John Lawrence
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British far left activist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Gordon Michael Lawrence was a leading far-left activist in a wide variety of groups in Britain. Early life Born in Sandhurst, Berkshire, Lawrence entered the British Army at the age of fourteen, before discovering his skill as a musician. He left the Army and toured the country in the Great Depression, seeing the suffering endured by people and joining first the unemployed workers' movement, then in 1937 the Communist Party of Great Britain . His opposition to the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact led him to leave the CPGB and join instead the Trotskyist Revolutionary Workers League in 1939.
