Mohit Banerji

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Mohit Banerji (Mohit Bandopadhay) (1912–1961) was a pioneer of the Communist Party of India in West Bengal, India and translated several Communist movement songs of Europe into Bengali. These include "Soviet Land" and "The Internationale" (both translated with original score). The Bengali translation of "The Internationale" (refer The Internationale in Indian Languages) is now the Party anthem in West Bengal.

Indian People's Theatre Association

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Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA) is the oldest association of theatre-artists in India. IPTA was formed in 1943 pre independence India, during which it promoted themes related to the Indian freedom struggle. Its goal was to bring cultural awakening among the people of India.^[1] It is the cultural wing of the Communist Party of India.^[2]

Contents

• 1 Beginning
• 2 Initial members
• 3 Nabanna
• 4 Other dramas and films
• 5 Break up and legacy
• 6 IPTA in West Bengal
• 7 IPTA in Raigarh, Chhattisgarh
• 8 IPTA in Punjab
• 9 IPTA in Assam
• 10 See also
• 11 Further reading
• 12 Notes
• 13 External links

Beginning

A 1994 stamp dedicated to the 50th anniversary of IPTA

Bangalore unit of IPTA was formed in 1941.^[3] IPTA was formed on 25 May 1943 at the National conference of theater artists held at the Marwari school,

22. Edith Tudor-Hart

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    Edith Tudor-Hart
    Born	Edith Suschitzky 28 August 1908 Vienna, Austria
    Died	12 May 1973 (aged 64)[1] Brighton, England
    Nationality	British / Austrian
    Alma mater	Bauhaus, Dessau
    Occupation	Photographer, spy
    Espionage activity
    Allegiance	Soviet Union
    Service years	1925-195?
    Codename	Edith[2]

    Edith Tudor-Hart (née Edith Suschitzky; 1908–1973) was an Austrian-British photographer, communist-sympathiser
    

Peter Sturm

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Peter Sturm
Peter Sturm as Walter Model in the 1970 film Liberation: The Fire Bulge.
Born	Josef Michel Dischel 24 August 1909 Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died	11 May 1984 (aged 74) Berlin, German Democratic Republic
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1936–1983

Josef Michel Dischel (24 August 1909 – 11 May 1984), known by his adopted stage name Peter Sturm, was an Austrian and an East German actor.

Steffie Spira

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Steffie Spira
Spira addressing the Alexanderplatz demonstration in 1989.
Born	2 June 1908 Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died	10 May 1995 (aged 86) Berlin, Germany
Occupation	Film and stage actress
Years active	1929–1992 (film)

Steffie Spira (2 June 1908 – 10 May 1995) was an Austrian-born German stage, film and television actress. Spira was the daughter of actors Fritz and Lotte Spira. Her sister was actress Camilla Spira.
Her father was of Jewish descent, and died in a concentration camp during the

Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky

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Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky
Born	January 23, 1897 Vienna
Died	January 18, 2000 (aged 102) Vienna
Nationality	Austrian
Alma mater	University of Applied Arts Vienna
Occupation	Architect
Spouse(s)	Wilhelm Schütte
Design	Frankfurt kitchen

Margarete "Grete" Schütte-Lihotzky (January 23, 1897, Margareten bei Wien, Austria-Hungary – January 18, 2000)^[1] was the first female Austrian architect and a communist activist in the German resistance to Nazism. She is mostly remembered today for designing the so-called Frankfurt kitchen.

Léo Lania

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Leo Lania
Born	1896 Kharkov, Ukraine Russian Empire
Died	10 November 1961 Munich West Germany
Other names	Lazar Herrmann
Occupation	Screenwriter Journalist Playwright
Years active	1929-1962 (film)

Leo Lania (1896–1961) was a journalist, playwright and screenwriter.
He was born Lazar Herrmann to a Jewish family in Kharkov. Although born in Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire, Lania emigrated to Vienna and served in the Austro-Hungarian Army during the First World War. After the war he

5. Franz Kain

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   Franz Kain (January 10, 1922 – October 27, 1997) was an Austrian writer and politician.^[1]
   He was born in Bad Goisern and was educated locally. He apprenticed as a carpenter but quit and worked as a woodcutter. At the age of 14, he was
   

Hanns Eisler

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Hanns Eisler (left) and Bertolt Brecht, his close friend and collaborator, East Berlin, 1950.

Hanns Eisler (6 July 1898 – 6 September 1962) was an Austrian composer (his father was Austrian, and Eisler fought in a Hungarian regiment in World War I).^[1] He is best known for composing the national anthem of East Germany, for his long artistic association with Bertolt Brecht, and for the scores he wrote for films. The Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" is named after him.

