| Biography | Campaign founded by British Socialists in 1919 to organise opposition to the British intervention on the side of the White Armies in the Russian Civil War. The National Committee for the Hands off Russia movement was elected at a conference in London January 1919. Socialists like William Paul, P. Coates (national secretary), Harry Pollitt (national organiser) and Alfred Comrie were active in the campaign. Many of those who were active in the Hands off Rissia campaign would go on to found the Communist Party of Great Britain. |