Lou
Kenton, the son of Jewish immigrants, was
born in Stepney in 1908. After leaving school at 14 Kenton got a job
in a paper factory in London.
Kenton joined the Communist
Party and was involved in the campaign against Oswald
Mosley and the British
Union of Fascists
in the East End of London.
On the outbreak of the
Spanish
Civil War, Kenton
travelled to Spain and joined the International
Brigades at Albacete. He worked as an ambulance driver until returning
to England in 1938 to raise money for the Republican
Army.
Kenton remained in the
Communist Party until the Soviet
Union invaded Czechoslovakia
in 1968.
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