Stan Broadbridge

Stanley Robertson Broadbridge (16 April 1928 – 22 November 1978), commonly known as Stan Broadbridge, was a British trade union leader, author, teacher, and communist activist.

Career Born in Barnet, Middlesex, Broadbridge attended Manchester University and graduated with a degree in economics. While still a university student, he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB).

Broadbridge's teaching career began at a grammar school in Warrington, Lancashire.

During his years of trade union activism, Broadbridge continued his CPGB membership. In 1961 he authored a pamphlet, The Lancashire Cotton 'famine' (1861-65), that was part of the "Our History" series sponsored by the Communist Party Historians Group. He died in a hospital on 22 November 1978. He was 50 years old.