3. Judah Waten

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   Judah Leon Waten AM (29 July 1911 – 29 July 1985) was an Australian novelist who was at one time seen as the voice of Australian migrant writing.
   

11. Betty Roland

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    Betty Roland
    Born	Mary Isabel Maclean 22 July 1903 Kaniva, Victoria
    Died	12 February 1996 (aged 92) Sydney, New South Wales
    Pen name	Betty M. Davies
    Occupation	Writer, dramatist, radio plays
    Nationality	Australian
    Period	20th century
    Genre	Drama, children's fiction

    Betty Roland (22 July 1903 – 12 February 1996) was an Australian writer of plays, screenplays, novels, children's books and comics.
    

Jack Lindsay

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Jack Lindsay
Born	20 October 1900 Melbourne, Australia
Died	8 March 1990 (aged 89) Cambridge, United Kingdom
Occupation	Writer, poet, biographer, translator, essayist, editor
Language	English
Genre	Novels, plays, short stories, non-fiction
Literary movement	Realism
Notable awards	Order of the Badge of Honour (USSR, 1967)
Website
jacklindsayproject.com

Jack Lindsay (20 October 1900 – 8 March 1990) was an Australian-born writer, who from 1926 lived in the United Kingdom, initially in Essex. He was born in Melbourne, but spent his formative years in Brisbane. He was the eldest son of Norman Lindsay and brother of author Philip Lindsay.

Dorothy Hewett

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Dorothy Coade Hewett (21 May 1923 – 25 August 2002) was an Australian feminist poet, novelist and playwright. She has been called "one of Australia's best-loved and most respected writers".^[1] She was also a member of the Communist Party for a period, though she clashed on many occasions with the

Frank Hardy

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Frank Hardy
Born	Francis Joseph Hardy 21 March 1917 Southern Cross, Victoria, Australia
Died	28 January 1994 (aged 76) Carlton North, Australia
Resting place	Fawkner Memorial Park
Pen name	Ross Franklin
Occupation	Author
Language	English
Nationality	Australian
Citizenship	Australian
Period	1950-1992
Literary movement	left wing political
Notable works	Power Without Glory
Spouse	Rosslyn Couper
Children	Frances, Allan and Shirley
Relatives	Sister, Mary Hardy, granddaughter Marieke Hardy

Francis Joseph Hardy, (21 March 1917 – 28 January 1994) publishing as Frank Hardy was an Australian left-wing novelist and writer best known for his

4. Len Fox

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   Len Fox AC OBE
   Born	Leonard Phillips Fox 28 August 1905 Melbourne, Victoria
   Died	3 January 2004 (aged 98) Sydney, New South Wales
   Nationality	Australian
   Known for	Journalism, visual arts, social activism
   Spouse(s)	Mona Brand

   Leonard Phillips Fox (28 August 1905 – 3 January 2004) was an Australian author, journalist, social activist, and painter.
   

5. Jean Devanny

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   Jean Devanny
   Born	Jane Crook January 7, 1894 Ferntown near Collingwood, New Zealand
   Died	8 March 1962 (aged 68) Townsville, Queensland, Australia
   Occupation	writer
   Language	English
   Spouse	Francis Harold (Hal) Devanny
   Children	3: Harold (Karl), Patricia, Erin

   Jane (Jean) Devanny (7 January 1894 – 8 March 1962) was a New Zealand writer and communist. Born in Ferntown near Collingwood in the Nelson district of New Zealand to William and Jane Crook, she migrated to Australia in 1929, eventually moving to Townsville in northern Queensland, where she died at the age of 68.
   

Ralph de Boissière

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Ralph de Boissière
Born	Ralph Anthony Charles de Boissière 6 October 1907 Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Died	16 February 2008 (aged 100) Melbourne, Australia
Occupation	Novelist
Notable work	Crown Jewel (1952) and Rum and Coca-Cola (1956)

Ralph Anthony Charles de Boissière (6 October 1907 – 16 February 2008) was a Trinidad-born Australian social realist novelist. Described as "an outspoken opponent of racism, injustice, greed and corruption, a passionate

Noel Counihan

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Noel Counihan (4 October 1913 – 5 July 1986) was an Australian social realist painter, printmaker, cartoonist and illustrator active in the 1940s and 1950s in Melbourne. An atheist, communist, and art activist, Counihan made art in response to the politics and social hardships of his times.

