Catalogue Number
NMLH.1994.168.494
Object Name
Poster
Title
Poster for Ultra-Leftism in Britain by Betty Reid pamphlet
People
Betty Reid
Events
Cold War
Date
1969
Description
Poster for a pamphlet -"Ultra Leftism in Britain by Betty Reid. Communist Party pamphlet 5/- 58 pages." Has a red shape on the top left, and two black and white abstract drawings - they potentially look like microphones. Betty Reid was a member of the communist party of Great Britain. She was responsible for maintaining "vigilance" against hostile or dissident elements. Reid was part of the Labour League of youth, she was drawn to socialism for politics as well as it being a liberating experience. The pamphlet advertised on this poster, was described as "ill advised" in her guardian obituary. According to this, in the late 1960s with the rise of the non communist party Marxist left, she wrote this pamphlet on the ultra-left in Britain.
