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Gerry Cohen: Communist legend
A leading full-time official for the Communist Party and the Young Communist League (YCL)
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Gerry Cohen, who died on Christmas Day aged 91, was for decades a leading full-time official for the Communist Party and the Young Communist League (YCL).
He was born in 1922 in the Crown Street area of Liverpool, where many Jewish families from the Russian empire had sought refuge at the turn of the last century.
The status of both parents as tailoring workers ensured that he was always well clothed as a boy.
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