Reuben Falber (14 October 1914 – 29 April 2006) was an official of the

Communist Party of Great Britain The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was the largest communist organisation in Britain and was founded in 1920 through a merger of several smaller Marxist groups. Many miners joined the CPGB in the 1926 general strike. In 1930, the CPG ...

. He held the post of Assistant General Secretary from 1968 to 1979.

Biography

Falber was married to Helen Goldman during the 1940s. Following the dissolution of the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

, Falber alleged that from 1957 to 1979, he had helped fund the party by collecting suitcases of money from the

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Embassy. He died in 2006.

References

2006 deaths 1914 births Communist Party of Great Britain members {{UK-politician-stub