Catalogue description Basil Risbridger DAVIDSON, alias Basil CRAIG: British. A Communist sympathizer. An...

Basil Risbridger DAVIDSON, alias Basil CRAIG: British. A Communist sympathizer. An influential and prolific Journalist and author with a particular interest in the developing world, latterly Africa, DAVIDSON was an active member of various Communist-dominated or -influenced organisations, a member of the Writers' Group of the Communist Party and a close associate of leading Party members. Although the bias of his numerous press articles and books was consistently left-wing and anti-Imperialist /Colonial, DAVIDSON was never formally a member of the Party, probably because he could not accept the discipline this would have imposed. Thus, for instance, he took a strongly critical and independent line on the Soviet intervention in Hungary in 1956