Ken Coates

Coates also played leading roles in the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation (BRPF), the Institute for Workers' Control, and European Nuclear Disarmament.[2] When called up for national service in 1948, Coates chose to become a coal miner rather than be conscripted into the British army to fight in the Malayan Emergency.[3] After the war, he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain but left following the breach between Joseph Stalin and Josip Broz Tito, whom he defended.After the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary, Coates and Pat Jordan became the focal point of a group of Marxists with a developing interest in Trotskyism.His book The Case of Nikolai Bukharin (Nottingham: Spokesman, 1978) is regarded by some to have served as the international basis for the rehabilitation of that Bolshevik leader.
Ken Coates (historian)Bertrand Russell Peace FoundationThe SpokesmanLabour PartyMember of the European ParliamentGUE/NGLInstitute for Workers' ControlEuropean Nuclear DisarmamentStaffordshireWorthingWest Sussexcoal minerBritish armyMalayan EmergencyUniversity of NottinghamCommunist Party of Great BritainJoseph StalinJosip Broz TitoSoviet invasion of HungaryPat JordanMarxistsTrotskyismFourth InternationalInternational GroupInternational Marxist GroupNottingham SouthEuropean ParliamentParty of European SocialistsEuropean United Left/Nordic Green LeftNew LabourVadim ZagladinMikhail GorbachevSupreme SovietEduard Shevardnadzecivil societyfull employmentTony TophamTransport and General Workers' Unionpovertypolitical philosophydisarmamentdemocracyhuman rightsNikolai BukharinBolshevikNovi PlamenVietnam Solidarity CampaignPenguin BooksSpokesman BooksAllen LaneMike CooleyBasil BlackwellPerestroikaThe Independentmarxists.org