Joe Jacobs

Content by and about Joe Jacobs (1913-1977). Joe was a working class militant, expelled twice from the Communist Party of Great Britain and once from Solidarity (London). He was an active trade unionist and participant in the Battle of Cable Street. Towards the end of his life he was active in the Echanges et Mouvement group.

Joe Jacobs was the author of the essential "Out of the Ghetto: My Youth in the East End, Communism and Fascism, 1913-39"

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The "Good Old Days" - Joe Jacobs

Jacobs' 1974 reflections on his membership of the Communist Party of Great Britain in the 1920s and 1930s. Including the CPGB's actions against…

The organisation question - Joe Jacobs

After Camatte/Collu's 'On Organisation' was published in Detroit in 1974 there was a debate about it over several issues in Fifth Estate. Joe Jacobs, a former Solidarity(UK) member, had been reflecting on the 'organisation question' for a long time prior to reading this debate and he sent them a contribution partly based on some previous writings. Before it could be published in June 1977 he died.

A review of Joe Jacob's 'Out of the Ghetto' - Al Richardson

A review of the late Joe Jacob's excellent autobiography. Growing up in London's Jewish East End, Joe was variously a Communist Party militant, anti-fascist, Trotskyist, and in his later years a member of the Solidarity libertarian socialist group.