George Hardy (communist)

George Hardy (26 July 1884 – 4 May 1966) was an English communist. He was General Secretary of the Industrial Workers of the World in 1921[1] and later secretary of the National Minority Movement.

In China

In 1927 he went to China as a Comintern agent. He arrived Hangzhou when Chiang Kai-shek was initiating his attacks on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), particularly through the Shanghai Massacre. He remained in China working underground with the CCP and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions.[2] Hardy returned to China in 1951 as part of the British-China Friendship Association.[2]


In 1953 Hardy entered into correspondence with Elizabeth Gurley Flynn who he had known in 1923. He renewed their relationship after Flynn had been jailed under the Smith Act.

Texts
  • (1920) "Shop Organization the Base of the I. W. W." One Big Union Monthly June 1920
  • (1956) Those Stormy Years: Memories of the Fight for Freedom on Five Continents London:Lawrence and Wishart

References
  1. "Shop Organization the Base of the I. W. W." www.marxists.org. Marxist Internet Archive. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  2. Wright, Patrick (2010). Passport to Peking: A Very British Mission to Mao's China. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-954193-5. Retrieved 3 April 2017.


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