Mona Brand

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Mona Brand
Born	22 October 1915 Sydney, New South Wales
Died	1 August 2007 (aged 91) Sydney, New South Wales
Nationality	Australian
Known for	Playwright, poetry, freelance writer, social activism
Spouse(s)	Len Fox

Mona Brand (22 October 1915 – 1 August 2007) was a twentieth-century Australian playwright, poet and freelance writer. She also wrote under the name Alexis Fox.
Whilst living, Brand was more well known in Europe than in Australia, so much

Bartlett Adamson

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Bartlett Adamson
Born	December 22, 1884
Died	November 4, 1951
Resting place	Sydney
Occupation	Journalist, poet, writer
Language	English
Residence	Australia
Nationality	Australian
Years active	1918-1951
Spouse	Mary Ann McLachlan
Children	3 sons

George Ernest “Bartlett” Adamson (22 December 1884 – 4 November 1951) was an Australian journalist, poet, author and political activist.

Mário Pinto de Andrade

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Mário Coelho Pinto de Andrade (21 August 1928 – 26 August 1990) was an Angolan poet and politician.

Walter Bernstein

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Walter Bernstein
Bernstein following a 2016 screening of The Front at the SVA Theater in Manhattan
Born	August 20, 1919 (age 99) Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Occupation	screenwriter and film producer
Spouse(s)	Judith Braun (divorced) Gloria Loomis
Children	Joan Bernstein Andrew Bernstein (director) Nicholas Bernstein Peter Bernstein

Walter Bernstein (born August 20, 1919) is an American screenwriter and film producer who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s.

Alvah Bessie

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Alvah Bessie
Bessie in 1938 while fighting in Spain
Born	June 4, 1904 New York City, U.S.
Died	July 21, 1985 (aged 81) Terra Linda, California, U.S.
Education	Columbia University
Known for	Abraham Lincoln Brigade Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay
Military Career
Allegiance	Spanish Republic
Service/branch	International Brigades
Unit	The "Abraham Lincoln" XV International Brigade
Battles/wars	Spanish Civil War

Alvah Cecil Bessie (June 4, 1904 – July 21, 1985) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter who was imprisoned for ten months and blacklisted by the movie studio bosses for being one of the group known as the Hollywood Ten.

Samuel Ornitz

The Hollywood Ten in November 1947 waiting to be fingerprinted in the U.S. Marshal's office after being cited for contempt of Congress. Front row (from left): Herbert Biberman, attorneys Martin Popper and Robert W. Kenny, Albert Maltz, Lester Cole. Middle row: Dalton Trumbo, John Howard Lawson, Alvah Bessie, Samuel Ornitz. Back row: Ring Lardner Jr., Edward Dmytryk, Adrian Scott.

Samuel Badisch Ornitz (November 15, 1890 – March 10, 1957) was an American screenwriter and novelist from New York City; he is notable as one of the "Hollywood Ten"^[2] who were blacklisted from the 1950s on by movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism due to being held in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify. In his later years, he wrote novels, including Bride of the Sabbath (1951), which became a bestseller.

Lydia Gibson

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Lydia Gibson contributed the cover art for this magazine produced by The Friends of Soviet Russia.

Lydia Gibson (1891-1964) was an American socialist illustrator who contributed work to The Masses, The Liberator, The Workers' Monthly, The New Masses, and other radical publications.

Robert Minor

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Robert Minor in 1919.

Robert Berkeley "Bob" Minor (1884 – 1952) was a political cartoonist, a radical journalist, and, beginning in 1920, a leading member of the American Communist Party.

Rose Pastor Stokes

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Eugene V. Debs, Max Eastman and Rose Pastor Stokes in 1918.

Rose Harriet Pastor Stokes (née Wieslander; July 18, 1879 – June 20, 1933) was an American socialist activist, writer, birth control advocate, and feminist. She was a figure of some public notoriety after her 1905 marriage to Episcopal millionaire J. G. Phelps Stokes, a member of elite New York society, who supported the settlements in New York. Together they joined the Socialist Party. Pastor Stokes continued to be active in labor politics and women's issues, including promoting access to birth control, which was highly controversial at the time.
In 1919, Pastor Stokes was a founding member of the Communist Party of America and helped develop it into the 1930s. In addition to her writing on

4. Lloyd L. Brown

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   Lloyd Louis Brown (April 3, 1913 – April 1, 2003) was an American labor organizer, Communist Party activist, journalist, novelist, friend and editorial companion of Paul Robeson's, and a Robeson biographer.
   

3. Karl Ichiro Akiya

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   Karl Ichiro Akiya (1909 – 2001) was a Japanese-American writer and activist for numerous political and social causes. A labor activist in both the United States and Japan, Akiya was also an intellectual figure in the Japanese-American community.
   

