Ralph
Fox
was
born in Halifax, England, on 30th March 1900. Educated at Oxford
University, he graduated with a first in modern languages.
A founder member of the
Communist Party, he went to Russia in
1923 and worked for the Friends Relief Mission in Samara. In 1925
he started work with the Communist International. Later he became
the librarian at the Marx Engels Institute in Moscow.
Fox wrote a regular column
for the Daily Worker. He also
wrote a biography of Lenin, Marxism
and Modern Thought, Genghis Khan
and the Novel and the People.
In 1936 Fox joined the
International Brigades that fought
on the side of the Republican
Army in the Spanish
Civil War. He became a political commissar in the British
Battalion but was killed at Córdoba on 3rd January, 1937.
A book on his experiences in Spain, Ralph
Fox: A Writer in Arms (1937), was published posthumously.
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