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1979
Britain's first Communist Mayor Annie Powell was brought up in the Rhondda and trained to be a teacher in the 1920s. She fought four parliamentary elections as Labour candidate, knowing she couldn't win. She loved the challenge of canvassing and talking to the people. Eventually she turned her back on her chapel upbringing and the Labour Party and turned to Communism, believing that this was the ideology that most understood her community. She became Britain's first Communist Mayor.
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From Reflections first broadcast 11/06/1979
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