Why was I expelled from Solidarity (London)? - Joe Jacobs

A cartoon of a man being kicked out of a theatre marked "Solidarity Circus - political acrobatics: apply within"

Statements and correspondence about the explusion of Jacobs from the group in 1975.

Author

PDF courtesy of Splits and Fusions Archive.

Later in 1975, Joe Jacobs was one of the founders of Échanges et Mouvement. He died in March 1977.

His essential memoirs "Out of the Ghetto: my youth in the East End: Communism and Fascism 1913-1939" were published posthumously in 1978.

Attachments

Why I was Expelled from Solidarity London- by Joe Jacobs.pdf (6.05 MB)

Comments

According to this link,…

According to this link, Jacobs was the only person to ever get expelled from Solidarity:

http://archivesautonomies.org/IMG/pdf/nonfrenchpublications/english/solidarity60-77/solidarity-history.pdf

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