Stephen Spender

Anti-communists who were once Marxists (11 person items)

"In 1936 he became a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Harry Pollitt, head of the CPGB invited him to write for the Daily Worker on the Moscow Trials. In 1937, during the Spanish civil war, they sent him to Spain. His mission was to observe and report on the Soviet ship Komsomol, which had sunk while carrying Soviet weapons to the Second Spanish Republic. Spender traveled to Tangier and tried to enter the country via Cadiz, but he was sent back. Then he traveled to Valencia and met "