About Patrick Lavin
Born 1881. Patrick Lavin was a translator.
Patrick Peter Lavin (1881-unknown) was an English communist, activist, and translator. He started off as a miner, but as an autodidact he was attracted to Independent Working Class Education. Lavin was secretary of the Scottish Labour College. After membership of the Independent Labour Party and the Socialist Labour Party he became a founding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain at their Foundation Congress in 1920.
In October 1922 Lavin advocated that communists should support the Anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army in their struggle.
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