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John Thomas "Jack" Murphy (9 December 1888–13 May 1965), best known as J.T. Murphy, was a British trade union organiser and Communist functionary. Murphy is best remembered as a top leader of the communist labour movement in the United Kingdom from the middle 1920s until his resignation from the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1932.
J.T. Murphy, known to his peers as "Jack," was born in 9 December 1888 in the Gorton district of Greater Manchester, England. His father, a Roman Catholic, worked as a blacksmith, while his Protestant mother worked as a baker of bread and cakes. Murphy helped with the family finances from the age of 7, initially selling his mother's baked goods before taking a job working as an assistant on a milk delivery route.
Murphy began working at an engineering works in an entry-level capacity in 1901, soon moving into a formal engineering apprenticeship, in which he remained until 1908. Thereafter Murphy worked as an engineer in his own right, remaining as a worker at the bench until 1918.
He became active in the Amalgamated Society of Engineers and was active in the Sheffield wing of the Shops' Stewards Movement, which emerged in engineering factories during the First World War.
Murphy joined the Socialist Labour Party (SLP) in 1916 and stood as a candidate in the 1918 General Election for the Gorton constituency in Manchester.[1] He was elected to the governing Executive Committee of the SLP, in which capacity he participated in unity discussions between the various revolutionary socialist groups which had emerged in the country.
The SLP split at this juncture, with Murphy and others leaving the old organisation to join the Communist Party of Great Britain at its formation in 1920.
In January 1920 Murphy traveled illegally to Soviet Russia, where he attended the 2nd World Congress of the Comintern as delegate for the Shop Stewards Movement. Murphy also was a delegate to the First World Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions (RILU) in July 1921, which elected him a member of the organisation's Executive Committee.
Murphy was also elected as a delegate of the CPGB to the Third and Fourth World Congresses of the Communist International, held in Moscow in 1921 and 1922, respectively.
In 1925 Murphy was one of twelve CPGB officials imprisoned for seditious libel and incitement to mutiny under the 1797 Incitement to Mutiny Act. In the trial which followed, Murphy was sentenced to a term of six months in prison, gaining release in 1926.
Murphy was active in the National Minority Movement, the British section of RILU, from the time of its formation in 1924. He was also a member of the Executive Committee of CPGB from its formation in 1920 until Murphy's resignation from the party in 1932.
After leaving the communist movement, Murphy joined the Labour Party and was elected to the executive of their executive in Islington. Then in April 1933 he joined the Socialist League, becoming general secretary of that organisation later in the year. He would retain that position until his resignation from the Socialist League in 1936, opposing its call for the CPGB to be permitted to affiliate to the Labour Party.
He became a founder of and full-time organiser for the People's Front Propaganda Committee, which aimed to unite members of all parties against fascism and the British government's indifference to or appeasement of it. He spoke in favour of this policy at Labour's 1939 conference, but was heavily defeated, and the committee soon dissolved. The Second World War broke out shortly afterwards, and Murphy returned to work as a turner, also becoming a shop steward again for the AEU. He argued in favour of the Hitler-Stalin pact on the grounds that, he believed, Stalin had no choice in order to buy time.
Tam adı:
John Thomas Murphy
Unvan:
Politikacı, Tarihçi, Yazar
Doğum:
Manchester, 9 Aralık 1888
Ölüm:
13 Mayıs 1965
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13 okur okudu.
10 okur okuyacak.
Kitaplar
Sözler ve Alıntılar
İyi organize olmuş beyinler için
ölüm bir sonraki büyük maceradır.
Lenin'in öğüdü
Kendini beğenmişliğe kapılma, zaferleri pekiştir, düşmanın işini bitir.
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Din okulundan devrimciliğe
Stalin daha din okulundayken, Darwin 'in Türlerin kökeni ve İnsanın türeyişi adlı eserlerini okumaya başladı. Eğer daha ondördüne gelmemiş bir çocuk bu tür kitaplar okuyorsa, yaşamı oldukça ciddiye almaya başladığı ve kafasını kullanmada doğuştan bir yetiye sahip olduğu söylenebilir.
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Stalin
Ben yalnızca Lenin 'in bir öğrencisiyim ve tüm amacım, sadık bir öğrenci olmaktır.
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Fikirler, özellikle arkalarında insanlığın kurtuluşunun itici gücünü taşıyan fikirler bir kez yayıldılar mı, artık onları yayanlari öldürmekle yok edilemezler.
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