Catalogue description Documents seized in police raid on Communist Party Headquarters in 1925. Although the...

Documents seized in police raid on Communist Party Headquarters in 1925. Although the original papers have been worked on and put in some sort of order, they have not been comprehensively listed and indexed. Many are duplicated. Among the subjects dealt with in the documents are internal Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) policy, finance and organisation, Trades Union activities, anti-war activities, women's groups and the Young Communist League of Great Britain (YCL), Comintern correspondence and reports on Comintern proceedings and Communist activities in many countries including the USA, Europe, the Far East and the British Colonies. There are also contemporary assessments by Special Branch, who were responsible until 1931 for the study of Subversion in the UK, of the significance of the documents for the Home Office and the security authorities. Twelve leading members of the CPGB were arrested shortly after the raid and charged with conspiracy to"utter and publish seditious libels and incite divers persons to commit breaches of the Incitement to Mutiny Act"