Harry Wicks

Harry Wicks ( born August 16, 1905 in London, † 26 March 1989) was a founder of Trotskyism in Britain.

Life

Harry Wicks in 1919 a member of the rail workers' union National Union of Railwaymen. He joined the Labour Party in, she left in 1921 and went to the Communist Party ( CPGB ). In 1926 he was elected to the board of the Young Communist League and sent to the International Lenin School in Moscow. Since Wicks the Trotskyist Balham Group supported, he was expelled in 1932 from the CPGB. He was a founding member of the Communist League and met Trotsky personally the end of 1932 in Copenhagen. Trotsky's proposal to join the Independent Labour Party (ILP ), he refused.

Wicks started with CLR James on the Marxist Group work together. The following years took him from the Socialist Anti-War Federation and the ILP back into the Labour Party and the trade union in National and Local Government Officers' Association. In 1971 he was again a member of a Trotskyist party, the International Socialists, this left but after a split. Later he supported the Socialist Workers Party in various campaigns.

Works

• Keeping my head: the memoirs of a British Bolshevik. Socialist Platform, 1992, ISBN 0-9508423-8-9