MIA: Comintern Writers: Communist Party of Great Britain: CPGB Writers: Harry Pollitt Archive
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Harry Pollitt
1890–1960
Works:
1919: Dockers Beware!, Workers' Dreadnought, Vol. 6, No. 7, May 10, 1919
1919: Shipbuilding and Increased Output
1920: The Autocracy of the Boilermakers
1922: The Engineers’ Lockout in Britain
1922: The Situation in England
1922: English Miners’ Conference at Blackpool
1922: To All Railway Workers, The Communist, August 26, 1922
1922: The Labor Movement in England
1922: A Challenge1923: The Issues Before the Trades Union Congress
1923: Lessons of Plymoth: it’s challenge to our Party
1923: The Trades Councils Conference
1923: The British Unions at Plymouth
1923: Fascism – An Undelivered Speech1925: Against British Capitalism in Egypt, Eastern Bureau of the Comitern
1927: The Conference of Executives
1928: Pollitt’s Reply to Citrine
1929: The Future of Revolutionary Trade Unionism, Labour Monthly, August 1929
1932: The Bradford I.L.P. Conference and After, Labour Monthly, August 1932
1933: The United Front in Great Britain
1935: The Influence of Socialist Construction in the U.S.S.R. on Workers in Capitalist Countries
1936: The Communist Party and Unity, Labour Monthly, February 1936
1936: Spain and the T.U.C.
1937: In Memory of the British Comrade Who Have Fallen in Spain
1937: The Twentieth Anniversary and its Lessons for British Workers
1937: International Unity Can Bring Peace to Spain and Europe
1937: The Communist Party Congress and the Next Stage in the Fight for Unity, Labour Monthly, July 1937
1937: Spain at the Crossroads
1937: Build Unity While There is Still Time. Harry Pollitt's Message to the Labour Party Conference, The Communist, [USA] November 1937
1937: The Twentieth Anniversary and Great Britain1938: The Coming General Election
1938: On the Eve of the Indian National Congress, with R. Palme Dutt and Ben Bradley
1938: Trial of the Group of Conspirators of the ‘Bloc of Rights and Trotskyists’: The Crushing of the Traitors – A Triumph for Peace and Socialism
1938: Unity and the People's Front, Labour Monthly, July 1938
1938: Speeches to the Fifteenth CPGB Congress, 16–19 September
1938: The People's Movement, Labour Monthly, October 1938
1939: The Communist Crusade, Labour Monthly, February 1939
1939: Karl Marx, Labour Monthly, April 1939
1939: After Southport, Labour Monthly, July 19391940: The Communist Party and the Labour Party
1940: After Six Months - What Now?, Labour Monthly, April 19401941: India - A Call to the British People
1942: The Communist Party and the Fight for Unity Labour Monthly, January 1942
1942: We Hold the Key to Victory Labour Monthly, May 1942
1942: Unity For Victory in 19421943: The Communist Party and the Labour Party, Labour Monthly, February 1943
1943: A Final Word on Unity, Labour Monthly, June 1943
1943: For Unity and Victory Speech to the 16th Congress of the CPGB, October 1943 [from the pamphlet Unity and Victory. Report of the 16th Congress of the Communist Party]
1943: Speech in reply to discussion at the 16th Congress of the CPGB[from the pamphlet Unity and Victory. Report of the 16th Congress of the Communist Party]1944: How to Win the Peace
1944: Take Over the Mines!
1945: Lessons of the Labour Conference, Labour Monthly, January 1945
1945: The Communist Party and the Election, Labour Monthly, July 1945
1945: The British General Election and its Lesson for the Future, Political Affairs, September 1945
1945: Why you should be a Communist
1945: Political Report to the 18th National Convention of the CPGB (with speech replying to discussion), November 1945 [from the pamphlet Communist Policy for Britain]
1946: After the Brighton T.U.C., Labour Monthly, December 1946
1947: How to Reorganize the Government, Labour Monthly, April 1947
1947: Looking Ahead1948: Pollitt's Report to the Executive Committee of the British Communist Party, [excerpts] For a Lasting Peace, For a People's Democracy!, January 1, 1948
1948: For Britain Free and Independent Report to the 20th National Congress of the CPGB together with his Reply to Discussion, February 1948
1948: For a Militant Labour Movement in Britain, For a Lasting Peace, For a People's Democracy!, February 15, 1948
1948: Anti-Labour Policy of the Labour Leaders, For a Lasting Peace, For a People's Democracy!, June 15, 1948
1948: Trade Unionists - what next? The Communist Case1949: Britain on the Threshold of Crisis, For a Lasting Peace, For a People's Democracy!, July 15, 1949
1949: On the Results of the Bridlington T.U.C., For a Lasting Peace, For a People's Democracy!, September 16, 1949
1949: Devaluation of Pound Prices Slump Burden on British Workers, For a Lasting Peace, For a People's Democracy!, September 23, 1949
1949: Greetings to the Delegates of the Twenty-First Party Congress
1949: Political Report to the Twenty-First Party Congress, November 19491950: The Brighton T.U.C., Labour Monthly, October 1950
1952: Britain Arise, Political Report to the 22nd National Congress of the CPGB, April 1952
1952: Malaya: Stop the War!1954: The Challenge to Labour, Political Report to the 23rd National Congress of the CPGB, April 1954
1955: How Labour Can Win, Labour Monthly, January 1955
Tributes
1936: Shapurji Saklatvala
1937: Ralph Fox
1941: Tom Mann
Pictures
1935: With Dimitrov at the Seventh Congress of the Comintern
1955: Pollitt meeting Mao
Last updated on 20 October 2021