Benjamin Francis Bradley

Benjamin Francis Bradley (1898–1957) was a leading British communist and trade unionist who was accused of attempting to overthrow the British colonial rule in India, leading to him being sentenced in the Meerut Conspiracy Trial in 1933. His imprisonment in that case in 1929 provoked an enormous outcry, and in Britain, according to Stephen Howe, "probably inspired more left-wing pamphlet literature than any other colonial issue between the wars". His father was a "time-keeper" at a motorworks and a night-watchman at a warehouse. During his time in India he worked in the Rawalpindi area where he worked supervising a large workshop. Soon afterwards, Bradley became an Executive Committee member of both the All India Trade Union Congress, the Workers and Peasants Party, and the Vice-President of a newly formed mill-workers' union (Girni Kamgar Union) which reached a membership of 50,000 by the end of 1928. This trial, which began at the end of January 1930, became known as the Meerut Conspiracy Case. but was released in November 1933 and returned to the UK 2 months later. The police would commit multiple violent attacks against peaceful Indian demonstrators in England who campaigned for the Meerut prisoners. Bradley then teamed up with Reginald Bridgeman in London to help run the British section of the League Against Imperialism.

In 1944, Bradley's wife Joy gave birth to a daughter named Josephine. Anti-Imperialist People's Front in India (1936) On the Eve of the Indian National Congress (1938) India: What we must do (1942) India's famine: The facts (1943)