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Photograph of New Zealand Communist Party National Committee, 1939.
George Jackson (seated first on left) and Tom Stanley (seated third from right) were prominent activists for the Spanish Republican cause within the union movement.
Alexander Turnbull Library,
Reference: 94-106-01/3-01
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