Lou Kenton

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.