Alfred
Sherman, the son of Jewish immigrants, was born in Hackney in 1919.
Influenced
by his father's left-wing views, Sherman joined the Communist
Party.
Sherman
studied chemistry at Chelsea Polytechnic but left to join the International
Brigades during the Spanish
Civil War.
On his return in 1938 Sherman
found work in a London electrical factory. He later joined the Conservative
Party and in 1979 established the right-wing Centre for Policy
Studies.
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Alfred
Sherman,
interviewed by Jonathan Glancey in the Guardian
(10th November, 2000)
When
we arrived in Spain - train to Perpignan and then on foot over the
Pyrenees - we were given three weeks basic military training by Red
Army volunteers. We'd teamed up by then with a wide mix of fellow
brigaders - miners, shipbuilders, many of them world war one veterans
- and went into action on the Zaragoza road.
We were given no real picture
of Stalin's motives. We were pawns in many ways. It took me nearly
another decade before I realised what a cheat and liar Stalin was.
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