August Henkel

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August Henkel
August Henkel, from the Archives of American Art
Born	1880
Died	1961 (aged 80–81)
Nationality	American
Known for	Painting, murals, politician

August Henkel (1880–1961) was an American artist.
He was a Socialist candidate for 4th District of the New York State Assembly from Queens County in 1919, and Communist candidate for the 1st District of the House of Representatives from New York in 1934.^[1]

Anna Gréki

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Anna Gréki
Born	Colette Anna Grégoire 14 March 1931 Batna, Algeria, Algeria
Died	6 January 1966 (aged 34) Algiers, algeria
Nationality	French Algerian
Occupation	Poet, school teacher
Known for	Algérie capitale Alger

Colette Anna Grégoire (known as Anna Gréki; 14 March 1931 – 6 January 1966) was an Algerian poet of French origin. She married an Algerian, considered herself Algerian, and was involved in the struggle for Algeria's independence from France. Her work shows her love of the Aurès Mountains where she grew up, and her strong political beliefs.

Myriam Ben

Myriam Ben

Données clés

Nom de naissance	Marylise Ben-Haïm
Naissance	10 octobre 1928 Alger
Décès	19 novembre 2001 (à 73 ans) Vesoul
Nationalité	Algérienne
Pays de résidence	Algérie (jusqu'aux années 1990) France (années 1990-2001)
Activité principale	Romancière, Poétesse, Journaliste, Peintre

Auteur

Langue d’écriture	Français

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Myriam Ben, née Marylise Ben Haïm le 10 octobre 1928 à Alger et décédée le 19 novembre 2001 à Vesoul, est une romancière, poétesse, institutrice, peintre, militante communiste et anti-colonialiste algérienne. Elle fut également membre de l'Union des écrivains algériens, de l'Union nationale des anciens Moudjahidines [combattants de la libération] et du Mouvement des femmes algériennes.

7. Petro Marko

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   Petro Marko
   Born	November 25, 1913 Dhërmi, Albania
   Died	December 27, 1991 (aged 78) Albania
   Occupation	writer
   Notable works	Hasta La Vista (novel) Nata e Ustikës (English: Ustica night)

   Petro Marko (November 25, 1913 – December 27, 1991) was an Albanian writer. His best-known novel is titled Hasta La Vista and recounts his experiences as a volunteer of the Republican forces during the Spanish Civil War. Petro Marko is widely regarded as one of the founding fathers of modern Albanian prose.^[1]
   

Hysni Milloshi

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Hysni Milloshi

Hysni Milloshi (26 January 1946 – 25 April 2012) was the founder and First Secretary of the Communist Party of Albania, successor to the Party of Labor of Albania.^[1]

8. Llazar Siliqi

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   Llazar Siliqi (1924–2001) was a notable Albanian poet.^[1] His poetic profile was influenced by the work of Mayakovsky.^[2]
   

5. Sejfulla Malëshova

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   Sejfulla Malëshova
   Sejfulla Malëshova giving a speech
   Born	Sejfulla Malëshova March 2, 1900 Këlcyrë, Përmet District, Gjirokastër County, Albania
   Died	June 9, 1971 (aged 70) Fier, Albania
   Pen name	Lame Kodra
   Occupation	Writer, politician
   Language	Albanian
   Citizenship	Ottoman, Albanian

   Sejfulla Malëshova (March 2, 1900, Këlcyrë^[1] – June 9, 1971, Fier) was an Albanian politician and writer.
   

Fadil Paçrami

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Fadil Paçrami (born Shkodër, May 25, 1922 – died Tirana, January 16, 2008) was an Albanian politician, writer and playwright. He served as Chairman of the Assembly of the Republic of Albania from 20 November 1970 to 25 September

9. Misto Treska

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   Misto Treska
   Born	April 19, 1914 Treskë, Korçë, Albania
   Died	June 23, 1993 (aged 79) Tirana, Albania
   Nationality	Albanian
   Other names	Mitre S. Toska
   Occupation	Translator, Diplomat (Ambassador), Writer
   Known for	Translation of French literature

   Misto Treska (19 April 1914 - 23 June 1993) was an Albanian translator, diplomat (Ambassador), writer and politician of Albania during communist regime. He has translated French authors such as Hugo, Maupassant, Stendhal and Diderot into Albanian. He has served in the Albanian
   

Dhimitër Shuteriqi

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Dhimitër Simon Shuteriqi
Shuteriqi on a 2015 stamp of Albania
Born	26 July 1915 Elbasan, Principality of Albania
Died	22 July 2003 (aged 87) Tirana, Albania
Nationality	Albanian
Occupation	scholar, philologist, writer
Known for	Albanian League of Writers and Artists History of Albanian Literature, 1983 Albanian Writing in the Years 1332–1850, 1976

Dhimitër Shuteriqi (26 July 1915 – 22 July 2003) was an Albanian scholar, literary historian, and writer.