britain Anti Racist - Anti Fascist commission
- Joginder Bains General Secretary Indian Workers Association (GB)
- Luke Daniels Caribbean Labour Solidarity
Housing and our communities
- Chair: Ruth Styles Communist Party of Britain executive committee
Speakers
- Lorraine Douglas Communist Party of Britain housing activist
- Geoff Ferres Speaks on housing finance and rights
- Jade Welburn ACORN housing activist, North East
Cable Street Forever! meeting
2.30pm Sunday 4 October 2020 online meeting.
SPEAKERS: Roger McKenzie union assistant general secretary, Marlene Sidaway President of the International Brigades Memorial Trust, David Rosenberg writer, activist member of Jewish Socialists Group, Nisar Ahmed Communist Party of Britain executive, Professor Mary Davis historian and CP activist, Farhana Zaman union officer and member of Bangladeshi Workers Council.
CHAIR: Ruth Styles anti racism activist and vice-chair of Communist Party of Britain.[7]
2019 CPB Executive Committee
Liz Payne chair, Ruth Styles vice chair, Robert Griffiths Gen Sec. Andy Bain TU organizer, John Foster Int'l Sec, Carol Stavris women's organizer. Martin Levy is editor of Communist Review.
New Political Committee is Payne, Griffiths, Bain, Foster, Stavris, Ben Chacko, Steve Johnson, Tony Conway, as standing members and Mollie Brown and Alex Gordon as Alternates.
"Red Lives"
The editors, Simon Meddick, Liz Payne and Phil Katz would like to express our thanks to all the contributors to this volume of Red Lives, who have given their time and work freely in the interests of ensuring these personal histories could be shared to inspire others.
Personal recollections and connections have been the principal source for the writers of these biographies, which makes this collection so special. Therefore our thanks go to: Kolya Abramsky, Bill Adam, Mary Aldridge, Brian Allbutt, Arthur Attwood, Meic Birtwistle, Annie Banham, Martin Brown, John Campbell, Colin Carritt, Jennie Chesterton, Joe Clark, Tony Conway, Andy Croft, Mary Davis, Lesley Discum, Megan Dobney, Lorraine Douglas, Paul Dunn, John Ellison, Dan Evans, Ann Field, John Foster, John Fox, Susan Galloway, Tom Gill, Alex Gordon, Bill Greenshields, Robert Griffiths, Liane Groves, Anita Halpin, Jonathan Havard, David Horsley, Pat Jay, Ben Jay, Cad Jones, Roger Jones, Meirian Jump, Chris Kaufman, Phil Katz, Ken Keable, George Kerr, Tam Kirby, Peter Lazenby, Martin Levy, Eleanor Lewington, Alex Maxwell, Rosie McGregor, Bevis Miller, Laura Miller, Tommy Morrison, Kevan Nelson, Cynthia Oughton, Liz Payne, Mike Pentelow Evan Pritchard, Mike Quille, Neil Rafeek, Ruth Rickman-Williams, Jane Rosen, Jane Scott, Tom Sibley, Dr. Mike Squires, Carol Stavris, Dave Stavris Graham Stevenson, Keith Stoddart, Robert Streader, Ruth Styles, The Vale of Leven History Project, Mike Vine, Michael Walker, Lynne Walsh, Robert Wilkinson, Jim Whyte, Tanya Wills, Anita Wright, Nick Wright.
Northampton Marxists & Communists
Northampton Marxists & Communists is a public Facebook group affiliated with the Communist Party of Britain. Members include Ruth Styles.